World Development

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Volume 120, issue C, 2019

The relationship between LGBT inclusion and economic development: Macro-level evidence pp. 1-14

M.V. Lee Badgett, Kees Waaldijk and Yana Rodgers

China in Africa: Competition for traditional development finance institutions? pp. 15-28

Chris Humphrey and Katharina Michaelowa

Why do countries emulate each others’ policies? A global study of renewable energy policy diffusion pp. 29-45

Elizabeth Baldwin, Sanya Carley and Sean Nicholson-Crotty

Impacts of the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together Ahead (GET Ahead) training on empowerment of female microfinance borrowers in Northern Vietnam pp. 46-61

Marloes Huis, Robert Lensink, Nhung Vu and Nina Hansen

Spatial typology for targeted food and nutrition security interventions pp. 62-75

Wim Marivoet, John Ulimwengu and Fernando Sedano

The ‘New’ national development planning and global development goals: Processes and partnerships pp. 76-89

Admos O. Chimhowu, David Hulme and Lauchlan T. Munro

The ability of community based natural resource management to contribute to development as freedom and the role of access pp. 91-104

Jane Addison, Natalie Stoeckl, Silva Larson, Diane Jarvis, Bidan Aboriginal Corporation,, Bunuba Dawangarri Aboriginal Corporation Rntbc,, Ewamian Aboriginal Corporation Rntbc,, Gooniyandi Aboriginal Corporation Rntbc,, Yanunijarra Ngurrara Aboriginal Corporation Rntbc, and Michelle Esparon

Does oil palm agriculture help alleviate poverty? A multidimensional counterfactual assessment of oil palm development in Indonesia pp. 105-117

Truly Santika, Kerrie A. Wilson, Sugeng Budiharta, Elizabeth A. Law, Tun Min Poh, Marc Ancrenaz, Matthew J. Struebig and Erik Meijaard

Trust, regulation and participatory forest management: Micro-level evidence on forest governance from Ethiopia pp. 118-132

Goytom Kahsay and Erwin Bulte

Rethinking power and institutions in the shadows of neoliberalism pp. 133-146

Prakash Kashwan, Lauren M. MacLean and Gustavo A. García-López

Reshaping the public domain: Decentralization, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), and trajectories of local democracy in rural India pp. 147-158

Harry W. Fischer and Syed Shoaib Ali

Augmenting the IAD framework to reveal power in collaborative governance – An illustrative application to resource industry dominated processes pp. 159-168

Marie Claire Brisbois, Michelle Morris and Rob de Loë

Rethinking elite persistence in neoliberalism: Foresters and techno-bureaucratic logics in Mexico’s community forestry pp. 169-181

Gustavo A. García-López

The politics of rural–urban water conflict in India: Untapping the power of institutional reform pp. 182-192

Bharat Punjabi and Craig A. Johnson

Political autonomy and resistance in electricity sector liberalization in Africa pp. 193-209

Christopher D. Gore, Jennifer N. Brass, Elizabeth Baldwin and Lauren M. MacLean

The (Slow) Tragedy of Improvement: Neoliberalism, Fisheries Management & the Institutional Commons pp. 210-220

Patrick Bresnihan

Volume 119, issue C, 2019

Informality and the labor market effects of financial crises pp. 1-22

Emilio Colombo, Lorenzo Menna and Patrizio Tirelli

All the gold for nothing? Impacts of mining on rural livelihoods in Northern Burkina Faso pp. 23-39

Benno Pokorny, Christian von Lübke, Sidzabda Djibril Dayamba and Helga Dickow

Only women can whisper to gods: Voodoo, menopause and women’s autonomy pp. 40-54

Sahawal Alidou and Marijke Verpoorten

Taxing highly processed foods: What could be the impacts on obesity and underweight in sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 55-67

Ole Boysen, Kirsten Boysen-Urban, Harvey Bradford and Jean Balié

The road not taken: Gender gaps along paths to political power pp. 68-80

Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani

Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A gender perspective pp. 81-99

Goedele Van den Broeck and Talip Kilic

Do car restriction policies effectively promote the development of public transport? pp. 100-110

Linling Zhang, Ruyin Long and Hong Chen

Why do payments for watershed services emerge? A cross-country analysis of adoption contexts pp. 111-119

Matthias Bösch, Peter Elsasser and Sven Wunder

Unlocking women’s sustainability leadership potential: Perceptions of contributions and challenges for women in sustainable development pp. 120-132

Xoco A. Shinbrot, Kate Wilkins, Ulrike Gretzel and Gillian Bowser

Strengthening subnational institutions for sustainable development in resource-rich states: Decentralized land-use planning in Peru pp. 133-144

Maria-Therese Gustafsson and Martin Scurrah

Food security and conflict: Empirical challenges and future opportunities for research and policy making on food security and conflict pp. 150-164

Charles Martin-Shields and Wolfgang Stojetz

Agricultural production amid conflict: Separating the effects of conflict into shocks and uncertainty pp. 165-184

María Alejandra Arias, Ana Ibáñez and Andres Zambrano

The impact of food assistance on food insecure populations during conflict: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Mali pp. 185-202

Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Aulo Gelli, Lilia Bliznashka, Amadou Sekou Diallo, Moussa Sacko, Amidou Assima, Emily H. Siegel, Elisabetta Aurino and Edoardo Masset

The effects of violent conflict on household resilience and food security: Evidence from the 2014 Gaza conflict pp. 203-223

Tilman Brück, d’Errico, Marco and Rebecca Pietrelli

Optimal targeting under budget constraints in a humanitarian context pp. 224-233

Paolo Verme and Chiara Gigliarano

Volume 118, issue C, 2019

Development pathways toward “zero hunger” pp. 1-14

Jennifer Blesh, Lesli Hoey, Andrew D. Jones, Harriet Friedmann and Ivette Perfecto

National REDD+ outcompetes gold and logging: The potential of cleaning profit chains pp. 16-26

Han Overman, Anthony R. Cummings, Jeffrey B. Luzar and Jose M.V. Fragoso

The politics of quality reforms and the challenges for SDGs in education pp. 27-38

Barbara Bruns, Isabel Harbaugh Macdonald and Ben Ross Schneider

At Africa’s expense? Disaggregating the employment effects of Chinese mining operations in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 39-51

Tim Wegenast, Mario Krauser, Georg Strüver and Juliane Giesen

Identifying local needs for post-disaster recovery in Nepal pp. 52-62

Lulu He

Traditional hierarchies and affirmative action in a globalizing economy: Evidence from India pp. 63-78

Ashwini Deshpande and Rajesh Ramachandran

Subnational variation in forest protection in the Argentine Chaco pp. 79-90

Belén Fernández Milmanda and Candelaria Garay

Improving the quality of early childhood care at scale: The effects of “From Zero to Forever” pp. 91-105

Raquel Bernal and Sara María Ramírez

Reconciling global aspirations and local realities: Challenges facing the Sustainable Development Goals for water and sanitation pp. 106-117

Veronica Herrera

Does government ideology shake or shape the public finances? Empirical evidence of disaster assistance pp. 118-127

Jeroen Klomp

Mapping policy actor networks and their interests in the FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement in Lao PDR pp. 128-148

Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen, Marko Lovric and Irmeli Mustalahti

Volume 117, issue C, 2019

Does the rise of transnational governance ‘hollow-out’ the state? Discourse analysis of the mandatory Indonesian sustainable palm oil policy pp. 1-12

Annisa Joviani Astari and Jon C. Lovett

Revisiting cross-country poverty convergence in the developing world with a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 13-28

Yusi Ouyang, Abebe Abebe and Erik Thorbecke

Relative export competitiveness of agricultural commodities and its determinants: Some evidence from India pp. 29-47

Seema Narayan and Poulomi Bhattacharya

Export take-offs and acceleration: Unpacking cross-sector linkages in the evolution of comparative advantage pp. 48-60

Dany Bahar, Samuel Rosenow, Ernesto Stein and Rodrigo Wagner

Union dissolution and well-being in Uruguay pp. 61-71

Marisa Bucheli and Andrea Vigorito

Bureaucratic politics and the allocation of climate finance pp. 72-97

Lauri Peterson and Jakob Skovgaard

Heterogeneous welfare impacts of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 98-111

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

A comparative analysis of governance and leadership in agricultural development policy networks pp. 112-126

Jessica Rudnick, Meredith Niles, Mark Lubell and Laura Cramer

Gender differences in risk behavior: An analysis of asset allocation decisions in Ghana pp. 127-137

Marya Hillesland

Young innovative companies and employment creation, evidence from the Pakistani textiles sector pp. 139-152

Waqar Wadho, Micheline Goedhuys and Azam Chaudhry

What does it mean to be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique pp. 153-166

Sam Jones and Inge Tvedten

Food security and violent conflict: Introduction to the special issue pp. 167-171

Tilman Brück and Marco d'Errico

Tropical storms and mortality under climate change pp. 172-182

Todd Pugatch

Effects of conflict on agriculture: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency pp. 184-195

Adesoji Adelaja and Justin George

Unrelenting games: Multiple negotiations and landscape transformations in the tropical peatlands of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia pp. 196-210

Anna J.P. Sanders, Rebecca M. Ford, Lilis Mulyani, Rut Dini Prasti H., Anne M. Larson, Yusurum Jagau and Rodney J. Keenan

The parent trap: Cash transfers and the intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms in South Africa pp. 211-229

Katherine Eyal and Justine Burns

Opportunity cost, income structure, and energy structure for landholders participating in payments for ecosystem services: Evidence from Wolong National Nature Reserve, China pp. 230-238

Jichuan Sheng, Hong Qiu and Sanfeng Zhang

Post-clientelistic initiatives in a patronage democracy: The distributive politics of India’s MGNREGA pp. 239-252

Upasak Das and Diego Maiorano

A conceptual framework for measuring livelihood resilience: Relocation experience from Aceh, Indonesia pp. 253-265

Dantje Sina, Alice Yan Chang-Richards, Suzanne Wilkinson and Regan Potangaroa

Household energy expenditure in Ghana: A double-hurdle model approach pp. 266-277

Frank Adusah-Poku and Kenji Takeuchi

Heterogeneous impact of livelihood diversification on household welfare: Cross-country evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 278-295

Solomon Asfaw, Antonio Scognamillo, Gloria Di Caprera, Nicholas Sitko and Adriana Ignaciuk

The real exchange rate, structural change, and female labor force participation pp. 296-312

Bilge Erten and Martina Metzger

Environmental enforcement and compliance in developing countries: Evidence from India pp. 313-327

Shreekant Gupta, Shalini Saksena and Omer F. Baris

Do migrant social networks shape political attitudes and behavior at home? pp. 328-343

Catia Batista, Julia Seither and Pedro Vicente

Mobile technology and food access pp. 344-356

Leonard Wantchekon and Zara Riaz

Climate shocks constrain human fertility in Indonesia pp. 357-369

Samuel Sellers and Clark Gray