Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

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Volume 73, issue 2, 2004

Red tape and corruption pp. 489-504

Sergei Guriev

Governance and growth pp. 505-518

Mark Gradstein

Downsizing with labor sharing and collusion pp. 519-540

Antonio Estache, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Xinzhu Zhang

Lurking in the shadows: the informal sector and government policy pp. 541-557

Jane Ihrig and Karine Moe

The evolution of modern educational systems: Technical vs. general education, distributional conflict, and growth pp. 559-582

Graziella Bertocchi and Michael Spagat

Public education expenditures and growth pp. 583-605

William Blankenau and Nicole Simpson

Public versus private education when differential fertility matters pp. 607-629

David de la Croix and Matthias Doepke

Favorite son? Specialized child laborers and students in poor LDC households pp. 631-642

Andrew W. Horowitz and Jian Wang

Agglomeration economies and productivity in Indian industry pp. 643-673

Somik Lall, Zmarak Shalizi and Uwe Deichmann

Could higher taxes increase the long-run demand for capital? Theory and evidence for Chile pp. 675-697

Alvaro Bustos, Eduardo Engel and Alexander Galetovic

The Southern African Development Community: suitable for a monetary union? pp. 699-714

Yohane Khamfula and Harry Huizinga

Multilateral transfers, export taxation and asymmetry pp. 715-725

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Baishali Majumdar

Terms of trade shocks in Africa: are they short-lived or long-lived? pp. 727-744

Paul Cashin, Christopher McDermott and Catherine Pattillo

Volume 73, issue 1, 2004

Wage shocks and consumption variability in Mexico during the 1990s pp. 1-25

Orazio Attanasio and Miguel Szekely

Financial intermediation, variability and the development process pp. 27-54

Luis Carranza and Jose Galdon-Sanchez

Financial development and economic growth: evidence from panel unit root and cointegration tests pp. 55-74

Dimitris Christopoulos and Mike Tsionas

Industrial targeting, experimentation and long-run specialization pp. 75-105

Mikhail Klimenko

A model of multiple equilibria in geographic labor mobility pp. 107-123

Antonio Spilimbergo and Luis Ubeda

Political cycles in a developing economy: effect of elections in the Indian States pp. 125-154

Stuti Khemani

Development, crime and punishment: accounting for the international differences in crime rates pp. 155-184

Rodrigo Soares

Social learning in a heterogeneous population: technology diffusion in the Indian Green Revolution pp. 185-213

Kaivan Munshi

Are price controls necessarily bad? The case of rice in Vietnam pp. 215-232

Madanmohan Ghosh and John Whalley

Employment dynamics in Indian industry: adjustment lags and the impact of job security regulations pp. 233-256

Sudipta Dutta Roy

Ill-health, savings and portfolio choices in developing economies pp. 257-285

Anjini Kochar

The impact of education in rural Ghana: examining household labor allocation and returns on and off the farm pp. 287-314

Dean Jolliffe

Skill differentials, return to schooling, and market segmentation in a transition economy: the case of Mainland China pp. 315-328

Belton Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang

Relocation and agglomeration of Chinese industry pp. 329-347

Mei Wen

Rural infrastructure, transactions costs and market participation in Kenya pp. 349-367

Mitch Renkow, Daniel G. Hallstrom and Daniel D. Karanja

Size and efficiency in African manufacturing firms: evidence from firm-level panel data pp. 369-394

Mans Soderbom and Francis Teal

Occupational segregation and wage differentials between natives and immigrants: evidence from Hong Kong pp. 395-413

Pak-Wai Liu, Junsen Zhang and Shu-Chuen Chong

Foreign direct investment, education and wages in Indonesian manufacturing pp. 415-422

Robert Lipsey and Fredrik Sjöholm

Government policies and graft in an economy with endogenous labor supply pp. 423-434

Nivedita Mukherji

Income sources effects on inequality pp. 435-451

Satya Paul

Measuring literacy: some extensions of the Basu-Foster framework pp. 453-463

S. Subramanian

Defining unemployment in developing countries: evidence from Trinidad and Tobago pp. 465-476

David Byrne and Eric Strobl

The Industrial Experience of Tanzania: Szirmai, Adam and Paul Lapperre, editors, (Palgrave, London, 2001), pp. xii + 375 pp. 477-479

Ann Velenchik

Trade Shocks and Developing Countries (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1999): Paul Collier, Jan Willem Gunning and Associates. Volume 2: Asia and Latin America, pp. ix+360. ISBN 0-19-829463-8 pp. 479-484

Jesus Otero

In search of prosperity: analytic narratives on economic growth: Dani Rodrik (ed.), Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 2003, 481 pp., ISBN: 0-691-09268-0 pp. 484-487

Jaime Ros

Volume 72, issue 2, 2003

Introduction pp. 425-428

Sebastian Edwards

International migration, remittances, and schooling: evidence from El Salvador pp. 429-461

Alejandra Cox Edwards and Manuelita Ureta

The response of the informal sector to trade liberalization pp. 463-496

Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik

The impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality: evidence from Argentina pp. 497-513

Sebastian Galiani and Pablo Sanguinetti

Distance, skill deepening and development: will peripheral countries ever get rich? pp. 515-541

Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

Technology, trade, and wage inequality in Mexico before and after NAFTA pp. 543-565

Gerardo Esquivel and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez

Spaghetti regionalism or strategic foreign trade: some evidence for Mexico pp. 567-584

Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez

Volatility, employment and the patterns of FDI in emerging markets pp. 585-601

Joshua Aizenman

Economic development as self-discovery pp. 603-633

Ricardo Hausmann and Dani Rodrik

Volume 72, issue 1, 2003

Endogenous insecurity and economic development pp. 1-29

Huw Lloyd-Ellis and Nicolas Marceau

The dual nature of trade: measuring its impact on imitation and growth pp. 31-55

Michelle Connolly

Trade openness and economic growth: a cross-country empirical investigation pp. 57-89

Halit Yanıkkaya

Policy designs in a dynamic model of infant industry protection pp. 91-115

Mitsuhiro Kaneda

Catch-up in turn in a multi-country international trade model with learning-by-doing and invention pp. 117-138

Tomoyuki Nakajima

Trade induced convergence through human capital accumulation in credit-constrained economies pp. 139-162

Priya Ranjan

Financial liberalization, urban unemployment and welfare: some implications of the artificial low interest rate and the high wage rate policies in LDCs pp. 163-179

Ichiroh Daitoh

Sources of economic fluctuations in Latin America and implications for choice of exchange rate regimes pp. 181-202

Shaghil Ahmed

Taxing capital flows: an empirical comparative analysis pp. 203-221

Marcelo Soto

Social polarization, industrialization, and fiscal instability: theory and evidence pp. 223-252

Jaejoon Woo

A little at a time: the use of regularly scheduled repayments in microfinance programs pp. 253-279

Sanjay Jain and Ghazala Mansuri

Parental actions and sibling inequality pp. 281-297

Momi Dahan and Alejandro Gaviria

The effect of subsistence on collapse and institutional adaptation in population-resource societies pp. 299-320

John Pezzey and John M. Anderies

The direction of causality between financial development and economic growth pp. 321-334

Cesar Calderon and Lin Liu

On the stability of demand for money in a developing economy: Some empirical issues pp. 335-351

Basanta K. Pradhan and A. Subramanian

What can we learn from a large border effect in developing countries? pp. 353-369

Akm Morshed

Economic reform and informal wage--a general equilibrium analysis pp. 371-378

Sugata Marjit

Possibility or impossibility of paradoxes in the small country Harris-Todaro framework: a unifying analysis pp. 379-385

Sugata Marjit and Hamid Beladi

Export-performance requirements, foreign investment quotas, and welfare in a small dynamic economy pp. 387-400

Chi-Chur Chao and Eden Yu

International migration, income taxes and transfers: a welfare analysis pp. 401-411

Michael Michael

The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Bertin Martins with Uwe Mummert, Peter Murrell and Paul Seabright, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0521 808189 (hardback), [UK pound]40.00 (US$60.00) pp. 413-417

Robert Lensink

From Crisis to Growth in Africa?: By Mats Lundahl (ed.), London: Routledge Press, 2001, pp. 304. Price: [UK pound]60 pp. 417-420

Steven Block

Efficiency, Equity, Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millenium: By Roger Porter, Pierre Sauve, Arvind Subramanian, and Merico Beriglia Zampetti (eds.), Washington, DC: Brookings, 2001, pp. 352. (Cloth $50.95, paper $22.95) pp. 420-423

John Whalley