Journal of Development Studies articles from October 1996

Journal of Development Studies archives from October 1996

Sharecropping in a north Indian village.
October 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND This article presents an analytical description and interpretation of tenancy in Palanpur, a village situated in Uttar Pradesh (North India). We shall not attempt to construct this interpretation on the basis of a...

Responses to recession and restructuring: employment trends in the Sao Palo metropolitan region, 1979-87.
October 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION Latin America is the most urbanised region of the developing world. Its cities grew rapidly in the twentieth century, particularly in the period of import substitution industrialisation. In a number of major industrial cities,...

Land resources in Darfur region, Sudan: prisoners' dilemma or Coase outcome?
October 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION Darfur, the westernmost region of Sudan, has seen extraordinary environmental change in the latter half of the twentieth century. Big game, a pest up to the Second World War, is no longer seen, vast areas of savanna woodland have...

Modelling NIE exports: aggregation, quantitative restrictions and choice of econometric methodology. (Newly Industrializing Countries)
October 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The rapid growth of manufactured exports from the Newly Industrialising Countries (NIEs) in Asia has been one of the most significant features of the changing pattern of world trade in the post-war period. A large and growing body...

Casual and regular contracts: workers' self-selection in the rural labour markets in India.
October 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION Rural labour markets in India are characterised by a variety of personal ties between employers and labourers. A particular distinction is made between casual and regular labour contracts.(1) A number of village-level studies in...

Commercial bank offices and the mobilisation of private savings in selected sub-Saharan African countries.
October 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The role of domestic savings in the development process has been revisited again and again in the economic literature. It is presumed that the growth rate will increase, the higher the investment rate. But investment must be...

Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, and Dependency, 1895-1945.
October 1, 1996... Chih-ming Ka's study of Taiwan's agricultural sector during the period of Japanese colonial rule focuses in particular on the production of sugar and rice by Taiwanese farmers, and the articulation of this production with the colonial state and...

Cuba in the International System: Normalization and Integration.
October 1, 1996... This is a conference volume that has worked. It grew out of a symposium held at Carleton University in Ottawa in 1993 designed to rethink the main elements of Cuba's relations with the western hemisphere, including the vexed issue of the US-Cuban...

Privatising Monopolies: Lessons from the Telecommunications and Transport Sectors in Latin America.
October 1, 1996... This collection of short privatisation 'stories' makes surprisingly fascinating reading because of its unusual coherence. This is achieved through an excellent and thoughtful introduction by the editor, and by restricting its focus to a limited...

Global Change, Regional Response: The New International Context of Development.
October 1, 1996... The premiss of this volume is that there is a genuinely 'new perspective on the study of contemporary development', namely 'the new international context of development' (NICD). This invites comparison with other purported novelties in the field...

Human Development Report 1995.
October 1, 1996... The Human Development Report 1995 focuses on gender, a welcome, if unsurprising, theme in the light of the Beijing Conference in September 1995. Following the established format of these Reports, the main body pursues the chosen theme in depth,...

Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India.
October 1, 1996... Siva and Her Sisters is a stimulating and ambitious study of the relationship of caste, class and gender in a village in Tamil Nadu, India. This is a rich rice growing area undergoing considerable economic differentiation as a result of...

Agricultural Policy in Kenya: Applications of the Policy Analysis Matrix.
October 1, 1996... This book is the result of a collaborative research project undertaken by agricultural economists from Stanford and Arizona Universities with researchers at Egerton University in Kenya. The research was mainly undertaken in the period 1988-90. As...

Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge.
October 1, 1996... The relationship between anthropology and development is fraught with contradiction and potential conflict. This has never been more so than in the context of post-modern/post-structuralist critiques of development; as the authors state, in the...