World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 31, issue 12, 2003

The Impact of Research-Led Agricultural Productivity Growth on Poverty Reduction in Africa, Asia and Latin America pp. 1959-1975

Colin Thirtle, Lin Lin and Jenifer Piesse

Globalization as a Development Strategy in Latin America? pp. 1977-1995

Omar Sanchez

Social Services and The GATS: Key Issues and Concerns pp. 1997-2011

Rupa Chanda

At the Nexus of Human Rights and Development: New Methods and Strategies of Global NGOs pp. 2013-2026

Paul J. Nelson and Ellen Dorsey

Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Selected Middle East and North Africa Countries, 1980-2000 pp. 2027-2048

Richard Adams and John Page

Purchasing Power Parity in Developing Countries: Multi-Period Evidence Under the Current Float pp. 2049-2060

Joseph Alba and Donghyun Park

Limits to Alternative Forms of Capitalization: The Case of Anatolian Holding Companies pp. 2061-2084

Gul Ozcan and Murat Cokgezen

Microfinance in Times of Crisis: The Effects of Competition, Rising Indebtedness, and Economic Crisis on Repayment Behavior pp. 2085-2114

Ulrike Vogelgesang

Bt Cotton in India: Field Trial Results and Economic Projections pp. 2115-2127

Matin Qaim

Property Rights Reform in Rangeland China: Dilemmas On the Road to the Household Ranch pp. 2129-2142

Tony Banks

Capturing the Value of Forest Carbon for Local Livelihoods pp. 2143-2160

Joyotee Smith and Sara J. Scherr

An Ecological Footprint Approach to External Debt Relief pp. 2161-2171

Mariano Torras

Erratum to "Local Government Borrowing and Repayment in Indonesia: Does Fiscal Capacity Matter?" World Development 31(6), pp. 1047-1063 (2003) pp. 2173-2173

Blane Lewis

Volume 31, issue 11, 2003

Arab External Investments: Relation to National Wealth, Estimation, and Consequences pp. 1771-1792

Ali T. Sadik and Ali A. Bolbol

Savings, Growth and the Resource Curse Hypothesis pp. 1793-1807

Giles Atkinson and Kirk Hamilton

The African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Global Commodity Chain for Clothing pp. 1809-1827

Peter Gibbon

Adapting to the Financial Landscape: Evidence from Small Firms in Nairobi pp. 1829-1843

Paul Vandenberg

Research as Capacity Building: The Case of an NGO Facilitated Post-Harvest Innovation System for the Himalayan Hills pp. 1845-1863

Norman Clark, Andrew Hall, Rasheed Sulaiman and Guru Naik

Poverty and Environment in Latin America: Concepts, Evidence and Policy Implications pp. 1865-1872

Scott Swinton, German Escobar and Thomas Reardon

Are Nontimber Forest Products the Antidote to Rainforest Degradation? Brazil Nut Extraction in Madre De Dios, Peru pp. 1873-1887

Javier Escobal and Ursula Aldana

Rights to Forest Products, Deforestation and Smallholder Income: Evidence from the Western Brazilian Amazon pp. 1889-1901

Stephen A. Vosti, Evaldo Munoz Braz, Chantal Line Carpentier, Marcus V. N. d'Oliveira and Julie Witcover

Is Poverty to Blame for Soil, Pasture and Forest Degradation in Peru's Altiplano? pp. 1903-1919

Scott Swinton and Roberto Quiroz

Designing Policies to Reduce Rural Poverty and Environmental Degradation in a Hillside Zone of the Colombian Andes pp. 1921-1931

Camilo Agudelo, Bernardo Rivera, Jeimar Tapasco and Ruben Estrada

Poverty and Environmental Degradation in the Nicaraguan Hillsides pp. 1933-1946

Helle Munk Ravnborg

Poverty-Environment Patterns in a Growing Economy: Farming Communities in Arid Central Chile, 1991-99 pp. 1947-1957

Miguel Bahamondes

Volume 31, issue 10, 2003

Winners and Losers: Assessing the Distributional Impact of Privatization pp. 1617-1633

Nancy Birdsall and John Nellis

Prospective Aid and Indebtedness Relief: A Proposal pp. 1635-1654

Lodewijk Berlage, Danny Cassimon, Jacques Dreze and Paul Reding

Pragmatism and the Gradual Shift from Dependency to Neoliberalism: The World Bank, African Leaders and Development Policy in Africa pp. 1655-1672

Francis Owusu

Cointegration Tests of Purchasing Power Parity in Africa pp. 1673-1685

Joseph M. Kargbo

The Risk of Resource Misappropriation in Community-Driven Development pp. 1687-1703

Jean-Philippe Platteau and Frédéric Gaspart

African Enclosures: A Default Mode of Development pp. 1705-1720

Philip Woodhouse

Sustainability Analysis of Ecological and Conventional Agricultural Systems in Bangladesh pp. 1721-1741

Golam Rasul and Gopal B. Thapa

A Paradox of Learning in Project Cycle Management and the Role of Organizational Culture pp. 1743-1757

Stephen Biggs and Sally Smith

Ancillary Benefits of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Transitional Economies pp. 1759-1769

Dan Dudek, Alexander Golub and Elena Strukova

Volume 31, issue 9, 2003

Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya pp. 1477-1494

Winnie K. Luseno, John McPeak, Christopher Barrett, Peter D. Little and Getachew Gebru

Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reduction in Malawi pp. 1495-1510

Frank Ellis, Milton Kutengule and Alfred Nyasulu

A Gendered Value Chain Approach to Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture pp. 1511-1526

Stephanie Barrientos, Catherine Dolan and Anne Tallontire

Does Foreign Aid Promote Privatization? Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries pp. 1527-1548

Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee and Dennis A. Rondinelli

The Making of the Turkish Financial Crisis pp. 1549-1566

Yilmaz Akyuz and Korkut Boratav

Microenterprise Development Programs in the United States and in the Developing World pp. 1567-1580

Mark Schreiner and Gary Woller

The Impacts of Trade on the Brazilian Labor Market: A CGE Model Approach pp. 1581-1595

Francisco Carneiro and Jorge Arbache

Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth pp. 1597-1616

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Robert McNab

Volume 31, issue 8, 2003

Whose Voices? Whose Choices? Reflections on Gender and Participatory Development pp. 1325-1342

Andrea Cornwall

Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Agriculture, Urbanization and Income Growth pp. 1343-1366

Mary Tiffen

Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reduction in Tanzania pp. 1367-1384

Frank Ellis and Ntengua Mdoe

Determinants and Impacts of Rural Land Market Activity: Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 1385-1404

Klaus Deininger, Eduardo Zegarra and Isabel Lavadenz

Consumption and Vulnerability Among Foragers and Horticulturalists in the Rainforest of Honduras pp. 1405-1419

Grace Y. Wong and Ricardo Godoy

Bridging the Economic Divide Within Countries: A Scorecard on the Performance of Regional Policies in Reducing Regional Income Disparities pp. 1421-1441

Raja Shankar and Anwar Shah

Trade Liberalization and Innovation Decisions of Firms: Lessons from Post-1980 Turkey pp. 1443-1458

Mehmet Pamukçu

Fiscal Corruption: A Vice or a Virtue? pp. 1459-1467

Odd Fjeldstad and Bertil Tungodden

"Fiscal Corruption: A Vice or a Virtue?"--A Comment pp. 1469-1472

Sheetal Chand, Karl Ove Moene and Dilip Mookherjee

"Fiscal Corruption: A Vice or a Virtue"--A Reply pp. 1473-1475

Odd Fjeldstad and Bertil Tungodden

Volume 31, issue 7, 2003

Economic Crises and Natural Disasters: Coping Strategies and Policy Implications pp. 1087-1102

Emmanuel Skoufias

El Nino or El Peso? Crisis, Poverty and Income Distribution in the Philippines pp. 1103-1124

Gaurav Datt and Hans Hoogeveen

Adjustment with a Human Face? Evidence from Jamaica pp. 1125-1145

Sudhanshu Handa and Damien King

Social Capital and Coping with Economic Shocks: An Analysis of Stunting of South African Children pp. 1147-1163

Michael Carter and John Maluccio

School Attendance, Child Labor and Local Labor Market Fluctuations in Urban Brazil pp. 1165-1178

Suzanne Duryea and Mary Arends-Kuenning

How do Households Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis pp. 1179-1199

David McKenzie

AIDS-Induced Orphanhood as a Systemic Shock: Magnitude, Impact, and Program Interventions in Africa pp. 1201-1220

Klaus Deininger, Marito Garcia and K. Subbarao

Public Policy, Markets and Household Coping Strategies in Bangladesh: Avoiding a Food Security Crisis Following the 1998 Floods pp. 1221-1238

Carlo Del Ninno, Paul Dorosh and Lisa C. Smith

Ex-Ante Actions and Ex-Post Public Responses to Drought Shocks: Evidence and Simulations from Zimbabwe pp. 1239-1255

Trudy Owens, John Hoddinott and Bill Kinsey

Safety Nets or Safety Ropes? Dynamic Benefit Incidence of Two Crisis Programs in Indonesia pp. 1257-1277

Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi and Lant Pritchett

The Allocation of Natural Disaster Relief Funds: Hurricane Mitch in Honduras pp. 1279-1289

Saul S. Morris and Quentin Wodon

Is the Calorie-Income Elasticity Sensitive to Price Changes? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1291-1307

Emmanuel Skoufias

Food Aid and Child Nutrition in Rural Ethiopia pp. 1309-1324

Agnes Quisumbing

Volume 31, issue 6, 2003

The Gender Asset Gap: Land in Latin America pp. 925-947

Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena Leon

When Fishery Rhymes with Poverty: A First Step Beyond the Old Paradigm on Poverty in Small-Scale Fisheries pp. 949-975

Christophe Bene

Against the Privatization of Water: An Indigenous Model for Improving Existing Laws and Successfully Governing the Commons pp. 977-996

Paul Trawick

Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reduction in Uganda pp. 997-1013

Frank Ellis and Godfrey Bahiigwa

Political Commitment to Reform: Civil Service Reform in Swaziland pp. 1015-1031

Willy McCourt

Anchors Away: The Cost and Benefits of Brazil's Devaluation pp. 1033-1046

Edmund Amann and Werner Baer

Local Government Borrowing and Repayment in Indonesia: Does Fiscal Capacity Matter? pp. 1047-1063

Blane Lewis

Are Investments in Daughters Lower when Daughters Move Away? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1065-1084

David Levine and Michael Kevane

Volume 31, issue 5, 2003

Conservation Policy in Brazilian Amazonia: Understanding the Dilemmas pp. 757-779

Philip Fearnside

Managing the Pitfalls of Participatory Development: Some Insight from Australia pp. 781-795

Robyn Eversole

Boundaries of Consent: Stakeholder Representation in River Basin Management in Mexico and South Africa pp. 797-812

Philippus Wester, Douglas J. Merrey and Marna de Lange

Accountability In Practice: Mechanisms for NGOs pp. 813-829

Alnoor Ebrahim

Integrated Pest Management for Resource-Poor African Farmers: Is the Emperor Naked? pp. 831-845

Alastair Orr

U-Turns and Full Circles: Two Decades of Agricultural Reform in Malawi 1981-2000 pp. 847-863

Jane Harrigan

Engendering Social Capital: Women Workers and Rural-Urban Networks in Indonesia's Crisis pp. 865-879

Rachel Silvey and Rebecca Elmhirst

A Profile of Women's Work Participation Among the Urban Poor of Dhaka pp. 881-901

Sarah Salway, Shahana Rahman and Sonia Jesmin

Socially Embedding the Commodity Chain: An Exercise in Relation to Coir Yarn Spinning in Southern India pp. 903-923

K. T. Rammohan and R. Sundaresan

Volume 31, issue 4, 2003

The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization as We Know It pp. 667-683

Branko Milanovic

How Citizens Participate in Macroeconomic Policy: International Experience and Implications for Poverty Reduction pp. 685-701

Derick W. Brinkerhoff and Arthur A. Goldsmith

Patronage, Per Diems and the "Workshop Mentality": The Practice of Family Planning Programs in Southeastern Nigeria pp. 703-715

Daniel Jordan Smith

Can GM-Technologies Help the Poor? The Impact of Bt Cotton in Makhathini Flats, KwaZulu-Natal pp. 717-732

Colin Thirtle, Lindie Beyers, Yousouf Ismael and Jenifer Piesse

Agricultural Research and Urban Poverty: The Case of China pp. 733-741

Shenggen Fan, Cheng Fang and Xiaobo Zhang

Complementing Empirical Evidence on Global Recycling and Trade of Waste Paper pp. 743-754

Christer Berglund and Patrik Söderholm

Complementing Empirical Evidence on Global Recycling and Trade of Waste Paper: A Reply pp. 755-756

Pieter J. H. van Beukering and Mathijs N. Bouman

Volume 31, issue 3, 2003

Chronic Poverty and Development Policy: An Introduction pp. 399-402

David Hulme

Conceptualizing Chronic Poverty pp. 403-423

David Hulme and Andrew Shepherd

Assessing the Extent and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Low Income Countries: Issues and Evidence pp. 425-439

Andy McKay and David Lawson

Do Monetary and Nonmonetary Indicators Tell the Same Story About Chronic Poverty? A Study of Vietnam in the 1990s pp. 441-453

Bob Baulch and Edoardo Masset

Staying Secure, Staying Poor: The "Faustian Bargain" pp. 455-471

Geof Wood

Chronic Poverty in South Africa: Incidence, Causes and Policies pp. 473-490

Michael Aliber

Chronic Poverty in India: Incidence, Causes and Policies pp. 491-511

Aasha Kapur Mehta and Amita Shah

Drivers of Escape and Descent: Changing Household Fortunes in Rural Bangladesh pp. 513-534

Binayak Sen

Enduring Poverty and the Conditions of Childhood: Lifecourse and Intergenerational Poverty Transmissions pp. 535-554

Caroline Harper, Rachel Marcus and Karen Moore

Old Age Poverty in Developing Countries: Contributions and Dependence in Later Life pp. 555-570

Armando Barrientos, Mark Gorman and Amanda Heslop

Including Disabled People in Poverty Reduction Work: "Nothing About Us, Without Us" pp. 571-590

Rebecca Yeo and Karen Moore

Livelihoods and Chronic Poverty in Semi-Arid Zimbabwe pp. 591-610

Kate Bird and Andrew Shepherd

Vulnerability and Chronic Poverty in Rural Sichuan pp. 611-628

Neil McCulloch and Michele Calandrino

Enduring Disorder and Persistent Poverty: A Review of the Linkages Between War and Chronic Poverty pp. 629-646

Jonathan Goodhand

Programs for the Poorest: Learning from the IGVGD Program in Bangladesh pp. 647-665

Imran Matin and David Hulme

Volume 31, issue 2, 2003

"Miracle Growth" in the Twentieth Century--International Comparisons of East Asian Development pp. 227-257

Frank Hsiao and Mei-chu W. Hsiao

The Policy Roots of Socioeconomic Stagnation and Environmental Implosion: Latin America 1950-2000 pp. 259-280

Ramon Lopez

Puerto Rico in the Post War: Liberalized Development Banking and the Fall of the "Fifth Tiger" pp. 281-301

Jose A. Padin

Support for Economic Reform? Popular Attitudes in Southern Africa pp. 303-323

Michael Bratton and Robert Mattes

Balancing Rural Poverty Reduction and Citizen Participation: The Contradictions of Uganda's Decentralization Program pp. 325-337

Paul Francis and Robert James

The Determinants of Poverty in Malawi, 1998 pp. 339-358

Sanjukta Mukherjee and Todd Benson

Productivity Gains from Rice Genetic Enhancements in West Africa: Countries and Ecologies pp. 359-374

Timothy Dalton and Robert G. Guei

An Econometric Analysis of Coca Eradication Policy in Colombia pp. 375-383

Rocio Moreno-Sanchez, David S. Kraybill and Stanley Thompson

The Effect of Child Labor on Learning Achievement pp. 385-398

Christopher Heady

Volume 31, issue 1, 2003

Effective Aid: How Democracy Allows Development Aid to Improve the Quality of Life pp. 1-22

Stephen Kosack

Progress Toward the Millennium Development Goals in Africa pp. 23-52

David Sahn and David Stifel

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A New Convergence pp. 53-69

David Craig and Doug Porter

Chronic and Transitory Poverty: Evidence from Egypt, 1997-99 pp. 71-85

Lawrence Haddad and Akhter Ahmed

Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Evidence from Household Panel Surveys pp. 87-106

Arne Bigsten, Bereket Kebede, Abebe Abebe and Mekonnen Taddesse

Public Debts and Private Assets: Explaining Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries pp. 107-130

Leonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce

The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on the Health of Older Persons in Northwestern Tanzania pp. 131-148

Martha Ainsworth and Julia Dayton

AIDS Prevention in Zambia: Implications for Social Services pp. 149-161

Vijayan Pillai, T. S. Sunil and Rashmi Gupta

Grassroots to Grassroots: Why Forest Preservation was Rapid at Loma Alta, Ecuador pp. 163-176

Constance Dustin Becker

Who is on the Gorilla's Payroll? Claims on Tourist Revenue From a Ugandan National Park pp. 177-190

William M. Adams and Mark Infield

The Economic Impact of Mariculture on a Small Regional Economy pp. 191-210

Denise Stanley

Uneven and Combined Development: Understanding India's Software Exports pp. 211-226

Anthony P. D'Costa