World Development

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Volume 104, issue C, 2018

Fostering equity and wellbeing through water: A reinterpretation of the goal of securing access pp. 1-9

Francesco M. Gimelli, Joannette J. Bos and Briony C. Rogers

The importance of Ostrom’s Design Principles: Youth group performance in northern Ethiopia pp. 10-30

Stein Holden and Mesfin Tilahun

Buying stability: The distributive outcomes of private politics in the Bolivian mining industry pp. 31-45

Matthew Amengual

Contract farming for improving smallholder incomes: What can we learn from effectiveness studies? pp. 46-64

Giel Ton, Wytse Vellema, Sam Desiere, Sophia Weituschat and Marijke D'Haese

Vulnerability, good governance, or donor interests? The allocation of aid for climate change adaptation pp. 65-77

Florian Weiler, Carola Klöck and Matthew Dornan

Resilience mobility in Uganda: A dynamic analysis pp. 78-96

Marco d'Errico and Stefania Di Giuseppe

Who practices rights-based development? A progress report on work at the nexus of human rights and development pp. 97-107

Paul J. Nelson and Ellen Dorsey

The impact of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative on growth and investment in Africa pp. 108-127

Eric W. Djimeu

The politics of electricity reform: Evidence from West Bengal, India pp. 128-139

Elizabeth Chatterjee

Desert land reclamation programs and family land dynamics in the Western Desert of the Nile Delta (Egypt), 1960–2010 pp. 140-153

Véronique Alary, Adel Aboul-Naga, Mona A. Osman, Ibrahim Daoud, Sahar Abdelraheem, Ehab Salah, Xavier Juanes and Pascal Bonnet

Does social identity matter in individual alienation? Household-level evidence in post-reform India pp. 154-172

Prashant Gupta, Sushanta Mallick and Tapas Mishra

Collective demands and secret codes: The multiple uses of “community” in “community mobilization” pp. 173-182

Gowri Vijayakumar

Adaptation to climate change: A review through a development economics lens pp. 183-196

David Castells-Quintana, Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe and Thomas K.J. McDermott

ICT and economic growth – Comparing developing, emerging and developed countries pp. 197-211

Thomas Niebel

Crowding out of solidarity? Public health insurance versus informal transfer networks in Ghana pp. 212-221

Christoph Strupat and Florian Klohn

Human Rights Shaming and FDI: Effects of the UN Human Rights Commission and Council pp. 222-237

Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, Nicole Janz and Øyvind Isachsen Berntsen

Do saving promotion interventions increase household savings, consumption, and investments in Sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 238-256

Janina Steinert, Juliane Zenker, Ute Filipiak, Ani Movsisyan, Lucie D. Cluver and Yulia Shenderovich

Saving in the world pp. 257-270

Francesco Grigoli, Alexander Herman and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

Complicating narratives of women’s food and nutrition insecurity: Domestic violence in rural Bangladesh pp. 271-280

Erin C. Lentz

Assessing the long-term performance of large-scale land transfers: Challenges and opportunities in Malawi’s estate sector pp. 281-296

Klaus Deininger and Fang Xia

Dynamics in health and employment: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 297-309

Subha Mani, Sophie Mitra and Usha Sambamoorthi

Natural disasters, social protection, and risk perceptions pp. 310-325

Philip Brown, Adam Daigneault, Emilia Tjernström and Wenbo Zou

It’s a boy! Women and decision-making benefits from a son in India pp. 326-335

Laura Zimmermann

Intra-household allocation of educational expenses: Gender discrimination and investing in the future pp. 336-343

Tara Kaul

Stunting later in childhood and outcomes as a young adult: Evidence from India pp. 344-357

Rozana Himaz

The struggle for digital inclusion: Phones, healthcare, and marginalisation in rural India pp. 358-374

Marco Haenssgen

Contestation and negotiation of urban health in India: A situated political approach pp. 375-387

V.S. Saravanan

Disability and school attendance in 15 low- and middle-income countries pp. 388-403

Suguru Mizunoya, Sophie Mitra and Izumi Yamasaki

Natural disasters and agricultural protection: A panel data analysis pp. 404-417

Jeroen Klomp and Barry Hoogezand

Volume 103, issue C, 2018

Don’t Touch My Road. Evidence from India on Affirmative Action And Everyday Discrimination pp. 1-13

Victoire Girard

Policies for a Sustainable Biomass Energy Sector in Malawi: Enhancing Energy and Food Security Simultaneously pp. 14-26

Franziska Schuenemann, Siwa Msangi and Manfred Zeller

Disasters, Deaths, and the Sendai Goal One: Lessons from Odisha, India pp. 27-39

Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett

The Household Response to Persistent Natural Disasters: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 40-59

Azreen Karim

Does Government Spending Affect Income Poverty? A Meta-regression Analysis pp. 60-71

Edward Anderson, Maria Ana Jalles d'Orey, Maren Duvendack and Lucio Esposito

Does Institutional Quality Matter for Trade? Institutional Conditions in a Sectoral Trade Framework pp. 72-87

Inmaculada Álvarez, Javier Barbero, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and José Zofío

Vaccination and GDP Growth Rates: Exploring the Links in a Conditional Convergence Framework pp. 88-99

Neal Masia, Jonathan Smerling, Tendayi Kapfidze, Richard Manning and Mark Showalter

Intra-household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design pp. 100-118

Marcelo Bergolo and Estefanía Galván

Mobile Peoples, Contested Borders: Land use Conflicts and Resolution Mechanisms among Borana and Guji Communities, Southern Ethiopia pp. 119-132

John McPeak and Peter D. Little

Poor targeting: A gridded spatial analysis of the degree to which aid reaches the poor in Africa pp. 133-148

Ryan C. Briggs

The politics of local government performance: Elite cohesion and cross-village constraints in decentralized Senegal pp. 149-161

Martha Wilfahrt

Procedural Justice in Value Chains Through Public–private Partnerships pp. 162-175

Jodie Thorpe

Economic Status and Adult Mortality in India: Is the Relationship Sensitive to Choice of Indicators? pp. 176-187

Debasis Barik, Sonalde Desai and Reeve Vanneman

The building of mining discourses and the politics of scale in Ecuador pp. 188-198

Diana Vela-Almeida, Vijay Kolinjivadi and Nicolas Kosoy

The “Local Economy” Effect of Social Transfers: An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of the Bolsa Família Program on Local Productive Structure and Economic Growth pp. 199-215

Eric Rougier, François Combarnous and Yves-André Fauré

Competition or cooperation? Using team and tournament incentives for learning among female farmers in rural Uganda pp. 216-225

Kathryn Vasilaky and Asif Islam

Stigma of sexual violence and women’s decision to work pp. 226-238

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Swapnika Reddy Rachapalli and Sarani Saha

Can public works increase equilibrium wages? Evidence from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee pp. 239-254

Erlend Berg, Sambit Bhattacharyya, D. Rajasekhar and R. Manjula

Evaluating the impact of market-assisted land reform in Brazil pp. 255-267

Dylan Fitz

The role of land property rights in the war on illicit crops: Evidence from Colombia pp. 268-283

Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora, Santiago Tobon and d’Anjou, Jesse Willem

Public Policy Reform and Informal Institutions: The Political Articulation of the Demand for Work in Rural India pp. 284-296

Thibaud Marcesse

Are we underestimating urban poverty? pp. 297-310

Paula Lucci, Tanvi Bhatkal and Amina Khan

Fertility, household size and poverty in Nepal pp. 311-322

François Libois and Vincent Somville

Control of corruption, international investment, and economic growth – Evidence from panel data pp. 323-335

Andrzej Cieślik and Lukasz Goczek

Women and Climate Stress: Role Reversal from Beneficiaries to Expert Participants pp. 336-359

Anamika Dey, Gurdeep Singh and Anil K. Gupta

Statistical Tests as a Hindrance to Understanding pp. 360-365

Philipp H. Lepenies

The Hiding Hand: A Rejoinder to Flyvbjerg on Hirschman pp. 366-368

Graham Room

Beneficial or Detrimental Ignorance: The Straw Man Fallacy of Flyvbjerg’s Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand pp. 369-382

Lavagnon A. Ika

Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? pp. 383-386

Bent Flyvbjerg