The Developing Economies
Volume 39, Number 4 (December 2001)
■ The Developing Economies Volume 39, Number 4 (December 2001)
■ B5
■ 105pp
■ December 2001
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CONTENTS
Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience (98KB) / Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart
Gender Differences in Wealth Transfer and Expenditure Allocation: Evidence from the Rural Philippines (99KB) / Jonna P. Estudillo, Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Keijiro Otsuka
Technology Investment in Pollution Control in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Nigerian Manufacturing (109KB) / John Olatunji Adeoti
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Abstract
Gustav
Ranis
and
Frances
Stewart,
"Growth
and
Human
Development:
Comparative
Latin
American
Experience,"
pp.
333-65.
This
paper
examines
the
interdependence
between
economic
growth
(EG)
and
human
development
(HD).
We
are
concerned
with
changes
in
per
capita
income
and
its
two-way
relationship
with
the
basic
societal
objective
of
human
development.
We
draw
on
global
evidence
from
an
earlier
paper
by
Ranis,
Stewart,
and
Ramirez
(World
Development,
2000)
in
which
global
country
performance
over
time
was
separated
into
virtuous/vicious
cycles
or
HD/EG
lopsidedness,
depending
on
the
strength
of
behavioral
links
between
HD
and
EG.
We
attempt
to
correct
the
commonly
held
view
that
ensuring
increases
in
EG
automatically
leads
to
advances
in
HD.
We
find
that
HD
has
to
occur
prior
to,
or
at
least
simultaneously
with,
improvements
in
EG,
if
a
country
is
to
reach
a
virtuous
cycle.
Application
to
Latin
America
and
proto-typical
Latin
American
case
studies
support
the
proposition
that
policies
that
emphasize
EG
alone
are
unable
to
achieve
high
levels
of
HD.
Jonna
P.
Estudillo,
Agnes
R.
Quisumbing,
and
Keijiro
Otsuka,
"Gender
Differences
in
Wealth
Transfer
and
Expenditure
Allocation:
Evidence
from
the
Rural
Philippines,"
pp.
366-94.
This
paper
examines
whether
there
is
gender
bias
in
the
intergenerational
transfer
of
land
and
schooling
as
well
as
in
intrahousehold
allocation
of
expenditures.
We
found
that
among
older
children,
sons
are
favored
in
the
inheritance
of
land
while
daughters
receive
less
land
but
are
compensated
by
more
schooling.
The
share
of
expenditures
for
theschooling
for
younger
children
of
school
age
are
found
to
be
unaffected
by
the
gender
composition
of
this
age
group.
Overall,
household
expenditure
allocation
and
intergenerational
transfers
of
wealth
in
the
rural
Philippines
are
equitable.
John
Olatunji
Adeoti,
"Technology
Investment
in
Pollution
Control
in
Sub-Saharan
Africa:
Evidence
from
Nigerian
Manufacturing,"
pp.
395-431.
Information
on
technical
change
aimed
at
mitigating
the
external
diseconomy
of
production
activities
in
developing
countries
of
sub-Saharan
Africa
is
limited.
Based
on
detailed
empirical
information
on
the
current
characteristics
of
two
water
pollution-intensive
sectors
(food
&
beverages
and
textiles)
in
Nigeria,
this
paper
outlines
the
current
trends
in
technology
adoption
for
water
pollution
control
in
the
two
sectors.
We
present
evidence
from
a
recent
survey,
which
showed
that
the
Nigerian
environmental
policy
had
been
effective
in
stimulating
technology
investment
in
pollution
control
among
Nigerian
firms.
For
the
control
of
industrial
wastewater
pollution,
technologies
adopted
included
the
use
of
conventional
end-of-pipe
industrial
wastewater
treatment
plants
and
process-integrated
techniques/measures
that
reduced
wastewater
at
the
source.