World Development

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Volume 87, issue C, 2016

The State of Family Farms in the World pp. 1-15

Benjamin E. Graeub, M. Jahi Chappell, Hannah Wittman, Samuel Ledermann, Rachel Bezner Kerr and Barbara Gemmill-Herren

The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide pp. 16-29

Sarah K. Lowder, Jakob Skoet and Terri Raney

The Economic Impact of Short-term IMF Engagement in Low-Income Countries pp. 30-49

Yasemin Bal Gündüz

Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India pp. 50-69

Elizabeth Kaletski and Nishith Prakash

Women’s Empowerment Across the Life Cycle and Generations: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 70-87

Florence Arestoff and Elodie Djemai

The Aftermath of Financial Crises: A Look on Human and Social Wellbeing pp. 88-106

Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou

Institutional Adaptability in China: Local Developmental Models Under Changing Economic Conditions pp. 107-127

Xiaoxiao Shen and Kellee S. Tsai

Using Linguistic Networks to Explain Strength of Intellectual Property Rights pp. 128-138

Thomas Cook and Amy H. Liu

Sustainable Intensification and Farmer Preferences for Crop System Attributes: Evidence from Malawi’s Central and Southern Regions pp. 139-151

David Ortega, Kurt B. Waldman, Robert B. Richardson, Daniel C. Clay and Sieglinde Snapp

Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Uganda pp. 152-170

Daniel Ali, Derick Bowen, Klaus Deininger and Marguerite Duponchel

The Application of Traditional Dispute Resolution in Land Administration in Lay Armachiho Woreda (District), Northern Ethiopia pp. 171-179

Getachew Mequanent

Low Emission Development Strategies in Agriculture. An Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) Perspective pp. 180-203

Alessandro (Alex) De Pinto, Man Li, Akiko Haruna, Glenn Graham Hyman, Mario Andrés Londoño Martinez, Gregorio Creamer, Ho-Young Kwon, Jhon Brayan Valencia Garcia, Jeimar Tapasco and Jesus David Martinez

Poverty Alleviation in Federal Systems: The Case of México pp. 204-214

Fausto Hernandez-Trillo

The Political Effects of Agricultural Subsidies in Africa: Evidence from Malawi pp. 215-226

Kim Yi Dionne and Jeremy Horowitz

Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Land-based Investment: The Case of Mozambique pp. 227-241

Klaus Deininger and Fang Xia

Improving Adult Literacy Without Improving The Literacy of Adults? A Cross-National Cohort Analysis pp. 242-257

Bilal Barakat

Rethinking Land Endowment and Inequality in Rural Africa: The Importance of Soil Fertility pp. 258-273

Matthew D. Turner

Delocalizing Communities: Changing Forms of Community Engagement in Natural Resources Governance pp. 274-290

Hemant R. Ojha, Rebecca Ford, Rodney J. Keenan, Digby Race, Dora Carias Vega, Himlal Baral and Prativa Sapkota

Beyond “Good Governance”: The Multi-level Politics of Health Insurance for the Poor in Indonesia pp. 291-306

Diego Fossati

Learning from Sustained Success: How Community-Driven Initiatives to Improve Urban Sanitation Can Meet the Challenges pp. 307-317

Gordon McGranahan and Diana Mitlin

Legacies of Inequity: How Hometown Political Participation and Land Distribution Shape Migrants’ Paths into Wage Labor pp. 318-332

Abigail L. Andrews

Re-assessing the Impact of the Grandparent’s Income on the Infant Mortality Rate: An Evaluation of the Old Age Allowance Program in Nepal pp. 333-348

Yunrong Li and Ricardo Mora Villarrubia

Multilevel Geographies of Poverty in India pp. 349-359

Rockli Kim, Sanjay K. Mohanty and S.V. Subramanian

The Role of Socio-political and Economic Factors in Fertility Decline: A Cross-country Analysis pp. 360-370

Qingfeng Wang and Xu Sun

Internal Borders: Ethnic-Based Market Segmentation in Malawi pp. 371-384

Amanda Lea Robinson

The short-term impacts of development-induced displacement on wealth and subjective well-being in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 385-400

Heather Randell

Volume 86, issue C, 2016

Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar pp. 1-17

Christophe Nordman, Faly Rakotomanana and François Roubaud

Does Freer Trade Really Lead to Productivity Growth? Evidence from Africa pp. 18-29

Lauren Bresnahan, Ian Coxhead, Jeremy Foltz and Tewodaj Mogues

Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture pp. 30-45

Xiaobing Wang, Futoshi Yamauchi, Keijiro Otsuka and Jikun Huang

Cultures of Entitlement and Social Protection: Evidence from Flood Prone Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, India pp. 46-58

Supriya Akerkar, P.C. Joshi and Maureen Fordham

Extreme Weather Events and Child Height: Evidence from Mongolia pp. 59-78

Valeria Groppo and Kati Kraehnert

Transnational Markets for Sustainable Development Governance: The Case of REDD+ pp. 79-94

Caleb Gallemore and Kristjan Jespersen

Why Might Information Exacerbate the Gender Gap in Civic Participation? Evidence from Mali pp. 95-110

Jessica Gottlieb

Beyond Participation and Accountability: Theorizing Representation in Local Democracy pp. 111-122

Harry W. Fischer

Shifting Discourses of Vilification and the Taming of Unruly Mining Landscapes in Ghana pp. 123-132

Petra Tschakert

The Mobile Phone in the Diffusion of Knowledge for Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 133-147

Simplice Asongu and Jacinta Nwachukwu

Volume 85, issue C, 2016

Human-Scale Economics: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Northeastern Thailand pp. 1-15

Joel D. Moore and John A. Donaldson

Men with Money and the “Vulnerable Women” Client Category in an AIDS Epidemic pp. 16-30

Michelle Poulin, Kathryn Dovel and Susan Cotts Watkins

Political Instability and the Informal Economy pp. 31-42

Nasr Elbahnasawy, Michael Ellis and Assandé Désiré Adom

Who Adopts LPG as the Main Cooking Fuel and Why? Empirical Evidence on Ghana Based on National Survey pp. 43-57

Amin Karimu, Justice Tei Mensah and George Adu

Beyond “Landscape” in REDD+: The Imperative for “Territory” pp. 58-72

Michael K. McCall

Corruption and Violations of Conservation Rules: A Survey Experiment with Resource Users pp. 73-83

Aksel Sundström

Has Foreign Aid Been Effective in the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector? Evidence from Panel Data pp. 84-104

Sasidaran Gopalan and Ramkishen Rajan

Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrollment in India pp. 105-125

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma

Volume 84, issue C, 2016

Defying NGO-ization?: Lessons in Livelihood Resilience Observed Among Involuntarily Displaced Women in Mumbai, India pp. 1-17

Ramya Ramanath

Can Informal Firms Hurt Registered SMEs’ Access to Credit? pp. 18-40

Isabelle Distinguin, Clovis Rugemintwari and Ruth Tacneng

After the Deluge: A longitudinal study of resettlement at the Three Gorges Dam, China pp. 41-54

Brooke Wilmsen

Migration and Self-Protection Against Climate Change: A Case Study of Samburu County, Kenya pp. 55-68

Ng’ang’a, Stanley Karanja, Erwin Bulte, Ken E. Giller, John M. McIntire and Mariana C. Rufino

The Effects of International Migration on Migrant-Source Households: Evidence from Ethiopian Diversity-Visa Lottery Migrants pp. 69-81

Teferi Mergo

Golden Opportunity, or a New Twist on the Resource–Conflict Relationship: Links Between the Drug Trade and Illegal Gold Mining in Colombia pp. 82-96

Angelika Rettberg and Juan Felipe Ortiz-Riomalo

Interest Organizations and Distributive Politics: Small-Business Subsidies in Mexico pp. 97-117

Brian Palmer-Rubin

Aid, Growth, and Devolution: Considering Aid Modality and Different Types of Decentralization pp. 118-130

Christian Lessmann and Gunther Markwardt

The Cultural Transmission of Environmental Values: A Comparative Approach pp. 131-148

Anastasia Litina, Simone Moriconi and Skerdilajda Zanaj

Water Meters and Monthly Bills Meet Rural Brazilian Communities: Sociological Perspectives on Technical Objects for Water Management pp. 149-161

Colin Andrew Brown and João Luiz Pena

Advocating for Change? How a Civil Society-led Coalition Influences the Implementation of the Forest Rights Act in India pp. 162-175

Clare Barnes, Frank van Laerhoven and Peter P.J. Driessen

The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand pp. 176-189

Bent Flyvbjerg

Government Spending, Corruption and Economic Growth pp. 190-205

d’Agostino, Giorgio, John Dunne and Luca Pieroni

Aid for Trade and Greenfield Investment pp. 206-218

Hyun-Hoon Lee and John Ries

The Local Impact of Mining on Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from the Commodity Boom in Peru pp. 219-234

Norman Loayza and Iamele Rigolini

Rural Finance and Agricultural Technology Adoption in Ethiopia: Does the Institutional Design of Lending Organizations Matter? pp. 235-253

Gashaw Abate, Shahidur Rashid, Carlo Borzaga and Kindie Getnet

Carbon Pricing Revenues Could Close Infrastructure Access Gaps pp. 254-265

Michael Jakob, Claudine Chen, Sabine Fuss, Annika Marxen, Narasimha D. Rao and Ottmar Edenhofer

Rational Herding toward the Poor: Evidence from Location Decisions of Microfinance Institutions within Pakistan pp. 266-281

Jérôme Monne, Céline Louche and Christophe Villa

Collective Action in Decentralized Irrigation Systems: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 282-298

Aatika Nagrah, Anita M. Chaudhry and Mark Giordano

Hands Off My Regime! Governments’ Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Non-Governmental Organizations in Poor and Middle-Income Countries pp. 299-311

Kendra Dupuy, James Ron and Aseem Prakash

Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan pp. 312-325

Colin Williams, Muhammad S. Shahid and Alvaro Martínez

Do Informal Businesses Gain From Registration and How? Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam pp. 326-341

Axel Demenet, Mireille Razafindrakoto and François Roubaud

Analyzing the Determinants of the Shadow Economy With a “Separate Approach”. An Application of the Relationship Between Inequality and the Shadow Economy pp. 342-356

Dell’Anno, Roberto