World Development

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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Volume 50, issue C, 2013

Implementing Social Protection in Agro-pastoralist and Pastoralist Areas: How Local Distribution Structures Moderate PSNP Outcomes in Ethiopia pp. 1-12

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Jeremy Lind and John Hoddinott

Motives to Remit: Evidence from Tracked Internal Migrants in Ethiopia pp. 13-23

Alan de Brauw, Valerie Mueller and Tassew Woldehanna

The Impact of Remittances on Investment and Poverty in Ghana pp. 24-40

Richard Adams and Alfredo Cuecuecha

FDI and Local Linkages in Developing Countries: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 41-56

Vito Amendolagine, Amadou Boly, Nicola Coniglio, Francesco Prota and Adnan Seric

A Drop of Water in the Indian Ocean? The Impact of GlobalGap Certification on Lychee Farmers in Madagascar pp. 57-73

Julie Subervie and Isabelle Vagneron

Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being pp. 74-90

Kai Gehring

Volume 49, issue C, 2013

On The Choice and Impacts of Innovative International Food Assistance Instruments pp. 1-8

Erin C. Lentz, Christopher Barrett, Miguel Gomez and Daniel G. Maxwell

The Timeliness and Cost-Effectiveness of the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid pp. 9-18

Erin C. Lentz, Simone Passarelli and Christopher Barrett

Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement and Distribution: A Multi-Country Analysis pp. 19-29

Teevrat Garg, Christopher Barrett, Miguel Gomez, Erin C. Lentz and William J. Violette

Recipients’ Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey pp. 30-43

William J. Violette, Aurélie P. Harou, Joanna B. Upton, Samuel D. Bell, Christopher Barrett, Miguel Gomez and Erin C. Lentz

Tradeoffs or Synergies? Assessing Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement through Case Studies in Burkina Faso and Guatemala pp. 44-57

Aurélie P. Harou, Joanna B. Upton, Erin C. Lentz, Christopher Barrett and Miguel Gomez

Enhancing Nutrition: A New Tool for Ex-Ante Comparison of Commodity-based Vouchers and Food Transfers pp. 58-67

David Ryckembusch, Romeo Frega, Marcio Guilherme Silva, Ugo Gentilini, Issa Sanogo, Nils Grede and Lynn Brown

What Drives Program Choice in Food Security Crises? Examining the “Response Analysis” Question pp. 68-79

Daniel G. Maxwell, John W. Parker and Heather C. Stobaugh

Volume 48, issue C, 2013

Contemporary Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Legal Deficiency or Elite Capture of the Rule of Law? pp. 1-18

Laura German, George Schoneveld and Esther Mwangi

Bad Governance and Poor Children: A Comparative Analysis of Government Efficiency and Severe Child Deprivation in 68 Low- and Middle-income Countries pp. 19-31

Björn Halleröd, Bo Rothstein, Adel Daoud and Shailen Nandy

Geography of Gender Gaps: Regional Patterns of Income and Farm–Nonfarm Interaction Among Male- and Female-Headed Households in Eight African Countries pp. 32-47

Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Göran Djurfeldt and Johanna Bergman Lodin

Child Poverty in an Emergency and Conflict Context: A Multidimensional Profile and an Identification of the Poorest Children in Western Darfur pp. 48-70

Jean-François Trani and Tim I. Cannings

Institutional Solutions to the Asymmetric Information Problem in Health and Development Services for the Poor pp. 71-87

David K. Leonard, Gerald Bloom, Kara Hanson, O’Farrell, Juan and Neil Spicer

Does Parental Disability Matter to Child Education? Evidence from Vietnam pp. 88-107

Daniel Mont and Cuong Nguyen

The Demand Side of Social Protection: Lessons from Cambodia’s Labor Rights Experience pp. 108-119

Alisa DiCaprio

Managing Wild Resources: Institutional Choice and the Recovery of Resource Rent in Southwest China pp. 120-132

Brian E. Robinson, Bill Provencher and David Lewis

How Effective are Cash Transfers at Improving Nutritional Status? pp. 133-155

James Manley, Seth Gitter and Vanya Slavchevska

Land Retirement and Nonfarm Labor Market Participation: An Analysis of China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program pp. 156-169

Peter Kelly and Xuexi Huo

Volume 47, issue C, 2013

Social Norms and Aspirations: Age of Marriage and Education in Rural India pp. 1-15

Annemie Maertens

Rising Regional Inequality in China: Fact or Artifact? pp. 16-29

Chao Li and John Gibson

Frustrated Freedom: The Effects of Agency and Wealth on Wellbeing in Rural Mozambique pp. 30-41

Bart Victor, Edward F. Fischer, Bruce Cooil, Alfredo Vergara, Abraham Mukolo and Meridith Blevins

Going Where the Money Is: Strategies for Taxing Economic Elites in Unequal Democracies pp. 42-57

Tasha Fairfield

Rethinking Microentrepreneurship and Business Development Programs: Vulnerability and Ambition in Low-income Urban Caribbean Households pp. 58-70

Hebe Verrest

The Political Dynamics of Economic Growth pp. 71-86

Kunal Sen

The Impact of International Standards Certification on the Performance of Firms in Less Developed Countries pp. 87-101

Micheline Goedhuys and Leo Sleuwaegen

Access to Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is There a Gender Gap? pp. 102-120

Reyes Aterido, Thorsten Beck and Leonardo Iacovone

Gender and Microfinance Performance: Why Does the Institutional Context Matter? pp. 121-135

Dirk Michael Boehe and Luciano Barin Cruz

Privatization of Education and Labor Force Inequality in Urban Francophone Africa: The Transition from School to Work in Ouagadougou pp. 136-148

Anne E. Calvès, Jean-François Kobiané and N’Bouké, Afiwa

Volume 46, issue C, 2013

Using Census Data to Explore the Spatial Distribution of Human Development pp. 1-13

Iñaki Permanyer

Can One-to-One Computing Narrow the Digital Divide and the Educational Gap in China? The Case of Beijing Migrant Schools pp. 14-29

Di Mo, Johan Swinnen, Linxiu Zhang, Hongmei Yi, Qinghe Qu, Matthew Boswell and Scott Rozelle

Missing Millions and Measuring Development Progress pp. 30-44

Roy Carr-Hill

US based NGOs in International Development: Financial and Economic Determinants of Survival pp. 45-65

Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler and Tillmann Schwörer

Innovation, Intellectual Property Rights, and Economic Development: A Unified Empirical Investigation pp. 66-78

John Hudson and Alexandru Minea

Fiscal Policy Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 79-91

Victor Lledó and Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro

Fiscal Incentives, Public Spending, and Productivity – County-Level Evidence from a Chinese Province pp. 92-103

Stefan Brehm

Revisiting the Issue of Elite Capture of Participatory Initiatives pp. 104-112

Jens Lund and Moeko Saito-Jensen

Revisiting the Effects of IMF Programs on Poverty and Inequality pp. 113-142

Doris Oberdabernig

Are Remittances a Substitute for Credit? Carrying the Financial Burden of Health Shocks in National and Transnational Households pp. 143-152

Christian Ambrosius and Alfredo Cuecuecha

Protecting Power: How Western States Retain The Dominant Voice in The World Bank’s Governance pp. 153-164

Jakob Vestergaard and Robert H. Wade

Institutions, Infrastructure, and Trade pp. 165-175

Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin

Determinants of Expenditure Decentralization: Evidence from China pp. 176-184

Alfred Wu and Wen Wang

The Global Food Crisis: Disaster, Opportunity or Non-event? Household Level Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire pp. 185-196

Ralitza Dimova and Monnet Gbakou

Financial Efficiency and Social Impact of Microfinance Institutions Using Self-Organizing Maps pp. 197-210

Philippe Louis, Alex Seret and Bart Baesens

Does Economic Upgrading Lead to Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks? Evidence from Morocco pp. 223-233

Arianna Rossi

Private Donations, Government Grants, Commercial Activities, and Fundraising: Cointegration and Causality for NGOs in International Development Cooperation pp. 234-251

Dierk Herzer and Peter Nunnenkamp