1980 - 1989: Recent submissions

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    • Farm?level Post?harvest Food Losses: the Myth of the Soft Third Option 

      Greeley, Martin (Institute of Development Studies, 01/06/1982)
      RESUMEN Pérdidas alimenticias post?cosecha al nivel del agricultor: el mito de la tercera opción ‘blanda’ La mayor producción de alimentos y la mejor distribución de los mismos son las dos opciones principales para ...

    • Editorial 

      Unknown author (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)

    • The Crisis of Collectivisation: Socialist Development and the Peasantry 

      Selden, Mark (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary This article argues that the most promising elements of Marxist?Leninist writings pointed to a gradual approach to collectivisation and transition to large?scale socialist agriculture. This legacy was distorted ...

    • The Transition to Socialist Agriculture in Cuba: Some Salient Features 

      Pollitt, Brian H. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary This article describes the extensive socialisation of land and means of production in Cuban agriculture over the period 1959–80. Emphasis is placed on the strategy to increase sugar production and exports for ...

    • Soviet Agriculture since Khrushchev – Decentralisation and Dirigisme 

      Dyker, D. A. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary This article studies the efforts of the Soviet Government to redress the balance of developmental policies which favoured industry at the expense of agriculture. Particular attention is paid to the search for more ...

    • Collective and Family Agriculture in Socialist Economies 

      Dong, Nguyen Huu (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary This article analyses existing theories concerning the relationship between private and collective agricultural sectors in socialist economies with special reference to Vietnam. Dong argues that the household ...

    • China's New Agricultural Revolution 

      Gray, Jack (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary Changes in Chinese agricultural organisation since 1978 have centred on the replacement of direct, unified management of agricultural labour by a system of contracts offered by the collective management to groups ...

    • Socialist Transformation of Agriculture and Gender Relations: the Vietnamese Case 

      White, Christine Pelzer (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary The author argues, on the basis of a case study of Vietnam, that socialist transformation of agriculture can be neither successful nor adequately understood without an analysis of gender aspects of production ...

    • Socialist Household Production: Some Implications of the New ‘Responsibility System’ in China 

      Hazard, Barbara P. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary One form of the ‘responsibility system’ recently introduced in the Chinese countryside grants households on a contractual basis the right to the use of land or other means of production owned by the production ...

    • Prices and the Transformation of Peasant Agriculture: the Tanzanian Case 

      Ellis, Frank (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary This contribution examines the relationship of agricultural price policy to changes put into effect in the organisation of the peasant economy in Tanzania during the 1970s. Attention is directed, within the wider ...

    • Peasant Associations and Agrarian Reform in Ethiopia 

      Bekele, Dawit (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      summary In setting up peasant associations to implement the Land Reform Bill, the Ethiopian Government intended to redistribute land equally, set up local government institutions and foster the transition to socialism ...

    • Agricultural Crises in sub?Saharan Africa: Capitalism and Transitions to Socialism 

      Green, Reginald Herbold (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1982)
      Summary Growth in agricultural output in sub?Saharan Africa was unsatisfactory regionally and in most countries during the 1970s. Production capacity in many cases was not the central factor in that performance. Neither ...

    • Stagnation and Decay in sub?Saharan Africa: Dialogues, Dialectics and Doubts 

      Allison, Caroline; Green, Reginald (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)

    • Accelerated Development in sub?Saharan Africa: an Agenda for Structural Adjustment Lending? 

      Daniel, Philip (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)
      RESUME RESUME Développement accéléré en Afrique sous?saharienne (SSA): un ordre du jour pour un prêt d'adaptation structurelle? Le Rapport intitulé The Accelerated Development Report peut être envisagé comme ...

    • Efficiency, Expertise, NIC s and the Accelerated Development Report 

      Bienefeld, Manfred (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)
      RESUME RESUME Efficacité, expertise, pays nouvellement industrialisés (NIC) et le Accelerated Development Report Cet article considère l'appel lancé par le Accelerated Development Report aux gouvernements ...

    • Are African Governments as Unproductive as the Accelerated Development Report Implies? 

      Colclough, Christopher (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)
      RESUME RESUME Est?ce que les gouvernements africains sont aussi improductifs que le donne à entendre le Accelerated Development Report? Il existe peu de preuves qui permettent de soutenir la thèse de l'existence ...

    • Incentives, Policies, Participation and Response: Reflections on World Bank ‘Policies and Priorities in Agriculture’ 

      Green, Reginald (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)
      RESUME RESUME Mesures d'incitation, politiques, participation et réponse: réflexions sur les ‘Politiques et Priorités de l'Agriculture’ de la BIRD L'agriculture est, à juste titre, le centre de l'analyse et de ...

    • Export Orientation and Structural Adjustment in sub?Saharan Africa 

      Godfrey, Martin (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)
      RESUME RESUME Orientation vers les exportations et adaptation structurelle de l'Afrique sous?saharienne Il existe un évident ‘sophisme de composition’ dans les recommandations faites à l'ensemble des pays de ...

    • The Case of Malawi 

      Harvey, Charles (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)
      RESUME RESUME Le cas de Malawi Avec une croissance basée sur des exportations agricoles, une secteur public limité et peu de réglementations, Malawi semble avoir évité certaines politiques critiquées par le ...

    • A Chilean Perspective 

      Griffith-Jones, Stephany (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)
      RESUME Une perspective chilienne Cet article analyse le Accelerated Development Report de trois points de vue différents. Tout d'abord, il critique les prévisions excessivement optimistes du Rapport en ce qui ...