Journal of Development Economics

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Volume 49, issue 2, 1996

Economic development in a world with many countries pp. 271-288

Noriyuki Yanagawa

Syndicated lending under asymmetric creditor information pp. 289-306

Saugata Banerjee and Olivier Cadot

Measuring outward orientation in LDCs: Can it be done? pp. 307-335

Lant Pritchett

Technological change: Rediscovering the engine of productivity growth in China's rural economy pp. 337-369

Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

Agrarian efficiency wages in a dual economy pp. 371-386

Gautam Bose

From adjustment to development in Africa: Conflict, controversy, convergence, consensus?: Giovanni A. Cornia and Gerald Helleiner, eds., (St. Martins Press, New York and MacMillan, London, 1994), pp. xxiv + 417 pp. 387-391

Paul Collier

The financial development of Japan, Korea and Taiwan: Growth. Repressions and Liberalization: Hugh T. Patrick and Yung Chul Park, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994), pp. xii + 384 pp. 392-394

Peter Montiel

Population, economic development and the environment: K. Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, ed., (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994), pp. xxii + 284, $29.95 pp. 394-399

Andrew Foster

Micro-Enterprises and the institutional framework in developing countries: Christian Morrisson, Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte and Xavier Oudin, (OECD Development Centre, Paris, 1994), pp. 251, $30, 55DM or 140FF pp. 399-403

Jeffrey Nugent

Local suppliers of credit in the Third World, 1750-1960: Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara, eds., (The Macmillan Press, London and St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993), ISBN 0-333-52320-2 (The Macmillan Press), ISBN 0-312-08559-1 (St. Martin's Press), pp. 318, $65.00 pp. 403-407

Karla Hoff

Economies of exclusion: Underclass poverty and labor market change in Mexico: Scott Sernau, (Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 1994), pp. xv + 156, $55.00 pp. 407-410

Douglas Marcouiller

Volume 49, issue 1, 1996

Introduction pp. 1-2

Pranab Bardhan

The division of labor and economic development pp. 3-32

Andres Rodriguez-Clare

Start-up costs and pecuniary externalities as barriers to economic development pp. 33-59

Antonio Ciccone and Kiminori Matsuyama

Local demand, investment multipliers, and industrialization: Theory and application to the Guatemalan highlands pp. 61-92

Marcel Fafchamps and Brigit Helms

The role of ports in the making of major cities: Self-agglomeration and hub-effect pp. 93-120

Masahisa Fujita and Tomoya Mori

Increasing returns, migrations and convergence pp. 121-136

Riccardo Faini

Trade policy and the Third World metropolis pp. 137-150

Paul Krugman and Raul Livas Elizondo

Innovation, monopolies and the poverty trap pp. 151-178

Jean-Marie Baland and Patrick Francois

Trade policy, cumulative causation, and industrial development pp. 179-197

Anthony Venables

Absorptive capacity: On the creation and acquisition of technology in development pp. 199-227

Wolfgang Keller

Trade and uneven growth pp. 229-256

Robert Feenstra

Disparity in wages but not in returns to capital between rich and poor countries pp. 257-270

Pranab Bardhan

Volume 48, issue 2, 1996

What explains the trend reversal in the size distribution of Korean manufacturing establishments? pp. 225-251

Jeffrey Nugent

Growth of micro and small enterprises in southern Africa pp. 253-277

Michael A. McPherson

A multiplier decomposition method to analyze poverty alleviation pp. 279-300

Erik Thorbecke and Hong-Sang Jung

The dynamic behavior of quota license prices pp. 301-321

Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan

The role of intellectual property rights in economic growth pp. 323-350

David Gould and William Gruben

Credit market imperfections and economic development: Theory and evidence pp. 351-387

Chien-Hui Ma and Bruce Smith

The new wave of private capital inflows: Push or pull? pp. 389-418

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

Openness and growth: A time-series, cross-country analysis for developing countries pp. 419-447

Ann Harrison

International evidence on the effects of directed credit programmes on efficiency of resource allocation in developing countries: The case of development bank lendings pp. 449-460

M. O. Odedokun

Macroeconomic stability, investment and growth in developing countries pp. 461-477

Michael Bleaney

Volume 48, issue 1, 1995

R & D spillover and productivity growth: Evidence from Indian private firms pp. 1-23

Lakshmi Raut

Measuring persistence in industrial output: The Indian case pp. 25-41

R. Krishnan and Kunal Sen

The impact of financial integration and unilateral public transfers on investment and growth in EC capital-importing countries pp. 43-66

Vitor Gaspar and Alfredo Pereira

Trade reform, uncertainty, and export promotion: Mexico 1982-88 pp. 67-89

William Maloney and Rodrigo R. Azevedo

Capital goods imports and long-run growth pp. 91-110

Jong-Wha Lee

The Turkish export boom: Just reward or just lucky? pp. 111-133

Robin Barlow and Fikret Senses

Debt relief, growth and price stability in Mexico pp. 135-149

Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion and Patricia Armendariz de Hinestrosa

Optimal sequencing of credible reforms with uncertain outcomes pp. 151-166

John Conley and William Maloney

Exchange rate regime reforms with black market leakages pp. 167-187

Linda Goldberg

Rebates as a mechanism to induce the entry of commercial banks into new markets pp. 189-204

Pablo Cotler

Wage subsidy and full-employment in a dual economy with open unemployment and surplus labor pp. 205-223

A. Wahhab Khandker and Salim Rashid

Volume 47, issue 2, 1995

Fairness concepts and the intrahousehold allocation of resources pp. 179-189

Amy Farmer and Jill Tiefenthaler

Power, coercion, and the games landlords play pp. 191-205

Nadeem Naqvi and Frederick Wemhoner

Labor tying pp. 207-239

Anindita Mukherjee and Debraj Ray

Attached farm labor, limited horizons and servility pp. 241-270

Julie Anderson Schaffner

Political coalition breaking and sustainability of policy reform pp. 271-286

John Horowitz and Richard Just

Strategic tariffs and endogenous market structures: Trade and industrial policies under imperfect competition pp. 287-312

Aditya Bhattacharjea

Productivity and the export market: A firm-level analysis pp. 313-332

B. -Y. Aw and A. R. Hwang

Transfers, returns to scale, tied aid and monopolistic competition pp. 333-354

Steven Brakman and Charles Marrewijk

Barriers to portfolio investments in emerging stock markets pp. 355-374

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

Structural change and poverty in Africa: A decomposition anakysis for Cote d'Ivoire pp. 375-401

Christiaan Grootaert

More evidence on income distribution and growth pp. 403-427

George Clarke

Do Koreans save optimally? pp. 429-442

Jinsoo Hahn

The political economy of price ceilings for necessities pp. 443-454

Harry Huizinga

Foreign aid and public goods pp. 455-467

Panos Hatzipanayotou and Michael Michael

Tax on foreign capital income and wage subsidy to the urban sector in the Harris-Todaro model pp. 469-479

Manash Gupta

Organized debt buybacks: No cure for free riding? pp. 481-496

Jacek Prokop

Employment and development: A new review of evidence: David Turnham, (OECD, Paris, 1993) pp. 497-502

Gary Fields

The economics of rural organization: Theory, practice and policy: Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., (Oxford University Press, New York, 1993) pp. 502-504

Lee Alston

Volume 47, issue 1, 1995

Introduction pp. 1-3

Sebastian Edwards and Edmar Bacha

Growth and convergence in Colombia: 1950-1990 pp. 5-37

Mauricio Cardenas and Adriana Ponton

Credibility of trade policy reform and investment: the Mexican experience pp. 39-60

Luis Alberto Ibarra

Trading blocs and the Americas: The natural, the unnatural, and the super-natural pp. 61-95

Jeffrey Frankel, Ernesto Stein and Shang-Jin Wei

Targeting the real exchange rate: theory and evidence pp. 97-133

Guillermo Calvo, Carmen Reinhart and Carlos Vegh

Inflationary bias and state-owned financial institutions pp. 135-154

Walter Novaes and Sergio Werlang

Mexico after the debt crisis: is growth sustainable? pp. 155-178

Daniel Oks and Sweder van Wijnbergen