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World Development
1973 - 2013
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Volume 21, issue 12 , 1993
Economic liberalization, political pluralism and business associations in developing countries pp. 1895-1912
Mick Moore and Ladi Hamalai
Thinking strategically about development: A typology of action programs for global change pp. 1913-1930
Elizabeth A. Morgan , Grant D. Power and Van B. Weigel
Toward a global effort to protect the earth's biological diversity pp. 1931-1945
James A. Tobey
Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development pp. 1947-1963
Cecile Jackson
Silences speak louder than claims: Gender, household, and agricultural development in Southern Africa pp. 1965-1980
Gisela Geisler
Liberalization and privatization in Tanzania and Zambia pp. 1981-1988
Jean M. Due
South-south technology transfer: The case of China's Kpatawee rice project in Liberia pp. 1989-2001
Deborah Brautigam
Invisible hands, indigenous knowledge and inevitable fads: Challenges to public sector agricultural research in Ghana pp. 2003-2016
Robert Tripp
Is Africa different? pp. 2017-2028
Patrick Conway and Joshua Greene
Political economy, growth and convergence in less-developed countries pp. 2029-2038
Monojit Chatterji , Brian Gilmore , Kurt Strunk and Jon Vanasin
Economic independence through protection? Emerging contradictions in India's small-scale sector pp. 2039-2054
Subhrajit Guhathakurta
A comment on "the IMF, the World Bank and Africa's adjusment and extenal debt problems: An unofficial view" pp. 2055-2058
Ishrat Husain
A reply pp. 2059-2063
G. K. Helleiner
Volume 21, issue 11 , 1993
Rural household transport in Africa: Reducing the burden on women? pp. 1715-1728
Deborah Fahy Bryceson and John Howe
Environmental issues and economic decisions in developing countries pp. 1729-1748
Mohan Munasinghe
The economic rationale for investing in nutrition in developing countries pp. 1749-1771
Jere Richard Behrman
Development approaches and the role of policy advocacy: The case of the World Bank pp. 1773-1786
Nuket Kardam
"Twenty-five years of Economic Development" revisited pp. 1787-1801
Michael T. Rock
The meaning of development: Interactions between "new" and "old" ideas pp. 1803-1821
Barbara Ingham
The postsocialist transitions in comparative perspective: Policy issues and recent experience pp. 1823-1835
Andres Solimano
Promoting participation in irrigation: Reflections on experience in Southeast Asia pp. 1837-1849
Bryan Bruns
Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic: Transforming manufactures into commodities pp. 1851-1865
Raphael Kaplinsky
Financial liberalization in Africa pp. 1867-1881
Diery Seck and Yasim H. El Nil
Currency substitution: The recent experience of Bolivia pp. 1883-1893
Benedict Clements and Gerd Schwartz
Volume 21, issue 10 , 1993
Tales of dissemination in small-farm agriculture: Lessons for institution builders pp. 1567-1582
Judith Tendler
Has recovery begun? "Africa's adjustment in the 1980s" revisited pp. 1583-1606
Paul Mosley and John Weeks
Manufactured exports from developing countries and their terms of trade: A reexamination of the Sarkar-Singer results pp. 1607-1613
Prema-chandra Athukorala
Manufactured exports of developing countries and their terms of trade since 1965: A comment pp. 1615-1616
Michael F. Bleaney
Manufacture--manufacture terms of trade deterioration: A reply pp. 1617-1620
Prabirjit Sarkar and H. W. Singer
External disturbances, domestic policy responses and debt accumulation in Nigeria pp. 1621-1631
Akorlie A. Nyatepe-Coo
An approach to poverty alleviation for large international development agencies pp. 1633-1646
Paul Clements
Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe pp. 1647-1658
William Alan Masters and Ernst-August Nuppenau
Soil erosion and labor shortages in the Andes with special reference to Bolivia, 1953ndash;1991: Implications for "conservation-with-development" pp. 1659-1675
Karl S. Zimmerer
The nonprice determinants of export success or failure: The Egyptian ready-made garment industry, 1975-1989 pp. 1677-1684
Abla M. Abdel-Latif
Public sector banking, efficiency and economic growth in India pp. 1685-1697
Kusum W. Ketkar
Nongovernmental organizations and the cultural development perspective in Thailand: A comment on Rigg (1991) pp. 1699-1708
Kevin Hewison
A reply to Kevin Hewison pp. 1709-1713
Jonathan Rigg
Volume 21, issue 9 , 1993
Structural adjustment as a policy process: The case of Tanzania pp. 1395-1404
Goran Hyden and Bo Karlstrom
Development's deaf ear: Downstream users and water releases from the Bakolori Dam, Nigeria pp. 1405-1416
W. M. Adams
Natural disaster situations and growth: A macroeconomic model for sudden disaster impacts pp. 1417-1434
J.M. Albala-Bertrand
Measuring the effects of economic integration on third countries: A comment on Kreinin and Plummer pp. 1435-1437
Richard Pomfret
A reply to Richard Pomfret's comment pp. 1439-1439
Mordechai E. Kreinin and Michael G. Plummer
Productivity in manufacturing as a determinant of growth: The Indian case pp. 1441-1445
Deena Khatkhate
Editors' introduction pp. 1447-1450
Robert E. Christiansen , Johan Van Rooyen and David Cooper
South African land policy: The legacy of history and current options pp. 1451-1475
Hans Peter Binswanger-Mkhize and Klaus W. Deininger
Characteristics and performance of resettlement programs: A review pp. 1477-1494
Bill H. Kinsey and Hans Peter Binswanger-Mkhize
Agricultural marketing and pricing reform: A review of experience pp. 1495-1514
Alex Duncan and Stephen Jones
Creating rural livelihoods: Some lessons for South Africa from experience elsewhere pp. 1515-1548
Michael Lipton and Merle Lipton
Implementing strategies for the rural economy: Lessons from Zimbabwe, options for South Africa pp. 1549-1566
Robert E. Christiansen
Volume 21, issue 8 , 1993
Introduction: Some insights from Western social theory pp. 1245-1261
Laurence Whitehead
A panoramic view of the rebirth of liberalisms pp. 1263-1269
JoseGuilherme Merquior
Democracy and economic policy: Elective affinities and circumstantial conjunctures pp. 1271-1280
Peter A. Gourevitch
Markets and states: Against minimalism pp. 1281-1298
Paul Streeten
Liberalization and 'modern liberty': Four southern states pp. 1299-1312
Geoffrey Hawthorn
T.H. Marshall, Jurgen Habermas, citizenship and transition in Eastern Europe pp. 1313-1328
Nick Manning
Democracy and the "Washington consensus" pp. 1329-1336
John Harold Williamson
Economic reforms and cycles of state intervention pp. 1337-1353
Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira
On the state, democratization and some conceptual problems: A Latin American view with glances at some postcommunist countries pp. 1355-1369
O'Donnell, Guillermo
On "reform of the state" and "regulation of the market" pp. 1371-1393
Laurence Whitehead
Volume 21, issue 7 , 1993
Can land market reform mitigate the exclusionary aspects of rapid agro-export growth? pp. 1085-1100
Michael R. Carter and Dina Mesbah
The "new" internationalization of agriculture: A reformulation pp. 1101-1121
Laura T. Raynolds , David Myhre , Philip McMichael , Viviana Carro-Figueroa and Frederick H. Buttel
Common property, equality, and development pp. 1123-1138
John C. Quiggin
The role of nongovernmental organizations in agricultural research and technology transfer in Latin America pp. 1139-1150
David Kaimowitz
Economic reform and political change in Myanmar (Burma) pp. 1151-1161
Paul Cook and Martin Minogue
Stabilization and recession in a transitional economy: The case of Poland pp. 1163-1178
Ryszard Zukowski
Taxation in Niger: Problems and proposals pp. 1179-1189
Robin Barlow and Wayne Snyder
Domestic financial market and the trade liberalization outcome: Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 1191-1203
Prema-chandra Athukorala and Sarath Rajapatirana
Urban self-employment in Kenya: Panacea or viable strategy? pp. 1205-1223
William J. House , Gerrishon K. Ikiara and Dorothy McCormick
The diffusion of process innovations in industrialized and developing countries: A case study of the world textile and steel industries pp. 1225-1238
Matthias Lücke
A note on the multilateral creditors and the debt crisis pp. 1239-1244
Roy Culpeper
Volume 21, issue 6 , 1993
Going to market: Economic organization and transformation in a Hungarian firm pp. 883-899
S. David Young
Local government fiscal reform in developing countries: Lessons from Kenya pp. 901-923
Paul Smoke
Formal and informal institutions in the labor market, with applications to the construction sector in Egypt pp. 925-939
Ragui Assaad
One hundred million improved cookstoves in China: How was it done? pp. 941-961
Kirk R. Smith , Gu Shuhua , Huang Kun and Qiu Daxiong
The "five percent rule" for improved water service: Can households afford more? pp. 963-973
Alexander A. McPhail
Maize milling, market reform and urban food security: The case of Zimbabwe pp. 975-987
Thomas S. Jayne and Lawrence Rubey
The impact of financial autonomy on irrigation system performance in the Philippines pp. 989-1005
Mark Svendsen
Alternatives to coca production in Bolivia: A computable general equilibrium approach pp. 1007-1021
Bill Gibson and Ricardo Godoy
Purchasing power parity based on effective exchange rate and cointegration: 25 LDCs' experience with its absolute formulation pp. 1023-1031
Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee
Introduction pp. 1033-1034
Howard Stein and Ernest Wilson
The political economy of Robert Bates: A critical reading of rational choice in Africa pp. 1035-1053
Howard Stein and Ernest Wilson
Understanding agricultural policy in Africa: The contributions of Robert Bates pp. 1055-1062
Sara Berry
Is "rational choice" the best choice for Robert Bates? An anthropologist's reading of Bates's work pp. 1063-1076
Pauline E. Peters
A reply pp. 1077-1081
Robert H. Bates
Volume 21, issue 5 , 1993
Postimperialism and development in Thailand pp. 691-704
Richard F. Doner and Ansil Ramsay
Rural labor legislation and permanent agricultural employment in Northeastern Brazil pp. 705-719
Julie Anderson Schaffner
The limits to informal financial intermediation pp. 721-731
Garry Christensen
Household sanitation in Kumasi, Ghana: A description of current practices, attitudes, and perceptions pp. 733-748
Dale Whittington , Donald T. Lauria , Kyeongae Choe , Jeffrey A. Hughes , Venkateswarlu Swarna and Albert M. Wright
Liberalization and diversification in a small island economy: Fiji since the 1987 coups pp. 749-769
Andrew Elek , Hal Hill and Steven R. Tabor
Irrigated rice culture in monsoon Asia: The search for an effective water control technology pp. 771-789
Robert E. Burns
Land prices, land rents, and technological change: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 791-803
Mitch Renkow
Calculating levels of protection: Is it always appropriate to use world reference prices based on current trading status? pp. 805-815
Derek Byerlee and Michael L. Morris
The employment effects of an income redistribution in developing countries pp. 817-827
Jeffrey James and Haider Khan
Can the Kuznets effect be relied on to induce equalizing growth? pp. 829-840
Susan Randolph and William F. Lott
Budgetary and financial policy potency amid structural bottlenecks: Evidence from Uganda pp. 841-859
Victor Murinde
An economic analysis of debt swaps and case study of the Harvard debt for education swap pp. 861-867
Yana Van der Meulen Rodgers
The World Bank and the environment: The World Development Report 1992 pp. 869-881
Lance Taylor
Volume 21, issue 4 , 1993
Private investment and democracy in Latin America pp. 489-507
Manuel Pastor and Eric Hilt
Importance of foreign investment for the longrun economic development of the United Arab Emirates pp. 509-521
Y. H. Farzi
Excess liquidity and monetary overhangs pp. 523-533
Gerard Carpio and Patrick Honohan
Observational equivalence in the modeling of African labor markets and urbanization pp. 535-554
Charles M. Becker and Andrew R. Morrison
Differences in uses of rural financial markets in Taiwan and the Philippines pp. 555-563
Dale W Adams , H. Y. Chen and Mario B. Lamberte
Introduction pp. 565-575
Alain de Janvry , Elisabeth Sadoulet and Erik Thorbecke
The rocky road to reform: Trade, industrial, financial, and agricultural strategies pp. 577-590
Lance Taylor
Impact of state and civil institutions on the operation of rural market and nonmarket configurations pp. 591-605
Erik Thorbecke
Grassroots organizations and NGOs in rural development: Opportunities with diminishing states and expanding markets pp. 607-622
Norman Uphoff
Between state, markets and households: A neoinstitutional analysis of local organizations and institutions pp. 623-632
Jeffrey B. Nugent
Analytics of the institutions of informal cooperation in rural development pp. 633-639
Pranab K. Bardhan
Land reform as commenced business: The evidence against stopping pp. 641-657
Michael Lipton
Market, state, and civil organizations in Latin America beyond the debt crisis: The context for rural development pp. 659-674
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet
State-market-civil institutions: The case of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Republics pp. 675-689
Gordon C. Rausser and S. R. Johnson
Volume 21, issue 3 , 1993
Old debts and new beginnings: A policy choice in transitional socialist economies pp. 319-330
Ross Levine and David Scott
French support for structural adjustment programs in Africa pp. 331-347
Ernest Wilson
Public service, rural development and careers in public management: A case study of expatriate advising and African land reform pp. 349-365
Emery M. Roe
Whose interests? Problems in planning for women's practical needs pp. 367-377
Ruth Alsop
South Korea's 1980s financial reforms: Good-bye financial repression (maybe), hello new institutional restraints pp. 379-390
Alice H. Amsden and Yoon-Dae Euh
On the determinants of direct foreign investment: Evidence from East and Southeast Asia pp. 391-406
Robert E.B. Lucas
The length of the infant industry period: Evidence from the engineering industry in South Korea pp. 407-419
Staffan Jacobsson
A diffusion model of industrial sector growth in developing countries pp. 421-428
Don P. Clark , David L. Kaserman and Darrarat Anantanasuwong
Production of edible oils for the masses and by the masses: The impact of the ram press in Tanzania pp. 429-443
Eric L. Hyman
Local adoption of new forestry technologies: An example from Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province pp. 445-453
Gregory S. Amacher , William F. Hyde and Mohammed Rafiq
Mortgage design under inflation and real wage uncertainty: The use of a dual index instrument pp. 455-464
Robert Michael Buckley , Barbara Lipman and Thakoor Persaud
The impact of oligopsony and taxation on the Haitian coffee economy pp. 465-473
Rigoberto Lopez and Zhikang You
Peasant policy within the Nicaraguan Agrarian Reform, 1979-89 pp. 475-487
Philip R. Martinez
Volume 21, issue 2 , 1993
Acknowledgements pp. 191-191
Lino Briguglio and John Kaminarides
Introduction pp. 193-195
Lino Briguglio and John Kaminarides
The special problems of small countries pp. 197-202
Paul Streeten
Country size and the medium-term growth process: Some cross-country evidence pp. 203-211
Chris Robert Milner and Tony Westaway
Project appraisal, the environment and sustainability for small islands pp. 213-219
Clement Allan Tisdell
The special working environment of senior administrators in small states pp. 221-226
Charles Farrugia
The effects of international debt on the economic development of small countries pp. 227-232
John Kaminarides and Edward Nissan
Economic development in the South Pacific promoting the private sector pp. 233-245
Rodney V. Cole
Sustainability, aid, and material welfare in small south pacific island economies, 1900-1990 pp. 247-258
Ivo Geoffrey Bertram
Manufacturing exports, economic growth and the current account in a small island economy: simulation results from an econometric model for Cyprus pp. 259-268
Panicos O. Demetriades , A. Al-Jebory and G. Kamperis
The terms of trade and the direction of trade in the maltese economy pp. 269-276
Lino Briguglio
Tourism in the gambia: some issues in development policy pp. 277-289
Peter U. C. Dieke
The repercussions of financial imbalances in Suriname pp. 291-299
A. R. Caram
Uneven regional development and internal labor migration in Fiji pp. 301-310
Michael Sofer
The role of transport costs as a determinant of price level differentials between the isle of man and the United Kingdom, 1989 pp. 311-318
H. Armstrong , G. Johnes , J. Johnes and A. Macbean
Volume 21, issue 1 , 1993
Productivity and industrial development in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-16
Howard Pack
Cereals demand in the Sahel and potential impacts of regional cereals protection pp. 17-35
Thomas Reardon
Tax advice to developing countries: An historical survey pp. 37-53
Richard Goode
States, elites, and social welfare in Southeast Asia pp. 55-66
Donald K. Crone
Workshops as domestic domains: Reflections on small-scale industry in Mexico pp. 67-80
Fiona Wilson
Commercial sector wages and subsistence sector labor productivity in Guatemalan agriculture pp. 81-91
Thomas E. Schweigert
Human responses to riverine hazards in Bangladesh: A proposal for sustainable floodplain development pp. 93-107
C. Emdad Haque and M. Q. Zaman
Drought, transfer entitlements, and income distribution: The Botswana experience pp. 109-126
Theodore R. Valentine
Debt crisis, adjustment policies and capital formation in developing countries: Where do we stand? pp. 127-140
Luis Servén and Andres Solimano
Economic crisis, structural adjustment and social crisis in Nigeria pp. 141-153
Julius O. Ihonvbere
Exports as a factor of production: A consistency test pp. 155-160
Edmund J. Sheehey
Dollar GNP estimates for Central and Eastern Europe 1970-90: a survey and a comparison with Western countries pp. 161-175
Elio Lancieri
Canada's demand for Third World highly trained immigrants: 1976-86 pp. 177-187
Sajjad Akbar and Don J. Devoretz