World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 6, issue 11-12, 1978

Labour market performance in developing countries: A survey pp. 1199-1242

A. Berry and R. H. Sabot

Comment pp. 1243-1246

Henry J. Bruton

Comment pp. 1247-1249

Michael P. Todaro

Basic needs policies and population growth pp. 1251-1259

David Morawetz

Economic policy and population change in Thailand pp. 1261-1269

Warren C. Robinson

Long-term trends in income distribution in Pakistan pp. 1271-1280

Stephen Guisinger and Norman Hicks

Unemployment and underemployment in Bangladesh agriculture pp. 1281-1296

Iqbal Ahmed

Intermediate technology in China's rural industries pp. 1297-1311

Carl Riskin

Volume 6, issue 9-10, 1978

Introduction - the urban informal sector: Why is it worth discussing? pp. 1033-1039

Ray Bromley

Informal sector or petty commodity production: Dualism or dependence in urban development? pp. 1041-1064

Caroline O. N. Moser

An exploration into the nature of informal--formal sector relationships pp. 1065-1075

Victor E. Tokman

Quasi-formal employment structures and behaviour in the unorganized urban economy, and the reverse: Some evidence from South India pp. 1077-1086

Barbara Harriss

Causes of urban poverty in Brazil pp. 1087-1101

Hamilton C. Tolosa

Capitalist and petty commodity production in Nigeria: A note pp. 1103-1104

Gavin Williams and Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile

Petty commodity housing or dweller control? A critique of John Turner's views on housing policy pp. 1105-1133

Rod Burgess

Housing in three dimensions: Terms of reference for the housing question redefined pp. 1135-1145

John F. C. Turner

Petty production and capitalist production in Dakar: The crisis of the self-employed pp. 1147-1160

Chris Gerry

Organization, regulation and exploitation in the so-called `urban informal sector': The street traders of Cali, Colombia pp. 1161-1171

Ray Bromley

Self-employed Proletarians in an informal factory: The case of Cali's garbage dump pp. 1173-1185

Chris Birkbeck

Competition between the informal and formal sectors in retailing: The case of Santiago pp. 1187-1198

Victor E. Tokman

Volume 6, issue 7-8, 1978

Dependency: A formal theory of underdevelopment or a methodology for the analysis of concrete situations of underdevelopment? pp. 881-924

José Gabriel Palma

Imperialism and development: A critique pp. 925-936

Gavin Williams

Growth, technology and the environment in less developed countries: A survey pp. 937-965

Jeffrey James

Ecodevelopment: A paradigm for strategic planning?: Comment on James pp. 967-969

Ignancy Sachs

Including women in development efforts pp. 971-978

George Zeidenstein

Operation of selective credit policies in less developed countries: Certain critical issues pp. 979-990

Deena Khatkhate and Delano Villanueva

Flexible exchange rate policy in an open developing economy: The Lebanese experience, 1950-1974 pp. 991-1003

Samir Makdisi

Why Mexico's `stabilizing development' was actually destabilizing (with some implications for the future) pp. 1005-1018

Clark W. Reynolds

A critical evaluation of popular unity's short-term and financial policy pp. 1019-1029

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Volume 6, issue 6, 1978

Crisis in regional economic cooperation (integration) among developing countries: A survey pp. 719-769

Constantine V. Vaitsos

Regional economic cooperation among developing countries: Some further considerations pp. 771-777

Peter Robson

Can the broken Humpty-Dumpty be put together again and by whom? Comments on the Vaitsos survey pp. 779-782

Miguel S. Wionczek

Capitalist development and educational structure pp. 783-796

Samuel Bowles

Food insecurity: Magnitude and remedies pp. 797-811

Shlomo Reutlinger

The case for selective taxes on goods and services in developing countries pp. 813-825

Sijbren Cnossen

Taxation, procurement and collective incentives in Chinese agriculture pp. 827-836

A. R. Khan

Multinational corporations and economic nationalism: Conflict over resource development in Canada pp. 837-849

Jeanne Kirk Laux and Maureen Appel Molot

Centre-States financial relations in the context of planned development pp. 851-860

V. V. Bhatt and Deena R. Khatkhate

Castro market: Slices of economic life in a poor Chilean fishing town pp. 861-880

David Morawetz

Volume 6, issue 5, 1978

Editorial note pp. 559-559

Jonathan Unger

Meeting basic needs in the People's Republic of China pp. 561-566

Dwight Perkins

Mao and the Chinese rural economy pp. 567-581

Jack Gray

Collective incentives in the Chinese countryside: Lessons from Chen Village pp. 583-601

Jonathan Unger

Efficiency, equality and accumulation in rural China: Notes on the Chinese system of incentives pp. 603-607

Keith Griffin

Welfare practices in rural China pp. 609-619

Deborah Davis-Friedmann

Development and health care: Is China's medical programme exportable? pp. 621-630

David M. Lampton

Agricultural research and extension services in China pp. 631-645

Benedict Stavis

China's rural marketing structure pp. 647-662

Udo Weiss

Rural marketing in China: A comparative perspective pp. 663-665

Uma Lele

Rural Industrialization: A comparison of development planning in China and India pp. 667-680

Jon Sigurdson

Political conflict and rural industrialization in China pp. 681-692

Carl Riskin

Some reflections on the presence of `rural' or of `urban bias' in China's development policies 1949-1976 pp. 693-707

Suzanne Paine

Transferability, exoticism and other forms of dogmatic revisionism pp. 709-713

Reginald Herbold Green

Learning from China: Reflections on transferability pp. 715-717

R. P. Dore

Volume 6, issue 4, 1978

The integrated programme for commodities pp. 423-435

Karsten Laursen

Determinants of exchange-rate regimes for currencies of developing countries: Some preliminary results pp. 437-445

Jacob S. Dreyer

Licensing and technology dependence in the Andean group pp. 447-459

Lynn Mytelka

Reappraising the Southern African customs union: A comment pp. 461-466

Peter Robson

Side-effects of planning in the aid control system pp. 467-478

Harry W. Strachan

Coping with poverty in international assistance policy: An evaluation of spatially integrated investment strategies pp. 479-497

Dennis A. Rondinelli and Kenneth Ruddle

The fourth mobilization: New phase of the Tachai movement pp. 499-518

Neville Maxwell

Population, employment and poverty in the Philippines pp. 519-532

R. Wery, Gerry Rodgers and M. J. D. Hopkins

Some arguments for (moderately) capital-intensive development, even in labour-abundant nations pp. 533-543

Paul Beckerman

Paul Beckerman: A comment pp. 545-548

Frances Stewart

The feasibility of fertility planning -- micro perspectives: Edited by T. Scarlett Epstein and Darrell Jackson (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1977; pp. 244, including Bibliography) pp. 549-551

Joan Chapman

Higher education and social change. Promising experiments in developing countries: Edited by Kenneth W. Thompson, Barbara R. Fogel, Helen E. Danner (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976; Volume 1, paperback $7.50; Volume 2, paperback $10.00) pp. 551-553

Helen Callaway

A turning point for literacy: Edited by Leon Bataille (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1976) pp. 553-554

J. R. Kidd

Volume 6, issue 3, 1978

Growth and improverishment in the middle of the nineteenth century pp. 245-273

Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris

Inequality, technology and payments systems pp. 275-293

Frances Stewart

Poverty in the third world: Ugly facts and fancy models pp. 295-304

Keith Griffin and Azizur Rahman Khan

Demographic determinants of the distribution of income pp. 305-318

Gerry Rodgers

Inter-farm, inter-regional and farm-non-farm income distribution: The impact of the new cereal variaties pp. 319-337

Michael Lipton

The death of land reform: A polemic pp. 339-345

David Lehmann

The republic of Korea's experience with export-led industrial development pp. 347-382

Larry E. Westphal

Economic growth and equity in the Republic of Korea pp. 383-396

D. C. Rao

Equity with growth in Taiwan: How `special' is the `special case'? pp. 397-409

Gustav Ranis

Basic needs: Some issues pp. 411-421

Paul Streeten and Shahid Javed Burki

Volume 6, issue 2, 1978

Introductory note pp. 123-126

J. D. Macarthur

The employment and income distribution objectives in the Kuwait fund development assistance pp. 127-129

Abdlatif Y. Al-Hamad

Social benefit-cost analysis and the distribution of income pp. 131-138

James Mirrlees

Project appraisal and income distribution pp. 139-152

Galal A. Amin

Social cost-benefit analysis in practice: Some reflections in the light of case studies using Little-Mirrlees techniques pp. 153-165

Frances Stewart

Appraising the distributional aspects of rural development projects: A Kenya case study pp. 167-193

J. D. MacArthur

Cost - effectiveness analysis in practice: A case study of domestic water supplies in an African country pp. 195-208

R. S. Porter and M. R. Walsh

Project selection for poverty-focused rural development: Simple is optimal pp. 209-219

Robert Chambers

A note on some practical limitations of social cost-benefit analysis measures pp. 221-225

Abdul-Karim T. Sadik

Themes from the discussion at the Symposium pp. 227-240

Galal A. Amin

Volume 6, issue 1, 1978

The objectives of development pp. 1-10

Lauchlin Currie

Failures in the strategy against poverty pp. 11-22

Thomas Balogh

Freedom and management in primary commodity markets: US imports from developing countries pp. 23-30

G. K. Helleiner

The Southern African customs union: A reappraisal pp. 31-43

Paul Mosley

Resource mobilization in developing countries: Financial institutions and policies pp. 45-64

V. V. Bhatt and Jacob Meerman

Rural development, class structure and bureaucracy in Bangladesh pp. 65-82

Harry W. Blair

The changing fortunes of an aristocracy? Determinants of wages and conditions of employment in Kenya pp. 83-95

John S. Henley and William J. House

Construction industry in developing countries pp. 97-116

Fred Moavenzadeh

Contrived dualism and government policy pp. 117-122

Neil B. Ridler