World Development

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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Volume 30, issue 12, 2002

Redesigning the Aid Contract: Donors' Use of Performance Indicators in Uganda pp. 2045-2056

Christopher Adam and Jan Willem Gunning

Economics Imperialism and the New Development Economics as Kuhnian Paradigm Shift? pp. 2057-2070

Ben Fine

Business Cycles in Developing Countries: Are They Different? pp. 2071-2088

John Rand and Finn Tarp

The Challenge of Globalization for Large Chinese Firms pp. 2089-2107

Peter Nolan and Jin Zhang

Immunization in Developing Countries: Its Political and Organizational Determinants pp. 2109-2132

Varun Gauri and Peyvand Khaleghian

From New Order to Regional Autonomy: Shifting Dynamics of "Illegal" Logging in Kalimantan, Indonesia pp. 2133-2151

Anne Casson and Krystof Obidzinski

Why Local Resources Management Institutions Decline: A Comparative Analysis of Van (Forest) Panchayats and Forest Protection Committees in India pp. 2153-2167

Vishwa Ballabh, Kulbhushan Balooni and Shibani Dave

Volume 30, issue 11, 2002

Homo Economicus Goes to War: Methodological Individualism, Rational Choice and the Political Economy of War pp. 1845-1864

Christopher Cramer

Meso-Economic Filters Along the Policy Chain: Understanding the Links Between Policy Reforms and Rural Poverty in Latin America pp. 1865-1884

Alberto Zezza and Luis Llambi

What Does "Privatization" Do for Efficiency? Evidence from Argentina's and Brazil's Railways pp. 1885-1897

Antonio Estache, Marianela Gonzalez and Lourdes Trujillo

Global Foreign Direct Investment Flows: The Role of Governance Infrastructure pp. 1899-1919

Steven Globerman and Daniel Shapiro

Do Labor Standards Affect Comparative Advantage in Developing Countries? pp. 1921-1932

Matthias Busse

Responding to Financial Crisis: The Case of Jamaica pp. 1933-1950

Colin Kirkpatrick and David Tennant

"There are More Vets than Doctors in Chiloe": Social and Community Impact of the Globalization of Aquaculture in Chile pp. 1951-1965

Gene Barrett, Mauricio I. Caniggia and Lorna Read

False Promise or False Premise? The Experience of Food and Input Market Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa pp. 1967-1985

Thomas Jayne, J. Govereh, A. Mwanaumo, J. K. Nyoro and Antony Chapoto

Men's Crops? Women's Crops? The Gender Patterns of Cropping in Ghana pp. 1987-2000

Cheryl Doss

Wildlife Co-Management in the Benoue National Park-Complex, Cameroon: A Bumpy Road to Institutional Development pp. 2001-2016

Theodore B. Mayaka

Improving Design and Performance of Group Lending: Suggestions from Burkina Faso pp. 2017-2032

Barbara MkNelly and Michael Kevane

Are International Remittances Altruism or Insurance? Evidence from Guyana Using Multiple-Migrant Households pp. 2033-2044

Reena Agarwal and Andrew W. Horowitz

Volume 30, issue 10, 2002

How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief pp. 1677-1696

William Easterly

Reconceptualizing the Developmental State: Public Savings and Economic Growth pp. 1697-1712

Jonathan Krieckhaus

Implementing Environmental Policies in Developing Countries Through Decentralization: The Case of Protected Areas in Bahia, Brazil pp. 1713-1736

Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira

Farm Strategy, Self-Selection and Productivity: Can Small Farming Groups Offer Production Benefits to Farmers in Post-Socialist Romania? pp. 1737-1753

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

A Welfare Measurement of China's Rural Forestry Reform During the 1980s pp. 1755-1767

Runsheng Yin and Jintao Xu

Fertility Change in Asia and Africa pp. 1769-1778

Mamta Murthi

Why does Education Lead to Lower Fertility? A Critical Review of Some of the Possibilities pp. 1779-1790

Alaka Malwade Basu

Returning a Favor: Reciprocity Between Female Education and Fertility in India pp. 1791-1803

P. N. Mari Bhat

A Population Out of Control? Myths About Muslim Fertility in Contemporary India pp. 1805-1822

Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery

Demographic Transition in China and its Implications pp. 1823-1834

Athar Hussain

The Timing of the Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1835-1843

Michel Garenne and Veronique Joseph

Volume 30, issue 9, 2002

Economic Inequality and Its Socioeconomic Impact pp. 1477-1495

Erik Thorbecke and Chutatong Charumilind

Tax Incentives for Business Investment: A Primer for Policy Makers in Developing Countries pp. 1497-1516

Howell Zee, Janet G. Stotsky and Eduardo Ley

Measuring the Welfare Effects of Reform: Urban Water Supply in Guinea pp. 1517-1537

George Clarke, Claude Menard and Ana Maria Zuluaga

Women in Sustainable Development: Empowerment through Partnerships for Healthy Living pp. 1539-1560

Claudia MarIa Vargas

Role of Transnational Corporations in the Evolution of a High-Tech Industry: The Case of India's Software Industry pp. 1561-1577

Murali Patibandla and Bent Petersen

Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? pp. 1579-1589

Alessandro Cigno, Furio Rosati and Lorenzo Guarcello

In the Eyes of the State: Negotiating a "Rights-Based Approach" to Forest Conservation in Thailand pp. 1591-1605

Craig Johnson and Timothy Forsyth

A Framework for Understanding On-farm Environmental Degradation and Constraints to the Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures: Case Studies from Highland Tanzania and Thailand pp. 1607-1620

Samantha Jones

Contracting Out Solutions: Political Economy of Contract Farming in the Indian Punjab pp. 1621-1638

Sukhpal Singh

The Demand for Crop Genetic Resources: International Use of the US National Plant Germplasm System pp. 1639-1655

Melinda Smale and K. Day-Rubenstein

Offshore Pariahs? Small Island Economies, Tax Havens, and the Re-configuration of Global Finance pp. 1657-1673

Mark Hampton and John Christensen

Volume 30, issue 8, 2002

Myth and Reality of Pension Reform: The Latin American Evidence pp. 1309-1321

Carmelo Mesa-lago

The Competing Agendas of Economic Reform and Peace Process: A Politico-Economic Model Applied to Guatemala pp. 1323-1339

Gilles Carbonnier

Microequity and Microfinance pp. 1341-1353

Michael Pretes

Bioprospecting, Benefit Sharing, and Biotechnological Capacity Building pp. 1355-1368

Anthony Artuso

Conservation and Development Interventions as Networks: The Case of the India Ecodevelopment Project, Karnataka pp. 1369-1386

Sanghamitra Mahanty

Watershed Development, Environmental Services, and Poverty Alleviation in India pp. 1387-1400

John Kerr

Agricultural Trade, Development and Toxic Risk pp. 1401-1412

Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler and Yanhong Jin

Water Scarcity and Food Import: A Case Study for Southern Mediterranean Countries pp. 1413-1430

Hong Yang and Alexander J. B. Zehnder

Fiscal Faux Pas?: An Analysis of the Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization pp. 1431-1444

Barsha Khattry and J. Mohan Rao

The Impact of Licenses on a "Late Starter" LDC: Chile in the 1990s pp. 1445-1460

Roberto Alvarez, Gustavo Crespi and Joseph Ramos

An Assessment of the Singapore Skills Development System: Does it Constitute a Viable Model for Other Developing Countries? pp. 1461-1476

Sarosh Kuruvilla, Christopher L. Erickson and Alvin Hwang

Volume 30, issue 7, 2002

The 'Latte Revolution'? Regulation, Markets and Consumption in the Global Coffee Chain pp. 1099-1122

Stefano Ponte

Conflict of Trade-Facilitating Environmental Regulations with Biodiversity Concerns: The Case of Coffee-Farming Units in India pp. 1123-1135

A. Damodaran

Electronic Commerce and Development: Fiscal Implications of Digitized Goods Trading pp. 1137-1158

Susanne Teltscher

The Globalization of Product Markets and Immiserizing Growth: Lessons From the South African Furniture Industry pp. 1159-1177

Raphael Kaplinsky, Mike Morris and Jeff Readman

Hitting the Target: Doubling Primary School Enrollments in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 pp. 1179-1194

Paul Bennell

Calculating a Water Poverty Index pp. 1195-1210

Caroline Sullivan

Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Protection in a Period of Crisis: The Case of Indonesia pp. 1211-1231

Shafiq Dhanani and Iyanatul Islam

The Shadow Economy in Transition Countries: Friend or Foe? A Policy Perspective pp. 1233-1254

Yair Eilat and Clifford Zinnes

Understanding 20 Years of Change in West-Central Nepal: Continuity and Change in Lives and Ideas pp. 1255-1270

Piers Blaikie, John Cameron and David Seddon

Explaining a Miracle: Intensification and the Transition Towards Sustainable Small-scale Agriculture in Dryland Machakos and Kitui Districts, Kenya pp. 1271-1287

Fred Zaal and Remco Oostendorp

Subgrouping Small States Based on Socioeconomic Characteristics pp. 1289-1306

F. M. Liou and C. G. Ding

Volume 30, issue 6, 2002

Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries pp. 899-912

Richard Bird and Michael Smart

Is Good Governance Rewarded? A Cross-national Analysis of Debt Forgiveness pp. 913-930

Eric Neumayer

Accessing Modern Science: Policy and Institutional Options for Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries pp. 931-948

Derek Byerlee and Ken Fischer

Fighting the Tide: Alternative Trade Organizations in the Era of Global Free Trade pp. 949-958

Mark S. LeClair

The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Imports in Selected Developing Countries pp. 959-974

Amelia Santos-Paulino

Determinants of Taiwan's Trade Liberalization: The Case of a Newly Industrialized Country pp. 975-989

Meng-chun Liu

An Innovative Public-Private Partnership: New Approach to Development pp. 991-1008

Ramina Samii, Luk N. Van Wassenhove and Shantanu Bhattacharya

Household Life Cycles and Secondary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon pp. 1009-1027

Stephen G. Perz and Robert T. Walker

Supply and Demand for Livestock Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons for Designing New Credit Schemes pp. 1029-1042

Mohammad Jabbar, S. K. Ehui and R. Von Kaufmann

Convergence or Convenience? International Conservation NGOs and Development Assistance in Tanzania pp. 1043-1055

Arielle Levine

The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Exports: Case Study Results from Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey pp. 1057-1072

Bruce A. Larson, Eri Nicolaides, Bashir Al Zu'bi, Nabil Sukkar, Karim Laraki, Mohamed Salah Matoussi, Katalin Zaim and Carol Chouchani

What has Happened to the Urban Population in Cote d'Ivoire Since the 1980s? An Analysis of Monetary Poverty and Deprivation Over 15 Years of Household Data pp. 1073-1095

Michael Grimm, Charlotte Guénard and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Volume 30, issue 5, 2002

The Scramble in Africa: Reorienting Rural Livelihoods pp. 725-739

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

World Bank: IDA Loans or IDA Grants? pp. 741-762

Jonathan E. Sanford

Does "Participation" in Common Pool Resource Management Help the Poor? A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Joint Forest Management in Jharkhand, India pp. 763-782

Sanjay Kumar

Wages for Wives: Renegotiating Gender and Production Relations in Contract Farming in the Dominican Republic pp. 783-798

Laura T. Raynolds

Socioeconomic Context, Family Regimes, and Women's Early Labor Market Experience: The Case of Colombia and Venezuela pp. 799-816

Emilio A. Parrado

Autonomy in Child Labor Migrants pp. 817-834

Vegard Iversen

International Support for NGOs in Bangladesh: Some Unintended Consequences pp. 835-846

Kendall Stiles

The Textile and Clothing Industries Under the Fifth Kondratieff Wave: Some Insights from the Case of Hong Kong pp. 847-872

Becky P. Y. Loo

Clustering of Foreign Direct Investment and Enhanced Technology Transfer: Evidence from Hong Kong Garment Firms in China pp. 873-889

Edmund R. Thompson

Long-term Evolution of Productivity in a Sample of Philippine Rice Farms: Implications for Sustainability and Future Research pp. 891-898

Marites Tiongco and David Dawe

Volume 30, issue 4, 2002

The Quality of Science in Participatory Research: A Case Study from Eastern Zambia pp. 523-543

Christina H. Gladwin, Jennifer S. Peterson and Abiud C. Mwale

Efficiency Gains from Port Reform and the Potential for Yardstick Competition: Lessons from Mexico pp. 545-560

Antonio Estache, Marianela Gonzalez and Lourdes Trujillo

Institutional Adjustment and Transaction Costs: Product and Inputs Markets in the Tanzanian Coffee System pp. 561-574

Alex Winter-Nelson and Anna Temu

Choosing Rural Road Investments to Help Reduce Poverty pp. 575-589

Dominique van de Walle

Networks, Trust, and Innovation in Tanzania's Manufacturing Sector pp. 591-619

James T. Murphy

Water Scarcity and Urban Africa: An Overview of Urban-Rural Water Linkages pp. 621-648

Kate B. Showers

What Affects Organization and Collective Action for Managing Resources? Evidence from Canal Irrigation Systems in India pp. 649-666

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, K. V. Raju and Ashok Gulati

Economic Efficiency and Incentives for Change within Namibia's Community Wildlife Use Initiatives pp. 667-681

Jonathan I. Barnes, James Macgregor and L. Chris Weaver

Livestock Market Dynamics and Local Vulnerabilities in the Sahel pp. 683-705

Matthew D. Turner and Timothy O. Williams

Village Banking and Maternal and Child Health: Evidence from Ecuador and Honduras pp. 707-723

Stephen Smith

Volume 30, issue 3, 2002

The Common Pool Dilemma of Global Public Goods: Lessons from the World Bank's Net Income and Reserves pp. 337-354

Devesh Kapur

Technical Assistance and Capacity Development in an Aid-dependent Economy: The Experience of Cambodia pp. 355-373

Martin Godfrey, Chan Sophal, Toshiyasu Kato, Long Vou Piseth, Pon Dorina, Tep Saravy, Tia Savora and So Sovannarith

Community-Based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets: A Critical Review pp. 375-394

Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane

Market Reforms, Technocrats, and Institutional Innovation pp. 395-412

Mark Eric Williams

Employment and Unemployment in Jordan: The Importance of the Gender System pp. 413-427

Rebecca Miles

Transboundary Pollution in Southeast Asia: The Indonesian Fires pp. 429-441

Euston Quah

Regional Inequality and Regional Polarization in Russia, 1990-99 pp. 443-456

Leonid Fedorov

Institutional Reform and Labor Reallocation During Transition: Theory Evidence From Polish Agriculture pp. 457-474

Liesbeth Dries and Johan Swinnen

Foreword pp. 475-475

Charles Clift

Economics, Social Science and Development pp. 477-486

Ravi Kanbur

The Case for Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in International Development pp. 487-496

John Harriss

Disciplining Gender? pp. 497-509

Cecile Jackson

Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis pp. 511-522

Howard White

Volume 30, issue 2, 2002

Economic Development, Inequality, War, and State Violence pp. 153-163

E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen

Countries in Violent Conflict and Aid Strategies: The Case of Sri Lanka pp. 165-180

Arve Ofstad

Dimensions of Human Development pp. 181-205

Sabina Alkire

Why Governments Should Invest More to Educate Girls pp. 207-225

T. Schultz

Creating an Environment for Venture Capital in India pp. 227-253

Rafiq Dossani and Martin Kenney

The Social Performance and Distributional Consequences of Contract Farming: An Equilibrium Analysis of the Arachide de Bouche Program in Senegal pp. 255-263

Matthew Warning and Nigel Key

Engaging Simplifications: Community-Based Resource Management, Market Processes and State Agendas in Upland Southeast Asia pp. 265-283

Tania Murray Li

Living in a Walking World: Rural Mobility and Social Equity Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 285-300

Gina Porter

Measuring Household Livelihood Security at the Family and Community Level in the Developing World pp. 301-318

Marc Lindenberg

Rural Development Finance in Vietnam: A Microeconometric Analysis of Household Surveys pp. 319-335

Pham Bao Duong and Yoichi Izumida

Volume 30, issue 1, 2002

Private Sector Development: Policies, Practices and Problems pp. 1-15

Lau Schulpen and Peter Gibbon

Natural Resources and Decentralization in Nicaragua: Are Local Governments Up to the Job? pp. 17-31

Anne M. Larson

Rural Poverty in Ecuador: Assessing Local Realities for the Development of Anti-poverty Programs pp. 33-47

Jesko Hentschel and William F. Waters

Hurricane Mitch and the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor in Honduras pp. 49-60

Saul S. Morris, Oscar Neidecker-Gonzales, Calogero Carletto, Marcial Munguia, Juan Manuel Medina and Quentin Wodon

Poverty and Inequality in Bosnia and Herzegovina After the Civil War pp. 61-75

Marcelo Bisogno and Alberto Chong

The Political Limits to Nongovernmental Organizations in Jordan pp. 77-93

Quintan Wiktorowicz

Microcredit, Social Capital, and Common Pool Resources pp. 95-105

C. Leigh Anderson, Laura Locker and Rachel Nugent

On the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries: Is Africa Different? pp. 107-119

Elizabeth Asiedu

The Effect of IMF Programs on Labor pp. 121-139

James Vreeland

Modern Land Claim Agreements and Northern Canadian Aboriginal Communities pp. 141-151

James C. Saku