1980 - 1989: Recent submissions

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    • ‘Populism’ in Guyana and Newfoundland 

      Fairley, Bryant D.; Ramnarine, Devanand J. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1985)
      SUMMARY Populist development, as an alternative to large?scale capitalist development, is sometimes interpreted as a form of ‘transition to socialism’, or even as socialism itself. This article examines two areas, ...

    • Editorial: toward getting some facts less snarled? 

      Allison, Caroline; Green, Reginald (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY The dialogue sparked off by the World Bank's 1981 Accelerated Development Report has clearly been necessary and in many respects positive. It has resulted in significant reappraisal of some of the new conventional ...

    • Some problems of emergency food aid for sub?Saharan Africa 

      Singer, Hans (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY Nobody feels happy about the way SSA emergencies have been handled. Doubts extend from whether these could have been prevented or mitigated by timely action to using the potential of food aid as a developmental ...

    • The place of agricultural research in the development of sub?Saharan Africa 

      Lipton, Michael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY The agricultural research policy issue in sub?Saharan Africa can be addressed by seeking to explain a paradox. Rates of return to agricultural research have been shown to be large. By the standards of the developing ...

    • Women, land, labour and survival: getting some basic facts straight 

      Allison, Caroline (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY In the context of the current food crisis confronting most sub?Saharan African economies the need to unmask the identities of rural producers from a gender perspective is reinforced. This article focuses on three ...

    • Competing paradigms in the debate about agricultural pricing policy 

      Colclough, Christopher (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY This article questions — in light of recent debates — whether typical price reform proposals are feasible and, if so, whether they would be effective in eliciting desired changes in production and distribution. ...

    • Trade and exchange rate policy in sub?Saharan Africa 

      Godfrey, Martin (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY Three central questions have emerged out of the debate surrounding the World Bank's Accelerated Development Report. First, the prescription for sub?Saharan Africa to increase the volume of its agricultural exports ...

    • Zambia: structural adjustment or downward spiral? 

      Daniel, Philip (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY From the early 1970s Zambia experienced one of the most disastrous declines in real income per head of any African state. A very large part of these difficulties are explicable by international events. In 1981, ...

    • IMF stabilisation and structural adjustment in sub?Saharan Africa: are they technically compatible? 

      Green, Reginald (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY The likelihood of a uniform and unconditional answer to this question applying to all sub?Saharan African economies is negligible. The diversity of result illustrated by the cases of Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia ...

    • Successful Adjustment in Botswana 

      Harvey, Charles (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY National adjustment strategy in Botswana has proved remarkably successful. A wide range of policy measures has been adopted on the basis of national initiative in response to severe balance of payments problems ...

    • The lessons of Africa's industrial ‘failure’ 

      Bienefeld, Manfred (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)
      SUMMARY This article argues that, as regards industrial policy, the new consensus on Africa does not extend beyond the recognition that under present circumstances greater caution has to be exercised in financing industrial ...

    • Selected IDS Output on sub?Saharan Africa 1981–85 

      Unknown author (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1985)

    • Editorial: Disarmament and Development – the International Context 

      Luckham, Robin (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY The interconnections between international economic recession, the new Cold War and militarisation in the South are explored to provide a context for the other articles in this Bulletin . SOMMAIRE Editorial: ...

    • Peace and Development 

      Brandt, Willy (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY This article reviews the deterioration in the international situation since the Report of the International Commission on Development Issues was published five years ago. It contends that most of the Commission's ...

    • Disarmament and Development: An Idea Whose Time Should Have Come 

      Thorsson, Inga (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY In 1982 the General Assembly advised governments ‘to start to plan and prepare for a conversion process which could be implemented in a disarmament situation’. But to make the required decisions and actions, drastic ...

    • Disarmament, Development and Security 

      Ramphal, Shridath S. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY Only action can make further discussion of the relationship between disarmament, development and security credible. Although the Brandt and Palme Commissions heightened public awareness, governments have largely ...

    • Development and…What? New Perspective for the Disarmament and Development Debate 

      Smith, Chris; Graham, Mac (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY Two and a half decades of attempts to link disarmament to development have largely failed. This article analyses the reasons for this failure and the implications for the Third World of the collapse of the consensus ...

    • The Hidden Agendas of Common Security 

      Miszlivetz, Ferenc (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY This article explores the connections between the arms race, the inner structures of the increasingly militaristic state and of civil society subordinated to it, and world?wide inequality. It reconceptualises ...

    • Brandt, Palme and Thorsson: A Strategy That Does Not Work? 

      Holm, Hans-Henrik (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY The relationship between security and development has been the focus of much discussion in recent years. The Brandt, Palme and Thorsson reports have linked East?West security and militarisation with Third World ...

    • Military Expenditure and Development: The Economic Linkages 

      Deger, Saadet; Smith, Ron (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY High rates of growth of military expenditure in the Third World have increased the military burden and made these countries a major market for weapons. This article examines the linkages by which military expenditure ...