Journal of Development Studies articles from October 2001

Journal of Development Studies archives from October 2001

Property Rights and the Role of the State: Evidence from the Horn of Africa.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... This study applies extant theories of property rights change to three land tenure systems in Imperial Ethiopia. Two of the areas underwent changes in property rights after experiencing changes in the value of land; one did not. A data set of...

Ideas, Economics and 'the Sociology of Supply': Explanations for Fertility Decline in Bangladesh.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The persistence of high rates of fertility in Bangladesh, despite the poverty of its population, has been given alternative, and apparently competing, explanations, including the absence of effective forms of family planning, the resilience of...

Celebrations as Social Investments: Festival Expenditures, Unit Price Variation and Social Status in Rural India.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Festival expenditures amount to over 15 per cent of a household's annual expenditures in rural India. Yet they have never been studied by economists. This article uses both qualitative and quantitative data from a case study of three South...

Financial Crises After Financial Liberalisation: Exceptional Circumstances or Structural Weakness?(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... In this article, I argue that emerging economies are systematically becoming more susceptible to both currency and banking crises after financial liberalisation (FL). Using data for 27 emerging economies from 1973 to 1998, univariate and...

Exports as a Determinant of Long-Run Growth in Paraguay, 1966-96.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... During the 1970s and early 1980s Paraguay experienced relatively high rates of economic growth as well as a boom in primary goods production destined for export. The question which this research addresses concerns the relationship between these...

Building the Developmental State: Achieving Economic Growth Through Co-operative Solutions: A Comment on Bringing Politics Back In.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Drawing on the insights of game theory and East Asian experience, this short note argues the importance of co-operative solutions in achieving economic development. To realise these, even genuine developmental states must convince a sceptical...

Keeping Politics Right In: A Reply to Huff, Dewit and Oughton.
October 1, 2001... Since Chalmers Johnson's [1982] modern inception of the concept (there are older versions), the idea of the development state has been widely associated with a capitalist market economy. Though the late Gordon White sketched an early taxonomy...

Environments and Livelihoods: Strategies for Sustainability.(Book review.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Environments and Livelihoods: Strategies for Sustainability. By Koos Neefjes. Oxford: Oxfam GB, 2000. Pp.x + 277. [pounds]29.95 and [pounds]11.50. ISBN 0 85598 440 6 and 460 0 In this ambitious book, Neefjes explores the interrelationships...

Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World.(Book review.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World. Edited by Remonda Bensabat Kleinberg and Janine A. Clark. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press and New York: St. Martin 's Press, 2000. Pp.xiv + 318. [pounds]47.50....

Reinventing India: Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy.(Book review.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Reinventing India: Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy. By Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000, Pp.xx + 313. [pound]16.99. ISBN 0 7456 2077 9 Making sense of developments in Indian politics...

The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies.(Book review.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies. By Paul Seabright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xvii + 382.[pound]50 and [pound]17.50. ISBN 0 521 79037 9 and 79542 7 This...

Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth.(Book review.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth. By Tom Brass. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp.xii + 380. [pound]45/$62.50 and [pound]18.50/$27.50. ISBN 07146 4940 6 and 8000 1 I still recall clearly my...

Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective.(Book reviews.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective. By J.M. Mbaku. Malabar, FL: Kreiger Publishing, 2000. Pp.xvii + 222. US$21.50. ISBN 1 57524 120 X Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform. By...

Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World.(Book review.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World. By Gary S. Fields. Cambridge. MA and London: The MIT Press, 2001. Pp.x + 260. [pound]27.50. ISBN 0 262 06215 1 Since the 1970s Gary Fields has made significant contributions...

Privatization and Development & Privatization, Enterprise Development and Economic Reform: Experiences of Developing and Transitional Economies.(Book review.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Privatization and Development. By Osama J.A.R. Abu Shair. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 257. [pound]55. ISBN 0 312 16581 1 (USA) and 0 333 67852 4 (elsewhere) Privatization, Enterprise Development and Economic Reform:...

Recovery from Armed Conflict in Developing Countries: An Economic and Political Analysis.(Book review.)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Recovery from Armed Conflict in Developing Countries: An Economic and Political Analysis. Edited by Geoff Harris. London: Routledge, 1999 (Routledge Studies in Development Economies). Pp.360. [pounds]65. ISBN 0 141 519379 6 One of the...