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The Distribution of Land in Rural China (1993)
Journal Article
McKinley, T., & Griffin, K. (1993). The Distribution of Land in Rural China. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 21(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066159308438538

The article contains data on landholdings from a nationwide sample survey of 10,258 rural households in China in 1988. Analysis of the data reveals that the distribution of land in physical units is relatively equal by international standards and tha... Read More about The Distribution of Land in Rural China.

Africa Misunderstood or Whatever Happened to the Rural-urban Gap? (1993)
Book
Weeks, J., & Jamal, V. (1993). Africa Misunderstood or Whatever Happened to the Rural-urban Gap?. Macmillan

In the past African economies were (and sometimes are even now) depicted as suffering from "urban bias", which strangled the agricultural sector and eventually caused the "African crisis". Based on ten detailed case studies, this book questions that... Read More about Africa Misunderstood or Whatever Happened to the Rural-urban Gap?.

Has Recovery Begun? Africa's Adjustment in the 1980's Revisited (1993)
Journal Article
Weeks, J., & Mosley, P. (1993). Has Recovery Begun? Africa's Adjustment in the 1980's Revisited. World Development, 21(10), 1583-1606. https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X%2893%2990093-O

This article reviews the 1989 debate between the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa over Africa's adjustment, and on the basis of most recent statistics concludes that there is little evidence that the region is in throes of a recovery... Read More about Has Recovery Begun? Africa's Adjustment in the 1980's Revisited.

Adjustment in Central America (1993)
Book Chapter
Weeks, J., & Pelupessy, W. (1993). Adjustment in Central America. In J. Weeks, & W. Pelupessy (Eds.), Economic Maladjustment in Central America (1-22). Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22529-3_1

With the exception of Costa Rica, despotic regimes ruled the Central American countries in the postwar period, in which the use of force played a key role both in the maintenance of civil order and in the day-to-day functioning of the economy. In the... Read More about Adjustment in Central America.

The Nicaraguan Stabilisation Programme of 1989 and Prospects for Recovery (1993)
Book Chapter
Weeks, J. (1993). The Nicaraguan Stabilisation Programme of 1989 and Prospects for Recovery. In J. Weeks, & W. Pelupessy (Eds.), Economic Maladjustment in Central America (25-40). Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22529-3_2

Through the 1980s, the Nicaraguan economy showed increasing signs of crisis. By 1984 the economy was in decline (see Table 2.1), in 1985 inflation reached triple digits, and 1988 took the monetary economy into chaos with hyperinflation. Beginning in... Read More about The Nicaraguan Stabilisation Programme of 1989 and Prospects for Recovery.

Preface to the first edition in Spanish (1993)
Book Chapter
Poole, N. (1993). Preface to the first edition in Spanish. In W. G. Grubb (Ed.), Un Pueblo Desconocido en Tierra Desconocida (first published in English in 1911 as 'An Unknown People in an Unknown Land', Seely and Co, London) (vi-vii). Iglesia Anglicana and the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos de la Universidad Católica

Irrigation design and African farming systems (1993)
Book Chapter
Dia, I. S., & Mollinga, P. (1993). Irrigation design and African farming systems. In J. Ubels, & L. Horst (Eds.), Irrigation design in Africa. Towards an interactive method (22-40). The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA)