World Development

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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Volume 7, issue 11-12, 1979

Growth vs basic needs: Is there a trade-off? pp. 985-994

Norman Hicks

International comparisons of educational and economic indicators, revisited pp. 995-1004

Kiong-Hock Lee and George Psacharopoulos

Education for development, reconsidered pp. 1005-1016

John Sommons

Housing policy in developing countries: Two puzzles pp. 1017-1022

Lisa Peattie

Incentive policies in Brazil pp. 1023-1042

Bela Balassa

Price oscillation, oligopolistic behaviour and inflation: The Argentine case pp. 1043-1052

Guido Di Tella

Traditional agricultural capital formation pp. 1053-1062

John Levi

Forecasting fertilizer consumption and production: Long- and short-run models pp. 1063-1072

Derek Deadman and Subrata Ghatak

Progress and prospects: World industry since 1960: (New York: United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1979; pp. 422; $US18.00; Sales No.: E.79.IIb.3) pp. 1073-1074

William E. Cole

Some aspects of development strategy and policies: By V.V. Bhatt (Bombay: Vora, 1978; pp. 181; Rs. 30/-) pp. 1074-1075

Paul P. Streeten

Volume 7, issue 10, 1979

The capital theory base of development economics: Editorial observations pp. 901-922

Gautam Mathur

Non-neoclassical capital theory pp. 923-932

Geoffrey Harcourt

The relation of distribution to growth pp. 933-941

Jan Kregel

Relevance of recent developments in monetary theory for developing economies: A sceptical note pp. 943-954

K. R. Ranadive

Consumption-investment trade-off, wage-profit trade-off, and terms of trade pp. 955-960

Gerhard Schmitt-Rink

Pricing of commodities in a mixed economy pp. 961-964

C. H. Raghuram

A critique of labour values for planning pp. 965-972

Helmut Baisch

Growth models and analysis of development pp. 973-983

Gautam Mathur

Volume 7, issue 8-9, 1979

Economic growth and employment in China pp. 767-782

Thomas Rawski

Interactions of economic and political change: The Egyptian case pp. 783-797

Nazli Chouri and Richard S. Eckaus

The political economy of Portugal's old regime: Growth and change preceding the 1974 revolution pp. 799-811

Eric N. Baklanoff

Development and structural change in the Iraqi economy and manufacturing industry: 1960-1970 pp. 813-823

Zeki Fattah

Export-oriented growth: A large international firm in a small developing country pp. 825-834

Raphael Kaplinsky

The appeal of inappropriate technologies: Self-inflicted wages, ethnic pride and corruption pp. 835-845

Gordon Winston

An analysis of the saving behaviour of a group of colombian artisan entrepreneurs pp. 847-864

Donald L. Huddle

Inflation control in the people's Republic of China, 1949-1974 pp. 865-875

Isabelle Tsakok

Walking on two legs? reflections on a China visit pp. 877-891

David Morawetz

Appropriate technology in sugar manufacturing - a rebuttal pp. 893-899

G. B. Hagelberg

Volume 7, issue 7, 1979

Editor's introduction pp. 649-651

Surendra J. Patel

Trademarks and the Third World pp. 653-662

Surendra J. Patel

Foreign trademarks in developing countries pp. 663-682

Daniel Chudnovsky

The economic benefits and costs of trademarks: Lessons for the developing countries pp. 683-704

Douglas F. Greer

Main issues in the regulation of licence arrangements on foreign trademarks: The Latin American experience pp. 705-711

Carlos Correa

The need to establish a policy restricting the use of foreign trademarks in developing countries: The case of Mexico pp. 713-726

Jaime Alvarez Soberanis

Trademarks in Nigeria pp. 727-736

Osita C. Eze

The law of trademarks in India pp. 737-746

P. B. Venkatasubramanian

Volume 7, issue 6, 1979

What has orthodox development economics learned from recent experience? pp. 541-554

Jeffrey Nugent and Pan A. Yotopoulos

Development as liberation: Policy lessons from case studies pp. 555-566

Denis Goulet

Indicators of development: The search for a basic needs yardstick pp. 567-580

Norman Hicks and Paul Streeten

The physical quality of life index: A useful social indicator? pp. 581-584

David A. Larson and Walton T. Wilford

The `Basic Needs' approach to development vs the new international economic order: The significance of Third World industrialization pp. 585-606

Ajit Singh

Basic needs, agropolitan development, and planning from below pp. 607-613

John Friedmann

Public services for basic needs in Malaysia pp. 615-634

Jacob Meerman

Reformulating US food aid policy for development pp. 635-646

James E. Austin and Mitchell B. Wallerstein

Volume 7, issue 4-5, 1979

Editor's introduction pp. 359-359

Keith Griffin

Growth and impoverishment in the rural areas of Asia pp. 361-383

Keith Griffin and Ajit Kumar Ghose

Institutional structure, technological change and growth in poor agrarian economies: An analysis with reference to Bengal and Punjab pp. 385-396

Ajit Kumar Ghose

The Comilla model and the integrated rural development programme of Bangladesh: An experiment in `cooperative capitalism' pp. 397-422

Azizur Rahman Khan

Red and expert at Tachai: A sources of growth analysis pp. 423-432

Marsh Marshall

A `Paupers' Co-op' twenty-five years on: Capital formation in rural China pp. 433-446

Neville Maxwell

Inequality of income between town and countryside in the People's Republic of China in the mid-1950s pp. 447-465

Peter Nolan

Collective agriculture in Soviet Central Asia pp. 467-491

Azizur Rahman Khan and Dharam Ghai

Egalitarian peasant farming and rural development: The case of South Korea pp. 493-517

Eddy Lee

The burden of land reform in Taiwan: An Asian model land reform re-analysed pp. 519-530

Raymond Apthorpe

The development of new techniques in agriculture: The case of the mechanization of irrigation in the Saga Plain area of Japan pp. 531-539

Penelope Francks

Volume 7, issue 3, 1979

Food aid to developing countries: A survey pp. 225-246

S. J. Maxwell and H. W. Singer

The new international economic order: The beneficiaries pp. 247-258

Sidney Weintraub

International commodity policy: UNCTAD and NIEO in search of a rationale pp. 259-280

David Evans

The benefits of special drawing rights for less developed countries pp. 281-290

Graham Bird

Basic needs or comprehensive development: Should the UNDP have a development strategy? pp. 291-308

Sidney Dell

Evaluating technical assistance pp. 309-323

Peter Kilby

The World Bank and agricultural development: Food production and rural poverty pp. 325-336

Richard E. Stryker

Priorities of developing countries in weather and climate pp. 337-347

Raaj Sah

Growth and fluctuations 1870-1913: By W. Arthur Lewis (London: George Allen and Unwin 1978; p. 333; [UK pound]12.50.) pp. 349-350

Keith Griffin

Die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen des Comecon mit den Entwicklungslandern, Unter besonderer Berucksichtigung Sudasiens: By Jiri Elias (Berne: Peter Land; Europaische Hochschulschriften, Reigh V (Volks-und Betriebswirtschaft), Vol. 159; pp. 204; including Bibliography) pp. 350-354

Zdenek Drabek

Volume 7, issue 2, 1979

Editor's introduction pp. 91-94

Miguel S. Wionczek

Debt and development: The role of foreign capital in economic growth pp. 95-112

Helen Hughes

Relief and reform in third world debt pp. 113-124

G. K. Helleiner

The world economy, external debt and prospects for development financing pp. 125-133

Ariel Buira Seira

Some aspects of the impact of inflation on the debt burden of developing countries pp. 135-143

Money, Finance and Development Division

Notes on the `LDC debt problem' pp. 145-159

John A. Holsen

The OPEC aid record pp. 161-173

Ibrahim F. I. Shihata and Robert Mabro

The LDC external debt and the euromarkets: The impressive record and the uncertain future pp. 175-187

Miguel S. Wionczek

Commercial bank lending to developing countries: Supply constraints pp. 189-197

Chandra S. Hardy

International debt renegotiation: Lessons from the past pp. 199-210

Albert C. Cizauskas

Volume 7, issue 1, 1979

Schistosomiasis and development pp. 1-14

Nicholas M. Prescott

Corruption and development pp. 15-24

Michael Beenstock

TNC takeovers in Brazil: The uneven distribution of benefits in the market for firms pp. 25-43

Richard S. Newfarmer

The challenge by domestic enterprises to the transnational corporations' domination: A case study of the Argentine pharmaceutical industry pp. 45-58

Daniel Chudnovsky

Transfer pricing and developing countries: Some problems of investigation pp. 59-71

Sanjaya Lall

Trade and growth: The Nigerian experience pp. 73-78

Olufemi Fajana

Sectoral elasticities of substitution between labour and capital in venezuelan manufacturing: A cross-sectional micro analysis pp. 79-82

Richard H. Sines

The Southern African customs union: A comment on Mosley's reappraisal pp. 83-85

Pierre Landell-Mills

Reply to Robson and Landell-Mills pp. 87-88

Paul Mosley