World Development

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Volume 102, issue C, 2018

Does Social Health Insurance Reduce Financial Burden? Panel Data Evidence from India pp. 1-17

Mehtabul Azam

Balance of Power, Domestic Violence, and Health Injuries: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey of Nepal pp. 18-29

Soumi Roy Chowdhury, Alok Bohara and Brady Horn

Limitations of Contract Farming as a Pro-poor Strategy: The Case of Maize Outgrower Schemes in Upper West Ghana pp. 30-56

Catherine Ragasa, Isabel Lambrecht and Doreen S. Kufoalor

Local Institutional Responses to Global Market Pressures: The Sea Cucumber Trade in Yucatán, Mexico pp. 57-70

Abigail Bennett and Xavier Basurto

The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana pp. 71-89

James Berry, Dean Karlan and Menno Pradhan

Can Developing Countries Gain from Defying Comparative Advantage? Distance to Comparative Advantage, Export Diversification and Sophistication, and the Dynamics of Specialization pp. 90-110

Pauline Lectard and Eric Rougier

Unpacking the Relationship between Outward Direct Investment and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Chinese firms pp. 111-123

Xiaolan Fu, Jun Hou and Xiaohui Liu

Women’s Age at First Marriage and Long-Term Economic Empowerment in Egypt pp. 124-134

Kathryn M. Yount, AliceAnn Crandall and Yuk Fai Cheong

The Consequences of Legal Minimum Wages in Honduras pp. 135-157

Andrés Ham

Beyond the Short versus Long Accountability Route Dichotomy: Using Multi-track Accountability Pathways to Study Performance of Rural Water Services in Uganda pp. 158-169

Sara Dewachter, Nathalie Holvoet, Miet Kuppens and Nadia Molenaers

Is the Informal Sector Politically Different? (Null) Answers from Latin America pp. 170-182

Andy Baker and Vania Ximena Velasco-Guachalla

Bamboo Beating Bandits: Conflict, Inequality, and Vulnerability in the Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh pp. 183-194

Benjamin K. Sovacool

The Role of Fairtrade Certification for Wages and Job Satisfaction of Plantation Workers pp. 195-212

Katharina Krumbiegel, Miet Maertens and Meike Wollni

Fisheries’ Property Regimes and Environmental Outcomes: A Realist Synthesis Review pp. 213-227

Rebecca McLain, Steven Lawry and Maria Ojanen

Discrimination, Social Capital, and Financial Constraints: The Case of Viet Nam pp. 228-242

Tho Pham and Oleksandr Talavera

Growth by Destination: The Role of Trade in Africa’s Recent Growth Episode pp. 243-261

Robert Mullings and Aruneema Mahabir

Temporal Stability of Risk Attitudes and the Impact of Adverse Shocks—A Panel Data Analysis from Thailand and Vietnam pp. 262-274

Sabine Liebenehm

All that Glitters is not Gold: Polarization Amid Poverty Reduction in Ghana pp. 275-291

Fabio Clementi, Vasco Molini and Francesco Schettino

Supermarket Shopping and Nutritional Outcomes: A Panel Data Analysis for Urban Kenya pp. 292-303

Kathrin M. Demmler, Olivier Ecker and Matin Qaim

New Findings on Key Factors Influencing the UK’s Referendum on Leaving the EU pp. 304-314

Aihua Zhang

Impact of Electrification on Children’s Nutritional Status in Rural Bangladesh pp. 315-330

Tomoki Fujii, Abu Shonchoy and Sijia Xu

Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male–Female Wage Gaps Among Salaried Workers in India pp. 331-344

Ashwini Deshpande, Deepti Goel and Shantanu Khanna

Property Rights and Water Access: Evidence from Land Titling in Rural Peru pp. 345-357

Robyn Meeks

Does Resilience Capacity Reduce the Negative Impact of Shocks on Household Food Security? Evidence from the 2014 Floods in Northern Bangladesh pp. 358-376

Lisa C. Smith and Timothy R. Frankenberger

Volume 101, issue C, 2018

Agency, Human Dignity, and Subjective Well-being pp. 1-15

Daniel A. Hojman and Álvaro Miranda

The Role of Private Standards for Manufactured Food Exports from Developing Countries pp. 16-27

Malte Ehrich and Axel Mangelsdorf

Health Expenditures and Global Inequalities in Longevity pp. 28-36

Maksym Obrizan and George L. Wehby

State Capacity and Health Outcomes: Comparing Argentina’s and Chile’s Reduction of Infant and Maternal Mortality, 1960–2013 pp. 37-53

Daniel Brieba

Informal Groups and Health Insurance Take-up Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 54-72

Matthieu Chemin

Formal but Less Equal. Gender Wage Gaps in Formal and Informal Jobs in Urban Brazil pp. 73-87

Sarra Ben Yahmed

Social Protection, Food Security, and Asset Formation pp. 88-103

Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Neha Kumar and Meghan Olivier

Do Conditional Cash Transfers Lead to Better Secondary Schools? Evidence from Jamaica’s PATH pp. 104-118

Marco Stampini, Sofia Martinez-Cordova, Sebastian Insfran and Donna Harris

Tracking the Quality Premium of Certified Coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 119-132

Bart Minten, Mekdim Dereje, Ermias Engida and Seneshaw Tamru

Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? Evidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program pp. 133-141

Randall Bluffstone, E. Somanathan, Prakash Jha, Harisharan Luintel, Rajesh Bista, Michael Toman, Naya Paudel and Bhim Adhikari

Are Foreign-Owned Firms More Likely to Pay Bribes than Domestic Ones? Evidence from Emerging Markets pp. 142-161

Allan Webster and Jenifer Piesse

Interest Rates in Savings Groups: Thrift or Threat? pp. 162-172

Maïté le Polain, Olivier Sterck and Marthe Nyssens

Exploring the Schemes for Green Climate Fund Financing: International Lessons pp. 173-187

Lianbiao Cui and Yuran Huang

Community-Driven Reconstruction in Colombia: An Experimental Study of Collective Action beyond Program Beneficiaries pp. 188-201

Ben D'Exelle, Eric Coleman and Maria Claudia Lopez

Assessing Medium-term Impacts of Conservation Interventions on Local Livelihoods in Northern Cambodia pp. 202-218

Emilie Beauchamp, Tom Clements and E.J. Milner-Gulland

Diversification Strategies and Adaptation Deficit: Evidence from Rural Communities in Niger pp. 219-234

Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Pallante and Alessandro Palma

Bilateral FDI Flows, Productivity Growth, and Convergence: The North vs. The South pp. 235-249

Firat Demir and Yi Duan

A New Profile of the Global Poor pp. 250-267

Andrés Castañeda, Dung Doan, David Newhouse, Minh Nguyen, Hiroki Uematsu and João Pedro Azevedo

Weather Shocks, Coping Strategies, and Consumption Dynamics in Rural Ethiopia pp. 268-283

Jianfeng Gao and Bradford Mills

Does Intimate Partner Violence Decline as Women’s Empowerment Becomes Normative? Perspectives of Bangladeshi Women pp. 284-292

Sidney Ruth Schuler and Sohela Nazneen

Unleashing Waste-Pickers’ Potential: Supporting Recycling Cooperatives in Santiago de Chile pp. 293-310

Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez and Nicolas Navarrete-Hernandez

Traps and Sustainable Development in Rural Areas: A Review pp. 311-321

L. Jamila Haider, Wiebren J. Boonstra, Garry D. Peterson and Maja Schlüter

Output Value Risk for Commodity Producers: The Uncertain Benefits of Diversification pp. 322-333

Nicolas Merener and Maria Eugenia Steglich

Does Free Public Health Care Increase Utilization and Reduce Spending? Heterogeneity and Long-Term Effects pp. 334-350

Peter Hangoma, Bjarne Robberstad and Arild Aakvik

The Road to Growth: Measuring the Tradeoffs between Economic Growth and Ecological Destruction pp. 351-376

Richard Damania, Jason Russ, David Wheeler and Alvaro Federico Barra

The Millennium Villages Project and Local Land Values: Using Hedonic Pricing Methods to Evaluate Development Projects pp. 377-387

Hope Michelson and Katherine Tully

Reconfiguring Frontier Spaces: The territorialization of resource control pp. 388-399

Mattias Borg Rasmussen and Christian Lund

Entangled Territories in Small-Scale Gold Mining Frontiers: Labor Practices, Property, and Secrets in Indonesian Gold Country pp. 400-416

Nancy Lee Peluso

Indirect Recognition. Frontiers and Territorialization around Mount Halimun-Salak National Park, Indonesia pp. 417-428

Christian Lund and Noer Fauzi Rachman

Paper Works: Contested Resource Histories in Peru’s Huascarán National Park pp. 429-440

Mattias Borg Rasmussen

Conflicts, Territories, and the Institutionalization of Post-Agrarian Economies on an Expanding Tourist Frontier in Quilotoa, Ecuador pp. 441-452

Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Angélica Ordoñez, Homero Paltán López, Joe Quick, Diego Quiroga and Julie Williams

Territoriality by Conservation in the Selous–Niassa Corridor in Tanzania pp. 453-465

Jevgeniy Bluwstein and Jens Friis Lund

Making Concessions: Extractive Enclaves, Entangled Capitalism and Regulative Pluralism at the Gold Mining Frontier in Burkina Faso pp. 466-476

Muriel Côte and Benedikt Korf

Frontiers: Authority, Precarity, and Insurgency at the Edge of the State pp. 477-488

Michael J. Watts