Showing papers in "Journal of Development Economics in 1986"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with two new elements in the contemporary debate, which centers around the efficacy of the neoclassically-prescribed neutral policy regime and an evolving conceptualization that puts technological change at the heart of industrialization.

TL;DR: In this paper, a distributed lag structure is imposed on the relative prices and on the effective exchange rate as the determinants of trade flows, and import and export demand functions are estimated for a sample of developing countries, using the Almon procedure.

TL;DR: It is concluded that local interventions or national policies designed to improve child nutritional status could have important educational as well as health benefits.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of cross-section and time series data for 83 countries confirms some, and contradicts other work on income distribution, including the Kuznets hypothesis that inequality increases as per capita income rises to about $400 and then declines, with further income increase.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of the recent literature on households and economic development is provided, and three related points are developed: (1) household activities can be analyzed in economic terms, particularly if these terms are broadly defined to encompass such factors as risk and uncertainty; (2) significant differences between the economic position of men, women, and children within the patriarchal household mean that it cannot be treated as an undifferentiated unit of analysis; and (3) microeconomic analysis of the household must be situated within a larger structural analysis of gender and age based inequalities and their

TL;DR: In this article, a new way of establishing a food poverty line taking into account regional food preferences and prices is proposed, which satisfies the desirable fundamental properties of such measures and has the additional advantage of being additively decomposable.

TL;DR: This article showed that a successful devaluation raises the real (in terms of domestic goods) debt service burden, causing a Krugman-Taylor like contractionary effect on aggregate demand, while a cut in aggregate supply leads to upward pressure on inflation while a reduction in aggregate demand tends to abate inflation.

TL;DR: In this paper, four competing models of the World Bank's lending to developing countries are constructed and econometrically estimated by pooled time series and cross-section data, and the analysis suggests that a model combining economic and political determinants performs best.

TL;DR: This paper used Granger causality to check the assumed exogeneity of military spending relative to economic growth in previous studies of the relationship between economic growth and military spending, and found that military spending is not a strongly exogenous variable, implying that previous work in this area is flawed.

TL;DR: Though results from a geographically limited sample should be generalized only with extreme caution, it does appear likely that malnutrition in rural China remained sufficiently prevalent in 1979 to retard the school advancement of large numbers of children.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of remittances in determining the effects of migration on the welfare of the remaining residents in a small open economy producing both traded and non-traded goods.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of subsidized credit on the technical efficiency of traditional farmers in Southeastern Brazil is analyzed under two alternative stochastic specifications for the production frontier, and it is found that the choice of stochastically specification significantly influences inferences regarding the effect on measured technical efficiency.

TL;DR: The authors examined household data from the Philippines to examine jointly household decisions on family size and child quality, using nutritional status as a measure of quality, and found that there are significant substitutions away from larger families and towards higher quality children with higher maternal and paternal education.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of a currency devaluation on output, employment and the trade balance in a small open economy (Chile) were discussed. And they showed that currency devaluations are contractionary in the short to medium run.

TL;DR: This paper surveys the new literature on international trade relevant to the North-South controversy, focusing on the determinants of growth, the terms of trade and relative employment in the world economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the impact of these reforms on Egypt's public sector firms in terms of their productivity performance and find an important asymmetry in the consequences of the reforms between the rapidly expanding import substitution sector with high productivity growth and the stagnant traditional export sector.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method of interpreting the growth of total factor productivity, directly linking the productivity growth to key parameters of a specific cost function, and show that the productivity index can be decomposed into effects due to technical change, non-constant returns to scale, and change in capital utilization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the trends in industrial growth since the mid-fifties and examine the factors that contributed to industrial stagnation after the mid -sixties, focusing on the pathology of the organised industrial sector while also documenting the broad trends in the unorganised sector.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the institutional structure of the economy may indeed be an important determinant of whether a particular innovation will or will not be adopted in a rural environment.

TL;DR: The recent LDC debt crisis has generated a mountain of analytical papers as discussed by the authors, many of which are reviewed, and their policy implications are drawn, and many of them are discussed in detail.

TL;DR: In the context of Sri Lanka, the authors showed that inequality has declined in the 1970's, both in the economy as a whole and within all sectors and ethnic groups, but these data are unreliable for drawing conclusions on changes in the distribution of income.

TL;DR: The authors show how different labor-tying arrangements embody exclusionary mechanisms that can serve as instruments of both labor management and social control, and how macro political and economic conditions shape the ways in which these mechanisms operate, and are in turn influenced by them.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used observations gathered in the course of four successive inquiries among rice-growers working on one of the major programmes of agricultural development undertaken in the Cameroons.

TL;DR: The authors examined the short and long-run effects of devaluation in a model where investment is treated as output of a composite good produced by combining domestic and imported components in fixed proportions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a more satisfactory alternative framework was proposed for the analysis of commodity concentration as a major factor contributing to the short-term instability in earnings experienced by developing countries, which indicated the widespread existence of a statistically significant, positive relationship between concentration and export instability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the direction of trade in manufacturer and make a sense of the historical pattern by looking at the distribution of world income, as well as exporting countries' policies and product composition.

TL;DR: A critical review of recent contributions to the literature on agriculture in development theory can be found in this paper, which considers and compares the main lines of advance made within neoclassical, neo-Marxian and structuralist approaches.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that under circumstances that are fairly common to real economies, a policy which deliberately maintains the exchange rate at a disequilibrium level can be welfare-increasing by promoting structural change.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of inflation on financial deepening were studied in the Korean economy and it was shown that unless more monetary saving is forthcoming to offset such inflation-induced capital losses, inflation will operate to reduce drastically the degree of financial deepening which a country can obtain.

TL;DR: In this paper, a social network is seen as redistributing income to those member households who fall below a perceived basic needs threshold, which can be seen as the outcome of an implicit social contract whereby households insure themselves against the risk of falling below the threshold.