World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 34, issue 12, 2006

Economic Liberalization and Wage Inequality in India pp. 1997-2015

Rubiana Chamarbagwala

The Political Economy of Chinese-Style Privatization: Motives and Constraints pp. 2016-2033

Guy S. Liu, Pei Sun and Wing Woo

The Increasing Selectivity of Foreign Aid, 1984-2003 pp. 2034-2046

David Dollar and Victoria Levin

Coordination, Challenges, and Innovations in 19 National Sustainable Development Strategies pp. 2047-2063

Axel Volkery, Darren Swanson, Klaus Jacob, Francois Bregha and Laszlo Pinter

Parks, People, and Forest Protection: An Institutional Assessment of the Effectiveness of Protected Areas pp. 2064-2075

Tanya M. Hayes

Updating Poverty Maps with Panel Data pp. 2076-2088

Thomas Emwanu, Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Paul Okiira Okwi

Farmer Participation in Market Authorities of Coffee Exporting Countries pp. 2089-2115

Cari An Coe

Socio-Economic Impact of Super Typhoon Harurot in San Mariano, Isabela, the Philippines pp. 2116-2136

Marco G.A. Huigen and Isabella C. Jens

Industrial Policy and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Paper Making Machinery in Indonesia pp. 2137-2152

Michiel Van Dijk and Adam Szirmai

Volume 34, issue 11, 2006

Rescaling Governance and the Impacts of Political and Environmental Decentralization: An Introduction pp. 1851-1863

Simon P.J. Batterbury and Jude L. Fernando

Recentralizing While Decentralizing: How National Governments Reappropriate Forest Resources pp. 1864-1886

Jesse C. Ribot, Arun Agrawal and Anne M. Larson

Governing Access to Forests in Northern Ghana: Micro-Politics and the Rents of Non-Enforcement pp. 1887-1906

D. Andrew Wardell and Christian Lund

Decentralization, Ecological Construction, and the Environment in Post-Reform China:: Case Study from Uxin Banner, Inner Mongolia pp. 1907-1921

Hong Jiang

Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India pp. 1922-1941

Rene Veron, Glyn Williams, Stuart Corbridge and Manoj Srivastava

Is Small Really Beautiful? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Malawi and Botswana pp. 1942-1957

Piers Blaikie

Local Capacity, Village Governance, and the Political Economy of Rural Development in Indonesia pp. 1958-1976

Anthony Bebbington, Leni Dharmawan, Erwin Fahmi and Scott Guggenheim

Paradoxes of Decentralization: Water Reform and Social Implications in Mexico pp. 1977-1995

Margaret Wilder and Patricia Romero Lankao

Volume 34, issue 10, 2006

Examining Inequality: Who Really Benefits from Global Growth? pp. 1667-1695

Peter Edward

A Comparative Welfare Regime Approach to Global Social Policy pp. 1696-1712

Geof Wood and Ian Gough

Exclusion, Inclusion, and Enclosure: Historical Commons and Modern Intellectual Property pp. 1713-1727

Carlisle Runge and Edi Defrancesco

Finance and trade: A cross-country empirical analysis on the impact of financial development and asset tangibility on international trade pp. 1728-1741

Jung Hur, Manoj Raj and Yohanes Riyanto

Industrial Development and Innovation: Some Lessons from Vaccine Procurement pp. 1742-1764

Smita Srinivas

Vulnerability and Resilience: Determinants of Under-Five Mortality Changes in Zambia pp. 1765-1787

Michel Garenne and Albert Eneas Gakusi

Trust in Lending: Social Capital and Joint Liability Seed Loans in Southern Zambia pp. 1788-1807

Thierry van Bastelaer and Howard Leathers

Poverty Risks and National Parks: Policy Issues in Conservation and Resettlement pp. 1808-1830

Michael M. Cernea and Kai Schmidt-Soltau

Pressure on the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve: Development and Land Use/Cover Change in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon pp. 1831-1849

Carlos F. Mena, Alisson F. Barbieri, Stephen J. Walsh, Christine M. Erlien, Flora L. Holt and Richard E. Bilsborrow

Volume 34, issue 9, 2006

Inequality and development across and within countries pp. 1459-1481

Garth Frazer

Is Aid Oil? An Analysis Of Whether Africa Can Absorb More Aid pp. 1482-1497

Paul Collier

Investment climate and international integration pp. 1498-1516

David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Taye Mengistae

The Changing Global Geography of Low-Technology, Labor-Intensive Industry: Clothing, Footwear, and Furniture pp. 1517-1536

Allen Scott

The Effects of Privatization on Efficiency: How Does Privatization Work? pp. 1537-1556

Cagla Okten and Kerim Arin

Privatization, Income Distribution, and Poverty: The Mongolian Experience pp. 1557-1579

Frederick Nixson and Bernard Walters

Crisis and policymaking in Latin America: The case of Chile's 1998-99 electricity crisis pp. 1580-1596

Maria Victoria Murillo and Carmen Le Foulon

Environment During growth: Accounting for governance and vulnerability pp. 1597-1611

Susmita Dasgupta, Kirk Hamilton, Kiran D. Pandey and David Wheeler

Microfinance in Northeast Thailand: Who benefits and how much? pp. 1612-1638

Brett E. Coleman

Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? pp. 1639-1653

Lina Song, Simon Appleton and John Knight

Risking death for survival: Peasant responses to hunger and HIV/AIDS in Malawi pp. 1654-1666

Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Jodie Fonseca

Volume 34, issue 8, 2006

Introduction: The impact of globalization on the world's poor pp. 1333-1337

Erik Thorbecke and Machiko Nissanke

Channels and policy debate in the globalization-inequality-poverty nexus pp. 1338-1360

Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke

Globalization, poverty, and inequality: What is the relationship? What can be done? pp. 1361-1373

Kaushik Basu

Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate pp. 1374-1392

Martin Ravallion

Globalization and rural poverty pp. 1393-1404

Pranab Bardhan

Globalization, local ecosystems, and the rural poor pp. 1405-1418

Rimjhim M. Aggarwal

Globalization's bystanders: Does trade liberalization hurt countries that do not participate? pp. 1419-1429

Robert Stern and Alan Deardorff

Agricultural biotechnology and poverty reduction in low-income countries pp. 1430-1445

Gregory Graff, David Roland-Holst and David Zilberman

Poverty and the welfare costs of risk associated with globalization pp. 1446-1457

Ethan Ligon

Volume 34, issue 7, 2006

Natural wealth accounts: A proposal for alleviating the natural resource curse pp. 1153-1170

Martin E. Sandbu

Regional heterogeneity in the relationship between fiscal imbalances and foreign exchange market pressure pp. 1171-1181

Graham Bird and Alex (Alexandros) Mandilaras

The political obstacles to greater exchange rate flexibility in China pp. 1182-1200

Stephen Kaplan

How does trade affect regional disparities? pp. 1201-1222

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Nicholas Gill

Harmonization without representation: Small states, the Basel Committee, and the WTO pp. 1223-1236

Roman Grynberg and Sacha Silva

The political economy of civil war in Nepal pp. 1237-1253

Kishor Sharma

The impact of collective action on economic development: empirical evidence from Kerala, India pp. 1254-1270

Patricia Justino

Market work and household work as deterrents to schooling in Bangladesh pp. 1271-1286

Shahina Amin, Shakil Quayes and Janet M. Rives

The role of opinion leaders in the diffusion of new knowledge: The case of integrated pest management pp. 1287-1300

Gershon Feder and Sara Savastano

Networks, distance, and trust: Telecommunications Development and changing trading practices in Ghana pp. 1301-1315

Ragnhild Overa

Empowerment and institutions: Managing fisheries in Uganda pp. 1316-1332

Fiona Nunan

Volume 34, issue 6, 2006

Aid distribution and the MDGs pp. 933-950

Bob Baulch

Accountability for Empowerment: Dilemmas Facing Non-Governmental Organizations pp. 951-963

Patrick Kilby

An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming pp. 964-980

William Easterly

Revisiting the revisited terms of trade: Will China make a difference? pp. 981-995

Raphael Kaplinsky

Development trajectories and new comparative advantages: Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic under Globalization pp. 996-1015

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

Groundnut trade liberalization: Could the South help the south? pp. 1016-1036

John Beghin, Ndiame Diop and Holger Matthey

Infrastructural investment in long-run economic growth: South Africa 1875-2001 pp. 1037-1059

Johannes Fedderke, P. Perkins and John Luiz

Natural resource abundance and human capital accumulation pp. 1060-1083

Jean-Philippe Stijns

Social capital and health in Indonesia pp. 1084-1098

Douglas Miller, Richard Scheffler, Suong Lam, Rhonda Rosenberg and Agnes Rupp

Inequalities in children's schooling: AIDS, orphanhood, poverty, and gender pp. 1099-1128

Martha Ainsworth and Deon Filmer

Researching gender violence in schools: Methodological and ethical considerations pp. 1129-1147

Fiona Leach

Volume 34, issue 5, 2006

IMF and economic growth: The effects of programs, loans, and compliance with conditionality pp. 769-788

Axel Dreher

Poverty alleviation as business strategy? Evaluating commitments of frontrunner Multinational Corporations pp. 789-801

Ans Kolk and Rob van Tulder

Is foreign direct investment beneficial for Mexico? An empirical analysis, 1960-2001 pp. 802-817

Miguel Ramirez

The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs: A comparative analysis of three programs in Latin America pp. 818-837

Natalia Caldes, David Coady and John Maluccio

After the labor migrants leave: The search for sustainable development in a sending region of the Ecuadorian Amazon pp. 838-851

Thomas K. Rudel

Innovative development strategies from Non-Sovereign Island jurisdictions? A global review of economic policy and governance practices pp. 852-867

Godfrey Baldacchino

Making corporate self-regulation effective in developing countries pp. 868-883

David Graham and Ngaire Woods

Responsive regulation and developing economies pp. 884-898

John Braithwaite

Multi-stakeholder regulation: privatizing or socializing global labor standards? pp. 899-918

Dara O'Rourke

Combining global and local forces: The case of labor rights in Cambodia pp. 919-932

Sandra Polaski

Volume 34, issue 4, 2006

The effect of population health on foreign direct investment inflows to low- and middle-income countries pp. 613-630

Marcella Alsan, David Bloom and David Canning

Unemployment and the real exchange rate in Latin America pp. 631-646

Roberto Frenkel and Jaime Ros

Does competition in privatized social services work? The Chilean Experience pp. 647-664

Ronald Fischer, Pablo Gonzalez and Pablo Serra

Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh pp. 665-684

Akhter Ahmed and Mary Arends-Kuenning

Group-based funeral insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania pp. 685-703

Stefan Dercon, Joachim De Weerdt, Tessa Bold and Alula Pankhurst

The impact of HIV/AIDS on land rights: Perspectives from Kenya pp. 704-727

Michael Aliber and Cherryl Walker

Livelihood dynamics in planned and spontaneous resettlement in Zimbabwe: Converging and Vulnerable pp. 728-750

Admos Chimhowu and David Hulme

Assessing Natural Resource Management Challenges in Senegal Using Data from Participatory Rural Appraisals and Remote Sensing pp. 751-767

Molly E. Brown

Volume 34, issue 3, 2006

Basic health care provision and under-5 mortality: A Cross-National study of developing Countries pp. 405-425

James W. McGuire

Economic growth: A panacea for child labor? pp. 426-445

Uma Kambhampati and Raji Rajan

An operational method for assessing the poverty outreach performance of development policies and projects: Results of case studies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America pp. 446-464

Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Carla Henry and Cecile Lapenu

Openness and wage inequality in Kenya, 1964-2000 pp. 465-480

Arne Bigsten and Dick Durevall

Land rental markets in transition: Theory and evidence from Hungary pp. 481-500

Liesbet Vranken and Johan Swinnen

The real, real price of nonrenewable resources: copper 1870-2000 pp. 501-519

Peter Svedberg and John Tilton

Transnational corporations and network effects of a local manufacturing cluster in mobile telecommunications equipment in China pp. 520-540

Wai Chung Henry Yeung, Weidong Liu and Peter Dicken

Foreign direct investment and technology spillover: A cross-industry analysis of Thai manufacturing pp. 541-556

Archanun Kohpaiboon

Stakeholder attitudes toward GMOs in the Philippines, Mexico, and South Africa: The issue of public trust pp. 557-575

Philipp Aerni and Thomas Bernauer

Municipal politics and forest governance: Comparative analysis of decentralization in Bolivia and Guatemala pp. 576-595

Krister P. Andersson, Clark C. Gibson and Fabrice Lehoucq

Woodfuels, livelihoods, and policy interventions: Changing Perspectives pp. 596-611

J.E. Michael Arnold, Gunnar Köhlin and Reidar Persson

Volume 34, issue 2, 2006

Global commodity chains and endogenous growth: Export dynamism and development in Mexico and Honduras pp. 203-221

Jennifer Bair and Enrique Dussel Peters

The "sophistication" of exports: A new trade measure pp. 222-237

Sanjaya Lall, John Weiss and Jinkang Zhang

Tax smoothing and the cross-country pattern of privatization pp. 238-246

Peter Berck, Jonathan Lipow and Ralf Steinhauser

The economic and political determinants of IMF and world bank lending in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 247-270

Jane Harrigan, Chengang Wang and Hamed El-Said

Pathways out of and into poverty in 36 villages of Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 271-288

Anirudh Krishna

Gender and ethnicity differentials in school attainment and labor market earnings in Ecuador pp. 289-307

Adela Garcia-Aracil and Carolyn Winter

Globalization, Forest Resurgence, and Environmental Politics in El Salvador pp. 308-323

Susanna B. Hecht, Susan Kandel, Ileana Gomes, Nelson Cuellar and Herman Rosa

Guest editors' introduction pp. 324-327

Nick Duncan and Indranil Dutta

Corruption and fast change pp. 328-340

Jens Chr. Andvig

The economist's approach to the problem of corruption pp. 341-348

Pranab Bardhan

Persistence of corruption: some theoretical perspectives pp. 349-358

Ajit Mishra

Using Micro-Surveys to Measure and Explain Corruption pp. 359-370

Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson

Corruption and corruptibility pp. 371-380

William L. Miller

The Measurement and Impact of Corruption Victimization: Survey Evidence from Latin America pp. 381-404

Mitchell A. Seligson

Volume 34, issue 1, 2006

Fractal poverty traps pp. 1-15

Christopher Barrett and Brent Swallow

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI): Is It Getting New Science and Technology to the World's Neglected Majority? pp. 16-30

Joanna Chataway and James Smith

Globalization and the Right to Free Association and Collective Bargaining: An Empirical Analysis pp. 31-49

Eric Neumayer and Indra de Soysa

Linking the web and the street: Internet-based "dotcauses" and the "anti-globalization" movement pp. 50-74

John D. Clark and Nuno S. Themudo

Increasing returns to scale and international diffusion of technology: An empirical study for Brazil (1976-2000) pp. 75-88

Francisco H.P. Oliveira, Frederico Jayme Jr and Mauro Lemos

Latin American Urban Violence as a Development Concern: Towards a Framework for Violence Reduction pp. 89-112

Caroline O.N. Moser and Cathy McIlwaine

Poor farmers' perceived benefits from different types of maize germplasm: The case of creolization in lowland tropical Mexico pp. 113-129

Mauricio Bellon, Michelle Adato, Javier Becerril and Dubravka Mindek

Grain for Green versus Grain: Conflict between Food Security and Conservation Set-Aside in China pp. 130-148

Zhigang Xu, Jintao Xu, Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Emi Uchida and Scott Rozelle

Explaining success on the commons: Community forest governance in the Indian Himalaya pp. 149-166

Arun Agrawal and Ashwini Chhatre

Evaluating water policy scenarios against the priorities of the rural poor pp. 167-179

R.A. Hope

Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South pp. 180-202

Jonathan Rigg