World Development

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Volume 100, issue C, 2017

Performance of Microfinance Institutions: Does Government Ideology Matter? pp. 1-15

Ferdinand A. Gul, Jyotirmoy Podder and Abu Zafar M. Shahriar

Does Aid Effectiveness Depend on the Quality of Donors? pp. 16-30

Anna Minasyan, Peter Nunnenkamp and Katharina Richert

The “Discouraged Worker Effect” in Public Works Programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India pp. 31-44

Sudha Narayanan, Upasak Das, Yanyan Liu and Christopher Barrett

Child Labor and Household Land Holding: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Zimbabwe pp. 45-58

Ali Reza Oryoie, Jeffrey Alwang and Nicolaus Tideman

The Universality, Peculiarity, and Sustainability of Indian Public Interest Litigation Reconsidered pp. 59-68

Hajime Sato

Dynamic Poverty Decomposition Analysis: An Application to the Philippines pp. 69-84

Tomoki Fujii

Participation and Power in Climate Change Adaptation Policies: Vulnerability in Food Security Programs in Nepal pp. 85-93

Sigrid Nagoda and Andrea J. Nightingale

Selecting the State or Choosing the Chief? The Political Determinants of Smallholder Land Titling pp. 94-107

Lauren Honig

Land Markets and Land Access Among Female-Headed Households in Northwestern Tanzania pp. 108-122

Ayala Wineman and Lenis Liverpool-Tasie

Mitigating Climate Change in Africa: Barriers to Financing Low-Carbon Development pp. 123-132

Ademola A. Adenle, Dale Manning and Joseph Arbiol

Volume 99, issue C, 2017

Synergy and Learning Effects of Informal Labor-Sharing Arrangements pp. 1-14

Dawit Mekonnen and Jeffrey Dorfman

The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on Domestic Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Sector pp. 15-27

Simona Gamba

Women’s Worldwide Education–employment Connection: A Multilevel Analysis of the Moderating Impact of Economic, Political, and Cultural Contexts pp. 28-41

Carlijn Bussemakers, Kars van Oosterhout, Gerbert Kraaykamp and Niels Spierings

Natural Resource Management and Household Well-being: The Case of POSAF-II in Nicaragua pp. 42-59

Luis A. De los Santos-Montero and Boris Bravo-Ureta

Profits from Peace: The Political Economy of Power-Sharing and Corruption pp. 60-74

Felix Haass and Martin Ottmann

Innovation, Public Support, and Productivity in Colombia. A Cross-industry Comparison pp. 75-94

Isabel Busom and Jorge Andrés Vélez-Ospina

Moving Up or Moving Out? Insights into Rural Development and Poverty Reduction in Senegal pp. 95-109

Goedele Van den Broeck and Miet Maertens

Engaging development and religion: Methodological groundings pp. 110-121

Séverine Deneulin and Augusto Zampini-Davies

Pro-poor Land Transfers and the Importance of Land Abundance and Ethnicity in The Gambia pp. 122-140

Ulrik Beck and Benedikte Bjerge

Drivers of Structural Transformation: The Case of the Manufacturing Sector in Africa pp. 141-159

Abdoul' Ganiou Mijiyawa

Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability: Complementary Strategies Toward Rights-based Development in Health? pp. 160-172

Anuradha Joshi

How to Find out What’s Really Going On: Understanding Impact through Participatory Process Evaluation pp. 173-185

Andrea Cornwall and Alia Aghajanian

Oil, Dissent, and Distribution pp. 186-202

Nimah Mazaheri

Strategies for Synergy in a High Modernist Project: Two Community Responses to India’s NREGA Rural Work Program pp. 203-213

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Revisiting the Oil Curse: Does Ownership Matter? pp. 214-229

Arpita Asha Khanna

Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan pp. 230-252

Yashodhan Ghorpade

The Impact of Terrorism on Governance in African Countries pp. 253-270

Simplice Asongu and Jacinta Nwachukwu

The Mobile Phone Revolution: Have Mobile Phones and the Internet Reduced Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 271-284

Daniel A. Kanyam, Genti Kostandini and Susana Ferreira

Toward Improving the Design of Sustainability Standards—A Gendered Analysis of Farmers’ Preferences pp. 285-298

Eva-Marie Meemken, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil and Matin Qaim

The Livelihood Impacts of Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Beneficiary Perspectives from Six Countries pp. 299-319

Eleanor Fisher, Ramlatu Attah, Valentina Barca, Clare O'Brien, Simon Brook, Jeremy Holland, Andrew Kardan, Sara Pavanello and Pamela Pozarny

Aid Fragmentation and Effectiveness: What Do We Really Know? pp. 320-334

Kai Gehring, Katharina Michaelowa, Axel Dreher and Franziska Spörri

Land markets, Property rights, and Deforestation: Insights from Indonesia pp. 335-349

Vijesh Krishna, Christoph Kubitza, Unai Pascual and Matin Qaim

Childhood Health and Prenatal Exposure to Seasonal Food Scarcity in Ethiopia pp. 350-376

Ray Miller

New Ways to Assess and Enhance Land Registry Sustainability: Evidence from Rwanda pp. 377-394

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Marguerite Duponchel

Deep Impact: Geo-Simulations as a Policy Toolkit for Natural Disasters pp. 395-418

Asjad Naqvi

Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda pp. 419-430

Luke Chicoine and Juan Carlos Guzman

Civil Conflict and Conditional Cash Transfers: Effects on Demobilization pp. 431-440

Paola Pena, Joaquin Urrego and Juan Villa

Democratic Talk in Church: Religion and Political Socialization in the Context of Urban Inequality pp. 441-451

Amy Erica Smith

Is GM Soybean Cultivation in Argentina Sustainable? pp. 452-462

Pascale Phelinas and Johanna Choumert-Nkolo

Global Kerosene Subsidies: An Obstacle to Energy Efficiency and Development pp. 463-480

Evan Mills

The Anatomy of Failure: An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India pp. 481-497

Vijayendra Rao, Kripa Ananthpur and Kabir Malik

Comparison of Direct Transfers for Human Capital Development and Environmental Conservation pp. 498-517

Zhao Ma, Jonathan Bauchet, Diana Steele, Ricardo Godoy, Claudia Radel and Laura Zanotti

Volume 98, issue C, 2017

The Multifaceted Role of the State in the Protection of Geographical Indications: A Worldwide Review pp. 1-11

Delphine Marie-Vivien and Estelle Biénabe

Proving Provenance? Geographical Indications Certification and its Ambiguities pp. 12-24

Dev S. Gangjee

Are French Geographical Indications Losing Their Soul? Analyzing Recent Developments in the Governance of the Link to the Origin in France pp. 25-34

Delphine Marie-Vivien, Laurence Bérard, Jean-Pierre Boutonnet and François Casabianca

The Role Played by the US Government in Protecting Geographical Indications pp. 35-44

Caroline Le Goffic and Andrea Zappalaglio

Geographical Indications, Public Goods, and Sustainable Development: The Roles of Actors’ Strategies and Public Policies pp. 45-57

Giovanni Belletti, Andrea Marescotti and Jean-Marc Touzard

Institutionalizing Geographical Indications in Southern Countries: Lessons Learned from Basmati and Rooibos pp. 58-67

Estelle Biénabe and Delphine Marie-Vivien

Establishing Geographical Indications without State Involvement? Learning from Case Studies in Central and West Africa pp. 68-81

Didier Chabrol, Mariagiulia Mariani and Denis Sautier

Geographical Indications and “Origin” Products in Brazil – The Interplay of Institutions and Networks pp. 82-92

John Wilkinson, Claire Cerdan and Clovis Dorigon

Can Geographical Indications Modernize Indonesian and Vietnamese Agriculture? Analyzing the Role of National and Local Governments and Producers’ Strategies pp. 93-104

Claire Durand and Stéphane Fournier

The Role of the State for Geographical Indications of Coffee: Case Studies from Colombia and Kenya pp. 105-119

Dominique Barjolle, Xiomara F. Quiñones-Ruiz, Monique Bagal and Hermann Comoé

Political Context, Organizational Mission, and the Quality of Social Services: Insights from the Health Sector in Lebanon pp. 120-132

Melani Cammett and Aytuğ Şaşmaz

Enforcement and Political Power in Anticorruption—Evidence from China pp. 133-147

Li Li, Donald Lien, Yiping Wu and Yang Zhao

Heterogeneous Impact of a Collective Payment for Environmental Services Scheme on Reducing Deforestation in Cambodia pp. 148-159

Colas Chervier and Sébastien Costedoat

Troubling Tradition, Community, and Self-Reliance: Reframing Expectations for Village Seed Banks pp. 160-168

Emily Reisman

Maternal Health Care in the Time of Ebola: A Mixed-Method Exploration of the Impact of the Epidemic on Delivery Services in Monrovia pp. 169-178

Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, Sabrina Karim, Gudrun Østby and Henrik Urdal

Is the Brazilian Tale of Peaceful Racial Coexistence True? Some Evidence from School Segregation and the Huge Racial Gap in the Largest Brazilian City pp. 179-194

Gustavo Andrey de Almeida Lopes Fernandes

Language use in education and human capital formation: Evidence from the Ethiopian educational reform pp. 195-213

Rajesh Ramachandran

A Study of Climate-Smart Farming Practices and Climate-resiliency Field Schools in Mindanao, the Philippines pp. 214-230

Alvin Chandra, Paul Dargusch, Karen E. McNamara, Ana Maria Caspe and Dante Dalabajan

The Political Morphology of Drainage—How Gully Formation Links to State Formation in the Choke Mountains of Ethiopia pp. 231-244

Hermen Smit, Rahel Muche, Rhodante Ahlers and Pieter van der Zaag

A Comparative Framework for Assessing Sustainability Initiatives at the Regional Scale pp. 245-256

Daniel E. Orenstein and Dalit Shach-Pinsley

Megacities, the World’s Largest Cities Unleashed: Major Trends and Dynamics in Contemporary Global Urban Development pp. 257-289

Simon Xiaobin Zhao, Natasha Shu Guo, Chun Lok Kris Li and Christopher Smith

Decollectivization, Collective Legacy, and Uneven Agricultural Development in China pp. 290-299

Zhun Xu

Scalar Politics in Sectoral Reforms: Negotiating the Implementation Of water Policies in Ecuador (1990–2008) pp. 300-309

Jaime Hoogesteger, Yisenia Tiaguaro-Rea, Edwin Rap and Juan Pablo Hidalgo

Women’s Land Tenure Security and Household Human Capital: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Land Certification pp. 310-324

Felix M. Muchomba

A Gendered Analysis of Fisherfolk’s Livelihood Adaptation and Coping Responses in the Face of a Seasonal Fishing Ban in Tamil Nadu & Puducherry, India pp. 325-337

Julia M. Novak Colwell, Mark Axelrod, Shyam S. Salim and S. Velvizhi

Borrowing from “Pui” to Pay “Pom”: Multiple Borrowing and Over-Indebtedness in Rural Thailand pp. 338-350

Bezawit Chichaibelu and Hermann Waibel

Fifteen Years of Bt Cotton in China: Results from Household Surveys pp. 351-359

Fangbin Qiao, Jikun Huang and Xiaobing Wang

Why is the Labour Force Participation of Women Declining in India? pp. 360-380

Santosh Mehrotra and Jajati K. Parida

Grounded Globalization: Foreign Capital and Local Bureaucrats in China’s Economic Transformation pp. 381-399

Ling Chen

Worlding the Intangibility of Resilience: The Case of Rice Farmers and Water-Related Risk in the Philippines pp. 400-412

Sameer H. Shah, Leonora C. Angeles and Leila M. Harris

For India’s Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More Than Growing Cities pp. 413-429

John Gibson, Gaurav Datt, Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion

Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects pp. 430-446

Kerstin Nolte and Martin Ostermeier

Does Market Experience Attenuate Risk Aversion? Evidence from Landed Farm Households in Ethiopia pp. 447-466

Mequanint Melesse and Francesco Cecchi

Disaggregating the Developing Welfare State: Provincial Social Policy Regimes in China pp. 467-484

Kerry Ratigan

NGOs and Personal Politics: The Relationship between NGOs and political leaders in West Bengal, India pp. 485-496

Tom Harrison

New Evidence on the Impact of Large-scale Conditional Cash Transfers on Child Vaccination Rates: The Case of a Clustered-Randomized Trial in Indonesia pp. 497-505

Dian Kusuma, Hasbullah Thabrany, Budi Hidayat, Margaret McConnell, Peter Berman and Jessica Cohen

What Do We (Not) Know About Development Aid and Violence? A Systematic Review pp. 506-522

Christoph Zürcher

Land Sparing and Land Sharing Policies in Developing Countries – Drivers and Linkages to Scientific Debates pp. 523-535

Ole Mertz and Charlotte Filt Mertens

Spurred to Upgrade: A Review of Triggers and Consequences of Industrial Upgrading in the Global Value Chain Literature pp. 536-554

Seth Pipkin and Alberto Fuentes

Recent Social Security Initiatives in India pp. 555-572

Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera