World Development

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Volume 113, issue C, 2019

Social policy in South Africa: Navigating the route to social development pp. 1-9

Sophie Plagerson, Leila Patel, Tessa Hochfeld and Marianne S. Ulriksen

Long- and short-term determinants of water user cooperation: Experimental evidence from Central Asia pp. 10-25

Iroda Amirova, Martin Petrick and Nodir Djanibekov

Food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the nexus between gender, geography and off-farm employment pp. 26-43

Fred Mawunyo Dzanku

Remittances, finance and growth: Does financial development foster the impact of remittances on economic growth? pp. 44-59

Izabela Sobiech

Gender and generational patterns of African deagrarianization: Evolving labour and land allocation in smallholder peasant household farming, 1980–2015 pp. 60-72

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Local sourcing in developing countries: The role of foreign direct investments and global value chains pp. 73-88

Vito Amendolagine, Andrea Presbitero, Roberta Rabellotti and Marco Sanfilippo

Electoral incentives to combat mosquito-borne illnesses: Experimental evidence from Brazil pp. 89-99

Taylor C. Boas and F. Daniel Hidalgo

Violence and the formation of hopelessness: Evidence from internally displaced persons in Colombia pp. 100-115

Andres Moya and Michael R. Carter

When food systems meet sustainability – Current narratives and implications for actions pp. 116-130

Christophe Béné, Peter Oosterveer, Lea Lamotte, Inge D. Brouwer, Stef de Haan, Steve D. Prager, Elise F. Talsma and Colin K. Khoury

Agrarian livelihoods under siege: Carbon forestry, tenure constraints and the rise of capitalist forest enclosures in Ghana pp. 131-142

Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga and Isaac Luginaah

Can social programs break the vicious cycle between poverty and obesity? Evidence from urban Mexico pp. 143-156

Pierre Levasseur

Structural reforms and firms’ productivity: Evidence from developing countries pp. 157-171

Wilfried Kouamé and Sampawende Tapsoba

What’s in it for Africa? European Union fishing access agreements and fishery exports from developing countries pp. 172-185

Cecilia Hammarlund and Anna Andersson

Moving to despair? Migration and well-being in Pakistan pp. 186-203

Joyce Chen, Katrina Kosec and Valerie Mueller

Does fiscal decentralization enhance citizens’ access to public services and reduce poverty? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire municipalities in a conflict setting pp. 204-221

Tiangboho Sanogo

Impacts of CDM projects on sustainable development: Improving living standards across Brazilian municipalities? pp. 222-236

Yadira Mori-Clement

Urban energy transitions and rural income generation: Sustainable opportunities for rural development through charcoal production pp. 237-245

Harriet Elizabeth Smith, Daniel Jones, Frank Vollmer, Sophia Baumert, Casey M. Ryan, Emily Woollen, Sá N. Lisboa, Mariana Carvalho, Janet A. Fisher, Ana C. Luz, Isla M. Grundy and Genevieve Patenaude

Universal health coverage: A (social insurance) job half done? pp. 246-258

Sven Neelsen, Supon Limwattananon, Owen O'Donnell and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Household behaviour in times of political change: Evidence from Egypt pp. 259-276

Yvonne Giesing and Almedina Music

Unintended consequence of trade on regional dietary patterns in rural India pp. 277-293

Cherry Law

The effect of commodity price shocks on public lands distribution: Evidence from Colombia pp. 294-308

Michael Albertus

Do incentives matter when working for god? The impact of performance-based financing on faith-based healthcare in Uganda pp. 309-319

Jan Duchoslav and Francesco Cecchi

Grants vs. credits for improving the livelihoods of ultra-poor: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 320-329

Getaw Tadesse and Tadiwos Zewdie

Long-term impacts of an unanticipated spike in food prices on child growth in Indonesia pp. 330-343

Futoshi Yamauchi and Donald Larson

Different forms of household wealth are associated with opposing risks for HIV infection in East Africa pp. 344-351

Craig Hadley, Amanda Maxfield and Daniel Hruschka

The power of lump sums: Using maternity payment schedules to reduce the gender asset gap in households reached by Brazil’s Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer pp. 352-367

Gregory Duff Morton

SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth – A gendered analysis pp. 368-380

Shirin M. Rai, Benjamin D. Brown and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

Lithium and development imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia pp. 381-391

Javiera Barandiarán

Pathways to accountability in rural Guatemala: A qualitative comparative analysis of citizen-led initiatives for the right to health of indigenous populations pp. 392-401

Alison Hernández, Ana Lorena Ruano, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastián and Walter Flores

Volume 112, issue C, 2018

Services trade policy and sustainable development pp. 1-12

Matteo Fiorini and Bernard Hoekman

Temperature shocks, short-term growth and poverty thresholds: Evidence from rural Tanzania pp. 13-32

Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano and Richard Tol

Are economic rents good for development? Evidence from the manufacturing sector pp. 33-45

Daniel Schwab and Eric Werker

Households’ vulnerability from trade in Vietnam pp. 46-58

Emiliano Magrini, Pierluigi Montalbano and L. Winters

Structural modernisation and development traps. An empirical approach pp. 59-73

Alejandro Lavopa and Adam Szirmai

Crowdsourcing accountability: ICT for service delivery pp. 74-87

Guy Grossman, Melina R. Platas and Jonathan Rodden

In harm's way: Climate security vulnerability in Asia pp. 88-118

Joshua Busby, Todd G. Smith, Nisha Krishnan, Charles Wight and Santiago Vallejo-Gutierrez

The cyclicality of international public sector borrowing in developing countries: Does the lender matter? pp. 119-135

Arturo Galindo and Ugo Panizza

NGOs and international development: A review of thirty-five years of scholarship pp. 136-149

Jennifer N. Brass, Wesley Longhofer, Rachel S. Robinson and Allison Schnable

Mobility equity in a globalized world: Reducing inequalities in the sustainable development agenda pp. 150-162

Andreas Hackl

Foods and fads: The welfare impacts of rising quinoa prices in Peru pp. 163-179

Marc Bellemare, Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez and Seth Gitter

Micro(soft) managing a ‘green revolution’ for Africa: The new donor culture and international agricultural development pp. 180-192

Rachel Schurman

Revisiting the patriarchal bargain: The intergenerational power dynamics of household money management in rural Nepal pp. 193-204

Lu Gram, Jolene Skordis, Jenevieve Mannell, Dharma S. Manandhar, Naomi Saville and Joanna Morrison

Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India pp. 205-219

Vis Taraz

Why the poor do not benefit from community-driven development: Lessons from participatory budgeting pp. 220-232

Kidjie Saguin

Ex post evaluation of technology diffusion in the African palm oil sector: The Caltech expeller in Cameroon, Benin, and Liberia pp. 233-243

Catherine P. Bishop

Workfare versus transfers in rural India pp. 244-258

Arthur Alik-Lagrange and Martin Ravallion

Does contract farming improve welfare? A review pp. 259-271

Marc Bellemare and Jeffrey Bloem

Reforming grants to tackle child poverty: An integrated macro-micro approach pp. 272-281

Luca Tiberti, Hélène Maisonnave, Margaret Chitiga and Ramos Mabugu

The effectiveness of agricultural certification in developing countries: A systematic review pp. 282-312

Carlos Oya, Florian Schaefer and Daphne Skalidou

Volume 111, issue C, 2018

Natural disasters and human capital: The case of Nepal’s earthquake pp. 1-12

Jayash Paudel and Hanbyul Ryu

Is resilience to climate change socially inclusive? Investigating theories of change processes in Myanmar pp. 13-26

Tim Forsyth

Democracy’s comparative advantage: Evidence from aggregated trade data, 1962–2010 pp. 27-40

Jiahua Yue and Shangsi Zhou

Conservative outlook, gender norms and female wellbeing: Evidence from rural Bangladesh pp. 41-58

Tanima Ahmed and Binayak Sen

The impact of foreign aid on migration revisited pp. 59-74

Mauro Lanati and Rainer Thiele

Re-politicizing participation or reframing environmental governance? Beyond indigenous’ prior consultation and citizen participation pp. 75-83

Roger Merino

Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence pp. 84-96

Antonia Grohmann, Theres Klühs and Lukas Menkhoff

Context and measurement: An analysis of the relationship between intrahousehold decision making and autonomy pp. 97-112

Greg Seymour and Amber Peterman

Historical legacies of colonial indirect rule: Princely states and Maoist insurgency in central India pp. 113-129

Shivaji Mukherjee

Land tenure security and investment: Does strength of land right really matter in rural Burkina Faso? pp. 130-147

Yiriyibin Bambio and Salima Bouayad Agha

Assessing the global poverty effects of antimicrobial resistance pp. 148-160

Syud Amer Ahmed, Enis Barış, Delfin Go, Hans Lofgren, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Karen Thierfelder

Hidden human capital: Self-efficacy, aspirations and achievements of adolescent and young women in India pp. 161-180

Sanchari Roy, Matthew Morton and Shrayana Bhattacharya

Official debt restructurings and development pp. 181-195

Gong Cheng, Javier Díaz-Cassou and Aitor Erce

Health insurance, a friend in need? Impacts of formal insurance and crowding out of informal insurance pp. 196-210

Xin Geng, Wendy Janssens, Berber Kramer and Marijn van der List

“Food prices were high, and the dal became watery”. Mixed-method evidence on household food insecurity and children’s diets in India pp. 211-224

Elisabetta Aurino and Virginia Morrow

Immigrant networks and remittances: Cheaper together? pp. 225-245

Ainoa Aparicio and Zoe Kuehn

Engineering change? The idea of ‘the scheme’ in African irrigation pp. 246-255

Elizabeth Harrison

Land tenure, price shocks, and insurgency: Evidence from Peru and Colombia pp. 256-269

Jenny Guardado

The enduring influence of institutions on universal health coverage: An empirical investigation of 62 former colonies pp. 270-287

Michael Miller, Veronica Toffolutti and Aaron Reeves