Volumes 1 - 10: Recent submissions
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Diagnoses of Britain's Post?War Economic Problems: A Selective Survey
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY Besides sharing the peculiarly Anglo?Saxon obsession with aggregate demand management, the British have been conspicuously narrow in their choice of policy instruments. The favourite was frequent tax changes, with ... -
Redistribution with Sloth—Britain's problem?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY Many if not most analyses of Britain's economic difficulties suggest that slow growth is at the heart of the problem—and an acceleration of growth the obvious cure. Past experience in Britain and in the Third World ... -
Britain's Irish Periphery
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY The core?periphery frame of analysis gives useful insights into Anglo?Irish relations during the four centuries of the rise and decline of the British empire. The emigration from the Irish periphery of almost half ... -
Britain: A Suitable Case for Treatment?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY The development of the British economy has been profoundly imbalanced, with major inequality between big and small business, and multinational and national capital. These enterprises have now established what ... -
Agriculture in Britain as a Mature Industrial Society
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY The post World War II phase of rapidly increasing British agricultural productivity, based upon the substitution of capital for labour, and upon cheap fossil fuels and heavy chemical dressing, is coming to an end. ... -
Energy and Conservation
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY It is now recognised that the days of cheap energy are over. But most future forms of energy will be even more costly, because of greatly increased capital costs and steady exhaustion. This article argues that ... -
The Armaments Sector
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY This article argues that the armament sector in Britain contrasts sharply with that in developing countries, where it is an important element in the pattern of dependence. In Britain, the armament sector is ... -
Urban Development: The Redistribution of Persistent Deprivation
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY It may be worth examining the developing countries' experience of urban development for lessons to apply to Britain. A major difference is that in Britain housing and related services are treated as fully established ... -
From Protective Health to National Recovery ?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1977)SUMMARY Less?developed countries are ahead of developed countries in several areas of policy analysis. One is health. Analysts, and increasingly practitioners, are accepting that returns to spending on preventive ... -
Oil and Scotland: A Review of
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Implicit Models and Policy Recommendations: Policy towards the ‘Informal Sector’ in Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY Encouragement of the ‘informal sector’ of employment in developing countries, recommended by many advisers including the ILO's mission to Kenya (1972), is attacked as an ambiguous and, in part, counter?productive ... -
Underemployment, Petty Production and Government Promotion Schemes in Senegal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY Urban petty producers in underdeveloped countries provide many of the necessary wage?goods demanded by the urban and rural population at relatively cheap prices. Large numbers of youth are trained in small workshops ... -
Editorial
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Where have all the Linkages Gone? Staples in the Ghanaian Economy
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY There has been renewed interest in the relevance of the growth of a staple export trade to development. The staple is supposed to stimulate growth through technical, market and fiscal linkages. Some of this ... -
The Terms of Trade of Food Producers as a Mechanism of Rural Differentiation
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY The seasonal and spatial structure of the barter of trade of food producers can create systematic economic disparaties both within and between rural communities. The argument is based on prices in Ghana but the ... -
Food Prices and Industrialisation: Some Questions from Indian Economic History
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY A recent study of the demand for British manufactures in Asia at the end of the last century suggests that demand increased when food prices rose, not when they fell. Because many people were below the threshold ... -
Politics and Administration in the Israeli Port of Ashdod
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY Ashdod is a new port, administered by a new bureaucracy, in a new town, settled by new immigrants. This article examines power relations between the Israel Ports Authority (IPA), port workers, the Histadruth ... -
Class Formation and ‘Antediluvian’ Capital in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY Bangladesh has been erroneously attributed a homogeneous agrarian structure by unwarranted extrapolation from surveys made in Comilla district. Data from the 1940s suggests greater differentiation in the North and ... -
Corruption and Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY Corruption does not necessarily either hinder or encourage development and even when it helps, it is not thereby legitimised. Development, however, in the form now favoured of State control of the economy, does ... -
The Planning Process: Lessons of the Past and a Model for the Future
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/02/1978)SUMMARY Development planning, as practised over the last 25 years, has been technocratic, politically isolated and naive. Planners have entered a blind alley, described as ‘narrow?planning’, where professionalisation and ...
