Journal of Development Studies articles from January 1994

Journal of Development Studies archives from January 1994

The empirical modelling of NIE exports: an evaluation of different approaches. (newly industrializing countries)
January 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION This article seeks to help to resolve the issue of the empirical estimation of the size of price and income elasticities of newly-industrialising economy (NIE) exports. It also draws upon recent work by Krugman |1979; 1980;...

Cointegration and market integration: an application to the Indonesian rice market.
January 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION The concept of market integration has retained and increased its importance over recent years, particularly in developing countries where it has potential application to policy questions regarding government intervention in...

Market wages, family composition and the time allocation of children in agricultural households.
January 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION While there is a plethora of descriptive studies of the time allocation patterns in rural households in developing countries |e.g. Cain, 1977, 1991; Ellis, 1988~, there is only a handful of econometric studies focusing on the...

Crop sales, shortages and peasant portfolio behavior: an analysis of Angola.
January 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION The focus of this article is the influence of economic factors on sales of agricultural products in Angola. The volume of sales has changed to a remarkable degree: between the early 1970s and the mid-1980s it declined by around...

How international sanctions worked: domestic and foreign political constraints on the Brazilian informatics policy.
January 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION The subject of this article is the political dimension of policies for technological development designed and implemented by developing countries. Here, I present some of my research findings on international and domestic...

Portfolio models and planning for export diversification: Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION The world's least-developed countries are highly dependent on export earnings from primary commodities.(1) Commodity prices have declined since 1980 and have exhibited increased instability since the early 1970s. Commodity price...

Unions, wages and labor markets in Indian industry, 1960-86.
January 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Issues pertaining to the structure of labour markets in developing countries, including the effects of trade unions on real and/or money wages of industrial workers, have generated a considerable body of literature and acquired...

States or Markets? Neo-liberalism and the Development Policy Debate.
January 1, 1994... The story of human development can be written in terms of the functioning and the failure of various institutions that have evolved over a long period of time, their breakdown and the construction of new institutions to take their place. A group...

The Rural Non-farm Economy: Processes and Policies.
January 1, 1994... It is now becoming increasingly evident that in peasant economies, farm employment alone, even though fairly remunerative in the stage of the most progressive agriculture, cannot provide an enduring solution to the problem of rural...

Educational Innovation in Developing Countries.
January 1, 1994... The publication of this book comes at an important time in the history of educational development. The issues of educational innovation have never been higher on the political agenda since the Jomtien (Thailand) Conference of March 1990,...

Indian Urbanization and Economic Growth since 1960.
January 1, 1994... This study reports on the use of a large general equilibrium model to replicate the past, analyse the present, and project the future. As an aid to analysis it models various counterfactual scenarios, such as intensification in the heavy...

The Making of Social Movements in Latin America.
January 1, 1994... Over the past few years we have witnessed a plethora of material on (new) social movements; consequently this volume comes as a timely attempt to synthesise much of the literature, whilst keeping the focus on Latin America. The authors attempt to...

Egypt and Turkey: The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth.
January 1, 1994... This book in the World Bank comparative study series in 'The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth' compares Egypt and Turkey. To start with, the histories of these two countries exhibit a remarkable coincidence of their major...

Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh.
January 1, 1994... Sarah White's book is a sensitive and insightful account of the relationship between gender and class relations in rural Bangladesh, issues which are often treated separately in the sociology of development. As an accessible introduction to...

Conflict and Competition: The Latin American Church in a Changing Environment.
January 1, 1994... Cleary and Stewart-Gambino's collected volume is a much-needed attempt to assess the political directions that the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America has taken over the last decade. By some measures, the assassination of El Salvador's...

Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.
January 1, 1994... This new collection edited by Sarah Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood is a welcome addition to a small but growing literature on women's grassroots movements in Latin America. The product of a conference jointly organised by Caroline Moser and the...

Social Corporatism: A Superior Social System?
January 1, 1994... This book reports on research carried out in 1988-89 for the World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki. The focus of the study is largely on Austria and Scandinavia, but the authors are explicit that one of their aims was to...

Democratic Culture and Governance: Latin America on the Threshold of the Third Millenium.
January 1, 1994... This slim volume contains the proceedings of a UNESCO-sponsored conference on democratic culture and development in Latin America held in Montevideo at the end of 1990. It has three sections, on the political and social conditions underlying...

Nicaragua: Self-Determination and Survival.
January 1, 1994... In February 1990, the FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional) were voted out of power in Nicaragua. In the immediate aftermath, analysis often veered towards recrimination and many who had previously extolled the virtues of sandinismo...

Economic Adjustment under the Sandinistas: Policy Reform, Food Security and Livelihood in Nicaragua.
January 1, 1994... Assessment of the impact of market liberalisation in countries which are, or were, more or less socialist is a growing field. This report, part of a research project sponsored by UNRISD, represents a prime example of that genre. Based on...