Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2025

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Volume 49, issue 12, 2013

Three 'Rs' of Econometrics: Repetition, Reproduction and Replication pp. 1607-1614

Laura Camfield and Richard Palmer-Jones

Replicating Sachs and Warner's Working Papers on the Resource Curse pp. 1615-1630

Graham Davis

On the Colonial Origins of Agricultural Development in India: A Re-examination of Banerjee and Iyer, 'History, Institutions and Economic Performance' pp. 1631-1646

Vegard Iversen, Richard Palmer-Jones and Kunal Sen

Response to 'A Re-Examination of Banerjee and Iyer' by Iversen, Palmer-Jones and Sen pp. 1647-1650

Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer

The Impact of EU Export Refunds on the African Continent: An Impact Assessment pp. 1651-1675

Cesar Revoredo-Giha, George Philippidis, Luiza Toma and Alan Renwick

Changing Living Standards in Southern Indian Villages 1975--2006: Revisiting the ICRISAT Village Level Studies pp. 1676-1693

Stefan Dercon, Pramila Krishnan and Sofya Krutikova

Who Suffers the Penalty?: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam pp. 1694-1710

Huu Chi Nguyen, Christophe Nordman and François Roubaud

Pastoralists under Pressure: Double Exposure to Economic and Environmental Change in Niger pp. 1711-1727

Sarah L. McKune and Julie A. Silva

Revisiting the Meaning of Development: A Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries pp. 1728-1745

Sergio Tezanos V�zquez and Andy Sumner

The Fungibility of Health Aid Reconsidered pp. 1746-1754

Nicolas Van de Sijpe

The Fungibility of Health Aid: Reconsidering the Reconsidered pp. 1755-1762

Joseph L. Dieleman, Casey M. Graves and Michael Hanlon

The Fungibility of Health Aid Reconsidered: A Rejoinder pp. 1763-1764

Nicolas Van de Sijpe

Africa's National-accounts Mess-super-1 pp. 1765-1771

Michael Lipton

Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa pp. 1772-1773

Justice Nyigmah Bawole

Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity pp. 1773-1774

Louise Mubanda Rasmussen

The History of Economic Development in Latin America since Independence pp. 1774-1776

Pablo Astorga

The Under Achieving Society: Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago 1958--2008 pp. 1778-1779

Dennis A. V. Brown

Volume 49, issue 11, 2013

Latin America's Resurgent Centre: National Government Strategies after Decentralisation pp. 1453-1466

J. Tyler Dickovick and Kent H. Eaton

Political Parties in Business: Rent Seekers, Developmentalists, or Both? pp. 1467-1483

Berhanu Abegaz

The Renewed Developmental State: The National Development Bank and the Brazil Model pp. 1484-1499

Kathryn Hochstetler and Alfred P. Montero

The Shape of Corruption: Colombia as a Case Study pp. 1500-1513

Laura Langbein and Pablo Sanabria-Pulido

Arbitration is No Substitute for State Courts pp. 1514-1531

Stefan Voigt and Sang-min Park

Leadership on the Commons: Wealth Distribution, Co-provision and Service Delivery pp. 1532-1547

Mathew Kurian and Ton Dietz

Evidence on Community-Driven Development from an Indian Village pp. 1548-1563

Arnab Mukherji

Rural Forest Management in Sierra Leone: The Role of Economic (In)Equality in Facilitating Collective Action pp. 1564-1578

Marcus Wangel and Hans Blomkvist

Civic Space and Political Mobilisation: Cases in Malaysia and Thailand pp. 1579-1591

Katia Balassiano and Asha Rathina Pandi

Caste, 'Cleanliness' and Cash: Effects of Caste-Based Political Reservations in Rajasthan on a Sanitation Prize pp. 1592-1606

Sneha Lamba and Dean Spears

Volume 49, issue 10, 2013

Drivers and Dynamics of Internal and International Remittances pp. 1299-1315

Mathias Czaika and John Spray

Remittances in Nepal: Boon or Bane? pp. 1316-1331

Chandan Sapkota

A Theoretical Perspective on Human Trafficking and Migration-Debt Contracts pp. 1332-1343

Mohammad Abdul Munim Joarder and Paul Miller

Alternative Definitions of Headship and the 'Feminisation' of Income Poverty in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 1344-1357

Michael Rogan

Pathways into and out of Poverty: A Study of Rural Household Wealth Dynamics in Kenya pp. 1358-1374

Milu Muyanga, Thomas Jayne and William Burke

Nutritional Intake and Poverty in Mexico: 1984--2010 pp. 1375-1396

Jorge Valero-Gil and Magali Valero

Early-Childhood Nutrition and Educational Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes pp. 1397-1411

Seth Gitter, James Manley and Bradford L. Barham

Recovering Comparable Poverty Estimates in Côte d'Ivoire pp. 1412-1426

Andrew L. Dabalen and Saumik Paul

The Effect of Risk Preferences on Household Use of Water Treatment pp. 1427-1435

Magda Tsaneva

Can Foreign Health Assistance Reduce the Medical Brain Drain? pp. 1436-1452

Yasser Moullan

Volume 49, issue 9, 2013

Debt in Rural South India: Fragmentation, Social Regulation and Discrimination pp. 1155-1171

Isabelle Gu�rin, Bert D'Espallier and Govindan Venkatasubramanian

Repeated Transaction in Rural Grain Markets of Ethiopia pp. 1172-1187

Getaw Tadesse and Gerald Shively

Does Observance of Religious Holidays Affect Agricultural Productivity and Household Welfare? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia pp. 1188-1201

Yoko Kijima and Horacio Gonzalez

Rice Land Designation Policy in Vietnam and the Implications of Policy Reform for Food Security and Economic Welfare pp. 1202-1218

James Giesecke, Nhi Tran, Erwin Corong and Steven Jaffee

Social Capital and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Bolivia's Popular Participation Decentralisation Reforms pp. 1219-1237

Mart�n Mendoza-Botelho

The Sacrifices of Micro-Borrowers in Ghana -- A Customer-Protection Perspective on Measuring Over-Indebtedness pp. 1238-1255

Jessica Schicks

Expanding Microfinance in Brazil: Credit Utilisation and Performance of Small Firms pp. 1256-1269

Emmanuel Skoufias, Phillippe Leite and Renata Narita

Social Enterprise, Capabilities and Development Paradigms: Lessons from Ecuador pp. 1270-1283

Margherita Scarlato

Receive Grants or Perish? The Survival Prospects of Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisations pp. 1284-1298

Ronelle Burger and Trudy Owens

Volume 49, issue 8, 2013

Dynamics of Unfree Labour in the Contemporary Global Economy pp. 1037-1041

Stephanie Barrientos, Uma Kothari and Nicola Phillips

Geographies and Histories of Unfreedom: Indentured Labourers and Contract Workers in Mauritius pp. 1042-1057

Uma Kothari

'Labour Chains': Analysing the Role of Labour Contractors in Global Production Networks pp. 1058-1071

Stephanie Ware Barrientos

Jordan's Unfree Workforce: State-Sponsored Bonded Labour in the Arab Region pp. 1072-1087

Elizabeth Frantz

Social Sustainability in Agriculture: An Anthropological Perspective on Child Labour in Cocoa Production in Ghana pp. 1088-1100

Amanda Berlan

Children's Welfare and Short-term Migration from Rural India pp. 1101-1117

Diane Coffey

Trade Openness and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Malaysia pp. 1118-1132

Robert McNabb and Rusmawati Said

Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in a Developing Country pp. 1133-1147

Robert Lipsey, Fredrik Sj�holm and Jing Sun

Transformative Policy for Poor Women: A New Feminist Framework by Bina Fernandez pp. 1148-1149

Jasmine Gideon

China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Powering Development by Marcus Power, Giles Mohan, & May Tan-Mullins pp. 1149-1150

Lucy Corkin

Latin America after Neoliberalism: Developmental Regimes in Post-Crisis States, by Christopher Wylde pp. 1150-1152

Pia Riggirozzi

Volume 49, issue 7, 2013

How Strong is the Evidence for the Existence of Poverty Traps? A Multicountry Assessment pp. 877-897

Andy McKay and Emilie Perge

Assets and Poverty Traps in Rural Bangladesh pp. 898-916

Agnes Quisumbing and Bob Baulch

Measuring Socio-economic Status in the Millennium Villages: The Role of Asset Index Choice pp. 917-935

Hope Michelson, Maria Mu�iz and Kyle DeRosa

Welfare Dynamics in Pakistan and Ethiopia -- Does the Estimation Method Matter? pp. 936-954

Felix Naschold

Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data pp. 955-975

Sungil Kwak and Stephen Smith

The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: Empirical and Policy Implications pp. 976-990

Christopher Barrett and Michael Carter

Job Choice of Three Generations in Rural Laos pp. 991-1009

Jonna P. Estudillo, Yukichi Mano and Saygnasak Seng-Arloun

Stuck in Place: Investigating Social Mobility in 14 Bangalore Slums pp. 1010-1028

Anirudh Krishna

Representations of Global Poverty: Aid, Development and International NGOs pp. 1029-1030

Kate Manzo

Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment pp. 1030-1031

Paul Shaffer

Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China pp. 1031-1032

Teresa Wright

Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind Jeffrey G. Williamson pp. 1032-1034

Amelia Santos-Paulino

Context Sensitive Development (How International NGO's Operate in Myanmar) Anthony Ware Peacebuilding through Community Based NGOs: Paradoxes and Possibilities Max Stephenson Jr. and Laura Zanotti pp. 1034-1035

Kenneth Christie

Volume 49, issue 6, 2013

Migration as a Tool in Development Policy: Caution Ahead? pp. 759-771

Kevin D. Deane, Deborah Johnston and Justin O. Parkhurst

The Economics of Forced Migration pp. 772-784

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

The Labour Market Impacts of Immigration to Developing Countries: Evidence from a Registration Campaign in Thailand pp. 785-800

John Bryant and Pungpond Rukumnuaykit

Aid, Remittances, Medical Brain Drain and Child Mortality: Evidence Using Inter and Intra-Country Data pp. 801-818

Lisa Chauvet, Flore Gubert and Sandrine Mespl�-Somps

Circular Migration: A View from Destination Households in Two Urban Informal Settlements in South Africa pp. 819-831

Dorrit Posel and Colin Marx

Migration and Translocal Livelihoods of Coastal Small-scale Fishers in Bangladesh pp. 832-845

Mohammad Mahmudul Islam and Johannes Herbeck

Migration, Representations and Social Relations: Experiences of Jharkhand Labour to Western Uttar Pradesh pp. 846-860

Nitya Rao and Amit Mitra

Remittances, Banking Status and the Usage of Insurance Schemes pp. 861-875

Dorothee Crayen, Christa Hainz and Christiane St�h de Mart�nez

Volume 49, issue 5, 2013

Focus on Women in Microfinance Institutions pp. 589-608

Bert D'espallier, Isabelle Guérin and Roy Mersland

Why Micro-Credit May Leave Women Worse Off: Non-Cooperative Bargaining and the Marriage Game in South Asia pp. 609-623

Sujata Balasubramanian

Look Who's Talking: The Impacts of the Intrahousehold Allocation of Mobile Phones on Agricultural Prices pp. 624-640

Kyeong Ho Lee and Marc Bellemare

The Influence of Living with Parents on Women's Decision-Making Participation in the Household: Evidence from the Southern Philippines pp. 641-656

Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy

Determinants of Stated Son Preference in India: Are Men and Women Different? pp. 657-669

Marie-Claire Robitaille

Breaking the Net: Family Structure and Street-Connected Children in Zambia pp. 670-688

Francesco Strobbe, Claudia Olivetti and Mireille Jacobson

The Feminisation of Agriculture with Chinese Characteristics pp. 689-704

Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang, Linxiu Zhang and Scott Rozelle

Coping and Resilience during the Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises pp. 705-718

Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain, Anna Reva and Carolyn Turk

The Pedagogy of Science and Environment: Experimental Evidence from Peru pp. 719-736

Diether Beuermann, Emma Naslund-Hadley, Inder Ruprah and Jennelle Thompson

Theft in South Africa: An Experiment to Examine the Influence of Racial Identity and Inequality pp. 737-753

Clinton J. Pecenka and Godfrey Kundhlande

Volume 49, issue 4, 2013

Emerging and Submerging Powers: Imagined Geographies in the New Development Partnership at the Busan Fourth High Level Forum pp. 457-469

Rosalind Eyben and Laura Savage

Unleashing Entrepreneurs or Controlling Unruly Providers? The Formalisation of Small-scale Water Providers in Greater Maputo, Mozambique pp. 470-482

Rhodante Ahlers, Valeria Perez G�ida, Maria Rusca and Klaas Schwartz

How (Un)Even was the Distribution of the Impacts of Mali's Water Privatisation across Stakeholders? pp. 483-499

Antonio Estache and Emili Grifell-Tatj�

The Impact of Indoor Air Pollution on the Incidence of Life Threatening Respiratory Illnesses: Evidence from Young Children in Peru pp. 500-515

Gissele Gajate-Garrido

Did China's Tax-for-Fee Reform Improve Farmers' Welfare in Rural Areas? pp. 516-532

James Alm and Yongzheng Liu

Do Relative Income and Income Inequality Affect Consumption? Evidence from the Villages of Rural China pp. 533-546

Wenkai Sun and Xianghong Wang

Building Ladders out of Chains: China's Hybrid-led Technological Development in Disaggregated Value Chains pp. 547-563

Douglas B. Fuller

Aid and Growth: What Meta-Analysis Reveals pp. 564-583

Tseday Mekasha and Finn Tarp

The Robust Result in Meta-analysis of Aid Effectiveness: A Response to Mekasha and Tarp pp. 584-587

Chris Doucouliagos and Martin Paldam

Volume 49, issue 3, 2013

Creating Direct Incentives for Wildlife Conservation in Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programmes in Botswana pp. 315-333

Elizabeth F. Pienaar, Lovell S. Jarvis and Douglas M. Larson

Assessing Small and Medium Forest Enterprises' Access to Microfinance: Case Studies from The Gambia pp. 334-347

Maria Fernanda Tomaselli, Joleen Timko and Robert Kozak

‘Everyone Now is Concentrating on the Mining’: Drivers and Implications of Rural Economic Transition in the Eastern Region of Ghana pp. 348-364

Gavin Hilson and Chris Garforth

Consumer Willingness to Pay for Safer Vegetables in Urban Markets of a Developing Country: The Case of Kale in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 365-382

Carl-Johan Lagerkvist, Sebastian Hess, Julius Okello and Nancy Karanja

The Projection of Development: Cinematic Representation as A(nother) Source of Authoritative Knowledge? pp. 383-397

David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock

‘Pedagogical’ and Ethnographic Fictions and Meta-narratives of Development: 1 World Manga pp. 398-411

Veronica Davidov

Cooperative Membership as a Trust and Trustworthiness Reinforcing Device: Results from a Field Experiment in the Philippines pp. 412-425

Leonardo Becchetti, Stefano Castriota and Pierluigi Conzo

Is Previous Export Experience Important for New Exports? pp. 426-441

Roberto Alvarez, Hasan Faruq and Ricardo López Rago

Natural Disasters, Human Development and Poverty at the Municipal Level in Mexico pp. 442-455

Eduardo Rodriguez-Oreggia, Alejandro De La Fuente, Rodolfo De La Torre and A. Héctor Moreno

Volume 49, issue 2, 2013

From User Fees to Fee Free: The Politics of Realising Universal Free Basic Education in Indonesia pp. 175-189

Andrew Rosser and Anuradha Joshi

School Dropouts and Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial in Rural China's Junior High Schools pp. 190-207

Di Mo, Linxiu Zhang, Hongmei Yi, Renfu Luo, Scott Rozelle and Carl Brinton

Impacts of an Early Stage Education Intervention on Students' Learning Achievement: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 208-222

Futoshi Yamauchi and Yanyan Liu

Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh pp. 223-237

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

The Effect of Informal Networks on Corruption in Education: Evidence from the Household Survey Data in Bangladesh pp. 238-250

Chongwoo Choe, Ratbek Dzhumashev, Asad Islam and Zakir H. Khan

The School Governance Environment in Uttar Pradesh, India: Implications for Teacher Accountability and Effort pp. 251-269

Geeta Kingdon and Mohd. Muzammil

Poverty, Race, and Children's Progress at School in South Africa pp. 270-284

Ian M. Timæus, Sandile Simelane and Thabo Letsoalo

Peer Relations, Violence and School Attendance: Analyses of Bullying in Senior High Schools in Ghana pp. 285-300

Mairead Dunne, Ricardo Sabates, Cynthia Bosumtwi-Sam and Andrew Owusu

How Does Additional Education Affect Willingness to Work in Rural Remote Areas in Low-Income Contexts? An Application on Health Workers in Tanzania pp. 301-314

Julie Riise

Volume 49, issue 1, 2013

Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation pp. 1-18

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and Matt Andrews

Leadership and Institutional Change in the Public Provision of Transportation Infrastructure: An Analysis of India's Bihar pp. 19-35

Nimah Mazaheri, Edouard Al-Dahdah, Sandeep Poundrik and Soujanya Chodavarapu

Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Private Provision of Public Goods pp. 36-55

Matthias Schündeln

Drawing the Line between State and Society: Social Movements, Participation and Autonomy in Brazil pp. 56-71

Lucy Earle

Decentralisation, Accountability and the 2007 MP Elections in Kenya pp. 72-94

Roxana Guti�rrez-Romero

Do Property Rights Institutions Matter at the Local Level? Evidence from Madagascar pp. 95-109

Alan Green and Christine Moser

Governance or Poverty Reduction? Assessing Budget Support in Nicaragua pp. 110-124

Geske Dijkstra

Why is Absenteeism Low among Public Health Workers in Lao PDR? pp. 125-133

Hiroyuki Yamada, Yasuyuki Sawada and Xubei Luo

Do Fragile Countries Experience Worse MDG Progress? pp. 134-159

Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

Intersubjective Meaning and Collective Action in Developing Societies: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications pp. 160-172

Varun Gauri, Michael Woolcock and Deval Desai