Development Perspectives for the 1990s - Rilegato

Singer, H. W.; Prendergast, Renee

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0333545664 ISBN 13: 9780333545669

Casa editrice: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 1991

Riassunto

The most pressing problem for most developing countries is how to reverse the adverse trends of the 1980s and create the conditions for sustainable development. The need for an adaptive evolutionary approach to problems of development is, perhaps, the central theme to the volume.

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Contenuti

Preface - List of Contributors - Introduction: Development Perspectives for the 1990s; R.Prendergast & H.W.Singer - The EC and Structural Adjustment; C.Stevens & T.Killick - New Trends in EC-ACP Relations: Lome 4 and Structural Adjustment; T.W.Parfitt - African Debt Crisis and the IMF Adjustment Programmes: The Experiences of Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia; R.A.Adefulu - Negative Dutch Disease: 'The Zambian Disease'; D.Norton - Trade Policies and Economic Performance of Developing Countries in the 1980s; S.M.Shafaeddin - Upstream Foreign Direct Investment by Korean Manufacturers; W-T.Jun & R.Prendergast - Food Aid and Agricultural Disincentives; J.Fitzpatrick & A.Storey - Food Aid and Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa; H.W.Singer - Peasants, Participation and Productivity: An Evaluation of Sandinista Agrarian Reform; A.Thorpe & D.McGurk - Food Crop Storage and Marketing in Haiti; R.E.Maguire - Underdeveloping the Arctic: Dependency, Development and Environmental Control; M.Pretes - Beyond the Woodfuel Crisis: People, Land and Trees in Africa; R.Mearns - Agriculture and Fisheries Development in the Falkland Islands; J.H.McAdam - The Problems of Providing Primary Health Care in a Large Urban Area: A Case Study of Mexico City; M.E.Harrison - Whither Development Finance Institutions?: Evidence from Kenya and Zimbabwe; J.S.Henley & J.E.Maynard - Credit as a Policy of Agricultural Development with Reference to its Operation in Jordan; T.Younis - The International Transfer of Institutional Innovations: Replicating the Grameen Bank in Other Countries; D.Hulme - The Female of the Species: Women and Dairying in India; S.George - Utilizing Bank Loans as an Organisational Strategy: A Case Study of the Annapurna Mahila Mandal; D.Abbott - Fundamentalism and its Female Apologists; H.Afshar - Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0333545664
• ISBN 13: 9780333545669
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 325
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