Journal of Development Studies articles from January 1992

Journal of Development Studies archives from January 1992

The macroeconomic impact of development aid: a critical survey.
January 1, 1992... The early literature explained aid's macroeconomic impact in the context of the dual gap model, showing a clear link between aid and growth. Many now believe that the empirical evidence shows there to be no such relationship. This paper...

Was Latin America too rich to prosper? Structural and political obstacles to export-led industrial growth.
January 1, 1992... This essay explores the divergence in economic policy and performance between East Asia and Latin America. It offers a typology of explanations from the political economy literature. Evidence is presented for an explanation focused upon the...

Determinants and effects of income diversification amongst farm households in Burkina Faso.
January 1, 1992... Using four years of household data rom three agroecological zones in Burkina Faso - Sahelian, Sudanian, and Guinean - the article examines the determinants and effects of household income diversification. Harvest shortfalls and terms of trade...

An investigation of the export expansion hypothesis.
January 1, 1992... The present study examines the appropriate development strategies for industrially advanced and developed nations utilising the earlier research of Alfred Maizels. As before, the basic model sued is the |ex-ante' model developed by Hollis...

Transnationals and foreign trade: evidence from Brazil.
January 1, 1992... A recursive model of exports and imports of manufacturers, in which imports depend in part on exports, is estimated using data for a cross-section of 17,053 industrial firms. In this sample, 652 firms are foreign-owned. Explanatory variables...

The Challenge to the South: The Report of the South Commission.
January 1, 1992... This report deserves attention if only for the distinction of its 29 independent member(1) (all from lower-income(2) countries). It is a good example of the principle: the larger the committee and the more distinguished its members, the less...

The Political Economy of Hunger: Vol. I: Entitlement and Well-Being; Vol. II: Famine Prevention.
January 1, 1992... These two volumes are part of a range of WIDER studies dealing with aspects of poverty and hunger, of which Hunger and Public Action by Dreze and Sen appeared in 1989 (to be reviewed in the JDS). Volume III, on Endemic Hunger is yet to be...

Conversations between Economists and Anthropoligists: Methodological Issues in Measuring Economic Change in Rural India.
January 1, 1992... This volume contains ten papers contributed by participants to a conference held in 1985 on |Rural Economic Change in South Asia: Differences in Approach and in Results between Large-Scale Surveys and Intensive Micro Studies'. The motivations...

The Women and International Development Annual, vol. 1.
January 1, 1992... These two edited volumes engage in different tasks in the field of women studies. The Women and International Development Annual is the first in a series which provides an overview for the various approaches to understanding the situation of...

Environment and Development in Latin America: The Politics and Sustainability.
January 1, 1992... Latin American environments are contested terrains, fought for by the poor and powerful alike. Any valid analysis of the relationship between environment and development must therefore begin by understanding struggles between these different...

Fragile Coalitions: The Politics of Economic Adjustment.
January 1, 1992... The politics of adjustment are indeed fragile as most observers have now understood; agents are rational and do not like extreme deprivation to service national debts incurred in their name, without evident benefit to most of them. The Book...

Seasonal Variability in Third World Agriculture: The Consequences for Food Security.
January 1, 1992... The book under review contains an analysis of the effects of seasonal variability in food production on rural employment, family incomes and food prices. The consequences of food security are also examined for various groups such as landless...

Tunisia's Rural Labour and Structural Transformation.
January 1, 1992... This book reviews labour market performance, poverty incidence and changing food balances in Tunisia from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, against the background of evidence of exceptional growth performance throughout most of this period,...

Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labour in Tanzania: 1919-85.
January 1, 1992... This highly intelligent and knowledgeable book begins with a brief but lucid review of classical answers to the key problem of development; how is a growing non-agrarian population to be fed during the early stages of modernisation? Malthus...

The Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China.
January 1, 1992... The reader should be assured at the outset that the handbook is not a shortened and updated version of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China (1982). The Handbook is a separate and distinct entity useful in its own right although its large format...

Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms.
January 1, 1992... This book reprints twenty essays written by Immanuel Wallerstein over the last decade. It is divided into six broad sections addressing the evolution of the modern social sciences; the concept of development; ideas of time and space; Marx and...