World Development

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Volume 109, issue C, 2018

Financial deepening and innovation: The role of political institutions pp. 1-13

Chun-Yu Ho, Shaoqing Huang, Hao Shi and Jun Wu

Do different types of assets have differential effects on child education? Evidence from Tanzania pp. 14-28

Kashi Kafle, Dean Jolliffe and Alex Winter-Nelson

The Political Ecology of Oil Palm Company-Community partnerships in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation consequences of the privatization of rural development pp. 29-41

Aoife Bennett, Ashwin Ravikumar and Homero Paltán

Cost of being a slum dweller in Nairobi: Living under dismal conditions but still paying a housing rent premium pp. 42-56

Debabrata Talukdar

A sharing economy? Unpacking demand and living conditions in the urban housing market in Kenya pp. 57-72

Sumila Gulyani, Debabrata Talukdar and Ellen M. Bassett

The SDGs in middle-income countries: Setting or serving domestic development agendas? Evidence from Ecuador pp. 73-84

Philipp Horn and Jean Grugel

What constrains renewable energy investment in Sub-Saharan Africa? A comparison of Kenya and Ghana pp. 85-100

Ana Pueyo

The Kaleidoscope Model of policy change: Applications to food security policy in Zambia pp. 101-120

Danielle Resnick, Steven Haggblade, Suresh Babu, Sheryl L. Hendriks and David Mather

From intermittent to continuous service: Costs, benefits, equity and sustainability of water system reforms in Hubli-Dharwad, India pp. 121-133

Zachary Burt, Ayşe Ercümen, Narayana Billava and Isha Ray

From state-initiated to Indigenous-driven infrastructure: The Inuvialuit and Canada’s first highway to the Arctic Ocean pp. 134-148

Mia M. Bennett

Socializing accountability in humanitarian settings: A proposed framework pp. 149-162

Sarah K. Chynoweth, Anthony B. Zwi and Anna K. Whelan

Promoting natural resource conflict management in an illiberal setting: Experiences from Central Darfur, Sudan pp. 163-171

A. Peter Castro

Institutional bindingness, power structure, and land expropriation in China pp. 172-186

Meina Cai and Xin Sun

Examining rural Sahelian out-migration in the context of climate change: An analysis of the linkages between rainfall and out-migration in two Malian villages from 1981 to 2009 pp. 187-196

Kathryn Grace, Véronique Hertrich, Djeneba Singare and Greg Husak

What is equitable resilience? pp. 197-205

Nilufar Matin, John Forrester and Jonathan Ensor

Gold exploitation and socioeconomic outcomes: The case of Burkina Faso pp. 206-221

Agnès Zabsonré, Maxime Agbo and Juste Somé

What information do citizens want? Evidence from one million information requests in Mexico pp. 222-235

Daniel Berliner, Benjamin E. Bagozzi and Brian Palmer-Rubin

Social capital, citizen participation in public administration, and public sector performance in Thailand pp. 236-248

Ploy Suebvises

The price of persecution: The long-term effects of the Anti-Rightist Campaign on economic performance in post-Mao China pp. 249-260

Zhaojin Zeng and Joshua Eisenman

Accessing higher education in developing countries: Panel data analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam pp. 261-278

Alan Sanchez and Abhijeet Singh

Sorting through global corruption determinants: Institutions and education matter – Not culture pp. 279-294

Michael Jetter and Christopher Parmeter

Taxation, non-tax revenue and democracy: New evidence using new cross-country data pp. 295-312

Wilson Prichard, Paola Salardi and Paul Segal

How environmental NGOs have influenced decision making in a ‘semi-authoritarian’ state: The case of forest policy in Ethiopia pp. 313-322

Alemayehu N. Ayana, Bas Arts and K. Freerk Wiersum

Crowding-out or crowding-in? Public and private investment in India pp. 323-333

Girish Bahal, Mehdi Raissi and Volodymyr Tulin

The contemporary development discourse: Analysing the influence of development studies’ journals pp. 334-345

Rogelio Madrueño and Sergio Tezanos

Rural electrification, gender and the labor market: A cross-country study of India and South Africa pp. 346-359

Sambhu Singh Rathi and Claire Vermaak

Social networks and the intention to migrate pp. 360-374

Miriam Manchin and Sultan Orazbayev

REDD+, hype, hope and disappointment: The dynamics of expectations in conservation and development pilot projects pp. 375-385

Kate Massarella, Susannah M. Sallu, Jonathan E. Ensor and Rob Marchant

Evolution of water governance in Bangladesh: An urban perspective pp. 386-400

T. Yasmin, M.A. Farrelly and B.C. Rogers

Economic underpinnings of violent extremism: A cross country exploration of repeated survey data pp. 401-412

Ramya M. Vijaya, Anthony Wilent, Jessica Cathcart and Ryan Fiorellini

Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures pp. 417-428

Ethan Ligon and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Sectoral Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction: National and Global Impacts pp. 429-439

Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

Beyond Agriculture Versus Non-Agriculture: Decomposing Sectoral Growth–Poverty Linkages in Five African Countries pp. 440-451

Paul Dorosh and James Thurlow

Composition of Household Income and Child Nutrition Outcomes Evidence from Uganda pp. 452-469

Angeli Kirk, Talip Kilic and Calogero Carletto

Agricultural Productivity, Hired Labor, Wages, and Poverty: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 470-482

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

The Effect of Agricultural Technology on the Speed of Development pp. 483-496

Markus Eberhardt and Dietrich Vollrath

Rural–Urban Linkages, Public Investment and Transport Costs: The Case of Tanzania pp. 497-510

Christopher Adam, David Bevan and Douglas Gollin

Toward an Understanding of Economic Growth in Africa: A Reinterpretation of the Lewis Model pp. 511-522

Xinshen Diao and Margaret McMillan

Volume 108, issue C, 2018

Achieving food security and industrial development in Malawi: Are export restrictions the solution? pp. 1-15

Emerta Aragie, Karl Pauw and Valentina Pernechele

Peopling policy processes? Methodological populism in the Bangladesh health and education sectors pp. 16-27

David Lewis

Who benefits from which agricultural research-for-development technologies? Evidence from farm household poverty analysis in Central Africa pp. 28-46

John Herbert Ainembabazi, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Shiferaw Feleke, Arega Alene, Paul M. Dontsop-Nguezet, Pierre Celestin Ndayisaba, Cyrille Hicintuka, Sylvain Mapatano and Victor Manyong

A moral atmosphere of development as a share: Consequences for urban development in Indonesia pp. 47-56

Tanya Jakimow

Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India pp. 57-73

Bina Agarwal

Contesting the hydrocarbon frontiers: State depoliticizing practices and local responses in Peru pp. 74-85

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Riccarda Flemmer and Anna Hujber

Gender lessons for climate initiatives: A comparative study of REDD+ impacts on subjective wellbeing pp. 86-102

Anne M. Larson, David Solis, Amy E. Duchelle, Stibniati Atmadja, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Therese Dokken and Mella Komalasari

Land-grabbing, land-use transformation and social differentiation: Deconstructing “small-scale” in Ghana's recent gold rush pp. 103-114

Heidi Hausermann, David Ferring, Bernadette Atosona, Graciela Mentz, Richard Amankwah, Augustus Chang, Kyle Hartfield, Emmanuel Effah, Grace Yeboah Asuamah, Coryanne Mansell and Natasha Sastri

Women’s participation in environmental decision-making: Quasi-experimental evidence from northern Kenya pp. 115-130

Tara Grillos

Potential contributions of market-systems development initiatives for building climate resilience pp. 131-144

Laura Kuhl

Bridging the information gap between citizens and local governments: Evidence from a civic participation strengthening program in Rwanda pp. 145-156

Ali E. Protik, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Jacqueline Berman and Matt Sloan

How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal pp. 157-168

Florence Crick, Shaikh Eskander, Sam Fankhauser and Mamadou Diop

How African cities lead: Urban policy innovation and agriculture in Kampala and Nairobi pp. 169-180

Christopher D. Gore

A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa pp. 181-196

Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt, M. Azhar Hussain and Finn Tarp

WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes pp. 197-218

Thiess Buettner and Boryana Madzharova

The more gender equity, the less child poverty? A multilevel analysis of malnutrition and health deprivation in 49 low- and middle-income countries pp. 221-230

Hans Ekbrand and Björn Halleröd

Pathways of adaptation to external stressors in coastal natural-resource-dependent communities: Implications for climate change pp. 235-248

Alexandra Paige Fischer

Multi-Scalar Pathways to Smallholder Adaptation pp. 249-262

Morey Burnham and Zhao Ma

Toward a Political Ecology of Migration: Land, Labor Migration, and Climate Change in Northwestern Nicaragua pp. 263-273

Claudia Radel, Birgit Schmook, Lindsey Carte and Sofia Mardero

Re-Defining Sahelian ‘Adaptive Agriculture’ when Implemented Locally: Beyond Techno-fix Solutions pp. 274-282

Laura Vang Rasmussen

Rethinking identity in adaptation research: Performativity and livestock keeping practices in the Kenyan drylands pp. 283-295

Julia Wernersson

Assessing multi-level drivers of adaptation to climate variability and water insecurity in smallholder irrigation systems pp. 296-308

Paul McCord, Kurt Waldman, Elizabeth Baldwin, Dell'Angelo, Jampel and Tom Evans

Linking climate change strategies and land conflicts in Cambodia: Evidence from the Greater Aural region pp. 309-320

Carol Hunsberger, Courtney Work and Roman Herre

Household Livelihood Differentiation and Vulnerability to Climate Hazards in Rural China pp. 321-331

Qing Tian and Maria Carmen Lemos

Local values and fairness in climate change adaptation: Insights from marginal rural Australian communities pp. 332-343

Sonia Graham, Jon Barnett, Colette Mortreux, Anna Hurlimann and Ruth Fincher