1987: Volume 18
Volume 18 Number 2 May 1987
Edited by: Susanna Davies, Charles Kemp and Angela Little
Historically, plantations can be traced back to the Portuguese Canary Islands in the 15th century. Only later, in the 16th and 17th centuries, were they set up in the New World [Wolf 1982]. Here they produced mainly sugar and cotton for the European market and were based on the use of African slave labour. Subsequently and despite the abolition of slavery in the early 19th century, they spread under the aegis of an expanding western imperialism into parts of Africa, Asia and Oceania. A wider range of food, beverages and other industrial staples were cultivated for the consumer markets and factories of the West. To this day, plantations remain an important form of agricultural production in many parts of the world. However, fundamental changes in global economics and politics within the last few decades have substantially redefined the relationship between developed and less developed countries on the one hand and between capital and labour on the other. This has profound implications for the future development of plantations.
Volume 18 Number 3 July 1987
Edited by: Gordon White
We are currently witnessing a global process of economic restructuring in both North and South, East and West. Though country contexts may differ, there is one strikingly common element: the criticism of statist modes of development and provision and the move towards greater use of market mechanisms in the delivery of goods and services.
Volume 18 Number 4 October 1987
Edited by: Hugh Roberts
the articles which make up this issue of the IDS Bulletin. They come from different sources and express variety of viewpoints. Four of them (Fontaine,Booth, Harriss and Manor) were presented as papers to a workshop on 'The Developmental State in Retreat' held at IDS on 30 June-! July, 1987. Mick Moore's article is a critical rejoinder to the debate on the state in Africa which was published in the January 1986 issue of this journal. Gordon White's article could be grouped with the first four since, while it was not presented at the workshop, it too deals with the 'retreat of the state', albeit in the highly specific Chinese context. Roberts's article, in contrast, represents a somewhat isolated, if not eccentric, approach to understanding the peculiar experience of economic policy reorientation in contemporary Algeria.
1988: Volume 19
Volume 19 Number 1 January 1988
Edited by: Chris Coclough and Reg Green
In one sense the perceived needs to stabilise virtually all African economies, and to secure their structural adjustment to new external realities, are no longer judged controversial both within and outside the African continent. It is now widely accepted that stabilisation defined as removing untenable macroeconomic imbalances - has become essential. But, at another level, the disagreements have intensified.
Volume 19 Number 2 May 1988
Edited by: Simon Maxwell
The papers in this issue of the IDS Bulletin were originally presented at a workshop on cash crops, held at the IDS in January 1987.1 They deal with an issue which is extremely controversial and one which has become a litmus test of development ideology: to caricature only a little, it sometimes seems we have the World Bank on one side, in favour of cash crops; and on the other side, everyone else, led by the voluntary agencies, against
