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Volume 52, issue 12, 2016

The Politics of Taxation: Introduction to the Special Section pp. 1685-1688

Christian von Haldenwang and Armin von Schiller

Tax Revenue Performance and Vulnerability in Developing Countries pp. 1689-1703

Oliver Morrissey, Christian von Haldenwang, Armin Von Schiller, Maksym Ivanyna and Ingo Bordon

The Political Economy of Domestic Tax Reform in Bangladesh: Political Settlements, Informal Institutions and the Negotiation of Reform pp. 1704-1721

Mirza Hassan and Wilson Prichard

Business Organisations, Party Systems and Tax Composition in Developing Countries: A Comparison between Colombia and Peru pp. 1722-1743

Armin von Schiller

Aid and Taxation in Ethiopia pp. 1744-1758

Giulia Mascagni

Rebuilding Local Government Finances After Conflict: Lessons from a Property Tax Reform Programme in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone pp. 1759-1775

Samuel Jibao and Wilson Prichard

Revenue-Maximising or Revenue-Sacrificing Government? Property Tax in Pakistan pp. 1776-1790

Mujtaba Piracha and Mick Moore

The Impact of Educational Fee Reduction Reform on School Enrolment in Rural China pp. 1791-1809

Xinzheng Shi

The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti pp. 1810-1825

Evans Jadotte and Xavi Ramos

Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America: State, Society, and Industry in Brazil’s AIDS Program, By M. Flynn pp. 1826-1827

Elize Massard da Fonseca

Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature, By Diana Mitlin and David Satterhwaite Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South, By David Satterthwaite and Diana Mitlin pp. 1827-1829

Colin McFarlane

Government as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India, By Dwaipayan Bhattacharya pp. 1830-1831

Indraneel Dasgupta

From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Edited by Benjamin Davis, Sudhanshu Handa, Nicola Hypher, Nicola Winder, Paul C. Winters, and Jennifer Yablonski pp. 1831-1832

Armando Barrientos

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 52, issue 11, 2016

‘Sustainable Mining’? Corporate Social Responsibility, Migration and Livelihood Choices in Zambia pp. 1517-1532

Emma Gilberthorpe, Dorice Agol and Thomas Gegg

Workers’ Compensation and Moral Hazard in Tunisia pp. 1533-1544

Abdelaziz Benkhalifa, Paul Lanoie and Mohamed Ayadi

Risk Incomprehension and Its Economic Consequences pp. 1545-1560

Kitae Sohn

The Impact of Mobile Phone Technology on Agricultural Extension Services Delivery: Evidence from India pp. 1561-1576

Xiaolan Fu and Shaheen Akter

Geographic Neighbourhood and Cluster Formation: Evidence from Indian Agriculture pp. 1577-1592

Tirtha Chatterjee and Anand Ganesh-Kumar

Urban Proximity and Spatial Pattern of Land Use and Development in Rural India pp. 1593-1611

Ajay Sharma

Mechanisms of the ‘Aid Curse’: Lessons from South Korea and Pakistan pp. 1612-1627

Monica Prasad and Andre Nickow

Job Satisfaction among Primary School Personnel in Madagascar pp. 1628-1646

Carlos Gamero Burón and Gérard Lassibille

Redefining Who’s ‘In’ and Who’s ‘Out’: Explaining Preferences for Redistribution in Bolivia pp. 1647-1664

Matthew Carnes and Isabela Mares

Long-term Impacts of Global Food Crisis on Production Decisions: Evidence from Farm Investments in Indonesia pp. 1665-1683

Manabu Nose and Futoshi Yamauchi

Volume 52, issue 10, 2016

Making the Invisible Visible: Disability Inclusive Development in Solomon Islands pp. 1389-1400

Alexandra Gartrell, Megan G. Jennaway, Lenore Manderson and Naomi Godden

Welfare, Inequality and Financial Effects of a Multi-Pillar Pension Reform: The Case of Peru pp. 1401-1414

Javier Olivera

Exports, Outward FDI and Technology Upgrading: Firm Level Evidence from India pp. 1415-1430

Sandra Lancheros

Spatial Spillover Effects from Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam pp. 1431-1445

Tran Toan Thang, Thi Song Hanh Pham and Bradley R. Barnes

Beneficiary Participation in Non-Governmental Development Organisations: A Case Study in Vietnam pp. 1446-1462

Fleur Mercelis, Lore Wellens and Marc Jegers

Poverty Transition in Rural Vietnam: The Role of Migration and Remittances pp. 1463-1478

Mulubrhan Amare and Lena Hohfeld

Impacts of Bribery in Healthcare in Vietnam pp. 1479-1498

Midori Matsushima and Hiroyuki Yamada

Bureaucratic Corruption and Income: Evidence from the Land Sector in Bangladesh pp. 1499-1516

Asad Islam and Wang-Sheng Lee

Volume 52, issue 9, 2016

Sustainability Standards, Gender, and Nutrition among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda pp. 1241-1257

Brian Chiputwa and Matin Qaim

When Social and Economic Goals Meet: The Double Dividend of Improving Farmers’ Health Capital in Uganda pp. 1258-1272

Jean-Marc Montaud and Mahamadou Tankari

Social Capital and Access to Credit: Evidence from Uganda pp. 1273-1288

Anni Heikkilä, Panu Kalmi and Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen

Microfinance and Loan Officers’ Work Experiences: Perspectives from Zambia pp. 1289-1305

Juliana Siwale

The Formal Divide: Customary Rights and the Allocation of Credit to Agriculture in Tanzania pp. 1306-1319

Howard Stein, Faustin P. Maganga, Rie Odgaard, Kelly Askew and Sam Cunningham

Water Availability and Reliability in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania pp. 1320-1334

Sarah L. Smiley

Economic Benefits of Rural Feeder Roads: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1335-1356

David Stifel, Bart Minten and Bethlehem Koru

The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on Subjective Well-Being in South Africa pp. 1357-1371

Kirsten Mulcahy and Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

When the Data Source Writes the Conclusion: Evaluating Agricultural Policies pp. 1372-1387

Sam Desiere, Lotte Staelens and Marijke D’Haese

Volume 52, issue 8, 2016

Can Cash Transfer Programmes Have ‘Transformative’ Effects? pp. 1087-1098

Maxine Molyneux, With Nicola Jones and Fiona Samuels

‘Being Able to Breathe Again’: The Effects of Cash Transfer Programmes on Psychosocial Wellbeing pp. 1099-1114

Fiona Samuels and Maria Stavropoulou

Can Social Protection Affect Psychosocial Wellbeing and Why Does This Matter? Lessons from Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1115-1131

Ramlatu Attah, Valentina Barca, Andrew Kardan, Ian MacAuslan, Fred Merttens and Luca Pellerano

Accessing the ‘Right’ Kinds of Material and Symbolic Capital: the Role of Cash Transfers in Reducing Adolescent School Absence and Risky Behaviour in South Africa pp. 1132-1146

Michelle Adato, Stephen Devereux and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

Effects of Cash Transfers on Community Interactions: Emerging Evidence pp. 1147-1161

Sara Pavanello, Carol Watson, W. Onyango-Ouma and Paul Bukuluki

From Social Accountability to a New Social Contract? The Role of NGOs in Protecting and Empowering PLHIV in Uganda pp. 1162-1176

Badru Bukenya

Programming for Citizenship: The Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in El Salvador pp. 1177-1191

Michelle Adato, Oscar Morales Barahona and Terence Roopnaraine

Pathways to Citizen Accountability: Brazil’s Bolsa Família pp. 1192-1206

Natasha Borges Sugiyama

Transforming Cash Transfers: Citizens’ Perspectives on the Politics of Programme Implementation pp. 1207-1224

Nicola Jones, Bassam Abu-Hamad, Paola Pereznieto and Kerry Sylvester

Understanding Social Accountability: Politics, Power and Building New Social Contracts pp. 1225-1240

Sam Hickey and Sophie King

Volume 52, issue 7, 2016

The African Political Business Cycle: Varieties of Experience pp. 917-932

Paul Mosley and Blessing Chiripanhura

Policy Making in Foreign Aid: Gender Equality and Danish Development Policy pp. 933-949

Lars Engberg-Pedersen

Pathologies of Development Practice: Higher Order Obstacles to Governance Reform in the Pakistani Electrical Power Sector pp. 950-964

Ijlal Naqvi

Congregational Aid: North American Protestant Engagement in International Relief and Development pp. 965-985

Monty Lynn

Tariffs and Firm Performance in Ethiopia pp. 986-1001

Arne Bigsten, Mulu Gebreeyesus and Mans Soderbom

Transforming Gender Relations through the Market: Smallholder Milk Market Participation and Women`s Intra-household Bargaining Power in Ethiopia pp. 1002-1018

Birhanu Megersa Lenjiso, Jeroen Smits and Ruerd Ruben

Smallholder Drip Irrigation in Burkina Faso: The Role of Development Brokers pp. 1019-1033

Jonas Wanvoeke, Jean-Philippe Venot, Charlotte De Fraiture and Margreet Zwarteveen

The Effect of Household Wealth on Fertiliser Use in the Presence of Uncertainty pp. 1034-1045

Ling Yee Khor and Manfred Zeller

The Effects of Improved Roads on Wages and Employment: Evidence from Rural Labour Markets in Indonesia pp. 1046-1061

Futoshi Yamauchi

Life Satisfaction across Cities: Evidence from Romania pp. 1062-1077

Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca

Referees from January-December, 2015 (inclusive) pp. 1078-1086

The Editors

Volume 52, issue 6, 2016

Awareness Campaigns as a Response to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia pp. 765-779

Brittany Gilmer

‘Ground-Truthing’ Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda pp. 780-796

Edwin Muchapondwa, Daniel Nielson, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney

Urban Land Management and its Discontents: A Case Study of the Swaziland Urban Development Project (SUDP) pp. 797-812

Hloniphile Simelane

Family Ties and Socio-Economic Outcomes in High vs Low Income Countries pp. 813-823

Gianmarco Daniele and Benny Geys

Remittance Behaviour of Forced Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 824-837

Florence Arestoff, Melanie Kuhn-Le Braz and El Mouhoub Mouhoud

The Impact of International Remittances on Child Outcomes and Household Expenditures in Nepal pp. 838-853

Apsara Karki Nepal

Heterogeneity in the Intrahousehold Allocation of International Remittances: Evidence from Philippine Households pp. 854-875

Marjorie Pajaron

Do Female Gender Role Attitudes Affect Labour Market Participation in Egypt? pp. 876-894

Sachiko Miyata and Hiroyuki Yamada

The Determinants of Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh: The Role of Partner’s Attitudes and Participation in Microcredit Programmes pp. 895-912

Cristina Elisa Orso and Enrico Fabrizi

Development Discourse and Global History: From Colonialism to the Sustainable Development Goals pp. 913-914

Sally Matthews

Corrigendum pp. 915-915

The Editors

Volume 52, issue 5, 2016

Has Structural Economic Vulnerability Decreased in Least Developed Countries? Lessons Drawn from Retrospective Indices pp. 591-606

Joël Cariolle, Michael Goujon and Patrick Guillaumont

Service Innovation in Developing Economies: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 607-626

Luis Rubalcaba, Diego Aboal and Paula Garda

Transforming Staple Food Value Chains in Africa: The Case of Teff in Ethiopia pp. 627-645

Bart Minten, Seneshaw Tamru, Ermias Engida and Tadesse Kuma

The Structure of Indigenous Food Crop Markets in sub-Saharan Africa: The Rice Market in Uganda pp. 646-664

Masao Kikuchi, Yusuke Haneishi, Kunihiro Tokida, Atsushi Maruyama, Godfrey Asea and Tatsushi Tsuboi

Weather Shocks, Agricultural Production and Migration: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 665-680

Zaneta Kubik and Mathilde Maurel

Contract Farming and Vulnerability to Poverty among Oil Palm Smallholders in Indonesia pp. 681-695

Eko Ruddy Cahyadi and Hermann Waibel

Private Sector Incentives and the Diffusion of Agricultural Technology: Evidence from Developing Countries pp. 696-717

David Spielman and Xingliang Ma

The Heterogeneous Effects of a Food Price Crisis on Child School Enrolment and Labour: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 718-734

Xiaohui Hou, Seo Yeon Hong and Kinnon Scott

Climate Instability, Urbanisation and International Migration pp. 735-752

Mathilde Maurel and Michele Tuccio

Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of HumanitarianismPeaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention pp. 753-755

Róisín Read

Give a Man a Fish. Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution pp. 755-756

Sarah C. White

Referees from January to December 2014 (inclusive) pp. 757-764

The Editors

Volume 52, issue 4, 2016

Introduction: Global Economic Inclusion and African Workers pp. 471-482

Kate Meagher, Laura Mann and Maxim Bolt

The Scramble for Africans: Demography, Globalisation and Africa’s Informal Labour Markets pp. 483-497

Kate Meagher

‘Integration’ or ‘Selective Incorporation’? The Modes of Governance in Informal Trading Policy in the Inner City of Johannesburg pp. 498-513

Antonio Pezzano

Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid pp. 514-529

Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak

The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations pp. 530-548

Laura Mann and Mark Graham

Do Transnational Links Matter after Return? Labour Market Participation among Ghanaian Return Migrants pp. 549-560

Mary Boatemaa Setrana and Steve Tonah

Accidental Neoliberalism and the Performance of Management: Hierarchies in Export Agriculture on the Zimbabwean-South African Border pp. 561-575

Maxim Bolt

Resilient Labour: Workplace Regimes, Globalisation and Enclave Development in Swaziland pp. 576-590

Vito Laterza

Volume 52, issue 3, 2016

Off the Hook: Measuring the Impact of Mobile Telephone Use on Economic Development of Households in Uganda using Copulas pp. 315-330

Sanne Blauw and Philip Hans Franses

Inter-Generational Effects of Titling Programmes: Physical vs. Human Capital pp. 331-342

Nestor Gandelman

Traditional Food Crop Marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Gender Matter? pp. 343-359

Christina Handschuch and Meike Wollni

The Role of Land Certification in Reducing Gaps in Productivity between Male- and Female-Owned Farms in Rural Ethiopia pp. 360-376

Mintewab Bezabih, Stein Holden and Andrea Mannberg

The Impact of Shocks on Gender-differentiated Asset Dynamics in Bangladesh pp. 377-395

Muntaha Rakib and Julia Matz

Inverse Productivity or Inverse Efficiency? Evidence from Mexico pp. 396-411

Justin Kagin, J. Edward Taylor and Antonio Yúnez-Naude

Informality and Profitability: Evidence from a New Firm Survey in Ecuador pp. 412-427

Denis Medvedev and Ana María Oviedo

Multidimensional Poverty in Crisis: Lessons from Zimbabwe pp. 428-446

Quentin Stoeffler, Jeffrey Alwang, Bradford Mills and Nelson Taruvinga

Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty: Findings from Households in Melanesia pp. 447-464

Simon Feeny and Lachlan McDonald

Tourism in Africa: Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods, By I. Christie, E. Fernandes, H. Messerli and L. Twining-Ward pp. 465-466

Melanie Stroebel

Inclusive Growth, Development and Welfare Policy: A Critical Assessment, Edited by Reza Hasmath pp. 466-467

Andrew W. MacDonald

Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure, By Alison E. Post pp. 468-469

Luigi Manzetti

Volume 52, issue 2, 2016

Institutions: Evolution, Path Dependency, Anachronisms and Impact pp. 161-165

Ralitza Dimova and Antonio Savoia

Do We See Convergence in Institutions? A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 166-185

Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

The Diversity of Land Markets and Regulations in Europe, and (some of) its Causes pp. 186-205

Johan Swinnen, Kristine Van Herck and Liesbet Vranken

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since 1890 pp. 206-223

Nauro Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos and Bin Tan

When Do Firms Choose to Train? The Roles of Labour Regulations, Their Enforcement, and Firm and Industry Characteristics pp. 224-241

Zara Liaqat and Jeffrey Nugent

Is Women’s Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi pp. 242-253

Sumon Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova and Ira Gang

‘Public–Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order pp. 254-268

Nora Stel and Wim Naudé

Can Analytic Narrative Inform Policy Change? The Political Economy of the Indian Electricity–Irrigation Nexus pp. 269-285

Christian Kimmich

Democracy or Accountability? Governance and Social Spending in Africa pp. 286-299

Stephanie Kumah and Samuel Brazys

Is Central Government Intervention Bad for Local Outcomes? Mixed Messages from Indonesia pp. 300-313

Blane Lewis

Volume 52, issue 1, 2016

The Great Escape. Angus Deaton pp. 1-4

Michael Lipton

The Ties that Bind and Blind: Embeddedness and Radicalisation of Youth in One Islamist Organisation in Pakistan pp. 5-21

Akhlaq Ahmad

‘I Know My Rights, but Am I Better Off?’: Institutions and Disability in Uganda pp. 22-35

Trudy Owens and Samantha Torrance

The Village of the Damned? Myths and Realities of Structured Begging Behaviour in and Around Phnom Penh pp. 36-52

Laurie Parsons and Sabina Lawreniuk

Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China pp. 53-71

Zhiming Cheng and Russell Smyth

World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy pp. 72-91

Lodewijk Smets and Stephen Knack

The Invisible Hand: Financial Pressures and Organisational Convergence in Multilateral Development Banks pp. 92-112

Chris Humphrey

Moving Development and Security Narratives a Step Further: Human Security in the Human Development Reports pp. 113-129

Oscar A. Gomez, Des Gasper and Yoichi Mine

A Dream Deferred: The Microfoundations of Direct Political Action in Pre- and Post-democratisation South Africa pp. 130-146

Biniam E. Bedasso and Nonso Obikili

The ‘Impossible’ Default: Qualitative Data on Borrower Responses to Two Types of Social-Collateral Microfinance Structures in Rural China pp. 147-159

Becky Hsu