John Toye
Biographic Data
| ID | 748920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Toye |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Toye |
| SIGNATURE | TOYE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality and an Inflation Revival
In 1985, Martin Staniland posed in his book the question of ‘What is political economy?’ His response was essentially to pose a series of supplementary questions that spread his quizzical net ever wider, drawing on a range of conventional answers. By contrast, Goodhart and Pradhan pose their own series of supplementary questions starting from and extending an ingenious range of other people’s recent articles. The basic question is spelt out in th…
The Counterrevolution in Development Economics
This article charts the rise and fall of the claim that development economics is a separate, independent branch of economics from neoclassical economics, from 1960 to 1980. It also traces the changes in development policy that followed the collapse of that doctrinal claim, while arguing that structural adjustment programs were not the only determinant of policy shifts in developing countries. An epilogue reflects on the influence of behavioral ec…
What I Learned from the JDS
This article gives an account of what the author learned during four decades of his professional association with The Journal of Development Studies. The lessons learned include the subjects of entrepreneurship, book reviewing, editing, survival skills and succession planning
Assessing the G77: 50 Years After Unctad and 40 Years After the Nieo
This article views the history of the Group of 77 through the lens of its relations with unctad’s establishment in 1964, its unsuccessful struggle for the nieo in the 1970s, and the subsequent loosening of ties. The debt crisis of the 1980s, the Uruguay Round negotiations, and the arrival of the wto are seen as crucial forces unravelling the previously close links. Growing differentiation among developing countries and the changing leadership of …
Does Aid Work in India?: A Country Study of the Impact of Official Development Assistance
Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the poverty head count has fallen and the volume and composition of its aid have changed as new issues of climate change and the environment have emerged..Yet Does Aid Work in India?, first published in 1990, remains of great interest as a study of aid effectiveness in India's pre-liberalisation era. It id…
One World, Two Cultures? Alfred Zimmern, Julian Huxley and the Ideological Origins of Unesco
Against the background of revival of interest in the ‘two cultures’ controversy of the 1960s, this article examines an earlier episode in the struggle between literary intellectuals and scientists for cultural leadership – the choice of a British candidate for the leadership of UNESCO. Why was Sir Alfred Zimmern, the obvious choice for the post of founding Director‐General, not selected? This article argues that Zimmern was ousted as front‐runner…
The two cultures controversy: Science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain - By Guy Ortolano
Social knowledge and international policymaking at the World Bank
The production of social knowledge in all international organizations is problematic because all are public bureaucracies. The World Bank provides a case study of the problems of managing in-house research in an international public bureaucracy. Not only are there managerial constraints on what the Bank is willing to publish, but the binding constraints on publication evolve. The evolution in managerial objectives at the Bank in recent years and …
Macroeconomic Policy, Labour Markets and Growth in Developed and Developing Countries
Revisiting Keynes: Economic possibilities for our grandchildren - Edited by Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga
Solow in the Tropics
Although Robert Solow never applied his neoclassical growth model to an underdeveloped country, neither did he ever exclude underdeveloped countries from its scope. For a generation, the model's use to predict worldwide convergence in levels of per capita income provided the main link from growth theory to development economics. In the last two decades, augmented Solow models, endogenous growth models, and exercises in development accounting have…
Poverty reduction
The idea of poverty reduction naturally attracts all kinds of angels – in NGOs, government departments and international financial institutions – but their ministrations are frustrated by many obstacles. These include the narrow and static way in which economists define the poor; the remoteness of the poor, their social invisibility and elusiveness to most forms of targeting; and the absence of political will to engage in poverty-reduction polici…
The case for cross-disciplinary social science research on poverty, inequality and well-being
Arguments for cross-disciplinary research in development studies have been applied recently to work on poverty, inequality and well-being. However, much research on these issues remains fragmented and, in particular, the intellectual barrier between economics and the other social science subjects continues to be powerful. In this paper, we review the prospects for cross-disciplinary research (both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary); and, ex…
How the UN moved from full employment to economic development
Economic development was a topic of small consequence to the United Nations (UN) in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Yet by the late 1950s it had become one of the UN's over-arching purposes in its economic and social work. The reasons for this considerable (and to date permanent) change have not attracted much attention, because it is now assumed that economic development is the natural goal of UN economic efforts. This article o…
From Multilateralism to Modernisation: US Strategy on Trade, Finance and Development in the United Nations, 1945–63
In the fist two decades of the UN's existence, the US strategy for managing the Organisation on issues of trade, finance and development underwent two major reversals. After deliberately nesting the new international economic institutions inside the UN, the US had moved to a defensive strategy on economic issues in the UN by the mid-1950s. One cause was the outbreak of the Cold War and the fear of ‘subversives’ in the UN. Another reason was that …
From New Era to Neo-liberalism: US Strategy on Trade, Finance and Development in the United Nations, 1964–82
This article charts the history of the US strategy and This article charts the history of the US strategy and tactics on issues of trade, finance and development in the UN from 1964 to 1982, to explain how initial diplomatic defeats in the Kennedy and Johnson eras had been neutralised by the 1980s. Many saw the birth of UNCTAD as the start of a new era in international cooperation in the field of trade and development. For the US, however, it was…
The Origins and Interpretation of the Prebisch-Singer Thesis
© Duke University Press 2003
Keynes On Population
The topic of population is treated only lightly in the major modern biographies of John Maynard Keynes, yet Keynes himself had strong - if varying - views on the subject. For many years he maintained a neo-Malthusian view of population, based on a postulated link between population growth and deteriorating terms of trade. This led him to take up a militant stance towards 'overpopulated' countries, notably India, China, and Egypt. Keynes on Popula…
Nationalising the Anti-Poverty Agenda
Summaries Although the return in the 1990s of the issue of poverty reduction to the agenda of international organisations is very welcome, an important obstacle to further progress remains. To date, the anti?poverty agenda in developing countries has been largely externally driven, whereas previous successful anti?poverty strategies have been implemented through internal political dynamics. This article explores the implications of this difficult…
A World without Famine
The proceedings of the Development Studies Association conference held in Dublin on the 150th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine examine the historical background and the reasons why the spectre of
Taxation, Corruption and Reform
IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact
Journal Article IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact. Get access IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact. By Killick Tony. (London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. x + 212. £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 13040 9.) John Toye John Toye Institute of Development Studies, Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 440, 1 January 1997, Pa…
Public Expenditure Policy and Poverty Reduction: Has the World Bank Got it Right
Summaries This article discusses the impact of public expenditure policy on poverty reduction, focusing on the interaction between poverty assessments (PAs) and public expenditure reviews (PERs). Most PAs have analysed poverty in terms of the constraints that prevent the poor from participating in labour intensive growth, with little appreciation of sociological and political factors involved. Most PERs have concentrated on three issues: increasi…
Dilemmas of development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Economics
Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending, Volume I Analysis and Policy Proposals
Journal Article Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending, Volume I Analysis and Policy Proposals. Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, Volume 2 Case Studies. Get access Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, Volume 1 Analysis and Policy Proposals. By Mosley (Paul), Harrigan (Jane) and Toye (John). (London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. xvii + 317. £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 01548 0.)Aid and …
Dilemmas of development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Economics
The Origins and Interpretation of the Prebisch-Singer Thesis
© Duke University Press 2003
The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries
Journal Article The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries Get access The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries. Edited by DAVID NEWBERY and NICHOLAS STERN. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, 1987. Pp. xvi + 694. £39.50 hardback. ISBN 0 19 520498 0.) John Toye John Toye Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
Assessing the G77: 50 Years After Unctad and 40 Years After the Nieo
This article views the history of the Group of 77 through the lens of its relations with unctad’s establishment in 1964, its unsuccessful struggle for the nieo in the 1970s, and the subsequent loosening of ties. The debt crisis of the 1980s, the Uruguay Round negotiations, and the arrival of the wto are seen as crucial forces unravelling the previously close links. Growing differentiation among developing countries and the changing leadership of …
One World, Two Cultures? Alfred Zimmern, Julian Huxley and the Ideological Origins of Unesco
Against the background of revival of interest in the ‘two cultures’ controversy of the 1960s, this article examines an earlier episode in the struggle between literary intellectuals and scientists for cultural leadership – the choice of a British candidate for the leadership of UNESCO. Why was Sir Alfred Zimmern, the obvious choice for the post of founding Director‐General, not selected? This article argues that Zimmern was ousted as front‐runner…
Varieties of Stabilization Experience: Towards Sensible Macroeconomics in the Third World
Journal Article Varieties of Stabilization Experience: Towards Sensible Macroeconomics in the Third World Get access Varieties of Stabilization Experience: Towards Sensible Macroeconomics in the Third World. By 1 LANCE TAYLOR. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp. viii+ 180. £19.50 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828638 4.) John Toye John Toye The Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Economic Theories of Politics and Public Finance
Over the last twenty years a succession of theories of politics has appeared of which the hallmark is an attempt to adapt utilitarian marginalism to the purpose of political explanation. Theories in this intellectual style may be designated ‘economic’ theories of politics since utilitarian marginalism was first developed in the context of economic theorizing; its invention was indeed the birth of a notion of ‘economies’ as distinct from the ‘poli…
The Counterrevolution in Development Economics
This article charts the rise and fall of the claim that development economics is a separate, independent branch of economics from neoclassical economics, from 1960 to 1980. It also traces the changes in development policy that followed the collapse of that doctrinal claim, while arguing that structural adjustment programs were not the only determinant of policy shifts in developing countries. An epilogue reflects on the influence of behavioral ec…
Nationalising the Anti-Poverty Agenda
Summaries Although the return in the 1990s of the issue of poverty reduction to the agenda of international organisations is very welcome, an important obstacle to further progress remains. To date, the anti?poverty agenda in developing countries has been largely externally driven, whereas previous successful anti?poverty strategies have been implemented through internal political dynamics. This article explores the implications of this difficult…
Public Expenditure Policy and Poverty Reduction: Has the World Bank Got it Right
Summaries This article discusses the impact of public expenditure policy on poverty reduction, focusing on the interaction between poverty assessments (PAs) and public expenditure reviews (PERs). Most PAs have analysed poverty in terms of the constraints that prevent the poor from participating in labour intensive growth, with little appreciation of sociological and political factors involved. Most PERs have concentrated on three issues: increasi…
Economic trends and policies in India during the Emergency
Solow in the Tropics
Although Robert Solow never applied his neoclassical growth model to an underdeveloped country, neither did he ever exclude underdeveloped countries from its scope. For a generation, the model's use to predict worldwide convergence in levels of per capita income provided the main link from growth theory to development economics. In the last two decades, augmented Solow models, endogenous growth models, and exercises in development accounting have…
Poverty reduction
The idea of poverty reduction naturally attracts all kinds of angels – in NGOs, government departments and international financial institutions – but their ministrations are frustrated by many obstacles. These include the narrow and static way in which economists define the poor; the remoteness of the poor, their social invisibility and elusiveness to most forms of targeting; and the absence of political will to engage in poverty-reduction polici…
Taxation, Corruption and Reform
Nationalism and Structuralism: Two Themes in the Work of Dudley Seers
for the Third World are naturally different from the colonialist Anglophone and Francophone blocs envisaged by Keynes. In the latter, poor countries are linked on a preferential basis with industrial ones; in a Greater Europe (apart from the southern periphery and the ACP countries), they are not
Political Economy and the Analysis of Indian Development
The purpose of this paper is to review recent analyses of the process of development in India which have used the concept of 'political economy' as their principle of intellectual organization. The focus will be primarily on studies which have been published in the 1980s. Some of these make explicit their reliance on political economy as their analytical framework (e.g. Jha, 1980; Rubin, 1982; Bardhan, 1984). For others it remains more implicit b…
Development studies and change in contemporary Britain
What is political economy
Social knowledge and international policymaking at the World Bank
The production of social knowledge in all international organizations is problematic because all are public bureaucracies. The World Bank provides a case study of the problems of managing in-house research in an international public bureaucracy. Not only are there managerial constraints on what the Bank is willing to publish, but the binding constraints on publication evolve. The evolution in managerial objectives at the Bank in recent years and …
How the UN moved from full employment to economic development
Economic development was a topic of small consequence to the United Nations (UN) in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Yet by the late 1950s it had become one of the UN's over-arching purposes in its economic and social work. The reasons for this considerable (and to date permanent) change have not attracted much attention, because it is now assumed that economic development is the natural goal of UN economic efforts. This article o…
From New Era to Neo-liberalism: US Strategy on Trade, Finance and Development in the United Nations, 1964–82
This article charts the history of the US strategy and This article charts the history of the US strategy and tactics on issues of trade, finance and development in the UN from 1964 to 1982, to explain how initial diplomatic defeats in the Kennedy and Johnson eras had been neutralised by the 1980s. Many saw the birth of UNCTAD as the start of a new era in international cooperation in the field of trade and development. For the US, however, it was…
IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact
Journal Article IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact. Get access IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact. By Killick Tony. (London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. x + 212. £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 13040 9.) John Toye John Toye Institute of Development Studies, Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 440, 1 January 1997, Pa…
Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending, Volume I Analysis and Policy Proposals
Journal Article Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending, Volume I Analysis and Policy Proposals. Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, Volume 2 Case Studies. Get access Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, Volume 1 Analysis and Policy Proposals. By Mosley (Paul), Harrigan (Jane) and Toye (John). (London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. xvii + 317. £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 01548 0.)Aid and …
Tax Reform in South Asia: Yesterday and Today
The subject of this paper is the fate of progressive taxation in South Asia. This is a subject about which Kingsley Martin himself would have had mixed feelings. On the one hand, he strongly advocated a redistributive fiscal strategy. On the other hand, he was never at all comfortable examining the kind of economic analysis with which it is usually justified. Somewhat unfairly, he distrusted all orthodox economists on moral grounds (Martin, 1966:…
India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960s
Journal Article India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960s Get access India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960s. By D. NAYYAR. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xviii + 392. £12.50.) J. F. J. Toye J. F. J. Toye Wolfson College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 348, 1 December 1977, Pages 816–818, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231393 Pu…
Structural changes in the government sector of the Indian states, 1955–70
This paper makes an analysis of the budgets of Indian state governments from 1955 to 1970. Its purpose is to discover the major changes that occurred at this time in the structure both of states’ revenues and of states’ expenditure. It attempts to relate these changes to each other and the wider economic context of India. The issues involved in deciding whether these structural changes are desirable or otherwise are set out. But as some of these …
Economic Theories of Politics and Public Finance
Over the last twenty years a succession of theories of politics has appeared of which the hallmark is an attempt to adapt utilitarian marginalism to the purpose of political explanation. Theories in this intellectual style may be designated ‘economic’ theories of politics since utilitarian marginalism was first developed in the context of economic theorizing; its invention was indeed the birth of a notion of ‘economies’ as distinct from the ‘poli…
Economic trends and policies in India during the Emergency
India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960s
Journal Article India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960s Get access India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960s. By D. NAYYAR. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xviii + 392. £12.50.) J. F. J. Toye J. F. J. Toye Wolfson College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 348, 1 December 1977, Pages 816–818, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231393 Pu…
Equity versus Ease in Indian Land Tax Policy
One of the central choices that confronts designers of direct taxes is that of the precise combination of equity and administrative ease. Both equity and administrative ease are normally accepted as desirable objectives in the design of taxes. But the objectives conflict with each other. Equity requires a tax sufficiently flexible to adjust the size of the tax payment to the individual taxpayer's ability to pay. Administrative simplicity, by cont…
Introduction: Three stories about trade and poor economies
(1979). Introduction: Three stories about trade and poor economies. The Journal of Development Studies: Vol. 15, Trade and Poor Economies, pp. 1-18
Public Expenditure Reforms in India and Malaysia
Public Expenditure and Indian Development Policy, 1960-1970
Of the many different ways in which economists have tried to analyse public expenditure, the most relevant to Indian economic development is that which links the level of public expenditure with the rate at which the state can accumulate capital. The abstract theory of this link, however, must be complemented by a historical account of the degree to which a state accumulation policy was understood by Indian policy makers, and of the other (often …
The disparaging of development economics
The recession, the Third World and the base metals industries
Aid and Institution-building: Some Lessons from Indian Agriculture
The follies of
Development studies and change in contemporary Britain
What is political economy
The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries
Journal Article The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries Get access The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries. Edited by DAVID NEWBERY and NICHOLAS STERN. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, 1987. Pp. xvi + 694. £39.50 hardback. ISBN 0 19 520498 0.) John Toye John Toye Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
Political Economy and the Analysis of Indian Development
The purpose of this paper is to review recent analyses of the process of development in India which have used the concept of 'political economy' as their principle of intellectual organization. The focus will be primarily on studies which have been published in the 1980s. Some of these make explicit their reliance on political economy as their analytical framework (e.g. Jha, 1980; Rubin, 1982; Bardhan, 1984). For others it remains more implicit b…
Nationalism and Structuralism: Two Themes in the Work of Dudley Seers
for the Third World are naturally different from the colonialist Anglophone and Francophone blocs envisaged by Keynes. In the latter, poor countries are linked on a preferential basis with industrial ones; in a Greater Europe (apart from the southern periphery and the ACP countries), they are not
Varieties of Stabilization Experience: Towards Sensible Macroeconomics in the Third World
Journal Article Varieties of Stabilization Experience: Towards Sensible Macroeconomics in the Third World Get access Varieties of Stabilization Experience: Towards Sensible Macroeconomics in the Third World. By 1 LANCE TAYLOR. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp. viii+ 180. £19.50 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828638 4.) John Toye John Toye The Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Tax Reform in South Asia: Yesterday and Today
The subject of this paper is the fate of progressive taxation in South Asia. This is a subject about which Kingsley Martin himself would have had mixed feelings. On the one hand, he strongly advocated a redistributive fiscal strategy. On the other hand, he was never at all comfortable examining the kind of economic analysis with which it is usually justified. Somewhat unfairly, he distrusted all orthodox economists on moral grounds (Martin, 1966:…
Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending, Volume I Analysis and Policy Proposals
Journal Article Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending, Volume I Analysis and Policy Proposals. Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, Volume 2 Case Studies. Get access Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, Volume 1 Analysis and Policy Proposals. By Mosley (Paul), Harrigan (Jane) and Toye (John). (London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. xvii + 317. £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 01548 0.)Aid and …
Dilemmas of development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Economics
Public Expenditure Policy and Poverty Reduction: Has the World Bank Got it Right
Summaries This article discusses the impact of public expenditure policy on poverty reduction, focusing on the interaction between poverty assessments (PAs) and public expenditure reviews (PERs). Most PAs have analysed poverty in terms of the constraints that prevent the poor from participating in labour intensive growth, with little appreciation of sociological and political factors involved. Most PERs have concentrated on three issues: increasi…
IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact
Journal Article IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact. Get access IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact. By Killick Tony. (London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. x + 212. £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 13040 9.) John Toye John Toye Institute of Development Studies, Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 440, 1 January 1997, Pa…
A World without Famine
The proceedings of the Development Studies Association conference held in Dublin on the 150th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine examine the historical background and the reasons why the spectre of
Taxation, Corruption and Reform
Nationalising the Anti-Poverty Agenda
Summaries Although the return in the 1990s of the issue of poverty reduction to the agenda of international organisations is very welcome, an important obstacle to further progress remains. To date, the anti?poverty agenda in developing countries has been largely externally driven, whereas previous successful anti?poverty strategies have been implemented through internal political dynamics. This article explores the implications of this difficult…
Political science (35 works) · Economics (33 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Development economics (12 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (11 works) · International Development and Aid (10 works) · Sociology (10 works)