1980 - 1989: Recent submissions

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    • The Security Sector, the Budget and Development 

      Ball, Nicole (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY While security expenditure — including both military spending and expenditures on paramilitary forces — is not the sole cause of underdevelopment, most Third World countries would benefit by spending less on their ...

    • Back to Benoit? 

      Evans, David (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY One of the themes developed in this Bulletin is the idea that there is a trade?off between military expenditure and economic development. This note discusses this proposition in the light of some recent empirical ...

    • East?West and North?South Relations 

      Szentes, Tamas (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY The concepts of ‘East?West’ and ‘North?South’ relations are terminological simplifications which can lead in the one case to a misleading identification of the historical struggle between capitalism and socialism ...

    • Disarmament and Development: An African View 

      Hutchful, Eboe (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY This article reviews briefly the militarisation that has occurred in African countries in the last 15 years. It rejects the conventional emphasis placed by disarmament proposals on armamentism and arms spending ...

    • Brandt, Berg and Militarisation in Nigeria 

      Ohiorhenuan, John (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY Nigeria's increasing militarisation is partly a consequence of the government's programme for economic recovery. This programme, influenced by the World Bank model of structural adjustment, aims at ensuring the ...

    • Disarmament and World Development from a Latin American Perspective 

      Carranza, Mario (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY Disarmament and development are still two separate issues on the Latin American agenda, in spite of the overriding need to link them. Even if Latin America is the only region of the world that has been officially ...

    • Guns and/or Butter: The Relationship between the Economy and the Military 

      Kaplinsky, Raphael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY The relationship between military expenditure and economic performance is a complex one, changing over time. At this historical juncture — especially for the UK and the USA — the evidence suggests that the net ...

    • Is Conversion Possible? A Review of a Swedish Study 

      Willett, Sue (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY Inga Thorrson's report In Pursuit of Disarmament goes a long way towards establishing the concrete links between disarmament, defence conversion and development within the Swedish context. In drawing up a detailed ...

    • Anarchy or Transformation? Scenarios for Change 

      Luckham, Robin (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1985)
      SUMMARY The present period of crisis has stimulated a number of alternative ‘cognitive maps’ of change, among them the proposals contained in the Brandt, Palme and Thorsson reports. This article introduces six scenarios ...

    • Developmental States and African Agriculture: an Editorial Preface 

      White, Gordon (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)

    • Analysing the Politics of African State Policy: Some Thoughts on Robert Bates' Work 

      Bienefeld, Manfred (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY The problem of Africa's politics has become more acute as the economic position of the continent has deteriorated. With various nations now rapidly disintegrating under the social and economic pressures of the ...

    • The Politics of Agricultural Policy – A Reply 

      Bates, Robert (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY This article attempts to specify Bienefeld's position, to critique it, and to posit an agenda for research. Bienefeld's position is characterised as holding that international determinants of the African economies ...

    • State Power and Economic Inefficiency : Explaining Political Failture in Africa 

      Brett, E. A. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY The problem of agricultural crisis in Africa has forced a review of the highly centralised and bureaucratised structures used to provide services to farmers since independence, and has resulted in a return to ...

    • State and Agriculture in Africa: A Case of Means and Ends 

      Mars, Theo (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY This article examines the argument that the problems of implementing the development programmes of African governments arise from the political necessity to maintain power. In response to this, it is argued that ...

    • Dilemmas of Sustaining Parastatal Success: The Botswana Meat Commission 

      Morrison, Stephen (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY Parastatals typically receive little detailed treatment in studies of the African state, and are commonly regarded as failures. The experience of the Botswana Meat Commission, one instance of a highly successful ...

    • Public Policy in the Development of Export Crops: Pineapples and Tea in Kenya 

      Swainson, Nicola (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY This article examines the organisation of production and role of the state in the development of two agricultural commodities in Kenya: pineapples and tea. It explores the variation in policy strategy and public ...

    • State Intervention at the Cabbage?Roots: A Case Study from Kenya 

      Wolf, Thomas (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY This case study concerns fresh produce marketing in the Taita Hills region of south?eastern Kenya. A brief historical review of cash agriculture there notes the support given to marketing cooperatives by both ...

    • Village Responses to Food Marketing Alternatives in Northern Zambia: The Case of the Mambwe Economy 

      Pottier, Johan (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY This article assesses the relative merits of two styles in food marketing from the perspective of small?scale producer?sellers in rural Zambia. Of the alternatives — state?controlled maize cropping; free?market ...

    • African States and Agriculture: Issues for Research 

      Gephart, Martha (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)
      SUMMARY This article assesses the relative merits of two styles in food marketing from the perspective of small?scale producer?sellers in rural Zambia. Of the alternatives — state?controlled maize cropping; free?market ...

    • Developmental States and African Agriculture: An Editorial Postscript 

      Mars, Theo (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1986)