World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 116, issue C, 2019

Smallholders’ uneven capacities to adapt to climate change amid Africa’s ‘green revolution’: Case study of Rwanda’s crop intensification program pp. 1-14

Nathan Clay and Brian King

Neither modern nor traditional: Farmer-led irrigation development in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania pp. 15-27

Chris de Bont, Hans C. Komakech and Gert Jan Veldwisch

Expertise in rural development: A conceptual and empirical analysis pp. 28-37

Philip Lowe, Jeremy Phillipson, Amy Proctor and Menelaos Gkartzios

Agricultural investments and hunger in Africa modeling potential contributions to SDG2 – Zero Hunger pp. 38-53

Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Timothy Sulser, Keith Wiebe, Mark W. Rosegrant, Sarah K. Lowder, Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Dirk Willenbockel, Sherman Robinson, Tingju Zhu, Nicola Cenacchi, Shahnila Dunston and Richard Robertson

“Food aid is killing Himalayan farms”. Debunking the false dependency narrative in Karnali, Nepal pp. 54-65

Yograj Gautam

Modelling the impact of market imperfections on farm household investment in stand-alone solar PV systems pp. 66-76

Yakubu Abdul-Salam and Euan Phimister

Minimum wage impacts on wages and hours worked of low-income workers in Ecuador pp. 77-99

Sara A. Wong

The historical roots of cooperative behavior—Evidence from eastern Congo pp. 100-112

Alexander De Juan and Carlo Koos

Return migration and violence pp. 113-124

Jose Bucheli, Matías Fontenla and Benjamin James Waddell

Income inequality, redistribution and domestic terrorism pp. 125-136

Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks

The impact of recipient choice on aid effectiveness pp. 137-149

Jeremy Shapiro

Volume 115, issue C, 2019

Is foreign aid concentrated increasingly on needy and deserving recipient countries? An analysis of Theil indices, 1995–2015 pp. 1-16

Frank Bickenbach, Asithandile Mbelu and Peter Nunnenkamp

Family structure, education and women’s employment in rural India pp. 17-29

Sowmya Dhanaraj and Vidya Mahambare

Water as destiny – The long-term impacts of drought in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 30-45

Marie Hyland and Jason Russ

Targeting of social transfers: Are India’s poor older people left behind? pp. 46-63

Viola Asri

Unheard voices: The challenge of inducing women’s civic speech pp. 64-77

Nethra Palaniswamy, Ramya Parthasarathy and Vijayendra Rao

Do patent rights matter? 40 years of innovation, complexity and productivity pp. 78-93

Cassandra Sweet and Dalibor Eterovic

Information exchange links, knowledge exposure, and adoption of agricultural technologies in northern Uganda pp. 94-106

Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku

Economic development and material use. Evidence from international panel data pp. 107-119

Frank Pothen and Heinz Welsch

Enacting peasant moral community economies for sustainable livelihoods: A case of women-led cooperatives in rural Mexico pp. 120-131

Jozelin María Soto Alarcón and Chizu Sato

Smallholder responses to climate anomalies in rural Uganda pp. 132-144

Maia Call, Clark Gray and Pamela Jagger

Community-based welfare targeting and political elite capture: Evidence from rural China pp. 145-159

Huawei Han and Qin Gao

Cross-subsidies for improved sanitation in low income settlements: Assessing the willingness to pay of water utility customers in Kenyan cities pp. 160-177

Charisma Acey, Joyce Kisiangani, Patrick Ronoh, Caroline Delaire, Evelyn Makena, Guy Norman, David Levine, Ranjiv Khush and Rachel Peletz

Can differences in individual learning explain patterns of technology adoption? Evidence on heterogeneous learning patterns and hybrid rice adoption in Bihar, India pp. 178-189

Jared Gars and Patrick Ward

Land certification and schooling in rural Ethiopia pp. 190-208

Heather Congdon Fors, Kenneth Houngbedji and Annika Lindskog

Guaranteed employment or guaranteed income? pp. 209-221

Martin Ravallion

Stacking up the ladder: A panel data analysis of Tanzanian household energy choices pp. 222-235

Johanna Choumert-Nkolo, Pascale Combes Motel and Pierre Le Roux

Conservation, ecotourism, poverty, and income inequality – A case study of nature reserves in Qinling, China pp. 236-244

Ben Ma, Zhen Cai, Jie Zheng and Yali Wen

Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle-income countries – A global comparative analysis pp. 246-257

Ira Irina Dorband, Michael Jakob, Matthias Kalkuhl and Jan Steckel

Causal pathways of the productive impacts of cash transfers: Experimental evidence from Lesotho pp. 258-268

Ervin Prifti, Silvio Daidone and Benjamin Davis

Exchange asymmetries in productive assets: Tools, fertilizer or cash? pp. 269-278

Stein Holden and Sosina Bezu

Governing green industrialisation in Africa: Assessing key parameters for a sustainable socio-technical transition in the context of Ethiopia pp. 279-290

Chukwumerije Okereke, Alexia Coke, Mulu Geebreyesus, Tsegaye Ginbo, Jeremy J. Wakeford and Yacob Mulugetta

Employment transitions of women in India: A panel analysis pp. 291-309

Sudipa Sarkar, Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen

Volume 114, issue C, 2019

One cow per poor family: Effects on the growth of consumption and crop production pp. 1-12

Pia Nilsson, Mikaela Backman, Lina Bjerke and Aristide Maniriho

Drought in the city: The economic impact of water scarcity in Latin American metropolitan areas pp. 13-27

Sébastien Desbureaux and Aude-Sophie Rodella

Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India pp. 28-41

Neha Kumar, Kalyani Raghunathan, Alejandra Arrieta, Amir Jilani, Suman Chakrabarti, Purnima Menon and Agnes Quisumbing

Does electoral observation influence electoral results? Experimental evidence for domestic and international observers in Mozambique pp. 42-58

Stefan Leeffers and Pedro Vicente

From frontier governance to governance frontier: The political geography of Brazil’s Amazon transition pp. 59-72

Gregory M. Thaler, Cecilia Viana and Fabiano Toni

When solidarity fails: Heterogeneous effects on children from adult deaths in Senegalese households pp. 73-94

Philippe De Vreyer and Björn Nilsson

Disaggregating China’s local political budget cycles: “Righting” the U pp. 95-109

Samantha A. Vortherms

Can commercial farming promote rural dynamism in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Mozambique pp. 110-121

Steven Glover and Sam Jones

Peer effects in consumption in India: An instrumental variables approach using negative idiosyncratic shocks pp. 122-137

Punarjit Roychowdhury

Cash transfers increase trust in local government pp. 138-155

David Evans, Brian Holtemeyer and Katrina Kosec

Intimate partner violence and family planning decisions: Experimental evidence from rural Tanzania pp. 156-174

Aine McCarthy

Favoritism and flooding: Political alignment and allocation of irrigation water pp. 175-195

Sabrin Beg

Forest change and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 196-207

Yuki Yamamoto, Yosuke Shigetomi, Yuichi Ishimura and Mitsuru Hattori

Resettlement lies: Suggestive evidence from 29 large dam projects pp. 208-219

Julian Kirchherr, Mats-Philip Ahrenshop and Katrina Charles

Short- and medium-run impacts of management training: An experiment in Tanzania pp. 220-236

Yuki Higuchi, Edwin Mhede and Tetsushi Sonobe

Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A quantitative review pp. 237-253

Jochen Kluve, Susana Puerto, David Robalino, Jose Romero, Friederike Rother, Jonathan Stöterau, Felix Weidenkaff and Marc Witte

Empowering communities? Local stakeholders’ participation in the Clean Development Mechanism in Latin America pp. 254-266

L.L. Benites-Lazaro and N.A. Mello-Théry

Country-level analysis of household fuel transitions pp. 267-280

Elena V. McLean, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, John D. Atkinson, Julia Ravenscroft, Sharon Hewner and Alexandra Schindel

Commercialization of the small farm sector and multidimensional poverty pp. 281-293

Sylvester Ochieng Ogutu and Matin Qaim

Long-term drivers of taxation in francophone West Africa 1893–2010 pp. 294-313

Jens Andersson and Volha Lazuka

Barriers to skill acquisition: Evidence from English training in India pp. 314-325

Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Subha Mani

Working together? Synergies in government and NGO roles for community forestry in the Indian Himalayas pp. 326-340

Divya Gupta and Tomas M. Koontz