David Drakakis-Smith

Urban poverty and urban agriculture: An overview of the linkages in Harare

Abstract The urban poor throughout most of Africa have experienced increasing difficulties over recent years as a result of the imposition of structural adjustment programmes. One of the main coping mechanisms has been increased self-help in satisfying basic household needs. Food is one of these basic needs and urban agriculture, both legal and illegal, has grown as a consequence of the difficult economic climate. As yet relatively few studies have attempted to assess the role that urban agriculture plays or might play in social and environmental terms. This paper reviews the situation in Harare, Zimbabwe as the contextual setting for an on-going investigation of these two important considerations, placing the present policy responses in their appropriate historical and economic framework, and assessing the research issues which need to be addressed.

Economic and social development in Pacific Asia

Contents Figures Tables Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations. 1. Pacific Asia in a Global Context Chris Dixon and David W. Smith 2. The Growth Economies of Pacific Asia in their Changing Global Context Peter Dicken 3. Whats in it for us? Images of Pacific Asian Development Dean Forbes 4. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Geographical Pattern of Foreign Trade Flows with Special Reference to Taiwan Claes Alvstam 5. The Role of the State in Economic Transformation of East Asia Jeff Henderson 6. ASEAN Economies: Continuing Dynamic Growth in the 1900s John Wong 7. Footprints in Space: Spatial Re-structuring in the Asian NICs 1950-1990 Terry McGee and George Lin 8. China: The Consequences of Liberalisation Denis Dwyer 9. Transition in a Centrally Planned Economy: the Impact and Potential of Economic Reference in Vietnam Richard Vokes and Ingrid Palmer 10. North Korea in Pacific Asia Aiden Foster-Carter 11. Towards the Pacific Century? Chris Dixon and David W. Smith

Ethnicity and Development: Geographical Perspectives

Partial table of contents: CONCEPTS OF ETHNICITY AND DEVELOPMENT. Ethnic Identity and Language Issues in Development (C. Williams) THE POLITICAL CONTEXT. Ethnicity and Political Development in South Africa (A. Lemon) Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Ethiopia (A. Zegeye & D. Abate). THE ECONOMIC CONTEXT. Cultural, Puralism and Economic Development: Perspectives From 20th-Century Mexico and the Caribbean (C. Clarke). The People of Isan, Thailand: Missing Out on the Economic Boom (M. Parnwell & J. Rigg). Index.

The Pacific Asian Region: Myth or Reality?

The rapid economic growth experienced by a number of East and South East Asian economies has attracted a great deal of attention. These economies are widely regarded as forming the dynamic core of a major new sub-division of the global economy. The basis for this view is reviewed and it is concluded that while there is evidence for a Pacific Asian core region, it is difficult to substantiate claims for broader trans-Pacific integration. The internal structure of the Pacific Asian region is examined in terms of the emergence of Regional and Sub-regional divisions of labour. It is argued that these are integral to regional integration and continued economic growth. However, the increasing integration of some of the regions economies is offset by an intensifying of competition amongst others. The prospects for the establishment of a formal regional structure rest on the reconciling of these opposing forces. The pressure for this is likely to come from changes in the global economy which promote the organisation of trade in a series of highly managed trading blocs. The much vaunted dynamism of some of the Pacific Asian economies has tended to obscure the uneven nature of growth and its environmental and human costs. Finally the sustainability and likely patterns of future regional development are assessed in terms of current regional and global economic and political trends.