World Development

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Volume 36, issue 12, 2008

A Human Development Index by Income Groups pp. 2527-2546

Michael Grimm, Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen and Mark Misselhorn

Proposal for a Contingency Debt Sustainability Framework pp. 2547-2565

Benno Ferrarini

Giving and Receiving Foreign Aid: Does Conflict Count? pp. 2566-2585

Eliana Balla and Gina Yannitell Reinhardt

Liberalizing Autocracies in the Gulf Region? Reform Strategies in the Face of a Cultural-Economic Syndrome pp. 2586-2604

Brigitte Weiffen

An Impact Analysis of Microfinance in Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 2605-2619

Valentina Hartarska and Denis Nadolnyak

The Impact of Lending to Women on Household Vulnerability and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from India pp. 2620-2642

Supriya Garikipati

Water Rich, Resource Poor: Intersections of Gender, Poverty, and Vulnerability in Newly Irrigated Areas of Southeastern Turkey pp. 2643-2662

Leila M. Harris

Using Irrigation Insurance to Improve Water Usage of the Rio Mayo Irrigation System in Northwestern Mexico pp. 2663-2678

Akssell J. Leiva and Jerry R. Skees

Chile: The Unbearable Burden of Inequality pp. 2679-2695

Ramon Lopez and Sebastian Miller

The Limits of Pension Privatization: Lessons from Argentine Experience pp. 2696-2712

Camila Arza

Few Opportunities, Much Desperation: The Dichotomy of Non-Agricultural Activities and Inequality in Western Kenya pp. 2713-2732

Jann Lay, Toman Omar Mahmoud and George Michuki M'Mukaria

The Financial Performance of Non-farm Microenterprises in Ghana pp. 2733-2762

Oliver Masakure, John Cranfield and Spencer Henson

Management of Natural Resources at the Community Level: Exploring the Role of Social Capital and Leadership in a Rural Fishing Community pp. 2763-2779

Örjan Bodin and Beatrice I. Crona

Are We Getting There? Evidence of Decentralized Forest Management from the Tanzanian Miombo Woodlands pp. 2780-2800

Jens Lund and Thorsten Treue

Modeling Energy and Development: An Evaluation of Models and Concepts pp. 2801-2821

Bas van Ruijven, Frauke Urban, René M.J. Benders, Henri C. Moll, Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, Bert de Vries and Detlef P. van Vuuren

Trade Protection and Capital Imports in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector pp. 2822-2837

Vasilios Kosteas

Intra- and Inter-industry Externalities from Foreign Direct Investment in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector: New Evidence from Mexican Regions pp. 2838-2854

Jacob Jordaan

The Cross-industry Spillover of Technological Capability: Korea's DRAM and TFT-LCD Industries pp. 2855-2873

Tae-Young Park, Jae-Yong Choung and Hong-Ghi Min

Social Movements and the Dynamics of Rural Territorial Development in Latin America pp. 2874-2887

Anthony Bebbington, Ricardo Abramovay and Manuel Chiriboga

Mining and Social Movements: Struggles Over Livelihood and Rural Territorial Development in the Andes pp. 2888-2905

Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury, Jeannet Lingan, Juan Pablo Muñoz and Martin Scurrah

Social Movements Beyond the Iron Cage: Weak Ties in Territorial Development pp. 2906-2920

Ricardo Abramovay, Reginaldo Magalhães and Mônica Schröder

Neo-Corporatism and Territorial Economic Development: The Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement in Local Government pp. 2921-2936

Pablo Ospina Peralta, Alejandra Santillana Ortiz and María Arboleda

Questioning the Relationship between Participation and Development: A case study of the Vale do Ribeira, Brazil pp. 2937-2952

Vera Schattan P. Coelho and Arilson Favareto

"Fighting the Tide: Alternative Trade Organizations in the Era of Global Free Trade"--A Comment pp. 2953-2961

Mark Hayes

"Fighting the Tide: Alternative Trade Organizations in the Era of Global Free Trade"--A Reply pp. 2962-2965

Mark S. LeClair

Corrigendum to "Poverty Risks and National Parks: Policy Issues in Conservation and Resettlement" [World Development 34 (2006) 1808-1830] pp. 2966-2966

Michael M. Cernea and Kai Schmidt-Soltau

Corrigendum to "'Achieving Child-Health-Related Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure'--A Reply" [World Development 35 (2007) 929-930] pp. 2967-2967

Marianne Fay, Danny Leipziger, Quentin Wodon and Tito Yepes

Volume 36, issue 11, 2008

The Microfinance Collateralized Debt Obligation: A Modern Robin Hood? pp. 2109-2126

Hans Byström

Growth is Good for Whom, When, How? Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Exceptional Cases pp. 2127-2143

John A. Donaldson

Job Reallocation in Two Cases of Massive Adjustment in Eastern Europe pp. 2144-2169

Stepan Jurajda and Katherine Terrell

Rural-Urban Poverty Differences in Transition Countries pp. 2170-2187

Karen Macours and Johan Swinnen

Do Village Organizations Make a Difference in African Rural Development? A Study for Senegal and Burkina Faso pp. 2188-2204

Tanguy Bernard, Marie-Hélène Collion, Alain de Janvry, Pierre Rondot and Elisabeth Sadoulet

The Dynamics of Social Capital and Community Associations in Uganda: Linking Capital and its Consequences pp. 2205-2222

Kristof Titeca and Thomas Vervisch

The Returns to Vocational Training and Academic Education: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 2223-2242

Godius Kahyarara and Francis Teal

Competing Paradigms in Pastoral Development? A Perspective from the Far North of Cameroon pp. 2243-2254

Mark Moritz

Legal Pluralism and Decentralization: Natural Resource Management in Mali pp. 2255-2276

Charles E. Benjamin

Property Rights, Productivity, and Common Property Resources: Insights from Rural Cambodia pp. 2277-2296

Thomas Markussen

Dangerous Correlations: Aid's Impact on NGOs' Performance and Ability to Mobilize Members in Pakistan pp. 2297-2313

Masooda Bano

Destructive Competition: Factionalism and Rent-Seeking in Iran pp. 2314-2324

Kjetil Bjorvatn and Kjetil Selvik

Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants pp. 2325-2340

Simon Appleton and Lina Song

Market Reforms and Han-Muslim Variation in Employment in the Chinese State Sector in a Chinese City pp. 2341-2352

Xiaowei Zang

Synchronizing Export Orientation with Import Substitution: Creating Competitive Indigenous High-Tech Companies in China pp. 2353-2370

Yu Zhou

Highway-Induced Development: Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 2371-2389

Kumudu Gunasekera, William Anderson and T.R. Lakshmanan

Land Values in Frontier Settlements of the Brazilian Amazon pp. 2390-2401

Frank Merry, Gregory Amacher and Eirivelthon Lima

Opening Participatory Spaces for the Most Marginal: Learning from Collective Action in the Honduran Hillsides pp. 2402-2420

Lauren Classen, Sally Humphries, John FitzSimons, Susan Kaaria, José Jiménez, Fredy Sierra and Omar Gallardo

Education, Labor Supply, and Market Development in Rural Peru pp. 2421-2439

Sonia Laszlo

Impact of Microfinance on Schooling: Evidence from Poor Rural Households in Bolivia pp. 2440-2455

Jorge Maldonado and Claudio González-Vega

International Investment Agreements and Services Markets: Locking in Market Failure? pp. 2456-2469

Mark Manger

Government Subsidies and Presidential Election Outcomes: Evidence for a Developing Country pp. 2470-2488

Rodrigo Cerda and Rodrigo Vergara

Selective Spatial Closure and Local Economic Development: What Do We Learn from the Argentine Local Currency Systems? pp. 2489-2511

Georgina Gomez and A.H.J. Helmsing

Tax Evasion, Disclosure, and Participation in Financial Markets: Evidence from Brazilian Firms pp. 2512-2525

Thomas Kenyon

Volume 36, issue 10, 2008

China's Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today About China's Economic Growth Tomorrow pp. 1665-1691

Carsten Holz

World Bank Conditional Loans and Private Investment in Recipient Countries pp. 1692-1708

Mariarosaria Agostino

Private Investment: Trends and Determinants in Thailand pp. 1709-1724

Juthathip Jongwanich and Archanun Kohpaiboon

Firm Productivity in Bangladesh Manufacturing Industries pp. 1725-1744

Ana Fernandes

Explaining Differences in Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from Russia's Regions pp. 1745-1765

David Hauner

Poverty Traps and Index-Based Risk Transfer Products pp. 1766-1785

Barry Barnett, Christopher Barrett and Jerry R. Skees

Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia: Process, Initial Impact, and Implications for Other African Countries pp. 1786-1812

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Stein Holden and Jaap Zevenbergen

Spatial Externalities in Agriculture: Empirical Analysis, Statistical Identification, and Policy Implications pp. 1813-1829

David Lewis, Bradford L. Barham and Karl S. Zimmerer

How Well Can We Target Aid with Rapidly Collected Data? Empirical Results for Poverty Mapping from Cambodia pp. 1830-1842

Tomoki Fujii

Welfare Grants and Their Impact on Child Health: The Case of Sri Lanka pp. 1843-1857

Rozana Himaz

Peripheral Justice? Rethinking Justice Sector Reform in the Philippines pp. 1858-1873

Jennifer C. Franco

Success in High Value Horticultural Export Markets for the Small Farmers: The Case of Mahagrapes in India pp. 1874-1890

Devesh Roy and Amit Thorat

Governance Failure: Rethinking the Institutional Dimensions of Urban Water Supply to Poor Households pp. 1891-1915

Karen Bakker, Michelle Kooy, Nur Endah Shofiani and Ernst-Jan Martijn

Slum Real Estate: The Low-Quality High-Price Puzzle in Nairobi's Slum Rental Market and its Implications for Theory and Practice pp. 1916-1937

Sumila Gulyani and Debabrata Talukdar

The Knowledge that Counts: Institutional Identities, Policy Science, and the Conflict Over Fire Management in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela pp. 1938-1955

Bjørn Sletto

Building Institutions to Trade Ecosystem Services: Marketing Forest Carbon in Mexico pp. 1956-1979

Esteve Corbera and Katrina Brown

Technological Capabilities and Global-Local Interactions: The Electronics Industry in Two Mexican Regions pp. 1980-2003

Simona Iammarino, Ramon Padilla-Pérez and Nick von Tunzelmann

Do Local Knowledge Spillovers Matter for Development? An Empirical Study of Uruguay's Software Cluster pp. 2004-2028

Effie Kesidou and Henny Romijn

Social Security and Wealth Accumulation in Developing Economies: Evidence from the 1981 Chilean Reform pp. 2029-2044

Rodrigo Cerda

Introduction: The Volatility of Overseas Aid pp. 2045-2047

Ales Bulir, Alan Gelb and Paul Mosley

Volatility of Development Aid: From the Frying Pan into the Fire? pp. 2048-2066

Ales Bulir and A. Javier Hamann

Reforming Aid: Toward More Predictable, Performance-Based Financing for Development pp. 2067-2081

Benn Eifert and Alan Gelb

Aid Volatility, Policy and Development pp. 2082-2102

John Hudson and Paul Mosley

"Investing in Farmers--The Impacts of Farmer Field Schools in Relation to Integrated Pest Management"--A Comment pp. 2103-2106

Gershon Feder, R. Murgai and J. Quizon

"Investing in Farmers--The Impacts of Farmer Field Schools in Relation to Integrated Pest Management"--A Reply pp. 2107-2108

Henk van den Berg and Janice Jiggins

Volume 36, issue 9, 2008

Stop Interrupting: An Empirical Analysis of the Implementation of IMF Programs pp. 1493-1513

Ozlem Arpac, Graham Bird and Alex (Alexandros) Mandilaras

A Cheap Lunch for Emerging Markets: Removing International Financial Market Imperfections with Modern Financial Instruments pp. 1514-1530

Christian Bauer, Bernhard Herz and Stefan Hoops

The Cost of Doing Business in Africa: Evidence from Enterprise Survey Data pp. 1531-1546

Benn Eifert, Alan Gelb and Vijaya Ramachandran

Is Local Beautiful? Fiscal Decentralization in Mexico pp. 1547-1558

Fausto Hernandez-Trillo and Brenda Jarillo-Rabling

Poverty Transition and Persistence in Ethiopia: 1994-2004 pp. 1559-1584

Arne Bigsten and Abebe Abebe

Hot Stuff: Index Insurance for Indian Smallholder Pepper Growers pp. 1585-1606

Wouter Zant

Global Private Regulation and Value-Chain Restructuring in Indonesian Smallholder Coffee Systems pp. 1607-1622

Jeff Neilson

What Policies will Reduce Gender Schooling Gaps in Developing Countries: Evidence and Interpretation pp. 1623-1646

Peter Glick

Birth Order, Child Labor, and School Attendance in Brazil pp. 1647-1664

Patrick Emerson and André Souza

Volume 36, issue 8, 2008

Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing Countries pp. 1317-1341

Emanuele Baldacci, Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta and Qiang Cui

Agriculture, Development, and Urban Bias pp. 1342-1364

Dirk Bezemer and Derek Headey

The Dynamism of Mexican Exports: Lost in (Chinese) Translation? pp. 1365-1380

Kevin Gallagher, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Roberto Porzecanski

Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic: Schools or Stopgaps? pp. 1381-1397

Andrew Schrank

Reconsidering the Backward Vertical Linkages of Foreign Affiliates: Evidence from Japanese Multinationals pp. 1398-1414

Kozo Kiyota, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Shujiro Urata and Yuhong Wei

Market Reaction to Risky Banks: Did Generous Deposit Guarantee Change It? pp. 1415-1435

Zeynep Önder and Süheyla Özyildirim

Understanding the Coexistence of Formal and Informal Credit Markets in Piura, Peru pp. 1436-1452

Catherine Guirkinger

Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa pp. 1453-1468

Cheryl Doss, John McPeak and Christopher Barrett

Revisiting Theories of Frontier Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Survey of the Colonist Farming Population in Rondônia's Post-Frontier, 1992-2002 pp. 1469-1492

John O. Browder, Marcos A. Pedlowski, Robert Walker, Randolph H. Wynne, Percy M. Summers, Ana Abad, Nancy Becerra-Cordoba and Joao Mil-Homens

Volume 36, issue 7, 2008

Looking Ahead Optimally in Allocating Aid pp. 1135-1151

Adrian Wood

Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff? pp. 1152-1172

Erin C. Lentz and Christopher Barrett

Threshold Effects of Corruption: Theory and Evidence pp. 1173-1191

Niloy Bose, Salvatore Capasso and Antu Murshid

Economic Reforms, FDI, and Economic Growth in India: A Sector Level Analysis pp. 1192-1212

Chandana Chakraborty and Peter Nunnenkamp

Reforms with a Female Face: Gender, Liberalization, and Economic Policy in Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 1213-1232

Smriti Rao

The Mystery of Capital Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women, Property Rights and Customary Law pp. 1233-1246

S.F. Joireman

Economic Efficiency and Supply Response of Women as Farm Managers: Comparative Evidence from Western Kenya pp. 1247-1260

Arega D. Alene, Victor M. Manyong, Gospel O. Omanya, Hodeba D. Mignouna, Mpoko Bokanga and George D. Odhiambo

Monetary Union Membership in West Africa: A Cluster Analysis pp. 1261-1279

Charalambos Tsangarides and Mahvash Qureshi

The Distribution of Household Income in Brazil: Unequal and Immutable? pp. 1280-1293

Orlando Sotomayor

Decentralization's Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia pp. 1294-1316

Jean-Paul Faguet and Fabio Sanchez Torres

Volume 36, issue 6, 2008

Introduction: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Conceptual Issues, Empirical Illustrations and Policy Implications pp. 987-991

Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silber

Estimating Basic Capabilities: A Structural Equation Model Applied to Bolivia pp. 992-1010

Jaya Krishnakumar and Paola Ballon

Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty: Peru, 1998-2002 pp. 1011-1020

Cesar Calvo

Measuring Pro-Poor Growth in Non-Income Dimensions pp. 1021-1047

Melanie Grosse, Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

Global Estimates of Pro-Poor Growth pp. 1048-1066

Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani

On the Watts Multidimensional Poverty Index and its Decomposition pp. 1067-1077

Satya Chakravarty, Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

Experienced Poverty and Income Poverty in Mexico: A Subjective Well-Being Approach pp. 1078-1093

Mariano Rojas

Deprivation in the São Paulo Districts: Evidence from 2000 pp. 1094-1112

Conchita D'Ambrosio and Rute Imanishi Rodrigues

Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries pp. 1113-1130

Frikkie Booysen, Servaas van der Berg, Ronelle Burger, Michael von Maltitz and Gideon du Rand

Volume 36, issue 5, 2008

The Global Distribution of Income in 2050 pp. 727-740

Evan Hillebrand

The Diverging Patterns of Profitability, Investment and Growth of China and India During 1980-2003 pp. 741-774

Jesus Felipe, Editha Laviña and Emma Xiaoqin Fan

The Human Development Trap in Mexico pp. 775-796

David Mayer-Foulkes

Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar pp. 797-822

Bart Minten and Christopher Barrett

The Effects of Fair Trade on Affiliated Producers: An Impact Analysis on Kenyan Farmers pp. 823-842

Leonardo Becchetti and Marco Costantino

Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi pp. 843-859

Gautam Hazarika and Sudipta Sarangi

Food Aid Dependency in Northeastern Ethiopia: Myth or Reality? pp. 860-874

Peter D. Little

Women and Fish-for-Sex: Transactional Sex, HIV/AIDS and Gender in African Fisheries pp. 875-899

Christophe Béné and Sonja Merten

Men's Crops and Women's Crops: The Importance of Gender to the Understanding of Agricultural and Development Outcomes in Ghana's Central Region pp. 900-915

Edward Carr

Minimum Wages and Poverty in a Developing Country: Simulations from Indonesia's Household Survey pp. 916-933

Kelly Bird and Chris Manning

Disability and the Rural Labor Market in India: Evidence for Males in Tamil Nadu pp. 934-952

Sophie Mitra and Usha Sambamoorthi

The Determinants of Water Connection and Water Consumption: Empirical Evidence from a Cambodian Household Survey pp. 953-968

Marcello Basani, Jonathan Isham and Barry Reilly

Economic Heterogeneity and the Commons: Effects on Collective Action and Collective Goods Provisioning pp. 969-985

Lore M. Ruttan

Volume 36, issue 4, 2008

Capital Intensity, Technology Intensity, and Skill Development in Post China/WTO Maquiladoras pp. 541-559

John Sargent and Linda Matthews

Foreign Technology Licensing, Productivity, and Spillovers pp. 560-574

Ricardo López Rago

The Unspeakable Ban: The Translation of Global Pesticide Governance into Honduran National Regulation pp. 575-589

Kees Jansen

A Conceptual Framework for Community-Based Health Insurance in Low-Income Countries: Social Capital and Economic Development pp. 590-607

Philipa Mladovsky and Elias Mossialos

Women Bargaining to Seek Healthcare: Norms, Domestic Practices, and Implications in Rural Burkina Faso pp. 608-624

Béatrice Nikièma, Slim Haddad and Louise Potvin

Migration and Income Diversification:: Evidence from Burkina Faso pp. 625-640

Fleur Wouterse and J. Edward Taylor

Why do Beneficiaries Leave the Safety Net in Mexico? A Study of the Effects of Conditionality on Dropouts pp. 641-658

Carola Álvarez, Florencia Devoto and Paul Winters

Civil Conflict and Forced Migration: The Micro Determinants and Welfare Losses of Displacement in Colombia pp. 659-676

Ana Ibáñez and Carlos Velez

Civil Society and Good Governance: (Re-) Conceptualizing the Interface pp. 677-705

Indrajit Roy

Development of Groundwater Markets in China: A Glimpse into Progress to Date pp. 706-726

Lijuan Zhang, Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

Volume 36, issue 3, 2008

The Impact of Immigration: Comparing Two Global Eras pp. 345-361

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

Designing Global Collective Action in Population and HIV/AIDS Programs, 1983-2002: Has Anything Changed? pp. 362-382

Hendrik van Dalen

Are More Democratic Donor Countries More Development Oriented? Domestic Institutions and External Development Promotion in OECD Countries pp. 383-398

Jörg Faust

Cursing the Blessings? Natural Resource Abundance, Institutions, and Economic Growth pp. 399-419

Christa Brunnschweiler

Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: Measurement Issues using Income and Non-Income Indicators pp. 420-445

Stephan Klasen

Redistributive Conflict and Social Policy in Latin America pp. 446-460

Judith Teichman

An Analysis of a US-Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Free Trade Agreement pp. 461-484

Drusilla Brown, Kozo Kiyota and Robert Stern

External Debt in Post-Conflict Countries pp. 485-504

Patricia Alvarez-Plata and Tilman Brück

Links between the Local Trade in Natural Products, Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation in a Semi-arid Region of South Africa pp. 505-526

Sheona Shackleton, Bruce Campbell, Heila Lotz-Sisitka and Charlie Shackleton

Does Charcoal Production Slow Agricultural Expansion into the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest? pp. 527-540

Ricardo Labarta, Douglas S. White and Scott Swinton

Volume 36, issue 2, 2008

Introduction: The Impact of Asian Drivers on the Developing World pp. 197-209

Raphael Kaplinsky and Dirk Messner

Asian Growth and Trade Poles: India, China, and East and Southeast Asia pp. 210-234

Scott McDonald, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

The Impact of China on Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 235-253

Rhys Jenkins, Enrique Dussel Peters and Mauricio Moreira

Do the Asian Drivers Undermine Export-oriented Industrialization in SSA pp. 254-273

Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris

Global Governance and Developing Countries: The Implications of the Rise of China pp. 274-292

Jing Gu, John Humphrey and Dirk Messner

Do the Asian Drivers Pull their Diplomatic Weight China, India, and the United Nations pp. 293-307

Andrew F. Cooper and Thomas Fues

China's Capacities for Mitigating Climate Change pp. 308-324

Carmen Richerzhagen and Imme Scholz

Breakthrough China's and India's Transition from Production to Innovation pp. 325-344

Tilman Altenburg, Hubert Schmitz and Andreas Stamm

Volume 36, issue 1, 2008

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? Understanding Who Pays for Debt Relief pp. 1-16

Bernhard Gunter, Jesmin Rahman and Quentin Wodon

Core Labor Standards and Development: Impact on Long-Term Income pp. 17-38

Remi Bazillier

The Roles and Performance of State Firms and Non-State Firms in China's Economic Transition pp. 39-54

Shaomin Li and Jun Xia

Industrial Policy Changes and Firm-Level Technological Capability Development: Evidence from Northern Brazil pp. 55-88

Paulo Figueiredo

What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America? pp. 89-114

Pablo Acosta, Cesar Calderon, Pablo Fajnzylber and Humberto Lopez

Is There a Feminization of Poverty in Latin America? pp. 115-127

Marcelo Medeiros and Joana Costa

Gender Differentials in Literacy in India: The Intriguing Relationship with Women's Labor Force Participation pp. 128-143

Aparna Sundaram and Reeve Vanneman

Genetic Engineering for the Poor: Golden Rice and Public Health in India pp. 144-158

Alexander Stein, H.P.S. Sachdev and Matin Qaim

Greener than Thou: The Political Economy of Fish Ecolabeling and Its Local Manifestations in South Africa pp. 159-175

Stefano Ponte

Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research pp. 176-195

Amy R. Poteete and Elinor Ostrom