World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 23, issue 12, 1995

Structural adjustment and African industry pp. 2019-2031

Sanjaya Lall

Alternative definitions of female headship in the Dominican Republic pp. 2033-2039

Beatrice Lorge Rogers

The ecological basis of irrigation institutions: East and South Asia pp. 2041-2049

Robert Wade

Income tax compliance in India: An empirical analysis pp. 2051-2064

Arindam Das-Gupta, Radhika Lahiri and Dilip Mookherjee

Adjustment toward peace: An introduction pp. 2067-2077

James K. Boyce

Macroeconomic policy and the Salvadoran peace accords pp. 2079-2099

Elisabeth Wood and Alexander Segovia

External assistance and the peace process in El Salvador pp. 2101-2116

James K. Boyce

Distributional implications of macroeconomic policy: Theory and applications to El Salvador pp. 2117-2131

Manuel Pastor and Michael E. Conroy

Challenges and opportunities in El Salvador's financial sector pp. 2133-2152

Colin Danby

El Salvador's agricultural sector: Macroeconomic policy, agrarian change and the environment pp. 2153-2172

Carlos Acevedo, Deborah Barry and Herman Rosa

Exports, economic growth and the consolidation of peace in El Salvador pp. 2173-2193

Eva Paus

Volume 23, issue 11, 1995

Introduction pp. 1827-1836

Nilufer Cagatay, Diane Elson and Caren Grow

Toward a greater integration of gender in economics pp. 1839-1850

Lourdes Beneria

Gender Awareness in Modeling Structural Adjustment pp. 1851-1868

Diane Elson

Engendering macroeconomics: A reconsideration of growth theory pp. 1869-1880

Bernard Walters

Feminization of the labor force: The effects of long-term development and structural adjustment pp. 1883-1894

Nilufer Cagatay and Sule Ozler

Long-term trends in the World economy: The gender dimension pp. 1895-1911

Candace Howes and Ajit Singh

Economic restructuring, gender and the allocation of time pp. 1913-1929

Maria Sagrario Floro

Female education and adjustment programs: A crosscountry statistical analysis pp. 1931-1949

Pauline Rose

Environmental and gender feedbacks in macroeconomics pp. 1953-1961

Lance Taylor

The formal structure of a gender-segregated low-income economy pp. 1963-1968

William Darity

Macroeconomic consequences of cyclical and secular changes in feminization: An experiment at gendered macromodeling pp. 1969-1977

Korkut Erturk and Nilufer Cagatay

Public finance from a gender perspective pp. 1981-1986

Ingrid Palmer

Gender equality, bilateral program assistance and structural adjustment: Policy and procedures pp. 1987-1994

Diane Elson and Rosemary McGee

Bringing it all back home: Integrating training for gender specialists and economic planners pp. 1995-1999

Ruth Pearson

Economic restructuring and gender in Canada: Feminist policy initiatives pp. 2005-2017

Martha Macdonald

Volume 23, issue 10, 1995

Central bank independence: A critical view from a developing country perspective pp. 1639-1652

Ignacio Mas

Incorporation and exclusion: The life cycle of Malawi's Refugee assistance program pp. 1653-1667

Roger Zetter

Alternative food security strategy: A household analysis of urban agriculture in Kampala pp. 1669-1681

Daniel G. Maxwell

The emergence and evolution of collective action: Lessons from watershed management in Haiti pp. 1683-1698

T. Anderson White and Carlisle Runge

Social movements and the State: The Politics of health reform in Brazil pp. 1699-1712

Kurt Weyland

Shifting cultivation and "deforestation": A study from Indonesia pp. 1713-1729

Arild Angelsen

Enhancing the role of women in crop production: A case study of Igbo women in Nigeria pp. 1731-1744

Nkoli N. Ezumah and Catherine M. Di Domenico

Developing a quantitative framework for sustainable resource-use planning in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 1745-1764

Oriana Trindade De Almeida and Christopher Uhl

Learning to love the Dutch disease: Evidence from the mineral economies pp. 1765-1779

Graham Davis

The allocation of seigniorage in the Franc Zone: The BEAC and BCEAO regions compared pp. 1781-1793

Rohinton Medhora

Smuggling and supply response: Coffee in Ethiopia pp. 1795-1813

Stefan Dercon and Lulseged Ayalew

Technology transfer to developing countries through engineering firms: The Canadian experience pp. 1815-1824

Jorge Niosi, Petr Hanel and Liette Fiset

Volume 23, issue 9, 1995

Assessing adjustment in Africa pp. 1459-1473

Paul Mosley, Turan Subasat and John Weeks

India and China: Contrasts in economic liberalization? pp. 1475-1494

Deepak Lal

Links between rural poverty and the environment in developing countries: Asset categories and investment poverty pp. 1495-1506

Thomas Reardon and Stephen A. Vosti

Natural resources, national income, and economic growth in Africa pp. 1507-1519

Alex Winter-Nelson

Participatory approaches in government bureaucracies: Facilitating the process of institutional change pp. 1521-1554

John Thompson

Fast food in development pp. 1555-1573

Simon M. Fass

The prevalence of rural poverty in Mexico pp. 1575-1585

Terry Mckinley and Diana Alarcon

From exclusion to participation: Turning Senegal's forestry policy around? pp. 1587-1599

Jesse C. Ribot

Coping with change, complexity and diversity in agriculture -- the case of rhizobium inoculants in Thailand pp. 1601-1614

Andrew Hall and Norman Clark

Small island developing states and their economic vulnerabilities pp. 1615-1632

Lino Briguglio

Migration of professionals from Fiji to New Zealand: A reduced form supply-demand model pp. 1633-1637

Azmat Gani and Bert D. Ward

Volume 23, issue 8, 1995

Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture pp. 1247-1263

Jules N. Pretty

Property, politics and wildlife conservation pp. 1265-1275

Lisa Naughton-Treves and Steven Sanderson

Opportunism and NGOs: Entrepreneurship and green north-south transfers pp. 1277-1289

Carrie A. Meyer

Democracy, gender and US foreign assistance: Guidelines and lessons pp. 1291-1302

David Hirschmann

Performance measurement: Lessons learned for development management pp. 1303-1315

Thomas J. Cook, Jerry Vansant, Leslie Stewart and Jamie Adrian

Collective agricultural production: A solution for transition economies? pp. 1317-1334

Klaus Deininger

Tea estate rehabilitation in Tanzania pp. 1335-1347

Mike Faber

NAFTA and Mexico's maize producers pp. 1349-1362

Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Gustavo Gordillo de Anda

Global and local subcontracting: Space, ethnicity, and the organization of apparel production pp. 1363-1374

Brad Christerson and Richard P. Appelbaum

Costs of entry and exit from financial markets and capital flows to developing countries pp. 1375-1385

Francesco Daveri

Estimating the second economy in Tanzania pp. 1387-1399

M. S. D. Bagachwa and A. Naho

Consumption and poverty in Tanzania in 1976 and 1991: A comparison using survey data pp. 1401-1419

Alexander H. Sarris and Platon Tinios

The developmental state, government, and Singapore's economic development since 1960 pp. 1421-1438

Gregg Huff

The nature of minimum wages and their effectiveness as a wage floor in Costa Rica, 1976-1991 pp. 1439-1458

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell

Volume 23, issue 7, 1995

Are Integrated Conservation-Development Projects (ICDPs) Sustainable? On the conservation of large mammals in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1073-1084

Christopher Barrett and Peter Arcese

Trees on farms in Malawi: Private investment, public policy, and farmer choice pp. 1085-1102

Peter A. Dewees

Farm size and non traditional exports: Determinants of participation in world markets pp. 1103-1114

Jane L. Collins

Incorporating finance into a modified subsector framework: The fertilizer subsector in The Gambia pp. 1115-1127

Geetha Nagarajan and Richard L. Meyer

Photovoltaic technology: Markets, economics, and rural development pp. 1129-1141

Jon D. Erickson and Duane Chapman

Making a market: Mass privatization in the Czech and Slovak Republics pp. 1143-1156

Nemat Shafik

Reform strategies in transitional economies: Lessons from Asia pp. 1157-1169

Pradumna B. Rana

East Asian latecomer firms: Learning the technology of electronics pp. 1171-1193

Mike Hobday

Comparative advantage in manufacturing as a determinant of industrialization: The Korean case pp. 1195-1214

Jaimin Lee

Returns to schooling in non-farm self-employment: An econometric case study of Ghana pp. 1215-1227

Wim Vijverberg

Western European micro-states and EU autonomous regions: The advantages of size and sovereignty pp. 1229-1245

Harvey Armstrong and Robert Read

Volume 23, issue 6, 1995

The gender dimensions of economic adjustment policies: Potential interactions and evidence to date pp. 881-896

Lawrence Haddad, Lynn R. Brown, Andrea Richter and Lisa Smith

Governance structures and the durability of economic reforms: Evidence from inflation stabilizations pp. 897-912

Richard Ball and Gordon Rausser

Distortions in world food markets in the wake of GATT: Evidence and policy implications pp. 913-926

Alberto Valdes and Joachim Zietz

Fighting hunger at the grassroots: Paths to scaling up pp. 927-939

Peter Uvin

Transforming rural hunters into conservationists: An assessment of community-based wildlife management programs in Africa pp. 941-957

Clark C. Gibson and Stuart A. Marks

Economic and ecological perspectives on agriculture in the Eastern Amazon pp. 959-973

Angelica Toniolo and Christopher Uhl

The transhipment problem: Smuggling and welfare in Paraguay pp. 975-985

Michael Connely, John Devereux and Mariluz Cortes

Foreign exchange reform in Iran: Badly designed, badly managed pp. 987-1001

Y. Hossein Farzin

Introduction pp. 1005-1005

Emery M. Roe

Paradigms and politics: The cultural construction of environmental policy in Ethiopia pp. 1007-1021

Allan Hoben

False forest history, complicit social analysis: Rethinking some West African environmental narratives pp. 1023-1035

James Fairhead and Melissa Leach

Environment, development, crisis, and crusade: Ukambani, Kenya, 1890-1990 pp. 1037-1051

Dianne E. Rocheleau, Philip E. Steinberg and Patricia A. Benjamin

Talking claims: Discursive strategies in contesting property pp. 1053-1063

Louise Fortmann

Except-Africa: Postscript to a special section on development narratives pp. 1065-1069

Emery M. Roe

Volume 23, issue 5, 1995

Waiting for change: Adjustment and reform in Cuba pp. 705-720

Manuel Pastor and Andrew Zimbalist

Flexibility and economic progress pp. 721-734

Tony Killick

Fiscal adjustment, financial liberalization, and the dynamics of inflation: Some evidence from Zambia pp. 735-750

Christopher Adam

Macroeconomic policies and project performance in the social sectors: A model of human capital production and evidence from LDCs pp. 751-765

Daniel Kaufmann and Yan Wang

A framework for the analysis of evolving patron-client ties in agrarian economies pp. 767-786

Jean-Philippe Platteau

Economic factors in farmer adoption of agroforestry: Patterns observed in Western Kenya pp. 787-804

Sara J. Scherr

Zimbabwe's maize-based Green Revolution: Preconditions for replication pp. 805-818

Carl K. Eicher

"Maize is life": Malawi's delayed Green Revolution pp. 819-831

Melinda Smale

More than the politics of decentralization: Local government reform, district development and public administration in Zimbabwe pp. 833-843

Emery M. Roe

Informal credit markets and economic development in Taiwan pp. 845-855

Shui-Yan Tang

The crisis in South African gold mining pp. 857-868

Nicoli Nattrass

Debt, dependence and the demographic Transition: Latin America in to the next century pp. 869-879

Alan Taylor

Volume 23, issue 4, 1995

The nature of economic development pp. 543-556

Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi

Economic reform in developing countries: Some conceptual issues pp. 557-575

Radha Sinha

A poverty-oriented cost-benefit approach to the analysis of development projects pp. 577-592

Paul Clements

The state, popular participation, and the voluntary sector pp. 593-601

John Clark

Commodity exports and the adding-up problem in LDCs: Trade, investment and lending policy pp. 603-615

Maurice Schiff

Agricultural research effort: Conceptual clarity and measurement pp. 617-635

Rajeswari S.

Political commitment, institutional capacity and tax policy reform in Tanzania pp. 637-649

Oliver Morrissey

Informal finance in Egypt: "Banks" within banks pp. 651-661

Mayada M. Baydas, Zakaria Bahloul and Dale W. Adams

The Botswana share market and its role in financial and economic development pp. 663-678

Keith Jefferis

Local government in Bangladesh: Past experiences and yet another try pp. 679-690

Kirsten Westergaard and Muhammad Mustafa Alam

The role of foreign direct investment in China's post-1978 economic development pp. 691-703

Chung Chen, Lawrence Chang and Yimin Zhang

Volume 23, issue 3, 1995

Social integration and disintegration: An exploratory analysis of cross-country data pp. 357-369

Robert Klitgaard and Johannes Fedderke

Rotating and accumulating savings and credit associations: A development perspective pp. 371-384

F. J. A. Bouman

Trickling down and scrambling up: The informal sector, food provisioning and local benefits of the Carajas mining "Growth Pole" in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 385-400

J. Timmons Roberts

The economics of wheat research in developing countries: The one hundred million dollar puzzle pp. 401-412

Mywish Maredia and Carl K. Eicher

NGOs and seed provision to smallholders in developing countries pp. 413-422

Steve Wiggins and Elizabeth Cromwell

Innovation and imitation: Adoption of cocoa by Indonesian smallholders pp. 423-431

Marc Pomp and Kees Burger

Financial development and economic growth pp. 433-448

Jose De Gregorio and Pablo Guidotti

Economic growth in Africa pp. 449-458

Andreas Savvides

Policies to encourage inflows of technology through foreign multinationals pp. 459-468

Ari Kokko and Magnus Blomstrom

Foreign direct investment and income inequality: Further evidence pp. 469-483

Pan-Long Tsai

The restructuring of the Indian automobile industry: Indian state and Japanese capital pp. 485-502

Anthony P. D'costa

Learning our way out: A conceptual framework for social-environmental learning pp. 503-513

Matthias Finger and Philomene Verlaan

Public expenditure policy and the environment: A review and synthesis pp. 515-528

Sanjeev Gupta, Kenneth Miranda and Ian Parry

Export processing zones in the Dominican Republic: A comment on Kaplinsky pp. 529-535

Larry Willmore

A reply to Willmore pp. 537-540

Raphael Kaplinsky

Volume 23, issue 2, 1995

Foreign capital and economic development in South Africa: Recent trends and postapartheid prospects pp. 163-177

Vishnu Padayachee

Capital Intensity in South African Manufacturing and Unemployment, 1972-1990 pp. 179-192

Raphael Kaplinsky

The macroeconomic effects of direct foreign investment: The case of Thailand pp. 193-210

Karel Jansen

Measuring capital flight: A case study of Mexico pp. 211-232

Harald Eggerstedt, Rebecca Brideau Hall and Sweder van Wijnbergen

War, peace and private portfolios pp. 233-241

Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

Agricultural transformations in India and Northern Nigeria: Exploring the nature of Green Revolutions pp. 243-263

Abe Goldman and Joyotee Smith

Did the Green Revolution Concentrate Incomes? A Quantitative Study of Research Reports pp. 265-279

Donald K. Freebairn

Labor absorption and agricultural development: Bangladesh's experience and predicament pp. 281-297

Mohammad Alauddin and Clement Tisdell

Farmers' Responses to the Flood Action Plan (FAP) of Bangladesh: An empirical study pp. 299-309

Bimal Kanti Paul

Economic reform and smallholder agriculture in Tanzania: A discussion of recent market liberalization, road rehabilitation, and technology dissemination efforts pp. 311-326

Louis Putterman

Gender and trade within the household: Observations from rural guatemala pp. 327-342

Elizabeth G. Katz

Changing returns to education in Taiwan: 1978-1991 pp. 343-356

Thomas (Tim) Gindling, Marsha Goldfarb and Chun-Chig Chang

Volume 23, issue 1, 1995

Introduction pp. 1-7

John Humphrey

Small shoemakers and fordist giants: Tale of a supercluster pp. 9-28

Hubert Schmitz

Is there an "industrial district model"? Footwear districts in Italy and Mexico compared pp. 29-41

Roberta Rabellotti

Of networks and markets: The rise and rise of a South Indian town, the example of Tiruppur's cotton knitwear industry pp. 43-56

Pamela M. Cawthorne

Technique and system: The spread of Japanese management techniques to developing countries pp. 57-71

Raphael Kaplinsky

Quality and productivity in the competitive strategies of Brazilian industrial enterprises pp. 73-85

Afonso Fleury

Flexible production in the auto sector: Industrial reorganization at Ford-Mexico pp. 87-101

V. Jorge Carrillo

Japanese techniques in Africa? Human resources and industrial restructuring in Zimbabwe pp. 103-116

Anne Caroline Posthuma

"Japanization": Context and culture in the Indonesian automotive industry pp. 117-128

John Harriss

Industrial restructuring: Facilitating organizational change at the firm level pp. 129-141

John Bessant and Raphael Kaplinsky

Micro-level innovations and competitiveness pp. 143-148

Jorg Meyer-Stamer

Industrial reorganization in developing countries: From models to trajectories pp. 149-162

John Humphrey