Journal of Development Studies

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Volume 53, issue 12, 2017

To Elect or Not to Elect: Leaders, Alternation in Power and Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1965-1987

Giovanni Carbone and Alessandro Pellegata

Community Driven Development and Structural Disadvantage: Interrogating the Social Turn in Development Programming in Indonesia pp. 1988-2004

J.F. McCARTHY, D.J. Steenbergen, C. Warren, G. Acciaioli, G. Baker, Andre Lucas and V. Rambe

When Shadow Banking Can Be Productive: Financing Small and Medium Enterprises in China pp. 2005-2028

Kellee S. Tsai

The Political Economy of Performance Standards: Automotive Industrial Policy in Comparative Historical Perspective pp. 2029-2049

Andrew Schrank

Uninsured Health Shocks and Agricultural Productivity among Rural Households: The Mitigating Role of Micro-credit pp. 2050-2066

Rosemary E. Isoto, Abdoul G. Sam and David S. Kraybill

Is Economic Growth Increasing Disparities? A Multidimensional Analysis of Poverty in the Lao PDR between 2003 and 2013 pp. 2067-2085

Christoph Bader, Sabin Bieri, Urs Wiesmann and Andreas Heinimann

When are Minorities Worse Off? A Systematic Investigation of Size and Status pp. 2086-2101

John Gerring, Strom C. Thacker, Yuan Lu and Erzen Oncel

The Effect of Having Children on Women’s Marital Status: Evidence From Vietnam pp. 2102-2117

Cuong Nguyen and Anh Tran

Estimation of Vulnerability to Poverty Using a Multilevel Longitudinal Model: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 2118-2144

Christian Mina and Katsushi Imai

Impact of Internal In-Migration on Income Inequality in Receiving Areas: A District Level Study of South Africa pp. 2145-2163

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Aid and Gendered Subjectivity in Rural Guatemala pp. 2164-2178

J. Moore, M. F. Webb, A. Chary, A. Kraemer Díaz and Peter Rohloff

The Effect of IMF Programmes on Economic Growth in Low Income Countries: An Empirical Analysis pp. 2179-2196

Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands

Financial Factors and Manufacturing Exports: Firm-Level Evidence From Egypt pp. 2197-2213

Youssouf Kiendrebeogo and Alexandru Minea

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 53, issue 11, 2017

Economic Effects of Migration on the Left-Behind in Cambodia pp. 1787-1805

Vathana Roth and Luca Tiberti

Migrant Network and Immigrants’ Occupational Mismatch pp. 1806-1821

Isabelle Chort

The Elasticity of the Migrant Labour Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants pp. 1822-1834

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Sekou Keita

Remittances Sent To and From the Forcibly Displaced pp. 1835-1848

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Indigenous Migration Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Longitudinal and Hierarchical Analysis pp. 1849-1864

Jason Davis, Samuel Sellers, Clark Gray and Richard Bilsborrow

The Education Gap of China’s Migrant Children and Rural Counterparts pp. 1865-1881

Xiaobing Wang, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang and Scott Rozelle

Girl Power: Stipend Programs and the Education of Younger Siblings pp. 1882-1898

Lutfunnahar Begum, Asad Islam and Russell Smyth

On Diarrhoea in Adolescents and School Toilets:Insights from an Indian Village School Study pp. 1899-1914

Shyama V. Ramani, Timothée Frühauf and Arijita Dutta

Subjected to Sanitation: Caste Relations and Sanitation Adoption in Rural Tamil Nadu pp. 1915-1928

Kathleen O’Reilly, Richa Dhanju and Elizabeth Louis

Exploring Microfinance Clients with Disabilities: A Case Study of an Ecuadorian Microbank pp. 1929-1943

Leif Atle Beisland and Roy Mersland

The Impact of a Disaster on Asset Dynamics in the Gobi Region of Mongolia: An Analysis of Livestock Changes pp. 1944-1961

Hiroshi Nakamura, Rinchindorj Dorjjadamba and Delgerjargal Sodnomdarjaa

Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic pp. 1962-1963

Hannah Brown

Allies or Adversaries: NGOs and the State in Africa pp. 1963-1964

Danielle Kushner

Volume 53, issue 10, 2017

Representation and Exclusion in Partial Democracies: The Role of Civil Society Organisations pp. 1539-1544

E. A. Brett

Organising and Representing the Poor in a Clientelistic Democracy: the Decline of Radical NGOs in Bangladesh pp. 1545-1567

David Lewis

Double Capture’ and De-Democratisation: Interest Group Politics and Uganda’s ‘Transport Mafia pp. 1568-1583

Tom Goodfellow

Building Democracy from Below: Lessons from Western Uganda pp. 1584-1599

Sophie King and Sam Hickey

How Does the Objective of Aid Affect Its Impact on Accountability? Evidence from Two Aid Programmes in Uganda pp. 1600-1614

Susan Dodsworth

Aspire pp. 1615-1633

Marcel Fafchamps and Simon Quinn

The Fiscal Politics of Rebellious Grievance in the Arab World: Egypt and Jordan in Comparative Perspective pp. 1634-1649

Pete W. Moore

Is the War on Drugs Working? Examining the Colombian Case Using Micro Data pp. 1650-1662

Marcela Ibanez and Stephan Klasen

Contracts Do Matter: Robust Evidence of an Optimal Level of Legal Formalism in Developing Countries pp. 1663-1678

Alan Green

Public Spending and Quality of Education in Brazil pp. 1679-1696

Mônica A. Haddad, Ricardo Freguglia and Cláudia Gomes

Better Teachers, Better Results? Evidence from Rural Pakistan pp. 1697-1713

Marine De Talancé

Intra-Household Gender Disparity in School Choice: Evidence from Private Schooling in India pp. 1714-1730

Soham Sahoo

Fiscal Decentralisation, the Knowledge Economy and School Teachers’ Wages in Urban China pp. 1731-1747

Yi Long, Christopher Nyland and Russell Smyth

Inequality of Opportunities at Early Ages: Evidence from Chile pp. 1748-1764

Dante Contreras and Esteban Puentes

The Effect of Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality: Evidence from a Panel of Indian States, 1983–1984 to 2011–2012 pp. 1765-1784

Andrew J. Barenberg, Deepankar Basu and Ceren Soylu

, By Sara E. Davies, Adam Kamradt-Scott, & Simon Rushton pp. 1785-1786

Michael Stevenson

Volume 53, issue 9, 2017

The Impact of Daycare Attendance on Math Test Scores for a Cohort of Fourth Graders in Brazil pp. 1335-1357

Cristine Pinto, Daniel Santos and Clarissa Guimarães

Does Education Improve Health? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1358-1375

Rasyad Parinduri

Does Health Insurance Reduce Child Labour and Education Gaps? Evidence from Rwanda pp. 1376-1395

Renate Strobl

Schooling Opportunities and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey: An IV Estimation Using Census Data pp. 1396-1413

Ayça Akarçay and Sezgin Polat

Does Market Access Mitigate the Impact of Seasonality on Child Growth? Panel Data Evidence from Northern Ethiopia pp. 1414-1429

Kibrewossen Abay and Kalle Hirvonen

The Caste/Ethnic Bases of Poverty Dynamics: A Longitudinal Analysis of Chronic and Structural Poverty in Nepal pp. 1430-1451

Udaya Wagle

Economic Crisis, Income Gaps, Uncertainty, and Inter-regional Migration Responses: Kazakhstan 2000–2014 pp. 1452-1470

Galina An, Charles M. Becker and Enoch Cheng

Domestic Violence and Women’s Land Rights in Rural China: Findings from a National Survey in 2010 pp. 1471-1485

Yueping Song and Xiao-yuan Dong

Gender and Corruption in Business pp. 1486-1501

Michael Breen, Robert Gillanders, Gemma Mcnulty and Akisato Suzuki

Enhancing Smallholder Access to Agricultural Machinery Services: Lessons from Bangladesh pp. 1502-1517

Khondoker Mottaleb, Dil Rahut, Akhter Ali, Bruno Gérard and Olaf Erenstein

Analysing the Impact of Price Shocks in Rural Economies: Do Household Responses Matter? pp. 1518-1534

Antonio Martuscelli

, By Lori Leonard pp. 1535-1536

Brock Smith

Young Generation Awakening: Economics, Society, and Policy on the Eve of the Arab Spring pp. 1536-1537

Nadim Mirshak

Volume 53, issue 8, 2017

The Fear Factor is a Main Thing: How Radio Influences Anxiety and Political Attitudes pp. 1123-1146

Anouk S. Rigterink and Mareike Schomerus

‘My Neighbour Drinks Clean Water, While I Continue To Suffer’: An Analysis of the Intra-Community Impacts of a Rural Water Supply Project in Mozambique pp. 1147-1162

Emily Van Houweling, Ralph Hall, Marcos Carzolio and Eric Vance

‘In and Against the State’? Venezuela’s Education Missions and the Struggle for a Democratic Alternative pp. 1163-1177

Maura Duffy

Education Language and Youth Entrepreneurship in Chad pp. 1178-1193

Thierry Yogo, Douzounet Mallaye and Abdelkrim Araar

The Effect of Sibling Size on Children’s Health and Education: Is there a Quantity-Quality Trade-off? pp. 1194-1206

Hai Zhong

Urban Wage Behaviour and Food Price Inflation in Ethiopia pp. 1207-1222

Fantu Bachewe and Derek Headey

Agricultural Growth Linkages in Guatemala: New Insights from a Value Chain Approach pp. 1223-1237

Jochen Dürr

The EU, the United States and Partnership in Development Cooperation: Bridging the Gap? pp. 1238-1252

Karen Del Biondo

Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala pp. 1253-1271

Javier Baez, Leonardo Lucchetti, Maria E. Genoni and Mateo Salazar

Restoring Tsunami Damaged Coastal Lands in Sri Lanka: Evidence of the Anticommons? pp. 1272-1285

Chatura Rodrigo and Brady Deaton

Farmland Rental Prices in GM Soybean Areas of Argentina: Do Contractual Arrangements Matter? pp. 1286-1302

Johanna Choumert-Nkolo and Pascale Phelinas

Food Intake and the Role of Food Self-Provisioning pp. 1303-1322

Katharina Lehmann-Uschner and Kati Kraehnert

Realising the Demographic Dividend: Policies to Achieve Inclusive Growth in India pp. 1323-1324

Shabana Mitra

List of Referees pp. 1325-1333

The Editors

Volume 53, issue 7, 2017

The Macroeconomics of Aid: Overview pp. 987-997

Tony Addison, Oliver Morrissey and Finn Tarp

The Return to Foreign Aid pp. 998-1018

Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Henrik Hansen

Fiscal Reforms and the Fiscal Effects of Aid in Uganda pp. 1019-1036

Thomas Bwire, Tim Lloyd and Oliver Morrissey

The Fiscal Effects of Aid in Ethiopia: Evidence from CVAR Applications pp. 1037-1056

Giulia Mascagni and Emilija Timmis

Does Conditionality Mitigate the Potential Negative Effect of Aid on Revenues? pp. 1057-1074

Ernesto Crivelli and Sanjeev Gupta

The Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Aid and Macroeconomic Transmission Mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana pp. 1075-1103

Katarina Juselius, Abdulaziz Reshid and Finn Tarp

Aid, the Real Exchange Rate and Why Policy Matters: The Cases of Morocco and Tunisia pp. 1104-1121

Tony Addison and Mina Baliamoune

Volume 53, issue 6, 2017

Combining Household Income and Asset Data to Identify Livelihood Strategies and Their Dynamics pp. 769-787

Solomon Zena Walelign, Mariève Pouliot, Helle Overgaard Larsen and Carsten Smith-Hall

In Times of Sickness: Intra-household Labour Substitution in Rural Indonesian Households pp. 788-804

Sung Soo Lim

Increasing the Human Capital of Children in Latin American Countries: The Role of Parents’ Time in Childcare pp. 805-825

Juan Campaña, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

Women’s Empowerment and Wellbeing: Evidence from Africa pp. 826-840

David Fielding and Aurélia Lépine

Fairtrade and Labour Markets in Ethiopia and Uganda pp. 841-856

Christopher Cramer, Deborah Johnston, Bernd Mueller, Carlos Oya and John Sender

Inclusive Development and the Asymmetric State: Big Projects and Local Communities in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 857-872

Rebecca Neaera Abers, Marília Silva de Oliveira and Ana Karine Pereira

Stature, Skills and Adult Life Outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 873-890

Olivier Bargain and Jinan Zeidan

Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal pp. 891-910

Linguere Mbaye and Natascha Wagner

Learning and Behavioural Spillovers of Nutritional Information pp. 911-931

Prakarsh Singh

Are There Gender Differences in Demand for Index-Based Livestock Insurance? pp. 932-952

Elizabeth R. Bageant and Christopher Barrett

Weather Shocks and Urban Livelihood Strategies: The Gender Dimension of Household Vulnerability in the Kumi District Of Uganda pp. 953-970

Precious Akampumuza and Hirotaka Matsuda

Income and Asset Poverty among Pastoralists in Northern Kenya pp. 971-986

Samuel Mburu, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Andrew Mude

Volume 53, issue 5, 2017

Microfinance and Gender: Issues, Challenges and The Road Ahead pp. 641-648

Supriya Garikipati, Susan Johnson, Isabelle Guérin and Ariane Szafarz

Economic Pathways to Women’s Empowerment and Active Citizenship: What Does The Evidence From Bangladesh Tell Us? pp. 649-663

Naila Kabeer

Micro-Finance, Women’s Empowerment and Fertility Decline in Bangladesh: How Important Was Women’s Agency? pp. 664-683

Maren Duvendack and Richard Palmer-Jones

The Impact of Microfinance on Factors Empowering Women: Differences in Regional and Delivery Mechanisms in India’s SHG Programme pp. 684-699

Ranjula Bali Swain and Fan Yang Wallentin

The Cost of Empowerment: Multiple Sources of Women’s Debt in Rural India pp. 700-722

Supriya Garikipati, Isabelle Agier, Isabelle Guérin and Ariane Szafarz

Gender Discrimination in Microfinance? Some Evidence from Uganda pp. 723-740

Marcella Corsi and Marina De Angelis

Market, Freedom and the Illusions of Microcredit. Patronage, Caste, Class and Patriarchy in Rural South India pp. 741-754

Isabelle Guérin and Santosh Kumar

We Don’t Have This Is Mine and This Is His’: Managing Money and The Character of Conjugality in Kenya pp. 755-768

Susan Johnson

Volume 53, issue 4, 2017

Transport Policies and Development pp. 465-480

Claudia N. Berg, Uwe Deichmann, Yishen Liu and Harris Selod

Maize Market Participation among Female- and Male-Headed Households in Ethiopia pp. 481-494

Paswel P. Marenya, Menale B. Kassie, Moti D. Jaleta and Dil Rahut

Informal Employment in Developing Economies: Multiple Heterogeneity pp. 495-513

Natalia Radchenko

Spousal Bargaining Over Care for Elderly Parents in China: Imbalances in Sex Ratios Influence the Allocation of Support pp. 514-529

Maria Porter

How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit among the Ultra-poor? Experimental Evidence from the River Islands of Northern Bangladesh pp. 530-547

Kazushi Takahashi, Abu Shonchoy, Seiro Ito and Takashi Kurosaki

The Role of Access Mechanisms in Effective Rehabilitation of Displaced Farmers Due to Development Projects pp. 548-564

Vikram Patil, Ranjan Ghosh and Vinish Kathuria

Empirical Investigation into Spatial Integration Without Direct Trade: Comparative Analysis Before and After the Establishment of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange pp. 565-583

Tinsae Demise, Valéri Natanelov, Wim Verbeke and Marijke D’Haese

The Influence of Established Ideas in Emerging Development Organisations: Gender Equality and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pp. 584-599

Adam Moe Fejerskov

‘Girls Don’t Become Craftsmen’: Determinants and Experiences of Children’s Work in Gemstone Polishing in Jaipur pp. 600-617

Yashodhan Ghorpade

Worker Empowerment Through Private Standards. Evidence from the Peruvian Horticultural Export Sector pp. 618-637

Monica Schuster and Miet Maertens

Dilemmas of Difference: Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy pp. 638-639

Jessica Hope

Volume 53, issue 3, 2017

Localising Globalisation: Gendered Transformations of Work in Emergent Economies pp. 311-315

Anette Fagertun

Gendered Morality Tales: Discourses of Gender, Labour, and Value in Globalising Asia pp. 316-330

Mary Beth Mills

Labour in Paradise: Gender, Class and Social Mobility in the Informal Tourism Economy of Urban Bali, Indonesia pp. 331-345

Anette Fagertun

‘Made in China’. Contraband, Labour and the Gendered Effects of ‘Free-Trade’, China-Peru pp. 346-360

Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard

Local Navigations in a Global Industry: The Gendered Nature of Entrepreneurship in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Service Sector pp. 361-374

Ragnhild Overå

Poverty Impacts of Changes in the International Prices of Agricultural Commodities: Recent Evidence for Argentina (An Ex-Ante Analysis) pp. 375-395

Pedro Moncarz, Sergio Barone, German Calfat and Ricardo Descalzi

Earnings and Caste: An Evaluation of Caste Wage Differentials in the Nepalese Labour Market pp. 396-421

Ram Mainali, Saqib Jafarey and Gabriel Montes-Rojas

Remittances and Happiness of Migrants and Their Home Households: Evidence Using Matched Samples pp. 422-443

Mohammad Abdul Munim Joarder, Mark Harris and Alfred Dockery

Child Development and Migrant Transnationalism: The Health of Children Who Stay Behind in Ghana and Nigeria pp. 444-459

Victor Cebotari, Valentina Mazzucato and Melissa Siegel

, by A. Estache and Q. Wodon pp. 460-462

Jörg Peters

, by Mario Biggeri and Andrea Ferrannini pp. 462-463

Diane Warburton

, by M. Haacker pp. 463-464

Jeremy Youde

Volume 53, issue 2, 2017

The Resource Curse - What Have We Learned from Two Decades of Intensive Research: Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 175-185

Elissaios Papyrakis

The Anthropology of Extraction: Critical Perspectives on the Resource Curse pp. 186-204

Emma Gilberthorpe and Dinah Rajak

The Impact of Natural Resources: Survey of Recent Quantitative Evidence pp. 205-216

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Steven Poelhekke

The Institutional and Psychological Foundations of Natural Resource Policies pp. 217-228

Paul Collier

Guyana Gold: A Unique Resource Curse? pp. 229-248

Gavin Hilson and Timothy Laing

Righting the Resource Curse: Institutional Politics and State Capabilities in Edo State, Nigeria pp. 249-263

Doug Porter and Michael Watts

Natural Resources and Small Island Economies: Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago pp. 264-277

R. M. Auty

Resources and Governance in Sierra Leone’s Civil War pp. 278-294

Maarten Voors, Peter Van Der Windt, Kostadis Papaioannou and Erwin Bulte

Corruption and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative pp. 295-309

Elissaios Papyrakis, Matthias Rieger and Emma Gilberthorpe

Volume 53, issue 1, 2017

Party System Competition and Private Sector Development in Africa pp. 1-17

M. Anne Pitcher

Impact of Long Run Exposure to Television on Homicides: Some Evidence from Brazil pp. 18-31

Alberto Chong and Monica Yanez-Pagans

Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy: A Nighttime Light Approach pp. 32-48

Kiyoyasu Tanaka and Souknilanh Keola

Does the Heterogeneity of Project Implementers Affect the Programme Participation of Beneficiaries?: Evidence from Rural Cambodia pp. 49-67

Ayako Wakano, Hiroyuki Yamada and Daichi Shimamoto

The Complexity of Marriage in Rural Ethiopia: Parental Transfers and Post-marital Residence Choices pp. 68-81

Abbi Kedir and Andrea Oterová

Does Land Fragmentation Increase the Cost of Cultivation? Evidence from India pp. 82-98

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Monchuk, Hari K Nagarajan and Sudhir Singh

The Proliferation of Developing Country Classifications pp. 99-115

Djalita Fialho and Peter Bergeijk

Transparency Pays? Evaluating the Effects of the Freedom of Information Laws on Perceived Government Corruption pp. 116-137

Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati and Arusha Cooray

A Micro-Level Study of the Relationship Between Experienced Corruption and Subjective Wellbeing in Africa pp. 138-155

Iddisah Sulemana, Abdul Malik Iddrisu and Jude E. Kyoore

Do Natural Disasters Open a Window of Opportunity for Corruption? pp. 156-172

Quang Nguyen

Erratum pp. 173-173

The Editors