World Development

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 29, issue 12, 2001

Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Challenge to International Organizations: The Case of El Salvador pp. 1967-1985

Graciana del Castillo

One Kind of Freedom: Poverty Dynamics in Post-apartheid South Africa pp. 1987-2006

Michael Carter and Julian May

Is Devolution Democratization? pp. 2007-2023

Nandini Sundar

The Manufacture of Popular Perceptions of Scarcity: Dams and Water-Related Narratives in Gujarat, India pp. 2025-2041

Lyla Mehta

Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery: A Case of Unforeseen Conflicts in Mumbai, India pp. 2043-2057

Bishwapriya Sanyal and Vinit Mukhija

Why People Pay Taxes: The Case of the Development Levy in Tanzania pp. 2059-2074

Odd Fjeldstad and Joseph Semboja

Designing Agricultural Technology for African Women Farmers: Lessons from 25 Years of Experience pp. 2075-2092

Cheryl Doss

Land Inheritance and Schooling in Matrilineal Societies: Evidence from Sumatra pp. 2093-2110

Agnes Quisumbing and Keijiro Otsuka

Capital Flows, FDI, and Technology Spillovers: Evidence from Arab Countries pp. 2111-2125

Ali T. Sadik and Ali A. Bolbol

Perspectives on the Sources of Heterogeneity in Indian Industry pp. 2127-2143

Somik Lall and G. Chris Rodrigo

Volume 29, issue 11, 2001

Can the World Cut Poverty in Half? How Policy Reform and Effective Aid Can Meet International Development Goals pp. 1787-1802

Paul Collier and David Dollar

Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages pp. 1803-1815

Martin Ravallion

Poverty Alleviation and Tropical Forests--What Scope for Synergies? pp. 1817-1833

Sven Wunder

Transparency Mechanisms at the Multilateral Development Banks pp. 1835-1847

Paul J. Nelson

IMF Programs: Do They Work? Can They be Made to Work Better? pp. 1849-1865

Graham Bird

IMF-Supported Stabilization Programs and their Critics: Evidence from the Recent Experience of Egypt pp. 1867-1883

Mokhlis Y. Zaki

Local Clusters in Global Chains: The Causes and Consequences of Export Dynamism in Torreon's Blue Jeans Industry pp. 1885-1903

Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi

What is Behind Increasing Wage Inequality in Mexico? pp. 1905-1922

Willy Cortez

A Picture of Wage Inequality and the Allocation of Labor Through a Period of Trade Liberalization: The Case of Brazil pp. 1923-1939

Francis Green, Andrew Dickerson and Jorge Arbache

Organizational Membership and Environmental Ethics: A Comparison of Managers in State-owned Firms, Collectives, Private Firms and Joint Ventures in China pp. 1941-1956

Gerald E. Fryxell and Carlos W. H. Lo

Micro-Credit and Emotional Well-Being: Experience of Poor Rural Women from Matlab, Bangladesh pp. 1957-1966

Syed Masud Ahmed, Mushtaque Chowdhury and Abbas Bhuiya

Volume 29, issue 10, 2001

Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender: An Analysis for South Asia and a Conceptual Framework pp. 1623-1648

Bina Agarwal

Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources pp. 1649-1672

Arun Agrawal

Social Policy and Mortality Decline in East Asia and Latin America pp. 1673-1697

James W. McGuire

Primary Education Quality in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa: Determinants of Learning Achievement and Efficiency Considerations pp. 1699-1716

Katharina Michaelowa

Empirical Evidence on Recycling and Trade of Paper and Lead in Developed and Developing Countries pp. 1717-1737

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

Combining Export Processing Zones and Regional Free Trade Agreements: Lessons From the Mexican Experience pp. 1739-1752

John Sargent and Linda Matthews

How Important is Improved Water Infrastructure to Microenterprises? Evidence from Uganda pp. 1753-1767

Jennifer Davis, Alice Kang, Jeffrey Vincent and Dale Whittington

Targeting the Poor in Mexico: An Evaluation of the Selection of Households into PROGRESA pp. 1769-1784

Emmanuel Skoufias, Benjamin Davis and Sergio de la Vega

Volume 29, issue 9, 2001

Poverty and Mobility in Low-status Minorities: The Cuban Case in International Perspective pp. 1457-1481

Jacob Meerman

The Economic Cost of the War in Sri Lanka pp. 1483-1500

Nisha Arunatilake, Sisira Jayasuriya and Saman Kelegama

Competitiveness Indices and Developing Countries: An Economic Evaluation of the Global Competitiveness Report pp. 1501-1525

Sanjaya Lall

Aid Intensity in Africa pp. 1527-1552

Stephen O'Connell and Charles C. Soludo

Maquiladoras: Exploitation or Emancipation? An Overview of the Situation of Maquiladora Workers in Honduras pp. 1553-1567

Kurt Alan Ver Beek

Coping with Change: A Study of Local Irrigation Institutions in Taiwan pp. 1569-1592

Wai Fung Lam

Human Capital and FDI Inflows to Developing Countries: New Empirical Evidence pp. 1593-1610

Farhad Noorbakhsh, Alberto Paloni and Ali Youssef

Integration of an Essential Services Package (ESP) in Child and Reproductive Health and Family Planning with a Micro-credit Program for Poor Women: Experience from a Pilot Project in Rural Bangladesh pp. 1611-1621

Ruhul Amin, Maurice St. Pierre, Ashraf Ahmed and Runa Haq

Volume 29, issue 8, 2001

Two Legs are Better than Three: New Zealand as a Model for Old Age Pensions pp. 1291-1305

Susan St. John and Larry Willmore

Genetic Engineering and Trade: Panacea or Dilemma for Developing Countries pp. 1307-1324

Chantal Pohl Nielsen, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

Adapting to Adjustment: Smallholder Livelihood Strategies in Southern Malawi pp. 1325-1343

Alastair Orr and Blessings Mwale

Conservation-with-Development Models in Brazil's Agro-Pastoral Landscapes pp. 1345-1359

Christian Brannstrom

Land-Tenure Issues as Factors in Environmental Destruction in Brazilian Amazonia: The Case of Southern Para pp. 1361-1372

Philip Fearnside

Population as a Determinant of Local Outcomes under Decentralization: Illustrations from Small Municipalities in Bolivia and Mexico pp. 1373-1389

Allison M. Rowland

Women's Participation in Local Organizations: Conditions and Constraints pp. 1391-1404

Katinka Weinberger and Johannes Paul Jutting

The Underlying Constraints on Corporate Bond Market Development in Southeast Asia pp. 1405-1419

Krishnan Sharma

Towards an Integrated Framework for Development and Environment Policy: The Dynamics of Environmental Kuznets Curves pp. 1421-1434

Majid Ezzati, Burton H. Singer and Daniel M. Kammen

Making the World Development Report 2000: Attacking Poverty pp. 1435-1441

Robert Hunter Wade

Development--There is Another Way: A Rural-Urban Partnership Development Paradigm pp. 1443-1454

T. Scarlett Epstein and David Jezeph

Volume 29, issue 7, 2001

Civil Society Collaboration with Business: Bringing Empowerment Back in pp. 1097-1113

Darcy Ashman

Understanding the Links Between Conservation and Development in the Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon pp. 1115-1136

Joanne I. O. Abbot, David H. L. Thomas, Anne A. Gardner, Sama E. Neba and Mbony W. Khen

Tiny, Poor and War-Torn: Development Policy Challenges for East Timor pp. 1137-1156

Hal Hill

Effects of Poor Transportation on Lean Production and Industrial Clustering: Evidence from the Indian Auto Industry pp. 1157-1177

Sumila Gulyani

Utilities Privatization and the Poor: Lessons and Evidence from Latin America pp. 1179-1198

Antonio Estache, Andres Gomez-Lobo and Danny Leipziger

Economic Liberalization and the Computer Industry: Comparing Outcomes in Brazil and Mexico pp. 1199-1214

Jason Dedrick, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Juan J. Palacios, Paulo Bastos Tigre and Antonio Jose Junqueira Botelho

Corruption and Microenterprises in Russia pp. 1215-1224

Mehnaz S. Safavian, Douglas H. Graham and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega

Microenterprise Lending to Female Entrepreneurs: Sacrificing Economic Growth for Poverty Alleviation? pp. 1225-1236

Michael Kevane and Bruce Wydick

Preference Heterogeneity, Power, and Intrahousehold Decision-Making in Rural Malaysia pp. 1237-1256

Takayoshi Kusago and Bradford L. Barham

Transition and Enterprise Restructuring: The Development of Individual Farming in Romania pp. 1257-1274

Marian Rizov, Dinu Gavrilescu, Hamish Gow, Erik Mathijs and Johan Swinnen

Confronting Dietary Energy Supply with Anthropometry in the Assessment of Undernutrition Prevalence at the Level of Countries pp. 1275-1289

M. Nube

Volume 29, issue 6, 2001

Moving from the Stock of Social Capital to the Flow of Benefits: The Role of Agency pp. 925-943

Anirudh Krishna

Embracing the Global in Thailand: Activism and Pragmatism in an Era of Deagrarianization pp. 945-960

Jonathan Rigg and Sakunee Nattapoolwat

Displacement for Development? The Impact of Changing State-Society Relations pp. 961-976

Laurie A. Brand

Adapting to Climate Change in Pacific Island Countries: The Problem of Uncertainty pp. 977-993

Jon Barnett

Institutions and the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Deforestation: A Crosscountry Analysis for Latin America, Africa and Asia pp. 995-1010

Madhusudan Bhattarai and Michael Hammig

Integrated Impact Assessment for Sustainable Development: A Case Study Approach pp. 1011-1024

Richard Bond, Johanna Curran, Colin Kirkpatrick, Norman Lee and Paul Francis

The Long-Term Impact of Health on Economic Growth in Latin America pp. 1025-1033

David Mayer-Foulkes

Dual Exchange Markets for Countries Facing Financial Crises pp. 1035-1041

Raymond F. Mikesell

Cash Transfer Programs with Income Multipliers: PROCAMPO in Mexico pp. 1043-1056

Elisabeth Sadoulet, Alain de Janvry and Benjamin Davis

Microfinance Success Amidst Macroeconomic Failure: The Experience of Bank Rakyat Indonesia During the East Asian Crisis pp. 1057-1069

Richard H. Patten, Jay k. Rosengard and Don Johnston

The X-Efficiency of a Group-Based Lending Institution: The Case of the Grameen Bank pp. 1071-1082

M. Kabir Hassan and David Tufte

Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements pp. 1083-1094

Ravi Kanbur

Volume 29, issue 5, 2001

The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: Some Evidence from Community Forestry in Nepal pp. 747-765

George Varughese and Elinor Ostrom

Economic Crisis, Small Farmer Well-Being, and Forest Cover Change in Indonesia pp. 767-782

William D. Sunderlin, Arild Angelsen, Daju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Ahmad Dermawan and Edy Rianto

Why Research Partnerships Really Matter: Innovation Theory, Institutional Arrangements and Implications for Developing New Technology for the Poor pp. 783-797

Andrew Hall, Geoffrey Bockett, Sarah Taylor, M. V. K . Sivamohan and Norman Clark

Small-Scale Farmers Expand the Benefits of Improved Maize Germplasm: A Case Study from Chiapas, Mexico pp. 799-811

Mauricio Bellon and Jean Risopoulos

Impact of Bt Cotton in China pp. 813-825

Carl Pray, Danmeng Ma, Jikun Huang and Fangbin Qiao

Does the Private Sector Help or Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Carbon Dioxide Pollution in Developing Countries pp. 827-840

Debabrata Talukdar and Craig Meisner

What Does the 'Show Case' Show? Evidence of and Lessons from Adjustment in Uganda pp. 841-863

A. Geske Dijkstra and Jan Kees van Donge

Reform Strategies and Economic Performance of Russia's Regions pp. 865-886

Vladimir Popov

Giving to the Poor? Targeting of Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia pp. 887-910

Thomas Jayne, John Strauss, Takashi Yamano and Daniel Molla

Pension Reform and Gender Gaps in Latin America: What are the Policy Options? pp. 911-923

Fabio Bertranou

Volume 29, issue 4, 2001

Evolving Tenure Rights and Agricultural Intensification in Southwestern Burkina Faso pp. 573-587

Leslie C. Gray and Michael Kevane

Challenges to Proponents of Common Property Recource Systems: Despairing Voices from the Social Forests of Zimbabwe pp. 589-600

Bruce Campbell, Alois Mandondo, Nontokozo Nemarundwe, Bevlyne Sithole, Wil De JonG, Martin Luckert and Frank Matose

The "New" Kerala Model: Lessons for Sustainable Development pp. 601-617

Rene Veron

Vernacular Models of Development: An Analysis of Indonesia Under the "New Order" pp. 619-639

Michael R. Dove and Daniel M. Kammen

Somali Reconstruction and Local Initiative: Amoud University pp. 641-656

Abdi Ismail Samatar

Disempowerment of Men in Rural and Urban East Africa: Implications for Male Identity and Sexual Behavior pp. 657-671

Margrethe Silberschmidt

Trade Liberalization and National Food Security: Rice Trade between Bangladesh and India pp. 673-689

Paul Dorosh

Hedging Price Risks of Farmers by Commodity Boards: A Simulation Applied to the Indian Natural Rubber Market pp. 691-710

Wouter Zant

Credibility and Reputation Building in the Developmental State: A Model with East Asian Applications pp. 711-724

Gregg Huff, Gerda Dewit and Christine Oughton

Patterns and Sources of Changing Wage Inequality in Chile and Costa Rica During Structural Adjustment pp. 725-745

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Donald Robbins

Volume 29, issue 3, 2001

Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in Latin America: Overview and Policy Implications pp. 395-409

Thomas Reardon, Julio Berdegue and German Escobar

Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in Chile pp. 411-425

Julio Berdegue, Eduardo Ramirez, Thomas Reardon and German Escobar

Rural Nonfarm Incomes in Nicaragua pp. 427-442

Leonardo Corral and Thomas Reardon

Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in Brazil: Patterns and Evolution pp. 443-453

Jose Graziano da Silva and Mauro Eduardo Del Grossi

Rural Nonfarm Employment and Income Diversification in Colombia pp. 455-465

Klaus Deininger and Pedro Olinto

Income Strategies Among Rural Households in Mexico: The Role of Off-farm Activities pp. 467-480

Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Intersectoral Transfer, Growth, and Inequality in Rural Ecuador pp. 481-496

Chris Elbers and Peter Lanjouw

The Determinants of Nonfarm Income Diversification in Rural Peru pp. 497-508

Javier Escobal

Rural Nonfarm Activities and Poverty in the Brazilian Northeast pp. 509-528

Francisco Ferreira and Peter Lanjouw

Nonfarm Employment and Poverty in Rural El Salvador pp. 529-547

Peter Lanjouw

Nonfarm Employment and Poverty Alleviation of Rural Farm Households in Honduras pp. 549-560

Ruerd Ruben and Marrit Van den berg

The Determinants of Nonfarm Activities and Incomes of Rural Households in Mexico, with Emphasis on Education pp. 561-572

Antonio Yunez-Naude and J. Edward Taylor

Volume 29, issue 2, 2001

Social Capital and the Environment pp. 209-227

Jules Pretty and Hugh Ward

Creating Social Capital in Russia: The Novgorod Model pp. 229-244

Nicolai N. Petro

Government Failure, Social Capital and the Appropriateness of the New Zealand Model for Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries pp. 245-263

Joe Wallis and Brian Dollery

New Pills for Poor People? Empirical Evidence after GATT pp. 265-289

Jean Lanjouw and Iain Cockburn

MNCs and Sustainable Business Practice: The Case of the Colombian and Peruvian Petroleum Industries pp. 291-309

Titus Moser

Trade Credit and Productive Efficiency in Developing Countries pp. 311-321

Raymond Fisman

The Role of Capital Accumulation, Adjustment and Structural Change for Economic Take-Off: Empirical Evidence from African Growth Episodes pp. 323-343

Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Ludvig Soderling

Upgrading Primary Production: A Global Commodity Chain Approach pp. 345-363

Peter Gibbon

A Model of Aid Impact in Some South Pacific Microstates pp. 365-383

Patrick Laplagne, Malcolm Treadgold and Jonathan Baldry

Strategies to Reduce Contribution Evasion in Social Security Financing pp. 385-393

Clive Bailey and John Turner

Volume 29, issue 1, 2001

What Do We Know About Economic Growth? Or, Why Don't We Know Very Much? pp. 1-22

Charles Kenny and David Williams

Bureaucrats in Business, Chinese-Style: The Lessons of Market Reform and State Entrepreneurialism in the People's Republic of China pp. 23-37

Jane Duckett

Microfinance with Chinese Characteristics pp. 39-62

Albert Park and Changqing Ren

Conflicts Over Credit: Re-Evaluating the Empowerment Potential of Loans to Women in Rural Bangladesh pp. 63-84

Naila Kabeer

Barriers to Agricultural Exports from Developing Countries: The Role of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Requirements pp. 85-102

Spencer Henson and Rupert Loader

The Private Delivery of Public Crop Varieties: Rice in Andhra Pradesh pp. 103-117

Robert Tripp and Suresh Pal

Building on Poor People's Capacities: The Case of Common Property Resources in India and West Africa pp. 119-133

Tony Beck and Cathy Nesmith

Paradox of Empowerment: Reflections on a Case Study from Northern Ghana pp. 135-153

Karl Botchway

Literacy and Intrahousehold Externalities pp. 155-166

John Gibson

Youth Education and Work in Mexico pp. 167-188

Deborah Levison, Karine Moe and Felicia Marie Knaul

Backward Vertical Linkages of Foreign Manufacturing Affiliates: Evidence from Japanese Multinationals pp. 189-208

Rene Belderbos, Giovanni Capannelli and Kyoji Fukao