Development Economics and Socio-Economic Justice: Essays in Honour of Ian Livingstone

by Livingstone, Ian; Tribe, Michael; Thoburn, John T.; Palmer-Jones, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780754638797
• ISBN10: 0754638790
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Professor Ian Livingstone is one of a small group of British development economists who have achieved international renown and recognition. The objective of this book is to pay tribute to his life's work, particularly those aspects which related to key but challenging development issues.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
List of Figures	x
List of Contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Acronyms	xiv
Introduction	1	(12)
PART I: POVERTY REDUCTION
Reaching the Poor: The Need For a New Donor Strategy	13	(14)
Goran Hyden
Structural Adjustment and Poverty Reduction in Uganda	27	(17)
John Ddumba-Ssentamu
Louis Kasekende
Poverty, Growth and Development: Recent Chinese Experience	44	(13)
John Weiss
Public Expenditure and Poverty Reduction: Some Current Dilemmas	57	(16)
John Mackinnon
PART II: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
African Debt Management: Lessons from Uganda	73	(11)
John Loxley
Deconcentration, Devolution and Donors: Explaining Centralisation -- Decentralisation Cycles in Developing Countries	84	(13)
Roger Charlton
The Past and the Present: Reflections on 50 Years of Development Ideas and the UN	97	(11)
Janet Blackman
A Plea in Some Desperation	108	(13)
Mike Faber
Economic Reform in Vietnam and Tanzania: A Comparative Commentary	121	(20)
Brian Van Arkadie
PART III: AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Reflections on the Study of the Irrigation Potential of the Usangu Plains of Tanzania	141	(18)
Richard Palmer-Jones
Bruce Lankford
Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa	159	(23)
Deryke Belshaw
The `Sponge Effect' and the Transition from State to Private Agriculture	182	(19)
Peter Lawrence
PART IV: SMALL-SCALE ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
Reflections on Ian Livingstone's Contributions to the Understanding of Small Enterprises	201	(7)
Donald Mead
East African Micro-Enterprises: The Negotiation of their Labour, Gender and Rural-Urban Relations	208	(11)
Poul Ove Pedersen
Economic Efficiency Measures for Small-Scale Enterprises in Developing Countries	219	(16)
Michael Tribe
PART V: INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Reflections on Industrialisation Strategies and Experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa	235	(15)
Frederick Nixson
Trade Reform and State-Owned Enterprise Restructuring in Vietnam: Implications for Workers	250	(21)
John Thoburn
Ian Livingstone -- His Career and A Select Bibliography	263	(8)
Index	271