Journal of Development Studies articles from October 1994

Journal of Development Studies archives from October 1994

The condition of children in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU): a statistical review.
October 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Fifteen countries once comprised the Republics of the Former Soviet Union (FSU): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan,...

Jamaica's foreign exchange black market.
October 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Foreign exchange black markets have existed as long as there have been government controls on access to foreign currency in legal markets. In addition, such black markets have flourished in countries where large and dynamic...

State, steel and strength: structural competitiveness and development in South Korea.
October 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION The post-Second World War transformation of East Asian economies is now legendary. The explanation for their success, however, has been hotly contested. Purely economic explanations, such as 'getting prices right' have been...

Green revolution and labor demand in rice farming: the case of Central Luzon, 1966-90.
October 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Whether the green revolution, represented by the adoption of fertiliser-responsive, high-yielding modern rice varieties (MVs), has significantly increased labour demand is still debated. It is true that the introduction of MVs...

Non-farm income and inequality in rural Pakistan: a decomposition analysis.
October 1, 1994... In the past many researchers and policy-makers have viewed the rural economy of the Third World as being synonymous with agriculture. According to this view, rural households receive the bulk of their income from the production of food and export...

Analyzing inflation in developing countries: an econometric study with application to Kenya.
October 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION The effect of high inflation rates on lowering the standard of living in developing countries can be severe. During the process of structural adjustment that occurred in much of Africa during the 1980s, real wage rates fell...

Aggregate consumption, interest rates and inflation in LDCs: an error correction model. (less developed countries)
October 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION The purpose of this article is to assess the responsiveness of the aggregate time-series of consumption to the interest rate in less developed countries (LDCs). Since savings are the surplus of income over consumption, a proper...

Oil price shocks and policy responses in the post-reform Chinese economy.
October 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Developing countries relying on oil exports as an engine of growth experienced great oscillations in their terms of trade in the past two decades. The oil price shocks had significant impacts on oil exporting countries,...

The real income and consumption of an urban Chinese family.
October 1, 1994... An urban Chinese family in the next to the highest quintile(4Q) with respect to income distribution in 1989 had 3.36 persons, an average annual income of [yen]5,359 and an average annual consumption of [yen]4,644. Converted to Canadian dollars at...

Non-tariff measures and United States' imports of CBERA-eligible products. (Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act)
October 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION The Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) was enacted on 5 August 1983. This bill outlines provisions of the United States' Caribbean Basin Initiative, a programme of trade incentives and economic assistance measures...

Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance.
October 1, 1994... This book follows a long-standing anthropological tradition of exploring knowledge, and more recently, a volume about conflicting paradigms in development [Long and Long, 1991]. Hobart et al. question the perceived superiority of the developer's...

Theories of Famine.
October 1, 1994... In this latest contribution to the rapidly burgeoning literature on famine, Dr Stephen Devereux sets out from the perspective of development studies to review and assess various theories of famine causation and to assess their practical policy...

Valuing Natural Resources: The Economics of Natural Resource Damage Assessment.
October 1, 1994... This book is based on the 1988 Resources for the Future Workshop in Washington, DC. The chapters are revisions of papers presented in the conference: the editors do not waste time in classifying the Comprehensive Environmental Response...

Policy Making in the Open Economy: Concepts and Case Studies in Economic Performance.
October 1, 1994... Although the debt crisis and the ensuing pressures of structural adjustment in the 1980s may have receded somewhat in the first years of this decade, the lessons they contained on the costs of macroeconomic mismanagement for living standards and...