Journal of Development Studies articles from July 1994

Journal of Development Studies archives from July 1994

The role of moral norms. (Behind the Market Stage Where Real Societies Exist, part 2)
July 1, 1994... II. TRUST AND GENERALISED MORALITY The Problem of Political Order The argument presented in Part I of this article has led to the conclusion that dense networks of close and continuous business relationships are not sufficient to solve the...

How difficult is it to construct market relations? A commentary on Platteau. (response to Jean-Phillipe Platteau in this issue, p. 753)
July 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Jean-Philippe Platteau's two-part study 'Behind the Market Stage Where Real Societies Exist' (this issue and Vol.30, No.3, April 1994) is a substantial contribution to development studies. I have great respect for the work of...

Technological learning in Singapore: a test case of leapfrogging.
July 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION The diffusion of the information technology paradigm and the rapid growth of the electronics industry have led some observers to believe that some developing countries (DCs) may be able to 'leapfrog' older vintages of technology...

Organizing development: comparing the national systems of entrepreneurship in Sweden and South Korea.
July 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION The unprecedented, if uneven, pace of global economic development in the three decades following the Second World War has been closely associated with the triumph of economic ideology. The reconstruction of Europe and Japan, the...

The impact of MFA phasing out on world clothing and textile markets. (Multifiber Arrangement)
July 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Industrial countries which impose quotas under the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) will lose from these restrictions. This is not only because overall distortions are created in their economies, but also because quota rents are...

Sustainability, technology and corporate interest: resource strategies in India's modern dairy sector.
July 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Few global transformations have such profound implications for basic needs fulfilment as the processes by which basic foods are progressively subjected to international production and marketing arrangements. Food has increasingly...

Managing Development: State, Society, and International Contexts.
July 1, 1994... Kathleen Staudt's work on the politics of development administration has not yet received the recognition it is due in the field of development studies. No doubt this is because her approach to development administration has largely been...

Women and Education in Latin America.
July 1, 1994... This book is for women and men who seek to understand in fine detail some of the ways in which today's social world impinges on educational development so as to reproduce or change itself. The collection is a gendered presentation of education...

Third World Cities, Problems, Policies and Prospects.
July 1, 1994... Given the dramatic pace of urbanisation in the Third World, it is hardly surprising that the volume of literature on the subject should increase steadily. After something of a hiatus during much of the 1980s in English -- as opposed to...

Women in Movement: Feminism and Social Action.
July 1, 1994... Scholarly interest in women's movements developed in the 1970s as a result of a new upsurge of feminism in both the west and many of the countries of the third world. Of intrinsic importance to those committed to analysing gender politics, the...