World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 90, issue C, 2017

Reforming Performance-Based Aid Allocation Practice pp. 1-5

Mark McGillivray and Thi Kim Cuong Pham

Does Aid Availability Affect Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty? A Review Article pp. 6-16

François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Performance Assessment, Vulnerability, Human Capital, and the Allocation of Aid Among Developing Countries pp. 17-26

Patrick Guillaumont, Mark McGillivray and Laurent Wagner

How to Take into Account Vulnerability in Aid Allocation Criteria and Lack of Human Capital as Well: Improving the Performance Based Allocation pp. 27-40

Patrick Guillaumont, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney and Laurent Wagner

Women, Weather, and Woes: The Triangular Dynamics of Female-Headed Households, Economic Vulnerability, and Climate Variability in South Africa pp. 41-62

Martin Flatø, Raya Muttarak and André Pelser

Positioning Missionaries in Development Studies, Policy, and Practice pp. 63-76

Jonathan D. Smith

Can Agricultural Traders be Trusted? Evidence from Coffee in Ethiopia pp. 77-88

Bart Minten, Thomas Assefa and Kalle Hirvonen

Taxing the unobservable: The impact of the shadow economy on inflation and taxation pp. 89-103

Ummad Mazhar and Pierre-Guillaume Méon

The Impact of Foreign Aid Allocation on Access to Social Services in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Water and Sanitation pp. 104-114

Léonce Ndikumana and Lynda Pickbourn

How Does Corruption Affect Public Debt? An Empirical Analysis pp. 115-127

Arusha Cooray, Ratbek Dzhumashev and Friedrich Schneider

How the New International Goal for Child Mortality is Unfair to Sub-Saharan Africa (Again) pp. 128-146

Simon Lange and Stephan Klasen

Looking at Pro-Poor Growth from an Agricultural Perspective pp. 147-168

Stephan Klasen and Malte Reimers

Husband and Wife Perspectives on Farm Household Decision-making Authority and Evidence on Intra-household Accord in Rural Tanzania pp. 169-183

C. Leigh Anderson, Travis W. Reynolds and Mary Kay Gugerty

Water, Law, and Development in Chile/California Cooperation, 1960–70s pp. 184-198

Carl Bauer and Luis Catalán

Imagined Statehood: Wartime Rebel Governance and Post-war Subnational Identity in Sri Lanka pp. 199-212

Yuichi Kubota

Unpacking the Effect of Decentralized Governance on Routine Violence: Lessons from Indonesia pp. 213-228

Jan H. Pierskalla and Audrey Sacks

Market Access, Well-being, and Nutrition: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 229-241

David Stifel and Bart Minten

Did FDI Really Cause Chinese Economic Growth? A Meta-Analysis pp. 242-255

Philip Gunby, Yinghua Jin and W. Reed

Colonial Revenue Extraction and Modern Day Government Quality in the British Empire pp. 269-280

Rasmus Broms

New Estimates on Educational Attainment Using a Continuous Approach (1970–2010) pp. 281-293

Vanesa Jordá and José M. Alonso

Large-Scale Agricultural Investments and Smallholder Welfare: A Comparison of Wage Labor and Outgrower Channels in Tanzania pp. 294-310

Raoul T. Herrmann

Female-Headed Households and Living Conditions in Latin America pp. 311-328

Chia Liu, Albert Esteve and Rocío Treviño

Explaining Aid Project and Program Success: Findings from Asian Development Bank Interventions pp. 329-343

Simon Feeny and Vu Vuong

The Unintended Long-Term Consequences of Mao’s Mass Send-Down Movement: Marriage, Social Network, and Happiness pp. 344-359

Shun Wang and Weina Zhou

Estimating the Causal Effect of Fertility on Women’s Employment in Africa Using Twins pp. 360-368

Eelke de Jong, Jeroen Smits and Abiba Longwe

Volume 89, issue C, 2017

The Shanghai Effect: Do Exports to China Affect Labor Practices in Africa? pp. 1-18

Christopher Adolph, Vanessa Quince and Aseem Prakash

From NGOs to Banks: Does Institutional Transformation Alter the Business Model of Microfinance Institutions? pp. 19-33

D’Espallier, Bert, Jann Goedecke, Marek Hudon and Roy Mersland

Regional Labor Market Integration, Shadow Wages and Poverty in Vietnam pp. 34-56

Le Dang Trung and Remco Oostendorp

Long-Run Commodity Prices, Economic Growth, and Interest Rates: 17th Century to the Present Day pp. 57-70

David Harvey, Neil Kellard, Jakob Madsen and Mark Wohar

Infant Health during the 1980s Peruvian Crisis and Long-term Economic Outcomes pp. 71-87

Federico H. Gutierrez

Does Large-Scale Infrastructure Investment Alleviate Poverty? Impacts of Rwanda’s Electricity Access Roll-Out Program pp. 88-110

Luciane Lenz, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert

Measuring Segregation of the Poor: Evidence from India pp. 111-123

Shatakshee Dhongde

Promising Change, Delivering Continuity: REDD+ as Conservation Fad pp. 124-139

Jens Lund, Eliezeri Sungusia, Mathew Bukhi Mabele and Andreas Scheba

Estimating the Long-Term Impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959–61) on Modern China pp. 140-151

Elizabeth Gooch

Gender and Policy Roles in Farm Household Diversification in Zambia pp. 152-169

Mariana Saenz and Eric Thompson

Contradictory Land Use Plans and Policies in Laos: Tenure Security and the Threat of Exclusion pp. 170-183

Rikke Brandt Broegaard, Thoumthone Vongvisouk and Ole Mertz

Tenure Security Premium in Informal Housing Markets: A Spatial Hedonic Analysis pp. 184-198

Shohei Nakamura

Determinants of Farmers’ Land Use Decision-Making: Comparative Evidence From Thailand and Vietnam pp. 199-213

Trung Thanh Nguyen, Loc Duc Nguyen, Rattiya Suddeephong Lippe and Ulrike Grote

To Specialize or Diversify: Agricultural Diversity and Poverty Dynamics in Ethiopia pp. 214-226

Jeffrey Michler and Anna Josephson

Migration, Diversity, and Economic Growth pp. 227-239

Vincenzo Bove and Leandro Elia

Volume 88, issue C, 2016

Institutions, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Investment: Crowding Out or Crowding In? pp. 1-9

Kristine Farla, Denis de Crombrugghe and Bart Verspagen

Response to ‘Institutions, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Investment: Crowding Out or Crowding In?’ pp. 10-11

Oliver Morrissey and Manop Udomkerdmongkol

Can Multinational Enterprises Light up Developing Countries? pp. 12-32

D’Amelio, Matilde, Paola Garrone and Lucia Piscitello

Assessing Gender Inequality in Food Security among Small-holder Farm Households in urban and rural South Africa pp. 33-49

Byela Tibesigwa and Martine Visser

The Good Life, Affluence, and Self-reported Happiness: Introducing the Good Life Index and Debunking Two Popular Myths pp. 50-66

Jan Delhey and Leonie C. Steckermeier

Where do Property Rights Matter More? Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles across Cities in Mexico pp. 67-78

Paavo Monkkonen

The Effects of Migration on Collective Action in the Commons: Evidence from Rural China pp. 79-93

Yahua Wang, Chunliang Chen and Eduardo Araral

Political Determinants of State Capacity in Latin America pp. 94-106

Davide Grassi and Vincenzo Memoli

Television is More Effective in Bringing Behavioral Change: Evidence from Heat-Wave Awareness Campaign in India pp. 107-121

Saudamini Das

The Less Extreme, the More You Leave: Radical Islam and Willingness to Migrate pp. 122-133

Chiara Falco and Valentina Rotondi

Natural Resources and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis pp. 134-151

Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath and Ayaz Zeynalov

Achieving Sustainability and Development through Collective Action? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of the Bore Pool Sharing Program on Farm Incomes and Crop Choices pp. 152-174

Deepa Pradhan and Ram Ranjan

Does Gender Equality Promote Social Trust? An Empirical Analysis pp. 175-187

Seo-Young Cho

“As a Husband I Will Love, Lead, and Provide.” Gendered Access to Land in Ghana pp. 188-200

Isabel Lambrecht