World Development

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Volume 110, issue C, 2018

A decomposition method on employment and wage discrimination and its application in urban China (2002–2013) pp. 1-12

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen and Yuan Zhang

Corruption and averting AIDS deaths pp. 13-25

Willa Friedman

Upgrading for whom? Relationship coffee, value chain interventions and rural development in Indonesia pp. 26-37

Mark Vicol, Jeffrey Neilson, Diany Faila Sophia Hartatri and Peter Cooper

The impact of foreign remittances on poverty in Nepal: A panel study of household survey data, 1996–2011 pp. 38-50

Udaya Wagle and Satis Devkota

Real exchange rate policies for economic development pp. 51-62

Martin Guzman, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Joseph Stiglitz

The distributional effect of investment in early childhood nutrition: A panel quantile approach pp. 63-74

Abraham Abebe Asfaw

Hybrid regulatory landscapes: The human right to water, variegated neoliberal water governance, and policy transfer in Cape Town, South Africa, and Accra, Ghana pp. 75-87

Julian S. Yates and Leila M. Harris

A poverty dynamics approach to social stratification: The South African case pp. 88-103

Simone Schotte, Rocco Zizzamia and Murray Leibbrandt

Effects of public policy on child labor: Current knowledge, gaps, and implications for program design pp. 104-123

Ana Dammert, Jacobus de Hoop, Eric Mvukiyehe and Furio Rosati

Why education is not helping the poor. Findings from Uganda pp. 124-139

Simone Datzberger

From corn to popcorn? Urbanization and dietary change: Evidence from rural-urban migrants in Tanzania pp. 140-159

Lara Cockx, Liesbeth Colen and Joachim De Weerdt

How do diffusion entrepreneurs spread policies? Insights from performance-based financing in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 160-175

Lara Gautier, Jale Tosun, Manuela De Allegri and Valéry Ridde

Earnings, savings, and job satisfaction in a labor-intensive export sector: Evidence from the cut flower industry in Ethiopia pp. 176-191

Aya Suzuki, Yukichi Mano and Girum Abebe

Assessing the nonlinearity of the calorie-income relationship: An estimation strategy – With new insights on nutritional transition in Vietnam pp. 192-204

Huong Trinh Thi, Michel Simioni and Christine Thomas-Agnan

Give a Man a Fishpond: Modeling the Impacts of Aquaculture in the Rural Economy pp. 205-223

Mateusz Filipski and Ben Belton

Media exposure and political participation in a transitional African context pp. 224-242

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz

Bloated bodies and broken bricks: Power, ecology, and inequality in the political economy of natural disaster recovery pp. 243-255

Benjamin K. Sovacool, May Tan-Mullins and Wokje Abrahamse

Constitutional economics of Ghana’s decentralization pp. 256-267

Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah

Does rural development aid reduce international migration? pp. 268-282

Jonas Gamso and Farhod Yuldashev

The impact of armed conflict and terrorism on foreign aid: A sector-level analysis pp. 283-294

Piotr Lis

Urban poverty across the spectrum of Vietnam’s towns and cities pp. 295-306

Peter Lanjouw and Marleen Marra

Can social groups impact schooling decisions? Evidence from castes in rural Senegal pp. 307-323

Ababacar S. Gueye, Martine Audibert and Valérie Delaunay

Leader and villager behavior: Experimental evidence from Cameroon pp. 324-332

Niccoló F. Meriggi and Erwin Bulte

Redistributing teachers using local transfers pp. 333-344

Siddhant Agarwal, Athisii Kayina, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Anugula N. Reddy

Climate, the Earth, and God – Entangled narratives of cultural and climatic change in the Peruvian Andes pp. 345-359

Morgan Scoville-Simonds

Politicising inequality: The power of ideas pp. 360-372

Alice Evans

Maternity protection in formal and informal economy workplaces: The case of Ghana pp. 373-384

Bianca Stumbitz, Suzan Lewis, Abigail A. Kyei and Fergus Lyon

How women’s incumbency affects future elections: Evidence from a policy experiment in Lesotho pp. 385-393

Amanda Clayton and Belinda Tang

Trade liberalization and child mortality: A Synthetic Control Method pp. 394-410

Alessandro Olper, Daniele Curzi and Johan Swinnen

Metering water: Analyzing the concurrent pressures of conservation, sustainability, health impact, and equity in use pp. 411-421

Maryann R. Cairns

Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage pp. 422-436

David Mosse

Investing in land to change your risk exposure? Land transactions and inequality in a landslide prone region pp. 437-452

Kewan Mertens and Liesbet Vranken

Women’s empowerment in East Africa: Development of a cross-country comparable measure pp. 453-464

Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Regine Haardörfer, Amy Webb Girard and Kathryn M. Yount

Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua: An individual based approach pp. 466-491

José Espinoza-Delgado and Stephan Klasen

Volume 109, issue C, 2018

Financial deepening and innovation: The role of political institutions pp. 1-13

Chun-Yu Ho, Shaoqing Huang, Hao Shi and Jun Wu

Do different types of assets have differential effects on child education? Evidence from Tanzania pp. 14-28

Kashi Kafle, Dean Jolliffe and Alex Winter-Nelson

The Political Ecology of Oil Palm Company-Community partnerships in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation consequences of the privatization of rural development pp. 29-41

Aoife Bennett, Ashwin Ravikumar and Homero Paltán

Cost of being a slum dweller in Nairobi: Living under dismal conditions but still paying a housing rent premium pp. 42-56

Debabrata Talukdar

A sharing economy? Unpacking demand and living conditions in the urban housing market in Kenya pp. 57-72

Sumila Gulyani, Debabrata Talukdar and Ellen M. Bassett

The SDGs in middle-income countries: Setting or serving domestic development agendas? Evidence from Ecuador pp. 73-84

Philipp Horn and Jean Grugel

What constrains renewable energy investment in Sub-Saharan Africa? A comparison of Kenya and Ghana pp. 85-100

Ana Pueyo

The Kaleidoscope Model of policy change: Applications to food security policy in Zambia pp. 101-120

Danielle Resnick, Steven Haggblade, Suresh Babu, Sheryl L. Hendriks and David Mather

From intermittent to continuous service: Costs, benefits, equity and sustainability of water system reforms in Hubli-Dharwad, India pp. 121-133

Zachary Burt, Ayşe Ercümen, Narayana Billava and Isha Ray

From state-initiated to Indigenous-driven infrastructure: The Inuvialuit and Canada’s first highway to the Arctic Ocean pp. 134-148

Mia M. Bennett

Socializing accountability in humanitarian settings: A proposed framework pp. 149-162

Sarah K. Chynoweth, Anthony B. Zwi and Anna K. Whelan

Promoting natural resource conflict management in an illiberal setting: Experiences from Central Darfur, Sudan pp. 163-171

A. Peter Castro

Institutional bindingness, power structure, and land expropriation in China pp. 172-186

Meina Cai and Xin Sun

Examining rural Sahelian out-migration in the context of climate change: An analysis of the linkages between rainfall and out-migration in two Malian villages from 1981 to 2009 pp. 187-196

Kathryn Grace, Véronique Hertrich, Djeneba Singare and Greg Husak

What is equitable resilience? pp. 197-205

Nilufar Matin, John Forrester and Jonathan Ensor

Gold exploitation and socioeconomic outcomes: The case of Burkina Faso pp. 206-221

Agnes Zabsonre, Maxime Agbo and Juste Somé

What information do citizens want? Evidence from one million information requests in Mexico pp. 222-235

Daniel Berliner, Benjamin E. Bagozzi and Brian Palmer-Rubin

Social capital, citizen participation in public administration, and public sector performance in Thailand pp. 236-248

Ploy Suebvises

The price of persecution: The long-term effects of the Anti-Rightist Campaign on economic performance in post-Mao China pp. 249-260

Zhaojin Zeng and Joshua Eisenman

Accessing higher education in developing countries: Panel data analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam pp. 261-278

Alan Sanchez and Abhijeet Singh

Sorting through global corruption determinants: Institutions and education matter – Not culture pp. 279-294

Michael Jetter and Christopher Parmeter

Taxation, non-tax revenue and democracy: New evidence using new cross-country data pp. 295-312

Wilson Prichard, Paola Salardi and Paul Segal

How environmental NGOs have influenced decision making in a ‘semi-authoritarian’ state: The case of forest policy in Ethiopia pp. 313-322

Alemayehu N. Ayana, Bas Arts and K. Freerk Wiersum

Crowding-out or crowding-in? Public and private investment in India pp. 323-333

Girish Bahal, Mehdi Raissi and Volodymyr Tulin

The contemporary development discourse: Analysing the influence of development studies’ journals pp. 334-345

Rogelio Madrueño and Sergio Tezanos

Rural electrification, gender and the labor market: A cross-country study of India and South Africa pp. 346-359

Sambhu Singh Rathi and Claire Vermaak

Social networks and the intention to migrate pp. 360-374

Miriam Manchin and Sultan Orazbayev

REDD+, hype, hope and disappointment: The dynamics of expectations in conservation and development pilot projects pp. 375-385

Kate Massarella, Susannah M. Sallu, Jonathan E. Ensor and Rob Marchant

Evolution of water governance in Bangladesh: An urban perspective pp. 386-400

T. Yasmin, M.A. Farrelly and B.C. Rogers

Economic underpinnings of violent extremism: A cross country exploration of repeated survey data pp. 401-412

Ramya M. Vijaya, Anthony Wilent, Jessica Cathcart and Ryan Fiorellini

Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures pp. 417-428

Ethan Ligon and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Sectoral Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction: National and Global Impacts pp. 429-439

Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

Beyond Agriculture Versus Non-Agriculture: Decomposing Sectoral Growth–Poverty Linkages in Five African Countries pp. 440-451

Paul Dorosh and James Thurlow

Composition of Household Income and Child Nutrition Outcomes Evidence from Uganda pp. 452-469

Angeli Kirk, Talip Kilic and Calogero Carletto

Agricultural Productivity, Hired Labor, Wages, and Poverty: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 470-482

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

The Effect of Agricultural Technology on the Speed of Development pp. 483-496

Markus Eberhardt and Dietrich Vollrath

Rural–Urban Linkages, Public Investment and Transport Costs: The Case of Tanzania pp. 497-510

Christopher Adam, David Bevan and Douglas Gollin

Toward an Understanding of Economic Growth in Africa: A Reinterpretation of the Lewis Model pp. 511-522

Xinshen Diao and Margaret McMillan