Journal of Development Studies articles from January 1993

Journal of Development Studies archives from January 1993

Governments, NGOs and agricultural development: perspectives on changing inter-organisational relationships. (non-governmental development organizations)
January 1, 1993... The suggestion that agricultural and rural development strategies would benefit from increased collaboration between government and nongovernmental development organisations (NGOs) has become almost commonplace in recent policy discussions...

The peasant family in transition from Maoist to Lewisian rural industrialisation. (China)
January 1, 1993... Scholars who appreciate the particular social and economic conditions in less developed countries have taken account of the developmental function of agriculture and other subsistence sectors in relation to overall economic modernisation....

Exchange rate policy and price level changes: casualty tests for Turkey in the post-liberalisation period.
January 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system, developing countries have been urged to follow the lead of some of the developed countries in letting their currencies float with little or no intervention or management....

Gender bias in the allocation of resources within households in Burkina Faso: a disaggregated outlay equivalent analysis.
January 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION In the past decade, considerable attention has focussed on the measurement and determinants of differences in individual welfare across members of the same household [Behrman, 1990]. As well as the obvious short-run...

Agricultural wages in Bangladesh: what the figures really show?
January 1, 1993... In recent years there has been much debate about the effect of the |green revolution' on production and poverty in South Asia [Lipton with Longhurst, 1989, Griffen, 1989; Jose, 1988]. Now it seems to have been agreed that there has been a...

Trade-policy adjustment in LDCs: a short-run view. (Less Developed Countries)
January 1, 1993... I. ABOUT TRADE PROTECTION IN LDCs Disequilibria in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) may be planned or accidental. The former occur when the chosen development strategy involves unbalanced growth paths; for example, when planned imports of...

The observed landholding-fertility relationship - is it monotonic?
January 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION Empirical studies of the impact of landholding on fertility demand in agricultural economies of Less Developed Countries (LDCs) have relied primarily on linear functional forms. Consequently, these studies have found the...

Growth in NICs in Asia: some tests of new growth theory. (newly industrializing countries)
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION The theory of economic growth has recently been revitalised by models of |new' growth theory. These focus on the determinants of long-run growth in terms of investment in human capital, in new technologies and the impact of...

Alleviating rural poverty through agricultural growth.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION In the international economic policy arena there appears to have been a shift back to reliance on aggregate economic growth and |trickle-down' to solve the world's poverty problems, rather than the adoption of strategies...

Male Bias in the Development Process.
January 1, 1993... This is the most significant book to have appeared on gender and development in the past decade. Diane Elson has provided us with a rare, and fruitful, combination - a theoretical spring board in the introductory chapter, and illustrative case...

Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Human Reproduction.
January 1, 1993... This is an ambitious book which seeks to rectify what the author (an anthropologist with extensive research experience in the developing world) sees as the neglect of reproduction as a social process in the social sciences. He argues that this...

Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change.
January 1, 1993... The commissioned purpose of this text is |to assist policy-makers to think systematically about gender issues in the context of structural change' (p.vii). It equally well serves the purpose of explaining stabilisation and structural adjustment...

Economic Theories of Development: An Analysis of Competing Paradigms.
January 1, 1993... Diana Hunt's intellectual endeavour pursued in this book is a highly risky venture. Not only has this kind of effort already been attempted by several authors (by more of them than Hunt actually acknowledges in her book) but also any effort...

Economic Development and Environmental Protection in Latin America.
January 1, 1993... The book's objective is to analyse the relationship between economic development and environmental protection in Latin America. It is not clear why the title emphasises the term |Economic Development' instead of Development per se because...

Nicaragua: The Land of Sandino.
January 1, 1993... The |New Nicaragua' of privatisation and austerity under the administration of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro has not experienced the same euphoria which characterised the early days after the so-called triumph of the Sandinista-led overthrow of...

Dependence and Autonomy.
January 1, 1993... Hilary Standing's book is based on empirical research conducted in the metropolitan city of Calcutta in India in 1981-82. However, the delay in its publication in 1990 does not detract from the significance of this work. It makes a marked...

Turtle Boque: Afro-Caribbean Life and Culture in a Costa Rican Village.
January 1, 1993... A puzzling and often rather irritating book. Puzzling in the sense that it remains unclear what this type of endeavour is supposed to achieve; and irritating in that it leaves one with a sense of incompleteness and dissatisfaction. It...