Journal of Development Studies

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Volume 54, issue 12, 2018

Unpacking State Practices in City-Making,in Conversations with Ananya Roy pp. 2139-2148

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou

Beyond the Policy-Implementation Gap: How the City of Johannesburg Manufactured the Ungovernability of Street Trading pp. 2149-2167

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou

Confounded but Complacent: Accounting for How the State Sees Responses to Its Housing Intervention in Johannesburg pp. 2168-2185

Sarah Charlton

Making and Governing Unstable Territory: Corporate, State and Public Encounters in Johannesburg’s Mining Land, 1909–2013 pp. 2186-2209

Siân Butcher

Intimate Encounters with the State in Post-War Luanda, Angola pp. 2210-2226

Chloé Buire

At the Borderlands of Informal Practices of the State: Negotiability, Porosity and Exceptionality pp. 2227-2242

Margot Rubin

The Potency of the State: Logics of Informality and Subalternity pp. 2243-2246

Ananya Roy

Why We Lie about Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Change pp. 2247-2248

Chris Roche

Multipolar Globalization: Emerging Economies and Development pp. 2248-2249

Juan Telleria

Volume 54, issue 11, 2018

Corrigendum pp. I-I

The Editors

Thinking Outside the Plot: Insights on Small-Scale Mechanisation from Case Studies in East Africa pp. 1939-1954

David Kahan, Roger Bymolt and Fred Zaal

Consistency of Risk Preference Measures: An Artefactual Field Experiment from Rural China pp. 1955-1973

Pan He, Marcella Veronesi and Stefanie Engel

Synergies between Different Types of Agricultural Technologies in the Kenyan Small Farm Sector pp. 1974-1990

Priscilla Wainaina, Songporne Tongruksawattana and Matin Qaim

Linking Risk Aversion, Time Preference and Fertiliser Use in Burkina Faso pp. 1991-2006

Tristan Le Cotty, Elodie Maître d’Hôtel, Raphael Soubeyran and Julie Subervie

Junior Farmer Field Schools, Agricultural Knowledge and Spillover Effects: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda pp. 2007-2022

Jacopo Bonan and Laura Pagani

One Plus One can be Greater than Two: Evaluating Synergies of Development Programmes in Malawi pp. 2023-2060

Noemi Pace, Silvio Daidone, Benjamin Davis, Sudhanshu Handa, Marco Knowles and Robert Pickmans

Effect of Forced Relocation on Household Income and Consumption Patterns: Evidence from the Aynak Copper Mine Project in Afghanistan pp. 2061-2077

Ghulam Dastgir, Keisuke Kawata and Yuichiro Yoshida

Measuring Hope: A Quantitative Approach with Validation in Rural Myanmar pp. 2078-2094

Jeffrey Bloem, Duncan Boughton, Kyan Htoo, Aung Hein and Ellen Payongayong

Wealth Inequality, Educational Environment and School Enrolment: Evidence from Mexico pp. 2095-2118

Lucio Esposito and Adrián Villaseñor

Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries? pp. 2119-2135

Sangita Vyas and Dean Spears

Economies of Favour after Socialism, Edited by David Henig & Nicolette Makovicky Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 256 pp., £55.00, ISBN 9780199687411 pp. 2136-2137

Diana T. Kudaibergenova

Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not by Jared Rubin New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 273 pp., £79.99, ISBN 9781107036819 pp. 2137-2138

Masooda Bano

Volume 54, issue 10, 2018

Armed Conflict and Adolescents’ Early Transition to Childbearing pp. 1719-1736

Lina Maria Sanchez-Cespedes

Relating Seasonal Hunger and Prevention and Coping Strategies: A Panel Analysis of Malawian Farm Households pp. 1737-1755

C. Leigh Anderson, Travis Reynolds, Joshua D. Merfeld and Pierre Biscaye

Joint Land Certification Programmes and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1756-1774

Mequanint Melesse, Adane Dabissa and Erwin Bulte

A Two-Step Econometric Estimation of Covariates of Side Selling: The Case of Coffee Cooperatives in Southwest Ethiopia pp. 1775-1791

Zekarias Shumeta, Marijke D’Haese and Wim Verbeke

Walk the Talk: Private Sustainability Standards in the Ugandan Coffee Sector pp. 1792-1818

Kevin Teopista Akoyi and Miet Maertens

The Effects of Risk Preferences on the Adoption of Post-Harvest Technology: Evidence from Rural Cambodia pp. 1819-1837

Daichi Shimamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada and Ayako Wakano

Adoption of System of Rice Intensification under Information Constraints: An Analysis for India pp. 1838-1857

Poornima Varma

Who Should Be at the Top of Bottom-Up Development? A Case-Study of the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in Rajasthan, India pp. 1858-1877

Shareen Joshi and Vijayendra Rao

As an Economy Becomes More Developed, Do People Become Less Altruistic? pp. 1878-1890

Papar Kananurak and Aeggarchat Sirisankanan

Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 1891-1911

Masahiro Shoji

Natural Disasters and Social Preferences: The Effect of Tsunami-Memories on Cheating in Sri Lanka pp. 1912-1931

Pierluigi Conzo

The Challenges for Developing Countries in International Tax Justice pp. 1932-1938

Martin Hearson

Volume 54, issue 9, 2018

ROSCA Composition and Repayment: Evidence from Taiwanese Bidding ROSCAs pp. 1483-1495

Jonathan Bauchet and Vance Larsen

Rethinking the Effects of Microcredit on Household Welfare in Cambodia pp. 1496-1512

Kimty Seng

The Role of Savings and Credit in Coping with Idiosyncratic Household Shocks pp. 1513-1533

Stephen DeLoach and Marquessa Smith-Lin

Does Access to Formal Finance Matter for Welfare and Inequality? Micro Level Evidence from Nigeria pp. 1534-1550

Ralitza Dimova and Olabimtan Adebowale

How Much Does Having a Bank Account Help the Poor? pp. 1551-1571

Gitanjali Sen and Sankar De

Does Military Intervention Reduce Violence? Evidence from Federally Administered Tribal Area of Pakistan (2001–2011) pp. 1572-1592

Faiz Rehman

Migrant Networks in the Urban Labour Market: Evidence from India pp. 1593-1611

Ajay Sharma and Mousumi Das

Vulnerability to Multi-Dimensional Poverty: An Empirical Comparison of Alternative Measurement Approaches pp. 1612-1636

Muhammad Masood Azeem, Amin W. Mugera and Steven Schilizzi

Do Migrants Transfer Productive Knowledge Back to Their Origin Countries? pp. 1637-1656

Jérôme Valette

International Migration: Pacifier or Trigger for Military Conflicts? pp. 1657-1679

Frédéric Docquier, Ilse Ruyssen and Maurice Schiff

The Effects of Ethnic Chinese Minority on Vietnam’s Regional Economic Development in the Post-Vietnam War Period pp. 1680-1697

Tuan Anh Nguyen-Viet and Masami Imai

Female Land Ownership and Fertility in Nepal pp. 1698-1715

Averi Chakrabarti

Legacies of Socialist Solidarity: East Germany in Mozambique by Tanja R. Müller Lanham, Lexington Books, 2014, 232 pp., $95.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-7942-0 pp. 1716-1717

Ela Drążkiewicz

Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico by Veronica Herrera Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 2017, 280 pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-0-472-12272-1 pp. 1717-1718

Krisztina Pusok

Volume 54, issue 8, 2018

Introduction to Special Section: Quantitative Approaches to the Measurement and Analysis of Female Empowerment and Agency pp. 1279-1283

Paola Ballon and Gaston Yalonetzky

Rethinking Measures of Psychological Agency: A Study on the Urban Fringe of Bamako pp. 1284-1302

Elise Klein and Paola Ballon

A Structural Equation Model of Female Empowerment pp. 1303-1320

Paola Ballon

Female Autonomy, Social Norms and Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Turkey pp. 1321-1337

Okan Yilmaz

The State of Female Autonomy in India: A Stochastic Dominance Approach pp. 1338-1353

Kausik Chaudhuri and Gaston Yalonetzky

Under What Conditions Can Local Government Nurture Indigenous People’s Democratic Practice? A Case Study of Two Ho Village Assemblies in Jharkhand pp. 1354-1373

Siddharth Sareen and Iben Nathan

Does Participation Lead to Ongoing Infrastructure Maintenance? Evidence from Caribbean Landslide Mitigation Projects pp. 1374-1391

Elizabeth A. Holcombe, Erlend Berg, Sarah Smith, Malcolm G. Anderson and Niels Holm-Nielsen

History and Institutions in the Rebuilding of Social Capital after Forced Resettlement in the Philippines and Indonesia pp. 1392-1405

Melissa Quetulio Navarra, Anke Niehof, Wander van der Vaart, Hilje van der Horst and Hester Moerbeek

Evaluating Transport Infrastructure Projects in Low Data Environments: An Application to Nigeria pp. 1406-1425

Jason Russ, Claudia Berg, Richard Damania, A. Federico Barra, Rubaba Ali and John Nash

Supporting Impact with Evidence: A Content Analysis of Project Completion Reports pp. 1426-1449

Bia Carneiro and Alessandra Garbero

Eliciting Risk Attitudes in the Field: Surveys or Experimental Methods? An Empirical Comparison in Rural Niger pp. 1450-1470

Awa Sanou, Lenis Liverpool-Tasie and Robert Shupp

The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer: The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-Making in South Africa and Tanzania pp. 1471-1472

Andreas Scheba

Economics of the Anthropocene Age by Adolfo Figueroa New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 272 pp., £70.00, ISBN 978-3-319-62584-3 pp. 1472-1473

Aurelie Charles

List of Referees pp. 1474-1482

The Editors

Volume 54, issue 7, 2018

Corrigendum pp. XI-XI

The Editors

Erratum pp. 1-1

The Editors

In Recognition of Chris Colclough pp. 1099-1099

Oliver Morrissey

Is School the Best Route to Skills? Returns to Vocational School and Vocational Skills in Egypt pp. 1100-1120

Caroline Krafft

Computer-Assisted Instruction for Child Development: Evidence from an Educational Programme in Rural Zambia pp. 1121-1136

Maja Schling and Paul Winters

Labour Market Impacts of School Expenditure and Class Size: Evidence from China pp. 1137-1153

Dong Guo

Effect of Parental Migration on the Academic Performance of Left Behind Children in North Western China pp. 1154-1170

Yu Bai, Linxiu Zhang, Chengfang Liu, Yaojiang Shi, Di Mo and Scott Rozelle

Well Begun, but Aiming Higher: A Review of Vietnam’s Education Trends in the past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges pp. 1171-1195

Hai-Anh Dang and Paul Glewwe

Educated Mothers, Well-Fed and Healthy Children? Assessing the Impact of the 1980 School Reform on Dietary Diversity and Nutrition Outcomes of Zimbabwean Children pp. 1196-1216

Marshall Makate and Clifton Makate

Paying for Violence? Spousal Abuse and Son Preference in India pp. 1217-1231

Shatanjaya Dasgupta and Erin Fletcher

Labour-Intensive Jobs for Women and Development: Intra-household Welfare Effects and Its Transmission Channels pp. 1232-1252

Tigabu D. Getahun and Espen Villanger

Number of Siblings, Credit Constraints, and Entrepreneurship in China pp. 1253-1273

Lixing Li and Xiaoyu Wu

The Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth, Education and Governance in Rwanda by Catherine A. Honeyman Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2016, 320 pp., £66 (hardback), ISBN: 0804797978 pp. 1274-1275

Pamela Abbott

Drip Irrigation For Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation And Development, edited by Venot, Kuper & Zwarteveen, Routledge, Abingdon, UK & New York, USA, 2017, 358 pp., £110, ISBN: 9781138687073 pp. 1275-1276

John Gowing

Allies or adversaries: NGOs and the state in Africa, edited by Jennifer N. Brass, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, 292 pp., £64.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781316678527 pp. 1276-1277

Danielle Kushner

Volume 54, issue 6, 2018

Erratum pp. X-X

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. XI-XI

The Editors

Resource Wealth, Democracy and Mobilisation pp. 949-967

Moises Arce, Rebecca E. Miller, Christopher F. Patane and Marc S. Polizzi

Post-Liberation Politics and Political Space in Eritrea: Interrogating Aspirations among Educated Youth pp. 968-982

Tanja R. Müller

Small Firms’ Formalisation: The Stick Treatment pp. 983-1001

Giacomo De Giorgi, Matthew Ploenzke and Aminur Rahman

Effects of Insurance on Child Labour: Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Behavioural Changes pp. 1002-1018

Markus Frölich and Andreas Landmann

Returning Home after Civil War: Food Security and Nutrition among Burundian Households pp. 1019-1040

Philip Verwimp and Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora

The Effect of the Sloping Land Conversion Programme on Farm Household Productivity in Rural China pp. 1041-1059

Zhen Liu and Jing Lan

An Empirical Investigation into Measurement and Determinants of Food Security pp. 1060-1081

Chandana Maitra and D.S. Prasada Rao

Emphasising the Problem or the Solution in Charitable Fundraising for International Development pp. 1082-1094

Jeremy Clark, Arlene Garces-Ozanne and Stephen Knowles

Land′s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier pp. 1095-1096

Pablo Yanguas

How Solidarity Works for Welfare by Prerna Singh, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2016, xix+304 pp., £64.99, ISBN 978-1-107-07005-9 pp. 1096-1097

Kunal Sen

Volume 54, issue 5, 2018

Africa’s Unfolding Economic Transformation pp. 777-787

Thomas Jayne, Jordan Chamberlin and Rui Benfica

Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts pp. 788-802

William Masters, Nathaniel Z. Rosenblum and Robel Alemu

Africa’s Evolving Employment Trends pp. 803-832

Felix Kwame Yeboah and Thomas Jayne

Understanding the Role of Rural Non-Farm Enterprises in Africa’s Economic Transformation: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 833-855

Xinshen Diao, Eduardo Magalhaes and Margaret McMillan

Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 856-874

Claudia N. Berg, Brian Blankespoor and Harris Selod

Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households pp. 875-894

Valerie Mueller, Cheryl Doss and Agnes Quisumbing

The Quiet Rise of Large-Scale Trading Firms in East and Southern Africa pp. 895-914

Nicholas Sitko, William Burke and Thomas Jayne

Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Rural Malawi pp. 915-932

Francis Addeah Darko, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Talip Kilic and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

Changing Patterns of Wealth Distribution: Evidence from Ghana pp. 933-948

Abena Oduro and Cheryl Doss

Volume 54, issue 4, 2018

Corrigendum pp. 1-1

The Editors

Erratum pp. 1-1

The Editors

Unpacking the Public Private Partnership Revival pp. 577-593

Kate Bayliss and Elisa Van Waeyenberge

Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks: Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam pp. 594-618

Chi Huu Nguyen and Christophe Nordman

Local Financial Development and Household Welfare in Vietnam: Evidence from a Panel Survey pp. 619-640

Viet T. Tran, Yabibal Walle and Helmut Herwartz

On the Short- and Medium-Term Effects of Formalisation: Panel Evidence from Vietnam pp. 641-656

Amadou Boly

Disability and Its Correlates in a Developing Country Context: Evidence from Multiple Datasets and Measures pp. 657-681

Jan Priebe

Allocating Family Responsibilities for Dependent Older People in Mexico and Peru pp. 682-701

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Rosie Mayston, Alberto Acosta, Sara Gallardo, Mariella Guerra, Ana Luisa Sosa, Veronica Montes de Oca and Martin Prince

Including Older Adults in Development Goals: Is Subjective Wellbeing the Answer? A Case Study of Older South Africans pp. 702-718

Margaret Ralston, Enid Schatz, Nirmala Naidoo and Paul Kowal

The Impact of SWAps on Health Aid Displacement of Domestic Health Expenditure pp. 719-737

Rohan Sweeney, Marc Suhrcke, Yun Joo Jeon and Duncan Mortimer

What Has Driven the Great Fertility Decline in Developing Countries since 1960? pp. 738-757

Jakob Madsen, Solmaz Moslehi and Cong Wang

Formal and Informal Seed Systems in Kenya: Supporting Indigenous Vegetable Seed Quality pp. 758-775

Marcia M. Croft, Maria Marshall, Martins Odendo, Christine Ndinya, Naman N. Ondego, Pamela Obura and Steven G. Hallett

Volume 54, issue 3, 2018

Erratum pp. X-X

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. XI-XI

The Editors

Making the Newest Citizens: Achieving Universal Birth Registration in Contemporary Brazil pp. 397-412

Wendy Hunter and Natasha Borges Sugiyama

Linking Irrigation Development with the Wider Agrarian Context: Everyday Class Politics in Water Distribution Practices in Rural Java pp. 413-425

Diana Suhardiman

Women, Wealth and Waterborne Disease: Smallholders’ Willingness to Pay for a Multiple-Use Water Scheme in Ethiopia pp. 426-440

Tekalign Sakketa and Martin Prowse

Estimating the Effects of Climate Shocks on Collective Violence: ARDL Evidence from India pp. 441-456

Partha Gangopadhyay and Rahul Nilakantan

Diversification Under Climate Variability as Part of a CSA Strategy in Rural Zambia pp. 457-480

Aslihan Arslan, Romina Cavatassi, Federica Alfani, Nancy Mccarthy, Leslie Lipper and Misael Kokwe

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Remittances to Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 481-500

Giulia Bettin and Alberto Zazzaro

Risky Coping pp. 501-522

Yoshito Takasaki

Noncomparable Poverty Comparisons pp. 523-536

Dean Jolliffe and Umar Serajuddin

An Unconditional Quantile Regression Based Decomposition of Spatial Welfare Inequalities in Ghana pp. 537-556

Frank Agyire-Tettey, Charles Godfred Ackah and Derek Asuman

A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana pp. 557-573

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

, edited by S. Hickey, K. Sen and B. Bukenya,,, 2014, 396 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 9780198722564 pp. 574-575

Brendan Halloran

Volume 54, issue 2, 2018

Why Do Poor People Co-Hold Debt and Liquid Savings? pp. 213-234

Carolina Laureti

Who Benefits? The Interactional Determinants of Microfinance’s Varied Effects pp. 235-255

Erin Beck, Michael Aguilera and James Schintz

Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies: Malawian Experience pp. 256-270

Natalia Radchenko and Paul Corral Rodas

Gender, Weather Shocks and Welfare: Evidence from Malawi pp. 271-291

Solomon Asfaw and Giuseppe Maggio

Agglomeration Effects: Productivity of the Informal Sector in Vietnam pp. 292-311

Thi Bich Tran and Hai Anh La

Migrant Remittances and Physical Investment Purchases: Evidence from Kenyan Households pp. 312-326

Farai Jena

Social Network Effects on Mobile Money Adoption in Uganda pp. 327-342

Conrad Murendo, Meike Wollni, Alan de Brauw and Nicholas Mugabi

Social Desirability, Opportunism and Actual Support for Farmers’ Market Organisations in Ethiopia pp. 343-358

Steffen Eriksen, Clemens Lutz and Getaw Tadesse

Can Tourism Promote Inclusive Growth? Supply Chains, Ownership and Employment in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam pp. 359-376

Mark Hampton, Julia Jeyacheya and Pham Hong Long

Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Associated with Reductions in Poverty and Improvements in Well-being? pp. 377-393

Meg Elkins, Simon Feeny and David Prentice

Book Review pp. 394-395

Sasha Jesperson

Volume 54, issue 1, 2018

Erratum pp. X-X

The Editors

Taxing Times: Taxation, Divided Societies and the Informal Economy in Northern Nigeria pp. 1-17

Kate Meagher

Why Are the Poor More Vulnerable to Bribery in Africa? The Institutional Effects of Services pp. 18-29

Caryn Peiffer and Richard Rose

The Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Development: Authority, Resource Control and State Intervention in Rural Zambia pp. 30-46

Mikkel Funder, Carol Mweemba and Imasiku Nyambe

Sex-selective Abortions and Infant Mortality in India: The Role of Parents’ Stated Son Preference pp. 47-56

Marie-Claire Robitaille and Ishita Chatterjee

Child Income Appropriations as a Disease-Coping Mechanism: Consequences for the Health-Education Relationship pp. 57-71

Renaud Bourlès, Bruno Ventelou and Maame Woode

Food Price Changes and Household Welfare: What Do We Learn from Two Different Approaches? pp. 72-92

Luca Tiberti and Marco Tiberti

Labour Migration and Health of Left-Behind Children in China pp. 93-110

Lianlian Lei, Feng Liu and Elaine Hill

Jobs Off the Farm: Wealth, Human Capital, and Social Group in Rural Eastern India pp. 111-132

Maki Nakajima, Keijiro Otsuka and Takashi Yamano

Citizens by Design? Explaining Ex-Combatant Satisfaction with Reintegration Programming pp. 133-152

Ben Oppenheim and Johanna Söderström

A Vaccination for Education: Early Childhood Development Programme and the Education of Older Girls in Rural India pp. 153-173

Monica Jain

Social Networks and Factor Markets: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 174-190

Kibrom Abay, Goytom Kahsay and Guush Berhane

The Electoral Dynamics of Human Development pp. 191-211

Vitor Castro and Rodrigo Martins