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1973 - 2013
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Volume 42, issue C , 2013
Determinants of Horizontal Spillovers from FDI: Evidence from a Large Meta-Analysis pp. 1-15
Zuzana Iršová and Tomáš Jiří Havránek
Is Social Spending Procyclical? Evidence for Developing Countries pp. 16-27
Javier Arze del Granado , Sanjeev Gupta and Alejandro Hajdenberg
Is There a Disability Gap in Employment Rates in Developing Countries? pp. 28-43
Suguru Mizunoya and Sophie Mitra
Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Emigration from Kazakhstan to Russia pp. 44-66
Galina An and Charles M. Becker
“A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep”? Understanding Public Support for Aid: The Case of the United Kingdom pp. 67-75
Spencer Henson and Johanna Lindstrom
Developmental Drivers of Nutritional Change: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 76-88
Derek D. Headey
Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households pp. 89-99
Maria Sagrario Floro and Ranjula Bali Swain
Food Quality Changes and Implications: Evidence from the Rice Value Chain of Bangladesh pp. 100-113
Bart Minten , K.A.S. Murshid and Thomas Reardon
Staying Alive: Adult Literacy Programs and Child Mortality in Rural Ghana pp. 114-126
Niels-Hugo Blunch
Market Imperfections and Child Labor pp. 127-142
Christelle Dumas
Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure pp. 143-164
Mehtabul Azam and Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling on Loan Size? pp. 165-181
Isabelle Agier and Ariane Szafarz
Do Microloan Officers Want to Lend to the Less Advantaged? Evidence from a Choice Experiment pp. 182-198
MoÏse Sagamba , Oleg Shchetinin and Nurmukhammad Yusupov
Adverse Incorporation and Microfinance among Cross-Border Traders in Senegal pp. 199-208
Cynthia Howson
Revisiting the “Cotton Problem”—A Comparative Analysis of Cotton Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 209-221
Claire Delpeuch and Anneleen Vandeplas
Volume 41, issue C , 2013
Disability and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Multidimensional Study pp. 1-18
Sophie Mitra , Aleksandra Posarac and Brandon Vick
How Should MDG Success and Failure be Judged: Faster Progress or Achieving the Targets? pp. 19-30
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr , Joshua Greenstein and David Stewart
How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries pp. 31-50
Yoonyoung Cho and David Locke Newhouse
Gender in Transition: The Case of North Korea pp. 51-66
Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland
Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking? pp. 67-82
Seo-Young Cho , Axel Dreher and Eric Neumayer
Remittances and Portfolio Values: An Inquiry using Immigrants from Africa, Europe, and the Americas pp. 83-95
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo
Citizens, Legislators, and Executive Disclosure: The Political Determinants of Fiscal Transparency pp. 96-108
Joachim Wehner and Paolo de Renzio
Redressing Grievances and Complaints Regarding Basic Service Delivery pp. 109-119
Varun Gauri
The Profit Orientation of Microfinance Institutions and Effective Interest Rates pp. 120-131
Peter W. Roberts
Pricing in Microinsurance Markets pp. 132-144
Christian Biener
The Effects of Religion on Development Efforts: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry and a Research Agenda pp. 145-156
Roy Mersland , D’Espallier, Bert and Magne Supphellen
Development, Social Change, and Islamic Finance in Contemporary Indonesia pp. 157-167
Thomas B. Pepinsky
How Effective is a Big Push to the Small? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment pp. 168-182
Debdulal Mallick
Mothers’ Employment and their Children’s Schooling: A Joint Multilevel Analysis for India pp. 183-195
Francesca Francavilla , Gianna Claudia Claudia Giannelli and Leonardo Grilli
Admissible Evidence in the Court of Development Evaluation? The Impact of CARE’s SHOUHARDO Project on Child Stunting in Bangladesh pp. 196-216
Lisa C. Smith , Faheem Khan , Timothy R. Frankenberger and A.K.M. Abdul Wadud
African Re-Agrarianization? Accumulation or Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth? pp. 217-231
Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt
Targeting Maps: An Asset-Based Approach to Geographic Targeting pp. 232-244
Corey Lang , Christopher B. Barrett and Felix Naschold
Unpacking the Meaning of ‘Market Access’: Evidence from Rural Kenya pp. 245-264
Jordan Chamberlin and Thomas S. Jayne
Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia’s Protected Areas on Poverty pp. 265-285
Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza and Merlin M. Hanauer
Linking Globalization to Local Land Uses: How Eco-Consumers and Gourmands are Changing the Colombian Coffee Landscapes pp. 286-301
Ximena Rueda and Eric F. Lambin
Innovation Performance and Embeddedness in Networks: Evidence from the Ethiopian Footwear Cluster pp. 302-316
Mulu Gebreeyesus and Pierre Mohnen
Export Liberalization, Job Creation, and the Skill Premium: Evidence from the US–Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) pp. 317-337
Emiko Fukase
Volume 40, issue 12 , 2012
Banking Crises and Short and Medium Term Output Losses in Emerging and Developing Countries: The Role of Structural and Policy Variables pp. 2369-2378
Davide Furceri and Aleksandra Zdzienicka
Participatory Governance Reform: A Good Strategy for Increasing Government Responsiveness and Improving Public Services? pp. 2379-2398
Johanna Speer
Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement pp. 2399-2410
John Gaventa and Gregory Barrett
Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship pp. 2411-2426
Bob Martinus Johannes Rijkers and Rita Costa
Migration and Rural Welfare: The Impact of Potential Policy Reforms in Europe pp. 2427-2439
Fleur Wouterse
Merchants of Corruption: How Entrepreneurs Manufacture and Supply Bribes pp. 2440-2453
Nnaoke Ufere , Sheri Perelli , Richard Boland and Bo Carlsson
Where Does the Axe Fall? Inflation Dynamics and Poverty Rates: Regional and Sectoral Evidence for Ghana pp. 2454-2467
Simeon Coleman
Local Demand for a Global Intervention: Policy Priorities in the Time of AIDS pp. 2468-2477
Kim Yi Dionne
Beyond “Death Do Us Part”: The Long-Term Implications of Divorce Perceptions on Women’s Well-Being and Child Schooling in Rural Ethiopia pp. 2478-2489
Neha Kumar and Agnes Reynes Quisumbing
Inequality and the Politics of Social Policy Implementation: Gender, Age and Chile’s 2004 Health Reforms pp. 2490-2504
Christina Ewig and Gastón A. Palmucci
Leaving the Safety Net: An Analysis of Dropouts in an Urban Conditional Cash Transfer Program pp. 2505-2521
Mario González-Flores , Maria Heracleous and Paul C. Winters
Social Capital Formation and Credit Access: Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 2522-2536
Masahiro Shoji , Keitaro Aoyagi , Ryuji Kasahara , Yasuyuki Sawada and Mika Ueyama
Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Irrigation Water Sharing: Evidence from a Field Lab in Rural Tanzania pp. 2537-2551
D’Exelle, Ben , Els Lecoutere and Bjorn Van Campenhout
The Pitfalls of Water Privatization: Failure and Reform in Malaysia pp. 2552-2563
Jeff Tan
Privatization and Renationalization: What Went Wrong in Bolivia’s Water Sector? pp. 2564-2577
Degol Hailu , Rafael Guerreiro Osorio and Raquel Tsukada
In the Eye of the Storm—The Welfare Impacts of a Hurricane pp. 2578-2589
Kristian Thor Jakobsen
Volume 40, issue 11 , 2012
Does Foreign Aid Increase Foreign Direct Investment? pp. 2155-2176
Pablo Selaya and Eva Rytter Sunesen
Trade Liberalization, Economic Crises, and Growth pp. 2177-2193
Rodney Edward Falvey , Neil Foster-McGregor and David Greenaway
FDI Waves, Waves of Neglect of Political Risk pp. 2194-2205
Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Khalid Sekkat
Heterogeneous FDI in Transition Economies – A Novel Approach to Assess the Developmental Impact of Backward Linkages pp. 2206-2220
Axèle Giroud , Bjoern Jindra and Philipp Marek
Do Developing Countries Invest Up? The Environmental Effects of Foreign Direct Investment from Less-Developed Countries pp. 2221-2233
Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin
The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies: A Review of Evidence for Developing Countries pp. 2234-2248
Francisco Javier Arze del Granado , David Coady and Robert Gillingham
The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence pp. 2249-2262
C. van Rooyen , R. Stewart and T. de Wet
The Fungibility of Aid Earmarked for HIV/AIDS Control Programs pp. 2263-2274
Sarah E. Harper
Do Inequalities in Health Care Utilization in Developing Countries Change When We Take into Account Traditional Medicines? pp. 2275-2289
Azusa Sato
Ordinal Welfare Comparisons with Multiple Discrete Indicators: A First Order Dominance Approach and Application to Child Poverty pp. 2290-2301
Channing Arndt , Roberta Distante , M. Azhar Hussain , Lars Peter Østerdal , Pham Lan Huong and Maimuna Ibraimo
Estimating the Short-Run Poverty Impacts of the 2010–11 Surge in Food Prices pp. 2302-2317
Maros Ivanic , Will J Martin and Hassan Zaman
Impact of the 2008–2009 Twin Economic Crises on the Philippine Labor Market pp. 2318-2328
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers and Nidhiya Menon
Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia pp. 2329-2341
Willy Mccourt
Harnessing Communities, Markets and the State for Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Post-Socialist Rural Poland pp. 2342-2354
Martin Petrick and Andreas Gramzow
Effects of Fair Trade Certification on Social Capital: The Case of Rwandan Coffee Producers pp. 2355-2367
Sara D. Elder , Hisham Zerriffi and Philippe Le Billon
Volume 40, issue 10 , 2012
Is there a Beijing Consensus on International Macroeconomic Policy? pp. 1933-1943
Graham Bird , Mandilaras, Alex (Alexandros) and Helen Popper
IMF Lending in Times of Crisis: Political Influences and Crisis Prevention pp. 1944-1969
Andrea Filippo Presbitero and Alberto Zazzaro
Sabotaging Civil Service Reform in Aid-Dependent Countries: Are Donors to Blame? pp. 1970-1981
Barbara Nunberg and Robert R. Taliercio
International R&D Transfer and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Panel Study Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis pp. 1982-1998
Miao Wang and M. C. Sunny Wong
Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt pp. 1999-2013
Francesca Marchetta
Parental Education and Child Health—Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan pp. 2014-2032
Monazza Aslam and Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
“The Poor Stay Poor”: Household Asset Poverty Traps in Rural Semi-Arid India pp. 2033-2043
Felix Naschold
NGOs and the Political Empowerment of Poor People in Rural Bangladesh: Cultivating the Habits of Democracy? pp. 2044-2062
Naila Kabeer , Simeen Mahmud and Jairo Guillermo Isaza Castro
Bridging the Gender Divide: An Experimental Analysis of Group Formation in African Villages pp. 2063-2077
Abigail Barr , Marleen Dekker and Marcel Fafchamps
Opening Cracks for the Transgression of Social Boundaries: An Evaluation of the Gender Impacts of Farmer Research Teams in Honduras pp. 2078-2095
Sally Humphries , Lauren Classen , José Jiménez , Fredy Sierra , Omar Gallardo and Marvin Gómez
Collective Action Dynamics under External Rewards: Experimental Insights from Andean Farming Communities pp. 2096-2107
Ulf Narloch , Unai Pascual and Adam G. Drucker
Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania pp. 2108-2122
Klaus Deininger , Sara Savastano and Calogero Carletto
Reducing Poverty Through Carbon Forestry? Impacts of the N’hambita Community Carbon Project in Mozambique pp. 2123-2135
Rohit Jindal , John M. Kerr and Sarah Carter
Child Porterage and Africa’s Transport Gap: Evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa pp. 2136-2154
Gina Porter , Kate Hampshire , Albert Abane , Alister Munthali , Elsbeth Robson , Mac Mashiri , Augustine Tanle , Goodhope Maponya and Sipho Dube
Volume 40, issue 9 , 2012
Development Consequences of Armed Conflict pp. 1713-1722
Scott Gates , Håvard Hegre , Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and Håvard Strand
Aid, Growth and Devolution pp. 1723-1749
Christian Lessmann and Gunther Markwardt
Fiscal Spending and Economic Growth: Some Stylized Facts pp. 1750-1761
Céline Carrère and Jaime A.P. de Melo
Fiscal Sustainability: The Impact of Real Exchange Rate Shocks on Debt Valuation, Interest Rates and GDP Growth pp. 1762-1783
Claudia Martínez Carrera and Rodrigo Vergara
The Growth Effects of Property Rights: The Role of Finance pp. 1784-1797
Niloy Bose , Antu Panini Murshid and Martin A. Wurm
The Institutional Reforms Debate and FDI Flows to the MENA Region: The “Best” Ensemble pp. 1798-1809
Wasseem Michel Mina
Asking Questions to Understand Rural Livelihoods: Comparing Disaggregated vs. Aggregated Approaches to Household Livelihood Questionnaires pp. 1810-1823
Pamela Jagger , Martin Karl Luckert , Abwoli Banana and Joseph Bahati
Impacts of Community-driven Development Programs on Income and Asset Acquisition in Africa: The Case of Nigeria pp. 1824-1838
Ephraim Nkonya , Dayo Phillip , Tewodaj Mogues , John Pender and Edward Kato
Poverty and Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya pp. 1839-1853
Antony Chapoto , Lilian Kirimi and Suneetha Kadiyala
Urban Services and Child Migration to the Slums of Nairobi pp. 1854-1869
Caroline S. Archambault , Joost de Laat and Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu
Institution Building with Limited Resources: Establishing a Supreme Audit Institution in Rwanda pp. 1870-1881
Ann-Sofie Isaksson and Arne Bigsten
Alert at Maradi: Preventing Food Crises by Using Price Signals pp. 1882-1894
Claudio Araujo , Catherine Araujo-Bonjean and Stéphanie Brunelin
Impact Evaluation of Traditional Basmati Rice Cultivation in Uttarakhand State of Northern India: What Implications Does It Hold for Geographical Indications? pp. 1895-1907
Pradyot R. Jena and Ulrike Grote
Economic Liberalization and Rising College Premiums in Mexico: A Reinterpretation pp. 1908-1920
Aashish Mehta and Belinda Acuña Mohr
Poverty and Proximate Barriers to Learning: Vision Deficiencies, Vision Correction and Educational Outcomes in Rural Northwest China pp. 1921-1931
Emily C. Hannum and Yuping Zhang
Volume 40, issue 8 , 2012
The Impact of China on Low and Middle Income Countries’ Export Prices in Industrial-Country Markets pp. 1483-1496
Xiaolan Fu , Raphael Kaplinsky and Jing Zhang
The Impact of Foreign Labor on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia pp. 1497-1510
Prema-chandra Athukorala and Evelyn Shyamala Devadason
Fiscal Decentralization and Development Outcomes in India: An Exploratory Analysis pp. 1511-1521
Kaliappa Kalirajan and Keijiro Otsuka
Partisan Preferences and Skill Formation Policies: New Evidence from Turkey and Argentina pp. 1522-1533
Fulya Apaydin
Why is Corruption Less Harmful to Income Inequality in Latin America? pp. 1534-1545
Stephen Dobson and Carlyn Ramlogan-Dobson
Setting Priorities, Targeting Subsidies among Water, Sanitation, and Preventive Health Interventions in Developing Countries pp. 1546-1568
Dale Whittington , Marc Jeuland , Kate Barker and Yvonne Yuen
Does User Participation Lead to Sense of Ownership for Rural Water Systems? Evidence from Kenya pp. 1569-1576
Sara J. Marks and Jennifer Davis
Rural Poverty Dynamics in Kenya: Structural Declines and Stochastic Escapes pp. 1577-1593
Maren Radeny , Marrit van den Berg and Rob Schipper
Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique pp. 1594-1609
Lena Giesbert and Kati Schindler
Assessing the Impact of Training on Lowland Rice Productivity in an African Setting: Evidence from Uganda pp. 1610-1618
Yoko Kijima , Yukinori Ito and Keijiro Otsuka
Who is Vouching for the Input Voucher? Decentralized Targeting and Elite Capture in Tanzania pp. 1619-1633
Lei Pan and Luc Christiaensen
Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia pp. 1634-1646
Sosina Bezu , Christopher B. Barrett and Stein Terje Holden
Income Risk and Household Schooling Decisions in Burkina Faso pp. 1647-1662
Harounan Kazianga
Family Hardship and Cultural Values: Child Labor in Malian Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities pp. 1663-1674
Gavin Hilson
Microfinance and Poverty—A Macro Perspective pp. 1675-1689
Katsushi S. Imai , Raghav Gaiha , Ganesh Thapa and Samuel Kobina Annim
Credit Program Participation and Decline in Violence: Does Self-Selection Matter? pp. 1690-1699
Yoo-Mi Chin
Bequest Motives and Determinants of Micro Life Insurance in Sri Lanka pp. 1700-1711
Thankom Arun , Mirko Bendig and Shoba Arun
Volume 40, issue 7 , 2012
Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Economic Growth of the Member Countries? pp. 1283-1294
Jung Hur and Cheolbeom Park
Export Performance and Trade Facilitation Reform: Hard and Soft Infrastructure pp. 1295-1307
Alberto Portugal-Perez and John S. Wilson
Resource Curse and Power Balance: Evidence from Oil-Rich Countries pp. 1308-1316
Kjetil Bjorvatn , Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Friedrich Georg Schneider
Natural Disasters and Growth: Going Beyond the Averages pp. 1317-1336
Norman V. Loayza , Eduardo A. Olaberria , Jamele Rigolini and Luc Christiaensen
The Spatial Interdependence of FDI in Latin America pp. 1337-1351
Luisa R. Blanco
Constrained Gazelles: High Potentials in West Africa’s Informal Economy pp. 1352-1368
Michael Grimm , Peter Knorringa and Jann Lay
Is the Informal Sector Constrained from the Demand Side? Evidence for Six West African Capitals pp. 1369-1381
Marcus Böhme and Rainer Thiele
Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria pp. 1382-1393
Deborah Potts
Converting Asset Holdings into Livelihood: An Empirical Study on the Role of Household Agency in South Africa pp. 1394-1406
Bret Anderson
Seasonal Food Crises and Policy Responses: A Narrative Account of Three Food Security Crises in Malawi pp. 1407-1417
Frank Ellis and Elizabeth Manda
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming pp. 1418-1434
Marc F. Bellemare
Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi pp. 1435-1451
Dick Durevall and Annika Lindskog
Health Inequality between Ethnic Minority and Han Populations in China pp. 1452-1468
Yusi Ouyang and Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand pp. 1469-1481
Jonathan Rigg , Albert Salamanca and Michael Parnwell
Volume 40, issue 6 , 2012
Equity in Climate Change: An Analytical Review pp. 1083-1097
Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian
Governing International Advocacy NGOs pp. 1098-1108
L. David Brown , Alnoor Ebrahim and Srilatha Batliwala
Building a BRIC? Stock Market Opening and Investment Finance in India since Liberalization pp. 1109-1121
Nicholas Snowden and Jesús Muñoz
Trade Contraction and Employment in India and South Africa during the Global Crisis pp. 1122-1134
David Kucera , Leanne Roncolato and Erik von Uexkull
Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India, 1983–2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition pp. 1135-1150
Mehtabul Azam
Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes Over Time and Across States pp. 1151-1163
Mohammad Niaz Asadullah and Gaston Isaias Yalonetzky
The Effect of Gender-Based Returns to Borrowing on Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Bangladesh pp. 1164-1180
Saad Alam
Microfinance and Moneylender Interest Rate: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 1181-1189
Debdulal Mallick
Identity, Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from Urban China pp. 1190-1200
Shiqing Jiang , Ming Lu and Hiroshi Sato
Women’s Entry into Self-employment in Urban China: The Role of Family in Creating Gendered Mobility Patterns pp. 1201-1212
Qian Forrest Zhang and Zi Pan
Auction Design for the Private Provision of Public Goods in Developing Countries: Lessons from Payments for Environmental Services in Malawi and Indonesia pp. 1213-1223
Oluyede Clifford Ajayi , B. Kelsey Jack and Beria Leimona
Hunting for the Benefits of Joint Forest Management in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot: Effects on Bushmeat Hunters and Wildlife in the Udzungwa Mountains pp. 1224-1239
Martin Reinhardt Nielsen and Thorsten Treue
Land Acquisition and the Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques: A Duration Analysis for Kenya and The Philippines pp. 1240-1254
Remco Oostendorp and Fred Zaal
Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya pp. 1255-1268
Elisabeth Fischer and Matin Qaim
The Economic Sustainability of Certified Coffee: Recent Evidence from Mexico and Peru pp. 1269-1279
Bradford L. Barham and Jeremy Glenn Weber
Volume 40, issue 5 , 2012
Where Do The Poor Live? pp. 865-877
Andy Sumner
A Household-Based Human Development Index pp. 878-899
Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen
The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions are Really Being Measured? pp. 900-915
Martin Knoll and Petra Zloczysti
Vulnerability, Income Growth and Climate Change pp. 916-927
Patrick S. Ward and Gerald E. Shively
Revisiting the Trade-Migration Nexus: Evidence from New OECD Data pp. 928-937
Gabriel J Felbermayr and Farid Toubal
Migration, Human Capital Formation, and Growth: An Empirical Investigation pp. 938-955
Corrado Di Maria and Emiliya A. Lazarova
Skill Distribution and Comparative Advantage: A Comparison of China and India pp. 956-969
Yoko Asuyama
State-led Technological Development: A Case of China’s Nanotechnology Development pp. 970-982
Can Huang and Yilin Wu
The Benefits of Formalization: Evidence from Vietnamese Manufacturing SMEs pp. 983-998
John Rand and Nina Elisabeth Torm
The Impact of Connectivity on Market Interlinkages: Evidence from Rural Punjab pp. 999-1012
Mahvish Shami
Local Entrepreneurship within Global Value Chains: A Case Study in the Mexican Automotive Industry pp. 1013-1023
Oscar F. Contreras , Jorge Carrillo and Jorge Alonso
Understanding and Improving Accountability in Education: A Conceptual Framework and Guideposts from Three Decentralization Reform Experiences in Latin America pp. 1024-1041
Alec Ian Gershberg , Pablo Gonzalez and Ben Meade
Distributive Politics and Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Brazil’s Bolsa Família pp. 1042-1053
Brian J. Fried
Do External Grants to District Governments Discourage Own Revenue Generation? A Look at Local Public Finance Dynamics in Ghana pp. 1054-1067
Tewodaj Mogues and Samuel Ekow Benin
Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impacts on Rural Household Welfare pp. 1068-1081
Robert B. Richardson , Ana Fernandez , David Tschirley and Gelson Tembo
Volume 40, issue 4 , 2012
Remittances and Institutions: Are Remittances a Curse? pp. 657-666
Yasser Abdih , Ralph Chami , Jihad Dagher and Peter J. Montiel
Hard or Soft Pegs? Choice of Exchange Rate Regime and Trade in Africa pp. 667-680
Mahvash Saeed Qureshi and Charalambos G. Tsangarides
Aid, Real Exchange Rate Misalignment, and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 681-700
Ibrahim A. Elbadawi , Linda Kaltani and Raimundo Soto
The Rise of Large Farms in Land Abundant Countries: Do They Have a Future? pp. 701-714
Klaus Deininger and Derek Byerlee
Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming: Comparative Evidence from Five Countries pp. 715-730
Christopher B. Barrett , Maren E. Bachke , Marc F. Bellemare , Hope C. Michelson , Sudha Narayanan and Thomas F. Walker
Triggers and Characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan Electoral Violence pp. 731-744
Stefan Dercon and Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero
Conflict Management, Decentralization and Agropastoralism in Dryland West Africa pp. 745-757
Matthew D. Turner , Augustine A. Ayantunde , Kristen P. Patterson and E. Daniel Patterson
Pitfalls of Externally Initiated Collective Action: A Case Study from South Africa pp. 758-770
Björn Vollan
Minimum Wages and Household Poverty: General Equilibrium Macro–Micro Simulations for South Africa pp. 771-783
Karl Pauw and Murray Leibbrandt
Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape? pp. 784-795
Thomas Glauben , Thomas Herzfeld , Scott Rozelle and Xiaobing Wang
Knowledge Transfer from TNCs and Upgrading of Domestic Firms: The Polish Automotive Sector pp. 796-807
Gentile-Lüdecke Simona and Giroud Axèle
Consumers’ Welfare and Trade Liberalization: Evidence from the Car Industry in Colombia pp. 808-820
Jorge Andrés Tovar
Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty in Brazilian States pp. 821-835
Marta Reis Castilho , Marta Menéndez and Aude Sztulman
Comparing Forest Decentralization and Local Institutional Change in Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda pp. 836-849
Eric A. Coleman and Forrest D. Fleischman
Welfare Outcomes and the Advance of the Deforestation Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 850-864
Danielle Celentano , Erin Sills , Marcio Sales and Adalberto Veríssimo
Volume 40, issue 3 , 2012
Governance, Private Investment and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries pp. 437-445
Oliver Morrissey and Manop Udomkerdmongkol
The Impact of the Strategic Sale of Restructured Banks: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 446-457
Rasyad A. Parinduri and Yohanes Eko Riyanto
How Can Micro and Small Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Become More Productive? The Impacts of Experimental Basic Managerial Training pp. 458-468
Yukichi MANO , Alhassan Iddrisu , Yutaka Yoshino and Tetsushi Sonobe
Changes in Trade Policies and the Heterogeneity of Domestic and Multinational Firms’ Strategic Response: The Effects on Firm-Level Capabilities pp. 469-485
Jahan Ara Peerally and John Cantwell
The Political Economy of Relief Aid Allocation: Evidence from Madagascar pp. 486-500
Nathalie Francken , Bart Minten and Johan Frans Maria Swinnen
The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on HIV and AIDS Programs in a High Prevalence Country: The Case of Malawi pp. 501-515
John E. Serieux , Spy Munthali , Ardeshir Sepehri and Robert White
Citizen Perceptions of Local Government Responsiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 516-527
Michael Bratton
Community Organized Household Water Increases Not Only Rural incomes, but Also Men’s Work pp. 528-541
Ben Crow , Brent Murray Swallow and Isabella Asamba
Institutional Determinants of Success Among Forestry-Based Carbon Sequestration Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 542-554
Travis W. Reynolds
Swimming Upstream: Local Indonesian Production Networks in “Globalized” Palm Oil Production pp. 555-569
John F. McCarthy , Piers Gillespie and Zahari Zen
The Impact of Fair Trade Certification for Coffee Farmers in Peru pp. 570-582
Ruerd Ruben and Ricardo Fort
An Empirical Analysis of Gender Bias in Education Spending in Paraguay pp. 583-593
Thomas Neal Masterson
Skill Premium in Chile: Studying Skill Upgrading in the South pp. 594-609
Francisco A. Gallego
Measurement of Women’s Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh pp. 610-619
Simeen Mahmud , Nirali M. Shah and Stan Becker
Heterogeneous Effects of International Migration and Remittances on Crop Income: Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic pp. 620-630
Aziz Atamanov and Marrit Van den Berg
Hidden Child Labor: Determinants of Housework and Family Business Work of Children in 16 Developing Countries pp. 631-642
Ellen Webbink , Jeroen Smits and Eelke de Jong
Competition Between Microfinance NGOs: Evidence from Kiva pp. 643-655
Pierre Ly and Geri Mason
Volume 40, issue 2 , 2012
Disaggregated Capital Flows and Developing Countries’ Competitiveness pp. 223-237
Ben Samy Ben Naceur , Damyana Bakardzhieva and Bassem Kamar
Rigidities in Employment Protection and Exporting pp. 238-250
Murat Seker
Are Skilled Women More Migratory than Skilled Men? pp. 251-265
Frédéric Docquier , Abdeslam Marfouk , Sara Salomone and Khalid Sekkat
Aid Unpredictability and Economic Growth pp. 266-272
Masahiro Kodama
Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries pp. 273-290
Gustavo A. Crespi and Pluvia Zuniga
Impact of Pension Privatization on Foreign Direct Investment pp. 291-302
Christopher Reece and Abdoul G. Sam
Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns pp. 303-314
Guillermo Cruces , Pablo Alfredo Gluzmann and Luis Felipe López Calva
Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru pp. 315-328
Martín Moreno , Hugo Rolando Ñopo , Jaime Saavedra and Máximo Torero
Transaction Costs, Institutional Arrangements and Inequality Outcomes: Potato Marketing by Small Producers in Rural Peru pp. 329-341
Javier A. Escobal and Denice Cavero
Small Farmers and Big Retail: Trade-offs of Supplying Supermarkets in Nicaragua pp. 342-354
Hope C. Michelson , Thomas Reardon and Francisco Perez
Is Bribery Really Regressive? Bribery’s Costs, Benefits, and Mechanisms pp. 355-372
Jennifer Hunt and Sonia Laszlo
Displaced Populations, Humanitarian Assistance and Hosts: A Framework for Analyzing Impacts on Semi-urban Households pp. 373-386
Jennifer Alix-Garcia , Anne Bartlett and David Saah
Why Do NGOs Go Where They Go? Evidence from Kenya pp. 387-401
Jennifer N. Brass
Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in East Africa pp. 402-413
Kristin Elizabeth Davis , E. Nkonya , E. Kato , D.A. Mekonnen , M. Odendo , R. Miiro and J. Nkuba
The Empowerment Route to Well-being: An Analysis of Farmer Field Schools in East Africa pp. 414-427
Esbern Friis-Hansen and Deborah Duveskog
Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia pp. 428-435
Alpaslan Akay , Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin