Journal of Development Studies articles from October 1993

Journal of Development Studies archives from October 1993

Testing market integration: new approaches with case material from the West Bengal food economy.
October 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION In this article, an attempt is made to answer the question: 'how do real markets work?' by evaluating the behaviour of the prices of staple foods and then by explaining this price behaviour with reference to market institutions....

The length of life and the standard of living: economic influences on premature death in China.
October 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION Many of the determinants of the welfare of poor people are not well measured by the market value of the commodities they consume or the money income they receive. The fulfilment of basic needs, such as freedom from illness,...

Japanese production management and labour relations in Brazil.
October 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION Over the past decade, new production strategies in manufacturing have begun to alter the way in which modern firms achieve productivity and quality gains. While the new strategies have been most in evidence in the Advanced...

Migration and differentiation in western Kenya: a tale of two sub-locations.
October 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION The 1970s and early 1980s witnessed an extensive debate over the direction and causes of economic change in smallholder areas of Kenya. Contributors ranged from neo-classical economists such as Collier and Lal [1984; 1986] to...

The economic and demographic determinants of international migration in rural Egypt.
October 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION A high proportion of internal and international migration in the Third World is caused by individuals seeking better economic opportunities. Internal migrants, usually coming from rural areas, stream into Third World cities...

Labour demand and agroindustrial development: the evidence from Mexico.
October 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION In the discussions surrounding a US-Mexico free trade agreement, much attention has focused on the potential impact of free trade on US and Canadian workers. Less concern has been given to the effect on Mexican workers. It is...

Inter-industrial wage differentials: evidence from Latin American countries.
October 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION Inter-industrial wage differentials and their implications for the competitive theory of wage determination have been a central focus of labour economics. The existence of wage differentials was already stated in the 1950s by...

Consumption, savings and investment by social class in Bangladesh: does the rural sector support the urban sector?.
October 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Since the publication of his book Why Poor People Stay Poor, Lipton |1977~ has contributed much to the debate on development and the rural-urban divide. Lipton |1977~ claims the urban bias (UB) is the 'moving force' behind slow...

Spatial Development in Indonesia: review and prospects.
October 1, 1993... Indonesia is unusual even among large developing countries in the extreme imbalance between its natural resource wealth on the one hand and its population distribution on the other. While over 60 per cent of the population are packed on to the...

Cities in the 1990s: the challenge for developing countries.
October 1, 1993... This provocatively titled book contains the proceedings of a conference held at UCL in November 1991. The aim of the workshop was to assess two recent summaries by the World Bank and by the United Nations Development Programme of their policy...

Fast Wheels Slow Traffic - Urban Transport Choices.
October 1, 1993... While the book is not concerned with Developing Countries in particular it advances a general approach to the study of urban transport problems which will find sympathy from those with such a concern -- and perhaps more especially with those...

Refugees: Rationing the Right to Life. The Crisis in Emergency Relief.
October 1, 1993... By David Keen. London; New Jersey: Zed Press, 1992. Pp. viii + 86. 29.95 [pounds] and 9.95 [pounds]. ISBN 185649 0912 and 092 0 The publication of these two books by Zed Press is to be welcomed at a time when the situation for the world's...

Refugee Women.
October 1, 1993... By Susan Forbes Martin. London; New Jersey: Zed Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 140. 29.95 [pounds] and 9.95 [pounds]. ISBN 1 85649 000 9 and 001 7 The publication of these two books by Zed Press is to be welcomed at a time when the situation for the...

Charity, Politics and the Third World.
October 1, 1993... Peter Burnell has the knack of identifying important topics which are under-researched, and then producing very thorough studies to meet the research deficit in that area. His 1986 book on Economic Nationalism showed those skills to advantage....

Tourism Alternatives: Potentials and Problems in the Development of Tourism.
October 1, 1993... Edited by Valene L. Smith and William R. Eadington. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xv + 253. 37.95 [pounds] and 12.95 [pounds]. ISBN 0 3122 3148 1 and 13912 Since the 1950s, international tourism has become big...

Tourist Organisations.
October 1, 1993... By Douglas P. Pearce. Harlow: Longman, 1992. Pp. xvii + 219. 14.99 [pounds]. ISBN 0 582 07010 4 Since the 1950s, international tourism has become big business and, with forecasts of more than 600 million tourists crossing international...

Tourism and the Less Developed Countries.
October 1, 1993... This book is neither a 'reader' nor the edited proceedings of a conference. The pieces are all original. Together, they give a good flavour of the issues that occupy researchers who work on tourism in less developed countries. Even so, it is not...

Unequal Burden, Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty and Women's Work.
October 1, 1993... This volume is a welcome addition to the all too small body of literature dealing with the impact that a decade or more of adjustment policies have had on the daily lives of women across the world. Like others, including Frances Stewart et al.'s...

India in the International Economy: 1858 - 1913, Some Aspects of Trade and Finance.
October 1, 1993... By Nabendu Sen. Calcutta: Orient Longman, 1992. Pp. xiii + 153. Rs 90. ISBN 0 863112412 These two books written by authors who bear the same surname but are not related to each other and did not compare notes with each other are nevertheless...

Colonies and the Empire: India, 1890 - 1914.
October 1, 1993... These two books written by authors who bear the same surname but are not related to each other and did not compare notes with each other are nevertheless complementary contributions to the same theme. Nabendu Sen taught at Presidency College,...

Economic Development and Environmental Protection in Latin America.
October 1, 1993... The book's objective is to analyse the relationship between economic development and environmental protection in Latin America. It is not clear why the title emphasises the term 'Economic Development' instead of Development per se because...

Shining Path of Peru.
October 1, 1993... Despite the capture of Abimael Guzman in late 1992, the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path has continued in its 13-year old war of propaganda, bombings and assassinations to overthrow the Peruvian state. Much of the best writing on the Shining...

Mastering the Struggle: Gender, Actors and Agrarian Change in a Mexican Ejido.
October 1, 1993... What room for manoeuvre do peasants have in rural Mexico? How does this relate to their interface with the wider world? Dorien Brunt's thesis succeeds in opening new windows on these issues and upon the whole nature of rural development in Mexico...

Haiti's Bad Press.
October 1, 1993... When was there last any good news about Haiti? The 'nightmare republic', as Graham Greene called it, only seems to appear in the mainstream media in terms of violence, pestilence or disaster. The country's unsavoury reputation is a composite of...

Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life Among the Kekchi Maya in Belize.
October 1, 1993... Thirty years ago in the remote Kekchi community of Otoxha in the Toledo region of Belize, many worked in a steam-powered mill, which, at times, employed up to 900 people and was better serviced by river launch than the same area is today. Then,...

Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900 - 1986.
October 1, 1993... This book tells an interesting story, and for the most part tells it well. The people of Buguias in the southern Cordillera of Northern Luzon, for a long period prior to the Second World War, occupied a pivotal entrepreneurial position between a...

Sustainable Development: Papers from the 6th EADI General Conference.
October 1, 1993... It is perhaps somewhat unnerving to see the pace at which the literature on sustainable development is expanding. This volume of papers dating from the EADI Conference of 1990 precedes the Rio conference and still perhaps contains some of the...

Gender and Development: A Practical Guide.
October 1, 1993... The issues addressed in this edited volume cover the 'classic' introductory topics of an undergraduate gender and development course: agriculture, employment, housing, transport and health. It is popular with students as an accessible book which...

Historical Dictionary of Mozambique.
October 1, 1993... As one of the latest additions to a series of 'African Historical Dictionaries' this volume is a welcome addition to the literature on Mozambique. Yet the series editors' introduction to Mozambique as 'formerly a Portuguese colony, cut off from...

Understanding Contemporary Africa.
October 1, 1993... The market for updated regional textbooks on contemporary Africa has been well served over recent years, with at least two appearing in the first half of 1992 alone. Perhaps inevitably, given the size, diversity and number of countries on the...