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World Development
1973 - 2013
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Volume 6, issue 11-12 , 1978
Labour market performance in developing countries: A survey pp. 1199-1242
A. Berry and R. H. Sabot
Comment pp. 1243-1246
Henry J. Bruton
Comment pp. 1247-1249
Michael P. Todaro
Basic needs policies and population growth pp. 1251-1259
David Morawetz
Economic policy and population change in Thailand pp. 1261-1269
Warren C. Robinson
Long-term trends in income distribution in Pakistan pp. 1271-1280
Stephen Guisinger and Norman L. Hicks
Unemployment and underemployment in Bangladesh agriculture pp. 1281-1296
Iqbal Ahmed
Intermediate technology in China's rural industries pp. 1297-1311
Carl Riskin
Volume 6, issue 9-10 , 1978
Introduction - the urban informal sector: Why is it worth discussing? pp. 1033-1039
Ray Bromley
Informal sector or petty commodity production: Dualism or dependence in urban development? pp. 1041-1064
Caroline O. N. Moser
An exploration into the nature of informal--formal sector relationships pp. 1065-1075
Victor E. Tokman
Quasi-formal employment structures and behaviour in the unorganized urban economy, and the reverse: Some evidence from South India pp. 1077-1086
Barbara Harriss
Causes of urban poverty in Brazil pp. 1087-1101
Hamilton C. Tolosa
Capitalist and petty commodity production in Nigeria: A note pp. 1103-1104
Gavin Williams and Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile
Petty commodity housing or dweller control? A critique of John Turner's views on housing policy pp. 1105-1133
Rod Burgess
Housing in three dimensions: Terms of reference for the housing question redefined pp. 1135-1145
John F. C. Turner
Petty production and capitalist production in Dakar: The crisis of the self-employed pp. 1147-1160
Chris Gerry
Organization, regulation and exploitation in the so-called `urban informal sector': The street traders of Cali, Colombia pp. 1161-1171
Ray Bromley
Self-employed Proletarians in an informal factory: The case of Cali's garbage dump pp. 1173-1185
Chris Birkbeck
Competition between the informal and formal sectors in retailing: The case of Santiago pp. 1187-1198
Victor E. Tokman
Volume 6, issue 7-8 , 1978
Dependency: A formal theory of underdevelopment or a methodology for the analysis of concrete situations of underdevelopment? pp. 881-924
Gabriel Palma
Imperialism and development: A critique pp. 925-936
Gavin Williams
Growth, technology and the environment in less developed countries: A survey pp. 937-965
Jeffrey James
Ecodevelopment: A paradigm for strategic planning?: Comment on James pp. 967-969
Ignancy Sachs
Including women in development efforts pp. 971-978
George Zeidenstein
Operation of selective credit policies in less developed countries: Certain critical issues pp. 979-990
Deena Khatkhate and Delano Segundo Villanueva
Flexible exchange rate policy in an open developing economy: The Lebanese experience, 1950-1974 pp. 991-1003
Samir A. Makdisi
Why Mexico's `stabilizing development' was actually destabilizing (with some implications for the future) pp. 1005-1018
Clark W. Reynolds
A critical evaluation of popular unity's short-term and financial policy pp. 1019-1029
Stephany Griffith-Jones
Volume 6, issue 6 , 1978
Crisis in regional economic cooperation (integration) among developing countries: A survey pp. 719-769
Constantine V. Vaitsos
Regional economic cooperation among developing countries: Some further considerations pp. 771-777
Peter Robson
Can the broken Humpty-Dumpty be put together again and by whom? Comments on the Vaitsos survey pp. 779-782
Miguel S. Wionczek
Capitalist development and educational structure pp. 783-796
Samuel Bowles
Food insecurity: Magnitude and remedies pp. 797-811
Shlomo Reutlinger
The case for selective taxes on goods and services in developing countries pp. 813-825
Sijbren Cnossen
Taxation, procurement and collective incentives in Chinese agriculture pp. 827-836
A. R. Khan
Multinational corporations and economic nationalism: Conflict over resource development in Canada pp. 837-849
Jeanne Kirk Laux and Maureen Appel Molot
Centre-States financial relations in the context of planned development pp. 851-860
V. V. Bhatt and Deena R. Khatkhate
Castro market: Slices of economic life in a poor Chilean fishing town pp. 861-880
David Morawetz
Volume 6, issue 5 , 1978
Editorial note pp. 559-559
Jonathan Unger
Meeting basic needs in the People's Republic of China pp. 561-566
Dwight Perkins
Mao and the Chinese rural economy pp. 567-581
Jack Gray
Collective incentives in the Chinese countryside: Lessons from Chen Village pp. 583-601
Jonathan Unger
Efficiency, equality and accumulation in rural China: Notes on the Chinese system of incentives pp. 603-607
Keith Griffin
Welfare practices in rural China pp. 609-619
Deborah Davis-Friedmann
Development and health care: Is China's medical programme exportable? pp. 621-630
David M. Lampton
Agricultural research and extension services in China pp. 631-645
Benedict Stavis
China's rural marketing structure pp. 647-662
Udo Weiss
Rural marketing in China: A comparative perspective pp. 663-665
Uma Lele
Rural Industrialization: A comparison of development planning in China and India pp. 667-680
Jon Sigurdson
Political conflict and rural industrialization in China pp. 681-692
Carl Riskin
Some reflections on the presence of `rural' or of `urban bias' in China's development policies 1949-1976 pp. 693-707
Suzanne Paine
Transferability, exoticism and other forms of dogmatic revisionism pp. 709-713
Reginald Herbold Green
Learning from China: Reflections on transferability pp. 715-717
R. P. Dore
Volume 6, issue 4 , 1978
The integrated programme for commodities pp. 423-435
Karsten Laursen
Determinants of exchange-rate regimes for currencies of developing countries: Some preliminary results pp. 437-445
Jacob S. Dreyer
Licensing and technology dependence in the Andean group pp. 447-459
Lynn Krieger Mytelka
Reappraising the Southern African customs union: A comment pp. 461-466
Peter Robson
Side-effects of planning in the aid control system pp. 467-478
Harry W. Strachan
Coping with poverty in international assistance policy: An evaluation of spatially integrated investment strategies pp. 479-497
Dennis A. Rondinelli and Kenneth Ruddle
The fourth mobilization: New phase of the Tachai movement pp. 499-518
Neville Maxwell
Population, employment and poverty in the Philippines pp. 519-532
R. Wery , Gerry Rodgers and M. J. D. Hopkins
Some arguments for (moderately) capital-intensive development, even in labour-abundant nations pp. 533-543
Paul Beckerman
Paul Beckerman: A comment pp. 545-548
Frances Stewart
The feasibility of fertility planning -- micro perspectives: Edited by T. Scarlett Epstein and Darrell Jackson (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1977; pp. 244, including Bibliography) pp. 549-551
Joan Chapman
Higher education and social change. Promising experiments in developing countries: Edited by Kenneth W. Thompson, Barbara R. Fogel, Helen E. Danner (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976; Volume 1, paperback $7.50; Volume 2, paperback $10.00) pp. 551-553
Helen Callaway
A turning point for literacy: Edited by Leon Bataille (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1976) pp. 553-554
J. R. Kidd
Volume 6, issue 3 , 1978
Growth and improverishment in the middle of the nineteenth century pp. 245-273
Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris
Inequality, technology and payments systems pp. 275-293
Frances Stewart
Poverty in the third world: Ugly facts and fancy models pp. 295-304
Keith Griffin and Azizur Rahman Khan
Demographic determinants of the distribution of income pp. 305-318
Gerry Rodgers
Inter-farm, inter-regional and farm-non-farm income distribution: The impact of the new cereal variaties pp. 319-337
Michael Lipton
The death of land reform: A polemic pp. 339-345
David Lehmann
The republic of Korea's experience with export-led industrial development pp. 347-382
Larry E. Westphal
Economic growth and equity in the Republic of Korea pp. 383-396
D. C. Rao
Equity with growth in Taiwan: How `special' is the `special case'? pp. 397-409
Gustav Ranis
Basic needs: Some issues pp. 411-421
Paul Streeten and Shahid Javed Burki
Volume 6, issue 2 , 1978
Introductory note pp. 123-126
J. D. Macarthur
The employment and income distribution objectives in the Kuwait fund development assistance pp. 127-129
Abdlatif Y. Al-Hamad
Social benefit-cost analysis and the distribution of income pp. 131-138
James A. Mirrlees
Project appraisal and income distribution pp. 139-152
Galal A. Amin
Social cost-benefit analysis in practice: Some reflections in the light of case studies using Little-Mirrlees techniques pp. 153-165
Frances Stewart
Appraising the distributional aspects of rural development projects: A Kenya case study pp. 167-193
J. D. MacArthur
Cost - effectiveness analysis in practice: A case study of domestic water supplies in an African country pp. 195-208
R. S. Porter and M. R. Walsh
Project selection for poverty-focused rural development: Simple is optimal pp. 209-219
Robert Chambers
A note on some practical limitations of social cost-benefit analysis measures pp. 221-225
Abdul-Karim T. Sadik
Themes from the discussion at the Symposium pp. 227-240
Galal A. Amin
Volume 6, issue 1 , 1978
The objectives of development pp. 1-10
Lauchlin Currie
Failures in the strategy against poverty pp. 11-22
Thomas Balogh
Freedom and management in primary commodity markets: US imports from developing countries pp. 23-30
G. K. Helleiner
The Southern African customs union: A reappraisal pp. 31-43
Paul Mosley
Resource mobilization in developing countries: Financial institutions and policies pp. 45-64
V. V. Bhatt and Jacob Meerman
Rural development, class structure and bureaucracy in Bangladesh pp. 65-82
Harry W. Blair
The changing fortunes of an aristocracy? Determinants of wages and conditions of employment in Kenya pp. 83-95
John S. Henley and William J. House
Construction industry in developing countries pp. 97-116
Fred Moavenzadeh
Contrived dualism and government policy pp. 117-122
Neil B. Ridler