World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 76, issue C, 2015

Financial Crises and Labor: Does Tight Money Loosen Labor Rights? pp. 1-12

Robert G. Blanton, Shannon Lindsey Blanton and Dursun Peksen

Hydropower, Anti-Politics, and the Opening of New Political Spaces in the Eastern Himalayas pp. 13-25

Amelie Huber and Deepa Joshi

Ensuring Sustainable Access to Drinking Water in Sub Saharan Africa: Conflict Between Financial and Social Objectives pp. 26-39

Marta Marson and Ivan Savin

Patriarchal Norms, Religion, and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Turkey pp. 40-61

Yasemin Dildar

Equal Access to Education: An Evaluation of the Roma Teaching Assistant Program in Serbia pp. 62-81

Marianna Battaglia and Lara Lebedinski

The Experience of Survival: Determinants of Export Survival in Lao PDR pp. 82-94

Liviu Stirbat, Richard Record and Konesawang Nghardsaysone

Which Countries’ Citizens Are Better Off With Trade? pp. 95-113

Stephen Kosack and Jennifer L. Tobin

Does Food Aid Disrupt Local Food Market? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia pp. 114-131

Nathalie Ferriere and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

Linking Mitigation and Adaptation in Carbon Forestry Projects: Evidence from Belize pp. 132-146

Rico Kongsager and Esteve Corbera

The Balance of Power in Household Decision-Making: Encouraging News on Gender in Southern Sulawesi pp. 147-164

Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Ramadhani Achdiawan, James M. Roshetko, Elok Mulyoutami, E. Linda Yuliani, Agus Mulyana, Moira Moeliono, Hasantoha Adnan and Erni,

The Effectiveness of Health Expenditure on the Proximate and Ultimate Goals of Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 165-179

John Ssozi and Shirin Amlani

Why Do Some Oil-Producing Countries Succeed in Democracy While Others Fail? pp. 180-189

Luc Omgba

Does Community-Based Rehabilitation Enhance the Multidimensional Well-Being of Deprived Persons With Disabilities? A Multilevel Impact Evaluation pp. 190-202

Vincenzo Mauro, Mario Biggeri and Leonardo Grilli

Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda pp. 203-215

O’Reilly, Colin

Explaining Cross-State Disparities in Child Nutrition in Rural India pp. 216-237

Elisa Cavatorta, Bhavani Shankar and Artemisa Flores-Martinez

Claiming the Streets: Property Rights and Legal Empowerment in the Urban Informal Economy pp. 238-248

Alison Brown

Does the Chinese Diaspora Speed Up Growth in Host Countries? pp. 249-262

Jan Priebe and Robert Rudolf

Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala pp. 263-279

Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig and Hilcías Morán

Equate and Conflate: Political Commitment to Hunger and Undernutrition Reduction in Five High-Burden Countries pp. 280-292

Dolf J.H. te Lintelo and Rajith Lakshman

Export Diversification Effects of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement pp. 293-310

Cosimo Beverelli, Simon Neumueller and Robert Teh

Sources of Income Growth and Inequality Across Ethnic Groups in Malaysia, 1970–2000 pp. 311-328

M. Yusof Saari, Erik Dietzenbacher and Bart Los

Changes in Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India: Evidence from National Sample Surveys, 1983–2012 pp. 329-343

A. Bheemeshwar Reddy

Aid Fragmentation or Aid Pluralism? The Effect of Multiple Donors on Child Survival in Developing Countries, 1990–2010 pp. 344-358

Lu Han and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

A Paradox of Redistribution in International Aid? The Determinants of Poverty-Oriented Development Assistance pp. 359-369

Thilo Bodenstein and Achim Kemmerling

Volume 75, issue C, 2015

Political Conditionality and Foreign Aid pp. 2-12

Nadia Molenaers, Sebastian Dellepiane and Jorg Faust

‘Does it Work?’ – Work for Whom? Britain and Political Conditionality since the Cold War pp. 13-25

Jonathan Fisher

Diverging Visions on Political Conditionality: The Role of Domestic Politics and International Socialization in French and British Aid pp. 26-45

Damiano de Felice

Foreign Aid Responses to Political Liberalization pp. 46-61

Bernhard Reinsberg

What Determines the Suspension of Budget Support? pp. 62-73

N. Molenaers, A. Gagiano, Lodewijk Smets and S. Dellepiane

Donor Interests or Developmental Performance? Explaining Sanctions in EU Democracy Promotion in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 74-84

Karen Del Biondo

It’s Domestic Politics, Stupid! EU Democracy Promotion Strategies Meet African Dominant Party Regimes pp. 85-96

Christine Hackenesch

A Typology of Political Conditionality Beyond Aid: Conceptual Horizons Based on Lessons from the European Union pp. 97-108

Svea Koch

Volume 74, issue C, 2015

Human Capital and FDI Inflow: An Assessment of the African Case pp. 1-14

Emmanuel A. Cleeve, Yaw Debrah and Zelealem Yiheyis

Using Agriculture to Improve Child Health: Promoting Orange Sweet Potatoes Reduces Diarrhea pp. 15-24

Kelly Jones and Alan de Brauw

How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition pp. 25-42

Neeraj Kaushal and Felix M. Muchomba

Foreign Direct Investment Inflows and the Industrialization of African Countries pp. 43-57

Steve Gui-Diby and Mary-Françoise Renard

Enrollment in Ethiopia’s Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme pp. 58-76

Anagaw D. Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Zelalem Yilma, Getnet Alemu and Arjun Bedi

Social Capital as Obstacle to Development: Brokering Land, Norms, and Trust in Rural India pp. 77-92

Michael Levien

Analyzing Trade-offs in International Climate Policy Options: The Case of the Green Climate Fund pp. 93-107

Anil Markandya, Alessandro Antimiani, Valeria Costantini, C. Martini, Alessandro Palma and M.C. Tommasino

From Privatization to Deindustrialization: Implications of Chinese Rural Industry and the Ownership Debate Revisited pp. 108-122

Shaohua Zhan

Working Women Worldwide. Age Effects in Female Labor Force Participation in 117 Countries pp. 123-141

Janna Besamusca, Kea Tijdens, Maarten Keune and Stephanie Steinmetz

Returns to Micro-Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: A Quantile Study of Entrepreneurial Indonesian Households’ Welfare pp. 142-157

Virginie Vial and Julien Hanoteau

Trade Liberalization in a Traditional Society: Implications for Relative Female Survival pp. 158-170

Tanika Chakraborty

Collective Action within the Household: Insights from Natural Resource Management pp. 171-183

Cheryl Doss and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Policy Evaluation via Composite Indexes: Qualitative Lessons from International Transparency Policy Indexes pp. 184-196

Gregory Michener

Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in Development pp. 197-208

Matt Andrews

Barriers to Political Analysis in Aid Bureaucracies: From Principle to Practice in DFID and the World Bank pp. 209-219

Pablo Yanguas and David Hulme

Demography, Growth, and Global Income Inequality pp. 220-232

Ward Rougoor and Charles Marrewijk

Decomposing Intergenerational Income Elasticity: The Gender-differentiated Contribution of Capital Transmission in Rural Philippines pp. 233-252

Leah E.M. Bevis and Christopher Barrett

Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries pp. 253-263

Hugh Ward and Han Dorussen

“Low Profile” or Entrepreneurial? Gender, Class, and Cultural Adaptation in the Global Microfinance Industry pp. 264-274

Smitha Radhakrishnan

The Politics of Public Services: A Service Characteristics Approach pp. 275-285

Richard Batley and Claire Mcloughlin

The Effect of Democracy on Corruption: Income is Key pp. 286-304

Michael Jetter, Alejandra Montoya Agudelo and Andrés Ramírez Hassan

Does Shelter Assistance Reduce Poverty in Afghanistan? pp. 305-322

Craig Loschmann, Christopher Parsons and Melissa Siegel

Transactional Fish-for-Sex Relationships Amid Declining Fish Access in Kenya pp. 323-332

Kathryn J. Fiorella, Carol S. Camlin, Charles R. Salmen, Ruth Omondi, Matthew D. Hickey, Dan O. Omollo, Erin M. Milner, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Lia C.H. Fernald and Justin S. Brashares

The Dark Side of Chinese Growth: Declining Social Capital and Well-Being in Times of Economic Boom pp. 333-351

Stefano Bartolini and Francesco Sarracino

Livelihood Resilience and Adaptive Capacity: Tracing Changes in Household Access to Capital in Central Vietnam pp. 352-362

Andreas Waaben Thulstrup

Linking Communities of Practice with Value Chain Development in Smallholder Farming Systems pp. 363-373

Kristen Lowitt, Gordon M. Hickey, Wayne Ganpat and Leroy Phillip

Are Large Informal Firms More Productive than the Small Informal Firms? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys in Africa pp. 374-385

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

Development Conditions for Family Farming: Lessons From Brazil pp. 386-396

Gabriel Medina, Camila Almeida, Evandro Novaes, Javier Godar and Benno Pokorny

Pump-Priming Payments for Sustainable Water Services in Rural Africa pp. 397-411

Johanna Koehler, Patrick Thomson and Robert Hope

Quality of Higher Education and the Labor Market in Developing Countries: Evidence from an Education Reform in Senegal pp. 412-424

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Alexandre Larouche and Mircea Trandafir

Avoiding the Resource Curse: Indigenous Communities and Canada’s Oil Sands pp. 425-436

Brenda L. Parlee

Women Leaders and Social Performance: Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal pp. 437-452

Anaïs Périlleux and Ariane Szafarz

Labor Exclusion and the Erosion of Citizenship Responsibilities pp. 453-461

Lucas Ronconi and Rodrigo Zarazaga S.J.

Opening the Black Box of Carbon Finance “Additionality”: The Political Economy of Carbon Finance Effectiveness across Tanzania, Uganda, and Moldova pp. 462-478

Mark Purdon

Does NGO Presence Decrease Government Spending? A Look at Municipal Spending on Social Services in Brazil pp. 479-488

Nichole Torpey-Saboe