World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 42, issue C, 2013

Determinants of Horizontal Spillovers from FDI: Evidence from a Large Meta-Analysis pp. 1-15

Zuzana Irsova and Tomas Havranek

Is Social Spending Procyclical? Evidence for Developing Countries pp. 16-27

Javier Arze del Granado, Sanjeev Gupta and Alejandro Hajdenberg

Is There a Disability Gap in Employment Rates in Developing Countries? pp. 28-43

Suguru Mizunoya and Sophie Mitra

Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Emigration from Kazakhstan to Russia pp. 44-66

Galina An and Charles M. Becker

“A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep”? Understanding Public Support for Aid: The Case of the United Kingdom pp. 67-75

Spencer Henson and Johanna Lindstrom

Developmental Drivers of Nutritional Change: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 76-88

Derek Headey

Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households pp. 89-99

Maria Sagrario Floro and Ranjula Bali Swain

Food Quality Changes and Implications: Evidence from the Rice Value Chain of Bangladesh pp. 100-113

Bart Minten, K.A.S. Murshid and Thomas Reardon

Staying Alive: Adult Literacy Programs and Child Mortality in Rural Ghana pp. 114-126

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

Market Imperfections and Child Labor pp. 127-142

Christelle Dumas

Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure pp. 143-164

Mehtabul Azam and Geeta Kingdon

Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling on Loan Size? pp. 165-181

Isabelle Agier and Ariane Szafarz

Do Microloan Officers Want to Lend to the Less Advantaged? Evidence from a Choice Experiment pp. 182-198

MoÏse Sagamba, Oleg Shchetinin and Nurmukhammad Yusupov

Adverse Incorporation and Microfinance among Cross-Border Traders in Senegal pp. 199-208

Cynthia Howson

Revisiting the “Cotton Problem”—A Comparative Analysis of Cotton Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 209-221

Claire Delpeuch and Anneleen Vandeplas

Volume 41, issue C, 2013

Disability and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Multidimensional Study pp. 1-18

Sophie Mitra, Aleksandra Posarac and Brandon Vick

How Should MDG Success and Failure be Judged: Faster Progress or Achieving the Targets? pp. 19-30

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Joshua Greenstein and David Stewart

How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries pp. 31-50

Yoonyoung Cho and David Newhouse

Gender in Transition: The Case of North Korea pp. 51-66

Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland

Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking? pp. 67-82

Seo-Young Cho, Axel Dreher and Eric Neumayer

Remittances and Portfolio Values: An Inquiry using Immigrants from Africa, Europe, and the Americas pp. 83-95

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

Citizens, Legislators, and Executive Disclosure: The Political Determinants of Fiscal Transparency pp. 96-108

Joachim Wehner and Paolo de Renzio

Redressing Grievances and Complaints Regarding Basic Service Delivery pp. 109-119

Varun Gauri

The Profit Orientation of Microfinance Institutions and Effective Interest Rates pp. 120-131

Peter W. Roberts

Pricing in Microinsurance Markets pp. 132-144

Christian Biener

The Effects of Religion on Development Efforts: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry and a Research Agenda pp. 145-156

Roy Mersland, D’Espallier, Bert and Magne Supphellen

Development, Social Change, and Islamic Finance in Contemporary Indonesia pp. 157-167

Thomas B. Pepinsky

How Effective is a Big Push to the Small? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment pp. 168-182

Debdulal Mallick

Mothers’ Employment and their Children’s Schooling: A Joint Multilevel Analysis for India pp. 183-195

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Leonardo Grilli

Admissible Evidence in the Court of Development Evaluation? The Impact of CARE’s SHOUHARDO Project on Child Stunting in Bangladesh pp. 196-216

Lisa C. Smith, Faheem Khan, Timothy R. Frankenberger and A.K.M. Abdul Wadud

African Re-Agrarianization? Accumulation or Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth? pp. 217-231

Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt

Targeting Maps: An Asset-Based Approach to Geographic Targeting pp. 232-244

Corey Lang, Christopher Barrett and Felix Naschold

Unpacking the Meaning of ‘Market Access’: Evidence from Rural Kenya pp. 245-264

Jordan Chamberlin and Thomas Jayne

Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia’s Protected Areas on Poverty pp. 265-285

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza and Merlin Hanauer

Linking Globalization to Local Land Uses: How Eco-Consumers and Gourmands are Changing the Colombian Coffee Landscapes pp. 286-301

Ximena Rueda and Eric F. Lambin

Innovation Performance and Embeddedness in Networks: Evidence from the Ethiopian Footwear Cluster pp. 302-316

Mulu Gebreeyesus and Pierre Mohnen

Export Liberalization, Job Creation, and the Skill Premium: Evidence from the US–Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) pp. 317-337

Emiko Fukase

Volume 40, issue 12, 2012

Banking Crises and Short and Medium Term Output Losses in Emerging and Developing Countries: The Role of Structural and Policy Variables pp. 2369-2378

Davide Furceri and Aleksandra Zdzienicka

Participatory Governance Reform: A Good Strategy for Increasing Government Responsiveness and Improving Public Services? pp. 2379-2398

Johanna Speer

Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement pp. 2399-2410

John Gaventa and Gregory Barrett

Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship pp. 2411-2426

Bob Rijkers and Rita Costa

Migration and Rural Welfare: The Impact of Potential Policy Reforms in Europe pp. 2427-2439

Fleur Wouterse

Merchants of Corruption: How Entrepreneurs Manufacture and Supply Bribes pp. 2440-2453

Nnaoke Ufere, Sheri Perelli, Richard Boland and Bo Carlsson

Where Does the Axe Fall? Inflation Dynamics and Poverty Rates: Regional and Sectoral Evidence for Ghana pp. 2454-2467

Simeon Coleman

Local Demand for a Global Intervention: Policy Priorities in the Time of AIDS pp. 2468-2477

Kim Yi Dionne

Beyond “Death Do Us Part”: The Long-Term Implications of Divorce Perceptions on Women’s Well-Being and Child Schooling in Rural Ethiopia pp. 2478-2489

Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing

Inequality and the Politics of Social Policy Implementation: Gender, Age and Chile’s 2004 Health Reforms pp. 2490-2504

Christina Ewig and Gastón A. Palmucci

Leaving the Safety Net: An Analysis of Dropouts in an Urban Conditional Cash Transfer Program pp. 2505-2521

Mario González-Flores, Maria Heracleous and Paul Winters

Social Capital Formation and Credit Access: Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 2522-2536

Masahiro Shoji, Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji Kasahara, Yasuyuki Sawada and Mika Ueyama

Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Irrigation Water Sharing: Evidence from a Field Lab in Rural Tanzania pp. 2537-2551

D’Exelle, Ben, Els Lecoutere and Bjorn Van Campenhout

The Pitfalls of Water Privatization: Failure and Reform in Malaysia pp. 2552-2563

Jeff Tan

Privatization and Renationalization: What Went Wrong in Bolivia’s Water Sector? pp. 2564-2577

Degol Hailu, Rafael Osorio and Raquel Tsukada

In the Eye of the Storm—The Welfare Impacts of a Hurricane pp. 2578-2589

Kristian Thor Jakobsen

Volume 40, issue 11, 2012

Does Foreign Aid Increase Foreign Direct Investment? pp. 2155-2176

Pablo Selaya and Eva Rytter Sunesen

Trade Liberalization, Economic Crises, and Growth pp. 2177-2193

Rodney Falvey, Neil Foster-McGregor and Sir David Greenaway

FDI Waves, Waves of Neglect of Political Risk pp. 2194-2205

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Khalid Sekkat

Heterogeneous FDI in Transition Economies – A Novel Approach to Assess the Developmental Impact of Backward Linkages pp. 2206-2220

Axèle Giroud, Bjoern Jindra and Philipp Marek

Do Developing Countries Invest Up? The Environmental Effects of Foreign Direct Investment from Less-Developed Countries pp. 2221-2233

Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin

The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies: A Review of Evidence for Developing Countries pp. 2234-2248

Francisco Javier Arze del Granado, David Coady and Robert Gillingham

The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence pp. 2249-2262

C. van Rooyen, R. Stewart and T. de Wet

The Fungibility of Aid Earmarked for HIV/AIDS Control Programs pp. 2263-2274

Sarah E. Harper

Do Inequalities in Health Care Utilization in Developing Countries Change When We Take into Account Traditional Medicines? pp. 2275-2289

Azusa Sato

Ordinal Welfare Comparisons with Multiple Discrete Indicators: A First Order Dominance Approach and Application to Child Poverty pp. 2290-2301

Channing Arndt, Roberta Distante, M. Azhar Hussain, Lars Peter Østerdal, Pham Lan Huong and Maimuna Ibraimo

Estimating the Short-Run Poverty Impacts of the 2010–11 Surge in Food Prices pp. 2302-2317

Maros Ivanic, Will Martin and Hassan Zaman

Impact of the 2008–2009 Twin Economic Crises on the Philippine Labor Market pp. 2318-2328

Yana Rodgers and Nidhiya Menon

Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia pp. 2329-2341

Willy Mccourt

Harnessing Communities, Markets and the State for Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Post-Socialist Rural Poland pp. 2342-2354

Martin Petrick and Andreas Gramzow

Effects of Fair Trade Certification on Social Capital: The Case of Rwandan Coffee Producers pp. 2355-2367

Sara D. Elder, Hisham Zerriffi and Philippe Le Billon

Volume 40, issue 10, 2012

Is there a Beijing Consensus on International Macroeconomic Policy? pp. 1933-1943

Graham Bird, Alex (Alexandros) Mandilaras and Helen Popper

IMF Lending in Times of Crisis: Political Influences and Crisis Prevention pp. 1944-1969

Andrea Presbitero and Alberto Zazzaro

Sabotaging Civil Service Reform in Aid-Dependent Countries: Are Donors to Blame? pp. 1970-1981

Barbara Nunberg and Robert R. Taliercio

International R&D Transfer and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Panel Study Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis pp. 1982-1998

Miao Wang and M. C. Sunny Wong

Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt pp. 1999-2013

Francesca Marchetta

Parental Education and Child Health—Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan pp. 2014-2032

Monazza Aslam and Geeta Kingdon

“The Poor Stay Poor”: Household Asset Poverty Traps in Rural Semi-Arid India pp. 2033-2043

Felix Naschold

NGOs and the Political Empowerment of Poor People in Rural Bangladesh: Cultivating the Habits of Democracy? pp. 2044-2062

Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud and Jairo Isaza Castro

Bridging the Gender Divide: An Experimental Analysis of Group Formation in African Villages pp. 2063-2077

Abigail Barr, Marleen Dekker and Marcel Fafchamps

Opening Cracks for the Transgression of Social Boundaries: An Evaluation of the Gender Impacts of Farmer Research Teams in Honduras pp. 2078-2095

Sally Humphries, Lauren Classen, José Jiménez, Fredy Sierra, Omar Gallardo and Marvin Gómez

Collective Action Dynamics under External Rewards: Experimental Insights from Andean Farming Communities pp. 2096-2107

Ulf Narloch, Unai Pascual and Adam G. Drucker

Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania pp. 2108-2122

Klaus Deininger, Sara Savastano and Calogero Carletto

Reducing Poverty Through Carbon Forestry? Impacts of the N’hambita Community Carbon Project in Mozambique pp. 2123-2135

Rohit Jindal, John M. Kerr and Sarah Carter

Child Porterage and Africa’s Transport Gap: Evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa pp. 2136-2154

Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Alister Munthali, Elsbeth Robson, Mac Mashiri, Augustine Tanle, Goodhope Maponya and Sipho Dube

Volume 40, issue 9, 2012

Development Consequences of Armed Conflict pp. 1713-1722

Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and Håvard Strand

Aid, Growth and Devolution pp. 1723-1749

Christian Lessmann and Gunther Markwardt

Fiscal Spending and Economic Growth: Some Stylized Facts pp. 1750-1761

Celine Carrere and Jaime de Melo

Fiscal Sustainability: The Impact of Real Exchange Rate Shocks on Debt Valuation, Interest Rates and GDP Growth pp. 1762-1783

Claudia Martínez Carrera and Rodrigo Vergara

The Growth Effects of Property Rights: The Role of Finance pp. 1784-1797

Niloy Bose, Antu Murshid and Martin A. Wurm

The Institutional Reforms Debate and FDI Flows to the MENA Region: The “Best” Ensemble pp. 1798-1809

Wasseem Mina

Asking Questions to Understand Rural Livelihoods: Comparing Disaggregated vs. Aggregated Approaches to Household Livelihood Questionnaires pp. 1810-1823

Pamela Jagger, Martin Luckert, Abwoli Banana and Joseph Bahati

Impacts of Community-driven Development Programs on Income and Asset Acquisition in Africa: The Case of Nigeria pp. 1824-1838

Ephraim Nkonya, Dayo Phillip, Tewodaj Mogues, John Pender and Edward Kato

Poverty and Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya pp. 1839-1853

Antony Chapoto, Lilian Kirimi and Suneetha Kadiyala

Urban Services and Child Migration to the Slums of Nairobi pp. 1854-1869

Caroline S. Archambault, Joost de Laat and Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu

Institution Building with Limited Resources: Establishing a Supreme Audit Institution in Rwanda pp. 1870-1881

Ann-Sofie Isaksson and Arne Bigsten

Alert at Maradi: Preventing Food Crises by Using Price Signals pp. 1882-1894

Claudio Araujo, Catherine Araujo-Bonjean and Stéphanie Brunelin

Impact Evaluation of Traditional Basmati Rice Cultivation in Uttarakhand State of Northern India: What Implications Does It Hold for Geographical Indications? pp. 1895-1907

Pradyot Jena and Ulrike Grote

Economic Liberalization and Rising College Premiums in Mexico: A Reinterpretation pp. 1908-1920

Aashish Mehta and Belinda Acuña Mohr

Poverty and Proximate Barriers to Learning: Vision Deficiencies, Vision Correction and Educational Outcomes in Rural Northwest China pp. 1921-1931

Emily Hannum and Yuping Zhang

Volume 40, issue 8, 2012

The Impact of China on Low and Middle Income Countries’ Export Prices in Industrial-Country Markets pp. 1483-1496

Xiaolan Fu, Raphael Kaplinsky and Jing Zhang

The Impact of Foreign Labor on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia pp. 1497-1510

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Evelyn Devadason

Fiscal Decentralization and Development Outcomes in India: An Exploratory Analysis pp. 1511-1521

Kaliappa Kalirajan and Keijiro Otsuka

Partisan Preferences and Skill Formation Policies: New Evidence from Turkey and Argentina pp. 1522-1533

Fulya Apaydin

Why is Corruption Less Harmful to Income Inequality in Latin America? pp. 1534-1545

Stephen Dobson and Carlyn Ramlogan-Dobson

Setting Priorities, Targeting Subsidies among Water, Sanitation, and Preventive Health Interventions in Developing Countries pp. 1546-1568

Dale Whittington, Marc Jeuland, Kate Barker and Yvonne Yuen

Does User Participation Lead to Sense of Ownership for Rural Water Systems? Evidence from Kenya pp. 1569-1576

Sara J. Marks and Jennifer Davis

Rural Poverty Dynamics in Kenya: Structural Declines and Stochastic Escapes pp. 1577-1593

Maren Radeny, Marrit van den Berg and Rob Schipper

Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique pp. 1594-1609

Lena Giesbert and Kati Schindler

Assessing the Impact of Training on Lowland Rice Productivity in an African Setting: Evidence from Uganda pp. 1610-1618

Yoko Kijima, Yukinori Ito and Keijiro Otsuka

Who is Vouching for the Input Voucher? Decentralized Targeting and Elite Capture in Tanzania pp. 1619-1633

Lei Pan and Luc Christiaensen

Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia pp. 1634-1646

Sosina Bezu, Christopher Barrett and Stein Holden

Income Risk and Household Schooling Decisions in Burkina Faso pp. 1647-1662

Harounan Kazianga

Family Hardship and Cultural Values: Child Labor in Malian Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities pp. 1663-1674

Gavin Hilson

Microfinance and Poverty—A Macro Perspective pp. 1675-1689

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa and Samuel Annim

Credit Program Participation and Decline in Violence: Does Self-Selection Matter? pp. 1690-1699

Yoo-Mi Chin

Bequest Motives and Determinants of Micro Life Insurance in Sri Lanka pp. 1700-1711

Thankom Arun, Mirko Bendig and Shoba Arun

Volume 40, issue 7, 2012

Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Economic Growth of the Member Countries? pp. 1283-1294

Jung Hur and Cheolbeom Park

Export Performance and Trade Facilitation Reform: Hard and Soft Infrastructure pp. 1295-1307

Alberto Portugal-Perez and John Wilson

Resource Curse and Power Balance: Evidence from Oil-Rich Countries pp. 1308-1316

Kjetil Bjorvatn, Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Friedrich Schneider

Natural Disasters and Growth: Going Beyond the Averages pp. 1317-1336

Norman Loayza, Eduardo Olaberria, Iamele Rigolini and Luc Christiaensen

The Spatial Interdependence of FDI in Latin America pp. 1337-1351

Luisa R. Blanco

Constrained Gazelles: High Potentials in West Africa’s Informal Economy pp. 1352-1368

Michael Grimm, Peter Knorringa and Jann Lay

Is the Informal Sector Constrained from the Demand Side? Evidence for Six West African Capitals pp. 1369-1381

Marcus Böhme and Rainer Thiele

Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria pp. 1382-1393

Deborah Potts

Converting Asset Holdings into Livelihood: An Empirical Study on the Role of Household Agency in South Africa pp. 1394-1406

Bret Anderson

Seasonal Food Crises and Policy Responses: A Narrative Account of Three Food Security Crises in Malawi pp. 1407-1417

Frank Ellis and Elizabeth Manda

As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming pp. 1418-1434

Marc Bellemare

Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi pp. 1435-1451

Dick Durevall and Annika Lindskog

Health Inequality between Ethnic Minority and Han Populations in China pp. 1452-1468

Yusi Ouyang and Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand pp. 1469-1481

Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca and Michael Parnwell

Volume 40, issue 6, 2012

Equity in Climate Change: An Analytical Review pp. 1083-1097

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

Governing International Advocacy NGOs pp. 1098-1108

L. David Brown, Alnoor Ebrahim and Srilatha Batliwala

Building a BRIC? Stock Market Opening and Investment Finance in India since Liberalization pp. 1109-1121

Nicholas Snowden and Jesús Muñoz

Trade Contraction and Employment in India and South Africa during the Global Crisis pp. 1122-1134

David Kucera, Leanne Roncolato and Erik von Uexkull

Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India, 1983–2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition pp. 1135-1150

Mehtabul Azam

Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes Over Time and Across States pp. 1151-1163

M Asadullah and Gaston Yalonetzky

The Effect of Gender-Based Returns to Borrowing on Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Bangladesh pp. 1164-1180

Saad Alam

Microfinance and Moneylender Interest Rate: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 1181-1189

Debdulal Mallick

Identity, Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from Urban China pp. 1190-1200

Shiqing Jiang, Ming Lu and Hiroshi Sato

Women’s Entry into Self-employment in Urban China: The Role of Family in Creating Gendered Mobility Patterns pp. 1201-1212

Qian Forrest Zhang and Zi Pan

Auction Design for the Private Provision of Public Goods in Developing Countries: Lessons from Payments for Environmental Services in Malawi and Indonesia pp. 1213-1223

Oluyede Ajayi, B. Kelsey Jack and Beria Leimona

Hunting for the Benefits of Joint Forest Management in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot: Effects on Bushmeat Hunters and Wildlife in the Udzungwa Mountains pp. 1224-1239

Martin Reinhardt Nielsen and Thorsten Treue

Land Acquisition and the Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques: A Duration Analysis for Kenya and The Philippines pp. 1240-1254

Remco Oostendorp and Fred Zaal

Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya pp. 1255-1268

Elisabeth Fischer and Matin Qaim

The Economic Sustainability of Certified Coffee: Recent Evidence from Mexico and Peru pp. 1269-1279

Bradford L. Barham and Jeremy Weber

Volume 40, issue 5, 2012

Where Do The Poor Live? pp. 865-877

Andy Sumner

A Household-Based Human Development Index pp. 878-899

Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions are Really Being Measured? pp. 900-915

Martin Knoll and Petra Zloczysti

Vulnerability, Income Growth and Climate Change pp. 916-927

Patrick Ward and Gerald Shively

Revisiting the Trade-Migration Nexus: Evidence from New OECD Data pp. 928-937

Gabriel Felbermayr and Farid Toubal

Migration, Human Capital Formation, and Growth: An Empirical Investigation pp. 938-955

Corrado Di Maria and Emiliya Lazarova

Skill Distribution and Comparative Advantage: A Comparison of China and India pp. 956-969

Yoko Asuyama

State-led Technological Development: A Case of China’s Nanotechnology Development pp. 970-982

Can Huang and Yilin Wu

The Benefits of Formalization: Evidence from Vietnamese Manufacturing SMEs pp. 983-998

John Rand and Nina Torm

The Impact of Connectivity on Market Interlinkages: Evidence from Rural Punjab pp. 999-1012

Mahvish Shami

Local Entrepreneurship within Global Value Chains: A Case Study in the Mexican Automotive Industry pp. 1013-1023

Oscar F. Contreras, Jorge Carrillo and Jorge Alonso

Understanding and Improving Accountability in Education: A Conceptual Framework and Guideposts from Three Decentralization Reform Experiences in Latin America pp. 1024-1041

Alec Ian Gershberg, Pablo Gonzalez and Ben Meade

Distributive Politics and Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Brazil’s Bolsa Família pp. 1042-1053

Brian J. Fried

Do External Grants to District Governments Discourage Own Revenue Generation? A Look at Local Public Finance Dynamics in Ghana pp. 1054-1067

Tewodaj Mogues and Samuel Benin

Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impacts on Rural Household Welfare pp. 1068-1081

Robert B. Richardson, Ana Fernandez, David Tschirley and Gelson Tembo

Volume 40, issue 4, 2012

Remittances and Institutions: Are Remittances a Curse? pp. 657-666

Yasser Abdih, Ralph Chami, Jihad Dagher and Peter Montiel

Hard or Soft Pegs? Choice of Exchange Rate Regime and Trade in Africa pp. 667-680

Mahvash Qureshi and Charalambos Tsangarides

Aid, Real Exchange Rate Misalignment, and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 681-700

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi, Linda Kaltani and Raimundo Soto

The Rise of Large Farms in Land Abundant Countries: Do They Have a Future? pp. 701-714

Klaus Deininger and Derek Byerlee

Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming: Comparative Evidence from Five Countries pp. 715-730

Christopher Barrett, Maren E. Bachke, Marc Bellemare, Hope Michelson, Sudha Narayanan and Thomas F. Walker

Triggers and Characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan Electoral Violence pp. 731-744

Stefan Dercon and Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero

Conflict Management, Decentralization and Agropastoralism in Dryland West Africa pp. 745-757

Matthew D. Turner, Augustine A. Ayantunde, Kristen P. Patterson and E. Daniel Patterson

Pitfalls of Externally Initiated Collective Action: A Case Study from South Africa pp. 758-770

Björn Vollan

Minimum Wages and Household Poverty: General Equilibrium Macro–Micro Simulations for South Africa pp. 771-783

Karl Pauw and Murray Leibbrandt

Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape? pp. 784-795

Thomas Glauben, Thomas Herzfeld, Scott Rozelle and Xiaobing Wang

Knowledge Transfer from TNCs and Upgrading of Domestic Firms: The Polish Automotive Sector pp. 796-807

Gentile-Lüdecke Simona and Giroud Axèle

Consumers’ Welfare and Trade Liberalization: Evidence from the Car Industry in Colombia pp. 808-820

Jorge Tovar

Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty in Brazilian States pp. 821-835

Marta Castilho, Marta Menéndez and Aude Sztulman

Comparing Forest Decentralization and Local Institutional Change in Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda pp. 836-849

Eric A. Coleman and Forrest D. Fleischman

Welfare Outcomes and the Advance of the Deforestation Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 850-864

Danielle Celentano, Erin Sills, Marcio Sales and Adalberto Veríssimo

Volume 40, issue 3, 2012

Governance, Private Investment and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries pp. 437-445

Oliver Morrissey and Manop Udomkerdmongkol

The Impact of the Strategic Sale of Restructured Banks: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 446-457

Rasyad Parinduri and Yohanes Riyanto

How Can Micro and Small Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Become More Productive? The Impacts of Experimental Basic Managerial Training pp. 458-468

Yukichi Mano, Alhassan Iddrisu, Yutaka Yoshino and Tetsushi Sonobe

Changes in Trade Policies and the Heterogeneity of Domestic and Multinational Firms’ Strategic Response: The Effects on Firm-Level Capabilities pp. 469-485

Jahan Ara Peerally and John Cantwell

The Political Economy of Relief Aid Allocation: Evidence from Madagascar pp. 486-500

Nathalie Francken, Bart Minten and Johan Swinnen

The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on HIV and AIDS Programs in a High Prevalence Country: The Case of Malawi pp. 501-515

John E. Serieux, Spy Munthali, Ardeshir Sepehri and Robert White

Citizen Perceptions of Local Government Responsiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 516-527

Michael Bratton

Community Organized Household Water Increases Not Only Rural incomes, but Also Men’s Work pp. 528-541

Ben Crow, Brent Swallow and Isabella Asamba

Institutional Determinants of Success Among Forestry-Based Carbon Sequestration Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 542-554

Travis W. Reynolds

Swimming Upstream: Local Indonesian Production Networks in “Globalized” Palm Oil Production pp. 555-569

John F. McCarthy, Piers Gillespie and Zahari Zen

The Impact of Fair Trade Certification for Coffee Farmers in Peru pp. 570-582

Ruerd Ruben and Ricardo Fort

An Empirical Analysis of Gender Bias in Education Spending in Paraguay pp. 583-593

Thomas Masterson

Skill Premium in Chile: Studying Skill Upgrading in the South pp. 594-609

Francisco Gallego

Measurement of Women’s Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh pp. 610-619

Simeen Mahmud, Nirali M. Shah and Stan Becker

Heterogeneous Effects of International Migration and Remittances on Crop Income: Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic pp. 620-630

Aziz Atamanov and Marrit Van den Berg

Hidden Child Labor: Determinants of Housework and Family Business Work of Children in 16 Developing Countries pp. 631-642

Ellen Webbink, Jeroen Smits and Eelke de Jong

Competition Between Microfinance NGOs: Evidence from Kiva pp. 643-655

Pierre Ly and Geri Mason

Volume 40, issue 2, 2012

Disaggregated Capital Flows and Developing Countries’ Competitiveness pp. 223-237

Sami Ben Naceur, Damyana Bakardzhieva and Bassem Kamar

Rigidities in Employment Protection and Exporting pp. 238-250

Murat Seker

Are Skilled Women More Migratory than Skilled Men? pp. 251-265

Frédéric Docquier, Abdeslam Marfouk, Sara Salomone and Khalid Sekkat

Aid Unpredictability and Economic Growth pp. 266-272

Masahiro Kodama

Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries pp. 273-290

Gustavo Crespi and Pluvia Zuniga

Impact of Pension Privatization on Foreign Direct Investment pp. 291-302

Christopher Reece and Abdoul G. Sam

Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns pp. 303-314

Guillermo Cruces, Pablo Gluzmann and Luis Felipe López Calva

Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru pp. 315-328

Martín Moreno, Hugo Ñopo, Jaime Saavedra and Maximo Torero

Transaction Costs, Institutional Arrangements and Inequality Outcomes: Potato Marketing by Small Producers in Rural Peru pp. 329-341

Javier Escobal and Denice Cavero

Small Farmers and Big Retail: Trade-offs of Supplying Supermarkets in Nicaragua pp. 342-354

Hope Michelson, Thomas Reardon and Francisco Perez

Is Bribery Really Regressive? Bribery’s Costs, Benefits, and Mechanisms pp. 355-372

Jennifer Hunt and Sonia Laszlo

Displaced Populations, Humanitarian Assistance and Hosts: A Framework for Analyzing Impacts on Semi-urban Households pp. 373-386

Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Anne Bartlett and David Saah

Why Do NGOs Go Where They Go? Evidence from Kenya pp. 387-401

Jennifer N. Brass

Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in East Africa pp. 402-413

Kristin Davis, Ephraim Nkonya, Edward Kato, Daniel Mekonnen, M. Odendo, R. Miiro and J. Nkuba

The Empowerment Route to Well-being: An Analysis of Farmer Field Schools in East Africa pp. 414-427

Esbern Friis-Hansen and Deborah Duveskog

Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia pp. 428-435

Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin

Volume 40, issue 1, 2012

Aid Proliferation and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 1-10

Hidemi Kimura, Yuko Mori and Yasuyuki Sawada

Social Transfers and Growth: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Find Out? pp. 11-20

Armando Barrientos

The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge, and Global Health pp. 21-35

Ursula Casabonne and Charles Kenny

Trade Barrier Volatility and Agricultural Price Stabilization pp. 36-48

Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen

Beyond Trade: The Impact of Preferential Trade Agreements on FDI Inflows pp. 49-61

Denis Medvedev

Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Evidence from China pp. 62-74

Xinpeng Xu and Yu Sheng

Does Foreign Direct Investment Reduce Poverty in Africa and are There Regional Differences? pp. 75-95

Gaston Gohou and Issouf Soumaré

Can Public–Private Partnerships Leverage Private Investment in Agricultural Value Chains in Africa? A Preliminary Review pp. 96-109

Colin Poulton and Jon Macartney

Smallholder Irrigation as a Poverty Alleviation Tool in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 110-123

Jennifer A. Burney and Rosamond L. Naylor

Cropland Allocation Effects of Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi pp. 124-133

Christopher Chibwana, Monica Fisher and Gerald Shively

Drought and Population Mobility in Rural Ethiopia pp. 134-145

Clark Gray and Valerie Mueller

Household-Level Consumption in Urban Ethiopia: The Effects of a Large Food Price Shock pp. 146-162

Yonas Alem and Mans Soderbom

Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Getting the Politics Right pp. 163-176

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Armando Barrientos, Samuel Hickey and David Hulme

The Spread of Illegal Transgenic Cotton Varieties in India: Biosafety Regulation, Monopoly, and Enforcement pp. 177-188

Bharat Ramaswami, Carl E. Pray and N. Lalitha

Governance Institutions, Resource Rights Regimes, and the Informal Mining Sector: Regulatory Complexities in Indonesia pp. 189-205

Samuel J. Spiegel

Collective Remittances and the State: The 3×1 Program in Mexican Municipalities pp. 206-222

Francisco Aparicio and Covadonga Meseguer