Journal of Development Studies articles from June 1998

Journal of Development Studies archives from June 1998

Tourism and economic development: a survey.
June 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Faced with the problems of declining terms of trade for agricultural products and high levels of protection against manufactures, many developing countries have turned to tourism as a possible alternative source of growth....

An investigation of the household economy: coffee production and gender relations in Papua New Guinea.
June 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Whilst there is widespread evidence of gender discrimination in household commodity production demonstrated by the limited access of women to the associated economic benefits and their longer working hours, it is unclear how...

The role of agriculture in economic development: visible and invisible surplus transfers.
June 1, 1998... I. ROLE OF AN AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE SURPLUS FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Characterising the role of agriculture in economic development and identifying ways in which this role can be enhanced have been classical themes in development economics...

Informal rules! Using institutional economics to understand service provision in Turkey's spontaneous settlements.
June 1, 1998... BACKGROUND This article reports on research conducted in 1996 to improve the understanding of institutional constraints that contribute to the inadequate supply of infrastructure and services in the gecekondus (spontaneous settlements) of...

Trade liberalisation and productivity: a panel study of the Mexican manufacturing industry.
June 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Some economists have advocated trade liberalism based on the premise that openness to trade leads to higher economic growth. For instance, Dornbusch [1992: 69-70] makes a case for trade liberalisation in developing countries on...

Is there a long-run relationship between population growth and living standards? The case of India.
June 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION The relationship between population growth and economic development has long been thought to be fundamental to our understanding of less developed countries (LDCs). Indeed, most textbooks on economic development include a...

Democracy Without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil.
June 1, 1998... By Kurt Weyland. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 293. $49.95 and $22.95. ISBN 0 8229 3924 X and 5583 0 Kurt Weyland tells us early in this fascinating book that its central question is whether democracy brings...

Marketizing Education and Health in Developing Countries: Miracle or Mirage?
June 1, 1998... Edited by Christopher Colclough. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.ix + 378. [pounds]48. ISBN 0 19 8292554 There is still fierce controversy in both industrialised and developing countries on the role of the private sector in the...

Vietnam's Women in Transition.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Kathleen Barry. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press, 1996. Pp.xviii + 332. [pounds]50 and [pounds]17.99. ISBN 0 333 64668 1 and 64669 X This is an edited collection of papers written by Vietnamese and American authors, for a...

The Foreign Aid Business: Economic Assistance and Development Co-operation.
June 1, 1998... By Kunibert Raffer and H.W. Singer. Cheltenham. Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp.xii + 236. [pounds]45. ISBN 1 85898 406 8 Foreign aid is a complex phenomenon. Much of what one might think of as development aid is not officially counted as such and many...

Latin America: Development and Conflict Since 1945.
June 1, 1998... By John Ward. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp.127. [pounds]127. [pounds]8.99. ISBN 0 415 14725 5 Latin America is an introduction to the economic history of the region since 1945. John Ward is a Lecturer in Social and Economic History at the...

The Politics of Open Economies: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
June 1, 1998... By Alasdair Bowie and Danny Unger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.ix + 245. [pounds]14.95/$18.95 and [pounds]40.00/$59.95. ISBN 0 521 58683 6 and 58343 8 The authors of this book believe that economies open to international...

Japan's Foreign Aid to Thailand and the Philippines.
June 1, 1998... By David M. Potter. Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1996. Pp.208, [pounds]29.50. ISBN 0 333 67341 7 During the 1980s, Japan emerged as a significant source of bilateral foreign aid. By the 1980s, Japan had become the largest contributor of aid...

The Theory of the Global Firm.
June 1, 1998... By Vinay Bharat-Ram. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.ix + 127. Rs 395. ISBN 0 19 564183 3 There is a sizeable body of literature on trade policy and development. Several books and articles have been written on the costs of import...

A Half-Penny on the Federal Dollar: The Future of Development Aid.
June 1, 1998... By Michael O'Hanlon and Carol Graham. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 102. $14.95 ISBN 0 815 6445 6 In this Brookings Institution study the authors document the fall in the US level of aid and show similar...

White Farms, Black Labor: The State of Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-1950.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Alan H. Jeeves and Jonathan Crush. Published jointly by Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press; Oxford: James Currey; and Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997. Pp.xiv + 344. $60 and $26.95. ISBN 0 85255 674 8 and 624 1 All that...

Pathways to Growth: Comparing East Asia and Latin America.
June 1, 1998... Edited by N. Birdsall and F. Jaspersen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press for the Inter-American Development Bank, 1997 Pp.ix + 323. [pounds]16.50. ISBN 1 886938 13 X It is ironic that this book should be published in August 1997,...

Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and Post-Socialist Societies.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Christopher Clague. Baltimore MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp.xiii +383. [pounds]40 and [pounds]15.50. ISBN 0 8018 5492 X and 5493 8 Institutional analysis is in high fashion in development circles. At the...