World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 45, issue C, 2013

Structural Change in Developing Countries: Has it Decreased Gender Inequality? pp. 1-16

Michelle Rendall

The Effect of Women’s Bargaining Power on Child Nutrition in Rural Senegal pp. 17-30

Aurélia Lépine and Eric Strobl

From Nutrition to Aspirations and Self-Efficacy: Gender Bias over Time among Children in Four Countries pp. 31-50

Stefan Dercon and Abhijeet Singh

Does Prime-Age Mortality Reduce Per-Capita Household Income? Evidence from Rural Zambia pp. 51-62

Toman Omar Mahmoud and Rainer Thiele

Reversing Urban Bias in African Rice Markets: Evidence from Senegal pp. 63-74

Matty Demont, Pieter Rutsaert, Maimouna Ndour and Wim Verbeke

Disrupting Demand for Commercial Seed: Input Subsidies in Malawi and Zambia pp. 75-91

Nicole Mason and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 92-107

Thushyanthan Baskaran and Arne Bigsten

Nation-Building and Conflict in Modern Africa pp. 108-118

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Elliott Green

The Effects of Risk and Shocks on Non-Farm Enterprise Development in Rural Ethiopia pp. 119-136

Bob Rijkers and Mans Soderbom

Corporate-Led Sustainable Development and Energy Poverty Alleviation at the Bottom of the Pyramid: The Case of the CleanCook in Nigeria pp. 137-146

Temilade Sesan, Sujatha Raman, Mike Clifford and Ian Forbes

Can Big Push Interventions Take Small-Scale Farmers out of Poverty? Insights from the Sauri Millennium Village in Kenya pp. 147-160

Bernadette M. Wanjala and Roldan Muradian

The In-House Contracting Paradox: Flexibility, Control, and Tension pp. 161-174

Jong-Woon Lee

Human Rights Treaty Ratification of Aid Receiving Countries pp. 175-188

Arvind Magesan

The Privatization of the Fixed-Line Telecommunications Operator in OECD, Latin America, Asia, and Africa: One Size Does Not Fit All pp. 189-208

F. Gasmi, A. Maingard, P. Noumba and Laura Recuero Virto

Job Creation through Infrastructure Investment in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 209-222

Elena Ianchovichina, Antonio Estache, Renaud Foucart, Grégoire Garsous and Tito Yepes

Returning to Dakar: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Role of Migration Experience for Occupational Status pp. 223-238

Cora Leonie Mezger Kveder and Marie-Laurence Flahaux

A Matter of Time: Revisiting Growth Convergence in China pp. 239-251

Fredrik Andersson, David Edgerton and Sonja Opper

Gender Inequality in Social Institutions and Gendered Development Outcomes pp. 252-268

Boris Branisa, Stephan Klasen and Maria Ziegler

Ten Years of “Q-Squared”: Implications for Understanding and Explaining Poverty pp. 269-285

Paul Shaffer

The Politics of Code Enforcement and Implementation in Vietnam’s Apparel and Footwear Factories pp. 286-295

Jee Young Kim

The Economics of the Arab Spring pp. 296-313

Adeel Malik and Bassem Awadallah

The Social Determinants of the Rule of Law: A Comparison of Jamaica and Barbados pp. 314-324

Andrew Dawson

Governance of Global Value Chains in Response to Food Safety and Certification Standards: The Case of Shrimp from Vietnam pp. 325-336

Nhuong Tran, Conner Bailey, Norbert Wilson and Michael Phillips

Demographic Transition in Resource Rich Countries: A Blessing or a Curse? pp. 337-351

Kjetil Bjorvatn and Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Volume 44, issue C, 2013

Global Poverty Estimates: A Sensitivity Analysis pp. 1-13

Shatakshee Dhongde and Camelia Minoiu

Super Cycles of Commodity Prices Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century pp. 14-30

Bilge Erten and Jose Antonio Ocampo

Effects of Global Liquidity on Commodity and Food Prices pp. 31-43

Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon and Ulrich Volz

Did High Debts Distort Loan and Grant Allocation to IDA Countries? pp. 44-62

Silvia Marchesi and Alessandro Missale

Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation pp. 63-76

Stephen Knack and Lodewijk Smets

Can Poor Countries Lobby for More US Bilateral Aid? pp. 77-87

Gabriel Montes-Rojas

The Role of Country-of-Origin Characteristics for Foreign Direct Investment and Technical Cooperation in Post-Reform India pp. 88-109

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

The Needy Donor: An Empirical Analysis of India’s Aid Motives pp. 110-128

Andreas Fuchs and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico pp. 129-141

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

Shopping for Development: Multilateral Lending, Shareholder Composition and Borrower Preferences pp. 142-155

Chris Humphrey and Katharina Michaelowa

Should Countries Engage in a Race to the Bottom? The Effect of Social Spending on FDI pp. 156-164

R. Douglas Hecock and Eric M. Jepsen

The Economic Growth Effect of Offshore Banking in Host Territories: Evidence from the Caribbean pp. 165-179

James Butkiewicz and Leo-Rey Gordon

Economic Performance under NAFTA: A Firm-Level Analysis of the Trade-productivity Linkages pp. 180-193

Rafael De Hoyos and Leonardo Iacovone

Cross-Country Heterogeneity and the Trade-Income Relationship pp. 194-211

Dierk Herzer

Credit contraction and international trade: Evidence from Chilean exporters pp. 212-224

Ari Aisen, Roberto Alvarez, Andres Sagner and Javier Turen

Geography and the Determinants of Firm Exports in Indonesia pp. 225-240

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Vassilis Tselios, Deborah Winkler and Thomas Farole

Disentangling the Effects of Fair Trade on the Quality of Malian Cotton pp. 241-255

Gaelle Balineau

Globalization and Gender Wage Inequality in China pp. 256-266

Zhihong Chen, Ying Ge, Huiwen Lai and Chi Wan

Financial Inclusion and Financial Integrity: Aligned Incentives? pp. 267-280

Louis de Koker and Nicola Jentzsch

The Globalization of Technology in Emerging Markets: A Gravity Model on the Determinants of International Patent Collaborations pp. 281-299

Fabio Montobbio and Valerio Sterzi

Volume 43, issue C, 2013

Democracy, State Capacity, and Economic Growth pp. 1-18

Carl Henrik Knutsen

The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal pp. 19-41

Anne Boschini, Jan Pettersson and Jesper Roine

Displacement and Erosion of Informal Risk-Sharing: Evidence from Nepal pp. 42-55

Lai Ming Lam and Saumik Paul

What is Autonomous Adaption? Resource Scarcity and Smallholder Agency in Thailand pp. 56-66

Tim Forsyth and Natalie Evans

Electoral Competition and Local Government Responsiveness in Brazil pp. 67-83

Paulo Arvate

Palmed Off: Incentive Problems with Joint-Venture Schemes for Oil Palm Development on Customary Land pp. 84-99

R.A. Cramb

The Impact of Kinship Networks on the Adoption of Risk-Mitigating Strategies in Ethiopia pp. 100-110

Salvatore Di Falco and Erwin Bulte

The Role of Forest-Related Income in Household Economies and Rural Livelihoods in the Border-Region of Southern China pp. 111-123

Nicholas J. Hogarth, Brian Belcher, Bruce Campbell and Natasha Stacey

Conditional Cash Transfers and Payments for Environmental Services—A Conceptual Framework for Explaining and Judging Differences in Outcomes pp. 124-137

U. Martin Persson and Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez

How do “Mineral-States” Learn? Path-Dependence, Networks, and Policy Change in the Development of Economic Institutions pp. 138-148

Jose Carlos Orihuela

Economic and Social Impacts of an Innovative Self-Help Group Model in India pp. 149-163

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

Rediscovering the Virgin Lands: Agricultural Investment and Rural Livelihoods in a Eurasian Frontier Area pp. 164-179

Martin Petrick, Jürgen Wandel and Katharina Karsten

Rural People’s Reliance on Forests and the Non-Forest Environment in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso pp. 180-193

Mariève Pouliot and Thorsten Treue

Beyond the Poverty Agenda? Insights from the New Politics of Development in Uganda pp. 194-206

Sam Hickey

Do Stronger Collective Property Rights Improve Household Welfare? Evidence from a Field Study in Fiji pp. 207-225

Terra Lawson-Remer

Local Governance of Forests and the Role of External Organizations: Some Ties Matter More Than Others pp. 226-237

Krister Andersson

The Impact of Climate Shocks on Seed Purchase Decisions in Malawi: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation pp. 238-251

Stella Nordhagen and Unai Pascual

Rural Electrification and Employment in Poor Countries: Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 252-265

Louise Grogan and Asha Sadanand

Emerging Private Education in Africa: Determinants of School Choice in Rural Kenya pp. 266-275

Mikiko Nishimura and Takashi Yamano

Delivery Care in Tanzania: A Comparative Analysis of Use and Preferences pp. 276-287

Bart Van Rijsbergen and D’Exelle, Ben

Is Micro too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance pp. 288-297

Jonathan Bauchet and Jonathan Morduch

How to Deliver Foreign Aid? The Case of Projects Governed by the Spanish International Agency pp. 298-314

Víctor Hermano and Natalia Martín-Cruz

Does Access to Formal Agricultural Credit Depend on Caste? pp. 315-328

Sunil Mitra Kumar

Quality, Quantity, and Nutritional Impacts of Rice Price Changes in Vietnam pp. 329-340

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim