This study investigates the effect of exports on economic growth in Bangladesh, based on a two-sector growth model. Using annual data for the period 1961-92, the article estimates an Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic model of economic growth, which is found to capture the volatility of...

Using two years of intra-household data from one area of the Papua New Guinea Highlands this article examines the impact of gender relations on household coffee production. Poor relative labour returns for women and the unequal distribution of tasks within the household were found to exert...

This article investigates whether the Chilean banking reforms of the 1980s have contributed to reducing market imperfections in Chilean financial markets in the late 1980 and early 1990s. To analyse this issue, patterns of investment and its finance for different types of firms are studied,...

In current debates about micro-credit, joint-liability schemes are often viewed as the only viable way to non-collateralised lending, and are thus seen as almost synonymous with micro-credit. This article reports about an alternative, non-participatory approach to micro-credit. Prompted by the...

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Appraisal in Developing Countries. Edited by Colin Kirkpatrick and John Weiss. Cheltenham and Brookfteld, VT: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp.xiii + 321. £49.95. ISBN 1 85898 346 0 Chile: The Great Transformation. By Javier Martinez and Alvaro Diaz Washington, DC:...

The financial surplus of agriculture has been central to theories of the role of agriculture in economic development. Morrisson and Thorbecke (MT) have used a constant-price social accounting matrix (SAM) framework to measure rigorously the financial surplus of agriculture and decompose the...

Conventional explanations of rapid growth in East Asia have focused on the efficient allocation of resources resulting from market-led outward-oriented strategies. This study challenges that approach. East Asian success has centred around the accumulation dynamic both because of its direct...

Who Changes? Institutionalizing Participation in Development. Edited by James Blackburn with Jeremy Holland. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1998. Pp.xvi + 199. £5.25. ISBN 1853394203 Whose Voice? Participatory Research and Policy Change. Edited by Jeremy Holland with James...

Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development. By Jonathan Rigg. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp.xxv + 326.£45 and £14.99. ISBN 0 415 13920 1 and 13921 X Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy. By Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter....

The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. By Gilbert Rist. London: Zed Books, 1997. Pp.vi + 276. £42.50/$65 and £14.95/$25. ISBN 1 85649 491 8 and 492 6 Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures. By Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash. London: Zed...