World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 21, issue 12, 1993

Economic liberalization, political pluralism and business associations in developing countries pp. 1895-1912

Mick Moore and Ladi Hamalai

Thinking strategically about development: A typology of action programs for global change pp. 1913-1930

Elizabeth A. Morgan, Grant D. Power and Van B. Weigel

Toward a global effort to protect the earth's biological diversity pp. 1931-1945

James A. Tobey

Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development pp. 1947-1963

Cecile Jackson

Silences speak louder than claims: Gender, household, and agricultural development in Southern Africa pp. 1965-1980

Gisela Geisler

Liberalization and privatization in Tanzania and Zambia pp. 1981-1988

Jean M. Due

South-south technology transfer: The case of China's Kpatawee rice project in Liberia pp. 1989-2001

Deborah Brautigam

Invisible hands, indigenous knowledge and inevitable fads: Challenges to public sector agricultural research in Ghana pp. 2003-2016

Robert Tripp

Is Africa different? pp. 2017-2028

Patrick Conway and Joshua Greene

Political economy, growth and convergence in less-developed countries pp. 2029-2038

Monojit Chatterji, Brian Gilmore, Kurt Strunk and Jon Vanasin

Economic independence through protection? Emerging contradictions in India's small-scale sector pp. 2039-2054

Subhrajit Guhathakurta

A comment on "the IMF, the World Bank and Africa's adjusment and extenal debt problems: An unofficial view" pp. 2055-2058

Ishrat Husain

A reply pp. 2059-2063

G. K. Helleiner

Volume 21, issue 11, 1993

Rural household transport in Africa: Reducing the burden on women? pp. 1715-1728

Deborah Fahy Bryceson and John Howe

Environmental issues and economic decisions in developing countries pp. 1729-1748

Mohan Munasinghe

The economic rationale for investing in nutrition in developing countries pp. 1749-1771

Jere Behrman

Development approaches and the role of policy advocacy: The case of the World Bank pp. 1773-1786

Nuket Kardam

"Twenty-five years of Economic Development" revisited pp. 1787-1801

Michael T. Rock

The meaning of development: Interactions between "new" and "old" ideas pp. 1803-1821

Barbara Ingham

The postsocialist transitions in comparative perspective: Policy issues and recent experience pp. 1823-1835

Andres Solimano

Promoting participation in irrigation: Reflections on experience in Southeast Asia pp. 1837-1849

Bryan Bruns

Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic: Transforming manufactures into commodities pp. 1851-1865

Raphael Kaplinsky

Financial liberalization in Africa pp. 1867-1881

Diery Seck and Yasim H. El Nil

Currency substitution: The recent experience of Bolivia pp. 1883-1893

Benedict Clements and Gerd Schwartz

Volume 21, issue 10, 1993

Tales of dissemination in small-farm agriculture: Lessons for institution builders pp. 1567-1582

Judith Tendler

Has recovery begun? "Africa's adjustment in the 1980s" revisited pp. 1583-1606

Paul Mosley and John Weeks

Manufactured exports from developing countries and their terms of trade: A reexamination of the Sarkar-Singer results pp. 1607-1613

Prema-chandra Athukorala

Manufactured exports of developing countries and their terms of trade since 1965: A comment pp. 1615-1616

Michael Bleaney

Manufacture--manufacture terms of trade deterioration: A reply pp. 1617-1620

Prabirjit Sarkar and H. W. Singer

External disturbances, domestic policy responses and debt accumulation in Nigeria pp. 1621-1631

Akorlie A. Nyatepe-Coo

An approach to poverty alleviation for large international development agencies pp. 1633-1646

Paul Clements

Panterritorial versus regional pricing for maize in Zimbabwe pp. 1647-1658

William Masters and Ernst-August Nuppenau

Soil erosion and labor shortages in the Andes with special reference to Bolivia, 1953ndash;1991: Implications for "conservation-with-development" pp. 1659-1675

Karl S. Zimmerer

The nonprice determinants of export success or failure: The Egyptian ready-made garment industry, 1975-1989 pp. 1677-1684

Abla M. Abdel-Latif

Public sector banking, efficiency and economic growth in India pp. 1685-1697

Kusum W. Ketkar

Nongovernmental organizations and the cultural development perspective in Thailand: A comment on Rigg (1991) pp. 1699-1708

Kevin Hewison

A reply to Kevin Hewison pp. 1709-1713

Jonathan Rigg

Volume 21, issue 9, 1993

Structural adjustment as a policy process: The case of Tanzania pp. 1395-1404

Goran Hyden and Bo Karlstrom

Development's deaf ear: Downstream users and water releases from the Bakolori Dam, Nigeria pp. 1405-1416

W. M. Adams

Natural disaster situations and growth: A macroeconomic model for sudden disaster impacts pp. 1417-1434

J.M. Albala-Bertrand

Measuring the effects of economic integration on third countries: A comment on Kreinin and Plummer pp. 1435-1437

Richard Pomfret

A reply to Richard Pomfret's comment pp. 1439-1439

Mordechai Kreinin and Michael Plummer

Productivity in manufacturing as a determinant of growth: The Indian case pp. 1441-1445

Deena Khatkhate

Editors' introduction pp. 1447-1450

Robert E. Christiansen, Johan Van Rooyen and David Cooper

South African land policy: The legacy of history and current options pp. 1451-1475

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Klaus Deininger

Characteristics and performance of resettlement programs: A review pp. 1477-1494

Bill Kinsey and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

Agricultural marketing and pricing reform: A review of experience pp. 1495-1514

Alex Duncan and Stephen Jones

Creating rural livelihoods: Some lessons for South Africa from experience elsewhere pp. 1515-1548

Michael Lipton and Merle Lipton

Implementing strategies for the rural economy: Lessons from Zimbabwe, options for South Africa pp. 1549-1566

Robert E. Christiansen

Volume 21, issue 8, 1993

Introduction: Some insights from Western social theory pp. 1245-1261

Laurence Whitehead

A panoramic view of the rebirth of liberalisms pp. 1263-1269

JoseGuilherme Merquior

Democracy and economic policy: Elective affinities and circumstantial conjunctures pp. 1271-1280

Peter A. Gourevitch

Markets and states: Against minimalism pp. 1281-1298

Paul Streeten

Liberalization and 'modern liberty': Four southern states pp. 1299-1312

Geoffrey Hawthorn

T.H. Marshall, Jurgen Habermas, citizenship and transition in Eastern Europe pp. 1313-1328

Nick Manning

Democracy and the "Washington consensus" pp. 1329-1336

John Williamson

Economic reforms and cycles of state intervention pp. 1337-1353

Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira

On the state, democratization and some conceptual problems: A Latin American view with glances at some postcommunist countries pp. 1355-1369

Guillermo O'Donnell

On "reform of the state" and "regulation of the market" pp. 1371-1393

Laurence Whitehead

Volume 21, issue 7, 1993

Can land market reform mitigate the exclusionary aspects of rapid agro-export growth? pp. 1085-1100

Michael Carter and Dina Mesbah

The "new" internationalization of agriculture: A reformulation pp. 1101-1121

Laura T. Raynolds, David Myhre, Philip McMichael, Viviana Carro-Figueroa and Frederick H. Buttel

Common property, equality, and development pp. 1123-1138

John Quiggin

The role of nongovernmental organizations in agricultural research and technology transfer in Latin America pp. 1139-1150

David Kaimowitz

Economic reform and political change in Myanmar (Burma) pp. 1151-1161

Paul Cook and Martin Minogue

Stabilization and recession in a transitional economy: The case of Poland pp. 1163-1178

Ryszard Zukowski

Taxation in Niger: Problems and proposals pp. 1179-1189

Robin Barlow and Wayne Snyder

Domestic financial market and the trade liberalization outcome: Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 1191-1203

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Sarath Rajapatirana

Urban self-employment in Kenya: Panacea or viable strategy? pp. 1205-1223

William J. House, Gerrishon K. Ikiara and Dorothy McCormick

The diffusion of process innovations in industrialized and developing countries: A case study of the world textile and steel industries pp. 1225-1238

Matthias Lücke

A note on the multilateral creditors and the debt crisis pp. 1239-1244

Roy Culpeper

Volume 21, issue 6, 1993

Going to market: Economic organization and transformation in a Hungarian firm pp. 883-899

S. David Young

Local government fiscal reform in developing countries: Lessons from Kenya pp. 901-923

Paul Smoke

Formal and informal institutions in the labor market, with applications to the construction sector in Egypt pp. 925-939

Ragui Assaad

One hundred million improved cookstoves in China: How was it done? pp. 941-961

Kirk R. Smith, Gu Shuhua, Huang Kun and Qiu Daxiong

The "five percent rule" for improved water service: Can households afford more? pp. 963-973

Alexander A. McPhail

Maize milling, market reform and urban food security: The case of Zimbabwe pp. 975-987

Thomas Jayne and Lawrence Rubey

The impact of financial autonomy on irrigation system performance in the Philippines pp. 989-1005

Mark Svendsen

Alternatives to coca production in Bolivia: A computable general equilibrium approach pp. 1007-1021

Bill Gibson and Ricardo Godoy

Purchasing power parity based on effective exchange rate and cointegration: 25 LDCs' experience with its absolute formulation pp. 1023-1031

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee

Introduction pp. 1033-1034

Howard Stein and Ernest Wilson

The political economy of Robert Bates: A critical reading of rational choice in Africa pp. 1035-1053

Howard Stein and Ernest Wilson

Understanding agricultural policy in Africa: The contributions of Robert Bates pp. 1055-1062

Sara Berry

Is "rational choice" the best choice for Robert Bates? An anthropologist's reading of Bates's work pp. 1063-1076

Pauline E. Peters

A reply pp. 1077-1081

Robert Bates

Volume 21, issue 5, 1993

Postimperialism and development in Thailand pp. 691-704

Richard F. Doner and Ansil Ramsay

Rural labor legislation and permanent agricultural employment in Northeastern Brazil pp. 705-719

Julie Anderson Schaffner

The limits to informal financial intermediation pp. 721-731

Garry Christensen

Household sanitation in Kumasi, Ghana: A description of current practices, attitudes, and perceptions pp. 733-748

Dale Whittington, Donald T. Lauria, Kyeongae Choe, Jeffrey A. Hughes, Venkateswarlu Swarna and Albert M. Wright

Liberalization and diversification in a small island economy: Fiji since the 1987 coups pp. 749-769

Andrew Elek, Hal Hill and Steven R. Tabor

Irrigated rice culture in monsoon Asia: The search for an effective water control technology pp. 771-789

Robert E. Burns

Land prices, land rents, and technological change: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 791-803

Mitch Renkow

Calculating levels of protection: Is it always appropriate to use world reference prices based on current trading status? pp. 805-815

Derek Byerlee and Michael L. Morris

The employment effects of an income redistribution in developing countries pp. 817-827

Jeffrey James and Haider Khan

Can the Kuznets effect be relied on to induce equalizing growth? pp. 829-840

Susan Randolph and William Lott

Budgetary and financial policy potency amid structural bottlenecks: Evidence from Uganda pp. 841-859

Victor Murinde

An economic analysis of debt swaps and case study of the Harvard debt for education swap pp. 861-867

Yana Rodgers

The World Bank and the environment: The World Development Report 1992 pp. 869-881

Lance Taylor

Volume 21, issue 4, 1993

Private investment and democracy in Latin America pp. 489-507

Manuel Pastor and Eric Hilt

Importance of foreign investment for the longrun economic development of the United Arab Emirates pp. 509-521

Y. H. Farzi

Excess liquidity and monetary overhangs pp. 523-533

Gerard Carpio and Patrick Honohan

Observational equivalence in the modeling of African labor markets and urbanization pp. 535-554

Charles M. Becker and Andrew R. Morrison

Differences in uses of rural financial markets in Taiwan and the Philippines pp. 555-563

Dale W Adams, H. Y. Chen and Mario Lamberte

Introduction pp. 565-575

Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Erik Thorbecke

The rocky road to reform: Trade, industrial, financial, and agricultural strategies pp. 577-590

Lance Taylor

Impact of state and civil institutions on the operation of rural market and nonmarket configurations pp. 591-605

Erik Thorbecke

Grassroots organizations and NGOs in rural development: Opportunities with diminishing states and expanding markets pp. 607-622

Norman Uphoff

Between state, markets and households: A neoinstitutional analysis of local organizations and institutions pp. 623-632

Jeffrey Nugent

Analytics of the institutions of informal cooperation in rural development pp. 633-639

Pranab Bardhan

Land reform as commenced business: The evidence against stopping pp. 641-657

Michael Lipton

Market, state, and civil organizations in Latin America beyond the debt crisis: The context for rural development pp. 659-674

Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

State-market-civil institutions: The case of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Republics pp. 675-689

Gordon Rausser and S. R. Johnson

Volume 21, issue 3, 1993

Old debts and new beginnings: A policy choice in transitional socialist economies pp. 319-330

Ross Levine and David Scott

French support for structural adjustment programs in Africa pp. 331-347

Ernest Wilson

Public service, rural development and careers in public management: A case study of expatriate advising and African land reform pp. 349-365

Emery M. Roe

Whose interests? Problems in planning for women's practical needs pp. 367-377

Ruth Alsop

South Korea's 1980s financial reforms: Good-bye financial repression (maybe), hello new institutional restraints pp. 379-390

Alice H. Amsden and Yoon-Dae Euh

On the determinants of direct foreign investment: Evidence from East and Southeast Asia pp. 391-406

Robert Lucas

The length of the infant industry period: Evidence from the engineering industry in South Korea pp. 407-419

Staffan Jacobsson

A diffusion model of industrial sector growth in developing countries pp. 421-428

Don Clark, David L. Kaserman and Darrarat Anantanasuwong

Production of edible oils for the masses and by the masses: The impact of the ram press in Tanzania pp. 429-443

Eric L. Hyman

Local adoption of new forestry technologies: An example from Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province pp. 445-453

Gregory S. Amacher, William F. Hyde and Mohammed Rafiq

Mortgage design under inflation and real wage uncertainty: The use of a dual index instrument pp. 455-464

Robert Buckley, Barbara Lipman and Thakoor Persaud

The impact of oligopsony and taxation on the Haitian coffee economy pp. 465-473

Rigoberto Lopez and Zhikang You

Peasant policy within the Nicaraguan Agrarian Reform, 1979-89 pp. 475-487

Philip R. Martinez

Volume 21, issue 2, 1993

Acknowledgements pp. 191-191

Lino Briguglio and John Kaminarides

Introduction pp. 193-195

Lino Briguglio and John Kaminarides

The special problems of small countries pp. 197-202

Paul Streeten

Country size and the medium-term growth process: Some cross-country evidence pp. 203-211

Chris Milner and Tony Westaway

Project appraisal, the environment and sustainability for small islands pp. 213-219

Clement Tisdell

The special working environment of senior administrators in small states pp. 221-226

Charles Farrugia

The effects of international debt on the economic development of small countries pp. 227-232

John Kaminarides and Edward Nissan

Economic development in the South Pacific promoting the private sector pp. 233-245

Rodney V. Cole

Sustainability, aid, and material welfare in small south pacific island economies, 1900-1990 pp. 247-258

Ivo Bertram

Manufacturing exports, economic growth and the current account in a small island economy: simulation results from an econometric model for Cyprus pp. 259-268

Panicos Demetriades, A. Al-Jebory and G. Kamperis

The terms of trade and the direction of trade in the maltese economy pp. 269-276

Lino Briguglio

Tourism in the gambia: some issues in development policy pp. 277-289

Peter U. C. Dieke

The repercussions of financial imbalances in Suriname pp. 291-299

A. R. Caram

Uneven regional development and internal labor migration in Fiji pp. 301-310

Michael Sofer

The role of transport costs as a determinant of price level differentials between the isle of man and the United Kingdom, 1989 pp. 311-318

H. Armstrong, G. Johnes, J. Johnes and A. Macbean

Volume 21, issue 1, 1993

Productivity and industrial development in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-16

Howard Pack

Cereals demand in the Sahel and potential impacts of regional cereals protection pp. 17-35

Thomas Reardon

Tax advice to developing countries: An historical survey pp. 37-53

Richard Goode

States, elites, and social welfare in Southeast Asia pp. 55-66

Donald K. Crone

Workshops as domestic domains: Reflections on small-scale industry in Mexico pp. 67-80

Fiona Wilson

Commercial sector wages and subsistence sector labor productivity in Guatemalan agriculture pp. 81-91

Thomas E. Schweigert

Human responses to riverine hazards in Bangladesh: A proposal for sustainable floodplain development pp. 93-107

C. Emdad Haque and M. Q. Zaman

Drought, transfer entitlements, and income distribution: The Botswana experience pp. 109-126

Theodore R. Valentine

Debt crisis, adjustment policies and capital formation in developing countries: Where do we stand? pp. 127-140

Luis Servén and Andres Solimano

Economic crisis, structural adjustment and social crisis in Nigeria pp. 141-153

Julius O. Ihonvbere

Exports as a factor of production: A consistency test pp. 155-160

Edmund J. Sheehey

Dollar GNP estimates for Central and Eastern Europe 1970-90: a survey and a comparison with Western countries pp. 161-175

Elio Lancieri

Canada's demand for Third World highly trained immigrants: 1976-86 pp. 177-187

Sajjad Akbar and Don DeVoretz