1980 - 1989: Recent submissions

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    • 2 Economics and the Production Benefits of Education 

      Majumdar, Tapas (Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/1980)

    • 1 Qualifications and Selection at IDS 

      Psacharopoulos, George (Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/1980)

    • 3 Educational Qualifications and Productivity 

      Cracknell, B. E.; Wood, D.; Dodd, W.; Griffiths, I. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/1980)

    • 4 Exams and Relevance 

      Husén, Torsten (Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/1980)

    • Editorial 

      Unknown author (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1980)

    • Teaching Economics Principles as Part of Development Studies 

      Cameron, John; Cole, Ken; Edwards, Chris (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1980)
      SUMMARY The article starts from the proposition that present divisions in the subject of economics, its practice and teaching, are due to the existence of fundamental irreconcilable differences, which can be characterised ...

    • Does Development Studies Have a Core? 

      Toye, John (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1980)
      SUMMARY Should graduate courses in development studies contain a core element, which would be compulsory for all students, or should students be free to take whatever combination of course elements they choose? In the ...

    • Challenging Development Concepts 

      Leys, Colin (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1980)
      SUMMARY The paper argues that the main need in teaching development in the 1980s is not to overcome academic inertia (using yesterday's theories to think about tomorrow's problems) but to exorcise an ideological concept ...

    • Distant Encounters of a Third Kind: Problems of Generalism in the Teaching of Development Studies 

      Apthorpe, Raymond (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1980)
      SUMMARY Is ‘the Third World’, as it is commonly and distantly conceptualised and perceived ‘in the West’, more an invention than a discovery? Development studies persist in construing it predominantly in ‘other?cultural’ ...

    • Case Studies and the Teaching of Development 

      Henderson, Willie; Rado, Emil R. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1980)
      SUMMARY Case studies come in several forms and can be used for different pedagogic and academic purposes. The authors examine the role of case study in development studies teaching, reviewing definitions and actual usages. ...

    • Should Development Studies Be Taught in Britain? 

      Oxenham, John (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1980)
      SUMMARY The desire to help fellow human beings, and natural curiosity, provide a first justification for an affirmative answer to this question, but should be placed on the practice of curiosity (eg on the location of ...

    • Foreword 

      Jolly, Richard (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)

    • Industrial Decentralisation : Ideal, Theory and Reality 

      Maasdorp, Gavin (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)
      SUMMARY The aim of South African industrial decentralisation policy is to facilitate racial segregation by increasing the proportion of Africans resident in the ‘homelands’. Policy implementation is based on the concept ...

    • Southern Africa : Frameworks for Thinking 

      Selwyn, Percy (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)

    • Basotho Women Migrants : a Case Study 

      Gay, Judith S. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)
      SUMMARY The focus of most research on Lesotho has been the political, social, and economic impact of male migrant labour. But under the resultant strains of agricultural decline, rural poverty, and marital instability, ...

    • ‘Homeland’ Development ? Planning in the Ciskei 

      Ward, Michael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)
      SUMMARY The socio?economic implications of a ‘homeland’ development policy for the Xhosa tribal group based on a traditional regional physical development plan are examined. The relevance of treating the Ciskei as an ...

    • Some Aspects of Labour Use in Southern Africa – Problems and Policies 

      Colclough, Christopher (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)
      SUMMARY The 10 Southern African countries, excluding South Africa, which are the subject of this article are at very different stages of transition from colonial to independent rule. Yet there are common problems which ...

    • Botswana's Monetary Independence – Real or Imagined? 

      Harvey, Charles (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)
      SUMMARY For 10 years after political independence Botswana used South African currency, and was subject to South African policy on exchange rates, interest rates and exchange controls, despite diverging national interests. ...

    • Botswana in the Southern African Periphery : the Limits of Capitalist Transformation in a ‘Labour Reserve’ 

      Parson, Jack (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)
      SUMMARY The article examines Botswana's development in the context of ‘constraints’ generated by its position as a small and weak economy in the Southern African region dominated by South Africa, and the relevance of this ...

    • Zimbabwe : a New Nation with Old Problems 

      Riddell, Roger (Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/1980)
      SUMMARY As the euphoria surrounding the achievement of independence and the ending of eight years of war dies down, the new Government of Zimbabwe is faced with a whole range of social and economic problems, some directly ...