Review of Development Economics

1997 - 2025

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Volume 8, issue 4, 2004

Progressive Lending as an Enforcement Mechanism in Microfinance Programs pp. 505-520

Dominik Egli

Contractual Mix Between Cash and Kind Wages of Casual Workers in an Agrarian Economy pp. 521-540

Samar K. Datta, Jeffrey Nugent and Asher Tishler

Sectoral Selection and Informality: a Nicaraguan Case Study pp. 541-556

Michael Pisani and José A. Pagán

Robust Poverty and Inequality Measurement in Egypt: Correcting for Spatial‐price Variation and Sample Design Effects pp. 557-572

Dean Jolliffe, Gaurav Datt and Manohar Sharma

Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance Under Multiple Government Programs pp. 573-582

Paul Makdissi and Quentin Wodon

Strategic Complementarity in Direct Investments pp. 583-596

Toshihiro Matsumura

Wages and Other Determinants of Corruption pp. 597-605

Luis A. Sosa

Exchange Rate Volatility and Macroeconomic Performance in Hong Kong pp. 606-623

Mark Crosby

Macroeconomic Effects of Capital Account Liberalization: the Case of Korea pp. 624-639

Soyoung Kim, Sunghyun Kim and Yunjong Wang

Poverty, Growth, and Redistribution: a Study of Iran pp. 640-653

Ahmad Assadzadeh and Satya Paul

Volume 8, issue 3, 2004

The East Asian Dollar Standard, Fear of Floating, and Original Sin pp. 331-360

Ronald McKinnon and Gunther Schnabl

Foreign Aid, Innovation, and Technology Transfer in a North–South Model with Learning‐by‐Doing pp. 361-378

Michael Benarroch and James D. Gaisford

Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Global Food Aid pp. 379-390

Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements and Erwin R. Tiongson

Enforcement of Property Rights and Underdevelopment pp. 391-405

Era Dabla‐Norris and Scott Freeman

Optimal Tariffs and Subsidies and Changes in Market Structure pp. 406-412

Dominik Egli and Frank Westermann

Specialization, Transaction Efficiency, and Firm Size: Empirical Evidence pp. 413-422

Kit‐Chun Lam and Pak‐Wai Liu

R&D‐induced Growth in the OECD? pp. 423-439

Marios Zachariadis

Cost‐effectiveness Analysis of Demand‐ and Supply‐side Education Interventions: the Case of PROGRESA in Mexico pp. 440-451

David P. Coady and Susan Parker

Income Distribution, Learning‐by‐Doing, and Comparative Advantage pp. 452-473

Anandi Mani and Jinyoung Hwang

Reexamination of Economic Growth, Tax Policy, and Distributive Politics pp. 474-482

Yong Bao and Jang-Ting Guo

ARDL Approach to Test the Productivity Bias Hypothesis pp. 483-488

Mohsen Bahmani‐Oskooee and A. B. M. Nasir

Filial Obligations and Child Labor pp. 489-504

Luis Felipe López‐Calva and Koji Miyamoto

Volume 8, issue 2, 2004

Attachment to a National Money: Evidence on Currency Holding at Different Levels of Development pp. 179-197

Philip Jefferson and Stephen O'Connell

Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa pp. 198-222

Geeta Kingdon and John Knight

Catching Up and Convergence: Long‐run Growth in East Asia pp. 223-236

Frank Hsiao and Mei‐Chu W. Hsiao

International Trade and Gender Wage Discrimination: Evidence from East Asia pp. 237-254

Günseli Berik, Yana Rodgers and Joseph Zveglich

Swidden Agriculture in Developing Countries pp. 255-265

Amitrajeet Batabyal and Hamid Beladi

The Impact of Public Infrastructure on the Productivity of the Chilean Economy pp. 266-278

José M. Albala‐Bertrand and Emmanuel Mamatzakis

Ownership Structure and Technological Upgrading in International Joint Ventures pp. 279-294

Ping Lin and Kamal Saggi

A Reexamination of the Time Path of Wage Differentials in Taiwan pp. 295-308

Chun‐Hung A. Lin and Peter Orazem

Reforming Food Subsidy Schemes: Estimating the Gains from Self‐targeting in India pp. 309-324

Bhaskar Dutta and Bharat Ramaswami

On the Economics of Refugee Flows pp. 325-329

Oded Stark

Volume 8, issue 1, 2004

Traded and Nontraded Goods and Real Wages pp. 1-14

Hamid Beladi and Ravi Batra

Household Strategies of Coping with Shocks in Post‐crisis Russia pp. 15-32

Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov

Is an Exhaustible Resource Economy Sustainable? pp. 33-46

Y. Hossein Farzin

Consequences of Imitation by Poor Countries on International Wage Inequalities and Global Growth pp. 47-67

Hans Jarle Kind

Effectiveness of Capital Controls: the Case of Brazil pp. 68-80

William Miles

A Barrier to the Diffusion of Tacit Knowledge pp. 81-90

Katsuya Takii

Using Quality of Interview Information to Assess Nonrandom Attrition Bias in Developing‐Country Panel Data pp. 91-109

John Maluccio

Measuring the Impact of Various Income Sources on the Link between Inequality and Development: Implications for the Kuznets Curve pp. 110-127

Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

Simple Model of Resource Degradation and Agricultural Productivity in a Subsistence Economy pp. 128-140

Kevin Sylwester

Strategies for Fiscal Reform in the Context of the EMU: the Case of Portugal pp. 141-163

Alfredo Pereira and Pedro Rodrigues

The Effect of Inequality on Growth: Theory and Evidence from the Indian States pp. 164-177

Sugata Ghosh and Sarmistha Pal

Volume 7, issue 4, 2003

Economic Performance, Trade Restrictiveness, and Efficiency pp. 527-542

Jean-Christophe Bureau, Nancy Chau, Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

Trade, Exchange Rate, and Energy Pricing Reform in Iran: Potentially Large Efficiency Effects and Gains to the Poor pp. 543-562

Jesper Jensen and David Tarr

The European Single Currency and MENA's Exports to Europe pp. 563-582

Lahcen Achy and Khalid Sekkat

Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy Facing Sociopolitical Instability pp. 583-598

Chetan Ghate, Quan Vu Le and Paul Zak

Capital Flows, Vertical Multinationals, Wage Inequality, and Welfare pp. 599-608

Wen‐Jung Liang and Chao‐Cheng Mai

Food Aid Disincentives: the Tunisian Experience pp. 609-621

Mesfin Bezuneh, Brady Deaton and Segu Zuhair

Distinguishing Between the Effects of Primary and Post‐primary Education on Economic Growth pp. 622-635

Chris Papageorgiou

Are Returns to Investment Lower for the Poor? Human and Physical Capital Interactions in Rural Vietnam pp. 636-653

Dominique van de Walle

Volume 7, issue 3, 2003

Estimating the Impact of WTO and Domestic Reforms on the Indian Cotton and Textile Sectors: a General‐Equilibrium Approach pp. 343-359

Aziz Elbehri, Thomas Hertel and Will Martin

Structural Change and Economic Growth in China pp. 360-377

Shenggen Fan, Xiaobo Zhang and Sherman Robinson

Discarding Facts: the Economics of Caste pp. 378-391

James G. Scoville

Toothless Tigers? East Asian Economic Growth from 1960 to 1990 pp. 392-405

Robin Grier

Transition Problems in Policy Reform: Agricultural Trade Liberalization in India pp. 406-418

Servaas Storm

Trade Liberalization and the Efficiency of Firms in Indian Manufacturing pp. 419-430

Nigel Driffield and Uma Kambhampati

Interactions of Informal and Formal Agents in South Asian Rural Credit Markets pp. 431-444

John Adams, Hans‐Peter Brunner and Frank Raymond

Restoring Macroeconomic Stability through Fiscal Adjustment: a Real–Financial CGE Analysis for India pp. 445-461

C. W. M. Naastepad

Dynamics of Business Cycles in Asia: Differences and Similarities pp. 462-477

Sunghyun Kim, Ayhan Kose and Michael Plummer

Economic Growth in a Cross‐section of Nonindustrial Countries: Does Colonial Heritage Matter for Africa? pp. 478-495

Gregory Price

Environmental Protection and Urban Unemployment: Environmental Policy Reform in a Polluted Dualistic Economy pp. 496-509

Ichiroh Daitoh

The Sri Lankan Unemployment Problem Revisited pp. 510-525

Martin Rama

Volume 7, issue 2, 2003

The Politics of Foreign Aid: A Median Voter Perspective pp. 165-178

Wolfgang Mayer and Pascalis Raimondos

An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time‐Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment pp. 179-191

Margaret McMillan and William Masters

Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment and Tax Credits: Estimates for Costa Rica pp. 192-203

Lisandro Abrego

Exports, Returns to Scale, and Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Taiwanese Manufacturing Industries pp. 204-216

Amy R. Hwang

Labor Market Developments in Albania: An Analytical Overview pp. 217-227

Elida Çuka, Harry Papapanagos, Natasha Polo and Peter Sanfey

Eco‐Labeling and Stages of Development pp. 228-247

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Ulrike Grote

Does Financial Depth Improve Aggregate Savings Performance? Further Cross‐Country Evidence pp. 248-265

Christopher J. Cook

Endogenous, Efficient Long‐Run Cyclical Unemployment, Endogenous Long‐Run Growth, and Division of Labor pp. 266-278

Julan Du

Does Investing in Technology Affect Exports? Evidence from Indian Firms pp. 279-293

Rana Hasan and Mayank Raturi

Regime Switches, Biased Expectations, and the Brazilian Inflationary Experience pp. 294-310

Marcelo F. Salomon

Human Capital, Study Effort, and Persistent Income Inequality pp. 311-326

Chengze Simon Fan

The Labor Market as a Smoothing Device: Labor Supply Responses to Crop Loss pp. 327-341

Lisa Cameron and Christopher Worswick

Volume 7, issue 1, 2003

Relative National Efficiency and Country Size: Evidence for Developing Countries pp. 1-14

Chris Milner and Thomas Weyman–Jones

Conflict and Trade in a Predator/Prey Economy pp. 15-29

Charles Anderton

Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants pp. 30-43

Gil Epstein

Do Foreign Direct Investment and Gross Domestic Investment Promote Economic Growth? pp. 44-57

Jong Il Choe

Technology Adoption in the Presence of Constraints: the Case of Fertilizer Demand in Ethiopia pp. 58-70

Andre Croppenstedt, Mulat Demeke and Meloria M. Meschi

Publicly Provided Goods and Intrafamily Resource Allocation: Female Child Survival in India pp. 71-85

Suzanne M. Gleason

Transitional Dynamics and Indeterminacy of Equilibria in an Endogenous Growth Model with a Public Input pp. 86-98

Theodore Palivos, Chong Yip and Junxi Zhang

A Generalized Human Development Index pp. 99-114

Satya Chakravarty

Public Investment and Economic Growth in Latin America: an Empirical Test pp. 115-126

Miguel Ramirez and Nader Nazmi

The Penalties of Inefficient Infrastructure pp. 127-137

Felix Rioja

Interactions between Agriculture and Industry: Theoretical Analysis of the Consequences of Discriminating Agriculture in Sub–Saharan Africa pp. 138-151

Jorn Rattso and Ragnar Torvik

Government Spending, Taxation, and Oil Revenues in Mexico pp. 152-164

José A. Tijerina–Guajardo and José A. Pagán