World Development

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Volume 93, issue C, 2017

Urban Governance and the Politics of Climate change pp. 1-15

Vanesa Castán Broto

Money Flows, Water Trickles: Understanding Patterns of Decentralized Water Provision in Tanzania pp. 16-30

Ruth D. Carlitz

Ethnic Integration and Development in China pp. 31-42

Enze Han and Christopher Paik

Soil Properties, Crop Yield, and Economics Under Integrated Crop Management Practices in Karnataka, Southern India pp. 43-61

Suhas P. Wani, K.H. Anantha and Kaushal K. Garg

Using National Statistics to Increase Transparency of Large Land Acquisition: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 62-74

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Anthony Harris

Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions, and Income Inequality pp. 75-93

Dominik Hartmann, Miguel R. Guevara, Cristian Jara-Figueroa, Manuel Aristarán and Cesar Hidalgo

Enabling Mini-Grid Development in Rural India pp. 94-107

Stephen D. Comello, Stefan J. Reichelstein, Anshuman Sahoo and Tobias S. Schmidt

Does Local Development Influence Outmigration Decisions? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 108-124

Smriti Tiwari

Understanding and Resolving Conflict Between Local Communities and Conservation Authorities in Colombia pp. 125-135

K. De Pourcq, E. Thomas, B. Arts, A. Vranckx, T. Léon-Sicard and P. Van Damme

Vulnerability to Cumulative Hazards: Coping with the Coffee Leaf Rust Outbreak, Drought, and Food Insecurity in Nicaragua pp. 136-152

Christopher M. Bacon, William A. Sundstrom, Iris T. Stewart and David Beezer

Inequality Between and Within Skill Groups: The Curious Case of India pp. 153-176

Manisha Goel

The Role of Accountants in Indian Self-Help Groups: A Trade-off between Financial and Non-Financial Benefits pp. 177-192

Lore Vandewalle

Exploring “The Remote” and “The Rural”: Open Defecation and Latrine Use in Uttarakhand, India pp. 193-205

Kathleen O'Reilly, Richa Dhanju and Abhineety Goel

Transforming or Reproducing Conventional Socioeconomic Relations? Introducing a Regulationist Framework for the Assessment of Fairtrade pp. 206-218

Juan Ignacio Staricco

Oil Palm Adoption, Household Welfare, and Nutrition Among Smallholder Farmers in Indonesia pp. 219-235

Michael Euler, Vijesh Krishna, Stefan Schwarze, Hermanto Siregar and Matin Qaim

Fiscal Federalism at Work? Central Responses to Internal Migration in India pp. 236-248

Rikhil Bhavnani and Bethany Lacina

Improving Population and Poverty Estimates with Citizen Surveys: Evidence from East Africa pp. 249-259

Roy Carr-Hill

Mind the Gap: Analyzing the Impact of Data Gap in Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) Indicators on the Progress toward MDGs pp. 260-278

Arun Jacob

What Drives China’s New Agricultural Subsidies? pp. 279-292

Rigoberto Lopez, Xi He and Eleonora De Falcis

The Importance of Manufacturing in Economic Development: Has This Changed? pp. 293-315

Nobuya Haraguchi, Charles Fang Chin Cheng and Eveline Smeets

Unconditional Cash Transfers in China: Who Benefits from the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Dibao) Program? pp. 316-336

Jennifer Golan, Terry Sicular and Nithin Umapathi

Property Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis Revisited pp. 337-349

Thomas Sikor, Jun He and Guillaume Lestrelin

Social Capital and Its Contingent Value in Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Western China pp. 350-361

Yanlong Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhou and Wei Lei

Borrowing Money, Exchanging Relationships: Making Microfinance Fit into Local Lives in Kumaon, India pp. 362-373

Rachael Goodman

Biopolitics Gone to Shit? State Narratives versus Everyday Realities of Water and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta pp. 374-388

Panagiota Kotsila and V. Subramanian Saravanan

Participatory Uses of Geospatial Technologies to Leverage Multiple Knowledge Systems within Development Contexts: A Case Study from the Peruvian Amazon pp. 389-401

Jason Young and Michael Gilmore

Who are the World’s Food Insecure? New Evidence from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Insecurity Experience Scale pp. 402-412

Michael D. Smith, Matthew Rabbitt and Alisha Coleman- Jensen

Escaping and Falling into Poverty in India Today pp. 413-426

Amit Thorat, Reeve Vanneman, Sonalde Desai and Amaresh Dubey

The Impact of Payments for Environmental Services on Communal Lands: An Analysis of the Factors Driving Household Land-Use Behavior in Ecuador pp. 427-446

Tanya Hayes, Felipe Murtinho and Hendrik Wolff

When Does Economic Growth Improve Life Satisfaction? Multilevel Analysis of the Roles of Social Trust and Income Inequality in 46 Countries, 1981–2012 pp. 447-459

Malgorzata Mikucka, Francesco Sarracino and Joshua K. Dubrow

Volume 92, issue C, 2017

The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush pp. 1-12

Dell’Angelo, Jampel, D’Odorico, Paolo, Maria Cristina Rulli and Philippe Marchand

Why Have Improved Cook-Stove Initiatives in India Failed? pp. 13-27

Meena Khandelwal, Matthew E. Hill, Paul Greenough, Jerry Anthony, Misha Quill, Marc Linderman and H.S. Udaykumar

Citizens’ Preferences and the Portfolio of Public Goods: Evidence from Nigeria pp. 28-39

Jonas B. Bunte and Alisha A. Kim

Temporary Jobs, Institutions, and Wage Inequality within Education Groups in Central-Eastern Europe pp. 40-59

Cristiano Perugini and Fabrizio Pompei

What Constrains Financial Inclusion for Women? Evidence from Indian Micro data pp. 60-81

Saibal Ghosh and D. Vinod

What has Driven Deforestation in Developing Countries Since the 2000s? Evidence from New Remote-Sensing Data pp. 82-102

Antoine Leblois, Olivier Damette and Julien Wolfersberger

Learning from Success: How Rwanda Achieved the Millennium Development Goals for Health pp. 103-116

Pamela Abbott, Roger Sapsford and Agnes Binagwaho

Farm Decision Making and Gender: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador pp. 117-129

Jeffrey Alwang, Catherine Larochelle and Victor Barrera

Can Rights of Nature Make Development More Sustainable? Why Some Ecuadorian lawsuits Succeed and Others Fail pp. 130-142

Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin

Missing(ness) in Action: Selectivity Bias in GPS-Based Land Area Measurements pp. 143-157

Talip Kilic, Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto and Sara Savastano

Coffee Certification and Forest Quality: Evidence from a Wild Coffee Forest in Ethiopia pp. 158-166

Ryo Takahashi and Yasuyuki Todo

The Legal Environment and Incentives for Change in Property Rights Institutions pp. 167-176

Natasha Hamilton-Hart

How Does Gender Affect Sustainable Intensification of Cereal Production in the West African Sahel? Evidence from Burkina Faso pp. 177-191

Véronique Thériault, Melinda Smale and Hamza Haider

The Role of Microfinance in Household Livelihood Adaptation in Satkhira District, Southwest Bangladesh pp. 192-202

Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola and Anne Tallontire

Local Politics of Forest Governance: Why NGO Support Can Reduce Local Government Responsiveness pp. 203-214

Nathan J. Cook, Glenn D. Wright and Krister P. Andersson

The World Bank Improving Environmental and Natural Resource Policies: Power, Deregulation, and Privatization in (Post-Soviet) Armenia pp. 215-224

Sarah L. Burns, Max Krott, Hovik Sayadyan and Lukas Giessen

Water Governance—An Historical Perspective on Current Debates pp. 225-241

P. Woodhouse and M. Muller

The Rush for Land in an Urbanizing World: From Land Grabbing Toward Developing Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities and Landscapes pp. 242-252

Annelies Zoomers, Femke van Noorloos, Kei Otsuki, Griet Steel and Guus van Westen

Volume 91, issue C, 2017

The Impact of Growth in Small Commercial Farm Productivity on Rural Poverty Reduction pp. 1-10

John W. Mellor and Sohail J. Malik

How Large Are Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies? pp. 11-27

David Coady, Ian Parry, Louis Sears and Baoping Shang

Community-Driven Development and Social Capital: Evidence from Morocco pp. 28-52

Tu Chi Nguyen and Matthias Rieger

Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not the Producers of Certified Products pp. 53-69

Elizabeth A. Bennett

The Importance of Interplay Between Leadership and Social Capital in Shaping Outcomes of Rights-Based Fisheries Governance pp. 70-83

Beatrice Crona, Stefan Gelcich and Örjan Bodin

Spice Price Spikes: Simulating Impacts of Saffron Price Volatility in a Gendered Local Economy-Wide Model pp. 84-99

Mateusz Filipski, Abdellah Aboudrare, Travis Lybbert and J. Edward Taylor

Reclaiming the Authority to Plan: How the Legacy of Structural Adjustment Affected Bolivia’s Effort to Recentralize Nutrition Planning pp. 100-112

Lesli Hoey

Implications of Non-Farm Work to Vulnerability to Food Poverty-Recent Evidence From Northern Ghana pp. 113-124

Yacob A. Zereyesus, Weldensie T. Embaye, Francis Tsiboe and Vincent Amanor-Boadu

Evaluating the Performance of Alternative Municipal Water Tariff Designs: Quantifying the Tradeoffs between Equity, Economic Efficiency, and Cost Recovery pp. 125-143

Celine Nauges and Dale Whittington

The Consequences of Child Market Work on the Growth of Human Capital pp. 144-155

Armand Sim, Daniel Suryadarma and Asep Suryahadi

Rainfall Shocks and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Indian Agriculture pp. 156-172

Kanika Mahajan

Intergenerational Education Effects of Early Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 173-192

Marcos Delprato, Kwame Akyeampong and Máiréad Dunne

Food Riots and Protest: Agrarian Modernizations and Structural Crises pp. 193-207

Ray Bush and Giuliano Martiniello