World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 63, issue C, 2014

Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth, with an Update on Africa pp. 11-32

Margaret McMillan, Dani Rodrik and Íñigo Verduzco-Gallo

The Role of Rural–Urban Migration in the Structural Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 33-42

Alan de Brauw, Valerie Mueller and Hak Lim Lee

Poverty Reduction During the Rural–Urban Transformation – The Role of the Missing Middle pp. 43-58

Luc Christiaensen and Yasuyuki Todo

Explaining Africa’s (Dis)advantage pp. 59-77

Ann Harrison, Justin Lin and Lixin Xu

“Going Global in Groups”: Structural Transformation and China’s Special Economic Zones Overseas pp. 78-91

Deborah Bräutigam and Xiaoyang Tang

African Agriculture in 50Years: Smallholders in a Rapidly Changing World? pp. 92-101

Paul Collier and Stefan Dercon

Overcoming Successive Bottlenecks: The Evolution of a Potato Cluster in China pp. 102-112

Xiaobo Zhang and Dinghuan Hu

Can Cities or Towns Drive African Development? Economywide Analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda pp. 113-123

Paul Dorosh and James Thurlow

Volume 62, issue C, 2014

Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988–2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis pp. 1-13

Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

Trade-offs and Payoffs of Investing in Human Development pp. 14-29

Marco Sánchez Cantillo and Martín Cicowiez

Enhancing Inclusiveness of Rwanda’s Land Tenure Regularization Program: Insights from Early Stages of its Implementation pp. 30-41

Florence Santos, Diana Fletschner and Giuseppe Daconto

Is Globalization Reducing Absolute Poverty? pp. 42-61

Andreas Bergh and Therese Nilsson

Why do Foresters Plant Trees? Testing Theories of Bureaucratic Decision-Making in Central India pp. 62-74

Forrest D. Fleischman

Empowerment Through Microfinance: The Relation Between Loan Cycle and Level of Empowerment pp. 75-87

Olaf Weber and Adnan Ahmad

Women’s Empowerment and Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India pp. 88-105

Katsushi Imai, Samuel Annim, Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

Social Spending, Distribution, and Equality of Opportunities: The Opportunity Incidence Analysis pp. 106-124

Jose Cuesta

Bedouin Adaptation to the Last 15-Years of Drought (1995–2010) in the North Coastal Zone of Egypt: Continuity or Rupture? pp. 125-137

Véronique Alary, Ferial Hassan, Ibrahim Daoud, Adel Aboul Naga, Mona A. Osman, Denis Bastianelli, Philippe Lescoat, Naeem Moselhy and Jean-François Tourrand

Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise? pp. 138-154

M Asadullah, Antonio Savoia and Wahiduddin Mahmud

Market Signals of Unsustainable and Inequitable Forest Extraction: Assessing the Value of Illegal Timber Trade in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania pp. 155-168

Marije Schaafsma, Neil D. Burgess, Ruth D. Swetnam, Yonika M. Ngaga, R. Kerry Turner and Thorsten Treue

Heterogeneity in Informal Salaried Employment: Evidence from the Egyptian Labor Market Survey pp. 169-188

Natalia Radchenko

Historicizing Sustainable Livelihoods: A Pathways Approach to Lead Mining in Rural Central China pp. 189-200

Jixia Lu and Anna Lora-Wainwright

Africa and the Clean Development Mechanism: What Determines Project Investments? pp. 201-212

Dirk Röttgers and Ulrike Grote

Migrants’ Choice of Remittance Channel: Do General Payment Habits Play a Role? pp. 213-227

Anneke Kosse and Robert Vermeulen

Volume 61, issue C, 2014

Interpreting Institutional Fit: Urbanization, Development, and China’s “Land-Lost” pp. 1-10

Hongping Lian and Raul P. Lejano

Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh? pp. 11-52

Esha Sraboni, Hazel Jean Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing and Akhter Ahmed

Macroeconomic Impacts of FDI in Transition Economies: A Meta-Analysis pp. 53-69

Ichiro Iwasaki and Masahiro Tokunaga

Estimating the Causal Effect of Forced Eradication on Coca Cultivation in Colombian Municipalities pp. 70-84

Luis Reyes

Taking Complexity in Food Systems Seriously: An Interdisciplinary Analysis pp. 85-101

Tira Foran, James R.A. Butler, Liana J. Williams, Wolf J. Wanjura, Andrew Hall, Lucy Carter and Peter S. Carberry

The Messy Reality of Agglomeration Economies in Urban Informality: Evidence from Nairobi’s Handicraft Industry pp. 102-113

John Harris

Coping with Drought by Adjusting Land Tenancy Contracts: A Model and Evidence from Rural Morocco pp. 114-126

Yoko Kusunose and Travis Lybbert

Land Rights and Community Cooperation pp. 127-141

Ragnhild Haugli Braaten

Effects of International Food Price Shocks on Political Institutions in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from an International Food Net-Export Price Index pp. 142-153

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brueckner

Growth of the Urban Shadow, Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities, and Commuting by Workers in Rural and Urban India pp. 154-166

Ajay Sharma and S Chandrasekhar

Social Protection and Poverty Reduction: Global Patterns and Some Targets pp. 167-177

Ariel Fiszbein, Ravi Kanbur and Ruslan Yemtsov

Volume 60, issue C, 2014

Cultural Proximity and Local Firms’ catch up with Multinational Enterprises pp. 1-13

Jue Wang, Xiaming Liu, Yingqi Wei and Chengang Wang

Livelihood Diversification and Shifting Social Networks of Exchange: A Social Network Transition? pp. 14-30

Timothy D. Baird and Clark L. Gray

Public Service Provision under Conditions of Insufficient Citizen Demand: Insights from the Urban Sanitation Sector in Indonesia pp. 31-42

Matthew S. Winters, Abdul Gaffar Karim and Berly Martawardaya

Governing India’s Land pp. 43-56

Nikita Sud

Remittances and Household Wealth after Conflict: A Case Study on Urban Burundi pp. 57-68

Sonja Fransen and Valentina Mazzucato

Does Information Lead to More Active Citizenship? Evidence from an Education Intervention in Rural Kenya pp. 69-83

Evan S. Lieberman, Daniel N. Posner and Lily L. Tsai

Climate Change, Hydro-Dependency, and the African Dam Boom pp. 84-98

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott and Eric Strobl

Revenue Reform and Statebuilding in Anglophone Africa pp. 99-112

Mick Moore

Income and Livelihoods in the War in Afghanistan pp. 113-131

Vincenzo Bove and Evelina Gavrilova

The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America? pp. 132-146

Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig and Christian Meyer

Volume 59, issue C, 2014

Comparing the Climate Policy Performance of Emerging Economies pp. 1-15

Babette Never and Joachim Betz

Foreign Portfolio Investment Flows to India: Determinants and Analysis pp. 16-28

Reetika Garg and Pami Dua

Land Use Dynamics, Climate Change, and Food Security in Vietnam: A Global-to-local Modeling Approach pp. 29-46

Martine Rutten, Michiel Van Dijk, Wilbert van Rooij and Henk Hilderink

Interest Rates and Informational Issues in the Credit Market: Experimental Evidence from Brazil pp. 47-58

Claudio Lucinda and Rodrigo Luiz Vieira

Water and Human Development pp. 59-69

Lyla Mehta

Moving from the Household to the Individual: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis pp. 70-81

Ramya M. Vijaya, Rahul Lahoti and Hema Swaminathan

Tackling the Largest Global Education Challenge? Secular and Religious Education in Northern Nigeria pp. 82-92

Manos Antoninis

Modeling Ecological Success of Common Pool Resource Systems Using Large Datasets pp. 93-103

Ulrich J. Frey and Hannes Rusch

Why Are Women Less Democratic Than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries pp. 104-119

Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Maty Konte

Impact of Improved Maize Adoption on Welfare of Farm Households in Malawi: A Panel Data Analysis pp. 120-131

Sosina Bezu, Girma Kassie, Bekele Shiferaw and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

Understanding the Process of Agricultural Technology Adoption: Mineral Fertilizer in Eastern DR Congo pp. 132-146

Isabel Lambrecht, Bernard Vanlauwe, Roel Merckx and Miet Maertens

The Impact of Technological Capabilities on Invention: An Investigation Based on Country Responsiveness Scores pp. 147-165

Giovanni Cerulli

Administrative Overspending in Indonesian Districts: The Role of Local Politics pp. 166-183

Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther Schulze

Personalizing the Middle-Income Trap: An Inter-Generational Migrant View from Rural Thailand pp. 184-198

Jonathan Rigg, Buapun Promphaking and Ann Le Mare

REDD+ and Empowered Deliberative Democracy: Learning from Tanzania pp. 199-211

Irmeli Mustalahti and O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo

A Cross-Country Analysis of Perceived Economic Status and Life Satisfaction in High- and Low-Income Countries pp. 212-223

Laura Camfield and Lucio Esposito

International Remittances and Human Capital Formation pp. 224-237

Vania Salas Garcia

Conflict, Combatants, and Cash: Economic Reintegration and Livelihoods of Ex-combatants in Nepal pp. 238-250

Dambaru B. Subedi

Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index pp. 251-274

Sabina Alkire and Maria Emma Santos

How Ethnic Diversity Affects Economic Growth pp. 275-297

Erkan Gören

Economic Regulations, Red Tape, and Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Communist Economies pp. 298-312

Dinissa Duvanova

Growth with Equity for the Development of Mexico: Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Growth (1992–2008) pp. 313-326

Alberto Javier Iniguez-Montiel

The Liberalization of Retail Services in India pp. 327-340

Csilla Lakatos and Tani Fukui

Explaining Global Patterns of International Aid for Linked Biodiversity Conservation and Development pp. 341-359

Daniel C. Miller

Exogenous Shocks and Growth Crises in Low-Income Countries: A Vulnerability Index pp. 360-378

Era Dabla-Norris and Yasemin Bal Gündüz

The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth: A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 379-393

Paul Glewwe, Eugenie Maiga and Haochi Zheng

Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia pp. 394-407

Monica Yanez-Pagans and Gustavo Machicado-Salas

Capturing the Margins: World Market Prices and Cotton Farmer Incomes in West Africa pp. 408-421

Thomas J. Bassett

Diaspora Investments and Firm Export Performance in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries pp. 422-433

Amadou Boly, Nicola Coniglio, Francesco Prota and Adnan Seric

Returns to Education in India pp. 434-450

Scott Fulford

The Social Dynamics of Labor Shortage in South African Small-Scale Agriculture pp. 451-460

Elizabeth Hull

Policies for Agricultural Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction in Rural Ethiopia pp. 461-474

Zewdu Abro, Bamlaku Alamirew Alemu and Munir A. Hanjra

The Effects of Mexico’s Seguro Popular Health Insurance on Infant Mortality: An Estimation with Selection on the Outcome Variable pp. 475-486

Tobias Pfutze

The Impact of Bolsa Família on Women’s Decision-Making Power pp. 487-504

Alan de Brauw, Daniel Gilligan, John Hoddinott and Shalini Roy

Moving Off the Farm: Land Institutions to Facilitate Structural Transformation and Agricultural Productivity Growth in China pp. 505-520

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Fang Xia and Jikun Huang

The Politics of Technological Upgrading: International Transfer to and Adaptation of GM Cotton in Argentina pp. 521-534

Valeria Arza and Patrick van Zwanenberg

Mexican Migrants to the US: What Do Unrealized Migration Intentions Tell Us About Gender Inequalities? pp. 535-552

Isabelle Chort