World Development

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Volume 97, issue C, 2017

Financial Inclusion, Bank Concentration, and Firm Performance pp. 1-13

Lisa Chauvet and Luc Jacolin

Aiming for a Moving Target: The Dynamics of Household Electricity Connections in a Developing Context pp. 14-26

Tom Harris, Mark Collinson and Martin Wittenberg

Collective Property Leads to Household Investments: Lessons From Land Titling in Afro-Colombian Communities pp. 27-48

Ximena Peña, Maria Vélez, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Natalia Perdomo and Camilo Matajira

Aspirations and the Role of Social Protection: Evidence from a Natural Disaster in Rural Pakistan pp. 49-66

Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

Conflict and Collisions in Sub-Saharan African Urban Definitions: Interpreting Recent Urbanization Data From Kenya pp. 67-78

Deborah Potts

Spillover Effects of International Standards: Working Conditions in the Vietnamese SMEs pp. 79-101

Neda Trifkovic

Rags and Riches: Relative Prices, Non-Homothetic Preferences, and Inequality in India pp. 102-121

Ingvild Almås and Anders Kjelsrud

Understanding the Process of Community Capacity-Building: A Case Study of Two Programs in Yunnan Province, China pp. 122-137

Juan M. Moreno, Lori M. Noguchi and Marie K. Harder

Risk Perception in a Multi-Hazard Environment pp. 138-152

Kira A. Sullivan-Wiley and Anne G. Short Gianotti

What Can the Capabilities Approach Learn from an Ubuntu Ethic? A Relational Approach to Development Theory pp. 153-164

Nimi Hoffmann and Thaddeus Metz

Obstacles to Takeup: Ecuador's Conditional Cash Transfer Program, The Bono de Desarrollo Humano pp. 165-177

Chloe S. Rinehart and James W. McGuire

The Uneven Effect of Financial Constraints: Size, Public Ownership, and Firm Investment in Ethiopia pp. 178-198

Addisu Lashitew

Agrarian Extractivism in Bolivia pp. 199-211

Ben M. McKay

Squaring the Circle: Reconciling the Need for Rigor with the Reality on the Ground in Resilience Impact Assessment pp. 212-231

Christophe Béné, Fahim S. Chowdhury, Mamun Rashid, Sabbir A. Dhali and Ferdous Jahan

Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice pp. 232-250

Cathrin Fløgstad and Rune Hagen

Productivity and Welfare Effects of Nigeria's e-Voucher-Based Input Subsidy Program pp. 251-265

Tesfamicheal Wossen, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Arega Alene, Shiferaw Feleke, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Victor Manyong and Bola Amoke Awotide

Livelihood Strategies and Dynamics in Rural Cambodia pp. 266-278

Xi Jiao, Mariève Pouliot and Solomon Zena Walelign

Market Accessibility and Economic Growth: Insights from a New Dimension of Inequality pp. 279-297

Jacob Hochard and Edward Barbier

Do Development Interventions Confer Adaptive Capacity? Insights from Rural India pp. 298-312

Unmesh Patnaik and Prasun Kumar Das

Wage Structure and Gender Earnings Differentials in China and India pp. 313-329

Jong-Wha Lee and Dainn Wie

Small Firms, large Impact? A systematic review of the SME Finance Literature pp. 330-348

Renate Kersten, Job Harms, Kellie Liket and Karen Maas

Volume 96, issue C, 2017

Technology Adoption and Employment in Less Developed Countries: A Mixed-Method Systematic Review pp. 1-18

Mehmet Ugur and Arup Mitra

Decomposing the Gender Wealth Gap in Ecuador pp. 19-31

Boaz Anglade, Pilar Useche and Carmen Diana Deere

Learn from the Past, Prepare for the Future: Impacts of Education and Experience on Disaster Preparedness in the Philippines and Thailand pp. 32-51

Roman Hoffmann and Raya Muttarak

Does the Development Discourse Learn from History? pp. 52-64

Albert Sanghoon Park

Vulnerability to Drought and Food Price Shocks: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 65-77

Ruth Hill and Catherine Porter

Hunger and the Experience of Being Well: Absolute and Relative Concerns pp. 78-86

Mariano Rojas and Jorge Guardiola

Tax Incentives and Job Creation in the Tourism Sector of Brazil’s SUDENE Area pp. 87-101

Grégoire Garsous, David Corderi, Mercedes Velasco and Andrea Colombo

The Development Benefits of Maternity Leave pp. 102-118

Kathleen M. Fallon, Alissa Mazar and Liam Swiss

Neighborhood Associations and the Urban Poor: India’s Slum Development Committees pp. 119-135

Adam Michael Auerbach

Inequality and Charity pp. 136-144

Giuseppe Mastromatteo and Francesco Flaviano Russo

Language, Mixed Communes, and Infrastructure: Sources of Inequality and Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam pp. 145-162

Hoa Nguyen, Tom Kompas, Trevor Breusch and Michael Ward

Comparing Health Outcomes Across Scheduled Tribes and Castes in India pp. 163-181

Bipasha Maity

Shared agency: The dominant spouse’s impact on education expenditure pp. 182-197

Antonia Fernandez and Uma Kambhampati

Explaining Ethiopia’s Growth Acceleration—The Role of Infrastructure and Macroeconomic Policy pp. 198-215

Lars Moller and Konstantin Wacker

Local Food Prices and International Price Transmission pp. 216-230

Eddy Bekkers, Martina Brockmeier, Joseph Francois and Fan Yang

Happiness and Health in China: The Paradox of Progress pp. 231-244

Carol Graham, Shaojie Zhou and Junyi Zhang

Raising Consumption Through India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme pp. 245-263

Nayana Bose

Insurance Function of Livestock: Farmer’s Coping Capacity with Regional Droughts in South-Western Madagascar pp. 264-275

Hendrik Hänke and Jan Barkmann

Sons of the Soil Conflict in Africa: Institutional Determinants of Ethnic Conflict Over Land pp. 276-293

Catherine Boone

Decoupling Standards from Practice: The Impact of In-House Certifications on Coffee Farms’ Environmental and Social Conduct pp. 294-314

Elisa Giuliani, Luciano Ciravegna, Andrea Vezzulli and Bernard Kilian

Community Forest Management: An Assessment and Explanation of its Performance Through QCA pp. 315-325

Bas Arts and Jessica de Koning

Blending Top-Down Federalism with Bottom-Up Engagement to Reduce Inequality in Ethiopia pp. 326-342

Qaiser Khan, Jean-Paul Faguet and Alemayehu Ambel

Participatory Budgeting and the Poor: Tracing Bias in a Multi-Staged Process in Solo, Indonesia pp. 343-358

Tara Grillos

The Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services pp. 359-374

Jan Börner, Kathy Baylis, Esteve Corbera, Driss Ezzine-de-Blas, Jordi Honey-Rosés, U. Martin Persson and Sven Wunder

Bilateral Donors and the Age of the National Interest: What Prospects for Challenge by Development Agencies? pp. 375-389

Nilima Gulrajani

Can Gender-Targeted Employment Interventions Help Enhance Community Participation? Evidence from Urban Togo pp. 390-407

Anita Breuer and Edward Asiedu

The Effects of Natural Resources on Urbanization, Concentration, and Living Standards in Africa pp. 408-417

Christian Hubert Ebeke and Sabine Mireille Ntsama

Toward Technology-Sensitive Catching-Up Policies: Insights from Renewable Energy in China pp. 418-437

Christian Binz, Jorrit Gosens, Teis Hansen and Ulrich Elmer Hansen

International Migration, Workers’ Remittances and Permanent Income Hypothesis pp. 438-450

Sokchea Lim and Hem C. Basnet

The Impact of a Computer-based Adult Literacy Program on Literacy and Numeracy: Evidence from India pp. 451-473

Ashwini Deshpande, Alain Desrochers, Christopher Ksoll and Abu Shonchoy

Growing-up Unfortunate: War and Human Capital in Ethiopia pp. 474-489

Samuel G. Weldeegzie

The ENSO Effect and Asymmetries in Wheat Price Dynamics pp. 490-502

David Ubilava

Economic Institutions and Comparative Economic Development: A Post-Colonial Perspective pp. 503-519

Daniel L. Bennett, Hugo J. Faria, James Gwartney and Daniel R. Morales

Evidence from Lagos on Discrimination across Ethnic and Class Identities in Informal Trade pp. 520-528

Shelby Grossman and Dan Honig

Are “New” Donors Challenging World Bank Conditionality? pp. 529-549

Diego Hernandez

The Political Economy of Primary Education: Lessons from Rwanda pp. 550-561

Timothy P. Williams

Do Economic Problems at Home Undermine Worker Safety Abroad?: A Panel Study, 1980–2009 pp. 562-577

Sijeong Lim and Aseem Prakash

Comparative Advantage in Demand and the Development of Rice Value Chains in West Africa pp. 578-590

Matty Demont, Rose Fiamohe and A. Thierry Kinkpé

The Impact of Regional and Institutional Factors on Labor Productive Performance—Evidence from the Township and Village Enterprise Sector in China pp. 591-598

Lucy Zheng, Michael Batuo and David Shepherd