Journal of Development Studies articles from October 1995

Journal of Development Studies archives from October 1995

Governance and rural development in Mexico: state intervention and public accountability.
October 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION Proponents of reduced state intervention in markets increasingly recognise that effective non-market public institutions are needed for successful pro-market economic reforms. Pro-market economic reformers increasingly use the...

The hazards of small firms in Southern Africa.
October 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Some of the most pressing concerns of policy-makers in developing countries involve issues of employment generation. In many countries, labour force growth has outstripped the rate of job creation in the public sector, the...

Farmers, labourers and the company: exploring relationships on a Transkei contract farming scheme.
October 1, 1995... Contract farming by large agribusiness corporations in Africa is controversial and has received growing attention from researchers over the last decade. Initial emphasis on technical/economic studies of contract farming has been followed by...

Political parties, electoral competition, government expenditures and economic reform in India.
October 1, 1995... The success and failure of economic liberalisation has often been placed at the door of politicians. Concluding a large comparative study of reform in eight countries Bates and Krueger [1993] point to the role electoral institutions, party...

Forecasting the money multiplier and the control of money supply in Egypt.
October 1, 1995... There is a growing appreciation that policy-makers could best achieve the policy objectives of full employment and stable prices by controlling the growth rate of the money stock. However, such a position requires two operations: first, a...

On market integration and liberalisation: method and application to Ethiopia.
October 1, 1995... 1. INTRODUCTION Two recent contributions in the Journal of Development Studies by Palaskas and Harriss-White [1993] and Alexander and Wyeth [1941] have proposed improvements to the analysis of market integration. This article aims to comment...

The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era.
October 1, 1995... What has gone wrong in the Philippines? While its ASEAN neighbours, not to mention China, are powering ahead into a brave new world of industrialisation, advanced technology, and brash consumerism, the former American colony appears to be the...

Structural Adjustment in a Newly Industrialised Country: The Korean Experience.
October 1, 1995... This book presents the result of a research project, sponsored jointly by the World Bank and the Korea Development Institute, which studied Korea's macroeconomic adjustment in the period following the oil shocks in the late 1970s. Nineteen...

United States Foreign Policy Towards Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis and Change.
October 1, 1995... For anyone who is seriously interested in United States foreign policy toward Africa this book is a necessary, but not sufficient account. It is necessary because the book constitutes one of the best existing surveys on the theme - at least for...

Tropical Africa.
October 1, 1995... While other books in this series present issues on different continents under development, a region of the African Continent is explored in this book. Consequently, the issues presented in the volume's 190 pages cover a geographically limited...

The Quality of Life.
October 1, 1995... This conference volume grew out of Sen's notion of well-being (ability to function) which is much richer than the economist's traditional GDP per capita and therefore attractive, particularly in the area of development economics. Yet it is less...