Walter Elkan

Biographic Data

ID102748
NAMEWalter Elkan
GIVEN NAMESWalter
FAMILY NAMEElkan
SIGNATUREELKAN W
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS136
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
H-INDEX8

  • Africa Misunderstood or Whatever Happened to the Rural-Urban Group

    Walter ElkanARTICLEAfrican Affairs1995

    Journal Article Africa Misunderstood or Whatever Happened to the Rural-Urban Group? Get access Africa Misunderstood or Whatever Happened to the Rural-Urban Group?, Vali Jamal and John Weeks. Macmillan Press, 1993. xvii + 180 pp. Hardback £40. ISBN 0-333-58890-8. WALTER ELKAN WALTER ELKAN Brunel University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 377, October 1995, Pages 599–601, ht…

  • African Successes: Four public managers of Kenyan rural developments

    Walter ElkanARTICLEAfrican Affairs1993

    Journal Article African Successes: Four public managers of Kenyan rural developments Get access African Successes: Four public managers of Kenyan rural developments, by David K. Leonard. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1991. 406 pp. Illustrated. $55.00 hardback and $18.95 paperback. ISBN 0 520 0706 3 and 0 520 0705 5. Development in Practice, by Doug Porter, Bryant Allen and Gaye Thompson, Routledge, London, 1991. xxiii + 24…

  • Alternatives to fuelwood in African towns

    Open AccessWalter ElkanARTICLEWorld Development1988Cited by: 1References: 1

  • The Poverty of `Development Economics

    Walter ElkanREVIEWThe Economic Journal1984Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Poverty of `Development Economics' Get access The Poverty of"'Development Economies'. By DEEPAK LAL. (London: The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1983. Pp. xiii + 130. £3.00.) Walter Elkan Walter Elkan Brunei University, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages 1006–1007, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232337 Published: 01 Decemb…

  • The Economics of Shoe Shining in Nairobi

    Walter Elkan, T C I Ryan et al.ARTICLEAfrican Affairs1982Cited by: 4

    Journal Article THE ECONOMICS OF SHOE SHINING IN NAIROBI Get access WALTER ELKAN, WALTER ELKAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T. C. I. RYAN, T. C. I. RYAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. T. MUKUI J. T. MUKUI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 323, April 1982, Pages 247–256, https://doi.org/1…

  • The Economy of Kenya: The Kenyatta Era

    Walter Elkan, Arthur HazlewoodARTICLEThe Economic Journal1980Cited by: 10

    Journal Article The Economy of Kenya: The Kenyatta Era Get access The Economy of Kenya: The Kenyatta Era. By Arthur Hazlewood. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 231. £9.00 hardback, £4.95 paperback.) Walter Elkan Walter Elkan Brunei University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 359, 1 September 1980, Pages 630–631, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231937 Published:…

  • Labor Migration from Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland

    Walter ElkanARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1980Cited by: 4

  • Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa. David Parkin

    Walter ElkanARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1979

  • Proletarians and African Capitalism: The Kenya Case. 1960-1972

    Walter Elkan, Richard SandbrookARTICLEAfrican Economic History1977

  • Economic Theory and the Developing Countries

    Walter ElkanARTICLEAfrican Affairs1977

    Journal Article Economic Theory and the Developing Countries Get access Economic Theory and the Developing Countries, by Ajit K. Dasgupta. Macmillan, 1974. 132pp. Tables, index. £5·00 (£2·50, paper covers).Economic Underdevelopment: an inside view, by C. C. Onyemelukwe. Longman, 1974. 124pp. £2·50.Commodity Exports and African Economic Development, by Scott R. Pearson and others. Lexington Books, Farnborough, UK, and Massachusetts, USA, 1974. 285…

  • Migrant Labour in South Africa by Francis Wilson Johannesburg, South African Council of Churches and Spro-Case, 1972

    Open AccessWalter ElkanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern African…1977

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  • Modern Migrations in Western Africa. Samir Amin

    Walter ElkanARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1977

  • Development Policy in Small Countries

    Walter Elkan, P SelwynARTICLEThe Economic Journal1976Cited by: 21

    Journal Article Development Policy in Small Countries Get access Development Policy in Small Countries. Edited by P. SELWYN. (London: Croom Helm, 1975. Pp. 208. £6.95.) Walter Elkan Walter Elkan University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 906–907, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231476 Published: 01 December 1976

  • Is a Proletariat Emerging in Nairobi

    Walter ElkanARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1976Cited by: 6

    Are there beginning to be substantial numbers in Nairobi who are\nwholly and permanently dependent upon wage employment, and -whose ties with\ntheir villages of origin have become severed?\nThis paper looks first at the statistical evidence, and then at\nthe evidence provided by sociologists and social anthropologists who have done\nrelevant 'field' research in different parts of Nairobi.\nThe statistical evidence is at first sight ambiguous & La…

  • Concepts in the Description of African Economies

    Open AccessWalter ElkanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern African…1976Cited by: 1

    The tribe of economists to which I belong regard concepts as more or less 'kosher', but not description. Economics, most of them would probably argue, is concerned with analysis and prediction; description is for lesser breeds. For example, students are taught the intricacies of analysing the supply of money, but it is rarely suggested to them that they might reasonably be expected to know how money actually comes into existence, which would invo…

  • The relation between tourism and employment in Kenya and Tanzania

    Walter ElkanARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies1975

    The unqualified enthusiasm of some for the development of tourism as a strategy for the development of low income countries is only matched by the equally unqualified scepticism of others. Few have felt neutral or considered the possibility that its effects might depend on the country concerned or the type of tourist development to be undertaken. This paper, based on a survey of employment in the hotel and tourist industries of Kenya and Tanzania…

  • The Development Process

    Jean M Due, Walter ElkanARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1974

  • Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa

    Walter Elkan, Polly HillARTICLEEconomica1972

  • Economic Development: An Ecological Approach

    Walter Elkan, John M CulbertsonARTICLEEconomica1972

  • African Traders and Economic Development in Ghana

    Walter Elkan, Peter C GarlickARTICLEThe Economic Journal1972Cited by: 11

    Journal Article Garlick (P. C ) . African Traders in Ghana Get access African Traders and Economic Development in Ghana. By P. C. Garligk. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp.184. £2.25 net.) Walter Elkan Walter Elkan University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 326, 1 June 1972, Pages 799–800, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230058 Published: 01 June 1972

  • On the apparent benefits of higher productivity: An arithmetical illustration

    Walter ElkanARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies1971

    This paper seeks to show, by an arithmetical example, that increased productivity through mechanization can lead to results which make a country worse off. The example shows that the installation of an imported labour‐saving machine will appear not only to have increased productivity, but also to have raised the proportion of investment in G.N.P. and the proportion of capital goods in total imports. All the indications, therefore, lead one to exp…

  • Economic Development and Export Growth Economic Development and Export Growth: A Study of Northern Rhodesia, 1920-1960 . Robert E. Baldwin

    Walter ElkanARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1971

  • Accelerating Investment in Developing Economies

    Walter ElkanARTICLEInternational Affairs1970Cited by: 1

  • Urban Unemployment in East Africa

    Walter ElkanARTICLEInternational Affairs1970Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Urban Unemployment in East Africa Get access Walter Elkan Walter Elkan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 3, July 1970, Pages 517–528, https://doi.org/10.2307/2613227 Published: 01 July 1970

  • Economic Integration in Africa

    Walter Elkan, Paul Robson et al.ARTICLEEconomica1970