World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 28, issue 12, 2000

Human Development and Economic Sustainability pp. 2029-2049

Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen

Political Responsibility in Transnational NGO Advocacy pp. 2051-2065

Lisa Jordan and Peter van Tuijl

Informal Sector Pollution Control: What Policy Options Do We Have? pp. 2067-2082

Allen Blackman

From Linear Fuel Switching to Multiple Cooking Strategies: A Critique and Alternative to the Energy Ladder Model pp. 2083-2103

Omar R. Masera, Barbara D. Saatkamp and Daniel M. Kammen

Are Cash Budgets a Cure for Excess Fiscal Deficits (and at What Cost)? pp. 2105-2122

David Stasavage and Dambisa Moyo

Poverty Comparisons Over Time and Across Countries in Africa pp. 2123-2155

David Sahn and David Stifel

Old Age and Poverty in Developing Countries: New Policy Challenges pp. 2157-2168

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock

The Allocation of Publicly-Provided Goods to Rural Households in India: On Some Consequences of Caste, Religion and Democracy pp. 2169-2182

Roger Betancourt and Suzanne Gleason

Single Mothers in Russia: Household Strategies for Coping with Poverty pp. 2183-2198

Michael Lokshin, Kathleen Mullan Harris and Barry M. Popkin

Volume 28, issue 11, 2000

Civic Education, Civil Society, and Political Mistrust in a Developing Democracy: The Case of the Dominican Republic pp. 1851-1874

Steve E. Finkel, Christopher A. Sabatini and Gwendolyn G. Bevis

Demonstrated Benefits from Social Capital: The Productivity of Farmer Organizations in Gal Oya, Sri Lanka pp. 1875-1890

Norman Uphoff and C. M. Wijayaratna

Biting the Bullet: Civil Society, Social Learning and the Transformation of Local Governance pp. 1891-1906

Hazel Johnson and Gordon Wilson

Impediments and Innovation in International Rivers: The Waters of South Asia pp. 1907-1925

Ben Crow and Nirvikar Singh

Achieving Schooling for All: Budgetary Expenditures on Education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia pp. 1927-1944

Christopher Colclough and Samer Al-Samarrai

Participatory Risk Mapping for Targeting Research and Assistance: With an Example from East African Pastoralists pp. 1945-1959

Kevin Smith, Christopher Barrett and Paul W. Box

Rapid Rural Appraisal in Humid Tropical Forests: An Asset Possession-Based Approach and Validation Methods for Wealth Assessment Among Forest Peasant Households pp. 1961-1977

Yoshito Takasaki, Bradford L. Barham and Oliver T. Coomes

Empirical Regularities in the Poverty-Environment Relationship of Rural Households: Evidence from Zimbabwe pp. 1979-2003

William Cavendish

Markets, Institutions, and Forestry: The Consequences of Timber Trade Liberalization in Ecuador pp. 2005-2012

Douglas Southgate, Pablo Salazar-Canelos, Carlos Camacho-Saa and Rigoberto Stewart

Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States pp. 2013-2027

William Easterly and Aart Kraay

Volume 28, issue 10, 2000

Local Environmental Control and Institutional Crowding-Out pp. 1719-1733

Juan-Camilo Cardenas, John Stranlund and Cleve Willis

Claim No Easy Victories: Evaluating the Pesticide Industry's Global Safe Use Campaign pp. 1735-1749

Douglas L. Murray and Peter Leigh Taylor

Grassroots-Based Rural Development Strategies: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective pp. 1751-1766

Liisa L. North and John D. Cameron

Rigorous Speculation: The Collapse and Revival of the North Korean Economy pp. 1767-1787

Marcus Noland, Sherman Robinson and Tao Wang

The Political Economy of War and Peace in Afghanistan pp. 1789-1803

Barnett R. Rubin

The Illusion of Stability: The Brazilian Economy Under Cardoso pp. 1805-1819

Edmund Amann and Werner Baer

Solving the Mystery of the AFRICA Dummy pp. 1821-1835

Pierre Englebert

Knowledge Transfer Under Subcontracting: Evidence from Czech Firms pp. 1837-1847

Alan Deardorff and Simeon Djankov

Volume 28, issue 9, 2000

Latin America's New Economic Model: Micro Responses and Economic Restructuring pp. 1543-1566

Nola Reinhardt and Wilson Peres

Trade Liberalization and Industrial Development in Latin America pp. 1567-1582

A. Geske Dijkstra

Structural Change and Labor Productivity Growth in Latin American Manufacturing Industries 1970-96 pp. 1583-1596

Jorge Katz

The Behavior of Manufacturing Firms Under the New Economic Model pp. 1597-1610

Carla Macario

Corporate Strategies for FDI in the Context of Latin America's New Economic Model pp. 1611-1626

Michael Mortimore

Maquila, Economic Reform and Corporate Strategies pp. 1627-1642

Rudolf M. Buitelaar and Ramon Padilla Perez

Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean Under the New Economic Model pp. 1643-1655

Wilson Peres and Giovanni Stumpo

New Economic Policies and the Diffusion of Machine Tools in Latin America pp. 1657-1672

Ludovico Alcorta

The Impact of the New Economic Model on Latin America's Agriculture pp. 1673-1688

M. Beatriz De A. David, Martine Dirven and Frank Vogelgesang

The New Economic Model and Marine Fisheries Development in Latin America pp. 1689-1702

Andy Thorpe, Alonso Aguilar Ibarra and Chris Reid

Policy Directions for the New Economic Model in Latin America pp. 1703-1717

Joseph Ramos

Volume 28, issue 8, 2000

Improving Policy Credibility: Is There a Case for African Monetary Unions? pp. 1391-1407

Dominique M. Guillaume and David Stasavage

Think Large and Act Small: Toward a New Paradigm for NGO Scaling Up pp. 1409-1419

Peter Uvin, Pankaj S. Jain and L. David Brown

Linking Livelihoods and Conservation: A Conceptual Framework and Scale for Assessing the Integration of Human Needs and Biodiversity pp. 1421-1438

Nick Salafsky and Eva Wollenberg

Barriers to Participation of the Poor in South Africa's Land Redistribution pp. 1439-1460

Frederick J. Zimmerman

Changing Customary Marine Resource Management Practice and Institutions: The Case of Sasi Lola in the Kei Islands, Indonesia pp. 1461-1479

Craig C. Thorburn

Possibilities and Limitations to Cooperation in Small Groups: The Case of Group-Owned Wells in Southern India pp. 1481-1497

Rimjhim M. Aggarwal

Surviving and Thriving: Differentiation in a Peri-Urban Community in Northern Albania pp. 1499-1514

Colin Lawson, J. Allister McGregor and Douglas K. Saltmarshe

The Poverty and Heterogeneity Among Female-Headed Households Revisited: The Case of Panama pp. 1515-1542

Nobuhiko Fuwa

Volume 28, issue 7, 2000

Introduction pp. 1145-1156

Caren Grown, Diane Elson and Nilufer Cagatay

Engendering Foreign Direct Investment: Family Structure, Labor Markets and International Capital Mobility pp. 1157-1172

Elissa Braunstein

Modeling the Effects of Trade on Women, at Work and at Home pp. 1173-1190

Marzia Fontana and Adrian Wood

Gender Segregation and Gender Bias in Manufacturing Trade Expansion: Revisiting the "Wood Asymmetry" pp. 1191-1210

David Kucera and William Milberg

Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 1211-1230

Stephanie Seguino

Secular Changes in the Gender Composition of Employment and Growth Dynamics in the North and the South pp. 1231-1238

Korkut Erturk and William Darity

Export Orientation and Female Share of Employment: Evidence from Turkey pp. 1239-1248

Sule Ozler

International Capital Flows: Identifying the Gender Dimension pp. 1249-1268

Ajit Singh and Ann Zammit

Financial Crisis, Gender, and Power: An Analytical Framework pp. 1269-1283

Maria Floro and Gary Dymski

The Effects of the East Asian Crisis on the Employment of Women and Men: The Philippine Case pp. 1285-1306

Joseph Y. Lim

Agricultural Technology, Risk, and Gender: A CGE Analysis of Mozambique pp. 1307-1326

Channing Arndt and Finn Tarp

Supply Response in an Agrarian Economy with Non-Symmetric Gender Relations pp. 1327-1340

James Warner and D. A. Campbell

Extra-Household Factors and Women Farmers' Supply Response in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1341-1345

Barbara Evers and Bernard Walters

The Social Content of Macroeconomic Policies pp. 1347-1364

Diane Elson and Nilufer Cagatay

The Political Economy of Women's Budgets in the South pp. 1365-1378

Debbie Budlender

Gender Mainstreaming in Finance Ministries pp. 1379-1390

Gita Sen

Volume 28, issue 6, 2000

Impact of Macroeconomic Change on Deforestation in South Cameroon: Integration of Household Survey and Remotely-Sensed Data pp. 983-999

Benoit Mertens, William D. Sunderlin, Ousseynou Ndoye and Eric F. Lambin

Can Sustainable Tropical Forestry be Made Profitable? The Potential and Limitations of Innovative Incentive Mechanisms pp. 1001-1016

Michael Richards

From Social Negotiation to Contract: Shifting Strategies of Farm Labor Recruitment in Tanzania Under Market Liberalization pp. 1017-1030

Stefano Ponte

The Distributional Effects of IMF Programs: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 1031-1051

Gopal Garuda

Editor's Introduction pp. 1053-1060

Irma Adelman

Neoclassical Imagination and Financial Anarchy pp. 1061-1073

Hugh Stretton

Capital Market Liberalization, Economic Growth, and Instability pp. 1075-1086

Joseph Stiglitz

The Minimal Conditions for a Financial Crisis: A Multiregional Intertemporal CGE Model of the Asian Crisis pp. 1087-1100

Irma Adelman and Erinc Yeldan

Financial Globalization pp. 1101-1104

James Tobin

Taming Capital Flows pp. 1105-1116

Barry Eichengreen

Is a Plumber or a New Financial Architect Needed to End Global International Liquidity Problems? pp. 1117-1131

Paul Davidson

Strengthening the International Financial System: Key Issues pp. 1133-1142

Daniel Citrin and Stanley Fischer

Volume 28, issue 5, 2000

The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries pp. 789-804

Charles Gore

Measuring Public Sector Capacity pp. 805-822

Charles Polidano

The Challenge of Good Governance for the IMF and the World Bank Themselves pp. 823-841

Ngaire Woods

Family Planning Programs, Socioeconomic Characteristics, and Contraceptive Use in Malawi pp. 843-860

Barney Cohen

Type of Work Matters: Women's Labor Force Participation and the Child Sex Ratio in Turkey pp. 861-878

Günseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy

Economic Reform, Structural Adjustment and Female Labor Force Participation in Buenos Aires, Argentina pp. 879-891

Marcela Cerrutti

Indigenous Populations and Sustainable Development: Building on Indigenous Approaches to Holistic, Self-Determined Development pp. 893-910

Terrence M. Loomis

Conservation Farming Projects in the Philippine Uplands: Rhetoric and Reality pp. 911-927

R. A. Cramb, J. N. M. Garcia, R. V. Gerrits and G. C. Saguiguit

The Impact of Participation on Sustainability: An Analysis of the Malawi Rural Piped Scheme Program pp. 929-944

Elizabeth Kleemeier

Environmental Enforcement and Small Industries in India: Reworking the Problem in the Poverty Context pp. 945-967

Nandini Dasgupta

Transition of Latecomer Firms from Technology Users to Technology Generators: Korean Semiconductor Firms pp. 969-982

Jae-Yong Choung, Hye-Ran Hwang, Jin-Ho Choi and Myung-Hwan Rim

Volume 28, issue 4, 2000

Democratic Governance and Sectoral Policy Reform: Tracing Linkages and Exploring Synergies pp. 601-615

Derick W. Brinkerhoff

The Microfinance Schism pp. 617-629

Jonathan Morduch

Interpreting Changes from the 1970s to the 1990s in African Agriculture Through Village Studies pp. 631-662

Steve Wiggins

Trust, Networks and Norms: The Creation of Social Capital in Agricultural Economies in Ghana pp. 663-681

Fergus Lyon

Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: External Capital and Household Processes pp. 683-699

Robert Walker, Emilio Moran and Luc Anselin

Common Property Rights and Land Reallocations in Rural China: Evidence from a Village Survey pp. 701-719

James Kung

Should China be Promoting Large-Scale Enterprises and Enterprise Groups? pp. 721-737

Russell Smyth

Decoupling China's Carbon Emissions Increase from Economic Growth: An Economic Analysis and Policy Implications pp. 739-752

ZhongXiang Zhang

Unions' Role in Argentine and Chilean Pension Reform pp. 753-762

Teresa Ghilarducci and Patricia Ledesma

A VAT Revenue Simulation Model for Tax Reform in Developing Countries pp. 763-774

Glenn Jenkins and Chun-Yan Kuo

The Hazard of Moral Hazard: Untangling the Asian Crisis pp. 775-788

Ha-Joon Chang

Volume 28, issue 3, 2000

Globalizing Agro-Food Systems in Asia: Introduction pp. 401-407

Susan J. Thompson and J. Tadlock Cowan

A Global Interpretation of the Rise of the East Asian Food Import Complex pp. 409-424

Philip McMichael

New Zealand's Agro-Food Trade to Korea pp. 425-442

Christina A. Stringer

Dismantling Statist East Asian Agricultures? Global Pressures and National Responses pp. 443-455

Larry L. Burmeister

Consumer Segmentation and Changing Food Purchase Patterns in Nanjing, PRC pp. 457-471

Ann Veeck and Gregory Veeck

Oiling the Palms: Restructuring of Settlement Schemes in Malaysia and the New International Trade Regulations pp. 473-486

Niels Fold

Food Firms and Food Flows in Japan 1945-98 pp. 487-512

Mary G. McDonald

Agri-Food Restructuring and Third World Transnationals: Thailand, the CP Group and the Global Shrimp Industry pp. 513-530

Jasper Goss, David Burch and Roy E. Rickson

Eating More Beef: Market Structure and Firm Behavior in the Pacific Basin Beefpacking Industry pp. 531-550

Roderick Francis

The Cotton Commodity Chain, Women, Work and Agency in India and Japan: The Case for Feminist Agro-Food Systems Research pp. 551-578

Priti Ramamurthy

The Agrarian Origins of the Knitwear Industrial Cluster in Tiruppur, India pp. 579-599

Sharad Chari

Volume 28, issue 2, 2000

Economic Growth and Human Development pp. 197-219

Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart and Alejandro Ramirez

Credible Commitment and Success with Public Enterprise Reform pp. 221-243

Jose Edgardo Campos and Hadi Esfahani

Economic Policy and Power Relations in South Africa's Transition to Democracy pp. 245-263

Adam Habib and Vishnu Padayachee

Explaining Economic Liberalization in India: State and Society Perspectives pp. 265-282

JOrgen Dige Pedersen

Export Success Against the Odds: A Vietnamese Case Study pp. 283-300

Hal Hill

Globalization of Production: Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry pp. 301-317

Peter Gourevitch, Roger Bohn and David McKendrick

Generating Disaggregated Poverty Maps: An Application to Vietnam pp. 319-331

Nicholas Minot

Microcredit and the Poorest of the Poor: Theory and Evidence from Bolivia pp. 333-346

Sergio Navajas, Mark Schreiner, Richard L. Meyer, Claudio Gonzalez-vega and Jorge Rodriguez-meza

'Green Gold'?: Burley Tobacco, Smallholder Agriculture, and Poverty Alleviation in Malawi pp. 347-363

Alastair Orr

Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 365-380

Luiz de Mello

Financial Determinants of Domestic Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Panel Data pp. 381-400

Leonce Ndikumana

Volume 28, issue 1, 2000

Institutional Choice, Community, and Struggle: A Case Study of Forest Co-Management in Mexico pp. 1-20

Daniel Klooster

Participation and Accountability at the Periphery: Democratic Local Governance in Six Countries pp. 21-39

Harry Blair

Learning, Adjustment and Economic Development: Transforming Firms, The State and Associations in Chile pp. 41-55

Paola Perez-Aleman

Back to Basics in Malaysia and Thailand: The Role of Resource-Based Exports in Their Export-Led Growth pp. 57-77

Nola Reinhardt

Impact Assessment Methodologies for Microfinance: Theory, Experience and Better Practice pp. 79-98

David Hulme

Systematic Client Consultation in Development: The Case of Food Policy Research in Ghana, India, Kenya and Mali pp. 99-110

Suresh Babu, Lynn R. Brown and Bonnie McClafferty

Consequences of a Food Security Strategy for Economic Welfare, Income Distribution and Land Degradation: The Philippine Case pp. 111-128

Ian Coxhead

The Politics of Liberalizing Zambia's Maize Markets pp. 129-142

James Pletcher

Migrant Labor and Farm Technical Efficiency in Lesotho pp. 143-153

Motsamai T. Mochebelele and Alex Winter-Nelson

The Real Plan: Stabilization and Destabilization pp. 155-171

Carlos A. Cinquetti

The Impact of Education, Income, and Mortality on Fertility in Jamaica pp. 173-186

Sudhanshu Handa

Utilization of Outpatient Care in Egypt and its Implications for the Role of Government in Health Care Provision pp. 187-196

A. K. Nandakumar, Mukesh Chawla and Maryam Khan