Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2025

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Volume 36, issue 6, 2000

Economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries pp. 1-24

Bob Baulch and John Hoddinott

Vulnerability, seasonality and poverty in Ethiopia pp. 25-53

Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan

Social capital and household welfare in South Africa, 1993-98 pp. 54-81

John Maluccio, Lawrence Haddad and Julian May

Is transient poverty different? Evidence for rural China pp. 82-99

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

Simulating the impact of policy upon chronic and transitory poverty in rural Pakistan pp. 100-130

Neil McCulloch and Bob Baulch

Revisiting forever gained: Income dynamics in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe, 1983-96 pp. 131-154

Jan Willem Gunning, John Hoddinott, Bill Kinsey and Trudy Owens

Mixed fortunes: A study of poverty mobility among small farm households in Chile, 1968-86 pp. 155-180

Christopher Scott

Volume 36, issue 5, 2000

Labour supply and wages among nuclear and extended households: The Surinamese experiment pp. 1-29

J. Butler and Andrew Horowitz

Co-operation and the urban environment: An exploration pp. 30-58

P B Anand

Social movements amidst democratic transitions: Lessons from the Brazilian countryside pp. 59-88

Peter Houtzager

Manufactured exports and terms of trade of developing countries: Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 89-104

Prema-chandra Athukorala

Village politics: Heterogeneity, leadership and collective action pp. 105-134

Trond Vedeld

Bad banking in Thailand? An empirical analysis of macro indicators pp. 135-168

Lukas Menkhoff

Book reviews pp. 169-181

Stephen Devereux, David Preston, Jan Kees Van Donge, Simon Vicary, Mak Arvin, Marcus Power and Roberta Rabellotti

Volume 36, issue 4, 2000

Contract flexibility and dispute resolution in African manufacturing pp. 1-37

Arne Bigsten, Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps, Bernard Gauthier, Jan Willem Gunning, Abena Oduro, Remco Oostendorp, Cathy Patillo, Mans Soderbom, Francis Teal and Albert Zeufack

Trade liberalisation, government expenditure and economic growth in Egypt pp. 38-54

Bruce Morley and Nicholas Perdikis

Introduction: Structural adjustment, labour markets and employment: Some considerations for sensible people pp. 57-65

Rolph Van Der Hoeven and Lance Taylor

Deindustrialisation and the social and economic sustainability nexus in developing countries: Cross-country evidence on productivity and employment pp. 66-99

Ute Pieper

Employment, structural adjustment and sustainable growth in Mexico pp. 100-119

Jaime Ros

Adjustment, stabilisation and the structure of employment in Brazil pp. 120-148

Edward Amadeo and Valeria Pero

The structure of employment and structural adjustment in the Philippines pp. 149-181

Joseph Anthony Lim and Manuel Montes

Book reviews pp. 182-198

Ray Kiely, Ana Marr, Helen Hintjens, Ruhi Saith, Keshab Bhattarai, Kunibert Raffer, Robert Read and Sarah Radcliffe

Volume 36, issue 3, 2000

Can an evolutionary approach to development predict post-war economic growth? pp. 1-30

Louis Putterman

Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth pp. 31-49

Robert Lensink and Oliver Morrissey

Estimating the health impact of industry infant food marketing practices in the Philippines pp. 50-77

John Stewart and David Guilkey

Trade liberalisation in Brazil: Creating or exporting jobs? pp. 78-99

Mauricio Moreira and Sheila Najberg

Public investment, social services and productivity of Chinese household farms pp. 100-122

Xiao-yuan Dong

Entrepreneurship and growth of entrepreneurial firms in cote d'Ivoire pp. 123-145

Micheline Goedhuys and Leo Sleuwaegen

Firm size, age and efficiency: Evidence from Kenyan manufacturing firms pp. 146-163

Karl Lundvall and George Battese

Book reviews pp. 164-178

Colin Lewis, Simon Lee, Gurharpal Singh, Mak Arvin, Jonathan Perraton, W. Neil Adger, David Colman, Ian Gough, Jeremy Gould and Frank Pieke

Volume 36, issue 2, 1999

Livelihoods and poverty: The role of migration - a critical review of the migration literature pp. 1-47

Arjan de Haan

Law and order as a development issue: Land conflicts and the creation of social order in Southern Malawi pp. 48-70

Jan Kees van Donge and Levi Pherani

Minority entrepreneurs and firm performance in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 71-87

Vijaya Ramachandran and Manju Kedia Shah

An analysis of offer functions of banks and credit unions in Guatemala pp. 88-112

David Mushinski

Refining the use of Monte Carlo techniques for risk analysis in project planning pp. 113-135

Kelvin Balcombe and L. E. D. Smith

Foodgrain price stabilisation in an open economy: A CGE analysis of variable trade levies for India pp. 136-159

Servaas Storm

Volume 36, issue 1, 1999

The impact of changes in human fertility on poverty pp. 1-30

Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton

Explaining differences in the domestic savings ratio across countries: A panel data study pp. 31-52

Khaled Hussein and Anthony Thirlwall

Technology gap, competition and spillovers from direct foreign investment: Evidence from establishment data pp. 53-73

Fredrik Sjöholm

Truth, trust and market transactions: What do we know? pp. 74-88

Mick Moore

Men's work, masculinities and gender divisions of labour pp. 89-108

Cecile Jackson

The Ghanaian manufacturing sector 1991-95: Firm growth, productivity and convergence pp. 109-127

Francis Teal

Free competition without sustainable development? Tanzanian cotton sector liberalisation, 1994/95 to 1997/98 pp. 128-150

Peter Gibbon

From darkness to light? Critical reflections on the world development report 1998/99 pp. 151-161

Lyla Mehta

Book reviews pp. 162-179

Barbara Harriss-White, Pauline Rose, Ben Rogaly, Simon Maxwell, Ian Williams, Caroline Thomas, Alasdair MacBean and Dan Brockington

Volume 35, issue 6, 1999

Relationships and traders in Madagascar pp. 1-35

Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten

Gender differences in the incidence of rural to urban migration: Evidence from Kenya pp. 36-58

Jacqueline Agesa and Richard Agesa

Globalisation and the Brazilian steel industry: 1988-97 pp. 59-88

E. Amann and F. I. Nixson

Output effects of devaluation: Evidence from Asia pp. 89-103

Kamal Upadhyaya and Mukti Upadhyay

Economic growth, income inequality and poverty in china under economic reforms pp. 104-130

Shujie Yao

Credit access, human capital and class structure mobility pp. 131-152

Bruce Wydick

Trade, technology and labour markets in the world economy, 1970-90: A computable general equilibrium analysis-corrigendum and addendum pp. 153-155

A. Patrick Minford, Jonathan Riley, Eric Nowell and Bruce Webb

Book reviews pp. 156-173

Emma Murphy, Markus Bouillon, Chris Dixon, Chris Bramall, Mak Arvin, Donald Richards, Robert Leurs, Peter Lawrence and Michael Ryan

Volume 35, issue 5, 1999

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite: Exploring the role of governance in fertility decline pp. 1-25

Monica Das Gupta

Why aren't countries rich?: Weak states and bad neighbourhoods pp. 26-47

Charles Kenny

Trade liberalisation, market deregulation and agricultural performance in Central America pp. 48-75

John Weeks

The ownership advantage in Latin American FDI: A sectoral study of us direct investment in Mexico pp. 76-95

James Love and Francisco Lage-Hidalgo

Exploring income inequality in rural, coastal Viet Nam pp. 96-119

W. Neil Adger

The trade-off between child labour and human capital formation: A Tanzanian case study pp. 120-140

Hideo Akabayashi and George Psacharopoulos

Farm size and productivity in Malawian smallholder agriculture pp. 141-161

Andrew Dorward

New rice technology and comparative advantage in rice production in the Philippines pp. 162-184

Jonna Estudillo, Manabu Fujimura and Mahabub Hossain

Book reviews pp. 185-201

John Dunning, Christopher Tsoukis, Sarah Atkinson, Laura Tedesco, John MacArthur, Michael Parnwell, Joseph Mullen and Donna Pankhurst

Book notes pp. 202-203

Donna Pankhurst and Jonathan Atkins

Volume 35, issue 4, 1999

Total factor productivity growth in East Asia: A critical survey pp. 1-41

Jesus Felipe

Directed credit and investment in small-scale industry in India: Evidence from firm-level data 1965-78 pp. 42-63

Robert Eastwood and Renu Kohli

Contextuality and data collection methods: A framework and application to health service utilisation pp. 64-94

Jesko Hentschel

Structural reform, institutions and earnings: Evidence from the formal and informal sectors in urban Peru pp. 95-116

Jaime Saavedra and Alberto Chong

Foreign direct investment, R&D and spillover efficiency: Evidence from Taiwan's manufacturing firms pp. 117-137

Yih-chyi Chuang and Chi-Mei Lin

Nepali fuelwood production and consumption: Regional and household distinctions, substitution and successful intervention pp. 138-163

Gregory Amacher, William Hyde and Keshav Kanel

Financial development and economic growth: Additional evidence pp. 164-174

Rati Ram

Inferring gender bias from mortality data: A discussion note pp. 175-200

Satish Agnihotri

Book reviews pp. 201-215

David Gellner, Donald Curtis, Michael Parnwell, Lyla Mehta, James Copestake, Clement Tisdell, Mike Shepperdson and Thapelo Clayton Matsheka

Volume 35, issue 3, 1999

Introduction pp. 1-15

Sarah Cook and Margaret Maurer-Fazio

Surplus labour and productivity in Chinese agriculture: Evidence from household survey data pp. 16-44

Sarah Cook

'Push' versus 'pull' factors in migration outflows and returns: Determinants of migration status and spell duration among China's rural population pp. 45-72

Denise Hare

Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives pp. 73-104

John Knight, Lina Song and Jia Huaibin

Rural-urban disparity and sectoral labour allocation in China pp. 105-133

Dennis Yang and Hao Zhou

The development of urban labour markets: China's urban wage curve, 1980-92 pp. 134-152

Lora Sabin

Pension reform in China: Preparing for the future pp. 153-183

Loraine West

Volume 35, issue 2, 1998

The new growth theory and development economics: A survey pp. 1-26

Vernon Ruttan

Japanese aid to Africa: Patterns, motivation and the role of structural adjustment pp. 27-53

Howard Stein

Family background, gender and schooling in Mexico pp. 54-71

Melissa Binder

Gender and rural livelihoods in Kenya pp. 72-95

Elizabeth Francis

Income and employment effects of micro-credit programmes: Village-level evidence from Bangladesh pp. 96-124

Shahidur Khandker, Hussain Samad and Zahed Khan

Migrants' intentions to return home and capital transfers: A study of Tongans and Samoans in Australia pp. 125-151

Dennis Ahlburg and Richard Brown

Farm-to-market transaction costs and specialisation in small-scale agriculture: Explorations with a non-separable household model pp. 152-163

Steven Were Omamo

Book reviews pp. 164-180

Giles Mohan, Rodney Wilson, Howard White, Xavier Albo, Peter Lawrence, Arjan De Haan, Richard Batley, Anne Booth, Martin Rimmer and Hal Hill

Volume 35, issue 1, 1998

Household strategies and rural livelihood diversification pp. 1-38

Frank Ellis

Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India? pp. 39-65

Geeta Kingdon

The political economy of the food subsidy system in Bangladesh pp. 66-88

Richard Adams

Exports and economic growth in Bangladesh pp. 89-114

Shamshad Begum and Abul Shamsuddin

The performance of village intermediaries in rural credit delivery under changing penalty regimes: Evidence from Senegal pp. 115-138

Matthew Warning and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Concentration, competition policy and the role of small and medium-sized enterprises in South Africa's industrial development pp. 139-161

Raphael Kaplinsky and Claudia Manning

Sector choice, multiple job holding and wage differentials: Evidence from Poland pp. 162-179

Arjun Bedi

Book reviews pp. 180-196

Christopher Adam, Peter Knorringa, T. V. Sathyamurthy, Nigel Rapport, John Cleland, Wolfgang Grassl, Scott McDonald, Mark Duffield and Victor Murinde