World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 22, issue 12, 1994

Trust in a rent-seeking world: Health and government transformed in Northeast Brazil pp. 1771-1791

Judith Tendler and Sara Freedheim

Grassroots action for resettlement planning: Brazil and beyond pp. 1793-1809

Anthony Hall

Openness and the market friendly approach to development: Learning the right lessons from development experience pp. 1811-1823

Ajit Singh

Economic development in the 1990s pp. 1825-1832

Albert Fishlow

Theories of institutions and economic reform in Africa pp. 1833-1849

Howard Stein

The no-exit economy: Soft budget constraints and the fate of economic reforms in developing countries pp. 1851-1867

Martin Raiser

Interest rate policy, taxation and risk pp. 1869-1879

Charles Harvey and Carolyn Jenkins

The contribution of small enterprises to employment growth in southern and eastern Africa pp. 1881-1894

Donald C. Mead

Determinants of credit rationing: A study of informal lenders and formal credit groups in Madagascar pp. 1895-1907

Manfred Zeller

The public finance of infrastructure: Issues and options pp. 1909-1919

Vinaya Swaroop

Payoffs from investment in information technology: Lessons from the Asia-Pacific region pp. 1921-1931

Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick

Generating and sustaining backward linkages between maquiladoras and local suppliers in Northern Mexico pp. 1933-1945

Jefferey T. Brannon, Dilmus D. James and G. William Lucker

Income inequalities in China: Evidence from household survey data pp. 1947-1957

Athar Hussain, Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern

The effects of volatility in the terms of trade on output growth: New evidence pp. 1959-1975

Matthias Lutz

An empirical investigation of exports, development, and growth in developing countries: Challenging the neoclassical theory of export-led growth pp. 1977-1995

Behzad Yaghmaian

Rent, emigration and unemployment in small islands: The MIRAB model and the French overseas departments and territories pp. 1997-2009

Bernard Poirine

The impact of foreign aid on the fiscal behavior of Asian LDC governments: A comment on Khan and Hoshino (1992) pp. 2015-2017

Mark McGillivray

Explaining the impact of foreign aid: Response to McGillivray pp. 2019-2020

Haider Khan

Volume 22, issue 11, 1994

Markets in tradable water rights: Potential for efficiency gains in developing country water resource allocation pp. 1613-1625

Mark Rosegrant and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

The impact of crisis, stabilization and structural adjustment on women in Lima, Peru pp. 1627-1642

Janet M. Tanski

Rural industrialization: An engine of prosperity in postreform rural China pp. 1643-1662

Rizwanul Islam and Jin Hehui

State intervention in Cuban agriculture: Impact on organization and performance pp. 1663-1675

Jose Alvarez and Ricardo A. Puerta

Acknowledgements pp. 1679-1679

Wyn Morgan and David Sapsford

Commodities and development: Some issues pp. 1681-1684

Wyn Morgan and David Sapsford

The continuing commodity crisis of developing countries pp. 1685-1695

Alfred Maizels

The link between increased trade openness and the terms of trade: An empirical investigation pp. 1697-1709

Matthias Lutz and H. W. Singer

North-South terms of trade and growth: A macroeconomic framework on Kaldorian lines pp. 1711-1715

Prabirjit Sarkar

Policy options for stabilizing earnings in a speculative market: a structural analysis pp. 1717-1728

Andrew Hughes Hallett

Price instability and commodity futures markets pp. 1729-1736

C. W. Morgan, A. J. Rayner and C. T. Ennew

The long-run behavior of the relative price of primary commodities: Statistical evidence and policy implications pp. 1737-1745

David Sapsford and Vudayagiri Balasubramanyam

The excess comovement of commodity prices revisited pp. 1747-1758

Stephen Leybourne, T. A. Lloyd and G. V. Reed

The effects of land reform on the rice sector and economic development in Taiwan pp. 1759-1770

John-Ren Chen

Volume 22, issue 10, 1994

Participatory rural appraisal (PRA): Challenges, potentials and paradigm pp. 1437-1454

Robert Chambers

Gender and command over property: A critical gap in economic analysis and policy in South Asia pp. 1455-1478

Bina Agarwal

Structural change, power politics, and community organizations in Africa: Challenging the patterns, puzzles and paradoxes pp. 1479-1490

Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter

Limitations to democracy in developing capitalist societies: The case of Venezuela pp. 1491-1509

Brian Crisp

Market and state: Evaluating tanzania's program of state-led industrialization pp. 1511-1520

Matthew J. Costello

Poverty and basic needs fulfilment in Africa during structural change: Evidence from Cote d'Ivoire pp. 1521-1534

Christiaan Grootaert

Gender, headship and intrahousehold resource allocation pp. 1535-1547

Sudhanshu Handa

Education, experience and earnings in the labor market of a developing economy: The case of urban Khartoum pp. 1549-1565

Barney Cohen and William J. House

Fruit trees under contract: Tenure and land use change in upland Java, Indonesia pp. 1567-1578

Krisnawati Suryanata

Judging givers: Equity and scale in aid allocation pp. 1579-1584

J. Mohan Rao

An empirical "dependent economy" model for Pakistan pp. 1585-1597

Nadeem U. Haque, Aasim M. Husain and Peter Montiel

Imports of technology, enterprise size and R&D-based production in a newly industrializing country: The evidence from Indian enterprises pp. 1599-1608

Homi Katrak

Pitfalls in technology transfer: Kenya's construction industry pp. 1609-1612

D. Luvisia Bakuli

Volume 22, issue 9, 1994

Participatory rural appraisal (PRA): Analysis of experience pp. 1253-1268

Robert Chambers

Where do high growth political economies come from? The Japanese lineage of Korea's "developmental state" pp. 1269-1293

Atul Kohli

Political change and the welfare state: The case of health and food policies in Mexico (1970-1993) pp. 1295-1312

Viviane Brachet-Marquez and Margaret Sherrard Sherraden

Privatization in Latin America: Lessons for transitional Europe pp. 1313-1323

Mary M. Shirley

Returns to investment in education: A global update pp. 1325-1343

George Psacharopoulos

Has the green revolution been sustained? The quantitative impact of the seed-fertilizer revolution in Pakistan revisited pp. 1345-1361

Derek Byerlee and Akmal Siddiq

Managing for success: Lessons from Asian development programs pp. 1363-1377

Pankaj S. Jain

Export promotion in a regional context: Central America and Southern Africa pp. 1379-1392

Nora Hamilton and Carol Thompson

The informal sector and the macroeconomy: A computable general equilibrium approach for Peru pp. 1393-1411

Bruce Kelley

Testing the causes of discontinuities in the black market exchange rate in China pp. 1413-1424

Jason Yin and William A. Stoever

Why visiting sociologists fail pp. 1425-1436

Ronald Dore

Volume 22, issue 8, 1994

Preface pp. 1103-1104

Anne Gordon Drabek

Fiscal deficits, output growth and inflation targets in Ghana pp. 1105-1117

Nii Sowa

Fiscal adjustment and growth in Cote d'Ivoire pp. 1119-1128

Oussou Kouassy and Bouabre Bohoun

Fiscal federalism: Nigeria's post-independence experience, 1960-90 pp. 1129-1146

Akpan H. Ekpo

Evaluating the net gains from the CFA Franc Zone membership: A different perspective pp. 1147-1160

M'Bet Allechi and Madeleine A. Niamkey

Trade and payments regime and the balance of payments in Ghana pp. 1161-1173

C. D. Jebuni, Abena Oduro and K. A. Tutu

Relative price effects of exchange rate depreciation in Nigeria under fixed and fixed/flexible mark-up pricing regimes pp. 1175-1182

D. Olu Ajakaiye and Ode Ojowu

Exchange rate unification and economic development: The case of Uganda, 1987-92 pp. 1183-1198

L. Kasekende and G. Ssemogerere

Characteristics of the savings-investment process in Nigeria pp. 1199-1210

Adedoyin Soyibo

Private investment under uncertainty in Ghana pp. 1211-1221

Ernest Aryeetey

Assessing and managing external debt problems in Nigeria pp. 1223-1242

Mufutau Iyiola Raheem

The structure and policy implications of a macroeconomic model of Ghana pp. 1243-1251

Cletus K. Dordunoo

Volume 22, issue 7, 1994

The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal pp. 953-969

Robert Chambers

Questioning the call for environmental loans: A critical examination of forestry lending in the Philippines pp. 971-981

Frances F. Korten

Poverty reduction through geographic targeting: How well does it work? pp. 983-995

Judy L. Baker and Margaret E. Grosh

Malthus controverted: The role of capital and technology in growth and environment recovery in Kenya pp. 997-1010

Mary Tiffen and Michael Mortimore

Economic returns to social power: Merchants' finance and interlinkage in the grain markets of Bangladesh pp. 1011-1030

Ben Crow and K. A. S. Murshid

Demographic behavior and poverty: Micro-level evidence from Southern Sudan pp. 1031-1044

Barney Cohen and William J. House

Policy lessons from Lao and Hmong women in Thai refugee camps pp. 1045-1059

Dia Cha and Cathy A. Small

"Missing women" reconsidered pp. 1061-1071

Stephan Klasen

Discrimination against women in formal credit markets: Reality or rhetoric? pp. 1073-1082

Mayada M. Baydas, Richard L. Meyer and Nelson Aguilera-Alfred

A tale of two enterprises: Swaziland's lessons for privatization pp. 1083-1096

Karamo N. M. Sonko

Intellectual origins of Indian economic reform: A review of Jagdish Bhagwati's India in transition: Freeing the economy (1993) pp. 1097-1102

Deena Khatkhate

Volume 22, issue 6, 1994

The poor and the environment: Friends or foes? pp. 811-822

Robin Broad

Impacts on rural poverty of land-based targeting: Further results for Bangladesh pp. 823-838

Martin Ravallion and Binayak Sen

Village labor markets in Sheikan district, Sudan pp. 839-857

Michael Kevane

Building human resources and women's capabilities in Afghanistan: A retrospect and prospects pp. 859-875

Valentine M. Moghadam

Institutional barriers to policy reform in Egypt: The case of the agricultural machinery industry pp. 877-888

John M. Kerr

Industrial districts in Europe: Policy lessons for developing countries? pp. 889-910

Hubert Schmitz and Bernard Musyck

Peru's return toward an open economy: Macroeconomic complications and structural questions pp. 911-923

John Sheahan

State-owned enterprise reform through performance contracts: The Bolivian experiment pp. 925-934

Richard D. Mallon

State policy and rural resource allocation in China as seen through a Hebei province township, 1970-1985 pp. 935-947

Calla Wiemer

Volume 22, issue 5, 1994

A comparison of determinants of urban, rural and farm poverty in Costa Rica pp. I-I

Adrián Rodríguez and Stephen M. Smith

Changing the economics of environmental degradation in Madagascar: Lessons from the national environmental action plan process pp. 671-689

Bruce A. Larson

Why are farms so small? pp. 691-706

Nancy L. Johnson and Vernon Ruttan

From rags to riches: The impact of rural development on women's status in an Indian village pp. 707-719

Carol Vlassoff

Penny capitalism: Efficient but poor or inefficient and (less than) second best? pp. 721-735

Thomas Schweigert

Brazilian privatization in the 1990s pp. 737-753

Armando Castelar Pinheiro and Fabio Giambiagi

The impact of new technologies on scale in manufacturing industries: Issues and evidence pp. 755-769

Ludovico Alcorta

Catching up or falling behind: Patterns in international interfirm technology partnering pp. 771-780

Chris Freeman and John Hagedoorn

Import substitution and export-led growth: A study of Taiwan's petrochemical industry pp. 781-794

Wan-Wen Chu

Exchange rate variability and imports in WAMU countries: Is this relationship relevant? pp. 795-801

Djeto Assane and Abel Konan

A reply to Assane and Konan pp. 803-805

Rohinton Medhora

Decentralization, participation and spatial equity in rural tanzania: A comment pp. 807-810

Joseph Semboja and Ole Therkildsen

Volume 22, issue 4, 1994

Political liberation and economic policy reform in Africa pp. 483-500

Nicolas Van De Walle

Convergence and divergence in the informal sector debate: A focus on Latin America, 1984-92 pp. 501-516

Cathy A. Rakowski

Issues of state and market: From interventionism to deregulation of food markets in Nicaragua pp. 517-533

Max Spoor

Macroeconomic management and the division of powers in Brazil: Perspectives for the 1990s pp. 535-542

Antulio Bomfim and Anwar Shah

Women's income and boy-girl anthropometric status in the Cote d'Ivoire pp. 543-553

Lawrence Haddad and John Hoddinott

Poor women's participation in income-generating projects and their fertility regulation in rural Bangladesh: Evidence from a recent survey pp. 555-565

Ruhul Amin, A. U. Ahmed, J. Chowdhury and M. Ahmed

The measurement of inequality and poverty: A policy maker's guide to the literature pp. 567-578

D. L. Blackwood and Robert Lynch

Budgetary policy and political liberty: A cross-sectional analysis pp. 579-586

Nader Habibi

Trade strategy and revealed trade bias: An evaluation for a small industrializing economy pp. 587-599

Chris Milner

Chinese urbanization and development before and after economic reform: A comparative reappraisal pp. 601-613

Kyung-Sup Chang

The East Asian miracle: An introduction pp. 615-625

John M. Page

Why isn't the whole world experimenting with the East Asian model to develop?: Review of the East Asian miracle pp. 627-633

Alice H. Amsden

The East Asia challenge to neoclassical orthodoxy pp. 635-644

Jene Kwon

The East Asian miracle: Does the bell toll for industrial strategy? pp. 645-654

Sanjaya Lall

There are at least three models of East Asian development pp. 655-661

Dwight Perkins

Anything new in the miracle report? Yes and no pp. 663-670

Toru Yanagihara

Volume 22, issue 3, 1994

Monetary integration in Africa: A deliberately European perspective pp. 285-299

David Cobham and Peter Robson

Innovation in rural finance: Indonesia's Badan Kredit Kecamatan program pp. 301-313

Jeffrey M. Riedinger

Modernization of financial markets: An analysis of informal credit markets in prewar Japan pp. 315-322

Juro Teranishi

Cartels in an "Nth-Best" world: The wholesale foodstuff trade in Ibadan, Nigeria pp. 323-335

Harlan Smith and Margaret E. Luttrell

From mass production to flexible specialization: A case study of microeconomic change in a semi-industrialized economy pp. 337-353

Raphael Kaplinsky

Are institutions or economic rents responsible for interindustry wage differentials? pp. 355-368

Andrew R. Morrison

Unskilled urban migrant women and disguised employment: Home-working women in Istanbul, Turkey pp. 369-380

Mine Cinar

A comparison of determinants of urban, rural and farm poverty in Costa Rica pp. 381-397

Adrián Rodríguez and Stephen M. Smith

Managing adjustment costs, political authority, and the implementation of adjustment programs, with special reference to African countries pp. 399-411

Omotunde E. G. Johnson

The successful developmental state: Where does it come from? pp. 413-422

Richard Grabowski

Introduction pp. 423-425

Peter M. Lewis

The politics of profit in Tunisia: Utility of the rentier paradigm? pp. 427-436

Eva Bellin

Economic statism, private capital, and the dilemmas of accumulation in Nigeria pp. 437-451

Peter M. Lewis

Trade, taxes, and tribute: Market liberalizations and the new importers in West Africa pp. 453-467

Catherine Boone

The failed Africanization of commerce and industry in Kenya pp. 469-482

David Himbara

Volume 22, issue 2, 1994

Is the iron law of oligarchy rusting away in the Third World? pp. 129-143

Julie Fisher

Economic and ecological perspectives on ranching in the Eastern Amazon pp. 145-158

Marli Maria Mattos and Christopher Uhl

Food security strategies under extremely adverse conditions: The determinants of household income and consumption in rural Mozambique pp. 159-173

David Tschirley and Michael Weber

Egalitarianism, subsistence provision, and work incentives in China's agricultural collectives pp. 175-187

James Kung

Market-based early warning indicators of famine for the pastoral households of the Sahel pp. 189-199

M. Mahmud Khan

Recent experience with commercial bank debt reduction: Has the "menu" outdone the market? pp. 201-213

Stijn Claessens and Ishac Diwan

Inflation and the demand for money in developing countries pp. 215-223

Patrick Honohan

Management systems as technology: Japanese, US and national firms in the Brazilian electronic sector pp. 225-236

Antonio Bos and William E. Cole

Treasure islands or fool's gold: Can and should small island economies copy Jersey? pp. 237-250

Mark Hampton

Preface pp. 251-251

Guy Standing

Employment restructuring in Russian industry pp. 253-260

Guy Standing

Labor market implications of "privatization" in Russian industry in 1992 pp. 261-270

Guy Standing

The changing position of women in Russian industry: Prospects of marginalization pp. 271-283

Guy Standing

Volume 22, issue 1, 1994

The management of risk: Informal trade in Indonesia pp. 1-9

Hans-Dieter Evers and Ozay Mehmet

Industrial policy reform in six large newly industrializing countries: The resource curse thesis pp. 11-26

Richard M. Auty

Japanese maquiladoras: Production organization and global commodity chains pp. 27-44

Martin Kenney and Richard Florida

Location-specific advantages and manufacturing direct foreign investment in South China pp. 45-53

Le-Yin Zhang

Herbicide use in Asian rice production pp. 55-70

Rosamond Naylor

Water markets, market reform and the urban poor: Results from Jakarta, Indonesia pp. 71-83

Randall Crane

Balancing the budget with implicit domestic default: The case of Brazil in the 1980s pp. 85-98

Evan Tanner

Empirical results of aid motivations: Australia's bilateral aid program pp. 99-113

Rukmani Gounder

The real exchange rate conundrum: The case of Central America pp. 115-128

Adrian Fleissig and Thomas Grennes