Journal of Development Studies articles from October 1997

Journal of Development Studies archives from October 1997

Foreign direct investment in developing countries and growth: a selective survey.
October 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION The objective of this article is to survey recent developments in the literature on the impact of cross-border investment and technology, or knowledge transfers, on output growth in developing countries. This topic deserves a...

Exporting manufacturers: human resources, natural resources, and trade policy.
October 1, 1997... East Asia's 'miraculous' development success (in terms of equity as well as growth) has been intimately associated with the export of manufactures. By contrast, countries whose exports still consist largely of primary products most notably in...

Public expenditures and growth.
October 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Varying economic performances in the developing and developed worlds over the past two decades continue to absorb policymakers and theorists. The conventional explanation for these varying performances holds that the strong...

Real interest rates and growth: improving on some deflating experiences.
October 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Following seminal contributions to the field of finance and development by McKinnon [1973] and Shaw [1973], a large empirical literature has emerged purporting to test their prediction that financial liberalisation will benefit...

Export adjustment to currency depreciation in the presence of parallel markets for foreign exchange: the experience of selected sub-Saharan African countries in the 1980s.
October 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Devaluation is traditionally prescribed as one of the policy instruments to improve export performance in developing countries with overvalued exchange rates. By generating favourable relative-price changes and profit...

Enterprise ownership constraints and the role of equity markets in financial development.
October 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION The objective of the present study is to re-examine the role of stock markets in the financial development of LDCs. While a substantial literature has argued the case for financial sector liberalisation, a recent survey has...

Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last.
October 1, 1997... Robert Chambers' work has been at the forefront of the challenge to the development profession from the growth of participatory approaches in the last decade. This book, which summarises and updates the stream of papers he has written on the...

Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone.
October 1, 1997... Since 1991 the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) has waged war on the collapsing patrimonial state in Sierra Leone and 'the external agents of primitive accumulation' (p.87) on which it has depended for so long. A small core of more-or-less...

Opportunity Foregone: Education in Brazil.
October 1, 1997... This book is the product of a symposium on 'Education, Economic Growth, and Inequality in Brazil' held in Rio de Janeiro in 1991. The volume documents Brazil's poor performance in education, considers the implications of this poor performance for...

The Anthropology of Anger, Civil Society and Democracy in Africa.
October 1, 1997... Celestin Monga's book is an original and provocative contribution to the current debate on the meaning and significance of democracy in Africa. He calls for a 'multiple, imaginative perspective on African politics', and explores the...

The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment.
October 1, 1997... For too long the dominant view of rural Africa - as a continent teetering on the edge of environmental destruction - has held sway. The imagery is of unremitting despoil ation: of deforestation, desertification, soil erosion, overgrazing and the...

Jua Kali Kenya: Change and Development in an Informal Economy, 1970-95.
October 1, 1997... This book constitutes Kenneth King's follow-up to his work on Kenya's informal sector, published in 1977 as The African Artisan. In this ethnographic-style, longitudinal economic study of Kenyan entrepreneurs conducted in the early 1990s, King...

Britain and the Politics of Modernisation in the Middle East, 1945-1958.
October 1, 1997... It is perhaps surprising that little has been written on the economic history of development assistance given the availability of source material. Much can be learnt from past experiences of bilateral aid and technical assistance. Paul Kingston...

Footloose Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy.
October 1, 1997... This is an extremely important book. Set in south Gujarat, as much of Breman's earlier work, its findings alert us to new patterns in labour relations in India today. It also heralds new directions for research on India's labouring poor. First,...

Good Government and Law: Legal and Institutional Reform in Developing Countries.
October 1, 1997... This volume of essays written by the cognoscenti addresses the perplexities of institutional reform in the South in terms of the dominant discourse of 'good governance' fashioned and fostered by the World Bank. The reform, of course, by...

Internal Conflicts in South Asia.
October 1, 1997... South Asia, a large geographical area inhabited by over one and a half billion people, is the most troubled region of Asia. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, all but the last once part of British India, have been scarred by religious...

The New Politics of Survival: Grassroots Movements in Central America.
October 1, 1997... As the prospects for revolutionary change waned in Central America during the 1980s popular sectors united themselves into a variety of self-help, self-defence organisations that sought to advance the interests of their particular memberships at...