Journal of Development Studies articles from June 1997

Journal of Development Studies archives from June 1997

The war-making state and privatisation.
June 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Macro-economic reform has become a global fashion, and each national programme has tended to converge on an agenda of surprising uniformity - summarised in part in John Williamson's 'Washington Consensus' [1990]. It has also...

The dynamics of welfare gains and losses: an African case study.
June 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION In the past decade, many developing nations have faced severe recessions and have had to undertake structural reforms. This was especially the case in sub-Saharan Africa where, between 1980 and 1987, GNP per capita declined by...

Measuring trade strategy in the presence on non-tradeables: theory and some evidence for the Caribbean.
June 1, 1997... 1. INTRODUCTION There has been some controversy in both the theoretical and empirical literature about what is meant by terms such as 'outward-orientation' or 'export promotion' (EP). Bhagwati [1990] for instance points to the tendency to...

The exchange rate and the balance of trade: the Turkish experience.
June 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION The superiority of outward-oriented development strategies over those stressing development through import substitution has by now become widely accepted among development economists and espoused by international organisations...

Generalised morality and the problem of transition to an impersonal exchange regime: a response to Platteau. (response to J.P. Platteau, vol. 30, nos. 3 and 4, p. 533 and p. 753, 1994)
June 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Commodity markets may be viewed as a solution to the complex problems of exchange that characterise societies that have moved past the barter stage. Such markets transcend local boundaries, so that exchange can take place...

The social conditions of the market: a rejoinder. (response to K.A.S. Murshid in this issue, p.693)
June 1, 1997... When I started writing my two-part article 'Behind the Market Stage Where Real Societies Exist' (April and July 1994 issues of this Journal), I was quite aware of the perilous character of this intellectual venture. Here is indeed an immensely...

United States Development Assistance Policy: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Economic Aid.
June 1, 1997... As governments in many industrialised countries slash aid budgets, so too they face growing scepticism about how effective foreign development assistance can be. Yet the sceptics and budget-slashers tend to overlook a critical feature of the past...

India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity.
June 1, 1997... In a broad comparative analysis of India's economic development, Dreze and Sen have dealt with a wide range of issues in this book. The monograph begins with the observation that India's 'overall success' in achieving Nehru's aim, of 'ending of...

Regaining Marxism.
June 1, 1997... This unfashionable book was stimulated by discussions the author had with theorists in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1985 'from the perspective, as one of them put it, that Marxism, to which they of course adhered, was a...

Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political economy of Central-Local relations during the Reform Era.
June 1, 1997... The analysis of the Chinese economic system is a central subject for contemporary social scientists. One reason for this is that the scale of the economy is increasingly significant not only in terms of population, but in terms of the size of...

The Village Concept in the Transformation of Rural Southeast Asia: Studies from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
June 1, 1997... Over recent years there has been an ongoing debate in Southeast Asia - much as occurred rather earlier in South Asia - about the nature and origins of the 'village' in the region. This book presents a range of papers on the subject and is based...

African Industry in Decline: The Case of Textiles in Tanzania in the 1980s.
June 1, 1997... The poor performance of industry in Africa during the difficult times of the 1980s is an important cause for concern. Although we know much less than we should concerning the details of this experience studies on African industry are now...

The Urban Opportunity: The Work of the NGOs in Cities of the South.
June 1, 1997... The rapid and often uncontrolled and unorganised increase in urban populations poses a set of development challenges. The role of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in development has been widely debated, and serious questions have been raised...

Doctrines of Development.
June 1, 1997... One of the great ironies surrounding 'development studies' is the lack of sensitivity displayed by many of its proponents to the history of development thinking. In some quarters, indeed, and not least in the doctrine of alternative development...

Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India.
June 1, 1997... The process of development has historically been bad news for the peasantry, or so we are led to believe by Marx in the Eighteenth Brumaire, Barrington Moore in Social Origins, Michael Lipton and others on 'urban bias', the authors of numerous...

Ethnicity and Development: Geographical Perspective.
June 1, 1997... A product of the 1993 Geographical Symposium convened at Keele University, this book seeks to address various manifestations of ethnicity in development. Part I provides a general introduction (by Dwyer). Part II looks at the concept of...

Indigenous Organizations and Development.
June 1, 1997... This collection explores what the editors Peter Blunt and Michael Warren call the 1980s 'paradigm shift' in development thinking which stressed 'participation in... decision-making by the clientele group, [and] building the capacity of...

Sustainable Tourism in Islands and Small States: Issues and Policies.
June 1, 1997... Small states and islands face a number of constraints by virtue of their size. Many have limited natural resources and are thus heavily dependent on imports. Because of their small size they are unable to exploit economies of scale and implement...

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of LAte Colonialism.
June 1, 1997... Mamdani seeks to explain what most observers regard as the problem of failed democracy in independent Africa. He notes that on gaining independence African states had a triple 'core agenda': 'deracializing civil society, detribalizing the Native...