World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 12, issue 11-12, 1984

Investment penetration in manufacturing and extraction and external public debt in Third World states pp. 1063-1075

John Rothgeb

When should developing countries use bilateral state trading? pp. 1077-1086

Martin Spechler and Alfred Tovias

Prospects for the manufacturing exports of the non-candidate Mediterranean countries in a community of twelve pp. 1087-1094

George N. Yannopoulos

Of contracts and subcontracts: Small firms in vertically dis-integrated production/distribution systems in LDCs pp. 1095-1106

Donald C. Mead

Coffee, money and inflation in Colombia pp. 1107-1117

Sebastian Edwards

The measurement of poverty: A review of attempts to quantify the poor, with special reference to India pp. 1119-1130

Peter Cutler

The political economy of agrarian reform in Yucatan, Mexico pp. 1131-1141

Jeffery Brannon and Eric N. Baklanoff

Contract farming and smallholder outgrower schemes in less-developed countries pp. 1143-1157

David J. Glover

Volume 12, issue 10, 1984

The political economy of stabilization: Commitment, capacity, and public response pp. 983-1006

Joan M. Nelson

Why poor people get rich: Kenya 1960-1979 pp. 1007-1018

Paul Collier and Deepak Lal

Perspectives on poverty and income inequality in Brazil pp. 1019-1028

David Denslow and William Tyler

The political economy of income distribution in South Korea: The impact of the state's industrialization policies pp. 1029-1037

Hagen Koo

Sectoral adjustment in government expenditure in the 1970s: The educational sector in Latin America pp. 1039-1049

Peter Heller and Adrienne Cheasty

The pressure towards protectionism: Is it systematic? A legacy of the recession? The result of policy to promote recovery? pp. 1051-1061

Antonio Maria Costa

Volume 12, issue 9, 1984

Motivations for aid to developing countries pp. 879-900

Alfred Maizels and Machiko K. Nissanke

Project food aid and equitable growth: Income-transfer efficiency first! pp. 901-911

Shlomo Reutlinger

Community participation in upgrading irregular settlements: The community response pp. 913-922

Alan Gilbert and Peter Ward

The recession, the Third World and the base metals industries pp. 923-934

John Toye

Beyond export-led growth pp. 937-949

Irma Adelman

Success stories of the 1970s: Some correlations pp. 951-952

H. W. Singer

Comment on Adelman pp. 953-954

Tibor Scitovsky

Adjustment policies in developing countries: A reassessment pp. 955-972

Bela Balassa

Basic needs: Some unsettled questions pp. 973-978

Paul Streeten

Summary comment on Adelman, Balassa and Streeten pp. 979-982

Albert Fishlow

Volume 12, issue 8, 1984

Community action by the urban poor: Democratic involvement, community self-help or a means of social control? pp. 769-782

Alan Gilbert and Peter Ward

Expansion of the economic frontier: Paraguayan growth in the 1970s pp. 783-798

Werner Baer and Melissa H. Birch

Short-run energy-economy interactions in Egypt pp. 799-820

Nazli Choucri and Supriya Lahiri

Energy and the poor in an Indian village pp. 821-836

Varun Vidyarthi

Land-use planning to help sustain tropical forest resources pp. 837-847

Eric L. Hyman

The role of technological learning in the exports of manufactured goods: the case of selected capital goods in Brazil pp. 849-865

Morris Teubal

The Kissinger commission report: A critique pp. 867-876

Richard E. Feinberg

Volume 12, issue 7, 1984

Urbanization and third world stability pp. 661-691

Henry Bienen

HICs, MICs, NICs and LICs: Some elements in the political economy of graduation and differentiation pp. 693-712

Helen O'Neill

Institutional framework and public enterprise performance pp. 713-721

V. V. Bhatt

Alliance for production: Mexico's incentives for private sector industrial development pp. 723-742

John Weiss

The timing of urban infrastructure and housing improvements by owner occupants pp. 743-753

W. Paul Strassmann

Price instability and inflation: The Latin American case pp. 755-758

Constantine Glezakos and Jeffrey Nugent

The response of labour effort to falling real wages: The Mexican peso devaluation of February 1982 pp. 759-766

Joan Anderson and Roger Frantz

Volume 12, issue 5-6, 1984

Exports of technology by newly-industrializing countries: An overview pp. 471-480

Sanjaya Lall

Hong Kong pp. 481-490

Edward K. Y. Chen

Taiwan pp. 491-503

Alice H. Amsden

Republic of Korea pp. 505-533

Larry E. Westphal, Yung W. Rhee, Linsu Kim and Alice H. Amsden

India pp. 535-565

Sanjaya Lall

Egypt pp. 567-573

Tagi Sagafi-Nejad

Brazil pp. 575-599

Francisco Colman Sercovich

Mexico pp. 601-624

Carl J. Dahlman and Mariluz Cortes

Argentina pp. 625-644

Ricardo J. Soifer

Latin America pp. 645-660

Simon Teitel and Francisco Colman Sercovich

Volume 12, issue 4, 1984

Integrated rural development programmes: A historical perspective pp. 393-401

Vernon Ruttan

Labour market segmentation: Evidence from Cyprus pp. 403-418

William J. House

Indigenous technical change: What we can learn from sugar processing pp. 419-432

Raphael Kaplinsky

The nature of Japan's comparative advantage, 1965-80 pp. 433-438

Mitchell Kellman and Daniel Landau

A policymaker's guide to comparative advantage pp. 439-449

Daniel M. Schydlowsky

Papua New Guinea's tax performance, 1965-77 pp. 451-459

Cao Duc Thac and David Lim

Tanzanian and african socialism: Comment on Weaver and Kronemer pp. 461-464

Louis Putterman

Institutional destruction resulting from donor and project proliferation in Sub-Saharan African countries pp. 465-470

Elliott R. Morss

Volume 12, issue 3, 1984

Editors' introduction pp. 171-176

Richard Jolly and Giovanni Cornia

The causes and consequences of world recession pp. 177-185

K. N. Raj

A survey of cross-sectional and time-series literature on factors affecting child welfare pp. 187-202

Giovanni Cornia

Brazilian children and the economic crisis: Evidence from the State of Sao Paulo pp. 203-221

Roberto Macedo

Vulnerable groups in recessionary situations: The case of children and the young in Chile pp. 223-246

Alejandro Foxley and Dagmar Raczynski

The recent worldwide economic crisis and the welfare of children: The case of Cuba pp. 247-260

JoseGutierrez Muniz, JoseCamaros Fabian, JoseCobas Manriquez and Rachelle Hertenberg

Poverty, income distribution and child welfare in Latin America: A comparison of pre- and post-recession data pp. 261-282

Oscar Altimir

Sub-Saharan Africa in depression: The impact on the welfare of children pp. 283-295

Reginald Herbold Green and Hans Singer

Recent trends in the condition of children in India: A statistical profile pp. 297-307

Sudipto Mundle

The global economic crisis and the impact on children in Sri Lanka pp. 309-316

Godfrey Gunatilleke and G. I. O. M. Kurukulasuria

The plantation sector in Sri Lanka: Recent changes in the welfare of children and women pp. 317-328

Kumari Jayawardena

Effects of the current world recession on the welfare of children: The case of Korea pp. 329-338

Sang Mok Suh

The world economic crisis and the children: A United States case study pp. 339-364

C. Arden Miller and Elizabeth J. Coulter

An econometric investigation of the condition of children in Italy pp. 365-380

Ugo Colombino

A summary and interpretation of the evidence pp. 381-391

Giovanni Cornia

Volume 12, issue 2, 1984

The puzzle of sharecropping: A survey of theories pp. 103-114

M.G. Quibria and Salim Rashid

A poverty profile for rural Botswana pp. 115-127

Barbara Watanabe and Eva Mueller

Rural industrialization objectives: The income-employment conflict pp. 129-140

Raphael Bar-el

A model of an Indian village: A study of alternative sources of energy for irrigation pp. 141-156

Christopher Hurst

Measuring third world security expenditure: A research note pp. 157-164

Nicole Ball

A note on stabilization and the World Bank pp. 165-167

Sidney Dell

Volume 12, issue 1, 1984

Sources of stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-23

David Wheeler

A conceptual framework for analysis of primary commodity markets pp. 25-41

Alfred Maizels

Monetarism, employment and social stratification pp. 43-65

Ricardo Lagos and Victor E. Tokman

Farmer education and farm efficiency in Nepal: The role of schooling, extension services, and cognitive skills pp. 67-86

Dean Jamison and Peter R. Moock

Squatters or tenants: the commercialization of unauthorized housing in Nairobi pp. 87-96

Philip Amis

The changing remittance behaviour of US manufacturing firms in Latin America: a comment and an update pp. 97-101

Vassilis Droucopoulos

Reply pp. 101-101

Daniel Chudnovsky