World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 27, issue 12, 1999

Capitals and Capabilities: A Framework for Analyzing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty pp. 2021-2044

Anthony Bebbington

Rice Paddy or Shrimp Pond: Tough Decisions in Rural Thailand pp. 2045-2060

Mark Flaherty, Peter Vandergeest and Paul Miller

Community-Based Wildlife Management (CWM) in Tanzania: Are the Communities Interested? pp. 2061-2079

Alexander N. Songorwa

841 Million Undernourished? pp. 2081-2098

Peter Svedberg

Corporatism, Trade Liberalization and Sectoral Responses: The Case of Venezuela, 1989-99 pp. 2099-2122

Javier Corrales and Imelda Cisneros

Placement and Outreach of Group-Based Credit Organizations: The Cases of ASA, BRAC, and PROSHIKA in Bangladesh pp. 2123-2136

Manohar Sharma and Manfred Zeller

Growth in China's Grain Production 1978-1997: A Disaggregate Analysis pp. 2137-2154

Hong Yang

Volume 27, issue 11, 1999

Overview pp. 1885-1889

Marie Ruel and James Garrett

Are Urban Poverty and Undernutrition Growing? Some Newly Assembled Evidence pp. 1891-1904

Lawrence Haddad, Marie Ruel and James Garrett

Urbanization, Lifestyle Changes and the Nutrition Transition pp. 1905-1916

Barry M. Popkin

Some Urban Facts of Life: Implications for Research and Policy pp. 1917-1938

Marie Ruel, Lawrence Haddad and James Garrett

The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1939-1953

Daniel Maxwell

Are Determinants of Rural and Urban Food Security and Nutritional Status Different? Some Insights from Mozambique pp. 1955-1975

James Garrett and Marie Ruel

Working Women in an Urban Setting: Traders, Vendors and Food Security in Accra pp. 1977-1991

Carol E. Levin, Marie Ruel, Saul S. Morris, Daniel G. Maxwell, Margaret Armar-Klemesu and Clement Ahiadeke

Good Care Practices Can Mitigate the Negative Effects of Poverty and Low Maternal Schooling on Children's Nutritional Status: Evidence from Accra pp. 1993-2009

Marie Ruel, Carol E. Levin, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Daniel Maxwell and Saul S. Morris

Does Geographic Targeting of Nutrition Interventions Make Sense in Cities? Evidence from Abidjan and Accra pp. 2011-2019

Saul S. Morris, Carol E. Levin, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Daniel Maxwell and Marie Ruel

Volume 27, issue 10, 1999

The end of the Asian Myth: Why were the Experts Fooled? pp. 1735-1747

Werner Baer, William R. Miles and Allen B. Moran

Innovating with Infrastructure: How India's Largest Carmaker Copes with Poor Electricity Supply pp. 1749-1768

Sumila Gulyani

India's Manufactured Exports: Comparative Structure and Prospects pp. 1769-1786

Sanjaya Lall

Trade and Industrial Policy on an Uneven Playing Field: The Case of the Deciduous Fruit Canning Industry in South Africa pp. 1787-1801

David Kaplan and Raphael Kaplinsky

The Economics of Air Pollution Health Risks in Russia: A Case Study of Volgograd pp. 1803-1819

Bruce A. Larson, Simon Avaliani, Alexander Golub, Sydney Rosen, Dmitry Shaposhnikov, Elena Strukova, Jeffrey Vincent and Scott K. Wolff

The Institutional Foundations of Monetary Commitment: A Comparative Analysis pp. 1821-1842

R. Ball

Dollars for Sale: Exchange Rate Policy and Inflation in Africa pp. 1843-1859

Jean-Paul Azam

Seigniorage, Dollarization and Public Debt: The Lebanese Civil War and Recovery Experience, 1982-97 pp. 1861-1873

Ali A. Bolbol

Unions and Interindustry Wage Differentials pp. 1875-1883

Jorge Arbache and Francisco Carneiro

Volume 27, issue 9, 1999

Clustering and Industrialization: Introduction pp. 1503-1514

Hubert Schmitz and Khalid Nadvi

Microenterprise Clusters in Rural Indonesia: Industrial Seedbed and Policy Target pp. 1515-1530

Hermine Weijland

African Enterprise Clusters and Industrialization: Theory and Reality pp. 1531-1551

Dorothy Mccormick

A Comparison of Clustered and Dispersed Firms in the Small-Scale Clothing Industry of Lima pp. 1553-1570

Evert-jan Visser

Recovery of a Mexican Cluster: Devaluation Bonanza or Collective Efficiency? pp. 1571-1585

Roberta Rabellotti

Agra: An Old Cluster Facing the New Competition pp. 1587-1604

Peter Knorringa

Collective Efficiency and Collective Failure: The Response of the Sialkot Surgical Instrument Cluster to Global Quality Pressures pp. 1605-1626

Khalid Nadvi

Global Competition and Local Cooperation: Success and Failure in the Sinos Valley, Brazil pp. 1627-1650

Hubert Schmitz

Successful Adjustment in Indian Industry: the Case of Ludhiana's Woolen Knitwear Cluster pp. 1651-1671

Meenu Tewari

Cooperating for Survival: Tannery Pollution and Joint Action in the Palar Valley (India) pp. 1673-1691

Loraine Kennedy

How to Promote Clusters: Policy Experiences from Latin America pp. 1693-1713

Tilman Altenburg and Jorg Meyer-Stamer

Knowledge Systems and Technological Dynamism in Industrial Clusters in Developing Countries pp. 1715-1734

Martin Bell and Michael Albu

Volume 27, issue 8, 1999

Care and Nutrition: Concepts and Measurement pp. 1309-1337

Patrice L. Engle, Purnima Menon and Lawrence Haddad

Process Approaches to Development: Theory and Sri Lankan Practice pp. 1339-1358

Richard Bond and David Hulme

Informational Standards in Development Agency Management pp. 1359-1381

Paul Clements

NGOs and Innovation: Organizational Characteristics and Constraints in Development Assistance Work in The Gambia pp. 1383-1395

Claire Fyvie and Alastair Ager

Outstanding Female Economists in the Analysis and Practice of Development Economics pp. 1397-1411

Yana Rodgers and Jane C. Cooley

Impact of Human Capital on Joint-Venture Investment in Vietnam pp. 1413-1426

Dang Nguyen Anh and David R. Meyer

Foreign Investment and the Global Geography of Production: Why the Mexican Consumer Electronics Industry Failed pp. 1427-1443

Nichola Lowe and Martin Kenney

Impediments to Promoting Backward Linkages from the Garment Industry in Sri Lanka pp. 1445-1460

Saman Kelegama and Fritz Foley

Labor Shortages on Small Landholdings in Malawi: Implications for Policy Reforms pp. 1461-1475

Jeffrey Alwang and P. B. Siegel

Domestic Governance and International Migration pp. 1477-1491

Dane Rowlands

The Macroeconomic Determinants of Emigrant Remittances pp. 1493-1502

Mohammed El-Sakka and Robert McNabb

Volume 27, issue 7, 1999

Expected Failures and Unexpected Successes of Land Titling in Africa pp. 1115-1128

Kathryn Firmin-Sellers and Patrick Sellers

Controlling Fiscal Corruption pp. 1129-1140

Sheetal Chand and Karl Ove Moene

Forest Dependence and Income Distribution in a Subsistence Economy: Evidence from India pp. 1141-1149

S. R. C. Reddy and S. P. Chakravarty

An Analysis of Childhood Malnutrition in Rural India: Role of Gender, Income and Other Household Characteristics pp. 1151-1171

Sarmistha Pal

Demand, Market Structure and the Formalizing of Ministry of Health Fees: A Nicaraguan Case Study pp. 1173-1189

John L. Fiedler

Inequality, Resource Depletion, and Welfare Accounting: Applications to Indonesia and Costa Rica pp. 1191-1202

Mariano Torras

What is Driving the Pollution Abatement Expenditure Behavior of Manufacturing Plants in Korea? pp. 1203-1214

Jean Aden, Ahn Kyu-hong and Michael T. Rock

Do Stringent Environmental Regulations Reduce the International Competitiveness of Environmentally Sensitive Goods? A Global Perspective pp. 1215-1226

Xinpeng Xu

One-fifth of the Sky: China's Environmental Stewardship pp. 1227-1245

Holly Sims

Can Africa Industrialize by Processing Primary Commodities? The Case of Mozambican Cashew Nuts pp. 1247-1266

Christopher Cramer

Special Economic Zones and the Opening of the Chinese Economy: Some Lessons for Economic Liberalization pp. 1267-1285

Wei Ge

Determinants of Technological Diffusion in Mexican Manufacturing: A Plant-Level Analysis pp. 1287-1298

Jean-Marie Grether

Rotating Saving and Credit Associations in Rural East Africa pp. 1299-1308

Peter Kiko Kimuyu

Volume 27, issue 6, 1999

Effects of Demographic and Related Microeconomic Change on Land Quality in Hills and Mountains of Developing Countries pp. 903-918

Scott R. Templeton and Sara J. Scherr

Adapting to Dams: Agrarian Change Downstream of the Tiga Dam, Northern Nigeria pp. 919-935

David H. L. Thomas and William M. Adams

Prices and Tree Planting on Hillside Farms in Palawan pp. 937-949

Gerald Shively

Capturing Ambiguities: Communal Conflict Management Alternative in Ghana pp. 951-965

Ben K. Fred-Mensah

Small-Scale Industry and Cleaner Production Strategies pp. 967-983

Jos Frijns and Bas Van Vliet

UNDP's Gender-Related Indices: A Critical Review pp. 985-1010

Kalpana Bardhan and Stephan Klasen

Women's Economic Status in Rural China: Household Contributions to Male-Female Disparities in the Wage-Labor Market pp. 1011-1029

Denise Hare

Exports, Inflation and Growth pp. 1031-1057

Thorvaldur Gylfason

The Impact of Corruption on Investment: Predictability Matters pp. 1059-1067

J. Edgardo Campos, Donald Lien and Sanjay Pradhan

Financial System and Economic Growth: The Korean Experience pp. 1069-1082

Chongwoo Choe and Imad A. Moosa

Pricing Shares on a Nascent Market: The Nepal Stock Exchange 1994-96 pp. 1083-1096

K. C. Bijay and P. N. Snowden

Management of Newly Privatized Companies: Its Importance and How Little We Know pp. 1097-1114

Mehmet Ozkaya and Hossein Askari

Volume 27, issue 5, 1999

The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management pp. 773-788

Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau

What Futures for the People of the Tropical Forests? pp. 789-805

Neil Byron and Michael Arnold

The Effects of Civic Education on Political Culture: Evidence from Zambia pp. 807-824

Michael Bratton, Philip Alderfer, Georgia Bowser and Joseph Temba

A World Bank Intervention in the Sri Lankan Welfare Sector: The National Development Trust Fund pp. 825-838

Judith Shaw

Trust in Political-Administrative Relations: The Case of Local Authorities in Norway and Tanzania pp. 839-853

Dag Ingvar Jacobsen

Four Criteria of Development NGO Legitimacy pp. 855-864

Iain Atack

Why Privatize? The Case of Argentina's Public Provincial Banks pp. 865-886

George Clarke and Robert Cull

The Role of the Private Sector in Education in Vietnam: Evidence From the Vietnam Living Standards Survey pp. 887-902

Paul Glewwe and Harry Patrinos

Volume 27, issue 4, 1999

Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation pp. 629-649

Arun Agrawal and Clark C. Gibson

Making Negotiated Land Reform Work: Initial Experience from Colombia, Brazil and South Africa pp. 651-672

Klaus Deininger

Agricultural Tradables and Economic Recovery in Uganda: The Limitations of Structural Adjustment in Practice pp. 673-690

Deryke Belshaw, Peter Lawrence and Michael Hubbard

Reassessing the Effectiveness of Industrial Policy in Indonesia: Can the Neoliberals be Wrong? pp. 691-704

Michael T. Rock

Exports, Imports and Productivity: Results from Indonesian Establishment Data pp. 705-715

Fredrik Sjöholm

Trade Policy Reform and the Competitive Response in Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa pp. 717-737

Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris

Soil Erosion and Smallholders' Conservation Decisions in the Highlands of Ethiopia pp. 739-752

Bekele Shiferaw and Stein Holden

Fostering Effective Parental Participation in Education: Lessons from a Comparison of Reform Processes in Nicaragua and Mexico pp. 753-771

Alec Ian Gershberg

Volume 27, issue 3, 1999

Development Performance and the Institutions of Governance: Evidence from East Asia and Latin America pp. 439-452

Nauro Campos and Jeffrey Nugent

Computable General Equilibrium Models, Adjustment and the Poor in Africa pp. 453-470

Lorenzo De Maio, Frances Stewart and Rolph van der Hoeven

A Reply to De Maio, Stewart, and van der Hoeven pp. 471-475

David Sahn, Paul Dorosh and Stephen Younger

Stabilization and its Discontents: Argentina's Economic Restructuring in the 1990s pp. 477-503

Manuel Pastor and Carol Wise

The Effects of Structural Adjustment on Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Lowland Bolivia pp. 505-520

David Kaimowitz, Graham Thiele and Pablo Pacheco

Sectoral Growth and Poverty Alleviation: A Multiplier Decomposition Technique Applied to South Africa pp. 521-530

Haider Khan

Editorial pp. 531-531

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Trends, Countertrends, and Gaps in Women's Employment pp. 533-550

Rekha Mehra and Sarah Gammage

Women and Labor Market Changes in the Global Economy: Growth Helps, Inequalities Hurt and Public Policy Matters pp. 551-569

Zafiris Tzannatos

Marginalization Revisited: Women's Market Work and Pay, and Economic Development pp. 571-582

Susan Horton

Global Feminization Through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited pp. 583-602

Guy Standing

Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers pp. 603-610

Martha Chen, Jennefer Sebstad and Lesley O'Connell

Labor Markets as Gendered Institutions: Equality, Efficiency and Empowerment Issues pp. 611-627

Diane Elson

Volume 27, issue 2, 1999

Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management pp. 225-247

Melissa Leach, Robin Mearns and Ian Scoones

Social Vulnerability to Climate Change and Extremes in Coastal Vietnam pp. 249-269

W. Neil Adger

"We Are Not Compensating Rocks": Resettlement and Traditional Religious Systems pp. 271-283

Todd M. Vanden Berg

Towards A More Effective Conditionality: An Operational Framework pp. 285-300

Jose E. Leandro, Hartwig Schafer and Gaspar Frontini

Initial Conditions and Miraculous Growth: Why is South East Asia Different From Taiwan and South Korea? pp. 301-321

Anne Booth

The Long Gestation and Brief Triumph of Import-Substituting Industrialization pp. 323-341

John Waterbury

Privatization, Technical Efficiency and Welfare Consequences: The Case of the Cote d'Ivoire Electricity Company (CIE) pp. 343-360

Patrick Plane

NGO Performance - What Breeds Success? New Evidence from South Asia pp. 361-374

Michael Edwards

Easing Countries' Transitions From Price Controls and Subsidies pp. 375-380

Robert A. Collinge and Justino De La Cruz

Contract Farming, Smallholders, and Rural Development in Latin America: The Organization of Agroprocessing Firms and the Scale of Outgrower Production pp. 381-401

Nigel Key and David Runsten

Facilitating the Provision of Farm Credit: The Role of Interlocking Transactions Between Traders and Zamindars in Crop Marketing Systems in Sindh pp. 403-418

Laurence E. D. Smith, Michael Stockbridge and Hari Ram Lohano

Demystifying Nonparticipation in Microcredit: A Population-Based Analysis pp. 419-430

Timothy G. Evans, Alayne M. Adams, Rafi Mohammed and Alison H. Norris

Who Participates in Labor-Intensive Public Works in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Rural Botswana and Kenya pp. 431-438

Tesfaye Teklu and Sisay Asefa

Volume 27, issue 1, 1999

Poverty, livelihood and class in rural South Africa pp. 1-20

Michael Carter and Julian May

Hypergrowth in an East Asian NIC: Public policy and capital accumulation in Singapore pp. 21-38

John Ermisch and Gregg Huff

Understanding the role of leadership in economic policy reform pp. 39-53

Joe Wallis

The role of small enterprises in the household and national economy in Kenya: A significant contribution or a last resort? pp. 55-65

Lisa Daniels

Micro-credit initiatives for equitable and sustainable development: Who pays? pp. 67-82

Aminur Rahman

Informal potato seed systems in the Andes: Why are they important and what should we do with them? pp. 83-99

Graham Thiele

The role of bamboo plantations in rural development: The case of Anji County, Zhejiang, China pp. 101-114

Manuel Ruiz Perez, Zhong Maogong, Brian Belcher, Xie Chen, Fu Maoyi and Xie Jinzhong

Bureaucrats in business: The roles of privatization versus corporatization in state-owned enterprise reform pp. 115-136

Mary M. Shirley

Why haven't developing countries privatized deeper and faster? pp. 137-155

Ravi Ramamurti

A theory of privatization, or why bureaucrats are still in business pp. 157-168

George Yarrow

Beyond privatization: Institutional innovation and growth in China's large state-owned enterprises pp. 169-200

Peter Nolan and Wang Xiaoqiang

Privatization in Africa: An appraisal pp. 201-213

Ademola Ariyo and Afeikhena Jerome

Privatization and the private sector pp. 215-224

Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski