Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

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Volume 4, issue 4, 1977

Determinants of wage and price changes in less developed countries: An intertemporal cross-country analysis pp. 315-342

Nicholas Glytsos

Nutrition and the fertility of younger women in Kinshasa, Zaire pp. 343-363

Barbara A. Anderson and James L. McCabe

Production, distribution and economic organization: Income distribution and resource allocation at the team level in rural China pp. 365-385

John Macrae

The international operations of national firms: A study of direct foreign investment: Stephen H. Hymer, (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1976) pp. xxii + 253, $12.50 pp. 387-400

Padma Desai, Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Thomas Horst and Robert Rowthorn

Volume 4, issue 3, 1977

A micro, econometric investigation of choice of technology pp. 205-237

Yung W. Rhee and Larry E. Westphal

The attraction of cities: A review of the migration literature pp. 239-264

Lorene Y. L. Yap

The utilization of capital and the growth of output in a developing economy: The case of South Korean manufacturing pp. 265-278

Young Chin Kim and Jene K. Kwon

Export instability and concentration in the less developed countries: A cross-sectional analysis pp. 279-297

Geoffrey N. Soutar

Economic development--Concept and strategy: Theodore Morgan, (Harper and Row, New York, 1975) pp. xii+429 pp. 299-299

J. L. Enos

Economics of development--Empirical investigations: Pan A. Yotopoulos and Jeffrey B. Nugent (Harper and Row, New York, 1975) pp. xxii+478 pp. 299-302

J. L. Enos

Foreign trade regimes and economic development: India: Jagdish N. Bhagwati and T.N. Srinivasan (NBER, Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1975) pp. xxii+261 pp. 302-306

Deepak Lal

Economic policymaking in a conflict society: The Argentine case: R.D. Mallon and J.V. Sourrouille (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1975) pp. ii+264, $16.00 pp. 306-308

Juan de Pablo

Poverty and income distribution in India: T.N. Srinivasan and P.K. Bardhan (Statistical Publishing Society, Calcutta, 1974), pp. vi+553 pp. 309-313

Gustav F. Papanek

Volume 4, issue 2, 1977

Heirs to colonial trade pp. 93-103

Ephraim Kleiman

Variations in forms of tenancy in a peasant economy pp. 105-118

Pranab Bardhan

The economics of tax incentives to encourage investment in less developed countries pp. 119-148

Dan Usher

Modelling the effects of protection in a dynamic framework pp. 149-172

Jaime de Melo and Kemal Dervis

Staple food control and industrial development in postwar Japan, 1950-1957: The role of the black market pp. 173-190

Dennis L. Chinn

Economy-wide models and development planning: C.R. Blitzer, P.B. Clark and L. Taylor, eds., (Oxford University Press, London, 1975)pp.xiii+369 pp. 192-194

Leif Johansen

The brain drain and taxation, II: Theory and empirical analysis: J.N. Bhagwati, ed., (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1976) pp. xii+292, $29.50, paper $23.25 pp. 194-198

T. Schultz

Rice and risk: Decision making among low-income farmers: James A. Roumasset (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1976) pp. xxi+251, $34.75 pp. 198-200

Jere Behrman

Value and price in the labour-surplus economy: Stephen A. Marglin, (Oxford University Press, London, 1976) pp. 252, $17.25 pp. 200-202

Nicholas Stern

Exports of manufacturers from India: An appraisal of the emerging pattern: Ranadev Banerji (J.C.B. Mohr, Tubingen, 1975) pp. xvii+347 pp. 202-204

V. R. Panchamukhi

Volume 4, issue 1, 1977

Technological change and factor mix over the product cycle: A model of dynamic comparative advantage pp. 3-24

Richard Nelson and Victor D. Norman

A study of debt servicing capacity applying logit analysis pp. 25-38

Gershon Feder and Richard Just

Schooling, experience and earnings: The case of an LDC pp. 39-48

George Psacharopoulos

Exports and growth: An empirical investigation pp. 49-53

Michael Michaely

Do foreign companies pay higher wages than their local counterparts in Malaysian manufacturing? pp. 55-66

David Lim

On estimating earnings functions for LDCs pp. 67-78

Carmel Chiswick

Primary commudity control: C.P. Brown, (Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1975) pp. xx+292, $24.75 pp. 79-83

Harry G. Johnson

Industrialization in Taiwan, 1946-72: Ching-yuan Lin, (Praeger, New York, 1973), pp. xix+244, $17.50 pp. 83-86

M. G. Scott

Land and peasants in Imperial Ethiopia: The social background to a revolution: John M. Cohen and Dov Weintraub, (Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands, 1975), pp. x+115, Dfl. 35.00 pp. 86-88

T. James Goering

The erosion of a relationship: India and Britain, Since 1960: Michael Lipton and John Firn, (Oxford University Press, London, 1975) pp. XVI+424, $32.50 pp. 89-91

George Rosen

Volume 3, issue 4, 1976

Inequality, poverty and development pp. 307-342

Montek Ahluwalia

A partial analysis of sharetenancy relationships in Northeast Brazil pp. 343-354

Gary P. Kutcher and Pasquale Scandizzo

Labor homogeneity, skill intensity and factor reversals - an international comparison pp. 355-366

Simon Teitel

A sensitivity analysis of the effective protection estimate pp. 367-376

Alexander J. Yeats

A note on input-output analysis and macroeconometric models pp. 377-383

Andre Sapir

A note on input-output analysis and macroeconometric models: A comment pp. 385-387

M. S. Marzouk

The new economics of growth: A strategy for India and the developing world: John W. Mellor a twentieth century fund study (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1976) pp. xv+335 pp. 390-393

John P. Lewis

The design of rural development: Lessons from Africa: Uma Lele, A World Bank Research Publication (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1975) pp. xiii+246, $3.95 (paper) pp. 394-396

Elliot Berg

Volume 3, issue 3, 1976

Editorial pp. 209-209

Lance Taylor, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro and Charles Timmer

Urban job expansion, induced migration and rising unemployment: A formulation and simplified empirical test for LDCs pp. 211-225

Michael P. Todaro

Rural-urban migration and urban underemployment in Brazil pp. 227-243

Lorene Y. L. Yap

Japan's technological strategy pp. 245-255

Tuvia Blumenthal

The range of strategic choice in Tanzanian industry pp. 257-275

Michael Roemer, Gene M. Tidrick and David Williams

The theory of capital utilization and the putty-rubber production function pp. 277-287

Christopher Clague

The permanent income hypothesis in an underdeveloped economy pp. 289-297

Gurcharan S. Laumas and Prem S. Laumas

A world divided: The less developed countries in the international economy: G.K. Hellemer, ed., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976) pp. 299-300

C. P. Kindleberger

Patterns of development, 1950-1970: Hollis Chenery and Moises Syrquin (with the assistance of Hazel Elkington), (Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1975, pp. xvi+234 pp. 300-301

Ake Blomqvist

Foreign trade regimes and economic development: South Korea: Charles R. Frank, Jr., Kwang Suk Kim and Larry Westphal, (National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, 1975) pp. xxii+264 pp. 302-304

Michael Roemer

The Andean group: A case study in economic integration among developing countries: David Morawetz, (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 1974) pp. x+171, $18.50 pp. 304-305

Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro

Volume 3, issue 2, 1976

Editorial pp. 117-117

Alan Manne and T. Srinivasan

Foreign investment and industrial transformation: A Brazilian case study pp. 119-139

Peter B. Evans

Female labor-force participation, occupational choice, and fertility in developing countries pp. 141-160

James L. McCabe and Mark Rosenzweig

The role of capital accumulation in the industrialization of a labor surplus economy: A formulation of the Fei-Ranis model pp. 161-169

Yoshio Niho

Landowners' behaviour under self-assessment: A theoretical treatment pp. 171-179

Ali Abdel Gadir Ali

Empirical evidence on the two-gap hypothesis: A revised analysis pp. 181-193

Ake Blomqvist

On a marxian model of enclosures pp. 195-198

Stefano Fenoaltea

Reply to Fenoaltea pp. 199-200

Martin Weitzman and Jessica Cohen

Peasants, landlords and governments: Agrarian reform in the third world: David Lehmann, ed., (Holmes and Meier, New York, 1974) pp. 320, $18.95 cloth, $5.00 paper pp. 201-203

David M. G. Newbery

Foreign trade regimes and economic development: Turkey, a special conference series on foreign trade regimes and economic development: Anne O. Krueger, vol. 1 (National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, 1974) pp. xxi + 339, $17.50 cloth, $5.00 paper pp. 203-205

Merih Celasun

Peasant society in a changing economy: Comparative development in Southeast Asia and India: George Rosen, (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1975) pp. xiii + 256, $8.95 pp. 205-206

Milton J. Esman

Planning and the poor: B.S. Minhas, (S. Chand, New Delhi, 1974) Pp. xvii + 141, Rs 25.00 pp. 206-208

John W. Mellor

Volume 3, issue 1, 1976

On Hegel, imperialism, and structural stagnation pp. 1-8

Albert Hirschman

Black market for foreign exchange, capital flows and smuggling pp. 9-26

Munir A. Sheikh

The effect of differential shift costs on capital utilization pp. 27-47

Mary Ann Baily

Political power and tax revenues in Central America pp. 49-82

Michael Best

The determinants of and changes in the structure of wages and employment in the manufacturing sector of the Kenyan economy, 1967-1972 pp. 83-98

William J. House and Henry Rempel

Inflation in developing countries: An econometric study of Chilean inflation: V. Corbo Lioi, (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1974) pp.xiv+286 pp. 106-109

Jere Behrman

Population in economic growth: J.D. Pitchford, (North-Holland, Amsterdam 1974) pp. viii+ 280, U.S. $22.95 pp. 110-111

Partha Dasgupta

Foreign trade regimes and economic development: J. Clark Leith, vol. II of a Special Conference Series on Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development (National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, 1974) pp. 112-114

Joseph J. Stern

Technology and employment in industry: A.S. Bhalla, ed., (International Labour Office, Geneva, 1975) pp.xv+324, Sf37.50 pp. 114-116

David Moravetz