World Development

1973 - 2008

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Volume 36, issue 7, 2008

Looking Ahead Optimally in Allocating Aid pp. 1135-1151

Adrian Wood

Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff? pp. 1152-1172

Erin C. Lentz and Christopher B. Barrett

Threshold Effects of Corruption: Theory and Evidence pp. 1173-1191

Niloy Bose, Salvatore Capasso and Antu Panini Murshid

Economic Reforms, FDI, and Economic Growth in India: A Sector Level Analysis pp. 1192-1212

Chandana Chakraborty and Peter Nunnenkamp

Reforms with a Female Face: Gender, Liberalization, and Economic Policy in Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 1213-1232

Smriti Rao

The Mystery of Capital Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women, Property Rights and Customary Law pp. 1233-1246

S.F. Joireman

Economic Efficiency and Supply Response of Women as Farm Managers: Comparative Evidence from Western Kenya pp. 1247-1260

Arega D. Alene, Victor M. Manyong, Gospel O. Omanya, Hodeba D. Mignouna, Mpoko Bokanga and George D. Odhiambo

Monetary Union Membership in West Africa: A Cluster Analysis pp. 1261-1279

Charalambos G. Tsangarides and Mahvash Saeed Qureshi

The Distribution of Household Income in Brazil: Unequal and Immutable? pp. 1280-1293

Orlando Sotomayor

Decentralization's Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia pp. 1294-1316

Faguet, Jean-Paul and Fabio Sánchez

Volume 36, issue 6, 2008

Introduction: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Conceptual Issues, Empirical Illustrations and Policy Implications pp. 987-991

Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silber

Estimating Basic Capabilities: A Structural Equation Model Applied to Bolivia pp. 992-1010

Jaya Krishnakumar and Paola Ballon

Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty: Peru, 1998-2002 pp. 1011-1020

Cesar Calvo

Measuring Pro-Poor Growth in Non-Income Dimensions pp. 1021-1047

Melanie Grosse, Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

Global Estimates of Pro-Poor Growth pp. 1048-1066

Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani

On the Watts Multidimensional Poverty Index and its Decomposition pp. 1067-1077

Satya R. Chakravarty, Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

Experienced Poverty and Income Poverty in Mexico: A Subjective Well-Being Approach pp. 1078-1093

Mariano Rojas

Deprivation in the São Paulo Districts: Evidence from 2000 pp. 1094-1112

D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Rute Imanishi Rodrigues

Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries pp. 1113-1130

Frikkie Booysen, Servaas van der Berg, Ronelle Burger, Michael von Maltitz and Gideon du Rand

Volume 36, issue 5, 2008

The Global Distribution of Income in 2050 pp. 727-740

Evan Hillebrand

The Diverging Patterns of Profitability, Investment and Growth of China and India During 1980-2003 pp. 741-774

Jesus Felipe, Editha Laviña and Emma Xiaoqin Fan

The Human Development Trap in Mexico pp. 775-796

Mayer-Foulkes, David

Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar pp. 797-822

Bart Minten and Christopher B. Barrett

The Effects of Fair Trade on Affiliated Producers: An Impact Analysis on Kenyan Farmers pp. 823-842

Leonardo Becchetti and Marco Costantino

Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi pp. 843-859

Gautam Hazarika and Sudipta Sarangi

Food Aid Dependency in Northeastern Ethiopia: Myth or Reality? pp. 860-874

Peter D. Little

Women and Fish-for-Sex: Transactional Sex, HIV/AIDS and Gender in African Fisheries pp. 875-899

Christophe Béné and Sonja Merten

Men's Crops and Women's Crops: The Importance of Gender to the Understanding of Agricultural and Development Outcomes in Ghana's Central Region pp. 900-915

Edward R. Carr

Minimum Wages and Poverty in a Developing Country: Simulations from Indonesia's Household Survey pp. 916-933

Kelly Bird and Chris Manning

Disability and the Rural Labor Market in India: Evidence for Males in Tamil Nadu pp. 934-952

Sophie Mitra and Usha Sambamoorthi

The Determinants of Water Connection and Water Consumption: Empirical Evidence from a Cambodian Household Survey pp. 953-968

Marcello Basani, Jonathan Isham and Barry Reilly

Economic Heterogeneity and the Commons: Effects on Collective Action and Collective Goods Provisioning pp. 969-985

Lore M. Ruttan

Volume 36, issue 4, 2008

Capital Intensity, Technology Intensity, and Skill Development in Post China/WTO Maquiladoras pp. 541-559

John Sargent and Linda Matthews

Foreign Technology Licensing, Productivity, and Spillovers pp. 560-574

Ricardo A López

The Unspeakable Ban: The Translation of Global Pesticide Governance into Honduran National Regulation pp. 575-589

Kees Jansen

A Conceptual Framework for Community-Based Health Insurance in Low-Income Countries: Social Capital and Economic Development pp. 590-607

Philipa Mladovsky and Elias Mossialos

Women Bargaining to Seek Healthcare: Norms, Domestic Practices, and Implications in Rural Burkina Faso pp. 608-624

Béatrice Nikièma, Slim Haddad and Louise Potvin

Migration and Income Diversification:: Evidence from Burkina Faso pp. 625-640

Fleur Wouterse and J. Edward Taylor

Why do Beneficiaries Leave the Safety Net in Mexico? A Study of the Effects of Conditionality on Dropouts pp. 641-658

Carola Álvarez, Florencia Devoto and Paul Winters

Civil Conflict and Forced Migration: The Micro Determinants and Welfare Losses of Displacement in Colombia pp. 659-676

Ibáñez, Ana Mari­a and Carlos Eduardo Vélez

Civil Society and Good Governance: (Re-) Conceptualizing the Interface pp. 677-705

Indrajit Roy

Development of Groundwater Markets in China: A Glimpse into Progress to Date pp. 706-726

Lijuan Zhang, Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

Volume 36, issue 3, 2008

The Impact of Immigration: Comparing Two Global Eras pp. 345-361

Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Designing Global Collective Action in Population and HIV/AIDS Programs, 1983-2002: Has Anything Changed? pp. 362-382

Hendrik P. van Dalen

Are More Democratic Donor Countries More Development Oriented? Domestic Institutions and External Development Promotion in OECD Countries pp. 383-398

Jörg Faust

Cursing the Blessings? Natural Resource Abundance, Institutions, and Economic Growth pp. 399-419

Christa N. Brunnschweiler

Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: Measurement Issues using Income and Non-Income Indicators pp. 420-445

Stephan Klasen

Redistributive Conflict and Social Policy in Latin America pp. 446-460

Judith Teichman

An Analysis of a US-Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Free Trade Agreement pp. 461-484

Drusilla K. Brown, Kozo Kiyota and Robert M. Stern

External Debt in Post-Conflict Countries pp. 485-504

Alvarez-Plata, Patricia and Tilman Brück

Links between the Local Trade in Natural Products, Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation in a Semi-arid Region of South Africa pp. 505-526

Sheona Shackleton, Bruce Campbell, Lotz-Sisitka, Heila and Charlie Shackleton

Does Charcoal Production Slow Agricultural Expansion into the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest? pp. 527-540

Ricardo A. Labarta, Douglas S. White and Scott M. Swinton

Volume 36, issue 2, 2008

Introduction: The Impact of Asian Drivers on the Developing World pp. 197-209

Raphael Kaplinsky and Dirk Messner

Asian Growth and Trade Poles: India, China, and East and Southeast Asia pp. 210-234

Scott McDonald, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

The Impact of China on Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 235-253

Rhys Jenkins, Enrique Dussel Peters and Mauricio Mesquita Moreira

Do the Asian Drivers Undermine Export-oriented Industrialization in SSA pp. 254-273

Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris

Global Governance and Developing Countries: The Implications of the Rise of China pp. 274-292

Jing Gu, John Humphrey and Dirk Messner

Do the Asian Drivers Pull their Diplomatic Weight China, India, and the United Nations pp. 293-307

Andrew F. Cooper and Thomas Fues

China's Capacities for Mitigating Climate Change pp. 308-324

Carmen Richerzhagen and Imme Scholz

Breakthrough China's and India's Transition from Production to Innovation pp. 325-344

Tilman Altenburg, Hubert Schmitz and Andreas Stamm

Volume 36, issue 1, 2008

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? Understanding Who Pays for Debt Relief pp. 1-16

Bernhard Georg Gunter, Jesmin Rahman and Quentin Wodon

Core Labor Standards and Development: Impact on Long-Term Income pp. 17-38

Remi Bazillier

The Roles and Performance of State Firms and Non-State Firms in China's Economic Transition pp. 39-54

Shaomin Li and Jun Xia

Industrial Policy Changes and Firm-Level Technological Capability Development: Evidence from Northern Brazil pp. 55-88

Paulo N. Figueiredo

What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America? pp. 89-114

Pablo Acosta, Cesar A. Calderon, Pablo Fajnzylber and Humberto Lopez

Is There a Feminization of Poverty in Latin America? pp. 115-127

Marcelo Medeiros and Joana Costa

Gender Differentials in Literacy in India: The Intriguing Relationship with Women's Labor Force Participation pp. 128-143

Aparna Sundaram and Reeve Vanneman

Genetic Engineering for the Poor: Golden Rice and Public Health in India pp. 144-158

Alexander J. Stein, H.P.S. Sachdev and Matin Qaim

Greener than Thou: The Political Economy of Fish Ecolabeling and Its Local Manifestations in South Africa pp. 159-175

Stefano Ponte

Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research pp. 176-195

Amy R. Poteete and Elinor Ostrom