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Labour and Poverty in Rural Tanzania

by Paul Collier, etc., Samir Radwan, and Samuel Wangwe

Published 5 June 1986

Rural Tanzania, one of the poorest areas of the world, has been the arena for bold social and economic official experiments which have commanded world attention. Yet, because of the lack of data, these experiments have never been properly assessed. This book, based upon large scale surveys designed and conducted by the authors, first describes how the representative houeshold is diversified over a range of economic activities including migration, then identifies and measures inequality using an advanced approach to the measurement of living standards and finally shows the extent to which inequality exists within as opposed to between villages. The study also investigates the impact of government initiative such as cooperative farms, land reform, education and health services and shows how some have had effects which run counter to their declared objectives. This book will be of particular interest to development economists.

The Politics of Maternity Care

by Jo Garcia and etc.

Published 1 January 1990

Maternity care was the subject of intense campaigning early in this century. This collection of essays brings together historical and social perspectives to put these debates in context and chart how the present situation arose. It examines issues such as the control mothers have over childbirth, the changing role of fathers, the devleopment of midwifery, and the relationship between doctors and midwives. The book concludes with an interview with Wendy Savage.

Controlled Open Economies

by David Bevan, etc., Paul Collier, and Jan Willem Gunning

Published 30 November 1990

This book, a companion volume to "Peasants and Governments" by the same authors, develops macroeconomic theory for small open economies characterized by the sort of controls which make much of existing neoclassical economics inapplicable to developing countries. It distinguishes between sustainable combinations of policies and incompatible control regimes. Many developing countries not only have complex control regimes, but are subject to periodic, powerful trade shocks. Unless offset by policy changes shocks can make the control regime incompatible. The authors analyse the changes needed to maintain compatibility and the consequences of failing to do so. They also consider the optimal time path of investment in response to a temporary shock and how this path is affected by controls. The second half of the book contains an analysis of two temporary trade shocks in Africa, in both compatible and incompatible control regimes, demonstrating the applicability of the theory. It is shown that in a compatible regime, both that regime itself and the fiscal response to changes in revenue may make the reaction to a shock grossly inefficient.
Under incompatibility, an economy exposed to a negative shock may go into a steep decline, while responses to conventional policies can be perverse.