World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 83, issue C, 2016

The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Income Inequality of Target States pp. 1-11

Sylvanus Afesorgbor and Renuka Mahadevan

Moral Economy Meets Social Enterprise Community-Based Green Energy Project in Rural Burundi pp. 12-26

Katarzyna Cieslik

Genetically Modified Maize: Less Drudgery for Her, More Maize for Him? Evidence from Smallholder Maize Farmers in South Africa pp. 27-38

Marnus Gouse, Debdatta Sengupta, Patricia Zambrano and José Falck Zepeda

Unwrapping Institutional Change in Fragile Settings: Women Entrepreneurs Driving Institutional Pathways in Afghanistan pp. 39-53

Holly A. Ritchie

Government Impartiality and Sustained Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 54-69

Pelle Ahlerup, Thushyanthan Baskaran and Arne Bigsten

Impact of an Agricultural Value Chain Project on Smallholder Farmers, Households, and Children in Liberia pp. 70-83

Diana Duff Rutherford, Holly M. Burke, Kelly K. Cheung and Samuel H. Field

Sugarcane Outgrowers in Ethiopia: “Forced” to Remain Poor? pp. 84-97

Mengistu Assefa Wendimu, Arne Henningsen and Peter Gibbon

Shared Mandates, Moral Hazard, and Political (Mis)alignment in a Decentralized Economy pp. 98-110

Antonio Estache, Grégoire Garsous and Ronaldo Seroa da Motta

Intrahousehold Inequalities in Child Rights and Well-Being. A Barrier to Progress? pp. 111-134

Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi

A Blessing in Disguise? Banking Crises and Institutional Change pp. 135-147

Fredrik Andersson

Does Migration Support Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries? pp. 148-162

Michael Hübler

Can Peers Improve Agricultural Revenue? pp. 163-178

Tisorn Songsermsawas, Kathy Baylis, Ashwini Chhatre and Hope Michelson

Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) pp. 179-192

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Götz Walter, Thijs Van de Graaf and Nathan Andrews

Bilateral Investment Treaties and FDI: Does the Sector Matter? pp. 193-206

Liesbeth Colen, Damiaan Persyn and Andrea Guariso

Agrarian Structures, Urbanization, and Inequality pp. 207-230

Cem Oyvat

Livelihood Diversification in Rural Laos pp. 231-243

Sarah M. Martin and Kai Lorenzen

Reaching the Poor: Cash Transfer Program Targeting in Cameroon pp. 244-263

Quentin Stoeffler, Bradford Mills and Carlo del Ninno

Comparison of Private Incentive Mechanisms for Improving Sustainability of Filipino Tuna Fisheries pp. 264-279

Frazen Tolentino-Zondervan, Paul Berentsen, Simon Bush, Joseph Idemne, Ricardo Babaran and Alfons Oude Lansink

Civil Society and Gender Mainstreaming: Empirical Evidence and Theory-Building from Twelve Post-Conflict Countries 2005–15 pp. 280-294

Paul Chaney

Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development: Lessons from Eight Projects pp. 295-311

Nancy L. Johnson, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jemimah Njuki and Agnes Quisumbing

The Role of Risk Perception in Child Mobility Decisions in West Africa, Empirical Evidence From Benin pp. 312-324

Anne Kielland

African Mining, Gender, and Local Employment pp. 325-339

Andreas Kotsadam and Anja Tolonen

FDI and Business Internationalization of the Unorganized Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing pp. 340-349

Hamid Beladi, Meghna Dutta and Saibal Kar

Volume 82, issue C, 2016

The Effect of State–Local Complementarity and Local Governance on Development: A Comparative Analysis from Post-War Guatemala pp. 1-13

Matthew T. Klick

Is Eco-Certification a Win–Win for Developing Country Agriculture? Organic Coffee Certification in Colombia pp. 14-27

Marcela Ibanez and Allen Blackman

Export Market Diversification and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Large Developing Country pp. 28-47

Xuefeng Qian and Mahmut Yasar

Rural Electrification and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Nigeria pp. 48-68

Claire Salmon and Jeremy Tanguy

Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia pp. 69-82

Mabel Andalón, João Pedro Azevedo, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Viviane Sanfelice and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez

Interpreting the Evolution of the Energy-Saving Target Allocation System in China (2006–13): A View of Policy Learning pp. 83-94

Xiaofan Zhao and Liang Wu

Economic Growth and the Optimal Level of Entrepreneurship pp. 95-109

James Prieger, Catherine Bampoky, Luisa R. Blanco and Aolong Liu

Volume 81, issue C, 2016

A New Politics of Development Cooperation? Chinese and Brazilian Engagements in African Agriculture pp. 1-12

Ian Scoones, Kojo Amanor, Arilson Favareto and Gubo Qi

South–South Cooperation, Agribusiness, and African Agricultural Development: Brazil and China in Ghana and Mozambique pp. 13-23

Kojo S. Amanor and Sérgio Chichava

Chinese State Capitalism? Rethinking the Role of the State and Business in Chinese Development Cooperation in Africa pp. 24-34

Jing Gu, Chuanhong Zhang, Alcides Vaz and Langton Mukwereza

Imagining Agricultural Development in South–South Cooperation: The Contestation and Transformation of ProSAVANA pp. 35-46

Alex Shankland and Euclides Gonçalves

Brazil’s Agricultural Politics in Africa: More Food International and the Disputed Meanings of “Family Farming” pp. 47-60

Lídia Cabral, Arilson Favareto, Langton Mukwereza and Kojo Amanor

Chinese Migrants in Africa: Facts and Fictions from the Agri-Food Sector in Ethiopia and Ghana pp. 61-70

Seth Cook, Jixia Lu, Henry Tugendhat and Dawit Alemu

Chinese Agricultural Training Courses for African Officials: Between Power and Partnerships pp. 71-81

Henry Tugendhat and Dawit Alemu

Science, Technology, and the Politics of Knowledge: The Case of China’s Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centers in Africa pp. 82-91

Xiuli Xu, Xiaoyun Li, Gubo Qi, Lixia Tang and Langton Mukwereza

Volume 80, issue C, 2016

Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade of Agricultural Products pp. 1-18

Mercedes Campi and Marco Duenas

Repopulating Development: An Agent-Based Approach to Studying Development Interventions pp. 19-32

Erin Beck

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on the Amount and Type of Child Labor pp. 33-47

Ximena Del Carpio, Norman Loayza and Tomoko Wada

Reassessing Tax and Development Research: A New Dataset, New Findings, and Lessons for Research pp. 48-60

Wilson Prichard

Credit for Low-Income Students and Access to and Academic Performance in Higher Education in Colombia: A Regression Discontinuity Approach pp. 61-77

Tatiana Melguizo, Fabio Sanchez Torres and Tatiana Velasco

Constructing a Ladder for Growth: Policy, Markets, and Industrial Upgrading in China pp. 78-95

Loren Brandt and Eric Thun

Rethinking Indonesia’s Informal Sector pp. 96-113

Alexander Rothenberg, Arya Gaduh, Nicholas E. Burger, Charina Chazali, Indrasari Tjandraningsih, Rini Radikun, Cole Sutera and Sarah Weilant

Volume 79, issue C, 2016

Capacity Development Evaluation: The Challenge of the Results Agenda and Measuring Return on Investment in the Global South pp. 1-13

Bertha Vallejo and Uta Wehn

Can Informal Water Vendors Deliver on the Promise of A Human Right to Water? Results From Cochabamba, Bolivia pp. 14-24

Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford and Cinthia Carvajal

The Effect of Population Pressure and Internal Migration on Land Conflicts: Implications for Agricultural Productivity in Uganda pp. 25-39

Francis Mwesigye and Tomoya Matsumoto

Intersections of Gender and Marital Status in Accessing Climate Change Adaptation: Evidence from Rural Tanzania pp. 40-50

Katrien Van Aelst and Nathalie Holvoet

Coups d’État and Foreign Aid pp. 51-68

Takaaki Masaki

A Success of Some Sort: Social Enterprises and Drip Irrigation in the Developing World pp. 69-81

Jean-Philippe Venot

Busting the Boom–Bust Pattern of Development in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 82-96

Jill Caviglia-Harris, Erin Sills, Andrew Bell, Daniel Harris, Katrina Mullan and Dar Roberts

Mining Conflict and the Politics of Obtaining a Social License: Insight from Guatemala pp. 97-113

Jennifer Noel Costanza

The Green Economy and Constructions of the “Idle” and “Unproductive” Uplands in the Philippines pp. 114-126

Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio and Wolfram H. Dressler

Mobile Money, Remittances, and Household Welfare: Panel Evidence from Rural Uganda pp. 127-137

Ggombe Kasim Munyegera and Tomoya Matsumoto

Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China pp. 138-151

Ross Wilson

An Empirical Assessment of the Export—Financial Constraint Relationship: How Different are Small and Medium Enterprises? pp. 152-163

Yothin Jinjarak and Ganeshan Wignaraja

Water User Associations and the Politics of Water in Jordan pp. 164-176

Daanish Mustafa, Amelia Altz-Stamm and Laura Mapstone Scott

Contribution of Fisheries and Aquaculture to Food Security and Poverty Reduction: Assessing the Current Evidence pp. 177-196

Christophe Béné, Robert Arthur, Hannah Norbury, Edward H. Allison, Malcolm Beveridge, Simon Bush, Liam Campling, Will Leschen, David Little, Dale Squires, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Max Troell and Meryl Williams

Environmental Stressors and Migration: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 197-210

Vally Koubi, Gabriele Spilker, Lena Schaffer and Thomas Bernauer