Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2025

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Volume 50, issue 12, 2014

The Returns to Education in Africa: Some New Estimates pp. 1593-1613

Mahdi Barouni and Stijn Broecke

Historical Origins of Uneven Service Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Role of Non-State Providers pp. 1614-1630

Frank-Borge Wietzke

Estimating the Effects of Conflict on Education in Côte d'Ivoire pp. 1631-1646

Andrew L. Dabalen and Saumik Paul

An Assessment of the Impacts of Sri Lanka's Programme for School Improvement and School Report Card Programme on Students' Academic Progress pp. 1647-1669

Harsha Aturupane, Paul Glewwe, Renato Ravina, Upul Sonnadara and Suzanne Wisniewski

Intergenerational Consequences of Early Age Marriages of Girls: Effect on Children's Human Capital pp. 1670-1686

Sheetal Sekhri and Sisir Debnath

The Impact of Food and Economic Crises on Diet and Nutrition pp. 1687-1699

Ralitza Dimova, Ira Gang, Monnet B.P. Gbakou and Daniel Hoffman

Where is the 'Plus' in 'Credit-Plus'? The Case of Chiapas, Mexico pp. 1700-1716

Olga Biosca, Pamela Lenton and Paul Mosley

Identifying Spatial Efficiency-Equity Trade-offs in Territorial Development Policies: Evidence from Uganda pp. 1717-1733

Somik Lall, Elizabeth Schroeder and Emily Schmidt

Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa pp. 1734-1735

Sylvia Chant

Q-Squared. Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis pp. 1735-1736

Dan Brockington

Chinese Migrants and Africa's Development: New Imperialists or Agents of Change? pp. 1736-1737

Edwin Lin

Volume 50, issue 11, 2014

Theft, Gift-Giving, and Reciprocity: A South African Experiment pp. 1467-1481

Clinton J. Pecenka and Godfrey Kundhlande

Trust and Reciprocity in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters pp. 1482-1493

David Fleming, Alberto Chong and Hernan Bejarano

Developing Countries in Need: Which Characteristics Appeal Most to People when Donating Money? pp. 1494-1509

Paul Hansen, Nicole Kergozou, Stephen Knowles and Paul Thorsnes

The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid pp. 1510-1522

Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

Television on Women's Empowerment in India pp. 1523-1537

Hsin-Lan Ting, Chon-Kit Ao and Ming-Jen Lin

Television and Contraceptive Use - A Weak Signal? pp. 1538-1549

Jörg Peters, Christoph Strupat and Colin Vance

Estimating the Average Treatment Effect of Social Safety Net Programmes in Bangladesh pp. 1550-1569

Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman

Pensions and the Health of Older People in South Africa: Is there an Effect? pp. 1570-1586

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and Sutapa Agrawal

Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth: International Applications of the Capability Approach in Schools and Beyond pp. 1587-1588

Leon Tikly

Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Development pp. 1588-1590

Philipp Horn

Nanotechnology and Development: What's in it for Emerging Countries? pp. 1590-1591

Thomas S. Woodson

Volume 50, issue 10, 2014

Taxing the Informal Economy: The Current State of Knowledge and Agendas for Future Research pp. 1325-1347

Anuradha Joshi, Wilson Prichard and Christopher Heady

Remittances and Working Poverty pp. 1348-1361

Jean-Louis Combes, Christian Hubert Ebeke, Mathilde Maurel and Thierry Yogo

Wheels within Wheels: Poverty, Power and Patronage in the Cambodian Migration System pp. 1362-1379

Laurie Parsons, Sabina Lawreniuk and John Pilgrim

The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Ethiopia pp. 1380-1396

Berhe Mekonnen Beyene

For Health, Strength, and Daily Food: The Dual Impact of Remittances and Public Health Expenditure on Household Health Spending and Child Health Outcomes pp. 1397-1410

Sophia C. Terrelonge

The Burden of Caste on Social Identity in India pp. 1411-1429

Catherine Bros

Barking up the Wrong Tree? Measuring Gender Gaps in Firm's Access to Finance pp. 1430-1444

Andrea Presbitero, Roberta Rabellotti and Claudia Piras

Households' Willingness to Pay for Health Microinsurance and its Impact on Actual Take-up: Results from a Field Experiment in Senegal pp. 1445-1462

Jacopo Bonan, Philippe LeMay-Boucher and Michel Tenikue

One Thing Leads to Another: Making the Most of the Commodities Boom in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1463-1464

Antonio M. A. Pedro

Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development pp. 1464-1465

Narasimha D. Rao

Volume 50, issue 9, 2014

Contrasts in Development in Bihar: A Tale of Two Villages pp. 1197-1208

Amrita Datta, Gerry Rodgers, Janine Rodgers and Bkn Singh

All Paths Lead to Rain: Explaining why Watershed Development in India Does Not Alleviate the Experience of Water Scarcity pp. 1209-1225

Zareen Pervez Bharucha, David Smith and Jules Pretty

Transaction Costs, Information Technologies, and the Choice of Marketplace among Farmers in Northern Ghana pp. 1226-1239

Giacomo Zanello, Chittur Srinivasan and Bhavani Shankar

The Co-evolution of Technology and Institutions in the Catch-up Process: The Case of the Semiconductor Industry in Korea and Taiwan pp. 1240-1260

Hye-Ran Hwang and Jae-Yong Choung

Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: An Analysis Using the 1989-1998 Brazilian Trade Liberalisation pp. 1261-1274

Lourenco Paz

Who Benefits from Aid for Trade? Comparing the Effects on Recipient versus Donor Exports pp. 1275-1288

Philipp H�hne, Birgit Meyer and Peter Nunnenkamp

Job Strenuousness and Obesity: The Case of a Developing Country pp. 1289-1301

Kitae Sohn

How Vulnerable are Arab Countries to Global Food Price Shocks? pp. 1302-1319

Elena Ianchovichina, Josef Loening and Christina Wood

State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India, by Kunal Sen pp. 1320-1321

Lili Sisombat

Social Development: Theory and Practice, by James Midgley pp. 1321-1323

Reza Hasmath

Governance for Development in Africa: Solving Collective Action Problems, by David Booth & Diana Cammack pp. 1323-1324

Hazel Gray

Volume 50, issue 8, 2014

The Capabilities Approach and Worker Wellbeing pp. 1043-1054

Lilian Miles

Remittances and Economic Growth: Larger Impacts in Smaller Countries? pp. 1055-1066

Simon Feeny, Sasi Iamsiraroj and Mark McGillivray

Migration, Remittances and Poverty in Ecuador pp. 1067-1089

Simone Bertoli and Francesca Marchetta

Ethnicity, Citizenship, and the Migration-Development Nexus: The Case of Moroccan Migrants in Spain's North African Exclaves pp. 1090-1103

Daniel Karell

Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina pp. 1104-1118

Pablo Acosta and Gabriel Montes-Rojas

Learning by Doing: Skills and Jobs in Urban Ghana pp. 1119-1134

Monazza Aslam and Kim Lehrer

Adjusting the Labour Supply to Mitigate Violent Shocks: Evidence from Rural Colombia pp. 1135-1155

Manuel Fern�ndez, Ana Mar�a Ib��ez and Ximena Pe�a

Revisiting the Trade-Wage Structure Nexus: A Micro Analysis for Turkey pp. 1156-1171

Nursel Aydiner-Avsar

Cash Transfer Programme, Productive Activities and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Kenya pp. 1172-1196

Solomon Asfaw, Benjamin Davis, Josh Dewbre, Sudhanshu Handa and Paul Winters

Volume 50, issue 7, 2014

Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study pp. 903-925

Lorenzo Cotula, Carlos Oya, Emmanuel A. Codjoe, Abdurehman Eid, Mark Kakraba-Ampeh, James Keeley, Admasu Lokaley Kidewa, Melissa Makwarimba, Wondwosen Michago Seide, William Ole Nasha, Richard Owusu Asare and Matteo Rizzo

The Impact of Microcredit on Child Education: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Rural China pp. 926-948

Jing You and Samuel Annim

Governance Strategies and Welfare Effects: Vertical Integration and Contracts in the Catfish Sector in Vietnam pp. 949-961

Neda Trifković

Is Greater Fishery Access Better for the Poor? Explaining De-Territorialisation of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia pp. 962-976

Thol Dina and Jin Sato

Cross-scalar Dynamics of the Resource Curse: Constraints on Local Participation in the Bolivian Gas Sector pp. 977-990

H�vard Haarstad

Conflict, Development and Security at the Agro-Pastoral-Wildlife Nexus: A Case of Laikipia County, Kenya pp. 991-1008

Jennifer Bond

Coping with shocks in rural Ethiopia pp. 1009-1024

Zelalem Yilma, Anagaw Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Degnet Abebaw Ejigie, Marleen Dekker, Getnet Alemu and Arjun Bedi

Child Schooling, Child Health, and Rainfall Shocks: Evidence from Rural Vietnam pp. 1025-1037

Thuan Q. Thai and Evangelos Falaris

Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa By Bram B�scher pp. 1038-1039

Clara Bocchino

Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods By Aya Hirata Kimura pp. 1039-1040

Kiah Smith

Social Assistance in Developing Countries By Armando Barrientos pp. 1040-1042

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Volume 50, issue 6, 2014

Officials Versus Thieves: Is Public or Private Expropriation More Harmful to Small Firms? pp. 773-788

Sarah Pearlman

Violence, Insecurity and Hybrid Organisational Forms: A Study in Conflict-Ridden Zones in Colombia pp. 789-802

Clemente Forero-Pineda, Eduardo Wills Herrera, Veneta Andonova, Luz Elena Orozco Collazos and Oscar Pardo

Corruption and Infrastructure at the Country and Regional Level pp. 803-819

Robert Gillanders

The Gradient of Governance: Distance and Disengagement in Indian Villages pp. 820-838

Anirudh Krishna and Gregory Schober

Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? pp. 839-854

Stephen Knack

A Stylish Burial: Tracking the Socio-Technical Aspects of Death in Iran pp. 855-863

Hamidreza Mohammadi Doostdar, Hossein Mohammadi Doostdar, Mohd Hazim Shah and Hamideh Sattari

Hunger Inequality: Ethics and Aid pp. 864-876

Derrill Watson

Poverty Dynamics in Rural Orissa: Transitions in Assets and Occupations over Generations pp. 877-893

Magnus Hatlebakk

The ironic spectator: Solidarity in the age of post-humanitarianism, by Lilie Chouliaraki pp. 894-895

Mie Vestergaard

Volume 50, issue 5, 2014

Structural Transformation of Cereal Markets in Ethiopia pp. 611-629

Bart Minten, David Stifel and Seneshaw Tamru

Evidence of Demand for Index Insurance: Experimental Games and Commercial Transactions in Ethiopia pp. 630-648

Michael Norton, Daniel Osgood, Malgosia Madajewicz, Eric Holthaus, Nicole Peterson, Rahel Diro, Conner Mullally, Tse-Ling Teh and Mengesha Gebremichael

Credit Constraints and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from rural Rwanda pp. 649-665

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Marguerite Duponchel

The Role of Farming Experience on the Adoption of Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Uganda pp. 666-679

John Herbert Ainembabazi and Johnny Mugisha

Hybrid Seed and the Economic Well-Being of Smallholder Maize Farmers in Zambia pp. 680-695

Melinda Smale and Nicole Mason

Farmer and Market Interactions in using Biotech Cotton Varieties and Seed. A Case in Northern China pp. 696-714

Guiyan Wang and Michel Fok

Estimating the Impact of Small-Scale Farmer Collective Action on Food Safety: The Case of Vegetables in Vietnam pp. 715-730

Diego Naziri, Magali Aubert, Jean-Marie Codron, Nguyen Thi Tan Loc and Paule Moustier

Is GlobalGAP Certification of Small-Scale Farmers Sustainable? Evidence from Thailand pp. 731-747

Sarah Holzapfel and Meike Wollni

How Access to Irrigation Influences Poverty and Livelihoods: A Case Study from Sri Lanka pp. 748-768

Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu, Takeshi Aida, Ryuji Kasahara, Yasuyuki Sawada and Deeptha Wijerathna

Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa:Rethinking Homophobia and Forging Resistance, by Marc Epprecht pp. 769-770

Mikki van Zyl

Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America, by Anthony Bebbington & Jeffrey Bury pp. 770-771

Deanna Kemp

Volume 50, issue 4, 2014

'It Depends on Them' - Exploring Order and Disjuncture in Responding to the Local Needs of AIDS Affected Communities in the Kingdom of Swaziland pp. 467-480

Rochelle A. Burgess

Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam pp. 481-501

M. Shahe Emran, Fenohasina Maret-Rakotondrazaka and Stephen Smith

Improving the Health and Education of Elementary Schoolchildren in Rural China: Iron Supplementation Versus Nutritional Training for Parents pp. 502-519

Ho Lun Wong, Yaojiang Shi, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang and Scott Rozelle

Are Daughters Always the Losers in the Chore War? Evidence Using Household Data from Vietnam pp. 520-529

Tien Vu

Are Tax Havens Good Neighbours? FDI Spillovers and Developing Countries pp. 530-540

Luisa R. Blanco and Cynthia Rogers

Tax Collection in Developing Countries - New Evidence on Semi-Autonomous Revenue Agencies (SARAs) pp. 541-555

Christian von Haldenwang, Armin von Schiller and Melody Garcia

Evaluating the Role of Subsidy Reform in Addressing Poverty Levels in Malaysia: A CGE Poverty Framework pp. 556-569

Saeed Solaymani, Fatimah Kari and Roza Hazly Zakaria

Debating Capitalist Dynamics and Unfree Labour: A Missing Link? pp. 570-582

Tom Brass

The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence pp. 583-604

David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch

Response to 'The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence' pp. 605-610

Mark M. Pitt

Volume 50, issue 3, 2014

Short-term Labour Migration from the Republic of Armenia to the Russian Federation pp. 349-367

Christian Bellak, Markus Leibrecht and Mario Liebensteiner

The Texture of Livelihoods: Migration and Making a Living in Hanoi pp. 368-382

Jonathan Rigg, Tuan Anh Nguyen and Thi Thu Huong Luong

Sharing Norm Pressures and Community Remittances: Evidence from a Natural Disaster in the Pacific Islands pp. 383-398

Richard P.C. Brown, Gareth Leeves and Prabha Prayaga

Empirical Evidence on Human Trafficking and Migration-Debt Contracts in Bangladesh pp. 399-412

Mohammad Abdul Munim Joarder and Paul Miller

Impacts of Migration on Household Production Choices: Evidence from China pp. 413-425

Chenggang Wang, Nicholas Rada, Lijian Qin and Suwen Pan

Determinants of Intraregional Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa 1980-2000 pp. 426-443

Ilse Ruyssen and Glenn Rayp

How do Migration and Remittances Affect Human Capital Investment? The Effects of Relaxing Information and Liquidity Constraints pp. 444-460

Chakra Acharya and Roberto Leon-Gonzalez

The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto, by Gustavo Esteva pp. 461-462

James Copestake

NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects, by Aziz Choudry & Dip Kapoor pp. 462-463

P�draig Carmody

Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society, by David Lewis pp. 463-464

Farhat Tasnim

Volume 50, issue 2, 2014

Translating Legal Rights into Tenure Security: Lessons from the New Commercial Pressures on Land in Ghana pp. 187-203

George Christoffel Schoneveld and Laura German

Conservation and Development: Justice, Inequality, and Attitudes around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park pp. 204-225

David Mwesigye Tumusiime and Espen Sjaastad

The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Household Welfare in a Developing Country with Imperfect Labour Markets pp. 226-243

Ganesh Seshan

Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Exporting and Firm-Level Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 244-257

Neil Foster-McGregor, Anders Isaksson and Florian Kaulich

Distributional Effects of Maize Price Increases in Malawi pp. 258-275

Francesco Caracciolo, Luigi Cembalo, Alessia Lombardi and Gary Thompson

Do Risky Microfinance Borrowers Really Invest in Risky Projects? Experimental Evidence from Bolivia pp. 276-287

Eliana Zeballos, Alessandra Cassar and Bruce Wydick

Savings at the Periphery of Markets: Evidence from Forager-Farmers in the Bolivian Amazon pp. 288-301

Eduardo A. Undurraga, Ariela Zycherman, Julie Yiu, Taps Bolivia Study Team and Ricardo A. Godoy

The Gender Gap in African Political Participation: Testing Theories of Individual and Contextual Determinants pp. 302-318

Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Andreas Kotsadam and M�ns Nerman

Do Solar Lamps Help Children Study? Contrary Evidence from a Pilot Study in Uganda pp. 319-341

Chishio Furukawa

Biofuels and Rural Poverty pp. 342-343

Mairon G. Bastos Lima

Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges pp. 343-344

Mekbib Haile

Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World pp. 345-346

Sverre Molland

Permanent Emergency Welfare Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Exclusive Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy pp. 346-347

Marianne S. Ulriksen

Volume 50, issue 1, 2014

Inequality and Growth: Uncovering the Main Conclusions from the Empirics pp. 1-21

Pedro Cunha Neves and Sandra Maria Tavares Silva

The Guardian State and its Economic Development Model pp. 22-34

Laura El-Katiri

Quantifying the Qualitative: Eliciting Expert Input to Develop the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool pp. 35-50

Alasdair Cohen and Michaela Saisana

Drilling Deeper: A Systematic, Context-Sensitive Investigation of Causal Mechanisms in the Oil-Conflict Link pp. 51-63

Matthias Basedau, Annegret M�hler and Miriam Shabafrouz

Can Producer Associations Improve Rural Livelihoods? Evidence from Farmer Centres in India pp. 64-80

Raj Desai and Shareen Joshi

The Myth of Female Credit Discrimination in African Manufacturing pp. 81-96

Henrik Hansen and John Rand

Introduction to a Special Section on 'Exchange Rate Pass-through in Developing and Emerging Markets' pp. 97-100

Janine Aron

Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Developing and Emerging Markets: A Survey of Conceptual, Methodological and Policy Issues, and Selected Empirical Findings pp. 101-143

Janine Aron, Ronald MacDonald and John Muellbauer

Exchange Rate Pass-through to Import Prices, and Monetary Policy in South Africa pp. 144-164

Janine Aron, Greg Farrell, John Muellbauer and Peter Sinclair

Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Consumer Prices in South Africa: Evidence from Micro-Data pp. 165-185

Janine Aron, Kenneth Creamer, John Muellbauer and Neil Rankin