World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 35, issue 12, 2007

Human Rights, the Millennium Development Goals, and the Future of Development Cooperation pp. 2041-2055

Paul J. Nelson

Sri Lanka's Rural Non-Farm Economy: Removing Constraints to Pro-Poor Growth pp. 2056-2078

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Mona Sur

North versus South: The Impact of Social Norms in the Market Pricing of Private Property Rights in Vietnam pp. 2079-2095

Annette M. Kim

Gendered Realities: Exploring Property Ownership and Tenancy Relationships in Urban India pp. 2096-2109

Bipasha Baruah

Are Environmental Social Movements Socially Exclusive? An Historical Study from Thailand pp. 2110-2130

Tim Forsyth

For Better or for Worse? Local Impacts of the Decentralization of Indonesia's Forest Sector pp. 2131-2149

Charles Palmer and Stefanie Engel

Who will Meet China's Import Demand for Forest Products? pp. 2150-2160

Jian Zhang and Jianbang Gan

Power, Development, and Institutional Change: Participatory Governance in the Lower Mekong Basin pp. 2161-2181

Chris Sneddon and Coleen Fox

Protected Areas and Resettlement: What Scope for Voluntary Relocation? pp. 2182-2202

Kai Schmidt-Soltau and Dan Brockington

Volume 35, issue 11, 2007

The Economic Impact of Islam on Developing Countries pp. 1815-1835

Frederic L. Pryor

Are Economic Liberalization and Equality Compatible? Evidence from South Asia pp. 1836-1857

Udaya Wagle

Openness, Growth and Poverty: The Case of Taiwan pp. 1858-1871

Pan-Long Tsai and Chao-Hsi Huang

Grain Marketing Parastatals in Asia: Results from Six Case Studies pp. 1872-1888

Shahidur Rashid, Ralph Cummings and Ashok Gulati

Business-Government Relations and Industrial Change: The Politics of Upgrading in Morocco and Tunisia pp. 1889-1903

Melani Cammett

Globalization, Free Trade, and the Social Impact of the Decline of Informal Production: The Case of Artisans in Quito, Ecuador pp. 1904-1928

Alan Middleton

Group Inequalities and the Nature and Power of Collective Action: Case Studies from Peru pp. 1929-1946

Ismael Munoz, Maritza Paredes and Rosemary Thorp

For Reducing Poverty Faster: Target Reasons Before People pp. 1947-1960

Anirudh Krishna

In Search of Improved Rural Livelihoods in Semi-Arid Regions through Local Management of Natural Resources: Lessons from Case Studies in Zimbabwe pp. 1961-1974

Peter Frost, Bruce Campbell, Martin Luckert, Manyewu Mutamba, Alois Mandondo and Witness Kozanayi

Do Women's Land Rights Promote Empowerment and Child Health in Nepal? pp. 1975-1988

Keera Allendorf

Effect of Flood on Agricultural Wages in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis pp. 1989-2009

Lopamudra Banerjee

Why May Forest Devolution Not Benefit the Rural Poor? Forest Entitlements in Vietnam's Central Highlands pp. 2010-2025

Thomas Sikor and Tan Quang Nguyen

Paper Walls Are Easier to Tear Down: Passport Costs and Legal Barriers to Emigration pp. 2026-2039

David McKenzie

Volume 35, issue 10, 2007

The Competitiveness of Nations: Why Some Countries Prosper While Others Fall Behind pp. 1595-1620

Jan Fagerberg, Martin Srholec and Mark Knell

Rural Industrialization in China and India: Role of Policies and Institutions pp. 1621-1634

Anit Mukherjee and Xiaobo Zhang

Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance: Evidence from Rural China pp. 1635-1649

Shuna Wang and Yang Yao

Comparison of Energy Transitions in the United States and Developing and Industrializing Economies pp. 1650-1683

Peter J. Marcotullio and Niels B. Schulz

Promoting the "Development Dividend" of Climate Technology Transfer: Can Cross-sector Partnerships Help? pp. 1684-1698

Tim Forsyth

Reclaiming Development? NGOs and the Challenge of Alternatives pp. 1699-1720

Diana Mitlin, Sam Hickey and Anthony Bebbington

Mainstreaming Microfinance: Social Performance Management or Mission Drift? pp. 1721-1738

James Copestake

Gender and Property Formalization: Conventional and Alternative Approaches pp. 1739-1753

Ann Varley

The Challenge of Upgrading in African Industries: Socio-Spatial Factors and the Urban Environment in Mwanza, Tanzania pp. 1754-1778

James T. Murphy

Does Privatization Improve Job Satisfaction? The Case of Ghana pp. 1779-1795

Kofi Fred Asiedu and Henk Folmer

Transition from Karez to Tubewell Irrigation: Development, Modernization, and Social Capital in Balochistan, Pakistan pp. 1796-1813

Daanish Mustafa and Muhammed Usman Qazi

Volume 35, issue 9, 2007

Introduction to the Special Issue on "Property Rights, Collective Action, and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources" pp. 1481-1488

Pablo Eyzaguirre, Monica Di Gregorio and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

The Impacts of Collective Action and Property Rights on Plant Genetic Resources pp. 1489-1498

Pablo B. Eyzaguirre and Evan M. Dennis

Farmers' Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge pp. 1499-1514

Stephen B. Brush

Protecting Farmers' New Varieties: New Approaches to Rights on Collective Innovations in Plant Genetic Resources pp. 1515-1528

Rene Salazar, Niels P. Louwaars and Bert Visser

Property Rights and the Management of Animal Genetic Resources pp. 1529-1541

Simon Anderson and Roberta Centonze

Are there Customary Rights to Plants? An Inquiry among the Baganda (Uganda), with Special Attention to Gender pp. 1542-1563

Patricia L. Howard and Gorettie Nabanoga

Local Institutions and Plant Genetic Conservation: Exchange of Plant Genetic Resources in Rural Uzbekistan and some Theoretical Implications pp. 1564-1578

Evan Dennis, Jarilkasin Ilyasov, Eric van Dusen, Sergey Treshkin, Marina Lee and Pablo Eyzaguirre

The Dynamics of Farmers' Maize Seed Supply Practices in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico pp. 1579-1593

Lone B. Badstue, Mauricio Bellon, Julien Berthaud, Alejandro Ramirez, Dagoberto Flores and Xochitl Juarez

Volume 35, issue 8, 2007

Banking on the Equator. Are Banks that Adopted the Equator Principles Different from Non-Adopters? pp. 1307-1328

Bert Scholtens and Lammertjan Dam

Revisiting Price-based Controls on Capital Inflows in a "Sophisticated" Emerging Market pp. 1329-1340

Antonio David

Synergies through Linkages: Who Benefits from Linking Micro-Finance and Business Development Services? pp. 1341-1358

Merten Sievers and Paul Vandenberg

Can the Design of Community-Driven Development Reduce the Risk of Elite Capture? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1359-1375

Scott A. Fritzen

Improving Nutrition through Community Growth Promotion: Longitudinal Study of the Nutrition and Early Child Development Program in Uganda pp. 1376-1389

Harold Alderman

Caring and Contributing: The Role of Older Women in Rural South African Multi-generational Households in the HIV/AIDS Era pp. 1390-1403

Enid Schatz and Catherine Ogunmefun

Protecting the Poor? The Distributional Impact of a Bundled Insurance Scheme pp. 1404-1421

Tara Sinha, M. Kent Ranson and Anne J. Mills

Adoption and Impact of Hybrid Wheat in India pp. 1422-1435

Ira Matuschke, Ritesh R. Mishra and Matin Qaim

Evaluating Social Impacts of Watershed Development in India pp. 1436-1449

R.A. Hope

Organizing for Governance: Building Collaboration in Brazilian River Basins pp. 1450-1463

Rebecca Neaera Abers

Diversification into Horticulture and Poverty Reduction: A Research Agenda pp. 1464-1480

Katinka Weinberger and Thomas A. Lumpkin

Volume 35, issue 7, 2007

A New Resource Curse? Impacts of China's Boom on Comparative Advantage and Resource Dependence in Southeast Asia pp. 1099-1119

Ian Coxhead

Explaining Korea's Lower Investment Levels After the Crisis pp. 1120-1133

Takuji Kinkyo

Imports, Productivity Growth, and Supply Chain Learning pp. 1134-1151

Garrick Blalock and Francisco M. Veloso

Certification and Communities: Alternatives for Regulating the Environmental and Social Impacts of Shrimp Farming pp. 1152-1171

Peter Vandergeest

Loose Fruit Mamas: Creating Incentives for Smallholder Women in Oil Palm Production in Papua New Guinea pp. 1172-1185

Gina Koczberski

Development Through Conservation: An Institutional Analysis of Indigenous Community-Based Conservation in Taiwan pp. 1186-1203

Hsing-Sheng Tai

Household Bargaining Power and Agricultural Supply Response: Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Growers pp. 1204-1220

Sung Soo Lim, Alex Winter-Nelson and Mary Arends-Kuenning

The Perverse Effects of High Brideprices pp. 1221-1236

Jean-Philippe Platteau and Frédéric Gaspart

Understanding Victimization: The Case of Mozambique pp. 1237-1258

Mikkel Barslund, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Jacinto Chiconela

Multidimensional Measures of Well-Being: Standard of Living and Quality of Life Across Countries pp. 1259-1276

Valerie Berenger and Audrey Verdier-Chouchane

Civil Society in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Eurasia: A Cross-National Analysis of Micro- and Macro-Factors pp. 1277-1305

Velina P. Petrova

Volume 35, issue 6, 2007

Opening the Ivory Tower to Business: University-Industry Linkages and the Development of Knowledge-Intensive Clusters in Asian Cities pp. 931-940

Eric Hershberg, Kaoru Nabeshima and Shahid Yusuf

Towards an "Entrepreneurial University" Model to Support Knowledge-Based Economic Development: The Case of the National University of Singapore pp. 941-958

Poh Wong, Yuen Ping Ho and Annette Singh

Global Assemblage: Singapore, Foreign Universities, and the Construction of a "Global Education Hub" pp. 959-975

Kris Olds

How Japanese Companies have used Scientific Advances to Restructure their Businesses: The Receiver-Active National System of Innovation pp. 976-990

Fumio Kodama and Jun Suzuki

Universities, Clusters, and Innovation Systems: The Case of Seoul, Korea pp. 991-1004

Dong-Won Sohn and Martin Kenney

Enhancing the Role of Universities in Building National Innovative Capacity in Asia: The Case of Taiwan pp. 1005-1020

John A. Mathews and Mei-Chih Hu

University-Industry Linkages and Economic Development: The Case of Thailand pp. 1021-1036

Peter Brimble and Richard F. Doner

Role of Educational and R&D Institutions in City Clusters: An Exploratory Study of Bangalore and Pune Regions in India pp. 1037-1055

Rakesh Basant and Pankaj Chandra

Universities/Research Institutes and Regional Innovation Systems: The Cases of Beijing and Shenzhen pp. 1056-1074

Kun Chen and Martin Kenney

Cultivating Research Universities and Industrial Linkages in China: The Case of Shanghai pp. 1075-1093

Weiping Wu

Volume 35, issue 5, 2007

The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success pp. 735-751

Michael Clemens, Charles Kenny and Todd J. Moss

Sources of Growth Revisited: Evidence from Selected MENA Countries pp. 752-771

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader

The Next Wave of Globalization: Relocating Service Provision to India pp. 772-791

Rafiq Dossani and Martin Kenney

A Framework for the Integration of Diverse Learning Approaches: Operationalizing Agricultural Research and Development (R&D) Linkages in Eastern Africa pp. 792-814

Laura German and Ann Stroud

Subdividing the Commons: Distributional Conflict in the Transition from Collective to Individual Property Rights in Kenya's Maasailand pp. 815-834

Esther Mwangi

Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras pp. 835-856

Michael Carter, Peter D. Little, Tewodaj Mogues and Workneh Negatu

Domestic Violence and Dowry: Evidence from a South Indian Village pp. 857-880

Sharada Srinivasan and Arjun Bedi

Son Preference and Child Labor in Nepal: The Household Impact of Sending Girls to Work pp. 881-903

Gayatri B. Koolwal

Support for Democracy in Malawi: Does Schooling Matter? pp. 904-919

Geoffrey Evans and Pauline Rose

"Achieving Child-Health-Related Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure"--A Comment pp. 920-928

Martin Ravallion

"Achieving Child-Health-Related Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure"--A Reply pp. 929-930

Marianne Fay, Danny Leipziger, Quentin Wodon and Tito Yepes

Volume 35, issue 4, 2007

Economic Development and the Escape from High Mortality pp. 543-568

Javier Birchenall

The Decline of Township-and-Village Enterprises in China's Economic Transition pp. 569-584

James Kung and Yi-min Lin

Crisis, Connections, and Class: How Social Ties Affect Household Welfare pp. 585-606

Anna Wetterberg

Household Contributions to Community Development in Indonesia pp. 607-625

Victoria A. Beard

Building Local Democracy: Evaluating the Impact of Decentralization in Kerala, India pp. 626-648

Patrick Heller, K.N. Harilal and Shubham Chaudhuri

Citizen Feedback and Delivery of Urban Services pp. 649-662

Uwe Deichmann and Somik Lall

Investing in Farmers--The Impacts of Farmer Field Schools in Relation to Integrated Pest Management pp. 663-686

Henk Van den Berg and Janice Jiggins

Do Government Food Price Policies Affect the Prevalence of Obesity? Empirical Evidence from Egypt pp. 687-701

Abay Asfaw

Fiscal Allocation for Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of the External Debt Service Constraint pp. 702-713

Augustin Fosu

Privatization, State Ownership, and Bank Performance in Egypt pp. 714-733

Mohammed Omran

Volume 35, issue 3, 2007

Fear of China: Is There a Future for Manufacturing in Latin America? pp. 355-376

Mauricio Moreira

Explaining Export Success: Firm Characteristics and Spillover Effects pp. 377-393

Roberto Alvarez

Gender and Well-being in the Dominican Republic: The Impact of Free Trade Zone Employment and Female Headship pp. 394-409

Ana S.Q. Liberato and Dana Fennell

Determinant Factors of FDI Spillovers - What Do We Really Know? pp. 410-425

Nuno Crespo and Maria Paula Fontoura

Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Science-based Enabling Technologies as Windows of Opportunity for LDCs? pp. 426-438

Jorge Niosi and Susan E. Reid

Foreign Aid and Fiscal Governance in Melanesia pp. 439-453

Simon Feeny

Development through Positive Deviance and its Implications for Economic Policy Making and Public Administration in Africa: The Case of Kenyan Agricultural Development, 1930-2005 pp. 454-479

Cosmas Ochieng

Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts pp. 480-497

Travis Lybbert, Christopher Barrett, John McPeak and Winnie K. Luseno

Credit, Natural Disasters, Coffee, and Educational Attainment in Rural Honduras pp. 498-511

Seth Gitter and Bradford L. Barham

The Value of Statistical Life and the Economics of Landmine Clearance in Developing Countries pp. 512-531

John Gibson, Sandra Barns, Michael Cameron, Steven Lim, Francis Scrimgeour and John Tressler

Worlds Apart? Ethnographic Reflections on "Effective Literacy" and Intrahousehold Externalities pp. 532-541

Bryan Maddox

Corrigendum to "Poverty Alleviation as Business Strategy? Evaluating Commitments of Frontrunner Multinational Corporations" [World Development 34 (2006) 789-801] pp. 542-541

Ans Kolk, Rob Van Tulder and Bart Westdijk

Volume 35, issue 2, 2007

Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis: Implications for Q-Squared in Practice pp. 183-196

Ravi Kanbur and Paul Shaffer

Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Assessing Chronic Poverty: The Case of Rwanda pp. 197-211

Gerard Howe and Andy McKay

"Hearing the Voices of the Poor": Assigning Poverty Lines on the Basis of Local Perceptions of Poverty. A Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Data from Participatory Wealth Ranking in Rural South Africa pp. 212-229

James R. Hargreaves, Linda A. Morison, John S.S. Gear, Mzamani B. Makhubele, John D.H. Porter, Joanna Busza, Charlotte Watts, Julia C. Kim and Paul M. Pronyk

Governance in the Gullies: Democratic Responsiveness and Leadership in Delhi's Slums pp. 230-246

Saumitra Jha, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock

Methodological Innovations in Research on the Dynamics of Poverty: A Longitudinal Study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa pp. 247-263

Michelle Adato, Francie Lund and Phakama Mhlongo

Squaring the "Q"s? Methodological Reflections on a Study of Destitution in Ethiopia pp. 264-280

Kay Sharp

"P3 > Q2" in Northern Orissa: An Example of Integrating "Combined Methods" (Q2) Through a "Platform for Probing Poverties" (P3) pp. 281-295

Alan Rew, Shahzad Khan and Martin Rew

Understanding Poverty and Vulnerability in India's Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: A Q-squared Approach pp. 296-311

Barbara Parker and Valerie Kozel

Understanding Rural Poverty and Investment in Agriculture: An Assessment of Integrated Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Western Kenya pp. 312-325

Frank Place, Michelle Adato and Paul Hebinck

The Best of Both Worlds: Producing National Statistics Using Participatory Methods pp. 326-341

Carlos Barahona and Sarah Levy

Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data in Welfare Policy Evaluations in the United States pp. 342-353

Andrew S. London, Saul Schwartz and Ellen K. Scott

Volume 35, issue 1, 2007

Why Countries Become Wealthy: The Effects of Adult Longevity on Saving pp. 1-23

Tomoko Kinugasa and Andrew Mason

Universal Pensions for Developing Countries pp. 24-51

Larry Willmore

Economic Freedom, Democracy, and the Quality of Life pp. 52-66

Michael D. Stroup

The Right of Registration: Development, Identity Registration, and Social Security--A Historical Perspective pp. 67-86

Simon Szreter

The Impact of Regulation on Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 87-103

Hossein Jalilian, Colin Kirkpatrick and David Parker

Who Deserves Aid? Equality of Opportunity, International Aid, and Poverty Reduction pp. 104-120

Denis Cogneau and Jean-David Naudet

Demand and Supply-Side Determinants of Conditional Cash Transfer Program Effectiveness pp. 121-143

Carolyn Heinrich

Connective Power: Solar Electrification and Social Change in Kenya pp. 144-162

Arne Jacobson

The Rise of Self-Employment in Rural China: Development or Distress? pp. 163-181

Sandeep Mohapatra, Scott Rozelle and Rachael Goodhue