World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 17, issue 12, 1989

Editors' introduction: Modelling and measuring parallel markets in developing countries pp. 1861-1870

Christine Jones and Michael Roemer

Parallel, fragmented, or black? Defining market structure in developing economies pp. 1871-1880

David L. Lindauer

Markets under price controls in partial and general equilibrium pp. 1881-1893

Shantayanan Devarajan, Christine Jones and Michael Roemer

Official and parallel cereals markets in Senegal: Empirical evidence pp. 1895-1906

Michael L. Morris and Mark D. Newman

Empirical regularities in black markets for currency pp. 1907-1919

W. Patton Culbertson

General equilibrium with parallel markets for goods and foreign exchange: Theory and application to Ghana pp. 1921-1930

Jean-Paul Azam and Timothy Besley

A theory of risk, smuggling and welfare pp. 1931-1944

Munir A. Sheikh

Price controls and rent-seeking behavior in developing countries pp. 1945-1954

Robert Deacon and Jon Sonstelie

Black markets: Illegality, information, and rents pp. 1955-1963

David Bevan, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

The parallel market of illegal aliens: A computational approach pp. 1965-1978

Trient T. Nguyen

Volume 17, issue 11, 1989

Technology in a world of national frontiers pp. 1665-1675

Ronald Dore

Cash crops in developing countries: The issues, the facts, the policies pp. 1677-1708

Simon Maxwell and Adrian Fernando

The impact of foreign capital inflows on domestic savings reexamined: The case of Argentina pp. 1709-1715

Jacques Morisset

An overview of water resources planning in West Africa pp. 1717-1722

Michael S. Gould and Frederick A. Zobrist

Opportunities and risks for private voluntary organizations as agents of LDC policy change pp. 1723-1731

Jerry Vansant

The fruits and fallacies of neoliberalism: The case of irrigation policy pp. 1733-1750

Mick Moore

Going beyond clones in Brazil and Korea: A comparative analysis of NIC strategies in the computer industry pp. 1751-1768

Peter B. Evans and Paulo Bastos Tigre

US multinationals in Latin American service industries pp. 1769-1776

Magnus Blomstrom and Robert Lipsey

Dilemmas of export diversification in a developing economy: Mexican oil in the 1980s pp. 1777-1797

Gabriel Szekely

Gender planning in the third world: Meeting practical and strategic gender needs pp. 1799-1825

Caroline O. N. Moser

The economics of smallholder agroforestry: Two case studies pp. 1827-1839

Richard H. Hosier

Forms of business organization and rural enterprise development: Some examples from Anglophone Africa pp. 1841-1852

Scott K. Zesch

Book notes pp. 1853-1859

Guy Gran

Volume 17, issue 10, 1989

The simple analytics of contraceptive social marketing pp. 1499-1521

Jere Behrman

The irrelevance of economic liberalization in the Third World pp. 1523-1530

Clive Hamilton

Beyond coordination and control: An interorganizational approach to structural adjustment, service delivery, and natural resource management pp. 1531-1541

George Honadle and Lauren Cooper

On the economic analysis of the urban informal sector pp. 1543-1552

Hans-R. Hemmer and C. Mannel

Agriculture, rural people, the state and the surplus in some Asian countries: Thoughts on some implications of three recent approaches in social science pp. 1553-1571

Michael Lipton

Recent trends in LDC military expenditures pp. 1573-1584

Richard C. Porter

Bread and butter issues in Ecuadorian food policy: A comparative advantage approach pp. 1585-1596

Derek Byerlee

Graduation in the generalized system of preferences: The projected impact on remaining beneficiaries in the United States scheme pp. 1597-1600

Kimberly E. Kirkman

Determinants of industrial structure: A Brazilian case study pp. 1601-1617

Larry Willmore

The determinants of import demand in Pakistan pp. 1619-1625

Khwaja Sarmad

Sugar and structural change in the Cuban economy pp. 1627-1646

Jorge F. Perez-Lopez

The training and visit agricultural extension in rainfed agriculture: Lessons from Ethiopia pp. 1647-1659

Alemneh Dejene

Some thoughts on the Brady plan: Putting a fourth leg on the donkey? pp. 1661-1664

Willem Buiter, Kenneth Kletzer and T. Srinivasan

Volume 17, issue 9, 1989

Editors' introduction pp. 1317-1318

Irma Adelman and Erik Thorbecke

Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction pp. 1319-1332

Douglass North

The New Institutional Economics and its applicability to development pp. 1333-1347

Mustapha K. Nabli and Jeffrey Nugent

Global institutions for an interdependent world pp. 1349-1359

Paul P. Streeten

Organizational economics and institutions as missing elements in economic development analysis pp. 1361-1373

Harvey Leibenstein

Institutional innovation and agricultural development pp. 1375-1387

Vernon Ruttan

The new institutional economics and development theory: A brief critical assessment pp. 1389-1395

Pranab Bardhan

A study in resistance to institutional change: The lost game of Latin American land reform pp. 1397-1407

Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Models of modern-sector labor market institutions in developing countries pp. 1409-1415

Jan Svejnar

Nineteenth-century development experience and lessons for today pp. 1417-1432

Cynthia Taft Morris and Irma Adelman

National values and economic reforms in socialist economies pp. 1433-1442

John Michael Montias

The role of institutions in transition growth: The East Asian newly industrializing countries pp. 1443-1453

Gustav Ranis

Import substitution and late industrialization: Latin America and Asia compared pp. 1455-1469

David Felix

Wage-setting institutions and economic growth pp. 1471-1483

Gary Fields and Henry Wan

Institutions, policies and agricultural performance: A comparative analysis pp. 1485-1498

Erik Thorbecke and Christian Morrisson

Volume 17, issue 8, 1989

Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? pp. 1145-1157

Richard Bird

The woodfuel crisis reconsidered: Observations on the dynamics of abundance and scarcity pp. 1159-1172

Peter A. Dewees

Farm-nonfarm linkages in rural sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1173-1201

Steven Haggblade, Peter Hazell and James Brown

Investment strategies to combat rural poverty: A proposal for Latin America pp. 1203-1221

Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Land-contingent poverty alleviation schemes pp. 1223-1233

Martin Ravallion

Indonesian agricultural development in comparative perspective pp. 1235-1254

Anne Booth

Agrarian reform in the Dominican Republic: An associative solution to the collective/individual dilemma pp. 1255-1267

Carrie A. Meyer

Urbanization and international trade in developing countries pp. 1269-1277

George Petrakos

Intraindustry specialization in production and trade in newly industrializing countries: A conceptual framework and some empirical evidence from East Asia pp. 1279-1287

H. Don B. H. Gunasekera

Private finance companies in LDCs: Lessons from an experiment pp. 1289-1297

Naved Hamid and Ijaz Nabi

Transferable discharge permit systems and environmental management in developing countries pp. 1299-1312

Randolph M. Lyon

The World Bank: Human face or facelift? Some comments in the light of the World Bank's annual report pp. 1313-1316

H. W. Singer

Volume 17, issue 7, 1989

Foreword pp. 933-935

John D. Gerhart

Introduction: Toward a wider perspective on women's employment pp. 937-952

Caren Grown and Jennefer Sebstad

How poor women earn income in sub-Saharan Africa and what works against them pp. 953-963

Janice Jiggins

Women's lives and livelihoods: A view from the Commonwealth Caribbean pp. 965-977

Joycelin Massiah

Homes divided pp. 979-991

Judith Bruce

Microlevel strategies for supporting livelihoods, employment, and income generation of poor women in the third world: The challenge of significance pp. 993-1006

Katharine McKee

A sectoral approach to promoting women's work: Lessons from India pp. 1007-1016

Marty Chen

Giving women credit: The strengths and limitations of credit as a tool for alleviating poverty pp. 1017-1032

Marguerite Berger

What ever happened to poverty alleviation? pp. 1033-1044

Judith Tendler

Investing in poor women: The psychology of donor support pp. 1045-1057

Mayra Buvinic

Toward empowerment pp. 1059-1065

Ela Bhatt

Policies for a heterogeneous informal sector in Latin America pp. 1067-1076

Victor E. Tokman

Global feminization through flexible labor pp. 1077-1095

Guy Standing

Policies affecting women's employment in the formal sector: Strategies for change pp. 1097-1107

Barbara Ibrahim

Asian women wage-earners: Their situation and possibilities for donor intervention pp. 1109-1123

Noeleen Heyzer

Volume 17, issue 6, 1989

Food and freedom pp. 769-781

Amartya Sen

The rise, fall, and transformation of overseas construction contracting pp. 783-794

W. Paul Strassmann

The macroeconomics of counterpart funds revisited pp. 795-807

Michael Roemer

Taxing agriculture: Instruments and incidence pp. 809-823

J. Mohan Rao

Apartheid: Cui bono? pp. 825-837

Mats Lundahl

Agricultural policy and performance in Iran: The post-revolutionary experience pp. 839-860

Ahmad Mojtahed and Hadi Esfahani

Measurement of trade concentration under the United States' Caribbean Basin Initiative pp. 861-865

Don Clark

Property relations and economic development: The other land reform pp. 867-877

Daniel Bromley

Cash crops, food crops, and sustainability: The case of Indonesia pp. 879-895

Edward Barbier

Growth of manufactured exports, primary commodity dependence, and net export earnings: Sri Lanka pp. 897-903

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Jayatilleke Bandara

Modeling internal colonialism: History and prospect pp. 905-922

Joseph L. Love

Volume 17, issue 5, 1989

Editor's introduction pp. 597-599

Robert E. Christiansen

Privatization in developing countries: a review of the issues pp. 601-615

Nicolas van de Walle

The political economy of privatization in developing countries pp. 617-632

Henry Bienen and John Waterbury

Privatization: Not the only answer pp. 633-641

Heidi Vernon-Wortzel and Lawrence H. Wortzel

Privatization in the United Kingdom: Lessons from experience pp. 643-657

Matthew R. Bishop and John Kay

Public enterprise reform: Privatization and the World Bank pp. 659-672

John Nellis and Sunita Kikeri

Privatization in rent-seeking societies pp. 673-682

William Glade

The (rip) tide of privatization: Lessons from Chile pp. 683-702

Pan A. Yotopoulos

Cereals market liberalization in Mali pp. 703-718

John Staatz, Josue Dione and Nango Dembele

The liberalization of rice marketing in Madagascar pp. 719-728

Elliot Berg

The privatization of agricultural trading in Malawi pp. 729-740

Robert E. Christiansen and Lee Ann Stackhouse

Malaysia: Genesis of a privatization transaction pp. 741-756

Roger S. Leeds

The fiscal impact of privatization, with some examples from Arab countries pp. 757-767

Peter Heller and Christian Schiller

Volume 17, issue 4, 1989

Incentive myopia pp. 447-459

Robert Klitgaard

Economic growth and social development: A longitudinal analysis of causal priority pp. 461-471

Barbara A. Newman and Randall J. Thomson

Toward a growth-oriented model of financial programming pp. 473-490

Sheetal Chand

Economic stabilization and structural transformation: Lessons from the Chilean experience, 1973-87 pp. 491-502

Cristian Moran

The genesis and spread of economic corruption: A microtheoretic interpretation pp. 503-511

Harendra Kanti Dey

Relative earnings mobility in a third world country pp. 513-524

Susan Randolph and Eileen Trzcinski

Infrastructure pricing policies and the public revenue in African countries pp. 525-542

Dennis Anderson

Agriculture in an export boom economy: A comparative analysis of policy and performance in Indonesia, Mexico and Nigeria pp. 543-560

Sara J. Scherr

The allocation of aid among developing countries: A multi-donor analysis using a per capita aid index pp. 561-568

Mark McGillivray

The politics of government-NGO relations in Africa pp. 569-587

Michael Bratton

Impact of agricultural research and extension on crop productivity in Pakistan: A comment pp. 589-590

Shahid N. Zahid and Eshya Mujahid-Mukhtar

Volume 17, issue 3, 1989

Politics of economic liberalization in India pp. 305-328

Atul Kohli

Trees as savings and security for the rural poor pp. 329-342

Robert Chambers and Melissa Leach

Impact of the responsibility system on women in rural China: An application of Sen's theory of entitlements pp. 343-350

Nahid Aslanbeigui and Gale Summerfield

A theoretical analysis of the informal sector pp. 351-355

Tamal Datta Chaudhuri

Effective costs of rural loans in Bangladesh pp. 357-363

Zia U. Ahmed

The environmental consequences of Latin America's agricultural development: Some thoughts on the Brundtland Commission report pp. 365-377

Michael Redclift

Industrial development policy in South Africa -- the past, present and future pp. 379-396

Hermanus S. Geyer

Policies in transition: Lessons from Madagascar pp. 397-408

Graham Shuttleworth

An appraisal of wheat market policy in Pakistan pp. 409-419

Peter A. Cornelisse and Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi

Bilateral trade flows and economic integration in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 421-429

Francisco Thoumi

The organization and management of statistical services in Africa: Why do they fail? pp. 431-438

Graham Eele

Volume 17, issue 2, 1989

Participation in development: New avenues pp. 165-178

Denis Goulet

Ten theses on social movements pp. 179-191

Marta Fuentes and Andre Gunder Frank

Lewis and Ricardo: A reinterpretation pp. 193-197

Richard Grabowski and Michael Shields

A cross-country input-output analysis of intersectoral relationships between manufacturing and services and their employment implications pp. 199-212

Se-Hark Park and Kenneth Chan

On measuring the shadow price of uncommitted fiscal resources in Africa pp. 213-221

Clive Gray

On the causes of food insecurity in less developed countries: An empirical evaluation pp. 223-235

Dimitris Diakosavvas

The economic costs of food self-sufficiency in China pp. 237-253

Yongzheng Yang and Rodney Tyers

Homework and industrial development: Gender roles and restructuring in the Spanish shoe industry pp. 255-266

Lauren A. Benton

The comparative homogeneity of the East Asian NIC exports of similar manufactures pp. 267-273

Mitchell Kellman and Peter C. Y. Chow

Bauxite processing in Jamaica and Guyana: An estimate of income and foreign exchange impacts pp. 275-292

James P. McCoy

Interests, ideology and institutions: A review of Bhagwati on protectionism pp. 293-298

Paul Streeten

Book notes pp. 299-303

Guy Gran

Volume 17, issue 1, 1989

Breeding innovation clusters: A source of dynamic development pp. 1-16

Chris Debresson

Testing the food-first hypothesis: A cross-national study of dependency, sectoral growth and food intake in less developed countries pp. 17-27

Wei-Yuan Cheng

Debt sustainability and overadjustment pp. 29-43

Jaime de Pinies

Potential sources of productivity growth within Chinese industry pp. 45-57

Gary Jefferson

Tourism development in LDCs: Hotel capacity expansion with reference to Barbados pp. 59-67

Kathleen Carey

Macroeconomic consequences of the size of third world nations: With special reference to the Caribbean pp. 69-83

Robert E. Looney

Referral systems and health care seeking behavior of patients: An economic analysis pp. 85-91

Germano M. Mwabu

Neoliberal economic policies and infant and child mortality: Simulation analysis of a Chilean paradox pp. 93-108

David E. Hojman

Toward a theory of the international division of industrial labor pp. 109-138

Kimmo Kiljunen

The changing structure of petty production in Ecuador pp. 139-155

Alan Middleton

On helping small enterprises in developing countries pp. 157-159

Rajesh K. Pradhan