World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 20, issue 12, 1992

Performance and potential of information technology: An international perspective pp. 1703-1719

Ashoka Mody and Carl Dahlman

Information technology and competitive advantage: Lessons from the developed countries pp. 1721-1736

Alan Cane

Informatics in Africa: Lessons from World Bank experience pp. 1737-1752

Antoun Moussa and Robert Schware

Use and impact of information technology in Indonesian commercial banks pp. 1753-1768

David McKendrick

Banking automation and productivity change: The Brazilian experience pp. 1769-1784

Claudio Frischtak

The use of information technology by the port of Singapore authority pp. 1785-1795

Tan Boon Wan, Eric Lui Chew Wah and Loh Chee Meng

Keeping pace with change: Organizational and technological imperatives pp. 1797-1816

Ashoka Mody, Rajan Suri and Jerry Sanders

Exploiting information technology: A case study of Singapore pp. 1817-1828

Wong Seng Hon

Korean telecommunications development: Achievements and cautionary lessons pp. 1829-1841

Cae-One Kim, Young Kon Kim and Chang-Bun Yoon

Internationalization of information technology services and public policy implications pp. 1843-1857

Ken Ducatel and Ian Miles

Volume 20, issue 11, 1992

Accounting for women's work: the progress of two decades pp. 1547-1560

Lourdes Beneria

Financial services for microenterprises: Principles and institutions pp. 1561-1571

Elisabeth Rhyne and Maria Otero

Economic environments and differentiation: A comparative study of informal sector economies in Nigeria pp. 1573-1585

Helmut K. Anheier

Aid and the Dutch disease: Macroeconomic management when everybody loves you pp. 1587-1597

Stephen Younger

The performance of the labor market during recession and structural adjustment: Costa Rica in the 1980s pp. 1599-1616

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Albert Berry

Farmer's rights and genetic conservation in traditional farming systems pp. 1617-1630

Stephen B. Brush

The causes of Africa's food crisis pp. 1631-1645

William K. Jaeger

The geographic allocation of the European development fund under the Lome Conventions pp. 1647-1661

M. K. Anyadike-Danes and M. N. Anyadike-Danes

Multilateral assistance and sustainable development: The case of an IFAD project in the pastoral region of China pp. 1663-1674

Colin G. Brown and John W. Longworth

Gender differences in time and energy costs of distance for regular domestic chores in rural Zimbabwe: A case study in the Chiduku communal area pp. 1675-1683

Assefa Mehretu and Chris Mutambirwa

Agricultural research bias in Nicaragua: The case of beans pp. 1685-1696

Ricardo Godoy and Jeremy Hockenstein

A reply pp. 1699-1702

Mark McGillivray

Volume 20, issue 10, 1992

Science, technology and the ecological future of Latin America pp. 1391-1400

Gilberto Gallopin

Public participation and poverty alleviation: The experience of reform communists in India's West Bengal pp. 1401-1422

John Echeverri-Gent

Adaptation and distress in the urban economy: A study of Kampala households pp. 1423-1441

Arne Bigsten and Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

Linkage, heterogeneity and income determinants in petty trading: The case of Calcutta pp. 1443-1461

Nandini Dasgupta

Microenterprise credit programs: Deja vu pp. 1463-1470

Dale W Adams and J. D. Von Pischke

Exchange rates, trade liberalization and aid: The Sri Lankan experience pp. 1471-1480

Howard White and Ganeshan Wignaraja

Impact of foreign aid on the fiscal behavior of LDC governments pp. 1481-1488

Haider Khan and Eiichi Hoshino

Development of financial markets and the size distribution of manufacturing establishments: International comparisons pp. 1489-1499

Jeffrey Nugent and Mustapha K. Nabli

A critical evaluation of exchange rate policy in Turkey pp. 1501-1514

Yaman Asikoglu and Merih Uctum

Liberalizing foreign direct investment regimes: The vestigial screen pp. 1515-1529

Alvin G. Wint

The Paraguayan agro-export model of development pp. 1531-1540

Richard Weisskoff

Economics and anthropology: Grounding models in relationships pp. 1541-1546

Michael Lipton

Volume 20, issue 9, 1992

Industrialization and its manifold discontents: West, East and South pp. 1225-1232

Albert Hirschman

The politics of protecting the poor during adjustment: Bolivia's emergency social fund pp. 1233-1251

Carol Graham

Foreign aid in a period of democratization: The case of politically autonomous food funds pp. 1253-1260

Goran Hyden and Shlomo Reutlinger

The role of the intellectual in economic development: A constitutional perspective pp. 1261-1277

Anton Lowenberg and Ben T. Yu

Death rates, life expentancy and China's economic reforms: A critique of A.K. Sen pp. 1279-1303

Peter Nolan and John Sender

Life and death in China: A reply pp. 1305-1312

Amartya Sen

A successful failure: Integrated rural development in Zambia pp. 1313-1323

Allen Fenichel and Bruce Smith

Response of the equilibrium real exchange rate to real disturbances in developing countries pp. 1325-1334

Mohsin Khan and Jonathan Ostry

What happens to investment under structural adjustment: Results from a simulation model pp. 1335-1344

Nancy C. Benjamin

Effects of economic integration in industrial countries on ASEAN and the Asian NIEs pp. 1345-1366

Mordechai Kreinin and Michael Plummer

Real or illusory growth in an oil-based economy: Government expenditures and private sector investment in Saudi Arabia pp. 1367-1375

Robert E. Looney

Small firm "presence" in Indian manufacturing pp. 1377-1389

Ira Gang

Volume 20, issue 8, 1992

Household food security and child nutrition: the interaction of income and gender of household head pp. 1077-1085

Eileen Kennedy and Pauline Peters

Reform without revolt: the political economy of economic reform in the Gambia pp. 1087-1099

Steven Radelet

Short-term resource mobilization for recurrent financing of rural local governments in Tanzania pp. 1101-1113

Ole Therkildsen and Joseph Semboja

A step back as donors shift institution building from the public to the "private" sector pp. 1115-1126

Carrie A. Meyer

Sustainable agricultural development in China pp. 1127-1144

Cheng Xu, Han Chunru and Donald C. Taylor

Taxing tourism in developing countries pp. 1145-1158

Richard Bird

The NICs, global accumulation and uneven development: implications of a simple three- region model pp. 1159-1171

Amitava Dutt

Effects of exchange rate risk on exports: crosscountry analysis pp. 1173-1181

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Nabil Ltaifa

External debt, net transfers, and growth in developing countries pp. 1183-1192

Edmar Bacha

Colombia's black market in foreign exchange pp. 1193-1207

Robert Grosse

Migration from Nicaragua: some recent evidence pp. 1209-1218

Edward Funkhouser

Variations on the basic needs yardstick: an application to Colombia pp. 1219-1223

Sergio Clavijo

Volume 20, issue 7, 1992

Hunger and poverty in Iraq, 1991 pp. 921-945

Jean Dreze and Haris Gazdar

Industrial systems and reform in North Korea: A comparison with China pp. 947-958

Myoung-Kyu Kang and Keun Lee

Alternative energy in the third world: A reappraisal of subsidies pp. 959-965

Ashok V. Desai

Issues in irrigation pricing in developing countries pp. 967-977

Rajan K. Sampath

What makes technology transfer? Small-scale hydropower in Nepal's public and private sectors pp. 979-989

Godfrey Cromwell

Labor costs and manufactured exports in developing countries: An econometric analysis pp. 991-1008

Luis Riveros

Pitfalls in the measurement of real exchange rate effects on agriculture pp. 1009-1019

Steven Kyle

The static welfare economics of a small developing country's membership in a customs union: Botswana in the Southern African Customs Union pp. 1021-1028

James Leith

Formalizing the informal sector in a changing South Africa: Small-scale manufacturing on the Witwatersrand pp. 1029-1045

David Simon and Sarah L. Birch

Accountability in public services: Exit, voice and control pp. 1047-1060

Samuel Paul

The politics of US environmental assistance, 1976-1986 pp. 1061-1076

Ming Ivory

Volume 20, issue 6, 1992

The IMF, the World Bank and Africa's adjustment and external debt problems: An unofficial view pp. 779-792

G. K. Helleiner

The politics of development policy pp. 793-807

R. William Liddle

Household production reconsidered: Gender, labor conflict, and technological change in Malaysia's Muda region pp. 809-823

Gillian Hart

Markets, markets everywhere? Understanding the Cuban anomaly pp. 825-839

Carmen Diana Deere and Mieke Meurs

Foreign direct investment in a strategically competitive environment: Coca-Cola, Belize, and the international citrus industry pp. 841-857

Bradford L. Barham

Interaction between the formal and informal financial sectors: The Asian experience pp. 859-872

P. B. Ghate

Management education in China: Past, present and future pp. 873-880

Shengliang Deng and Yinglou Wang

District-level economic linkages in Kenya: Evidence based on a small regional social accounting matrix pp. 881-897

Blane Lewis and Erik Thorbecke

Intercountry inequalities in income and basic- needs indicators: A recent perspective pp. 899-905

Rati Ram

The payoff of developing a small-scale phosphate mine and beneficiating operation in the Mbeya region of Tanzania pp. 907-918

W. Van Vuuren and J. G. Hamilton

Volume 20, issue 5, 1992

Fiscal policy and economic reconstruction in Latin America pp. 641-657

Vito Tanzi

Trade liberalization and economic stabilization in Mexico: Lessons of experience pp. 659-672

Adriaan Ten Kate

Public expenditures in sub-Saharan Africa during a period of economic reforms pp. 673-693

David Sahn

Evaluating the impact of Mexico's land reform on agricultural productivity pp. 695-711

John Richard Heath

Determinants of smallholder commercial tree cultivation pp. 713-725

Ricardo A. Godoy

Economies of scope and the cash crop -- Food crop debate in Senegal pp. 727-734

Stephan Goetz

Agrarian reform in West Bengal: The end of an illusion pp. 735-750

Ross Mallick

Bauxite processing in Jamaica and Guyana: An extension to aluminum smelting pp. 751-766

James P. McCoy

In tribute to the golden age of the South's development pp. 767-777

Surendra J. Patel

Volume 20, issue 4, 1992

Introduction pp. 477-479

Katrina Eadie Brandon and Carter Brandon

Economic growth and the environment: Whose growth? whose environment? pp. 481-496

Wilfred Beckerman

Structural adjustment, primary resource trade and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 497-512

Fantu Cheru

Obligations to future generations: A philosophical note pp. 513-521

Joanna Pasek

Can environmental problems be subject to economic calculations? pp. 523-530

Samir Amin

Macropolicy and the environment: A framework for analysis pp. 531-540

Messaye Girma

An end-user approach to the measurement of performance of capital in an environmental context in Asia pp. 541-555

Peter Cook and Jonathan Stevens

Planning for people and parks: Design dilemmas pp. 557-570

Katrina Eadie Brandon and Michael Wells

Protecting fragile lands: New reasons to tackle old problems pp. 571-585

Nancy R. Forster

Evolving connectedness among environmental groups and grassroots organizations in protected areas of Central America pp. 587-595

Sheldon Annis

Recurring contradictions in agrarian development: Pesticide problems in Caribbean basin nontraditional agriculture pp. 597-608

Douglas L. Murray and Polly Hoppin

Accelerating ozone layer protection in developing countries pp. 609-618

Mohan Munasinghe and Kenneth King

The United Nations development system and environmental management pp. 619-626

Konrad von Moltke

The sustainability of privilege: Reflections on the environment, the third world city, and poverty pp. 627-640

Porus Olpadwala and William W. Goldsmith

Volume 20, issue 3, 1992

Conceptual issues in the design of trade policy for industrialization pp. 309-320

Dani Rodnik

Buyer-seller links in export development pp. 321-334

Mary Lou Egan and Ashoka Mody

The revolving door? External debt and capital flight: A Philippine case study pp. 335-349

James K. Boyce

Income tax reform in Colombia and Venezuela: A comparative history pp. 351-367

Charles McLure

Promoting the sustainability of development institutions: A framework for strategy pp. 369-383

Derick W. Brinkerhoff and Arthur A. Goldsmith

Struggling with Honduran poverty: The environmental consequences of natural resource-based development and rural transformations pp. 385-399

Susan C. Stonich

The structural transformation of Taiwan's tea industry pp. 401-422

Dan M. Etherington and Keith Forster

Segmentation in rural financial markets: the case of Nepal pp. 423-436

S. Yadav, Keijiro Otsuka and C. C. David

Fertilizer price and subsidy policies in Bangladesh pp. 437-455

Raymond Z. H. Renfro

The management of secondary consequences in dam projects: The case of drawdown agriculture in Indonesia pp. 457-465

Yunita T. Winarto

Development: Creator and destroyer of values pp. 467-475

Denis Goulet

Volume 20, issue 2, 1992

Software industry entry strategies for developing countries: A "walking on two legs" proposition pp. 143-164

Robert Schware

Technological capabilities and industrialization pp. 165-186

Sanjaya Lall

The government, financial system, and large private enterprises in the economic development of South Korea pp. 187-197

Chung H. Lee

A subsector approach to small enterprise promotion and research pp. 199-212

James J. Boomgard, Stephen P. Davies, Steven Haggblade and Donald C. Mead

Gender and state bias in Jamaican housing programs pp. 213-227

Thomas H. Klak and Jeanne K. Hey

Popular participation and central planning in Cuban socialism: The experience of agriculture in the 1980s pp. 229-240

Mieke Meurs

Integration of environmental concerns into agricultural policies of industrial and developing countries pp. 241-253

Ernst Lutz and Michael Young

A framework for improving environmental management: Beyond the market mechanism pp. 255-259

Michael R. Redclift

Sustaining agricultural development in harsh environments: Insights from private land reclamation in Egypt pp. 261-274

Thomas P. Tomich

Technology adoption on small farms pp. 275-282

Ganesh P. Rauniyar and Frank M. Goode

The time-series behavior of Brazilian real gross domestic product, 1947-87: An analysis of interventions pp. 283-288

Alexandre A. Tombini and Paul Newbold

Balance of payments, output and prices in Tanzania pp. 289-302

Ardeshir Sepehri

Determinants of health care expenditure in Africa: A cross-sectional study pp. 303-308

Kwame P. Gbesemete and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Volume 20, issue 1, 1992

Indian informatics in the 1980s: The changing character of state involvement pp. 1-18

Peter B. Evans

Below the line: Poverty in Latin America pp. 19-37

Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege

Housing markets in third world cities: Research and policy into the 1990s pp. 39-55

Carole Rakodi

Moneylenders and informal financial markets in Malawi pp. 57-68

Bruce R. Bolnick

Public enterprise reform in Papua New Guinea pp. 69-81

Alan Whitworth

Deindustrialization, adjustment, the World Bank and the IMF in Africa pp. 83-95

Howard Stein

Choice of technology in small and large firms: Grain milling in Tanzania pp. 97-107

M. S. D. Bagachwa

The broth and the cooks: A theory of surplus labor pp. 109-117

Kaushik Basu

On measuring the quality of life pp. 119-131

Partha Dasgupta and Martin Weale

Of finance and development: Neglected and unsettled questions pp. 133-142

Anand Chandavarkar