Showing papers in "Journal of Development Economics in 1984"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between export expansion and economic growth in a sample of seventy-three developing countries, using data for the period 1960-1978, and showed that in both groups of low and middle-income countries, export expansion is associated with better economic performance and that an important cause of this association is the favorable impact of exports on total factor productivity.

TL;DR: Results of the calculations suggest large gains from the removal of global immigration controls which, in most cases, exceed existing worldwide GNP generated in the presence of labor mobility restrictions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of different development strategies, especially export expansion and import substitution trade policies, on total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing industries and found that there are important links between trade policies and industrial productivity performance.

TL;DR: The authors found that income elasticities are small and inversely associated with income levels, there are some economies of scale in household size, the elasticity for women's schooling is higher than those for income or household size and women's backgrounds are important.

TL;DR: The authors examined the short and long-run effects of a variety of macroeconomic policies in a simple model where the curb market plays a pivotal role as the marginal supplier of loanable funds and found that financial liberalization may fail in the short run and, contrary to the claims of the new structuralists, that the financial market repercussions of devaluation may be favorable.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed some key factors affecting the acquisition of technological capabilities by industries in less developed countries, including the sequence in which different types of capability are acquired, the differing impact on acquisition of different ways of organizing production, the effects of firm-level and wider macroeconomic variables on the nature and pace of acquisition, and the issues involved in promoting the acquisition through protecting infant industries in different circumstances regarding market size and the nature of the technology employed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the important determinants of the decision to remit and of the amount remitted by migrants in Delhi to their place of origin and compared their findings with those obtained for Kenya by Knowles and Anker.

TL;DR: In this article, a Tobit approach is used to determine food consumption for rural households in Sierra Leone that produce the foods which they consume using a household-firm model with seven commodities: including five foods, non-foods and labor.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical investigation of the relationship between relative technical efficiency and firm size in four Indian manufacturing industries was conducted. And the authors found that variations in technical efficiency are correlated with several explanatory variables, including size of firm, which is positively associated with relative productive efficiency in only one of the four industries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that there is substantial surplus labor in rural areas of Botswana, with the incidence of underutilization varying by age, sex, and asset position.

TL;DR: The results challenge the widely held belief that there must be a growth-equity trade-off and suggest that the impact of educational inequality on income distribution may be different from that observed in earlier studies, implying a need for caution in using these earlier results as a basis for educational policy development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data collected by the author in a sample survey in Delhi in 1975-76, on 1400 migrants from rural areas and found that over one-half of the sample had moved to Delhi after lining up specific jobs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce new methods of modeling direct foreign investment when risk diversification is important in explaining industrial location decisions, and show that modest increases in wages will not send all investment fleeing from an export platform.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used disaggregated annual data to estimate real income and relative price elasticities of demand for imports of Venezuela, and concluded that Venezuela has made progress in developing domestic substitutes for imports, and the degree of "openness" in Venezuela increased after 1961.

TL;DR: The authors explored conditions for women in Nicaragua and found that small children affect participation less than in developed countries due to child care from extended families or while on informal sector jobs, and the necessity for poor mothers to work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the interaction between industrial and technological development in Latin America, focusing on technology as information and engineers as its processors, looking at the learning stages from using imports to the creation of new products and examining these processes in terms of a progression toward increasing technological complexity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce international equalization of profit rates into a North-South model of growth a la Findlay (1980) and examine the effects of international capital mobility and shifts in regional technology, savings, and demand parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the performance of India's canal-irrigated agriculture could be substantially and cheaply improved by change in canal operating and maintenance procedures, but current procedures allow some farmers and state officials to capture disproportionate benefits for themselves through a well-institutionalised system of corruption.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore under what conditions remittances from Filipino doctors practicing overseas might be sizeable enough to compensate the nation for the losses associated with doctor emigration, and the analysis does indicate in the Philippine case that it may pay to train doctors for export.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how human capital and infrastructure constrain the choice of technology and hence productivity of Indian rice farmers and found that productivity is a function of the farmer's schooling, extension programs, transportation and communication infrastructure, irrigation availability, utilization of high yielding varieties, and climatic factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a rationale for interlinking credit and tenancy contracts in the context of production loans, in an environment characterized by a heterogeneous labor pool and imperfect information, landlords have an incentive to avail themselves of screening devices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the dynamic interrelationship among money growth, inflation, and output growth for Colombia and Mexico on the basis of implementation of a vector autoregression methodology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build a normative framework to evaluate three questions: to what extent the increases in indebtedness of developing countries was excessive or simply the result of a perfectly rational strategy? What borrowing strategies can be expected in the future as the developing countries revise their expectations about the length of time between shocks? What is the derived demand to be faced by multilateral institutions providing some amount of concessionary credit.

TL;DR: In this article, maximum likelihood estimates using Probit analysis on the impact of push factors, as formulated by 'village-end' variables, on rural-urban migration in less developed economies are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed technology exports from five of the most industrially advanced developing countries (Argentina, Brazil, India, Korea, and Mexico) and summarized tentative lessons about relationships between trade in the elements of technology, country and firm strategy, and local technological development.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the short run effects of traditional balance-of-payments policies for a small developing country under a fixed exchange rate regime and shows that a tariff/subsidy policy that leaves the price of imported inputs unaffected is likely to achieve the payments objectives without creating significant adverse supply-side effects.

TL;DR: In this article, past choices of technology and present levels of productivity in the Philippines' cotton spinning and weaving industries were analyzed, and detailed engineering and economic information were used to assess the costs of alternative technologies, to estimate levels of output relative to international standards of best practice, and to analyze the sources of productivity shortfalls.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between money and output in sixteen Latin American countries was examined using the framework of analysis elaborated by Robert Barro for the United States, and three closely interrelated hypotheses were tested: (1) that the growth of the money supply is predictable in that it differs from a random walk with trend; (2) that only the part of money growth which is not predicted will affect real output in the short run; and (3) that, as Lucas has argued, the slope of the Phillips curve is smaller in size for countries where money and prices are