Development Policy Review

1966 - 2025

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Transforming Tax Administration in Ghana: The Tension between Computers and Human Agency> pp. 339-356: Wisdom J. Tettey
Manufacturing Performance during Adjustment: Evidence from Nigeria> pp. 357-369: Danbala Danju and John Weiss
Scaling up the Participatory Management of Common Pool Resources> pp. 371-391: John Farrington and Charlotte Boyd
Managing the Provision and Production of Rural Roads in Developing Countries> pp. 393-411: Larry Schroeder
World Food Security: The Impending Crisis?> pp. 413-420: D.J. Shaw

Risks to the Sri Lankan Garment Industry from Trade Diversion Effects of NAFTA pp. 227-249: Saman Kelegama
Price Instability in the International Rice Market: Its Impact on Production and Farm Prices pp. 251-276: Chan Ling Yap
Participation and Policy Development: The Case of the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan pp. 277-295: Suzanne Hanchett
Land Tenure Administration in the Context of Hemispheric Trade Integration in the Americas pp. 297-307: Steven E. Hendrix
Adjustment, Poverty Alleviation and Economic Renewal in Africa pp. 309-315: Alex Duncan
Is Competitive Pluralism Enough? pp. 316-320: Peter Mountfield

Community Participation: So What? Evidence from a Comparative Study of Two Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Projects in India pp. 115-140: S. Manikutty
Fishing and Farming in Lake Chad: Implications for Fisheries Development pp. 141-157: Marie‐Thérèse Sarch
Legislative Reform of Property Ownership in Kazakhstan pp. 159-171: Steven E. Hendrix
Economic Gains from Integration among Developing Countries: The Case of the North Africa Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) pp. 173-201: Abdelaziz Testas

The Informal Financial Sector in Nigeria: Characteristics and Relationship with the Formal Sector pp. 5-22: Adedoyin Soyibo
Transaction Costs in Mexico’s Preferential Credit pp. 23-46: Mariano Rojas and Luis Alejandro Rojas
Entrepreneurial State: The Role of Government in the Economic Development of the Asian Newly Industrialising Economies pp. 47-64: Tony F. Yu
From Icon to Scapegoat: The Experience of South Africa’s Reconstruction and Development Programme pp. 65-91: Jesmond Blumenfeld
Regions: An Illusive Concept pp. 93-99: Sheila Page

NGO Accountability: A Conceptual Framework pp. 339-354: Adil Najam
Economic Policies and Forest Development in China pp. 355-378: Aying Liu
Used‐Clothes Exports to the Third World: Economic Considerations pp. 379-390: Arne Bigsten and Rick Wicks
Foreign Creditors' Perception of Risks in Lending to African Countries: Evidence from Interest‐Rate Spread pp. 391-408: M. O. Odedokun
Positive Terms‐of‐Trade Shocks and Structural Adjustment in Sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 409-428: Martin Brownbridge and Jane Harrigan

Experience of India's (Maharashtra) Employment Guarantee Scheme: Lessons for Development Policy pp. 227-254: S. Mahendra Dev
Toward More Sustainable Development: The Environment and Industrial Policy in Taiwan pp. 255-272: Michael T. Rock
AFTA and APEC, with Policy Implications for Vietnam's Trade and FDI pp. 273-298: Zhaoyong Zhang

Reform of the EU's Sugar Policies and the ACP Countries pp. 131-150: Scott McDonald
Social Capital in the United States and Taiwan: Trust or Rule of Law? pp. 151-172: Aaron Xavier Fellmeth
The 5%‘Rule’: Fact or Fiction? pp. 173-183: Frances Cleaver and Ian Lomas
Structural Adjustment and Poverty—Blunting the Criticisms pp. 185-202: Stanley Please

Trade Liberalisation in Clothing: the MFA Phase‐Out and the Developing Countries pp. 5-36: Madhavi Majmudar
Quantifiable Impact of the Uruguay Round on Poverty pp. 37-49: Matti Vainio
The Resilience of IRDP: Reform and Perpetuation of an Indian Myth pp. 51-68: James Copestake
The Role of Japanese Foreign Investment in South Korea's Manufacturing Sector pp. 69-88: R.J. Castley
Mobilising Science and Technology to Get Agriculture Moving in Africa: A Response to Borlaug and Dowswell pp. 89-103: Janice Jiggins, Coen Reijntjes and Clive Lightfoot
Moving the Indigenous Knowledge Debate Forward? pp. 105-112: John Thompson

Policy‐induced Innovation in Sub‐Saharan African Agriculture: A Multilateral Malmquist Productivity Index Approach pp. 323-348: Colin Thirtle, David Hadley and Robert Townsend
‘Yigong‐daizhen’ in China: A New Experience with Labour‐intensive Public Works in Poor Areas pp. 349-370: Zhu Ling and Jiang Zhongyi
Venture Capital in Malaysia: The Role of the Government pp. 371-390: Grahame Boocock
Madagascar: An Empirical Test of the Market Relaxation‐State Compression Hypothesis pp. 391-406: Christopher Barrett
Regulatory Options for a Changing Agricultural Scenario: The Case of Seed Certification pp. 407-422: Robert Tripp

Industrial Policy Capture in Taiwan and South Korea pp. 195-218: Richard M. Auty
The Economic Relations of China and Asia‐Pacific with Europe pp. 219-246: Sandro Sideri
Labour Standards and Export Processing Zones: Situation and Pressures for Change pp. 247-276: Ana Teresa Romero
Botswana's Exchange Controls: Abolition or Liberalisation? pp. 277-306: Keith Jefferis and Charles Harvey
Effects of NGO Financial Intermediation on Indlgenous Self‐help Village Groups in The Gambia pp. 307-314: Geetha Nagarajan, Richard L. Meyer and Douglas H. Graham

Mobilising Science and Technology to Get Agriculture Moving in Africa pp. 115-129: Norman E. Borlaug and Christopher R. Dowswell
Mobilising Science and Technology or Fostering Organisational Change?: A Response to Borlaug and Dowswell pp. 131-134: John Farrington
Income Levels and Entitlement to Trade Preferences pp. 135-142: Donald Roy
Human Rights and Policy Dialogue: A German Perspective pp. 143-150: Dieter Weiss
Poverty, Inequality and Reconstruction in South Africa pp. 151-172: Brian Nolan
The Structural Adjustment Experiment pp. 173-178: Alex Duncan

Social Capital and Development Capacity: The Example of Rural Tanzania pp. 5-22: Louis Putterman
Explaining Agricultural Wage Trends in India pp. 23-40: Sarthi Acharya and Gustav F. Papanek
Import Support Aid: Experiences from Tanzania and Zambia pp. 41-64: Howard White
Trade Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from Sri Lanka, 1978‐89 pp. 65-83: John Weiss and Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
Stopping Immigration? pp. 85-89: Nigel Harris