World Development

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Volume 124, issue C, 2019

The relationship between energy intensity and economic growth: New evidence from a multi-country multi-sectorial dataset pp. -

Uwe Deichmann, Anna Reuter, Sebastian Vollmer and Fan Zhang

Political economy of bioenergy transitions in developing countries: A case study of Punjab, India pp. -

Pritam Singh and Nadia Singh

Land titling and its effect on the allocation of public goods: Evidence from Mexico pp. -

Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez

Effect of network-based targeting on the diffusion of good aquaculture practices among shrimp producers in Vietnam pp. -

Guenwoo Lee, Aya Suzuki and Vu Nam

Microcredit contract design: A macroeconomic evaluation pp. -

Khan Islam and O’Gorman, Melanie

Promoting biodiversity enrichment in smallholder oil palm monocultures – Experimental evidence from Indonesia pp. -

Miriam Romero, Meike Wollni, Katrin Rudolf, Rosyani Asnawi and Bambang Irawan

Economic performance, gender and social networks in West African food systems pp. -

Olivier Walther, Michel Tenikue and Marie Trémolières

Paving the electoral way: Urban infrastructure, partisan politics and civic engagement pp. -

Felipe Livert, Xabier Gainza and Jose Acuña

Experimental results from a four-year targeted education voucher program in the slums of Delhi, India pp. -

Pauline Dixon, Anna J. Egalite, Steve Humble and Patrick J. Wolf

Market access, agro-ecological conditions, and Boserupian agricultural intensification patterns in Kenya: Implications for agricultural programs and research pp. -

Sarah A. Kopper and Thomas Jayne

Political geography of violence: Municipal politics and homicide in Brazil pp. -

Matthew C. Ingram and Marcelo Marchesini da Costa

Make the village better: An evaluation of the Saemaul Zero Hunger Communities Project in Tanzania and Bangladesh pp. -

Youngwan Kim, Hyuk-Sang Sohn and Bokyeong Park

Whose resilience matters? Like-for-like comparison of objective and subjective evaluations of resilience pp. -

Lindsey Jones and Marco d'Errico

The productivity and income effects of adoption of improved soybean varieties and agronomic practices in Malawi pp. -

Adane Hirpa Tufa, Arega D. Alene, Julius Manda, M.G. Akinwale, David Chikoye, Shiferaw Feleke, Tesfamicheal Wossen and Victor Manyong

The impact of blackouts on the performance of micro and small enterprises: Evidence from Indonesia pp. -

Anna T. Falentina and Budy Resosudarmo

Measurement properties of the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index pp. -

Kathryn M. Yount, Yuk Fai Cheong, Lauren Maxwell, Jessica Heckert, Elena Martinez and Greg Seymour

Development and divergent post-disaster trajectories in a mountain village: Temporal dynamics of differentiation after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake pp. -

Mahmood Fayazi, Emily T. Yeh and Fan Li

Social responsibility scandals and trade pp. -

Pamina Koenig and Sandra Poncet

Does historical land inequality attenuate the positive impact of India’s employment guarantee program? pp. -

Kartik Misra

Conservation equity for local communities in the process of tourism development in protected areas: A study of Jiuzhaigou Biosphere Reserve, China pp. -

Weiye Wang, Jinlong Liu and John L. Innes

The triple nexus: A potential approach to supporting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals? pp. -

Paul Howe

Nutrition and food security impacts of quality seeds of biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato: Quasi-experimental evidence from Tanzania pp. -

Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, Julius Juma Okello, Stella Wambugu, Kirimi Sindi, Jan W. Low and Margaret McEwan

Constraints to adopting soil fertility management practices in Malawi: A choice experiment approach pp. -

Kwabena Krah, Hope Michelson, Emilie Perge and Rohit Jindal

Rural women’s empowerment and children’s food and nutrition security in Bangladesh pp. -

Cara Holland and Anu Rammohan

Does health insurance improve health for all? Heterogeneous effects on children in Ghana pp. -

Lisa Bagnoli

Can health insurance reduce household vulnerability? Evidence from Viet Nam pp. -

Thang Vo and Pham Hoang Van

Policy Diffusion in the Rural Sanitation Sector: Lessons from Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) pp. -

Valentina Zuin, Caroline Delaire, Rachel Peletz, Alicea Cock-Esteb, Ranjiv Khush and Jeff Albert

Temples, travesties, or something else? The developmental state, ecological modernization, and hydroelectric dam construction in India pp. -

Grant Alan Burrier and Philip Hultquist

Back to the plough: Women managers and farm productivity in India pp. -

Kanika Mahajan

Environmental governance in motion: Practices of assemblage and the political performativity of economistic conservation pp. -

Peter R. Wilshusen

Volume 123, issue C, 2019

What can Smart City policies in emerging economies actually achieve? Conceptual considerations and empirical insights from India pp. -

Martina Fromhold-Eisebith and Günter Eisebith

Should program graduation be better targeted? The other schooling outcomes of Mexico’s Oportunidades pp. -

Tobias Pfutze

Disaster Resilience Integrated Framework for Transformation (DRIFT): A new approach to theorising and operationalising resilience pp. -

Bernard Manyena, Fortunate Machingura and Phil O'Keefe

The impact of receiving SMS price and weather information on small scale farmers in Colombia pp. -

Adriana Camacho and Emily Conover

Does exclusion matter in conservation agreements? A case of mangrove users in the Ecuadorian coast using participatory choice experiments pp. -

Jorge Maldonado, Rocio Moreno-Sanchez, Juan P. Henao-Henao and Aaron Bruner

Does individualism promote gender equality? pp. -

Lewis S. Davis and Claudia R. Williamson

A new era for social protection analysis in LMICs? A critical social policy perspective from the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) pp. -

Rana Jawad

Global inequality: How large is the effect of top incomes? pp. -

Vanesa Jordá and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

Indigenous unrest and the contentious politics of social assistance in Mexico pp. -

Erdem Yörük, İbrahim Öker and Lara Şarlak

Discrimination and favouritism among South African workers: Ethnic identity and union membership pp. -

Chiara Ravetti, Mare Sarr, Daniel Munene and Timothy Swanson

Classifying Sustainable Development Goal trajectories: A country-level methodology for identifying which issues and people are getting left behind pp. -

John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen

Occupation aspirations, education investment, and cognitive outcomes: Evidence from Indian adolescents pp. -

Phillip Ross

Achieving sustainable development in India along low carbon pathways: Macroeconomic assessment pp. -

Dipti Gupta, Frédéric Ghersi, Saritha S. Vishwanathan and Amit Garg

Gold and godfathers: Local content, politics, and capitalism in extractive industries pp. -

Sara Geenen

Can land title reduce low-intensity interhousehold conflict incidences and associated damages in eastern DRC? pp. -

Naureen Fatema

Why India’s urbanization is hidden: Observations from “rural” Bihar pp. -

Robbin Jan van Duijne

Temperature extremes, global warming, and armed conflict: new insights from high resolution data pp. -

Miriam Breckner and Uwe Sunde

Fear of the state in governance surveys? Empirical evidence from African countries pp. -

Thomas Calvo, Mireille Razafindrakoto and François Roubaud

The multidimensionality of exclusion in the small-scale gold mining sector in Guyana: Institutional reform, landlordism, and mineral uncertainty pp. -

Andrew Hook

“Lies build trust”: Social capital, masculinity, and community-based resource management in a Mexican fishery pp. -

Ben Siegelman, Nora Haenn and Xavier Basurto

Assessing the impact of more doctors’ program on healthcare indicators in Brazil pp. -

Enlinson Mattos and Debora Mazetto

Food safety in low and middle-income countries: The evidence through an economic lens pp. -

Vivian Hoffmann, Christine Moser and Alexander Saak

The dilemma of NGOs and participatory conservation pp. -

Gani Aldashev and Elena Vallino

Social inclusion increases with time for zero-tillage wheat in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains pp. -

Alwin Keil, Archisman Mitra, Amit K. Srivastava and Andrew McDonald