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Volume 32, month 11, 2014

Reforming Land-Tenure Systems in South Africa: Routes to Socio-Economic and Agricultural Sustainability pp. 647-674

Céline Hoeks, Hossein Azadi, Parisa Rafiaani Khachak, Enrique Troyo-Dieguez, Steven Van Passel and Frank Witlox

Expanding and Diversifying South Mediterranean Exports through Trade Facilitation pp. 675-699

Yves Bourdet and Maria Persson

The Impact of Uruguay's 2007 Tax Reform on Equity and Efficiency pp. 701-714

Bruno Martorano

Fisheries Trade and Social Development in the Philippine-Malaysia Maritime Border Zone pp. 715-732

Michael Fabinyi, Michael Pido, Eva Marie Ponce de Leon, Mary Aileen De las Alas, Jose Buenconsejo, Arselene Uyami-Bitara, Babylyn Harani and Jennelyn Caceres

Remittances for Financial Access: Lessons from Latin American Microfinance pp. 733-753

Christian Ambrosius, Barbara Fritz and Ursula Stiegler

Volume 32, month 09, 2014

Democratisation and the Political Incentives for Agricultural Policy in Africa pp. s101-s122

Colin Poulton

Beyond Technocratic Debates: The Significance and Transience of Political Incentives in the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) pp. s123-s150

Blessings Chinsinga and Colin Poulton

The Politics of Revitalising Agriculture in Kenya pp. s151-s172

Colin Poulton and Karuti Kanyinga

Policy for Agriculture and Horticulture in Rwanda: A Different Political Economy? pp. s173-s198

David Booth and Frederick Golooba-Mutebi

The Political Economy of Agricultural Extension Policy in Ethiopia: Economic Growth and Political Control pp. s199-s216

Kassahun Berhanu and Colin Poulton

Beyond Tariffs: The Role of Non-Tariff Barriers in Dairy Trade in the East African Community Free Trade Area pp. 523-543

Ayele Gelan and Amos Omore

Liberalisation Failed: Understanding Persistent State Power in the Burkinabè Cotton Sector from 1990 to 2004 pp. 545-566

Brian Dowd-Uribe

Understanding the Impact of Mobile Phones on Livelihoods in Developing Countries pp. 567-588

Richard A. Duncombe

The Chinese Cashmere Industry: A Global Value Chain Analysis pp. 589-610

Scott Waldron, Colin Brown and Adam M. Komarek

SGACA: The Rise and Paradoxical Demise of a Political-Economy Instrument pp. 611-630

Wil Hout and Lydeke Schakel

Where Angels Fear to Tread pp. 631-638

Cyn Gaigals

Volume 32, month 07, 2014

Urban Governance and Service Delivery in African Cities: The Role of Politics and Policies pp. s3-s17

Danielle Resnick

Urban Service Delivery in Africa and the Role of International Assistance pp. s19-s37

Richard Stren

Opposition Politics and Urban Service Delivery in Kampala, Uganda pp. s39-s60

Gina M. S. Lambright

Strategies of Subversion in Vertically-Divided Contexts: Decentralisation and Urban Service Delivery in Senegal pp. s61-s80

Danielle Resnick

Vertical Decentralisation and Urban Service Delivery in South Africa: Does Politics Matter? pp. s81-s100

Robert Cameron

Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Environmental Labelling to Promote Biodiversity: The Case of Agroforestry Coffee in India pp. 379-398

Delphine Marie-Vivien, Claude A. Garcia, C.G. Kushalappa and Philippe Vaast

Confronting the Informal in Good Governance: The Case of Decentralised Education-System Reform in Guinea pp. 399-425

Jennifer Swift-Morgan

Governance and Economic Transformation in Taiwan: The Role of Politics pp. 427-448

Laurids S. Lauridsen

Labour Contracting and Changing Employment Relationships in South Korea pp. 449-473

Jong-Woon Lee

Do Fair Trade Pricing Policies Reduce Inequalities in Coffee Production and Trade? pp. 475-493

Joni Valkila

Catching-up or Leapfrogging in the Indian IT Service Sector: Windows of Opportunity, Path-creating, and Moving up the Value Chain pp. 495-518

Keun Lee, Tae Young Park and Rishikesha T. Krishnan

Volume 32, month 05, 2014

The Double Challenge of Market and Social Incorporation: Progress and Bottlenecks in Latin America pp. 275-298

Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

Leader, Protester, Enabler, Spoiler: Aid Strategies and Donor Politics in Institutional Assistance pp. 299-312

Pablo Yanguas

How Can Low-income Countries Gain from a Framework Agreement on Climate Change? An Analysis with Integrated Assessment Modelling pp. 313-326

Nicola Cantore, Dirk Willem te Velde and Leo Peskett

Improving Africa's Roads: Modelling Infrastructure Investment and Its Effect on Sectoral Production Behaviour pp. 327-353

Hannah Schürenberg-Frosch

Brazil's International Development Co-operation: Old and New Motivations pp. 355-374

Sean Burges

Volume 32, month 03, 2014

Developmental States in Africa? A Review of Ongoing Debates and Buzzwords pp. 159-177

Laura Routley

Brazil and the Shifting Consensus on Development Co-operation: Salutary Diversions from the ‘Aid-effectiveness’ Trail? pp. 179-202

Lídia Cabral, Giuliano Russo and Julia Weinstock

Bringing the Citizen Back In: Supporting Decentralisation in Fragile States - A View from Burundi pp. 203-218

Niamh Gaynor

Improving the Measurement of the Relationship between Opportunities and Income: Evidence from Longitudinal Data from Chile pp. 219-237

Dante Contreras, Osvaldo Larrañaga, Esteban Puentes and Tomás Rau

Equity in Education Expenditure in Thailand pp. 239-258

Jose Cuesta and Lucia Madrigal

Measuring the Efficiency of Health Services in Lower-income Countries: The Case of Papua New Guinea pp. 259-272

Nicole Au, Bruce Hollingsworth and Jean Spinks

Volume 32, month 01, 2014

Places for Place-Based Policy pp. 5-32

M. Rose Olfert, Mark Partridge, Julio Berdegue, Javier Escobal, Benjamin Jara and Felix Modrego

Investigating Poverty through the Lens of Riches – Immigration and Segregation in Indian Capture Fisheries pp. 33-52

Maarten Bavinck

The Impact of Tobacco Policy Reforms on Smallholder Prices in Malawi pp. 53-70

Bentry Mkwara and Dan Marsh

Drivers of Exploitation and Inequity in Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) Value Chains: The Case of Indian Bay Leaf in Nepal and India pp. 71-87

Dyutiman Choudhary, S.P. Kala, N.P. Todaria, S. Dasgupta and M. Kollmair

Organising for Donor Effectiveness: An Analytical Framework for Improving Aid Effectiveness pp. 89-112

Nilima Gulrajani

Bringing Aid Management Closer to Reality: The Experience of Danish Bilateral Development Cooperation pp. 113-131

Lars Engberg-Pedersen

Political-Economy Analysis, Aid Effectiveness and the Art of Development Management pp. 133-153

James Copestake and Richard Williams

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson pp. 154-156

Mark Robinson

Volume 31, month 11, 2013

Social Protection and Climate Change: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice pp. o2-o18

Craig Johnson, Hari Dulal, Martin Prowse, Krishna Krishnamurthy and Tom Mitchell

Climate-Responsive Social Protection pp. o19-o34

Anne Kuriakose, Rasmus Heltberg, William Wiseman, Cecilia Costella, Rachel Cipryk and Sabine Cornelius

Climate-Change Adaptation in Ethiopia: To What Extent Does Social Protection Influence Livelihood Diversification? pp. o35-o56

Zerihun Weldegebriel and Martin Prowse

Climate Variability and the Role of Access to Crop Insurance as a Social-Protection Measure: Insights from India pp. o57-o73

Architesh Panda

Climate Change and Social Protection in Bangladesh: Are Existing Programmes Able to Address the Impacts of Climate Change? pp. o74-o90

Cristina Coirolo, Stephen Commins, Iftekharul Haque and Gregory Pierce

What Can Climate-Adaptation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa Learn from Research on Governance and Politics? pp. 647-676

Matthew Lockwood

Climate-Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Implications for Land Acquisition and Population Relocation pp. 677-695

Christopher McDowell

Making and Shaping Poor Malawians: Citizenship Below the Poverty Line pp. 697-716

Oyvind Eggen

Extending Budgetary Participation beyond Budget Pitsos in Botswana pp. 717-735

Emmanuel Botlhale

The Hollow Ring of Donor Commitment: Country Concentration and the Decoupling of Aid-Effectiveness Norms from Donor Practice pp. 737-755

Stephen Brown and Liam Swiss

Policy Coherence for Sustainable Agricultural Development: Uncovering Prospects and Pretence within the Swedish Policy for Global Development pp. 757-776

Rasmus Kløcker Larsen and Neil Powell

Volume 31, month 09, 2013

The Value of Domestic Supply Chains: Producers, Wholesalers, and Urban Consumers in Colombia pp. 511-530

Alejandro Guarín

Informality and Contributory and Non-Contributory Programmes. Recent Reforms of the Social-Protection System in Uruguay pp. 531-551

Guillermo Cruces and Marcelo Bergolo

What Did US$18 bn Achieve? The 2005 Debt Relief to Nigeria pp. 553-574

Geske Dijkstra

Fertiliser Subsidies and Social Cash Transfers as Complementary or Competing Instruments for Reducing Vulnerability to Hunger: The Case of Malawi pp. 575-596

Frank Ellis and Dyton Maliro

Factors Constraining Building Effective and Fair Geographical Indications for Coffee: Insights from a Dominican Case Study pp. 597-615

Franck Galtier, Giovanni Belletti and Andrea Marescotti

Sub-Saharan African Cotton Policies in Retrospect pp. 617-642

Claire Delpeuch and Antoine Leblois

Volume 31, month 07, 2013

The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives pp. s3-s28

John Gaventa and Rosemary McGee

Do They Work? Assessing the Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives in Service Delivery pp. s29-s48

Anuradha Joshi

Improving Transparency and Accountability in the Budget Process: An Assessment of Recent Initiatives pp. s49-s67

Ruth Carlitz

The Impact and Effectiveness of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives: Freedom of Information pp. s69-s87

Richard Calland and Kristina Bentley

The Impact and Effectiveness of Accountability and Transparency Initiatives: The Governance of Natural Resources pp. s89-s105

Andrés Mejía Acosta

Aid Transparency and Accountability: ‘Build It and They'll Come’? pp. s107-s124

Rosemary McGee

Assessing the Overall Impact of Civil Society on Development at the Country Level: An Exploratory Approach pp. 371-396

Roger C. Riddell

The Affordability of Social Protection in the Light of International Spending Commitments pp. 397-418

Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Anna McCord

Why Agriculture Remains a Viable Means of Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ethiopia pp. 419-441

Paul Dorosh and John W. Mellor

Rethinking Trade Preferences for Sub-Saharan Africa: How Can Trade in Tasks Be the Potential Lifeline? pp. 443-462

Jodie Keane

Relocating Civil Society in a Politics of Civic-Driven Change pp. 463-483

Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart

An Elixir for Development? Olive Oil Policies and Poverty Alleviation in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 485-506

Travis Lybbert and Ghada Elabed

Volume 31, month 05, 2013

Spillover Effects of Carbon Footprint Labelling on Less Developed Countries: The Example of the East Asia Summit Region pp. 239-254

Xunpeng Shi

Heifer-in-trust, Social Protection and Graduation: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Questions pp. 255-271

James Sumberg and Gountiéni Damien Lankoandé

Food Prices, Government Subsidies and Fiscal Balances in South Mediterranean Countries pp. 273-290

Marga Peeters and Ronald Albers

To What Extent Did Ethnicity and Economic Issues Matter in the 2007 Disputed Kenyan Elections? pp. 291-320

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero

Strategies to Improve the World Food Programme's Revenue Mobilisation and Procurement Practices pp. 321-341

Vijaya Ramachandran, Benjamin Leo and Owen McCarthy

Asset Ownership and Microloan Repayment: Examining Data from Bangladesh pp. 343-368

Roger White and Shamma Adeeb Alam

Volume 31, month 03, 2013

Labour Mobility in East Africa: An Analysis of the East African Community's Common Market and the Free Movement of Workers pp. 131-148

Yurendra Basnett

Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security pp. 149-176

Steven Haggblade

Assessing the Role of Tourism in Poverty Alleviation: A Research Agenda pp. 177-202

Paul Winters, Leonardo Corral and Adela Moreda Mora

Multi-stakeholder Groups for Better Sector Performance: A Key to Fighting Corruption in Natural-Resource Governance? pp. 203-217

Tina Søreide and Rory Truex

Transmission of World Prices to Ugandan Coffee Growers in a Liberalised Economy pp. 219-234

Mark Musumba and Rajorshi Sen Gupta

Volume 31, month 01, 2013

Liberal Chiefs or Illiberal Development? The Challenge of Engaging Chiefs in DFID's Security Sector Reform Programme in Sierra Leone pp. 5-25

Lisa Denney

Promoting Resilient Livelihoods through Adaptive Social Protection: Lessons from 124 programmes in South Asia pp. 27-58

Mark Davies, Christophe Béné, Alexander Arnall, Thomas Tanner, Andrew Newsham and Cristina Coirolo

Back under the Microscope: Insights from Evidence on Budget Support pp. 59-74

Heidi Tavakoli and Gregory Smith

Financing for Development: The Gap between Words and Deeds since Monterrey pp. 75-98

Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele

Domestic Credit and Diversification of Manufactured Exports from Developing Countries pp. 99-114

Jonathan Munemo