Journal of Development Economics

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Volume 55, issue 2, 1998

Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock? pp. 273-305

Marcel Fafchamps, Christopher Udry and Katherine Czukas

Migration, remittances, and inequality: estimating the net effects of migration on income distribution pp. 307-331

Bradford Barham and Stephen Boucher

Output response to prices and public investment in agriculture: Indonesian food crops pp. 333-352

Mark Rosegrant, Faisal Kasryno and Nicostrato D. Perez

Increasing returns, human capital, and the Kuznets curve pp. 353-367

Gerhard Glomm and B Ravikumar

International technology transfer and the technology gap pp. 369-398

Amy Glass and Kamal Saggi

Empirical investigation of one OPEC country's successful non-oil export performance pp. 399-420

Yana Rodgers

Exchange rate determination and inflation in Southeast Asian countries pp. 421-437

Joseph Alba and David Papell

Equity and bond flows to Latin America and Asia: the role of global and country factors pp. 439-463

Punam Chuhan, Stijn Claessens and Nlandu Mamingi

Investment in education: do economic volatility and credit constraints matter? pp. 465-481

Karnit Flug, Antonio Spilimbergo and Erik Wachtenheim

Moneylenders and bankers: price-increasing subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market pp. 485-518

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

Long-term growth in Tunisia: C. Morrison and B. Talbi, eds. (OECD, Paris, 1996, pp. 141) pp. 519-525

Jeffrey Nugent

Economies in transition: Comparing Asia and Europe: Wing Thye Woo, S. Parker and J. D. Sachs, eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997), pp. xiv + 412, US$22.50 pp. 527-530

Jim Leitzel

Volume 55, issue 1, 1998

Wealth, risk and activity choice: cattle in Western Tanzania pp. 1-42

Stefan Dercon

Missing risk sharing markets and the benefits of cross-hedging in developing countries pp. 43-56

Udo Broll and Jack E. Wahl

Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru pp. 57-80

Donald Cox, Zekeriya Eser and Emmanuel Jimenez

Premiums to employment in larger establishments: evidence from Peru pp. 81-113

Julie Anderson Schaffner

The importance of firm wage differentials in explaining hourly earnings variation in the large-scale sector of Guatemala pp. 115-131

Edward Funkhouser

International intellectual property rights protection and the rate of product innovation pp. 133-153

Edwin Lai

Convergence clubs and subsistence economies pp. 155-171

Dan Ben-David

Pooling sovereign risks: The case of environmental treaties and international debt pp. 173-190

Ernst Mohr and Jonathan Thomas

High real interest rates in the aftermath of disinflation: is it a lack of credibility? pp. 191-214

Graciela Kaminsky and Leonardo Leiderman

Tax evasion and the optimal inflation tax pp. 215-232

Juan Pablo Nicolini

The political economy of underinvestment in agriculture pp. 233-247

Jean-Marie Baland and Ashok Kotwal

Trade policy and product variety: when is a VER superior to a tariff? pp. 249-255

David Collie and Yu-Tien Su

Volume 54, issue 2, 1997

Widowhood and poverty in rural India: Some inferences from household survey data pp. 217-234

Jean Dreze and P. V. Srinivasan

Rural labor and credit markets pp. 235-260

Francesco Caselli

Is growth a dirty word? Pollution, abatement and endogenous growth pp. 261-284

Margaret M. Byrne

Developing countries and environmental protection: the effects of budget balance and pollution ceiling constraints pp. 285-305

Amitrajeet Batabyal

Shock versus gradualism in models of rational expectations: the case of trade liberalization pp. 307-322

Leonardo Auernheimer and Susan Mary George

Terms-of-trade uncertainty and economic growth pp. 323-356

Enrique Mendoza

A dynamic general equilibrium model of industrialization when manufactures are unnecessary pp. 357-385

David Love

Explaining the duration of exchange-rate pegs pp. 387-404

Michael Klein and Nancy Marion

Economic determinants of IMF financial arrangements pp. 405-436

Malcolm Knight and Julio A. Santaella

Stochastic technologies and the adoption decision pp. 437-453

David Hennessy

Soil conservation as an investment in land pp. 455-467

Sverre Grepperud

Nutritional efficiency wages: a policy framework pp. 469-478

Gautam Bose

On the tying of aid to tariff reform pp. 479-491

Sajal Lahiri and Pascalis Raimondos

Erratum to "Balanced and unbalanced growth" [Journal of Development Economics 53(1997) 41-66] pp. 493-518

James Rauch

Volume 54, issue 1, 1997

Introduction pp. 1-3

Sebastian Edwards

When are fixed exchange rates really fixed? pp. 5-25

Andres Velasco

On the effectiveness of capital controls: The experience of Colombia during the 1990s pp. 27-57

Mauricio Cardenas and Felipe Barrera-Osorio

Exchange rate-based stabilization with endogenous fiscal response pp. 59-75

Ernesto Talvi

Equilibrium real exchange rate, volatility, and stabilization pp. 77-100

Gustavo Gonzaga and Cristina Terra

On the credibility of alternative exchange rate regimes pp. 101-122

Chris Canavan and Mariano Tommasi

The size and timing of devaluations in capital-controlled economies pp. 123-147

Robert Flood and Nancy Marion

Financial markets and inflation under imperfect information pp. 149-168

Jose De Gregorio and Federico Sturzenegger

Free trade agreements versus customs unions pp. 169-187

Anne O. Krueger

Review of tax policy and planning in developing countries: A. Bagchi and N. Stern, eds. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994) pp. 207-215

David Wildasin

Volume 53, issue 2, 1997

The role of rents to human capital in economic development pp. 229-249

Gilles Saint-Paul

Wage and labor supply effects of illness in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana: instrumental variable estimates for days disabled pp. 251-286

T. Schultz and Aysıt Tansel

Can a brain drain be good for growth in the source economy? pp. 287-303

Andrew Mountford

Government intervention, efficiency wages, and the employer size wage effect in Zimbabwe pp. 305-338

Ann Velenchik

An empirical investigation of rationing constraints in rural credit markets in India pp. 339-371

Anjini Kochar

LDC agriculture: Nonparametric Malmquist productivity indexes pp. 373-390

Lilyan Fulginiti and Richard Perrin

Household consumption smoothing through ethnic ties: evidence from Cote d'Ivoire pp. 391-422

Franque Grimard

Is demand for polluting goods manageable? An econometric study of car ownership and use in Mexico pp. 423-445

Gunnar Eskeland and Tarhan N. Feyzioglu

Is there persistence in the growth of manufactured exports? Evidence from newly industrializing countries pp. 447-470

Ashoka Mody and Kamil Yilmaz

The role of the state in economic change: Ha-Joon Chang and Robert Rowthorn (Eds), The Role of the State in Economic Change (Clarendon Press, Oxford) pp. xiii + 302, [UK pound]40.00 pp. 471-474

Ian Little

Adjustment in Oil-importing developing countries, a comparative economic analysis: Pradeep K. Mitra, Cambridge University, Press, Cambridge, 1994, pp. xiv + 321 pp. 475-477

Frances Stewart

India's Political Economy: Governance and Reform: by John P. Lewis, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 401 pp., price not stated, ISBN 0 19 563515 9 pp. 479-484

Subrata Kumar Mitra

Resources, deprivation and poverty: by Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, 261 p, [UK pound]35.00 pp. 485-488

Robert Margo

India: The future of economic reform: Robert Cassen and Vijay Joshi (Eds.), Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1995, 374 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-19-563719-4 pp. 489-492

Indira Rajaraman

Volume 53, issue 1, 1997

Quality and trade pp. 1-15

Kevin Murphy and Andrei Shleifer

Environmental externalities in traditional agriculture and the impact of trade liberalization: the case of Ghana pp. 17-39

Ramon Lopez

Balanced and unbalanced growth pp. 41-66

James Rauch

Developing countries' imports of technology, in-house technological capabilities and efforts: an analysis of the Indian experience pp. 67-83

Homi Katrak

A simple test of the nutrition-based efficiency wage model pp. 85-98

Anand Swamy

Parental choice of human capital investment pp. 99-114

Gerhard Glomm

Research, productivity, and output growth in Chinese agriculture pp. 115-137

Shenggen Fan and Philip Pardey

Testing the long-run neutrality of money in a developing economy: the case of India pp. 139-155

Imad A. Moosa

Duration of firms in an infant industry: the case of Indian computer hardware pp. 157-167

Sanghamitra Das and Krishna Srinivasan

Measuring protection: a cautionary tale pp. 169-183

Kevin O'Rourke

The efficiency wage given long-run employment and concave labor constraint pp. 185-195

Sanjay Banerji and Manas Ranjan Gupta

Coordination problems in local-level resource management pp. 197-210

Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau

India: Macroeconomics and political economy 1964-1991: Vijay Joshi and I.M.D. Little (Eds.), World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1994, pbk $25, ISBN 0-8213-2652-X and Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, hbk Rs. 325, pp xviii + 397, ISBN 0-19 563649-X pp. 211-218

Mukul Majumdar

Review of Tax Policy and Planning in Developing Countries: A. Bagchi and N. Stern (Eds.), Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994 pp. 219-227

David Wildasin