Examines the process of poverty alleviation from 1976 to 1993. Finds that structural adjustment policies between 1981 and 1987 did not seem to have an adverse effect on poverty.

Ruth Daroesman was the first Assistant Editor of the <italic>Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies</italic>. She joined the ANU in 1968 and for the next 15 years worked alongside Professor Heinz Arndt, head of the then Department of Economics in the Research School of Pacific Studies, in building the journal's...

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Appraisal in Developing Countries. Edited by Colin Kirkpatrick and John Weiss. Cheltenham and Brookfteld, VT: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp.xiii + 321. £49.95. ISBN 1 85898 346 0 Chile: The Great Transformation. By Javier Martinez and Alvaro Diaz Washington, DC:...

Who Changes? Institutionalizing Participation in Development. Edited by James Blackburn with Jeremy Holland. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1998. Pp.xvi + 199. £5.25. ISBN 1853394203 Whose Voice? Participatory Research and Policy Change. Edited by Jeremy Holland with James...

Most studies of land taxation in Asia have found that its importance has declined over the 20th century, as a proportion of total government revenues and often in absolute terms. In fact, this decline started well before 1940 in most colonial territories in Asia, as well as in Japan. The paper...