World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 19, issue 12, 1991

The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period: Evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s pp. 1653-1678

Monika Huppi and Martin Ravallion

Women and political participation in Africa: Broadening the scope of research pp. 1679-1694

David Hirschmann

The Southern Mount Kenya forest since independence: A social analysis of resource competition pp. 1695-1704

Alfonso Peter Castro

Economics of multihabitation: Housing conditions, household occupancy and household structure under rent control, inflation, and nonmarketability of ownership rights pp. 1705-1720

K. G. Willis and A. G. Tipple

The political economy of dilatory reform: Egypt in the 1980s pp. 1721-1730

Alan Richards

Privatization: Possible lessons from the Hungarian case pp. 1731-1736

Gerd Schwartz

Building technological capacity: A case study of the computer industry in India, 1975-1987 pp. 1737-1751

Hans-Peter Brunner

Computer-aided management advice for loan programs run by Indonesian village women pp. 1753-1766

John D. Nystuen, Frank D. Zinn, Djoko Sulistyo and Rommy Darmasetiawan

Participatory management in large irrigation systems: Issues for consideration pp. 1767-1776

Namika Raby

The relation between real cash balances and physical inputs in South Korea's manufacturing sector pp. 1777-1785

Khan A. Mohabbat and Ky Hyang Yuhn

A comment on the relative employment-generation capabilities of the manufacturing and service sectors in developing countries pp. 1787-1790

Blane Lewis

A reply to Lewis pp. 1791-1792

Se-Hark Park and Kenneth Chan

A comment on investment and economic growth pp. 1793-1795

Maurice FG. Scott

A reply to Scott pp. 1797-1799

Dennis Anderson

Editors' introduction pp. 1801-1805

Richard Jolly and Rolph Van Der Hoeven

Adjustment with a human face: A UNICEF record and perspective on the 1980s pp. 1807-1821

Richard Jolly

IMF adjustment policies and approaches and the needs of children pp. 1823-1834

G. K. Helleiner, Giovanni Cornia and R. Jolly

Adjustment with a human face: Still relevant or overtaken by events? pp. 1835-1845

Rolph Van Der Hoeven

The many faces of adjustment pp. 1847-1864

Frances Stewart

Volume 19, issue 11, 1991

Foreword pp. 1483-1484

Christian Morrisson

Poverty and income distribution during adjustment: Issues and evidence from the OECD project pp. 1485-1508

François Bourguignon, Jaime de Melo and Christian Morrisson

Macroeconomics, financial variables, and computable general equilibrium models pp. 1509-1525

Sherman Robinson

Modeling the effects of adjustment programs on income distribution pp. 1527-1544

François Bourguignon, Jaime de Melo and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

Adjustment and social costs in Chile during the 1980s pp. 1545-1561

Patricio Meller

Adjustment and equity in Cote d'Ivoire: 1980-86 pp. 1563-1576

Sylvie Lambert, Hartmut Schneider and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

Politically feasible and equitable adjustment: Some alternatives for ecuador pp. 1577-1594

Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Andre Fargeix

Adjustment, growth and income distribution in Indonesia pp. 1595-1614

Erik Thorbecke

Poverty and macroeconomic policy in Malaysia, 1979-1987 pp. 1615-1632

Lionel Demery and David Demery

Adjustment, incomes and poverty in Morocco pp. 1633-1651

Christian Morrisson

Volume 19, issue 10, 1991

Fuelwood, subsistence foraging, and the decline of common property pp. 1275-1287

Gordon McGranahan

Natural resources prices, export policies, and deforestation: The case of sudan pp. 1289-1297

Bruce A. Larson and Daniel W. Bromely

Planning for sustainability: Access to fuelwood in Dhanusha District, Nepal pp. 1299-1314

John Soussan, Els Gevers, Krishna Ghimire and Phil O'Keefe

When failure becomes success: Class and the debate over stabilization and adjustment pp. 1315-1334

David F. Ruccio

The reproduction of gender inequality in Muslim societies: A case study of Iran in the 1980s pp. 1335-1349

Valentine M. Moghadam

The differentiation of the urbanization process under apartheid pp. 1351-1365

Julian May and Sheldon Rankin

Antagonistic cooperation: A case study of nongovernmental organizations, government and donor's relationships in income-generating projects in Bangladesh pp. 1367-1379

Bishwapriya Sanyal

Economic policy and the relative price of services in LDCs pp. 1381-1389

David Feldman

Capital mobility in developing countries: Some empirical tests pp. 1391-1398

Nadeem U. Haque and Peter Montiel

Adjustment policies and the real exchange rate in Kenya since 1975 pp. 1399-1408

Albert W. De Groot

Who bears the incidence of import protection? Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 1409-1419

N. M. C. Navaratne

Performance and adaptive roles of the government-supported research institute in South Korea pp. 1421-1440

Dal Hwan Lee, Zong-Tae Bae and Jinjoo Lee

A comment on economic growth and social development pp. 1441-1444

Enrico Colombatto

A reply pp. 1445-1449

Barbara A. Newman and Randall J. Thomson

Human development Report 1990: Review and assessment pp. 1451-1460

V. V. Bhanojirao

Human development revisited: A new UNDP report pp. 1469-1473

Michael Hopkins

Volume 19, issue 9, 1991

Big business and urban congestion in Taiwan: The origins of small enterprise and regionally decentralized industry (respectively) pp. 1121-1135

Alice H. Amsden

Rethinking desertification: What do we know and what have we learned? pp. 1137-1143

Steven L. Rhodes

The causes of tropical deforestation in Ecuador: A statistical analysis pp. 1145-1151

Douglas Southgate, Rodrigo Sierra and Lawrence Brown

Comparative advantage, trade and growth: Export-Led growth revisited pp. 1153-1165

Santo Dodaro

A structuralist perspective on the role of technology in economic growth and development pp. 1167-1183

Moshe Justman and Morris Teubal

Managing commodity booms in Botswana pp. 1185-1196

Catherine B. Hill

Import-substituting industrialization and protection of the small-scale: The Indian experience in the textile industry pp. 1197-1213

Dipak Mazumdar

Putting TRIMs to good use pp. 1215-1224

Vudayagiri Balasubramanyam

Exchange rate volatility and Pakistan's exports to the developed world, 1974-85 pp. 1225-1240

Ramesh Kumar and Ravinder Dhawan

The income redistributional impact of financing higher education in Pakistan pp. 1241-1246

Shahrukh R. Khan

A comparison of labor-saving technologies for processing shea nut butter in Mali pp. 1247-1268

Eric L. Hyman

Reevaluating the effect of N-ach on economic growth pp. 1269-1274

Jeffrey Lewis

Volume 19, issue 8, 1991

Integration of environmental externalities in international commodity agreements pp. 933-943

Henk Kox

The international economics of intellectual property right protection: A welfare-theoretic trade policy analysis pp. 945-956

Arvind Subramanian

Growth-oriented adjustment programs: A statistical analysis pp. 957-967

Riccardo Faini, Jaime de Melo, Abdelhak Senhadji and Julie Stanton

Inflation in Argentina: Stop and go since the Austral plan pp. 969-986

Miguel A. Kiguel

Institutional impediments to workforce retrenchment and restructing in Ghana's State enterprises pp. 987-1005

J. Tait Davis

Household shelter strategies in comparative perspective: Evidence from low-income groups in Bamako and La Paz pp. 1007-1028

Paul Van Lindert and August Van Westen

Education and economic growth in Taiwan: A case of successful planning pp. 1029-1044

Jennie Hay Woo

The impact of Iran's islamic revolution on health personnel policy pp. 1045-1054

M. Malek

Technology transfer and the development of China's offshore oil industry pp. 1055-1073

Alyson Warhurst

Poverty and the forward-falling labor supply function: A microeconomic analysis pp. 1075-1093

Mohammed Sharif

The fungibility of US assistance to developing countries and the impact on recipient expanditures: a case study of Pakistan pp. 1095-1105

Nasir M. Khilji and Ernest M. Zampelli

An aggregate private expenditure function for the Bangladesh economy pp. 1107-1116

Akhtar Hossain

Deserved debt relief: a note pp. 1117-1120

Jan Giehm Mikkelsen

Volume 19, issue 7, 1991

The Public-Private choice: The case of marketing a country to investors pp. 749-761

Louis Wells and Alvin G. Wint

Legal process and economic development: A case study of Indonesia pp. 763-777

Cheryl W. Gray

The urban subsistence labor force: Toward a policy-oriented and empirically accessible taxonomy pp. 779-789

William E. Cole and Bichaka Fayissa

Asian urban development policies in the 1990s: From growth control to urban diffusion pp. 791-803

Dennis A. Rondinelli

A reassessment of the causes and severity of Nepal's environmental crisis pp. 805-820

John J. Metz

Brazilian policies that encourage deforestation in the Amazon pp. 821-829

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

Parastatal pay policy in Africa pp. 831-838

David L. Lindauer

Understanding the failure of IMF reform: The Zambian case pp. 839-849

Jeffrey Hawkins

External shocks and adjustment in a mineral dependent economy: A short-run model for Zambia pp. 851-865

Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

The nature and determinants of socioeconomic inequality among peasant households in Southern Sudan pp. 867-884

William J. House

Newly and lately industrializing exporters: LDC manufactured exports to the United States, 1977-1984 pp. 885-901

Keith Alger

The accumulation of technology: Capital goods production in developing countries revisited pp. 903-914

Erik Baark

The Cuban sugar export dependency question: Premises and controversy pp. 915-919

Willard Radell

The significance of access to land as a determinant of Kenya's interregional migration pp. 921-926

William M. Rodgers

Volume 19, issue 6, 1991

How significant are externalities for development? pp. 569-594

Frances Stewart and Ejaz Ghani

A proposal for using incentive precommitments in public enterprise funding pp. 595-605

Raaj Sah and Martin L. Weitsman

Sustainable development: A critical review pp. 607-621

Sharachchandra M. Lele

Regulation with growth: The political economy of palm oil in Malaysia pp. 623-636

James Pletcher

Economic reform and armed conflict in Mozambique pp. 637-649

Steven Kyle

A reassessment of Kenya's rural and urban informal sector pp. 651-670

Ian Livingstone

Workers' response to job loss: Female and male industrial workers in Brazil pp. 671-682

Helena Hirata and John Humphrey

Profits from self-employment: The case of Cote d'Ivoire pp. 683-696

Wim Vijverberg

Institutional linkages for different types of agricultural technologies: Rice in the Eastern Plains of Colombia pp. 697-703

Luis Alfonso Agudelo and David Kaimowitz

An examination of the objectives of monetary policy in four developing economies pp. 705-709

Joseph Joyce

Dutch disease economics and oil syndrome: An empirical study pp. 711-717

Mohsen Fardmanesh

Income convergence and divergence within and between LDC groups pp. 719-727

Richard G. Zind

Effects of exchange rate variability on inflation variability pp. 729-733

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee

The Bertrand critique of the role of the United Nations in the economic and social fields pp. 735-740

Sidney S. Dell

Volume 19, issue 5, 1991

Life in a dual system revisited: Urban-rural ties in Enugu, Nigeria, 1961-87 pp. 399-409

Josef Gugler

Adjustment and development in Latin America: The failure of Peruvian Heterodoxy, 1985-90 pp. 411-434

Eva A. Paus

Poverty and distorted industrialization in the Brazilian Northeast pp. 435-455

William W. Goldsmith and Robert Wilson

Toward development ethics pp. 457-483

David A. Crocker

Open borders: A global-humanist approach to the refugee crisis pp. 485-496

Mel Gurtov

Official finance requirements in the 1990s pp. 497-510

Robert Lensink and Peter Bergeijk

Capital market development in China pp. 511-532

On Kit Tam

Money creation and financial liberalization in a socialist banking system: Tanzania 1983-88 pp. 533-538

Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

GSTP tariff reduction and its effects on south-south trade in manufactures pp. 539-551

Hans Linnemann and Harmen Verbruggen

Technology exports from a small, very open NIC: The case of Singapore pp. 553-568

Hal Hill and Pang Eng Fong

Volume 19, issue 4, 1991

Development narratives, or making the best of blueprint development pp. 287-300

Emery M. Roe

Depopulating the compounds: Migrant labor and mine housing in South Africa pp. 301-316

Jonathan Crush and Wilmot James

Global trends in real exchange rates 1960-1984 pp. 317-332

Adrian Wood

Manufactured exports of developing countries and their terms of trade since 1965 pp. 333-340

Prabirjit Sarkar and H. W. Singer

Foreign exchange and industrial development: A frontier production function analysis of two Tanzanian industries pp. 341-347

Ammon Mbelle and Thomas Sterner

Licensing in a newly industrializing country: The case of Greek manufacturing pp. 349-362

Tassos Giannitsis

The strategic orientations of firms and the performance of Korea and Taiwan in frontier industries: Lessons from comparative case studies of keyboard and personal computer assembly pp. 363-374

Brian Levy and Wen-Jeng Kuo

Semiconductor technology and the newly industrializing countries: The diffusion of ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) pp. 375-397

Michael Hobday

Volume 19, issue 2-3, 1991

Pockets of peasants in Indonesian cities: The case of scavengers pp. 137-161

Daniel T. Sicular

Female wage labor in rural Zimbabwe pp. 163-177

Jennifer M. Adams

A study of water vending and willingness to pay for water in Onitsha, Nigeria pp. 179-198

Dale Whittington, Donald T. Lauria and Xinming Mu

Grass-roots development in rural Thailand: A lost cause? pp. 199-211

Jonathan Rigg

Examining the roots of educational demand: The case supporting rural agrarian development pp. 213-223

Rees Hughes

Classical political economists and Marx on colonialism and "backward' nations pp. 225-243

Jorge Larrain

Debt, deficits and dollars: The world economy in 3-D pp. 245-254

Graham Bird

The "Gulliver effect" and the "optimal divergence" approach to trade policies: The case of nepal pp. 255-262

Mario I. Blejer and György Szapáry

Convergence of South Korean productivity on West German levels, 1966-1978 pp. 263-273

David Dollar

Determinants of foreign direct investment in Taiwan: An alternative approach with time-series data pp. 275-285

Pan-Long Tsai

Volume 19, issue 1, 1991

Introduction pp. 1-15

Neva Goodwin

The integrative revolution revisited pp. 17-30

Allan Hoben and Robert Hefner

The breakdown of connections and modern development pp. 31-44

Bruce Mazlish

Global development and personal dependency: The high cost of doing well pp. 45-54

Allan R. Meyers

The new global players: How they compete and collaborate pp. 55-64

Elliott R. Morss

The third sector in the second world pp. 65-71

Frederick Starr

Global equity and environmental crisis: An argument for reducing working hours in the North pp. 73-84

Juliet B. Schor

Lessons for the world from US agriculture: Unbundling technology pp. 85-102

Neva Goodwin

Protecting the global environment: An immodest proposal pp. 103-110

Robert Dorfman

Global institutions and ecological crisis pp. 111-122

Jonathan Harris

Global prospects in an interdependent world pp. 123-133

Paul Streeten