World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 15, issue 12, 1987

International monetary system -- Which way? Editor's perspective pp. vii-xvi

Deena Khatkhate

Keynes and the International Monetary System revisited (a contextual and conjectural essay) pp. 1395-1405

Anand Chandavarkar

Macro policy in the tropics: How sensible people stand pp. 1407-1435

Lance Taylor

Exchange rate flexibility, target zones, and policy coordination pp. 1437-1443

John Williamson

What role for IMF surveillance? pp. 1445-1456

Peter Kenen

IMF conditionality: Conceptual problems and policy alternatives pp. 1457-1467

Edmar Bacha

Structural adjustment: A survey of the issues and options pp. 1469-1482

Paul Streeten

Stabilization policy and income distribution in developing countries pp. 1483-1498

Lionel Demery and Tony Addison

Stabilization, adjustment, and the poor pp. 1499-1513

Gerald K. Helleiner

Structural adjustment, macroeconomic adjustment and poverty: A methodology for analysis pp. 1515-1526

Ravi Kanbur

Volume 15, issue 10-11, 1987

Software industry development in the third world: Policy guidelines, institutional options, and constraints pp. 1249-1267

Robert Schware

Towards a vanishing middle: Competition in the world garment industry pp. 1269-1284

Ashoka Mody and David Wheeler

An estimate of the textile and clothing sector production function for selected countries in the early 1970s pp. 1285-1290

Alfred J. Field

International competition and industrial decentralization in South Africa pp. 1291-1307

Trevor Bell

Performance of foreign and domestic firms in export processing zones pp. 1309-1319

Rajiv Kumar

Balance-of-payments adjustment in low-income developing countries: The experiences of Kenya and Tanzania in the 1970s pp. 1321-1335

Delphin G. Rwegasira

Measurement of government budget deficit and fiscal stance in a less developed economy: The case of Tanzania, 1966-1984 pp. 1337-1351

Laurean W. Rutayisire

Manufactured goods supply and cash crops in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1353-1367

Jean-Claude Berthélemy and C. Morrisson

Aggregate consumption function and income distribution effect: Some evidence from developing countries pp. 1369-1374

Ashfaque H. Khan

Simulating housing quality changes in developing countries: A tool for policy analysis pp. 1375-1387

Raymond J. Struyk and Margery Austin Turner

Volume 15, issue 9, 1987

A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries pp. 1151-1161

Richard Bird

Productivity and distribution under cropsharing tenancy pp. 1163-1178

J. Mohan Rao

Urban bias and the political economy of agricultural reform pp. 1179-1187

Avishay Braverman and Ravi Kanbur

Food poverty profile and decomposition applied to Ghana pp. 1189-1199

Stephen S. Kyereme and Erik Thorbecke

Growth, employment and income distribution in Egyptian agriculture, 1964-1979 pp. 1201-1217

Hadi Esfahani

Determinants of manufactured export performance in low-income Africa: Kenya and Tanzania pp. 1219-1224

Sanjaya Lall, Ashok Khanna and Iradj Alikhani

Science and technology indicators, country size and economic development: An international comparison pp. 1225-1235

Simon Teitel

Interest rate compensation and debt: would a cap fit? pp. 1237-1242

Graham Bird

Beef cattle production from tropical pastures: A descriptive bibliography: Addis ababa: International livestock centre for Africa (112 pp., paperback, price n/a) pp. 1243-1243

Guy Gran

Farmer's organizations: Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc. (383 pp., hardback, $55) pp. 1243-1243

Guy Gran

Ending hunger: An idea whose time has come: New York: Praeger Publications (430 pp., cloth/paper, $35.95/$19.95) pp. 1243-1243

Guy Gran

Asian seminar on rural development: The Indian experience: New Delhi: Oxford and IBH (435 pp., cloth, Rs. 145) pp. 1244-1245

Guy Gran

The green revolution: An international bibliography: Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc. (258 pp., hardback, $45) pp. 1244-1244

Guy Gran

Bibliography on management of rural development: Vol. one. Calcutta: Indian Institute of Management (320 pp., paperback, Rs. 45) pp. 1244-1244

Guy Gran

African irrigation: An overview - an annotated bibliography: Logan, UT: Utah State Univ., Dept. of Agricultural and Irrigation Engineering, Water Management Synthesis II Project, WMS Report 37 (283 pp., paperback, $8) pp. 1244-1244

Guy Gran

Rural development in Asia: Case studies on programme implementation: New Delhi: Sterling Publishing (268 pp., cloth, Rs. 150) pp. 1244-1244

Guy Gran

Shaohsing: Competition and cooperation in nineteenth-century China: Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press (315 pp., cloth, $21) pp. 1244-1244

Guy Gran

Agrarian struggles in India after independence: Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press (666 pp., cloth, $39) pp. 1245-1245

Guy Gran

Agrarian power and agricultural productivity in South Asia: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (384 pp., cloth, $25) pp. 1245-1245

Guy Gran

Swidden agriculture in Indonesia: The subsistence strategies of the kalimantan kantu: Berlin: Mouton Publishing (515 pp., cloth, DM 168) pp. 1245-1245

Guy Gran

Russian peasant schools: Officialdom, village culture, and popular pedagogy, 1861-1914: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (652 pp., cloth, $45) pp. 1245-1245

Guy Gran

Bank credit for rural women: Report on study tour of grameen bank in Bangladesh: Bangkok: UN, ESCAP (ST/ESCAP/363) (126 pp., paperback, on request) pp. 1245-1245

Guy Gran

The rural poor: Human capital for nation building: Bangkok: UN, ESCAP (ST/ESCAP/324) (128 pp., paperback, on request) pp. 1245-1245

Guy Gran

Learning from China? Development and environment in third world countries: London: Allen & Unwin (282 pp., cloth, [UK pound]30) pp. 1245-1245

Guy Gran

The elementary structures of political life: Rural development in Pahlavi Iran: New York: Oxford University Press (362 pp., cloth, $45) pp. 1245-1246

Guy Gran

Development and diversification of rural industries in Asia: Kuala Lumpur: Asian and Pacific Development Centre (589 pp., cloth, $23) pp. 1246-1247

Guy Gran

Institutional reform and economic development in the Chinese countryside: Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe (336 pp., cloth/paper, $37.50/$18.95) pp. 1246-1246

Guy Gran

Grass without roots: Rural development under government auspices: New Delhi, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications (240 pp., cloth, Rs. 150) pp. 1246-1246

Guy Gran

Nomads in the Sultanate of Oman: Tradition and development in Dhofar: Boulder, CO: Westview (315 pp., paper, $30) pp. 1246-1246

Guy Gran

Policies, plans and people: Culture and health development in Nepal: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (202 pp., cloth, $29.95) pp. 1246-1246

Guy Gran

The making of the Soviet system: Essays in the social history of interwar Russia: New York: Pantheon (354 pp., cloth/paper, $25/$14.95) pp. 1246-1246

Guy Gran

Peasant history in South India: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (310 pp., cloth, $42) pp. 1246-1246

Guy Gran

Modernisation agricole, developpement economique, et changement social: Le Riz, la Terre et l'Homme a Java: Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (323 pp., paper, FF 180) pp. 1246-1246

Guy Gran

Go to the people: Releasing the rural poor through the people's school system: West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press (204 pp., cloth/paper, $25.95/$15.95) pp. 1246-1246

Guy Gran

The poor in Asia: Productivity-raising programmes and strategies: Kuala Lumpur: Asian and Pacific Development Centre (772 pp., cloth, $24) pp. 1247-1247

Guy Gran

Transmigrasi: Myths and realities -- Indonesian resettlement policy, 1965-1985: Copenhagen: International work group for indigenous affairs, document 57 (254 pp., paperback, price n/a) pp. 1247-1247

Guy Gran

Chinese rural development: The great transformation: Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc. (278 pp., cloth/paper, $35/$14.95) pp. 1247-1247

Guy Gran

Everyday forms of peasant resistance in South-east Asia: London: Frank Cass (148 pp., cloth, $29.50) pp. 1247-1247

Guy Gran

Russia as a "developing society" and Russia 1905-1907: Revolution a moment of truth: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (268 pp. and 379 pp., cloth/paper, $30/$9.95 each) pp. 1247-1247

Guy Gran

The Republican revolt: A study of the acehnese rebellion: Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (359 pp., paper, S$32) pp. 1247-1247

Guy Gran

The stubborn earth: American agriculturalists on Chinese soil, 1898-1937: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (272 pp., cloth, $25) pp. 1247-1247

Guy Gran

Volume 15, issue 8, 1987

Editors' introduction pp. 989-990

Werner Baer and John H. Welch

Recent stabilization programs in Argentina, 1973-1986 pp. 991-1005

Edward C. Epstein

The resurgence of inflation in Brazil, 1974-1986 pp. 1007-1034

Werner Baer

Inertial inflation and the Cruzado plan pp. 1035-1044

Luiz Bresser Pereira

Brazilian public sector disequilibrium pp. 1045-1052

John H. Welch, Carlos Alberto Primo Braga, Paulo de Tarso and Afonso de Andre

Public sector expenditures and financial crisis in Chile pp. 1053-1075

Thomas Scheetz

Inflation, expectations and qualitative government policy in Ecuador, 1970-1982 pp. 1077-1085

Jerry Nickelsburg

Inflation and dollar accounts in Peru's banking system, 1978-1984 pp. 1087-1106

Paul Beckerman

Indexing, exchange rate policy and inflationary feedback effects in Latin America pp. 1107-1117

Paul McNelis

Inflation, indexing and economic development pp. 1119-1130

Larry Samuelson and Larry Samuelson

International transmission of inflation: Its economics and its politics pp. 1131-1138

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

Discussion pp. 1139-1149

Donald V. Coes

Discussion pp. 1141-1141

Hadi Esfahani

Discussion pp. 1143-1143

Ephraim Kleiman

Discussion pp. 1145-1145

Paul McNelis

Discussion pp. 1146-1146

Russell E. Smith

Discussion pp. 1148-1148

Thomas E. Skidmore

Volume 15, issue 7, 1987

An idea in good currency and how it grew: The informal sector pp. 851-860

Lisa Peattie

Street trading in Transkei--a struggle against poverty, persecution, and prosecution pp. 861-875

Nicoli Jean Nattrass

Labor market differentiation in a developing economy: An example from urban Juba, Southern Sudan pp. 877-897

William J. House

The political realities of African management pp. 899-910

David K. Leonard

Probing managerial behavior: Image and reality in Southern Africa pp. 911-929

John D. Montgomery

The training and spread of managerial know-how, a comparative analysis of multinational and other firms in Kenya pp. 931-939

Irving Gershenberg

Agro-exports and the peasantry in the agrarian reforms of El Salvador and Nicaragua pp. 941-959

Nola Reinhardt

Food policy and class transformation in revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-1986 pp. 961-984

Michael Zalkin

Volume 15, issue 6, 1987

Managing technological development: Lessons from the newly industrializing countries pp. 759-775

Carl J. Dahlman, Bruce Ross-Larson and Larry E. Westphal

Industrial devolution, underconsumption and the third world debt crisis pp. 777-788

Richard Peet

Foreign aid and domestic savings in less developed countries: Some tests for causality pp. 789-796

Paul Bowles

Determinants of the levels and distribution of PL 480 food aid: 1955-1979 pp. 797-808

Robert C. Eggleston

Changes in the living standards of the poor in Sri Lanka during a period of macroeconomic restructuring pp. 809-830

David Sahn

Public transfers, family socioeconomic traits, and the job search behavior of the unemployed: Evidence from Puerto Rico pp. 831-840

Arthur J. Mann and Robert Smith

Cotton textiles--an agro-industry pp. 841-845

Prem S. Laumas and Martin Williams

Volume 15, issue 5, 1987

Commodities in crisis: An overview of the main issues pp. 537-549

Alfred Maizels

The role of commodity prices in economic recovery pp. 551-558

Nicholas Kaldor

Commodity price instability and economic goal attainment in developing countries pp. 559-573

Jere Behrman

International commodity agreements: Shadow and substance pp. 575-590

Alasdair MacBean and Duc Tin Nguyen

International commodity agreements: Design and performance pp. 591-616

Christopher L. Gilbert

Stabex and commodity export compensation schemes: Prospects for globalization pp. 617-631

Adrian P. Hewitt

From export instability effects to international stabilization policies pp. 633-643

Patrick Guillaumont

Commodity problem: What next? pp. 645-655

Dragoslav Avramovic

The long-run determinants of North-South terms of trade and some recent empirical evidence pp. 657-671

David Evans

Export subsidies and minimum access guarantees in agricultural trade: a developing country perspective pp. 673-683

Alberto Valdes and Joachim Zietz

The third world and the CMEA Group in the world economy of raw and basic materials pp. 685-700

Balint Balkay

Unfavorable specialization and dependence: The case of peripheral raw material exporters pp. 701-712

Kunibert Raffer

Transnational corporations and non-fuel primary commodities in developing countries pp. 713-740

Norman P. Girvan

Alternative fiscal regimes for mining in developing countries pp. 741-758

Raj Kumar and Marian Radetzki

Volume 15, issue 4, 1987

Peasant supply response in rationed economies pp. 431-439

David Bevan, Arne Bigsten, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

Increasing the benefits to smallholders from contract farming: Problems for farmers' organizations and policy makers pp. 441-448

David J. Glover

Positional goods, conspicuous consumption and the international demonstration effect reconsidered pp. 449-462

Jeffrey James

Development through Harambee: Who wins and who loses? Rural self-help projects in Kenya pp. 463-481

Barbara P. Thomas

Evaluating participation in African monetary unions: A statistical analysis of the CFA Zones pp. 483-496

Shantayanan Devarajan and Jaime de Melo

Book note pp. 497-500

Guy Gran and oBook Review Editor

Development studies and contemporary change in Britain: A symposium editor's introductory note pp. 501-502

Anne Gordon Drabek and oManaging Editor

Development studies and change in contemporary Britain pp. 503-515

John Toye

Development studies: Findings, frontiers and fights pp. 517-525

Michael Lipton

Development studies and the reinvention of tradition pp. 527-532

John Blacking

Development studies in Britain: A look at ourselves pp. 533-536

Mike Faber

Volume 15, issue 3, 1987

Trade and structural change: NICs and next tier NICs as transitional economies pp. 299-316

Colin Bradford

The impact of foreign direct investment on export structure and employment generation pp. 317-328

Carlos E. Santiago

Institutional policies and migration behavior: A selective review pp. 329-345

Nanda R. Shrestha

Toward the diffusion of rural energy technologies: Some lessons from the Indian biogas program pp. 347-374

Rob Lichtman

The strategy of production and distribution of improved charcoal stoves in Kenya pp. 375-386

Eric L. Hyman

Technological innovation and technical entrepreneurship for the development of a Nigerian agricultural machinery industry pp. 387-398

Scott Tiffin, Selina Adjebeng-Asem and Oladele Afolabi

Fiscal policy in Mexico: The FitzGerald thesis reexamined pp. 399-404

Robert E. Looney and P. C. Frederiksen

Looney and Frederiksen on Mexican fiscal policy: A reply pp. 405-406

E. V. K. FitzGerald

Rewarding the profligate and punishing the prudent and poor: Some recent proposals for debt relief pp. 411-417

Willem Buiter and T. Srinivasan

UN decade for women: Its impact and legacy pp. 419-427

Irene Tinker and Jane Jaquette

Volume 15, issue 2, 1987

Population pressures and agricultural development in developing countries: A conceptual framework and recent evidence pp. 183-203

Richard E. Bilsborrow

Does integrated area development work? Insights from the Bicol River Basin Development Program pp. 205-220

Bruce Koppel

Modernizing peasant agriculture: Lessons from El Palmar, Colombia pp. 221-247

Nola Reinhardt

The effects of IMF programs in the Third World: Debate and evidence from Latin America pp. 249-262

Manuel Pastor

Differences in income and poverty within Brazil pp. 263-273

Vinod Thomas

Structural changes in Brazil's industrial economy, 1960-1980 pp. 275-286

Werner Baer, Manuel A. R. da Fonseca and Joaquim Guilhoto

The effects of inflation on the predictability of price changes in Latin America: Some estimates and policy implications pp. 287-290

Abbas Pourgerami and Keith Maskus

The relationship between the rate of inflation and its unpredictability in high inflation Latin American countries pp. 291-293

Constantine Glezakos and Jeffrey Nugent

Volume 15, issue 1, Supplement, 1987

Editor's preface pp. vii-viii

Anne Gordon Drabek

Development alternatives: The challenge for NGOs--an overview of the issues pp. ix-xv

Anne Gordon Drabek

NGOs: In one year, out the other? pp. S1-S6

Tim Brodhead

European NGOs: Growth or partnership? pp. S7-S10

Nigel Twose

NGOs from the United States pp. S11-S19

Thomas H. Fox

Canadian NGOs: Past trends, future challenges pp. S21-S28

Brent Herbert-Copley

Non-governmental organizations in Latin America pp. S29-S38

Leilah Landim

NGOs in South Asia: People's participation and partnership pp. S39-S49

Aloysius P. Fernandez

Indigenous NGOs: Liberation, self-reliance, and development pp. S51-S56

Sithembiso Nyoni

Some aspects of relations between the North and South in the NGO sector pp. S57-S68

Charles Elliott

Non-governmental development organizations: From development aid to development cooperation pp. S69-S77

Mario Padron

An agenda of future tasks for international and indigenous NGOs: Views from the south pp. S79-S85

Kingston Kajese

An agenda of future tasks for international and indigenous NGOs: Views from the North pp. S87-S93

Brian H. Smith

Funding for NGOs: Issues and options pp. S95-S102

Peggy Antrobus

The reconciliation of NGO autonomy, program integrity and operational effectiveness with accountability to donors pp. S103-S112

Hendrik Van Der Heijden

Indigenous NGOs as strategic institutions: Managing the relationship with government and resource agencies pp. S113-S120

Ernesto D. Garilao

The role of NGOs in the strengthening of civil society pp. S121-S127

Telmo Rudi Frantz

Can small-scale development be a large-scale policy? The case of Latin America pp. S129-S134

Sheldon Annis

NGOs and the large aid donors: Changing the terms of engagement pp. S135-S143

Doug Hellinger

Third generation NGO strategies: A key to people-centered development pp. S145-S159

David C. Korten

NGO self-evaluation: Issues of concern pp. S161-S167

Biswajit Sen

Life cycle and learning in grassroots development organizations pp. S169-S177

Roberto Martinez Nogueira

The integration of women into development projects: Observations on the NGO experience in general and in Latin America in particular pp. S179-S187

Sally W. Yudelman

Prospects for development education: Some strategic issues facing European NGOs pp. S189-S200

Thierry Lemaresquier

The other missions of NGOs: Education and advocacy pp. S201-S211

Larry Minear

NGO coordinating bodies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America pp. S213-S225

Carolyn Stremlau

Appendix II: Forum of African voluntary development organizations: Observations of the Dakar conference, May/June 1987 pp. S251-S253

Hussein Adam and L. David Brown

Volume 15, issue 1, 1987

Editor's introduction: Cuba's socialist economy toward the 1990s pp. 1-4

Andrew Zimbalist

Patterns of Cuban development: The first twenty-five years pp. 5-22

Andrew Zimbalist and Susan Eckstein

Agricultural policy and development in Cuba pp. 23-39

JoseL. Rodriguez

Gender issues in contemporary Cuban tobacco farming pp. 41-65

Jean Stubbs

The performance of the Cuban sugar industry, 1981-1985 pp. 67-81

Carl Henry Feuer

Cuban industrial growth, 1965-1984 pp. 83-93

Andrew Zimbalist

Development and prospects of capital goods production in revolutionary Cuba pp. 95-112

Claes Brundenius

The Cuban health care system: Responsiveness to changing population needs and demands pp. 113-125

Sarah M. Santana

Worker incentives in Cuba pp. 127-138

Alexis Codina Jimenez

Power at the workplace: The resolution of worker-management conflict in Cuba pp. 139-152

Linda Fuller

Cuban planning in the mid-1980s: Centralization, decentralization, and participation pp. 153-161

Gordon White

Trade, debt, and the Cuban economy pp. 163-180

Richard Turits