Journal of Development Studies articles from October 1999

Journal of Development Studies archives from October 1999

The Impact of Changes in Human Fertility on Poverty.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... Household survey data for developing and transitional economies are used to estimate the effect of fertility (crude birth rate net of infant deaths) on private consumption poverty. Cross-national regressions indicate that higher fertility...

Explaining Differences in the Domestic Savings Ratio Across Countries: A Panel Data Study.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... This article seeks to analyse the major determinants of differences in the domestic savings ratio between countries using panel data for 62 countries over the period 1967-95. A basic distinction is made between the determinants of the capacity...

Technology Gap, Competition and Spillovers from Direct Foreign Investment: Evidence from Establishment Data.
October 1, 1999... Direct foreign investment (DFI) has been argued to be an important channel for international technology diffusion. This has led to extensive liberalisation of DFI regimes in many developing countries, including in Indonesia. Using detailed...

Truth, Trust and Market Transactions: What Do We Know?
October 1, 1999... John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz have recently made an important contribution to the literature on trust and economic transactions between firms. Unfortunately, the evidence that high levels of societal trust contribute significantly to...

Men's Work, Masculinities and Gender Divisions of Labour.
October 1, 1999... Gender analysis with an explicit focus on men and masculinities has yet to be applied to many developing country contexts or to issues of gender divisions of labour. This article explores the shape that such analyses might take, arguing for a...

The Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector 1991-95: Firm Growth, Productivity and Convergence.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... The removal of high levels of protection combined with substantial real devaluations have changed the environment in which Ghanaian manufacturing firms have operated in the 1990s. The changes in output, composition and productivity, which have...

Free Competition Without Sustainable Development? Tanzanian Cotton Sector Liberalisation, 1994/95 to 1997/98.
October 1, 1999... This article summarises the results of fieldwork carried out in 1997/8 season on post-liberalisation changes in the Tanzanian cotton sector. Developments in primary marketing, ginning and the export trade are reviewed on the basis of survey...

From Darkness to Light? Critical Reflections on the World Development Report 1998/99.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Knowledge for Development: World Development Report 1998/99. By The World Bank. New York: Oxford University Press for The World Bank, 1998. Pp.vii+251. [pounds]35 and [pounds]18.99. ISBN 0 19 521119 7 and 521118 9 In recent years, the...

Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades. Edited by Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1988. Pp.xxviii + 640. [pounds]70. ISBN 0198288328 Thirty-six years to be precise (1957-93), but capitalising on the...

Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility Decline in the Developing World.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility Decline in the Developing World. Edited by Caroline H. Bledsoe, John B. Casterline, Jennifer A. Johnson-Kuhn and John G. Haaga. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999. Pp.x + 320,...

The Struggle for Accountability.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The World Bank, NGOs, and Grassroots Movements. Edited by Jonathan A. Fox and L. David Brown. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1998. pp.xiii + 570. [pounds]47.95 and [pounds]23.95. ISBN 0 262 56117 4 and 06199 6 This large and...

Development and Rights.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Negotiating Justice in Changing Societies. Edited by Christian Lund. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp.152. [pounds]29.50 and [pounds]16. ISBN 0 7146 4941 4 and 8002 8 I picked this book up just after I had finished writing an...

Refugee Health.(Review)
October 1, 1999... An Approach to Emergency Situations. By Medecins Sans Frontieres. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997. Pp.384. [pounds]6.25. ISBN 0 333 72210 8 Refugee Health is an operational manual aimed primarily at field workers managing refugee health...

Globalisation and the Third World.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Globalisation and the Third World. Edited by Ray Kiely and Phil Marfleet. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp.226. [pounds]15.99. ISBN 0415 14076 5 and 14077 3 Globalisation and the Third World is essential reading for undergraduate...

Trade Policy Issues in Asian Development.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Trade Policy Issues in Asian Development. By Prema-chandra Athukorala. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp.xvi + 244. [pounds]55. ISBN 0 415 16927 5 Controversy over the type of trade policy, the precise role it plays, and its...

Roots in the African Dust.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Sustaining the Drylands. By Michael Mortimore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xvii + 219. [pounds]37.50 (US$59.95) and [pounds]13.95 (US$21.95). ISBN 0 521 45173 6 and 45785 8 Central to the debate about African drylands...