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World Development
1973 - 2013
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Volume 19, issue 12 , 1991
The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period: Evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s pp. 1653-1678
Monika Huppi and Martin Ravallion
Women and political participation in Africa: Broadening the scope of research pp. 1679-1694
David Hirschmann
The Southern Mount Kenya forest since independence: A social analysis of resource competition pp. 1695-1704
Alfonso Peter Castro
Economics of multihabitation: Housing conditions, household occupancy and household structure under rent control, inflation, and nonmarketability of ownership rights pp. 1705-1720
K. G. Willis and A. G. Tipple
The political economy of dilatory reform: Egypt in the 1980s pp. 1721-1730
Alan Richards
Privatization: Possible lessons from the Hungarian case pp. 1731-1736
Gerd Schwartz
Building technological capacity: A case study of the computer industry in India, 1975-1987 pp. 1737-1751
Hans-Peter Brunner
Computer-aided management advice for loan programs run by Indonesian village women pp. 1753-1766
John D. Nystuen , Frank D. Zinn , Djoko Sulistyo and Rommy Darmasetiawan
Participatory management in large irrigation systems: Issues for consideration pp. 1767-1776
Namika Raby
The relation between real cash balances and physical inputs in South Korea's manufacturing sector pp. 1777-1785
Khan A. Mohabbat and Ky Hyang Yuhn
A comment on the relative employment-generation capabilities of the manufacturing and service sectors in developing countries pp. 1787-1790
Blane D. Lewis
A reply to Lewis pp. 1791-1792
Se-Hark Park and Kenneth S. Chan
A comment on investment and economic growth pp. 1793-1795
Maurice FG. Scott
A reply to Scott pp. 1797-1799
Dennis Anderson
Editors' introduction pp. 1801-1805
Richard Jolly and Rolph Van Der Hoeven
Adjustment with a human face: A UNICEF record and perspective on the 1980s pp. 1807-1821
Richard Jolly
IMF adjustment policies and approaches and the needs of children pp. 1823-1834
G. K. Helleiner , Giovanni Andrea Cornia and R. Jolly
Adjustment with a human face: Still relevant or overtaken by events? pp. 1835-1845
Rolph Van Der Hoeven
The many faces of adjustment pp. 1847-1864
Frances Stewart
Volume 19, issue 11 , 1991
Foreword pp. 1483-1484
Christian Morrisson
Poverty and income distribution during adjustment: Issues and evidence from the OECD project pp. 1485-1508
François J. Bourguignon , Jaime A.P. de Melo and Christian Morrisson
Macroeconomics, financial variables, and computable general equilibrium models pp. 1509-1525
Sherman Robinson
Modeling the effects of adjustment programs on income distribution pp. 1527-1544
François J. Bourguignon , Jaime A.P. de Melo and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
Adjustment and social costs in Chile during the 1980s pp. 1545-1561
Patricio Meller
Adjustment and equity in Cote d'Ivoire: 1980-86 pp. 1563-1576
Sylvie Lambert , Hartmut Schneider and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
Politically feasible and equitable adjustment: Some alternatives for ecuador pp. 1577-1594
Alain de Janvry , Elisabeth Sadoulet and Andre Fargeix
Adjustment, growth and income distribution in Indonesia pp. 1595-1614
Erik Thorbecke
Poverty and macroeconomic policy in Malaysia, 1979-1987 pp. 1615-1632
Lionel Demery and David Demery
Adjustment, incomes and poverty in Morocco pp. 1633-1651
Christian Morrisson
Volume 19, issue 10 , 1991
Fuelwood, subsistence foraging, and the decline of common property pp. 1275-1287
Gordon McGranahan
Natural resources prices, export policies, and deforestation: The case of sudan pp. 1289-1297
Bruce A. Larson and Daniel W. Bromely
Planning for sustainability: Access to fuelwood in Dhanusha District, Nepal pp. 1299-1314
John Soussan , Els Gevers , Krishna Ghimire and O'Keefe, Phil
When failure becomes success: Class and the debate over stabilization and adjustment pp. 1315-1334
David F. Ruccio
The reproduction of gender inequality in Muslim societies: A case study of Iran in the 1980s pp. 1335-1349
Valentine M. Moghadam
The differentiation of the urbanization process under apartheid pp. 1351-1365
Julian May and Sheldon Rankin
Antagonistic cooperation: A case study of nongovernmental organizations, government and donor's relationships in income-generating projects in Bangladesh pp. 1367-1379
Bishwapriya Sanyal
Economic policy and the relative price of services in LDCs pp. 1381-1389
David H Feldman
Capital mobility in developing countries: Some empirical tests pp. 1391-1398
Nadeem Haque and Peter J. Montiel
Adjustment policies and the real exchange rate in Kenya since 1975 pp. 1399-1408
Albert W. De Groot
Who bears the incidence of import protection? Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 1409-1419
N. M. C. Navaratne
Performance and adaptive roles of the government-supported research institute in South Korea pp. 1421-1440
Dal Hwan Lee , Zong-Tae Bae and Jinjoo Lee
A comment on economic growth and social development pp. 1441-1444
Enrico Colombatto
A reply pp. 1445-1449
Barbara A. Newman and Randall J. Thomson
Human development Report 1990: Review and assessment pp. 1451-1460
V. V. Bhanojirao
Human development revisited: A new UNDP report pp. 1469-1473
Michael Hopkins
Volume 19, issue 9 , 1991
Big business and urban congestion in Taiwan: The origins of small enterprise and regionally decentralized industry (respectively) pp. 1121-1135
Alice H. Amsden
Rethinking desertification: What do we know and what have we learned? pp. 1137-1143
Steven L. Rhodes
The causes of tropical deforestation in Ecuador: A statistical analysis pp. 1145-1151
Douglas Southgate , Rodrigo Sierra and Lawrence Brown
Comparative advantage, trade and growth: Export-Led growth revisited pp. 1153-1165
Santo Dodaro
A structuralist perspective on the role of technology in economic growth and development pp. 1167-1183
Moshe Justman and Morris Teubal
Managing commodity booms in Botswana pp. 1185-1196
Catherine B. Hill
Import-substituting industrialization and protection of the small-scale: The Indian experience in the textile industry pp. 1197-1213
Dipak Mazumdar
Putting TRIMs to good use pp. 1215-1224
Vudayagiri N. Balasubramanyam
Exchange rate volatility and Pakistan's exports to the developed world, 1974-85 pp. 1225-1240
Ramesh Chander Kumar and Ravinder Dhawan
The income redistributional impact of financing higher education in Pakistan pp. 1241-1246
Shahrukh R. Khan
A comparison of labor-saving technologies for processing shea nut butter in Mali pp. 1247-1268
Eric L. Hyman
Reevaluating the effect of N-ach on economic growth pp. 1269-1274
Jeffrey Lewis
Volume 19, issue 8 , 1991
Integration of environmental externalities in international commodity agreements pp. 933-943
Henk L.M. Kox
The international economics of intellectual property right protection: A welfare-theoretic trade policy analysis pp. 945-956
Arvind Subramanian
Growth-oriented adjustment programs: A statistical analysis pp. 957-967
Riccardo Faini , Jaime A.P. de Melo , Abdelhak Senhadji and Julie Stanton
Inflation in Argentina: Stop and go since the Austral plan pp. 969-986
Miguel A. Kiguel
Institutional impediments to workforce retrenchment and restructing in Ghana's State enterprises pp. 987-1005
J. Tait Davis
Household shelter strategies in comparative perspective: Evidence from low-income groups in Bamako and La Paz pp. 1007-1028
Paul Van Lindert and August Van Westen
Education and economic growth in Taiwan: A case of successful planning pp. 1029-1044
Jennie Hay Woo
The impact of Iran's islamic revolution on health personnel policy pp. 1045-1054
M. Malek
Technology transfer and the development of China's offshore oil industry pp. 1055-1073
Alyson Warhurst
Poverty and the forward-falling labor supply function: A microeconomic analysis pp. 1075-1093
Mohammed Sharif
The fungibility of US assistance to developing countries and the impact on recipient expanditures: a case study of Pakistan pp. 1095-1105
Nasir M. Khilji and Ernest M. Zampelli
An aggregate private expenditure function for the Bangladesh economy pp. 1107-1116
Akhtar Hossain
Deserved debt relief: a note pp. 1117-1120
Jan Giehm Mikkelsen
Volume 19, issue 7 , 1991
The Public-Private choice: The case of marketing a country to investors pp. 749-761
Louis Wells and Alvin G. Wint
Legal process and economic development: A case study of Indonesia pp. 763-777
Cheryl W. Gray
The urban subsistence labor force: Toward a policy-oriented and empirically accessible taxonomy pp. 779-789
William E. Cole and Bichaka Fayissa
Asian urban development policies in the 1990s: From growth control to urban diffusion pp. 791-803
Dennis A. Rondinelli
A reassessment of the causes and severity of Nepal's environmental crisis pp. 805-820
John J. Metz
Brazilian policies that encourage deforestation in the Amazon pp. 821-829
Hans Peter Binswanger-Mkhize
Parastatal pay policy in Africa pp. 831-838
David L. Lindauer
Understanding the failure of IMF reform: The Zambian case pp. 839-849
Jeffrey Hawkins
External shocks and adjustment in a mineral dependent economy: A short-run model for Zambia pp. 851-865
Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa
The nature and determinants of socioeconomic inequality among peasant households in Southern Sudan pp. 867-884
William J. House
Newly and lately industrializing exporters: LDC manufactured exports to the United States, 1977-1984 pp. 885-901
Keith Alger
The accumulation of technology: Capital goods production in developing countries revisited pp. 903-914
Erik Baark
The Cuban sugar export dependency question: Premises and controversy pp. 915-919
Willard Radell
The significance of access to land as a determinant of Kenya's interregional migration pp. 921-926
William M. Rodgers
Volume 19, issue 6 , 1991
How significant are externalities for development? pp. 569-594
Frances Stewart and Ejaz Ghani
A proposal for using incentive precommitments in public enterprise funding pp. 595-605
Raaj Kumar Sah and Martin L. Weitsman
Sustainable development: A critical review pp. 607-621
Sharachchandra M. Lele
Regulation with growth: The political economy of palm oil in Malaysia pp. 623-636
James Pletcher
Economic reform and armed conflict in Mozambique pp. 637-649
Steven Kyle
A reassessment of Kenya's rural and urban informal sector pp. 651-670
Ian Livingstone
Workers' response to job loss: Female and male industrial workers in Brazil pp. 671-682
Helena Hirata and John Humphrey
Profits from self-employment: The case of Cote d'Ivoire pp. 683-696
Wim P. M. Vijverberg
Institutional linkages for different types of agricultural technologies: Rice in the Eastern Plains of Colombia pp. 697-703
Luis Alfonso Agudelo and David Kaimowitz
An examination of the objectives of monetary policy in four developing economies pp. 705-709
Joseph P. Joyce
Dutch disease economics and oil syndrome: An empirical study pp. 711-717
Mohsen Fardmanesh
Income convergence and divergence within and between LDC groups pp. 719-727
Richard G. Zind
Effects of exchange rate variability on inflation variability pp. 729-733
Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee
The Bertrand critique of the role of the United Nations in the economic and social fields pp. 735-740
Sidney S. Dell
Volume 19, issue 5 , 1991
Life in a dual system revisited: Urban-rural ties in Enugu, Nigeria, 1961-87 pp. 399-409
Josef Gugler
Adjustment and development in Latin America: The failure of Peruvian Heterodoxy, 1985-90 pp. 411-434
Eva A. Paus
Poverty and distorted industrialization in the Brazilian Northeast pp. 435-455
William W. Goldsmith and Robert Wilson
Toward development ethics pp. 457-483
David A. Crocker
Open borders: A global-humanist approach to the refugee crisis pp. 485-496
Mel Gurtov
Official finance requirements in the 1990s pp. 497-510
Robert Lensink and Peter A.G. van Bergeijk
Capital market development in China pp. 511-532
On Kit Tam
Money creation and financial liberalization in a socialist banking system: Tanzania 1983-88 pp. 533-538
Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning
GSTP tariff reduction and its effects on south-south trade in manufactures pp. 539-551
Hans Linnemann and Harmen Verbruggen
Technology exports from a small, very open NIC: The case of Singapore pp. 553-568
Hal Hill and Pang Eng Fong
Volume 19, issue 4 , 1991
Development narratives, or making the best of blueprint development pp. 287-300
Emery M. Roe
Depopulating the compounds: Migrant labor and mine housing in South Africa pp. 301-316
Jonathan Crush and Wilmot James
Global trends in real exchange rates 1960-1984 pp. 317-332
Adrian Wood
Manufactured exports of developing countries and their terms of trade since 1965 pp. 333-340
Prabirjit Sarkar and H. W. Singer
Foreign exchange and industrial development: A frontier production function analysis of two Tanzanian industries pp. 341-347
Ammon Mbelle and Thomas Nils Samuel Sterner
Licensing in a newly industrializing country: The case of Greek manufacturing pp. 349-362
Tassos Giannitsis
The strategic orientations of firms and the performance of Korea and Taiwan in frontier industries: Lessons from comparative case studies of keyboard and personal computer assembly pp. 363-374
Brian Levy and Wen-Jeng Kuo
Semiconductor technology and the newly industrializing countries: The diffusion of ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) pp. 375-397
Michael Hobday
Volume 19, issue 2-3 , 1991
Pockets of peasants in Indonesian cities: The case of scavengers pp. 137-161
Daniel T. Sicular
Female wage labor in rural Zimbabwe pp. 163-177
Jennifer M. Adams
A study of water vending and willingness to pay for water in Onitsha, Nigeria pp. 179-198
Dale Whittington , Donald T. Lauria and Xinming Mu
Grass-roots development in rural Thailand: A lost cause? pp. 199-211
Jonathan Rigg
Examining the roots of educational demand: The case supporting rural agrarian development pp. 213-223
Rees Hughes
Classical political economists and Marx on colonialism and "backward' nations pp. 225-243
Jorge Larrain
Debt, deficits and dollars: The world economy in 3-D pp. 245-254
Graham Bird
The "Gulliver effect" and the "optimal divergence" approach to trade policies: The case of nepal pp. 255-262
Mario . Blejer and György Szapáry
Convergence of South Korean productivity on West German levels, 1966-1978 pp. 263-273
David Dollar
Determinants of foreign direct investment in Taiwan: An alternative approach with time-series data pp. 275-285
Pan-Long Tsai
Volume 19, issue 1 , 1991
Introduction pp. 1-15
Neva R. Goodwin
The integrative revolution revisited pp. 17-30
Allan Hoben and Robert Hefner
The breakdown of connections and modern development pp. 31-44
Bruce Mazlish
Global development and personal dependency: The high cost of doing well pp. 45-54
Allan R. Meyers
The new global players: How they compete and collaborate pp. 55-64
Elliott R. Morss
The third sector in the second world pp. 65-71
Frederick Starr
Global equity and environmental crisis: An argument for reducing working hours in the North pp. 73-84
Juliet B. Schor
Lessons for the world from US agriculture: Unbundling technology pp. 85-102
Neva R. Goodwin
Protecting the global environment: An immodest proposal pp. 103-110
Robert Dorfman
Global institutions and ecological crisis pp. 111-122
Jonathan Mark Harris
Global prospects in an interdependent world pp. 123-133
Paul Streeten