Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 33, issue 4, 1985

Indian Community Development, Local Government, Local Planning, and Rural Policy since 1950 pp. 677-98

Walter C Neale

Urban Employment and the Labor Market in Developing Nations pp. 699-730

Subbiah Kannappan

The Performance of the Food-producing Sector in Jamaica, 1962-1979: A Policy Analysis pp. 731-54

Stephen K Pollard and Douglas H Graham

An Evaluation of the Productive Performance of Agribusinesses: An Iranian Case Study pp. 755-76

Fatemeh E Moghadam

Cropping Pattern, Mechanization, Child Labor, and Fertility Behavior in a Farming Economy: Rural Egypt pp. 777-91

Victor Levy

An Old-Age Security Incentive for Children in the Philippines and Taiwan pp. 793-814

Susan De Vos

U.S. Farm Migration: An Application of the Harris-Todaro Model pp. 815-28

Daniel B Suits

The Natural Economy Revisited pp. 829-50

Charles Perrings

The Efficiency of Producing Alcohol for Energy in Brazil: Comment pp. 851-56

Jonathan Wight

The Efficiency of Producing Alcohol for Energy in Brazil: Reply pp. 857-63

Michael Barzelay and Scott R Pearson

Reflections on Need Achievement and International Differences in Income Growth: 1950-1960 pp. 865-77

Katherine B Freeman

Can Government Finance Play a Central Role in Economic Development? Review Article pp. 879-86

Joseph Froomkin

Volume 33, issue 3, 1985

Observations on the Chilean Economy, 1973-1983 pp. 451-62

Arnold Harberger

Middle-Income Classes and Food Crises: The "New" Food-Feed Competition pp. 463-83

Pan A Yotopoulos

Economic Development, Income Distribution, and Real Income Levels: Puerto Rico, 1953-1977 pp. 485-502

Arthur J Mann

Modernization and Childlessness in the States of Mexico pp. 503-19

Poston, Dudley L,, Elizabeth Briody, Katherine Trent and Harley L Browning

Inflation in Barbados: An Econometric Investigation pp. 521-32

Andrew S Downes

Why Males Earn More: Location and Training of Brazilian Schoolteachers pp. 533-56

Nancy Birdsall and M Louise Fox

On the Relative Economic Progress of U.S.-born Filipino Men pp. 557-73

Edwin T Fujii and James Mak

A Portfolio Model of Korean Household Saving Behavior, 1962-1976 pp. 575-99

David L Ortmeyer

Toward Migration Management: A Field Experiment in Thailand pp. 601-21

Theodore D Fuller, Paul Lightfoot and Peerasit Kamnuansilpa

Foreign Demand for United States Higher Education: A Study of Developing Countries in the Eastern Hemisphere pp. 623-44

Vinod B Agarwal and Donald R Winkler

Volume 33, issue 2, 1985

Stabilization with Liberalization: An Evaluation of Ten Years of Chile's Experiment with Free-Market Policies, 1973-1983 pp. 223-54

Sebastian Edwards

Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries: A Survey pp. 255-98

Gershon Feder, Richard Just and David Zilberman

The Persistence of Women's Invisibility in Agriculture: Theoretical and Policy Lessons from Lesotho and Sierra Leone pp. 299-317

Constantina Safilios-Rothschild

Socioeconomic and Demographic Aspects of School Enrollment and Attendance in Rural Botswana pp. 319-32

Dov Chernichovsky

Public Enterprise for Whom? Perverse Distributional Consequences of Public Operational Decisions pp. 333-47

Leroy P Jones

Financing Small-Scale Industry and Agriculture in Developing Countries: The Merits and Limitations of "Commercial" Policies pp. 349-71

Dennis Anderson and Farida Khambata

The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: A Model of the Market for a Public Good pp. 373-93

Paul Mosley

Employment in Construction: Multicountry Estimates of Costs and Substitution Elasticities for Small Dwellings pp. 395-414

W Paul Strassmann

Exports and Economic Growth: Some Additional Evidence pp. 415-25

Rati Ram

Volume 33, issue 1, 1984

Crisis Politics in Developing Countries pp. 1-22

Irma Adelman and Jairus M Hihn

Bugs, Bunds, Banks, and Bottlenecks: Organizational Contradictions in the New Rice Technology pp. 23-41

Grace E Goodell

Informal Credit Markets in India pp. 43-59

Thomas Timberg and C V Aiyar

Railroads and the Efficiency of Internal Markets: Some Conceptual and Practical Considerations pp. 61-70

Jacob Metzer

Statistical Determinants of the Population of a Nation's Largest City pp. 71-98

Lee De Cola

Unemployment and Economic Development pp. 99-116

Albert Berry and R H Sabot

Apartheid, the Job Ladder, and the Evolutionary Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence from South African Manufacturing, 1960-1977 pp. 117-41

Richard C Porter

CES Production Functions in Manufacturing and Problems of Industrialization in LDCs: Evidence from Korea pp. 143-65

Jae Won Kim

The Importance of Supply and Demand Variations in Earnings Instability: Comment pp. 167-70

Jere Behrman

The Importance of Supply and Demand Variations in Earnings Instability: Reply pp. 171-72

David Murray

Disparities, Gaps, and Abysses: Review Article pp. 173-77

Joel Mokyr

Volume 32, issue 4, 1984

Microeconomics, Norms, and Rationality pp. 683-711

Alexander Field

On Japanese Macroeconomic Theories of Direct Foreign Investment pp. 713-23

Chung H Lee

The Significance of Motivational Variables in International Public Welfare Expenditures pp. 725-48

Katherine B Freeman

Economic Development and the Housing Sector: A Cross-National Model pp. 749-66

Philippe Annez and William C Wheaton

Rural-to-Urban Migration and Conjugal Separation: An Indian Case Study pp. 767-80

Biswajit Banerjee

Global Pattern of Energy Consumption before and after the 1974 Oil Crisis pp. 781-802

Ching-yuan Lin

A Macro-Absorption Approach for Estimating the Foreign Debt Burden pp. 803-18

Oded Liviatan

Tourism and Food Imports: The Case of Jamaica pp. 819-42

Francois J Belisle

Poverty Analysis: The Case of Rural Somalia pp. 843-60

Gunnar Haaland and Willem Keddeman

Some Effects of Land Tenure Reforms on Russian Agricultural Productivity, 1901-1913 pp. 861-72

Peter Toumanoff

Subculture and Market: Review Article pp. 873-79

E L Jones

Volume 32, issue 3, 1984

Basic Needs versus Distributional Weights in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 455-74

Arnold Harberger

Rural-to-Urban Migration in LDCs: A Relative Deprivation Approach pp. 475-86

Oded Stark

Defense Spending, Economic Structure, and Growth: Evidence among Countries and Over Time pp. 487-98

Riccardo Faini, Patricia Annez and Lance Taylor

Politics and Female Status in North Africa: A Reconsideration of Development Theory pp. 499-524

Susan E Marshall

Coevolutionary Agricultural Development pp. 525-46

Richard B Norgaard

Irrigation Water Distribution along Branch Canals in Egypt: Economic Effects pp. 547-67

Melvin D Skold, Shinnawi Abdel Atty El Shinnawi and M Lofty Nasr

Landholding, Agricultural Modernization, and Local Institutions in India pp. 569-92

Norman K Nicholson

Import Demand for India: A Translog Cost Function Approach pp. 593-605

Khan A Mohabbat, Ardeshir Dalal and Martin Williams

Export Instability and Economic Growth: Some New Evidence pp. 607-14

Andreas Savvides

Export Instability and Economic Growth: Reply pp. 615-23

Constantine Glezakos

The Choice of Production Techniques by Foreign and Local Firms in Korea: Comment pp. 625-28

Howard Pack

The Choice of Production Techniques by Foreign and Local Firms in Korea: Reply pp. 629-31

Byung Soo Chung and Chung H Lee

The Land and People of Northeast Brazil: Is Geography a Useful Guide to Development Policy? Review Article pp. 633-38

Martin T Katzman

Volume 32, issue 2, 1984

New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 pp. 227-53

Eileen M Crimmins, Richard Easterlin, Shireen J Jejeebhoy and K Srinivasan

Externalities, Information Costs, and Social Benefit-Cost Analysis for Economic Development: An Example from Telecommunications pp. 255-76

Nathaniel H Leff

Nairobi's Informal Sector: Dynamic Entrepreneurs or Surplus Labor? pp. 277-302

William J House

Household Production in the Philippines: A Non-neoclassical Approach pp. 303-30

Nancy Folbre

Fertility and Pension Programs in LDCs: A Model of Mutual Reinforcement pp. 331-54

Barbara Entwisle and C R Winegarden

Agricultural Development and Demographic Change: A Generalization of the Boserup Model pp. 355-66

Warren Robinson and Wayne Schutjer

Hirschman's Taxonomy of Industries: Some Hypotheses and Evidence pp. 367-72

M. Shahid Alam

International Economic Relations and the Entrepreneurial State pp. 373-400

John R Freeman and Raymond D Duvall

Economies of Scale for Various Types of Manufacturing Production Technologies in an Underdeveloped Economy pp. 401-12

Martin Williams and Prem S Laumas

Share Tenancy and Fixed Rent in Taiwan pp. 413-22

Richard E Barrett

Review Article: The Macroeconomic versus the Microeconomic Approach to Development: The Futility of Development Efforts as a Function of Institutional Inertia pp. 423-30

Alvin Cohen

Volume 32, issue 1, 1983

The "Trickle-Down" Myth pp. 1-10

H W Arndt

State, Society, and Sin: The Political Beliefs of University Students in Pakistan pp. 11-44

Kiren Aziz Chaudhry and Peter McDonough

Yemenite Jewish Women in Israeli Rural Development: Female Power versus Male Authority pp. 45-61

Yael Katzir

The Limits of Industrialization in the Less Developed World: Bolivia pp. 63-95

Susan Eckstein and Frances Hagopian

Growth and Fluctuations of Fiji's Exports, 1875-1978 pp. 97-119

Bruce Knapman and Salvatore Schiavo-Campo

Food Preference, Poverty, and the Nutrition Gap pp. 121-48

C H Shah

Landlessness in India and Bangladesh: A Critical Review of National Data pp. 149-67

Mead Cain

Farm Prices in India and Abroad: Implications for Production pp. 169-82

Vasant Sukhatme

Three Centuries of Population Change pp. 183-92

Joel Mokyr