World Development

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Volume 122, issue C, 2019

Poverty reduction through photovoltaic-based development intervention in China: Potentials and constraints pp. 1-10

Chuan Liao and Ding Fei

Managing tradeoffs in green industrial policies: The role of renewable energy policy design pp. 11-26

Tyeler Matsuo and Tobias S. Schmidt

Are agricultural R&D returns declining and development dependent? pp. 27-37

Xudong Rao, Terrance Hurley and Philip Pardey

Climate smart agricultural practices and gender differentiated nutrition outcome: An empirical evidence from Ethiopia pp. 38-53

Hailemariam Teklewold, Tagel Gebrehiwot and Mintewab Bezabih

Dis-incentivizing sustainable intensification? The case of Zambia’s maize-fertilizer subsidy program pp. 54-69

Stephen N. Morgan, Nicole M. Mason, N. Kendra Levine and Olipa Zulu-Mbata

Properties and projects: Reconciling resilience and transformation for adaptation and development pp. 70-84

Edward Carr

Competing gender norms and social practice in Himalayan farm management pp. 85-95

Nina B. Holmelin

Can the Paris deal boost SDGs achievement? An assessment of climate mitigation co-benefits or side-effects on poverty and inequality pp. 96-109

Lorenza Campagnolo and Marinella Davide

The effect of health insurance on hospitalization: Identification of adverse selection, moral hazard and the vulnerable population in the Indian healthcare market pp. 110-129

Reshmi Sengupta and Debasis Rooj

Knowledge translation in global urban agendas: A history of research-practice encounters in the Habitat conferences pp. 130-141

Camila Cociña, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Michele Acuto and Caren Levy

Indirect colonial rule and the salience of ethnicity pp. 142-156

Lachlan McNamee

Learning from experts and peer farmers about rice production: Experimental evidence from Cote d’Ivoire pp. 157-169

Kazushi Takahashi, Yukichi Mano and Keijiro Otsuka

Empowerment and life satisfaction: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 170-183

Mahbub Hossain, M Asadullah and Uma Kambhampati

Adult mortality and urbanization: Examination of a weak connection in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 184-198

Markus Brueckner

Educational gender gaps and economic growth: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis pp. 199-217

Anna Minasyan, Juliane Zenker, Stephan Klasen and Sebastian Vollmer

Unintended consequences of maternity leave legislation: The case of Colombia pp. 218-232

Ana Tribin, Carmina Vargas and Natalia Ramírez Bustamante

Explaining regional variation in local governance: Clientelism and state-dependency in Indonesia pp. 233-244

Ward Berenschot and Peter Mulder

Establishment productivity convergence and the effect of foreign ownership at the frontier pp. 245-260

Michael Klein

The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: A counterfactual analysis pp. 261-271

Julius Manda, Arega D. Alene, Adane H. Tufa, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Tesfamicheal Wossen, David Chikoye and Victor Manyong

Does involvement of local community ensure sustained energy access? A critical review of a solar PV technology intervention in rural India pp. 272-281

Lalita Joshi, Deepak Choudhary, Praveen Kumar, Jayendran Venkateswaran and Chetan S. Solanki

Constraints and opportunities in gender relations: Sugarcane outgrower schemes in Malawi pp. 282-294

Timothy Adams, Jean-David Gerber and Michèle Amacker

Sustainable development goal indicators: Analyzing trade-offs and complementarities pp. 295-305

Edward Barbier and Joanne Burgess

Self-regulation in sustainable finance: The adoption of the Equator Principles pp. 306-324

Gabriela Contreras, J. Bos and Stefanie Kleimeier

Environmental incomes sustained as provisioning ecosystem service availability declines along a woodland resource gradient in Zimbabwe pp. 325-338

Rose Pritchard, Isla M. Grundy, Dan van der Horst and Casey M. Ryan

Environmental performance of agroforestry systems in the Cerrado biome, Brazil pp. 339-348

Gabrielli do Carmo Martinelli, Madalena Maria Schlindwein, Milton Parron Padovan, Everton Vogel and Clandio Favarini Ruviaro

How do droughts impact household food consumption and nutritional intake? A study of rural India pp. 349-369

Fenella Carpena

Economic and non-economic returns to communist party membership in Vietnam pp. 370-384

Thomas Markussen and Thanh Ngo

Explaining heterogeneous afforestation outcomes: How community officials and households mediate tree cover change in China pp. 385-398

John Aloysius Zinda and Zhiming Zhang

A data-driven approach improves food insecurity crisis prediction pp. 399-409

E.C. Lentz, Hope Michelson, K. Baylis and Y. Zhou

Accounting for growing urban-rural welfare gaps in India pp. 410-432

Mehtabul Azam

Strong (green) institutions in weak states: Environmental governance and human (in)security in the Global South pp. 433-445

McKenzie F. Johnson

Poverty and inequality impact of a natural disaster: Myanmar’s 2008 cyclone Nargis pp. 446-461

Peter Warr and Lwin Lwin Aung

Price discrimination in bribe payments: Evidence from informal cross-border trade in West Africa pp. 462-480

Sami Bensassi and Joachim Jarreau

Transdisciplinary research: Exploring impact, knowledge and quality in the early stages of a sustainable development project pp. 481-491

Michael Brennan and Janeet Rondón-Sulbarán

Radical transformation or technological intervention? Two paths for universal basic income pp. 492-500

E. Fouksman and E. Klein

The problem and promise of coproduction: Politics, history, and autonomy pp. 501-513

Geoff Goodwin

Is there any chance for the poor to cope with extreme environmental events? Two case studies in the Solomon Islands pp. 514-524

Michael Otoara Ha'apio, Ricardo Gonzalez and Morgan Wairiu

Spatial politics and local alliances shaping Nepal hydropower pp. 525-536

Diana Suhardiman and Emma Karki

Credit where credit's due: The enabling effects of empowerment in Indian microfinance pp. 537-551

Bibhas Saha and Navjot Sangwan

Low-carbon transition: Private sector investment in renewable energy projects in developing countries pp. 552-569

Dalia Fadly

The decline of the labor income share in Mexico, 1990–2015 pp. 570-584

Carlos A. Ibarra and Jaime Ros

Protected Areas under Weak Institutions: Evidence from Colombia pp. 585-596

Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía and Iván Higuera-Mendieta

Waking a sleeping giant: Realizing the potential of groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 597-613

Jude Cobbing and Bradley Hiller

Interrogating differences: A comparative analysis of Africa’s informal settlements pp. 614-627

Zora Kovacic, Josephine Kaviti Musango, Lorraine Amollo Ambole, Kareem Buyana, Suzanne Smit, Christer Anditi, Baraka Mwau, Madara Ogot, Shuaib Lwasa, Alan C. Brent, Gloria Nsangi and Hakimu Sseviiri

Tracking the SDGs in an ‘integrated’ manner: A proposal for a new index to capture synergies and trade-offs between and within goals pp. 628-647

Mario Biggeri, David A. Clark, Andrea Ferrannini and Vincenzo Mauro

Just urban futures? Exploring equity in “100 Resilient Cities” pp. 648-659

Joanne Fitzgibbons and Carrie L. Mitchell

Artisanal or industrial conflict minerals? Evidence from Eastern Congo pp. 660-674

Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten and Peter Van der Windt

Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) pp. 675-692

Hazel Jean Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Greg Seymour, Elena Martinez, Jessica Heckert, Deborah Rubin, Ana Vaz and Kathryn M. Yount

Economic inequality and loss of commons: Evidence from India pp. 693-712

Sneha Thapliyal, Arnab Mukherji and Deepak Malghan

Volume 121, issue C, 2019

Quantifying household resilience with high frequency data: Temporal dynamics and methodological options pp. 1-15

Erwin Knippenberg, Nathaniel Jensen and Mark Constas

Global interpersonal income inequality decline: The role of China and India pp. 16-32

Zsolt Darvas

Can the poor organize? Public goods and self-help groups in rural India pp. 33-52

Raj M. Desai and Anders Olofsgård

Competing priorities: Women’s microenterprises and household relationships pp. 53-62

Sophia Friedson-Ridenour and Rachael S. Pierotti

Assessing the direct and spillover effects of shocks to refugee remittances pp. 63-74

Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Sarah Walker and Anne Bartlett

Returns to rural electrification: Evidence from Bhutan pp. 75-96

Erin L. Litzow, Subhrendu Pattanayak and Tshering Thinley

Searching for success: A mixed methods approach to identifying and examining positive outliers in development outcomes pp. 97-107

Caryn Peiffer and Rosita Armytage

Effect of capacity building in alleviating poverty and improving forest conservation in the communal forests of Mexico pp. 108-122

Juan Manuel Torres-Rojo, Rafael Moreno-Sánchez and Joel Amador-Callejas

Explaining divergence in the long-term effects of precolonial centralization on access to public infrastructure services in Nigeria pp. 123-140

Belinda Archibong

Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural livelihoods in Ghana pp. 141-157

Xinshen Diao, Eduardo Magalhaes and Jed Silver

Toward sustainable agriculture in the tropics pp. 158-162

James Erbaugh, Rosina Bierbaum, Guillermo Castilleja, Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca and Steffen Cole Brandstrup Hansen

Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains pp. 163-177

T.A. Gardner, M. Benzie, J. Börner, E. Dawkins, S. Fick, Rachael Garrett, J. Godar, A. Grimard, S. Lake, R.K. Larsen, N. Mardas, C.L. McDermott, P. Meyfroidt, M. Osbeck, M. Persson, T. Sembres, C. Suavet, B. Strassburg, A. Trevisan, C. West and P. Wolvekamp

National Consumption and Global Trade Impacts on Biodiversity pp. 178-187

Abhishek Chaudhary and Thomas M. Brooks

The Restructuring of South American Soy and Beef Production and Trade Under Changing Environmental Regulations pp. 188-202

Yann le Polain de Waroux, Rachael Garrett, Jordan Graesser, Christoph Nolte, Christopher White and Eric F. Lambin

Pursuing sustainability through multi-stakeholder collaboration: A description of the governance, actions, and perceived impacts of the roundtables for sustainable beef pp. 203-217

Kristy J. Buckley, Peter Newton, Holly K. Gibbs, Ian McConnel and John Ehrmann

Commodifying sustainability: Development, nature and politics in the palm oil industry pp. 218-228

Oliver Pye