World Development

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Volume 106, issue C, 2018

Economic corridors and regional development: The Malaysian experience pp. 1-14

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Suresh Narayanan

The effects of climate variability on psychological well-being in India pp. 15-26

Sharon Pailler and Magda Tsaneva

The economic consequences of political alienation: Ethnic minority status and investment behavior in a post-conflict society pp. 27-39

Egor Lazarev and Vera Mironova

Separating the wheat from the chaff: Signaling in microfinance loans pp. 40-50

Jonathan Bauchet, Sugato Chakravarty and Brian Hunter

The promise and peril of paralegal aid pp. 51-63

Geoffrey Swenson

Entrepreneurship contribution to the three pillars of sustainable development: What does the evidence really say? pp. 64-77

Sabrine Dhahri and Anis Omri

Peace is much more than doves: The economic benefits of bird-based tourism as a result of the peace treaty in Colombia pp. 78-86

Jorge Maldonado, Rocío del Pilar Moreno-Sánchez, Sophía Espinoza, Aaron Bruner, Natalia Garzón and John Myers

The political path to universal health coverage: Power, ideas and community-based health insurance in Rwanda pp. 87-98

Benjamin Chemouni

An overview of India’s primary school education policies and outcomes 2005–2011 pp. 99-110

Ishita Chatterjee, Ian Li and Marie-Claire Robitaille

Power as agency: A critical reflection on the measurement of women’s empowerment in the development sector pp. 111-123

Corey O'Hara and Floriane Clement

Unraveling the effect of targeted input subsidies on dietary diversity in household consumption and child nutrition: The case of Malawi pp. 124-135

Aurélie P. Harou

The effects of aid agency independence on bilateral aid allocation decisions pp. 136-148

Ryan Cardwell and Pascal Ghazalian

Flows, leaks and blockages in informational interventions: A field experimental study of Bangalore's water sector pp. 149-160

Tanu Kumar, Alison E. Post and Isha Ray

Resource rents, universal basic income, and poverty among Alaska’s Indigenous peoples pp. 161-172

Matthew Berman

The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 173-186

Takaaki Masaki

Whose greed, whose grievance, and whose opportunity? Effects of foreign direct investments (FDI) on internal conflict pp. 187-206

Andreea S. Mihalache-O'Keef

Gender and capacity building: A multi-layered study of empowerment pp. 207-219

Claudia Eger, Graham Miller and Caroline Scarles

Women’s political participation and gender gaps of education in China: 1950–1990 pp. 220-237

Yang Yao and Wuyue You

Ineptitude, ignorance, or intent: The social construction of failure in development pp. 238-247

Rajesh Venugopal

Education and disability in a conflict affected context: Are children with disabilities less likely to learn and be protected in Darfur? pp. 248-259

Parul Bakhshi, Ganesh M. Babulal and Jean-Francois Trani

Success when we deemed it failure? Revisiting sites and services projects in Mumbai and Chennai 20 years later pp. 260-272

Kathryn E. Owens, Sumila Gulyani and Andrea Rizvi

City size, deprivation and other indicators of development: Evidence from India pp. 273-283

Arup Mitra and Jay Prakash Nagar

Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa pp. 284-298

Ann-Sofie Isaksson and Andreas Kotsadam

Is women’s empowerment associated with political knowledge and opinions? Evidence from rural Mali pp. 299-323

Jaimie Bleck and Kristin Michelitch

Identifying the essential ingredients to literacy and numeracy improvement: Teacher professional development and coaching, student textbooks, and structured teachers’ guides pp. 324-336

Benjamin Piper, Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski, Margaret Dubeck, Evelyn Jepkemei and Simon J. King

Blessing and curse. The gold boom and local development in Colombia pp. 337-355

Rafael J. Santos

Parlez-vous français? Language and agricultural aid allocation strategies in northern Mali pp. 356-375

Emily Maiden and Mark Brockway

Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD+: The record to date and prospects for the future pp. 376-392

William D. Sunderlin, Claudio de Sassi, Erin O. Sills, Amy E. Duchelle, Anne M. Larson, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Abdon Awono, Demetrius Leo Kweka and Thu Ba Huynh

Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 393-406

Joachim Vandercasteelen, Seneshaw Tambru Beyene, Bart Minten and Johan Swinnen

Can information outreach increase participation in community-driven development? A field experiment near Bwindi National Park, Uganda pp. 407-421

Mark T. Buntaine, Brigham Daniels and Colleen Devlin

Volume 105, issue C, 2018

Conditional cash transfers for primary education: Which children are left out? pp. 1-12

Jonathan Bauchet, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Victoria Reyes-García, Jere Behrman and Ricardo A. Godoy

Building support for taxation in developing countries: Experimental evidence from Mexico pp. 13-24

Gustavo A. Flores-Macías

The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system: The case of Malawi pp. 25-47

Catherine Ragasa and John Mazunda

An impediment to gender Equality?: Religion’s influence on development and reproductive policy pp. 48-58

Aliza Forman-Rabinovici and Udi Sommer

Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria pp. 59-69

Andreas Kotsadam, Gudrun Østby, Siri Aas Rustad, Andreas Forø Tollefsen and Henrik Urdal

Poverty reduction during 1990–2013: Did millennium development goals adoption and state capacity matter? pp. 70-82

M Asadullah and Antonio Savoia

Do the rich have stronger willingness to pay for environmental protection? New evidence from a survey in China pp. 83-94

Shuai Shao, Zhihua Tian and Meiting Fan

On the impact of demographic change on economic growth and poverty pp. 95-106

Marcio Cruz and Syud Ahmed

The potential of the Global Person Generated Index for evaluating the perceived impacts of conservation interventions on subjective well-being pp. 107-118

Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson, Martin R. Nielsen and Julia P.G. Jones

From worker to peasant and then to entrepreneur? Land reform and agrarian change in the Saïss (Morocco) pp. 119-131

Olivier Petit, Marcel Kuper and Fatah Ameur

Change of pace: Accelerations and advances during the Millennium Development Goal era pp. 132-143

John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen

Famine systems: A new model for understanding the development of famines pp. 144-155

Paul Howe

Change in urban concentration and economic growth pp. 156-170

Susanne A. Frick and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Reducing bureaucratic corruption: Interdisciplinary perspectives on what works pp. 171-188

Jordan Gans-Morse, Mariana Borges, Alexey Makarin, Theresa Mannah-Blankson, Andre Nickow and Dong Zhang

Returns to microcredit, cash grants and training for male and female microentrepreneurs in Uganda pp. 189-200

Nathan Fiala

An exploration of the changes in the international comparison program’s global economic landscape pp. 201-216

Martin Ravallion

Impact of natural disasters on income inequality in Sri Lanka pp. 217-230

Subhani Keerthiratne and Richard Tol

Hurricanes, economic growth and transmission channels pp. 231-247

Michael Berlemann and Daniela Wenzel

A new model of development coalition building: USAID achieving legitimate access and dominant information in Bangladesh’s forest policy pp. 248-261

Md Saifur Rahman, Sohag Miah and Lukas Giessen

The prepaid electric meter: Rights, relationships and reification in Unguja, Tanzania pp. 262-272

Veronica Jacome and Isha Ray

Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction – A migrant perspective pp. 273-282

Bert Ingelaere, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

Agricultural Transformation in Africa? Assessing the Evidence in Ethiopia pp. 286-298

Fantu N. Bachewe, Guush Berhane, Bart Minten and Alemayehu Taffesse

Technology adoption and risk exposure among smallholder farmers: Panel data evidence from Tanzania and Uganda pp. 299-309

Adamon N. Mukasa

Intensification and intrahousehold decisions: Fertilizer adoption in Burkina Faso pp. 310-320

Hamza Haider, Melinda Smale and Veronique Theriault

Gendered Social Networks, Agricultural Innovations, and Farm Productivity in Ethiopia pp. 321-335

Daniel Mekonnen, Nicolas Gerber and Julia Matz

Is farmer-to-farmer extension effective? The impact of training on technology adoption and rice farming productivity in Tanzania pp. 336-351

Yuko Nakano, Takuji Tsusaka, Takeshi Aida and Valerien Pede

Breaking Ground: Unearthing the Potential of High-resolution, Remote-sensing Soil Data in Understanding Agricultural Profits and Technology Use in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 352-366

Anil K. Bhargava, Tor Vagen and Anja Gassner

Empirical assessment of subjective and objective soil fertility metrics in east Africa: Implications for researchers and policy makers pp. 367-382

Julia Berazneva, Linden McBride, Megan Sheahan and David Güereña

Cities and agricultural transformation in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 383-399

Joachim Vandercasteelen, Seneshaw Tamru Beyene, Bart Minten and Johan Swinnen

Small firms, structural change and labor productivity growth in Africa: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 400-415

Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka and Margaret McMillan

Patterns of labor productivity and income diversification – Empirical evidence from Uganda and Nigeria pp. 416-427

Abdoulaye I. Djido and Bekele A. Shiferaw

Spillovers from off-farm self-employment opportunities in rural Niger pp. 428-442

Sènakpon Fidèle Ange Dedehouanou, Abdelkrim Araar, Aichatou Ousseini, Abdoulaziz Laouali Harouna and Maimounata Jabir