World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 39, issue 12, 2011

Freely Disposable Time: A Time and Money Integrated Measure of Poverty and Freedom pp. 2055-2068

Marieke Hobbes, Wouter T. De Groot, Ester Van Der Voet and Sukanya Sarkhel

Trade Policy, Trade Costs, and Developing Country Trade pp. 2069-2079

Bernard Hoekman and Alessandro Nicita

Capital Flows and Real Exchange Rate Appreciation in Mexico pp. 2080-2090

Carlos A. Ibarra

“Emerging Donors” from a Recipient Perspective: An Institutional Analysis of Foreign Aid in Cambodia pp. 2091-2104

Jin Sato, Hiroaki Shiga, Takaaki Kobayashi and Hisahiro Kondoh

Knowledge Diffusion and Modernization of Rural Industrial Clusters: A Paper-manufacturing Village in Northern Vietnam pp. 2105-2118

Yuichi Kimura

Local Means in Value Chain Ends: Dynamics of Product and Social Upgrading in Apparel Manufacturing in Guatemala and Colombia pp. 2119-2131

Seth Pipkin

The Impact of Political Dependence on Small Island Jurisdictions pp. 2132-2146

Leslie Dunn

Marginalized Forest Peoples’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of Governance: An Exploration pp. 2147-2164

Carol J. Pierce Colfer

The Effect of Irrigation on Poverty Reduction, Asset Accumulation, and Informal Insurance: Evidence from Northern Mali pp. 2165-2175

Andrew Dillon

Farmer Participatory Research and Soil Conservation in Southeast Asian Cassava Systems pp. 2176-2186

Timothy Dalton, Nina K. Lilja, Nancy Johnson and Reinhardt Howeler

The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being pp. 2187-2198

Richard Easterlin, Laura Angelescu and Jacqueline S. Zweig

Labor Migration and Time Use Patterns of the Left-behind Children and Elderly in Rural China pp. 2199-2210

Hongqin Chang, Xiao-yuan Dong and Fiona MacPhail

Height and Cognitive Achievement of Vietnamese Children pp. 2211-2220

Le Thuc Duc

Determinants of Dietary Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 2221-2231

Dewan Arif Rashid, Lisa C. Smith and Tauhidur Rahman

Are Schooling and Roads Complementary? Evidence from Income Dynamics in Rural Indonesia pp. 2232-2244

Futoshi Yamauchi, Megumi Muto, Shyamal Chowdhury, Reno Dewina and Sony Sumaryanto

Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile pp. 2245-2256

Harry Patrinos and Christos Sakellariou

Volume 39, issue 11, 2011

More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData pp. 1891-1906

Michael J. Tierney, Daniel L. Nielson, Darren G. Hawkins, J. Timmons Roberts, Michael G. Findley, Ryan M. Powers, Bradley Parks, Sven E. Wilson and Robert Hicks

Aid Quality and Donor Rankings pp. 1907-1917

Stephen Knack, Frederic Rogers and Nicholas Eubank

The Money Trail: Ranking Donor Transparency in Foreign Aid pp. 1918-1929

Anirban Ghosh and Homi Kharas

Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices pp. 1930-1949

William Easterly and Claudia R. Williamson

Are ‘New’ Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid Between nonDAC and DAC Donor Countries pp. 1950-1968

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele

The Rise (and Decline?) of Arab Aid: Generosity and Allocation in the Oil Era pp. 1969-1980

Debra Shushan and Christopher Marcoux

What Determines the Size of Aid Projects? pp. 1981-1994

Christopher Kilby

The Localized Geography of Foreign Aid: A New Dataset and Application to Violent Armed Conflict pp. 1995-2009

Michael G. Findley, Josh Powell, Daniel Strandow and Jeff Tanner

Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid pp. 2010-2020

Axel Michaelowa and Katharina Michaelowa

Foreign Aid and Regime Change: A Role for Donor Intent pp. 2021-2031

Sarah Blodgett Bermeo

Chasing Success: Health Sector Aid and Mortality pp. 2032-2043

Sven E. Wilson

Dodging Adverse Selection: How Donor Type and Governance Condition Aid’s Effects on School Enrollment pp. 2044-2053

Zachary Christensen, Dustin Homer and Daniel L. Nielson

Volume 39, issue 10, 2011

Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries pp. 1691-1703

Richard Bird and Eric M. Zolt

Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target? pp. 1704-1723

Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

25Years of Aid Allocation Practice: Whither Selectivity? pp. 1724-1734

Paul Clist

Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach pp. 1735-1748

John Gerring, Peter Kingstone, Matthew Lange and Aseema Sinha

Land Transport for Export: The Effects of Cost, Time, and Uncertainty in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1749-1759

Nannette Christ and Michael J. Ferrantino

Local and Personal Networks in Employment and the Development of Labor Markets: Evidence from the Cut Flower Industry in Ethiopia pp. 1760-1770

Yukichi Mano, Takashi Yamano, Aya Suzuki and Tomoya Matsumoto

Financial Liberalization and the Industrial Response: Concentration and Entry in Malawi pp. 1771-1783

Grant Kabango and Alberto Paloni

Agricultural Technology, Crop Income, and Poverty Alleviation in Uganda pp. 1784-1795

Menale Kassie, Bekele Shiferaw and Geoffrey Muricho

Literacy Practices and Schooling: A Case Study from Mozambique pp. 1796-1807

Lucio Esposito, Bereket Kebede and Bryan Maddox

Measuring the Impact of Microfinance on Child Health Outcomes in Indonesia pp. 1808-1819

Stephen DeLoach and Erika Lamanna

Caste Stratification and Wealth Inequality in India pp. 1820-1833

Ajit Zacharias and Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Remittances and Competitiveness: The Case of the Philippines pp. 1834-1846

Veronica Bayangos and Karel Jansen

Return Migrants: The Rise of New Entrepreneurs in Rural China pp. 1847-1861

Sylvie Démurger and Hui Xu

Effects of Free Trade on Women and Immigrants: CAFTA and the Rural Dominican Republic pp. 1862-1877

Mateusz Filipski, J. Edward Taylor and Siwa Msangi

The Corn Price Surge: Impacts on Rural Mexico pp. 1878-1887

George A. Dyer and J. Edward Taylor

Comment: On the Interpretation (and Misinterpretation) of Inequality Decompositions by Income Sources pp. 1888-1890

Ayal Kimhi

Volume 39, issue 9, 2011

Trade Openness and Developing Countries' Vulnerability: Concepts, Misconceptions, and Directions for Research pp. 1489-1502

Pierluigi Montalbano

Informal Employment: Safety Net or Growth Engine? pp. 1503-1515

Norman Loayza and Iamele Rigolini

Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-national Comparison pp. 1516-1529

David S. Brown, Michael Touchton and Andrew Whitford

Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention pp. 1530-1541

Philip Keefer, Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper

Do Effective State Business Relations Matter for Economic Growth? Evidence from Indian States pp. 1542-1557

Massimiliano Calì and Kunal Sen

Fiscal Redistribution and Income Inequality in Latin America pp. 1558-1569

Edwin Goni Pacchioni, J. Humberto López and Luis Servén

The Co-Evolution of Firm-Centered Knowledge Networks and Capabilities in Late Industrializing Countries: The Case of Petrobras in the Offshore Oil Innovation System in Brazil pp. 1570-1591

Eva Dantas and Martin Bell

Can Entrepreneurial Activity be Taught? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Central America pp. 1592-1610

Bailey Klinger and Matthias Schündeln

Partial Vertical Integration, Risk Shifting, and Product Rejection in the High-Value Export Supply Chain: The Ghana Pineapple Sector pp. 1611-1623

Aya Suzuki, Lovell S. Jarvis and Richard J. Sexton

Wet Markets, Supermarkets and the "Big Middle" for Food Retailing in Developing Countries: Evidence from Thailand pp. 1624-1637

Matthew Gorton, Johannes Sauer and Pajaree Supatpongkul

Livestock's Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: How to Measure It? pp. 1638-1648

Véronique Alary, Christian Corniaux and Denis Gautier

Gender Implications of Biofuels Expansion in Africa: The Case of Mozambique pp. 1649-1662

Channing Arndt, Rui Benfica and James Thurlow

Determinants of Performance of Community-Based Drinking Water Organizations pp. 1663-1675

Róger Madrigal, Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez and Achim Schlüter

Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages pp. 1676-1689

Manasi Bhattacharyya, Arjun Bedi and Amrita Chhachhi

Volume 39, issue 8, 2011

Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients' Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors' Allocations in 2005-2007 pp. 1271-1280

Daniel E. Esser and Kara Keating Bench

A New Approach to the Allocation of Aid Among Developing Countries: Is the USA Different from the Rest? pp. 1281-1293

Jane Harrigan and Chengang Wang

Foreign Students and Migration to the United States pp. 1294-1307

Axel Dreher and Panu Poutvaara

Help or Hindrance? Religion's Impact on Gender Inequality in Attitudes and Outcomes pp. 1308-1321

Stephanie Seguino

Foreign Direct Investment and Wage Inequality: Evidence from China pp. 1322-1332

Zhihong Chen, Ying Ge and Huiwen Lai

Wages Equal Productivity. Fact or Fiction? Evidence from Sub Saharan Africa pp. 1333-1346

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

The Limits of R&D Internationalization and the Importance of Local Initiatives: Turkey as a Critical Case pp. 1347-1357

Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Asli Tuncay-Celikel and Christian Berggren

Local 'Test Bed' Market Demand in the Transition to Leadership: The Case of the Korean Mobile Handset Industry pp. 1358-1371

Yun-kyung Whang and Michael Hobday

Threatening to Increase Productivity: Evidence from Brazil's Oil Industry pp. 1372-1385

Benjamin Bridgman, Victor Gomes and Arilton Teixeira

The Impact of Operating in Multiple Value Chains for Upgrading: The Case of the Brazilian Furniture and Footwear Industries pp. 1386-1397

Lizbeth Navas-Alemán

Weathering the Storms: Credit Receipt and Child Labor in the Aftermath of the Great Floods (1998) in Bangladesh pp. 1398-1409

Eskander Alvi and Seife Dendir

Beyond Average Treatment Effects: Distribution of Child Nutrition Outcomes and Program Placement in India's ICDS pp. 1410-1421

Eeshani Kandpal

Gender Disparity in Access to Information: Do Spouses Share What They Know? pp. 1422-1433

Diana Fletschner and Dina Mesbah

Planting Hybrids, Keeping Landraces: Agricultural Modernization and Tradition Among Small-Scale Maize Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico pp. 1434-1443

Mauricio Bellon and Jon Hellin

Market Provisioning and the Conservation of Crop Biodiversity: An Analysis of Peasant Livelihoods and Maize Diversity in the Guatemalan Highlands pp. 1444-1459

S. Ryan Isakson

The Burkinabè Cotton Story 1992-2007: Sustainable Success or Sub-Saharan Mirage? pp. 1460-1475

Jonathan Kaminski, Derek Headey and Tanguy Bernard

Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is There Really a Puzzle?--A Comment pp. 1476-1484

Thomas Schober and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Reply to Schober and Winter-Ebmer pp. 1485-1487

Stephanie Seguino

Volume 39, issue 7, 2011

Globalization and the Empowerment of Women: An Analysis of Spatial Dependence via Trade and Foreign Direct Investment pp. 1065-1075

Eric Neumayer and Indra de Soysa

Remittances and Household Consumption Instability in Developing Countries pp. 1076-1089

Jean-Louis Combes and Christian Hubert Ebeke

R&D and Productivity: A Two Way Avenue? pp. 1090-1107

Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Álvaro García Marín

The Patterns of Technological Capabilities of Countries: A Dual Approach using Composite Indicators and Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 1108-1121

Andrea Filippetti and Antonio Peyrache

How Petty is Petty Corruption? Evidence from Firm Surveys in Africa pp. 1122-1132

George Clarke

Corruption, Attitudes, and Education: Survey Evidence from Nepal pp. 1133-1142

Rory Truex

Seeking the Local State: Gender, Caste, and the Pursuit of Public Services in Post-Tsunami India pp. 1143-1154

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

The Paradox of State Retrenchment in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Micro-Level Experience of Public Social Service Provision pp. 1155-1165

Lauren M. MacLean

Old Problems in the New Solutions? Politically Motivated Allocation of Program Benefits and the "New" Fertilizer Subsidies pp. 1166-1176

Afua Banful

China as a Final Market: The Gabon Timber and Thai Cassava Value Chains pp. 1177-1190

Raphael Kaplinsky, Anne Terheggen and Julia Tijaja

Can Microcredit Services Alleviate Hardship in African Small-scale Mining Communities? pp. 1191-1203

Gavin Hilson and Abigail Ackah-Baidoo

The Role of Foreign Technology and Indigenous Innovation in the Emerging Economies: Technological Change and Catching-up pp. 1204-1212

Xiaolan Fu, Carlo Pietrobelli and Luc Soete

Indigenous and Foreign Innovation Efforts and Drivers of Technological Upgrading: Evidence from China pp. 1213-1225

Xiaolan Fu and Yundan Gong

Foreign Direct Investment and R&D: Substitutes or Complements--A Case of Indian Manufacturing after 1991 Reforms pp. 1226-1239

Subash Sasidharan and Vinish Kathuria

Sources of External Technology, Absorptive Capacity, and Innovation Capability in Chinese State-Owned High-Tech Enterprises pp. 1240-1248

Xibao Li

Patterns of Innovation Practices of Multinational-affiliates in Emerging Economies: Evidences from Brazil and India pp. 1249-1260

Eliane Franco, Sangeeta Ray and Pradeep Kanta Ray

Global Value Chains Meet Innovation Systems: Are There Learning Opportunities for Developing Countries? pp. 1261-1269

Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti

Volume 39, issue 6, 2011

Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability pp. 875-881

Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink

Microfinance and Investment: A Comparison with Bank and Informal Lending pp. 882-897

Lucia Dalla Pellegrina

Does Microfinance Work as a Recovery Tool After Disasters? Evidence from the 2004 Tsunami pp. 898-912

Leonardo Becchetti and Stefano Castriota

Do Spouses Make Claims? Empowerment and Microfinance in India pp. 913-921

Ashok Rai and Shamika Ravi

Microfinance and Home Improvement: Using Retrospective Panel Data to Measure Program Effects on Fundamental Events pp. 922-937

Craig McIntosh, Gonzalo Villaran and Bruce Wydick

Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions pp. 938-948

Niels Hermes, Robert Lensink and Aljar Meesters

Does Regulatory Supervision Curtail Microfinance Profitability and Outreach? pp. 949-965

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

On the Efficiency Effects of Subsidies in Microfinance: An Empirical Inquiry pp. 966-973

Marek Hudon and Daniel Traca

Social Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Credit Access: Evidence from Rural Guatemala pp. 974-982

Bruce Wydick, Harmony Karp Hayes and Sarah Hilliker Kempf

Introduction: Sustainable Development, Energy, and Climate Change pp. 983-986

Kirsten Halsnæs, Anil Markandya and P. Shukla

Assessing the Role of Energy in Development and Climate Policies--Conceptual Approach and Key Indicators pp. 987-1001

Kirsten Halsnæs and Amit Garg

Pro-equity Effects of Ancillary Benefits of Climate Change Policies: A Case Study of Human Health Impacts of Outdoor Air Pollution in New Delhi pp. 1002-1025

Amit Garg

Biofuels and Sustainable Energy Development in Brazil pp. 1026-1036

Emilio Lèbre La Rovere, André Santos Pereira and André Felipe Simões

Access and Affordability of Electricity in Developing Countries pp. 1037-1050

Harald Winkler, André Felipe Simões, Emilio Lèbre la Rovere, Mozaharul Alam, Atiq Rahman and Stanford Mwakasonda

Equity and Distributional Implications of Climate Change pp. 1051-1060

Anil Markandya

Volume 39, issue 5, 2011

The Rule of Law and Economic Growth: Where are We? pp. 673-685

Stephan Haggard and Lydia Tiede

Political Economy Origins of Financial Markets in Europe and Asia pp. 686-699

Svetlana Andrianova, Panicos Demetriades and Chenggang Xu

Austerity and Moral Compromise: Lessons from the Development of China's Banking System pp. 700-711

Damian Tobin

Inflation Targeting and Real Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets pp. 712-724

Joshua Aizenman, Michael Hutchison and Ilan Noy

Does Aid for Trade Really Improve Trade Performance? pp. 725-740

Massimiliano Calì and Dirk Willem te Velde

Determinants of International Emergency Aid--Humanitarian Need Only? pp. 741-757

Günther Fink and Silvia Redaelli

Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A Global Analysis pp. 758-772

Bert D'Espallier, Isabelle Guérin and Roy Mersland

Grid Extension in Rural Benin: Micro-Manufacturers and the Electrification Trap pp. 773-783

Jörg Peters, Colin Vance and Marek Harsdorff

Supermarkets, Farm Household Income, and Poverty: Insights from Kenya pp. 784-796

Elizaphan J.O. Rao and Matin Qaim

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Off-farm Employment and Earnings in Rural China pp. 797-807

Jikun Huang, Huayong Zhi, Zhurong Huang, Scott Rozelle and John Giles

Domestic Repercussions of Different Types of FDI: Firm-Level Evidence for Taiwanese Manufacturing pp. 808-823

Wan-Hsin Liu and Peter Nunnenkamp

International Standardization Strategies of Latecomers: The Cases of Korean TPEG, T-DMB, and Binary CDMA pp. 824-838

Jae-Yong Choung, Illyong Ji and Tahir Hameed

The Forgotten Property Rights: Evidence on Land Use Rights in Vietnam pp. 839-850

Thomas Markussen, Finn Tarp and Katleen Van den Broeck

The Good, the Bad, and the Contradictory: Neoliberal Conservation Governance in Rural Southeast Asia pp. 851-862

Wolfram Dressler and Robin Roth

Supporting Post-conflict Democratic Development? External Promotion of Participatory Budgeting in El Salvador pp. 863-873

Gary Bland

Volume 39, issue 4, 2011

Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend pp. 475-489

Paul Segal

Shining a Light on the Resource Curse: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Natural Resources, Transparency, and Economic Growth pp. 490-505

Andrew Williams

Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth pp. 506-522

Tavneet Suri, Michael A. Boozer, Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart

A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain pp. 523-532

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Cecily Oden-Defoort

The Irrelevance of National Strategies? Rural Poverty Dynamics in States and Regions of India, 1993-2005 pp. 533-549

Anirudh Krishna and Abusaleh Shariff

Female Headship and Schooling Outcomes in Rural India pp. 550-560

Amita Chudgar

Input Choices in Agriculture: Is There A Gender Bias? pp. 561-568

Susan Chen, Priya Bhagowalia and Gerald Shively

Do Spouses Realise Cooperative Gains? Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda pp. 569-578

Vegard Iversen, Cecile Jackson, Bereket Kebede, Alistair Munro and Arjan Verschoor

The Private Health Care Sector and the Provision of Prenatal Care Services in Latin America pp. 579-587

Alejandro Arrieta, Ariadna García-Prado and Jorge Guillén

Child Labor and Schooling in Bolivia: Who's Falling Behind? The Roles of Domestic Work, Gender, and Ethnicity pp. 588-599

Daniela Zapata, Dante Contreras and Diana Kruger

Liquidity Profiles of Poor Mexican Households pp. 600-610

Julia Paxton and Lauren Young

Multi-Scale Forest Governance, Deforestation, and Violence in Two Regions of Guerrero, Mexico pp. 611-619

E. Durán, D.B. Bray, A. Velázquez and A. Larrazábal

FDI, Local Sourcing, and Supportive Linkages with Domestic Suppliers: The Case of Monterrey, Mexico pp. 620-632

Jacob Jordaan

MNEs and Local Linkages: Evidence from Taiwanese Affiliates pp. 633-647

Bih Jane Liu

Property Rights Institutions and Firm Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 648-661

Mahmut Yasar, Catherine Morrison Paul and Michael Ward

Participation, Adaptive Co-management, and Management Performance in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves pp. 662-671

Lisen Schultz, Andreas Duit and Carl Folke

Volume 39, issue 3, 2011

Shadow Sovereign Ratings for Unrated Developing Countries pp. 295-307

Dilip Ratha, Prabal K. De and Sanket Mohapatra

Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels: Need, Merit, and Self-Interest as Motives of German Donors pp. 308-323

Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

Did the World Bank Drive Tariff Reforms in Eastern Africa? pp. 324-335

Chris Jones, Oliver Morrissey and Doug Nelson

Does the Asian Development Bank Respond to Past Environmental Performance when Allocating Environmentally Risky Financing? pp. 336-350

Mark T. Buntaine

Impacts of Aid-Funded Technical Assistance Programs: Firm-Level Evidence from the Indonesian Foundry Industry pp. 351-362

Yasuyuki Todo

Value Added of Cluster Membership for Micro Enterprises of the Handloom Sector in Ethiopia pp. 363-374

Merima Ali and Jack Peerlings

Do Fresh Produce Exporters in Sub-Saharan Africa Benefit from GlobalGAP Certification? pp. 375-386

Spencer Henson, Oliver Masakure and John Cranfield

Field versus Farm in Warangal: Bt Cotton, Higher Yields, and Larger Questions pp. 387-398

Glenn Davis Stone

Evaluating the Health Effects of Micro Health Insurance Placement: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 399-411

Syed Hamid, Jennifer Roberts and Paul Mosley

Analyzing Nutritional Impacts of Policies: An Empirical Study for Malawi pp. 412-428

Olivier Ecker and Matin Qaim

Do the Commons Help Augment Mutual Insurance Among the Poor? pp. 429-438

Yoshito Takasaki

Repertoires of Domination: Decentralization as Process in Botswana and Senegal pp. 439-449

Amy R. Poteete and Jesse C. Ribot

Working Life, Well-Being and Welfare Reform: Motivation and Institutions Revisited pp. 450-473

Louise Haagh

Volume 39, issue 2, 2011

Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife. An Interdisciplinary Perspective pp. 147-158

Ravi Kanbur, Prem Kumar Rajaram and Ashutosh Varshney

Inequalities between Groups: Theory and Empirics pp. 159-173

Arjun Jayadev and Sanjay Reddy

Revisiting Between-Group Inequality Measurement: An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villages pp. 174-187

Peter Lanjouw and Vijayendra Rao

Riding the Ever-Rolling Stream: Time and the Ontology of Violent Conflict pp. 188-198

Graham Brown and Arnim Langer

Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War pp. 199-211

James Fearon and David D. Laitin

A Systematic Approach to Cultural Explanations of War: Tracing Causal Processes in Two West African Insurgencies pp. 212-220

Paul Richards

The Spatial Distribution of Riots: Patronage and the Instigation of Communal Violence in Gujarat, India pp. 221-230

Ward Berenschot

Explaining Anti-Chinese Riots in Late 20th Century Indonesia pp. 231-242

Samsu Rizal Panggabean and Benjamin Smith

Political Instrumentalization of Islam and the Risk of Obscurantist Deadlock pp. 243-260

Jean-Philippe Platteau

Religious Media, Devotional Islam, and the Morality of Ethnic Pluralism in Mauritius pp. 261-269

Patrick Eisenlohr

Estranged Natives and Indigenized Immigrants: A Relational Anthropology of Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel pp. 270-281

Daniel Monterescu

We-ness and Welfare: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Development in Kerala, India pp. 282-293

Prerna Singh

Volume 39, issue 1, 2011

Financial Openness and Productivity pp. 1-19

Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey and Christian Lundblad

Are Third World Emigration Forces Abating? pp. 20-32

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Entrepreneurship is Not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries pp. 33-44

Wim Naudé

Revisiting Religion: Development Studies Thirty Years On pp. 45-54

Séverine Deneulin and Carole Rakodi

The Politics of Public Health Aid: Why Corrupt Governments Have Incentives to Implement Aid Effectively pp. 55-63

Simone Dietrich

"AIDS is Money": How Donor Preferences Reconfigure Local Realities pp. 64-76

N. Simon Morfit

An Inquiry into Constraints on a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of NERICA Rice in Uganda pp. 77-86

Yoko Kijima, Keijiro Otsuka and Dick Sserunkuuma

Can Commercially-oriented Microfinance Help Meet the Millennium Development Goals? Evidence from Pakistan pp. 87-109

Heather Montgomery and John Weiss

Do Village Funds Improve Access to Finance? Evidence from Thailand pp. 110-122

Lukas Menkhoff and Ornsiri Rungruxsirivorn

Land Tenure Arrangements and Rural-Urban Migration in China pp. 123-133

Katrina Mullan, Pauline Grosjean and Andreas Kontoleon

Fair Trade/Organic Coffee, Rural Livelihoods, and the "Agrarian Question": Southern Mexican Coffee Families in Transition pp. 134-145

Bradford L. Barham, Mercedez Callenes, Seth Gitter, Jessa Lewis and Jeremy Weber