World Development

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Volume 78, issue C, 2016

Oil and Civil Conflict: Can Public Spending Have a Mitigation Effect? pp. 1-12

Cristina Bodea, Masaaki Higashijima and Raju Singh

Potential Links Between Certified Organic Coffee and Deforestation in a Protected Area in Chiapas, Mexico pp. 13-21

Matthew Jurjonas, Katie Crossman, Jennifer Solomon and Walter Lopez Baez

Mining away the Preston curve pp. 22-36

Ryan Edwards

Too Certain to Invest? Public Safety Nets and Insurance Markets in Ethiopia pp. 37-51

Maya Joan Duru

Institutional Change in Value Chains: Evidence from Tea in Nepal pp. 52-65

Sarah Mohan

To Lobby or to Partner? Investigating the Shifting Political Strategies of Biopharmaceutical Industry Associations in Innovation Systems of South Africa and India pp. 66-79

Theo Papaioannou, Andrew Watkins, Julius Mugwagwa and Dinar Kale

Natural Resource Use, Incomes, and Poverty Along the Rural–Urban Continuum of Two Medium-Sized, South African Towns pp. 80-93

Catherine D. Ward and Charlie M. Shackleton

Theorizing the Land–Violent Conflict Nexus pp. 94-104

Mathijs Van Leeuwen and Gemma Van Der Haar

Does Community-Driven Development Improve Inclusiveness in Peasant Organizations? – Evidence from Senegal pp. 105-124

Jean-Louis Arcand and Natascha Wagner

Oil Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon pp. 125-135

Matthew Bozigar, Clark L. Gray and Richard E. Bilsborrow

Re-Thinking the Child Labor “Problem” in Rural sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Sierra Leone’s Half Shovels pp. 136-147

Roy Maconachie and Gavin Hilson

“Fire in Cairo”: Authoritarian–Redistributive Social Contracts, Structural Change, and the Arab Spring pp. 148-171

Eric Rougier

Barriers to Prosperity: Parasitic and Infectious Diseases, IQ, and Economic Development pp. 172-187

Jakob Madsen

Understanding the Evidence Base for Poverty–Environment Relationships using Remotely Sensed Satellite Data: An Example from Assam, India pp. 188-203

Gary R. Watmough, Peter M. Atkinson, Arupjyoti Saikia and Craig W. Hutton

Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders pp. 204-218

Neil Dawson, Adrian Martin and Thomas Sikor

Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Soil Conservation. Evidence from Malawi pp. 219-229

Stefania Lovo

Aid, Infrastructure, and FDI: Assessing the Transmission Channel with a New Index of Infrastructure pp. 230-245

Julian Donaubauer, Birgit Meyer and Peter Nunnenkamp

Ecosystem Services and REDD: Estimating the Benefits of Non-Carbon Services in Worldwide Forests pp. 246-261

Elena Ojea, Maria Loureiro, Maria Alló and Melina Barrio

Their Suffering, Our Burden? How Congolese Refugees Affect the Ugandan Population pp. 262-287

Merle Kreibaum

Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon pp. 288-307

Juan Jose Miranda, Leonardo Corral, Allen Blackman, Gregory Asner and Eirivelthon Lima

Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in Zambia: Evidence of a Subnational “Diversity Dividend” pp. 308-323

Rachel Gisselquist, Stefan Leiderer and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia pp. 324-340

Kazushi Takahashi, Munenobu Ikegami, Megan Sheahan and Christopher Barrett

Effects of FDI Flows on Institutional Development: Does It Matter Where the Investors are from? pp. 341-359

Firat Demir

Does Women’s Land Ownership Promote Their Empowerment? Empirical Evidence from Nepal pp. 360-371

Khushbu Mishra and Abdoul G. Sam

The Missing Link Between Parents’ Preferences and Daughters’ Survival: The Moderator Effect of Societal Discrimination pp. 372-385

Rebeca Echávarri and Javier Husillos

A Meta-Analytic Reassessment of the Effects of Inequality on Growth pp. 386-400

Pedro Cunha Neves, Oscar Afonso and Sandra Tavares Silva

The Determinants of Social Conflict in the Latin American Mining Sector: New Evidence with Quantitative Data pp. 401-419

Paul Alexander Haslam and Nasser Ary Tanimoune

Marginality as a Root Cause of Poverty: Identifying Marginality Hotspots in Ethiopia pp. 420-435

Christine Husmann

Do Female Instructors Reduce Gender Bias in Diffusion of Sustainable Land Management Techniques? Experimental Evidence From Mozambique pp. 436-449

Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller, Glenn Sheriff and Siyao Zhu

The Failures of Privatization: A Comparative Investigation of Tuberculosis Rates and the Structure of Healthcare in Less-Developed Nations, 1995–2010 pp. 450-460

Kelly F. Austin, Cristina DeScisciolo and Lene Samuelsen

Informality, property rights, and poverty in China’s “favelas” pp. 461-476

Chris Webster, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang and Chinmoy Sarkar

Votes and Regional Economic Growth: Evidence from Turkey pp. 477-495

Davide Luca

Preschool Education in Brazil: Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment? pp. 496-510

Paulo Bastos and Odd Rune Straume

Catalyzing Aid? The IMF and Donor Behavior in Aid Allocation pp. 511-528

Thomas H. Stubbs, Alexander E. Kentikelenis and Lawrence P. King

Defining a Global Urban Development Agenda pp. 529-540

Susan Parnell

Transient Poverty, Poverty Dynamics, and Vulnerability to Poverty: An Empirical Analysis Using a Balanced Panel from Rural China pp. 541-553

Patrick Ward

What We Miss By Missing Data: Aid Effectiveness Revisited pp. 554-571

Anja Breitwieser and Katharina Wick

Networks of Rural Producer Organizations in Uganda: What Can be Done to Make Them Work Better? pp. 572-586

Evgeny Latynskiy and Thomas Berger

Has the Internet Fostered Inclusive Innovation in the Developing World? pp. 587-609

Caroline Paunov and Valentina Rollo

Volume 77, issue C, 2016

The Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rural China pp. 1-16

Yu Qin and Xiaobo Zhang

How Does the Choice of the Gender Indicator Affect the Analysis of Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity? Evidence from Uganda pp. 17-33

Ana Paula de la O Campos, Katia Covarrubias and Alberto Prieto Patron

Building Participatory Organizations for Common Pool Resource Management: Water User Group Promotion in Indonesia pp. 34-47

Jacob I. Ricks

Environmental and Social Impacts of Hydroelectric Dams in Brazilian Amazonia: Implications for the Aluminum Industry pp. 48-65

Philip Fearnside

Public Opinion and Foreign Aid Cuts in Economic Crises pp. 66-79

Tobias Heinrich, Yoshiharu Kobayashi and Kristin A. Bryant

Remittances and the Use of Formal and Informal Financial Services pp. 80-98

Christian Ambrosius and Alfredo Cuecuecha

Milk in the Data: Food Security Impacts from a Livestock Field Experiment in Zambia pp. 99-114

Margaret Jodlowski, Alex Winter-Nelson, Kathy Baylis and Peter D. Goldsmith

Estimating Price Discounts for Low-Quality Maize in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Benin pp. 115-128

Didier Kadjo, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert and Corinne Alexander

Trade, Institution Quality and Income Inequality pp. 129-142

Faqin Lin and Dahai Fu

Rules and Exceptions: Regulatory Challenges to Private Tree Felling in Northern India pp. 143-153

Pushpendra Rana and Ashwini Chhatre

Authoritarian Survival and Poverty Traps: Land Reform in Mexico pp. 154-170

Michael Albertus, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Beatriz Magaloni and Barry Weingast

Declining Nutrient Intake in a Growing China: Does Household Heterogeneity Matter? pp. 171-191

Jing You, Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

Is Co-Invention Expediting Technological Catch Up? A Study of Collaboration between Emerging Country Firms and EU Inventors pp. 192-205

Elisa Giuliani, Arianna Martinelli and Roberta Rabellotti

Organic Agriculture and Fair Trade: A Happy Marriage? A Case Study of Certified Smallholder Black Pepper Farmers in India pp. 206-220

Priyanka Parvathi and Hermann Waibel

The Welfare Effects of Trade in Phytomedicines: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Turmeric Production pp. 221-230

Anthony Booker, Deborah Johnston and Michael Heinrich

Micro-Incentives and Municipal Behavior: Political Decentralization and Fiscal Federalism in Argentina and Mexico pp. 231-248

Heidi Smith and Keith D. Revell

The Politics of Indigenous Participation Through “Free Prior Informed Consent”: Reflections from the Bolivian Case pp. 249-261

Lorenza B. Fontana and Jean Grugel

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Development: Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts pp. 262-276

David Evans and Anna Popova

The Ambivalent Impact of Coffee Certification on Farmers’ Welfare: A Matched Panel Approach for Cooperatives in Central Kenya pp. 277-292

Bart van Rijsbergen, Willem Elbers, Ruerd Ruben and Samuel N. Njuguna

Establishing Local Government in Fragile States: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan pp. 293-310

Torsten Jochem, Ilia Murtazashvili and Jennifer Murtazashvili

Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates pp. 311-327

Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita Almeida, Rebekka Grun and Mahdi Barouni

How Investor Portfolios Shape Regulatory Outcomes: Privatized Infrastructure After Crises pp. 328-345

Alison E. Post and María Victoria Murillo

A CGE Analysis of the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment and Tariff Reform on Female and Male Workers in Tanzania pp. 346-366

María Latorre

Beyond Property: Co-Management and Pastoral Resource Access in Mongolia pp. 367-379

Sandagsuren Undargaa and John F. McCarthy

Does Microcredit Increase Household Welfare in the Absence of Microinsurance? pp. 380-394

Joseph Oscar Akotey and Charles Adjasi

Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Paraguay pp. 395-407

Emmanuelle Auriol, Stephane Straub and Thomas Flochel