Relying upon time series analysis of annual rates of growth of agricultural and industrial domestic product at the all-India level, spanning a period of over three decades, the author examines the relationship between the agricultural and industrial growth. The role of agricultural growth as a...

The main focus of the study is on the analysis of the factors limiting the access of small farmers to formal credit in a backward region of Orissa. The borrowing costs associated with formal loans are estimated to ascertain the extent of the relationship between such costs and farm size. The...

The article assesses the impact of expanding oil revenues on non-oil sectors of the Nigerian economy from 1960 to 1985/86. Emphasis is placed on the effects of exchange rate appreciation during the 1970s on the agricultural, manufacturing and non-traded goods sectors. The analysis is conducted...

As non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accumulate experience at implementing development projects, they sometimes attempt to increase their influence by engaging in policy advocacy. The article analyses the organizational conditions under which NGOs in Africa have been able to influence the...

In this paper the state-society and state-countryside relations that subordinated agriculture to the national industrialization project in South Korea are first outlined. Then a specific policy initiative, the green revolution campaign, is used to illustrate how strategic agro-industrial...

The Zambian economy can be characterized by its dependence on mineral exports. Zambia experienced a major external shock in 1975 when the copper price declined by 46 percent in real terms and copper production declined after 1974. Diversification is generally regarded as one of the major...

Three major strategies for enhancing women's role in economic development in rural China are in evidence in the 1980s: (1) replacing male labour in agriculture, (2) employment in rural industry, and (3) householdbased commodity production. The implications of each strategy for women's economic...

The hypothesis that failures of land reform programmes are due to the political power of dominant classes is problematic where land is scrace, ownership not highly concentrated and politics not exclusionary. Since the late 1960s, land reform in West Bengal has been initiated by radical rural...

The paper consists of an attempt to re-assess the value of the "entitlement approach" (based on Amartya Sen's entitlement theory) to famines, and places it in a larger and more comprehensive account of famines, in the light of empirical evidence from the recent African famines. Two critical...

After describing India's industrial structure in terms of the major types of firms and listing changes in this structure in the last three decades, the author traces the emergence of domestic sources of initial technology (i.e. technology required by new firms) and their effect on technology...