https://thesis.eur.nl/col/4334/ List of Publications en https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8817/ Sat, 01 Nov 1986 00:00:01 GMT <div>Taher, Muhammad</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13682/ Mon, 31 Oct 1988 00:00:01 GMT <div>Magura, Thomas Otto Max</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/66487/ Wed, 01 Nov 1989 00:00:01 GMT <div>Abdel Moneim Suliman Elhoweris</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9426/ Mon, 01 Oct 1990 00:00:01 GMT <div>Mazimba,W.K.</div> A recurrent theme in discussions of the relationship between international trade and economic development is the importance of the problems created by the fluctuations and decline in the export earnings of Less Developed Countries (LDCs) • Among the possible explanations of this problem is the issue raised concerning the concentration of exports. Typically, most LDC' s exports are characterised by dependence on a narrow range of primary commodi ty exports. Therefore, this concentration of exports is always thought to be risky. Concentration reduces the chances of autonomous economic development in that export earnings fluctuations have adverse effects on domestic investment and hence on economic growth.For this growth to take place, the LDCs need additional amounts of resources, particularly foreign exchange since LDCs' economic development is not self-sustaining as questioned by Goulet (Goulet,1977,p.125) .To obtain this foreign exchange,these countries engage in international trade. It should also be emphasised here that in classical thought, international trade was regarded as the 'engine of growth' since it avails the trading partners with additional resources which could be used to increase investment in the economy which in turn could contribute to higher output and hence higher income. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/57115/ Fri, 21 Dec 1990 00:00:01 GMT <div>Hildebrand, Alexander von</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/76255/ Sun, 15 Dec 1991 00:00:01 GMT <div>Robert Antonio Reid</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9253/ Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00:01 GMT <div>Sabri, Asgar Ali</div> The economy of Bangladesh is predominantly rural-based whereby the population constitutes 91 per cent of the total (wood:1994:292), the agricultural labour force accounts for 90.16 per cent of the total{Huq:1978:l67) and approximately 80 per cent are considered directly dependent on agriculture. But high concentration of land resulting in landlessness has increased the proportion of rural labour force. Especially the rural wage labourers grew by 42 per cent as compared to 27 per cent for the total labour force between 1961 and 1974 (Khan:1986:67). https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9150/ Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00:01 GMT <div>Boonmathya, Jarin</div> Northeastern Thai peasants have contributed significantly to the rapid growth of the contemporary Thai economy as they form the majority of agricultural producers and labourers. Their social and economic roles have laid the foundation of cultural and economic development in Thai society. Nonetheless, lives of these peasants are miserable. They work hard, but earn very little. They have been exploited and treated as a subordinated group in Thai society for generations and generations. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/56514/ Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:00:01 GMT <div>Moodley, Saras</div> This paper has attempted to demonstrate a link between TNC activities and whether or not these impact on food security in developing countries. This analysis illustrates that there is a negative correlation between TNC activities and food security in the countries under study. In the light of this, pursuing food security should become the main aim of development policies in these countries. Future policies will have to try to increase food production by incorporating small producers into the process of accumulation, while at the same time also trying to increase the incomes of wage labourers. I would agree with Gacitua (1991: 401) who asserts that "Higher income levels and employment opportunities are essential for the achievement of better nutritional levels. Earnings generated by agricultural exports have to be redistributed by expanding the labour force and the consumption capacity of the population with increased salaries and the creation of new jobs." Another important factor is that the state has to develop agroindustrial infrastructure, rural services, and favourable technical, credit and price policies, to enable small cultivators to benefit from better prices, and improve staple food production. At the moment large numbers of rural populations are only tenuously integrated into wider markets, and yet at the same time their TI livelihoods are affected and determined by wider economic and political processes. (Hewitt de Alcantara, 1993: 2; Gacitua, 1991: 401) Hence, a solution to this problem would be to integrate "small peasant producers and marginal consumers into the market." (Tubiana, 1989:42) In order to do this domestics systems will have to be protected from "unstable world markets which are too competitive for producers who do not have the benefit of massive state transfers." (ibid:43) https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14666/ Sat, 30 Dec 1995 00:00:01 GMT <div>Legesse, Tesfaye</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9241/ Sun, 01 Dec 1996 00:00:01 GMT <div>Soontornwong, Somying</div> In the post-war situation of Cambodia, NGOs have a historic opportunity to contribute to the rehabilitation of Cambodia by continuing concrete programming .. and influencing the overall direction of development policy in the country (Mysliwiec,1993). This was made evident in a NGO workshop organised in 1992, under the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC). In this workshop a policy paper of NGOs with regard to the "Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Cambodia" was prepared for the :Ministerial Planning Conference to be held in Tokyo, later that year (Ibid). From these meetings it was established that NGOs can not only influence development policy but directly assist at the community level as well. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11322/ Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:00:01 GMT <div>Adu-Okoree, Benzies Isaac</div> The role of Culture and Religion in development practice had been ignored for several years by development practitioners. However, there are different constraints and conflicts in many cultures which can impact on the success of development efforts. This study, which is based on the Garu Agricultural Station run by the Presbyterian Church of Ghana with funding from the Inter-Church Coordinating Organization for development cooperation, sets out to find out some of these constraints in a typical patriarchal society. It then finds out how a religiously oriented development institution is addressing these cultural and religious constraints. The motivation for this study had been precipitated by the author's quest for an answer to why many development projects started by NGOs fail. As a Minister in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and a former Projects Officer with a Rural Development Bank, he had sought the answer within the experience of his ; Church. The ~hoice of the case study was based on the fact that I Garu Agricultural Station is the oldest surviving Agricultural Station of the Church. Secondly, The society had least been affected by modernization which could have veiled the traditional cultural and religious values. It is hoped that the findings of this study will go a long way in reshaping the general development approach of the Church and other NGOs. It is also hoped to contribute to the agenda in the search for a "Theology of Development". https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/70581/ Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:00:01 GMT <div>Lara Pineda, Orlando Alfredo</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/37002/ Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:00:01 GMT <div>Amarchey, Christina Antwiago</div> The impact of adjustment policy measures on agricultural growth is the main theme of this paper. The paper assesses, in particular, the price and non-price factors in adjustment policies that impact on cocoa and food crop production and the possible tradeoffs that might have been gen.erated It does this by comparing the period prior to adjustment (1972 to 1982) and that of adjustment (1983 to 1996). The preadjustment period was characterised by a decline in agricultural growth resul;ting from a complex mixture of inappropriate government policies, domestic policy mismanagement, adverse climatological conditions and deteriorations of the international terms of trade of agricultural produce. Since agriculture was (and still is) the backbone of the economy, the slump and stagnation in agricultural growth resulted in a near collapse of the Ghanaian economy in the early 1980s after all attempts at reviving the sector by successive governments had proved futile. To avert an upcoming econornic catastrophe, a pragmatic Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) was adopted in April 1983. The macroeconomic policy measures implemented under SAP included devaluation of the cedi, removal of subsidies, fiscal and mo11eta1y reforms, institutional reforms and trade liberalisation. The adoption of these policies has helped to remove the price distortions against cocoa and some stmctural and financial bottlenecks affecting the efficiency of the Minist1y of Agriculture (MOA) in charge of the development of food crop production. Analysing data from MOA and Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) reveals that the cocoa subsector benefited more from the price factors like devaluation while the food crop subsector did benefit more from the non-price factors such as research and extension services. Nevertheless, no clear-cut picture emerges, as the latter seems to have grown much faster, while a limited 'supply price response' approach would have pointed in the opposite direction. it can also not be concluded that there is a simple causal relationship between agricultural growth and market liberalisation Hence the study makes a plea for specific conclusions and a complex relationship between agricultural (and macro) policies and their impact. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13683/ Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:00:01 GMT <div>Tumenta, Budi Fredrick</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9357/ Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT <div>Ndyareeba, Ivan Tumuhimbise</div> Since the introduction of a cash economy, financial markets have been growing steadily in importance in all activities. Cash has displaced earlier in-kind transactions between individuals, and it has necessitated the services of financial intermediation between savers and borrowers. This has in-turn led to the emergence of financial institutions, which have evolved from being informal to being formal in nature. The former are generally considered to be rudimentary in nature and quite unlikely to spearhead any significant development. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8818/ Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT <div>Thapa, Lava Kumar</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13727/ Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT <div>Batausa, Heideliza Roba</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/41260/ Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT <div>Thapa, Lava Kumar</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9152/ Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:01 GMT <div>Antezana, Alejandra Ines Bustamante</div>