World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 25, issue 12, 1997

Editorial: Human capital and human capability pp. 1959-1961

Amartya Sen

"Unanticipated consequences" in anti-poverty programs pp. 1963-1972

Robert Klitgaard

Testing the limits of privatization: Argentine railroads pp. 1973-1993

Ravi Ramamurti

An ecological economic approach to forest and biodiversity conservation: The case of vanuatu pp. 1995-2008

Luca Tacconi

Pluralism and well-being indices pp. 2009-2026

Mozaffar Qizilbash

The "hidden hand" behind the resilience of the stateless economy of Somalia pp. 2027-2041

Jamil A. Mubarak

Measuring differential forest outcomes: A tale of two countries pp. 2043-2056

Gary Koop and Lise Tole

Confronting the classification problem: Toward a taxonomy of NGOs pp. 2057-2070

Anna C. Vakil

The poverty trap: The dual externality model and its policy implications pp. 2071-2081

Stefano Paternostro

Targeting the poor using ROC curves pp. 2083-2092

Quentin Wodon

Shifting sands: The changing case for monetizing project food aid in Bangladesh pp. 2093-2104

Paul Dorosh and Steven Haggblade

Political feasibility of structural adjustment in africa: an application of SAM mixed multipliers pp. 2105-2114

Karl M. Rich, Alex Winter-Nelson and Gerald Nelson

Export processing zones as catalysts pp. 2115-2128

Helena Johansson and Lars Nilsson

Labor remuneration in Jakarta's small enterprises: Exploitative or equitable? pp. 2129-2141

Peter Van Diermen

Farm earnings, educational attainment, and role of public policy: Some evidence from Mexico pp. 2143-2154

Ram D. Singh and Maria Santiago

Formally modelling a gender-segregated economy: A response to William Darity, Jr pp. 2155-2158

D. A. Campbell and James Warner

Formally modeling a gender-segregated economy: A reply to Campbell and Warner pp. 2159-2161

William Darity

Volume 25, issue 11, 1997

Editorial: Responsible well-being -- a personal agenda for development pp. 1743-1754

Robert Chambers

New states, new NGOs? crises and transitions among rural development NGOs in the Andean region pp. 1755-1765

Anthony Bebbington

The sustainability of development projects: An impact assessment of German vocational-training projects in Latin America pp. 1767-1784

Reinhard Stockmann

Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and prospects during the 1990s pp. 1785-1803

Paul Bennell

Forms of external capital and economic development in Latin America: 1820-1997 pp. 1805-1820

Werner Baer and Kent Hargis

New trends in globalization of corporate R&D and implications for innovation capability in host countries: A survey from India pp. 1821-1837

Prasada Reddy

The effects of restrictive South African migrant labor policy on the survival of rural households in Southern Africa: A sase study from rural Swaziland pp. 1839-1849

Andre Leliveld

Foreword pp. 1851-1851

John-Ren Chen and David Sapsford

Economic development and policy: Professor Sir Hans Singer's contributions to development economics pp. 1853-1856

John-Ren Chen and David Sapsford

Singer, services and software pp. 1857-1861

Ahalya Balasubramanyam and V. N. Balasubramanyam

Composite commodities and the Prebisch-Singer thesis pp. 1863-1871

John-Ren Chen and Herbert Stocker

Some estimates of Prebisch and Singer effects on the terms of trade between primary producers and manufacturers pp. 1873-1884

Harry Bloch and David Sapsford

Trade liberalization and growth in developing countries: Some new evidence pp. 1885-1892

Sir David Greenaway, Wyn Morgan and Peter Wright

Strategic trade policy, learning by doing effects and economic development pp. 1893-1899

Andy McKay and Chris Milner

Helping southern net food importers after the Uruguay round: A proposal pp. 1901-1907

Kunibert Raffer

Income distribution and poverty: An interregional comparison pp. 1909-1924

Kwan S. Kim

The pattern of direct foreign investment and economic growth pp. 1925-1936

Amitava Dutt

The IMF and the emerging markets: A reappraisal of the central banking model pp. 1937-1948

P. Nicholas Snowden

The World Bank, "Global Keynesianism" and the distribution of the gains from growth pp. 1949-1956

Paul Mosley

Volume 25, issue 10, 1997

Editorial: Development, knowledge and the Baconian age pp. 1561-1568

Francisco Sagasti

The risks and reconstruction model for resettling displaced populations pp. 1569-1587

Michael Cernea

Growth, structural change and plantation tree crops: The case of rubber pp. 1589-1607

Colin Barlow

Sources of growth: A reconsideration and general equilibrium application to Indonesia pp. 1609-1625

G. Chris Rodrigo and Erik Thorbecke

Growth in a dual economy pp. 1627-1637

Magnus Blomstrom and Edward Wolff

On the past and future of china's township and village-owned enterprises pp. 1639-1655

Louis Putterman

The reform of social welfare in China pp. 1657-1668

Mark Selden and Laiyin You

Skill development and integrated manufacturing in Mexico pp. 1669-1681

John Sargent and Linda Matthews

Technology strategies of large enterprises in Indian industry: Some explorations pp. 1683-1700

Rakesh Basant

Impacts of tariff escalation on the environment: Literature review and synthesis pp. 1701-1716

Joy E. Hecht

Real exchange rate targeting and inflation in Turkey: An empirical analysis with policy credibility pp. 1717-1730

Turan Erol and Sweder van Wijnbergen

Repayment performance in group-based credit programs in Bangladesh: An empirical analysis pp. 1731-1742

Manohar Sharma and Manfred Zeller

Volume 25, issue 9, 1997

Editorial: Re-sounding the alert--gender, resources and community action pp. 1373-1380

Bina Agarwal

Method in the madness? a political-economy analysis of the ethnic conflicts in less developed countries pp. 1381-1398

Pranab Bardhan

Redesigning conditionality pp. 1399-1407

Paul Collier, Patrick Guillaumont, Sylviane Guillaumont and Jan Willem Gunning

External financing and balance of payments adjustment in developing countries: Getting a better policy mix pp. 1409-1420

Graham Bird

Development and infinity pp. 1421-1430

Michael Pretes

Mutual empowerment of state and peasantry: Grassroots democracy in rural China pp. 1431-1442

Xu Wang

Tropics and economic development: An empirical investigation pp. 1443-1452

Rati Ram

Export-oriented industrialization through primary processing? pp. 1453-1470

Trudy Owens and Adrian Wood

Microentrepreneurs and homeworkers: Convergent categories pp. 1471-1482

Elisabeth Prugl and Irene Tinker

Corporate/indigenous partnerships in economic development: The first nations in Canada pp. 1483-1503

Robert B. Anderson

Food marketing and pricing policy in Eastern and Southern Africa: A survey pp. 1505-1527

Thomas Jayne and Stephen Jones

Communal property and land markets: Agricultural development policy in St. Lucia pp. 1529-1540

Veronica Dujon

The private use of publicly funded industrial technologies in developing countries: Empirical tests for an industrial research institute in India pp. 1541-1550

Homi Katrak

India's economic growth: A conundrum pp. 1551-1559

Deena R. Khatkhate

Volume 25, issue 8, 1997

Editorial: Reforming the welfare state in postsocialist societies pp. 1183-1186

János Kornai

The old theory of economic policy and the new institutionalism pp. 1187-1203

Thrainn Eggertsson

Gender, development and urban social change: Women's community action in global cities pp. 1205-1223

Amy Lind

Tomatoes, land and hearsay: Property and history in asante in the time of structural adjustment pp. 1225-1241

Sara Berry

State formation and international aid: The emergence of the Palestinian authority pp. 1243-1255

Hillel Frisch and Menachem Hofnung

The Green Revolution and wheat genetic diversity: Some unfounded assumptions pp. 1257-1269

Melinda Smale

The maturation and growth of infant industries: The case of Korea pp. 1271-1281

Jaymin Lee

Gender and property rights: Overview pp. 1299-1302

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Lynn R. Brown, Hilary Sims Feldstein and Agnes Quisumbing

Gender, property rights, and natural resources pp. 1303-1315

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Lynn R. Brown, Hilary Sims Feldstein and Agnes Quisumbing

Impact of privatization on gender and property rights in Africa pp. 1317-1333

Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel

Water: From basic need to commodity: A discussion on gender and water rights in the context of irrigation pp. 1335-1349

Margreet Z. Zwarteveen

Women, men and trees: Gender, power and property in forest and agrarian landscapes pp. 1351-1371

Dianne Rocheleau and David Edmunds

Volume 25, issue 7, 1997

Editorial: Poverty -- are there holes in the consensus? pp. 1003-1007

Michael Lipton

Leading the left to the right: Populist coalitions and economic reform pp. 1009-1028

Mick Moore

The Emergence of local capacity: Lessons from Colombia pp. 1029-1043

Ariel Fiszbein

Pace, sequencing and credibility of structural reforms pp. 1045-1061

Rina Bhattacharya

Substituting for the state: Institutions and industrial development in eastern Nigeria pp. 1063-1080

Deborah Brautigam

Microfinance in Africa: Is it either the problem or the solution? pp. 1081-1093

Graeme Buckley

Growth and barriers to growth among Nairobi's small and medium-sized garment producers pp. 1095-1110

Dorothy McCormick, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui and Grace Ongile

Fitting gender into development institutions pp. 1111-1125

Shahra Razavi

The political economy of NGOs and information sharing pp. 1127-1140

Carrie A. Meyer

Current poverty, structural adjustment, and drought in Zimbabwe pp. 1141-1149

Catherine M. Marquette

Population growth and agriculture in poor countries: A review of theoretical issues and empirical evidence pp. 1151-1163

Nadia Cuffaro

Socioeconomic stratification by wealth ranking: Is it valid? pp. 1165-1172

Alayne M. Adams, Timothy G. Evans, Rafi Mohammed and Jennifer Farnsworth

Liberalizing foreign investments by pension funds: Positive and normative aspects pp. 1173-1182

Helmut Reisen

Volume 25, issue 6, 1997

Editorial: Development history and its implications for development theory pp. 831-840

Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris

A tale of two economies: Economic restructuring in post-socialist Poland pp. 841-865

Robert E. Kennedy

Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A critique pp. 867-881

Stephan Haggard, David Kang and Chung-In Moon

Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A reply pp. 883-888

Atul Kohli

Open economies work better! did Africa's protectionist policies cause its marginalization in world trade? pp. 889-904

Francis Ng and Alexander Yeats

Net and total transition costs: The timing of economic reform pp. 905-914

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Jairo Abud

Structural adjustment policies, income distribution and poverty: A review of the jamaican experience pp. 915-930

Sudhanshu Handa and Damien King

Two aid hegemons: Japanese-US interaction and aid allocation to Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 931-945

Saori N. Katada

AIDS and economic welfare in peasant agriculture: Case studies from Kagabiro village, Kagera region, Tanzania pp. 963-975

Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka

Household determinants of deforestation by amerindians in honduras pp. 977-987

Ricardo Godoy, Kathleen O'neill, Stephen Groff, Peter Kostishack, Adoni Cubas, Josephien Demmer, Kendra Mcsweeney, Johannes Overman, David Wilkie, Nicholas Brokaw and Marques Martinez

Forest management practices in the Bayano region of Panama: Cultural variations pp. 989-1000

Cynthia S. Simmons

Volume 25, issue 5, 1997

Editorial: Capacity for economic research and the changing policy environment in Africa pp. 627-630

Benno J. Ndulu

Good and bad growth: The human development reports pp. 631-638

Martin Ravallion

Bringing water markets down to earth: The political economy of water rights in Chile, 1976-1995 pp. 639-656

Carl J. Bauer

Strategic alliances in information technology and developing country firms: Recent evidence pp. 657-680

Nicholas S. Vonortas and Stratos P. Safioleas

India's industrial development: An interpretative survey pp. 681-694

Raphael Kaplinsky

Technological development in a dual economy: Alternative policy levers for economic development pp. 695-712

Khalid Saeed and Ponthep Prankprakma

Gender again--views of female agricultural extension officers by smallholder farmers in Tanzania pp. 713-725

Jean M. Due, Flavianus Magayane and Anna A. Temu

Introduction: Markets in sub-saharan Africa pp. 733-734

Marcel Fafchamps

Using evidence of household income diversification to inform study of the rural nonfarm labor market in Africa pp. 735-747

Thomas Reardon

Market power, firm performance and real wage growth in Zimbabwean manufacturing pp. 749-762

Ann Velenchik

Food marketing liberalization and trader entry: Evidence from Madagascar pp. 763-777

Christopher Barrett

Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa pp. 779-794

Steven Staal, Christopher Delgado and Charles Nicholson

Trade credit in Zimbabwean manufacturing pp. 795-815

Marcel Fafchamps

Informal financial markets under liberalization in four African countries pp. 817-830

William F. Steel, Ernest Aryeetey, Hemamala Hettige and Machiko Nissanke

Volume 25, issue 4, 1997

Editorial: Bringing production back in -- Understanding Government's economic role in late industrialization pp. 469-480

Alice H. Amsden

Divergent cultures? When public organizations perform well in developing countries pp. 481-495

Merilee S. Grindle

Social welfare reform in the context of economic-political liberalization: Latin American cases pp. 497-517

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Exchange rate-based stabilization in Latin America pp. 519-535

Nader Nazmi

The implications of increasing economic openness for real wages in developing countries, 1973-1990 pp. 537-547

Eva A. Paus and Michael Robinson

Indigenous land rights in sub-Saharan Africa: Appropriation, security and investment demand pp. 549-562

Espen Sjaastad and Daniel Bromley

The influence of women's changing roles and status in Bangladesh's fertility transition: Evidence from a study of credit programs and contraceptive use pp. 563-575

Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Mesbahuddin Hashemi and Ann P. Riley

On the determinants of nutrition in Mozambique: The importance of age-specific effects pp. 577-588

David Sahn and Harold Alderman

A theory of remittances as an implicit family loan arrangement pp. 589-611

Bernard Poirine

Estimating remittance functions for Pacific Island Migrants pp. 613-626

Richard P. C. Brown

Volume 25, issue 3, 1997

Editorial: The golden age of the keynesian consensus -- the pendulum swings back pp. 293-295

H. W. Singer

Alternative ways to fund the International Development Association (IDA) pp. 297-310

Jonathan Sanford

Neoliberalism and income distribution in Latin America pp. 311-327

Werner Baer and William Maloney

Learning from social security reforms: Two different cases, Chile and Argentina pp. 329-348

Alberto Arenas De Mesa and Fabio Bertranou

Program success and management of integrated primary education in developing countries pp. 349-358

Pankaj S. Jain

Acquisition of technological capability in development: A quantitative case study of Pakistan's capital goods sector pp. 359-377

Henny Romijn

Entry versus success in the labor force: Young women's employment in Sri Lanka pp. 379-394

Anju Malhotra and Deborah S. DeGraff

Impacts of growth and structural change on CO2 emissions of developing countries pp. 395-407

Xiaoli Han and Lata Chatterjee

Investments in african agricultural research pp. 409-423

Philip Pardey, Johannes Roseboom and Nienke Beintema

Agriculture under trade policy reform: A quantitative assessment for India pp. 425-436

Servaas Storm

Producer cooperative resettlement projects in Zimbabwe: Lessons from a failed agricultural development strategy pp. 437-456

Kofi Akwabi-Ameyaw

Some observations on power and property rights in the inland fisheries of Bangladesh pp. 457-467

Kazi Toufique

Volume 25, issue 2, 1997

Editorial: The revival of the liberal creed -- the IMF and the World Bank in a globalized economy pp. 145-152

Lance Taylor

Technology choice and income distribution pp. 153-165

Jeffrey James and Haider Khan

Central-bank decapitalization in developing economies pp. 167-178

Paul Beckerman

Does leadership matter in the economic reform process? Liberalization and governance in Sri Lanka, 1989-1993 pp. 179-190

David Dunham and Saman Kelegam

Carbon intensity and economic development 1962-1991: A brief exploration of the environmental Kuznets curve pp. 191-198

J. Timmons Roberts and Peter E. Grimes

Policing the urban pumping race: Industrial groundwater overexploitation in Indonesia pp. 199-210

Okke Braadbaart and Frederick Braadbaart

Achieving balance in decentralization: A case study of education decentralization in Chile pp. 211-225

Taryn Rounds Parry

Comparing contracts: An evaluation of contract farming schemes in Africa pp. 227-238

Gina Porter and Phillips-Howard[malt], Kevin

Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: Application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya pp. 239-253

Protase N. Echessah, Brent Swallow, Damaris W. Kamara and John J. Curry

When households run out of fuel: Responses of rural households to decreasing fuelwood availability, Ntcheu District, Malawi pp. 255-266

Inge D. Brouwer, Jan C. Hoorweg and Marti J. van Liere

Why institutional credit agencies are reluctant to lend to the rural poor: A theoretical analysis of the Indian rural credit market pp. 267-280

Santonu Basu

Effective protection and investment incentives in Egypt and Jordan during the transition to free trade With Europe pp. 281-291

Bernard Hoekman and Simeon Djankov

Volume 25, issue 1, 1997

An introduction to a primer for reform-minded Presidents or Prime Ministers pp. 1-3

Paul Streeten

Shifting fortunes: The political economy of financial liberalization in Nigeria pp. 5-22

Peter Lewis and Howard Stein

Gender, environment, and poverty interlinks: Regional variations and temporal shifts in rural India, 1971-1991 pp. 23-52

Bina Agarwal

The paths to rain forest destruction: Crossnational patterns of tropical deforestation, 1975-1990 pp. 53-65

Tom Rudel and Jill Roper

Settler households and land-use patterns in the Amazon frontier: Farm-level evidence from Ecuador pp. 67-91

Francisco J. Pichon

The frontiers of influence: NGO lobbying at the 1974 World Food Conference, the 1992 Earth Summit and beyond pp. 93-114

Alison Van Rooy

Stakeholders, science and decision making for poverty-focused rural mechanization research and development pp. 115-126

Graham Gass, Stephen Biggs and Aiden Kelly

Should the Kuznets effect be relied on to induce equalizing growth: Evidence from post-1950 development pp. 127-143

Kirk S. Bowman