Journal of Development Studies articles from June 1995

Journal of Development Studies archives from June 1995

From class struggle to class compromise: redistribution and growth in a South Indian state.
June 1, 1995... The state of Kerala in south-west India bears testimony to the transformative impact of lower-class mobilisation on a developing economy. Under the impetus of a broad-based working-class movement organised by a communist party, successive...

The determinants of men's retirement behaviour in Brazil.
June 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION Labour force participation rates of older men and, less systematically, of older women fall substantially with economic development. This near-universal transition began in the late-nineteenth century in the currently more...

The GATT agreement on trade related investment measures: implications for developing countries and their relationship with transnational corporations.
June 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The Uruguay Round of GATT has been agreed and all of the Contracting Parties have signed GATT 1994. This agreement includes, inter alia, trade related investment measures (TRIMs) and the proposal for a World Trade Organisation...

Vietnam: assessing the achievements of doi moi.
June 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION This article draws mainly upon macro-data for the period 1983-93 to examine some of the key policy variables conditioning Vietnam's difficult but apparently successful transition to a market economy. Following a short survey of...

The fiscal impact of privatisation in Latin America.
June 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION State enterprises, privatisation, and fiscal policy interact in several ways. On the one hand, losses by state enterprises are part of the fiscal problem and fiscal crises push privatisation toward the top of the policy agenda. In...

The Economy of Ethiopia.
June 1, 1995... You have to admire Keith Griffin's cheek. In 1982, he leads a large ILO Employment Mission to Ethiopia, which generates so much controversy that the report is suppressed. Ten years later, the government falls and, before you can blink, the report...

Rethinking Social Development: Theory, Research and Practice.
June 1, 1995... Rethinking Social Development documents changes to the study of social development and evaluates the relationship between theory, research and practice. Over the past decade there has been great debate over development theory and practice,...

The Order of Economic Liberalization: Financial Control in the Transition to a Market Economy.
June 1, 1995... At the time this book was written the former socialist economies of Central and Eastern Europe were embarking on the early stages of their ambitious reform programmes. In the light of subsequent events it is useful to reconsider both the analysis...

Landlord and Tenant: Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico.
June 1, 1995... Alan Gilbert and Ann Varley have written one of the most thoughtful and interesting books on the dynamics of rental housing market in Latin America. It is an excellent work both in presentation, and for the care that has been spent in making the...

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation: The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests.
June 1, 1995... This book addresses the problem of deforestation from the perspective of economics. Brown and Pearce, the editors of this volume, raise the issue of tropical deforestation as a problem of market and government failures and suggest the creation of...

A Voice for the Excluded: Popular Participation in Development.
June 1, 1995... Can participatory movements eventually undermine power structures and determine national policy? What kind of achievements has the participation of marginalised sectors of the population within the struggles for control over resources, for social...

The Political Ecology of the Modern Peasant: Calculation and Community.
June 1, 1995... In this short but ambitious book, Anderson argues that theories of peasant politics have focused on the two polar extremes of quiescence and rebellion, leaving us without an analytical framework for understanding other tactics - such as voting,...

Poverty in the 1990's: The Responses of Urban Women.
June 1, 1995... The contributors to Poverty in the 1990's are women of at least four continents who address the struggles of poor women surviving on urban margins in developing countries. Recurring themes of their ten papers are the world recession, debt crisis...

The Developing World: An Introduction.
June 1, 1995... This is the second edition of Simpson's popular introduction to the developing world first published in 1987. It largely follows the same structure as the first edition, although alterations have been made in the order and combination of chapters...