World Development

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Volume 108, issue C, 2018

Achieving food security and industrial development in Malawi: Are export restrictions the solution? pp. 1-15

Emerta Aragie, Karl Pauw and Valentina Pernechele

Peopling policy processes? Methodological populism in the Bangladesh health and education sectors pp. 16-27

David Lewis

Who benefits from which agricultural research-for-development technologies? Evidence from farm household poverty analysis in Central Africa pp. 28-46

John Herbert Ainembabazi, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Shiferaw Feleke, Arega Alene, Paul M. Dontsop-Nguezet, Pierre Celestin Ndayisaba, Cyrille Hicintuka, Sylvain Mapatano and Victor Manyong

A moral atmosphere of development as a share: Consequences for urban development in Indonesia pp. 47-56

Tanya Jakimow

Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India pp. 57-73

Bina Agarwal

Contesting the hydrocarbon frontiers: State depoliticizing practices and local responses in Peru pp. 74-85

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Riccarda Flemmer and Anna Hujber

Gender lessons for climate initiatives: A comparative study of REDD+ impacts on subjective wellbeing pp. 86-102

Anne M. Larson, David Solis, Amy E. Duchelle, Stibniati Atmadja, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Therese Dokken and Mella Komalasari

Land-grabbing, land-use transformation and social differentiation: Deconstructing “small-scale” in Ghana's recent gold rush pp. 103-114

Heidi Hausermann, David Ferring, Bernadette Atosona, Graciela Mentz, Richard Amankwah, Augustus Chang, Kyle Hartfield, Emmanuel Effah, Grace Yeboah Asuamah, Coryanne Mansell and Natasha Sastri

Women’s participation in environmental decision-making: Quasi-experimental evidence from northern Kenya pp. 115-130

Tara Grillos

Potential contributions of market-systems development initiatives for building climate resilience pp. 131-144

Laura Kuhl

Bridging the information gap between citizens and local governments: Evidence from a civic participation strengthening program in Rwanda pp. 145-156

Ali E. Protik, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Jacqueline Berman and Matt Sloan

How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal pp. 157-168

Florence Crick, Shaikh Eskander, Sam Fankhauser and Mamadou Diop

How African cities lead: Urban policy innovation and agriculture in Kampala and Nairobi pp. 169-180

Christopher D. Gore

A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa pp. 181-196

Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt, M. Azhar Hussain and Finn Tarp

WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes pp. 197-218

Thiess Buettner and Boryana Madzharova

The more gender equity, the less child poverty? A multilevel analysis of malnutrition and health deprivation in 49 low- and middle-income countries pp. 221-230

Hans Ekbrand and Björn Halleröd

Pathways of adaptation to external stressors in coastal natural-resource-dependent communities: Implications for climate change pp. 235-248

Alexandra Paige Fischer

Multi-Scalar Pathways to Smallholder Adaptation pp. 249-262

Morey Burnham and Zhao Ma

Toward a Political Ecology of Migration: Land, Labor Migration, and Climate Change in Northwestern Nicaragua pp. 263-273

Claudia Radel, Birgit Schmook, Lindsey Carte and Sofia Mardero

Re-Defining Sahelian ‘Adaptive Agriculture’ when Implemented Locally: Beyond Techno-fix Solutions pp. 274-282

Laura Vang Rasmussen

Rethinking identity in adaptation research: Performativity and livestock keeping practices in the Kenyan drylands pp. 283-295

Julia Wernersson

Assessing multi-level drivers of adaptation to climate variability and water insecurity in smallholder irrigation systems pp. 296-308

Paul McCord, Kurt Waldman, Elizabeth Baldwin, Jampel Dell'Angelo and Tom Evans

Linking climate change strategies and land conflicts in Cambodia: Evidence from the Greater Aural region pp. 309-320

Carol Hunsberger, Courtney Work and Roman Herre

Household Livelihood Differentiation and Vulnerability to Climate Hazards in Rural China pp. 321-331

Qing Tian and Maria Carmen Lemos

Local values and fairness in climate change adaptation: Insights from marginal rural Australian communities pp. 332-343

Sonia Graham, Jon Barnett, Colette Mortreux, Anna Hurlimann and Ruth Fincher

Volume 107, issue C, 2018

Wealth-destroying private property rights pp. 1-9

Peter Leeson and Colin Harris

The impact of community forest concessions on income: an analysis of communities in the Maya Biosphere Reserve pp. 10-21

Corinne Bocci, Lea Fortmann, Brent Sohngen and Bayron Milian

Sanitation and child health in India pp. 22-39

Britta Augsburg and Paul Andrés Rodríguez-Lesmes

Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 40-53

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Marco A. Janssen, Sandeep Kandikuppa, Rahul Chaturvedi, Kaushalendra Rao and Sophie Theis

Agent banking in a highly under-developed financial sector: Evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 54-74

Robert Cull, Xavier Gine, Sven Harten, Soren Heitmann and Anca Bogdana Rusu

Do men and women estimate property values differently? pp. 75-86

Cheryl Doss, Zachary Catanzarite, William Baah-Boateng, Hema Swaminathan, Carmen Diana Deere, Louis Boakye-Yiadom and J.Y. Suchitra

The interplay between planned and autonomous adaptation in response to climate change: Insights from rural Ethiopia pp. 87-97

Azeb Assefa Mersha and Frank van Laerhoven

Welfare spending and political conflict in Latin America, 1970–2010 pp. 98-110

Patricia Justino and Bruno Martorano

Productive effects of public works programs: What do we know? What should we know? pp. 111-124

Esther Gehrke and Renate Hartwig

Climate adaptation strategies in Fiji: The role of social norms and cultural values pp. 125-137

Andreas Neef, Lucy Benge, Bryan Boruff, Natasha Pauli, Eberhard Weber and Renata Varea

Unintended effects of a targeted maternal and child nutrition intervention on household expenditures, labor income, and the nutritional status of non-targeted siblings in Ghana pp. 138-150

Katherine P. Adams, Travis Lybbert, Stephen A. Vosti, Emmanuel Ayifah, Mary Arimond, Seth Adu-Afarwuah and Kathryn G. Dewey

Natural resource sector FDI, government policy, and economic growth: Quasi-experimental evidence from Liberia pp. 151-162

Jonas B. Bunte, Harsh Desai, Kanio Gbala, Bradley Parks and Daniel Miller Runfola

New modalities for managing drought risk in rainfed agriculture: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Odisha, India pp. 163-175

Patrick Ward and Simrin Makhija

DEA and SFA research on the efficiency of microfinance institutions: A meta-analysis pp. 176-188

François Fall, Al-mouksit Akim and Harouna Wassongma

Using Facebook ad data to track the global digital gender gap pp. 189-209

Masoomali Fatehkia, Ridhi Kashyap and Ingmar Weber

New reading of Saharan agricultural transformation: Continuities of ancient oases and their extensions (Algeria) pp. 210-223

Meriem Farah Hamamouche, Marcel Kuper, Hichem Amichi, Caroline Lejars and Tarik Ghodbani

What might ‘just green enough’ urban development mean in the context of climate change adaptation? The case of urban greenspace planning in Taipei Metropolis, Taiwan pp. 224-238

Leslie Mabon and Wan-Yu Shih

Legalization, diplomacy, and development: Do investment treaties de-politicize investment disputes? pp. 239-252

Geoffrey Gertz, Srividya Jandhyala and Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen

Measuring livelihood resilience: The Household Livelihood Resilience Approach (HLRA) pp. 253-263

Amy Quandt

Beyond dualism: Agricultural productivity, small towns, and structural change in Bangladesh pp. 264-276

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

Small and medium cities and development of Mexican rural areas pp. 277-288

Julio Berdegue and Isidro Soloaga

Climate change and gender equality in developing states pp. 289-305

Joshua Eastin

New narratives of development work? Making sense of social entrepreneurs’ development narratives across time and economies pp. 306-326

Yanto Chandra

More farmers, less farming? Understanding the truncated agrarian transition in Thailand pp. 327-337

Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca, Monchai Phongsiri and Mattara Sripun

Impact of security expenditures in military alliances on violence from non-state actors: Evidence from India pp. 338-357

Dhruv Gupta and Karthik Sriram

An analysis of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative implementation process pp. 358-381

Päivi Lujala

Exposure to firewood: Consequences for health and labor force participation in Mexico pp. 382-395

Omar Stabridis and Edwin van Gameren

Do special economic zones induce developmental spillovers? Evidence from India’s states pp. 396-409

Meir Alkon