The article examines the World Bank's first project lending to the Fijian government. On the basis of information, data and evidence pertaining to this loan, it is argued that the World Bank has acted on behalf of international capital. Issues that have been closely examined to arrive at this...

After presenting some rough estimates on the size of the various types of intersectoral transfer of resources in Thailand over the past two decades, the paper looks at flow of funds accounts of this country and analyses the intersectoral transfer of financial resources. The main trends in...

The paper examines rural development as it affects the changing relationship between one Thai village (Ban Mai) and the state. A shift in Thailand from large-scale rural neglect in a context of rapid-urban dominated growth to an apparent concern to spread the material fruits of development and...

After examining the Marxist feminist model of the industrial employment of third world women, the authors aim at showing how this model needs to be qualified in the case of Thailand, and possibly elsewhere. According to them, it is not clear that corporations in developing countries uniformly...

This analysis of chronically poor in rural India is based on a panel survey of households, called ARIS (Additional Rural Income Survey), which was carried out by the National Council of Applied Economic Research. This survey contains data on a panel of 4118 rural households from the whole of...

The paper attempts to trace the processes of change at work in Eritrea, which has been locked in a bitter war of self-determination against Ethiopian over-rule for 26 years. It seeks to explore the very different processes at work in the different agrarian systems found in the country, in...

The paper is concerned with agricultural restructuring in Zimbabwe and South Africa. In the former case post-independence agrarian change is analysed. Lessons applicable to South Africa after the abolition of apartheid are then discussed. The paper identifies macro-level processes within...