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Just Development: Beyond Adjustment with a Human Face
Full text linkTariq Banuri, Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Moazam Mahmood (ed.), Just Development: Beyond Adjustment with a Human Face, Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 207. Price not mentioned. The Oxford series of books published on the occasion of the golden jubilee of Pakistan’s independence constitute a welcome and high quality addition to material on various facets of life in the country. “Just Development” reviews Pakistan’s development from the human angle and looks at the structural adjustment programme, debating whether it is possible to have “adjustment with a human face”. Perhaps the most enduring element of our development strategies has been the relegation of social objectives to low priority and the consequent neglect of social sectors. This has been as true of decades of high growth – 1960s and 1980s – as of those of low growth – 1950s, 1970s and 1990s. Why
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A Regularity in the Macro Drivers of Growth and Jobs: Accumulation of Physical Capital and Human Capital
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The Change in Land Distribution in the Punjab — Empirical Application of an Exogenous-endogenous Model for Agrarian Sector Analysis
Full text linkAgrarian South Asia is undergoing significant technical and structural change. The debate on the direction of the change in the agrarian structure has been somewhat myopic. The neoclassical and Chayanovian schools argue that the land distribution is not worsening to eliminate the middle owner group of the peasantry. The Marxist and structuralist schools argue, in complete contrast, that polarisation of the land distribution is rapidly eliminating the middle group of the peasantry. This study attempts to broaden the existing dichotomous framework. An agrarian sector - and by analogy all agrarian sectors - cannot be assumed to be homogenous in the production conditions and, therefore, in the direction of change. To capture regional differentials, a theoretical exogenous-endogenous model is specified for agrarian sector analysis. Factors exogenous to a region are used to explain homogeneity in the change between regions. Factors endogenous to specific regions are used to explain differentials in the change between regions. This exogenous-endogenous model is used to predict the direction of agrarian change in the two major regions of the Punjab, i.e., the canal colonies and the South-West The model predicts an increase in the concentration of operated area in the canal colonies but a constancy in this concentration in the South-West Empirical analysis of representative villages from each region confirms these predictions as well as the usefulness of the model.
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