Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2025

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Volume 51, issue 12, 2015

The Disease Environment, Schooling, and Development Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1563-1584

Alfredo Burlando

How Do You Feel? The Effect of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China pp. 1585-1602

Carine Milcent and Binzhen Wu

Social Capital and Hygiene Practices among the Extreme Poor in Rural Bangladesh pp. 1603-1618

Rejaul Bakshi, Debdulal Mallick and Mehmet Ulubasoglu

The Impact of Cooking with Firewood on Respiratory Health: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1619-1633

Ani Silwal and Andy McKay

Linkages between Decentralisation and Inequalities in Neonatal Health: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1634-1652

Andrew Hodge, Sonja Firth, Eliana Jimenez-Soto and Laksono Trisnantoro

Social Hierarchies and Public Distribution of Food in Rural India pp. 1653-1666

Deepankar Basu and Debarshi Das

Seasonality and Trends in Child Malnutrition: Time-Series Analysis of Health Clinic Data from the Dowa District of Malawi pp. 1667-1682

Maria Sassi

Double Penalty in Returns to Education: Informality and Educational Mismatch in the Colombian Labour Market pp. 1683-1701

Paula Herrera-Id�rraga, Enrique L�pez-Bazo and Elisabet Motell�n

The Effect of Armed Conflict on Education: Evidence from Iraq pp. 1702-1718

Vidya Diwakar

Volume 51, issue 11, 2015

Barriers to Participation: Exploring Gender in Peru's Participatory Budget Process pp. 1429-1443

Stephanie L. McNulty

A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh pp. 1444-1458

Salma Ahmed and Pushkar Maitra

How Economic Empowerment Reduces Women's Reproductive Health Vulnerability in Tanzania pp. 1459-1474

Judith Westeneng and Ben D'Exelle

The Paradox of Small Hydropower: Local Government and Environmental Governance in China pp. 1475-1487

Jenn-Hwan Wang, Sheng-Wen Tseng and Huan Zheng

Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequality pp. 1488-1501

Manisha Chakrabarty, Amita Majumder and Ranjan Ray

Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College pp. 1502-1517

Michael Clemens, Colum Graham and Stephen Howes

Distributive Politics and Regional Development: Assessing the Territorial Distribution of Turkey's Public Investment pp. 1518-1540

Davide Luca and Andr�s Rodr�guez-Pose

Road Infrastructure and Enterprise Dynamics in Ethiopia pp. 1541-1558

Admasu Shiferaw, M�ns S�derbom, Eyerusalem Siba and Getnet Alemu

Religion and the Politics of Development, Edited by Philip Fountain, Robin Bush, & R. Michael Feener, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015, pp. 272, €94.98 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-137-43856-0 pp. 1559-1560

Matthew Clarke

The Politics of African Industrial Policy: A Comparative Perspective Edited by Lindsay Whitfield, Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur & Anne Mette Kjaer New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. xi and 343, Hb US$89.99, E-book: US$69.19, 978-1-107-10531-7 pp. 1560-1561

Jan Kees van Donge

Volume 51, issue 10, 2015

Economic Consequences of Forced Displacement pp. 1275-1293

Nathan Fiala

Remittances, Bonds and Bridges: Remittances and Social Capital in Burundi pp. 1294-1308

Sonja Fransen

Do Remittances Diminish Social Violence? pp. 1309-1325

Gazi Hassan and Joao Faria

Migration and Care Institutions in Market Socialist Vietnam: Conditionality, Commodification and Moral Authority pp. 1326-1340

Minh T.N. Nguyen

Cognitive Constructs and the Intention to Remit pp. 1341-1357

Judith M�llers, Wiebke Meyer, Sherif Xhema, Diana Traikova and Gertrud Buchenrieder, neé Schrieder

Do the Return Intentions of French Migrants Affect Their Transfer Behaviour? pp. 1358-1373

François-Charles Wolff

Widowhood, Socio-Economic Status, Health and Wellbeing in Low and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1374-1388

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Barbara Corso and Nadia Minicuci

Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Men in India pp. 1389-1408

Mehtabul Azam

In Search of Inclusion: Informal Sector Participation in a Voluntary, Defined Contribution Pension System pp. 1409-1424

Renuka Sane and Susan Thomas

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty (translated by Arthur Goldhammer), Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014, pp. 696, $39.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-674-43000-6 pp. 1425-1427

Russell Jacoby

Volume 51, issue 9, 2015

Rural Livelihood Diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Literature Review pp. 1125-1138

Sarah Alobo Loison

Household Welfare Effects of Agricultural Productivity: A Multidimensional Perspective from Ghana pp. 1139-1154

Fred M. Dzanku

Can Integrated Agriculture-Nutrition Programmes Change Gender Norms on Land and Asset Ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso pp. 1155-1174

Mara van den Bold, Andrew Dillon, Deanna Olney, Marcellin Ouedraogo, Abdoulaye Pedehombga and Agnes Quisumbing

The Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: The Role of Market Imperfections pp. 1175-1192

Amparo Palacios-L�pez and Ram�n L�pez

Livestock and Private Tree Holdings in Rural Ethiopia: The Effects of Collective Action Institutions, Tenure Security and Market Access pp. 1193-1209

Randall Bluffstone, Mahmud Yesuf, Takuro Uehara, Bilisuma Bushie and Demessie Damite

A Retrospective Impact Evaluation of the Tamil Nadu Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation (Pudhu Vaazhvu) Project pp. 1210-1223

Madhulika Khanna, Nishtha Kochhar and Nethra Palaniswamy

Antipoverty Transfers and Labour Market Outcomes: Regression Discontinuity Design Findings pp. 1224-1240

Armando Barrientos and Juan Villa

Loan Officers' Gender and Microfinance Repayment Rates pp. 1241-1254

Marrit van den Berg, Robert Lensink and Roselia Servin Juarez

Participation in Micro-Finance Programmes and Women's Mental Health in South Asia: A Modified Systematic Review pp. 1255-1270

Farhana I. Madhani, Catherine Tompkins, Susan M. Jack and Anita Fisher

Sir Arthur Lewis: A Biography, Barbara Ingham and Paul Mosley, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. x + 342, £79.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-55358-3 pp. 1271-1272

Adrian Wood

Working with the Grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies, Brian Levy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. xvi + 266, £22.99, ISBN 978-0-19-936381-0 pp. 1272-1273

James Morris

Innovation and Inequality: Emerging technologies in an unequal world, Edited by Cozzens, Susan and Dhanaraj Thakur, Cheltenham, 2014, pp. 360, hardback 978 1 78195 166 8 ebook, ISBN 978 1 78195 167 5 pp. 1273-1274

Walter D. Valdivia and Kevin Risser

Volume 51, issue 8, 2015

Farm-Level Pathways to Improved Nutritional Status: Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 945-957

Calogero Carletto, Marie Ruel, Paul Winters and Alberto Zezza

Cows, Missing Milk Markets, and Nutrition in Rural Ethiopia pp. 958-975

John Hoddinott, Derek Headey and Mekdim Dereje

Agricultural Production, Dietary Diversity and Climate Variability pp. 976-995

Andrew Dillon, Kevin McGee and Gbemisola Oseni

Programme Participation Intensity and Children's Nutritional Status: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial in Mozambique pp. 996-1015

Alan de Brauw, Patrick Eozenou and Mourad Moursi

Agricultural Production and the Nutritional Status of Family Members in Tanzania pp. 1016-1033

Vanya Slavchevska

Does Livestock Ownership Affect Animal Source Foods Consumption and Child Nutritional Status? Evidence from Rural Uganda pp. 1034-1059

Carlo Azzarri, Alberto Zezza, Beliyou Haile and Elizabeth Cross

If They Grow It, Will They Eat and Grow? Evidence from Zambia on Agricultural Diversity and Child Undernutrition pp. 1060-1077

Neha Kumar, Jody Harris and Rahul Rawat

Agricultural Diversity and Child Stunting in Nepal pp. 1078-1096

Gerald Shively and Celeste Sununtnasuk

Women's Empowerment Mitigates the Negative Effects of Low Production Diversity on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Nepal pp. 1097-1123

Hazel Jean Malapit, Suneetha Kadiyala, Agnes Quisumbing, Kenda Cunningham and Parul Tyagi

Volume 51, issue 7, 2015

What I Learned from the JDS pp. 767-771

John Toye

From Take-off to Sustained Growth and Maturity - Reflections on a Half-Century of Rapid JDS Development pp. 772-783

Christopher Colclough

The State, Socialisation, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternative Producers? pp. 784-807

Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

Evaluating the Impact of Public Student Subsidies on Low-Cost Private Schools in Pakistan pp. 808-825

Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Dhushyanth Raju

The Effects of Child Physical Maltreatment on Nutritional Outcomes: Evidence from Peru pp. 826-850

Alvaro Morales and Prakarsh Singh

Air Quality and Under-five Mortality Rates in the Low-income Countries pp. 851-864

Azmat Gani

Child Health and Rainfall in Early Life pp. 865-880

Katy Cornwell and Brett Inder

Why Don't You Register Your Child? A Study of Attitudes and Factors Affecting Birth Registration in Kenya, and Policy Suggestions pp. 881-904

Matthew Pelowski, Richard G. Wamai, Joseph Wangombe, Hellen Nyakundi, Geofrey O. Oduwo, Benjamin K. Ngugi and Javier G. Ogembo

Human Trafficking, A Shadow of Migration - Evidence from Germany pp. 905-921

Seo-Young Cho

Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso pp. 922-938

Olivier Bargain and Delphine Boutin

The Political Economy of Tanzania: Decline and Recovery, Edited by Michael Lofchie, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, pp. 265, £39, ISBN 9780812245905 pp. 939-941

Elisa Greco

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, Edited by Emily Yeh, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013, pp. 344, $75.00, ISBN 0801451558 pp. 941-943

Kenneth Bauer

Volume 51, issue 6, 2015

Can the Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Reduce Rural Out-migration: Evidence from West Bengal, India pp. 621-641

Upasak Das

Is the PDS Already a Cash Transfer? Rethinking India's Food Subsidy Policies pp. 642-659

Sujata Balasubramanian

Cash or In-kind Transfers? Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial in Delhi, India pp. 660-673

Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Robert Lensink and Bhupesh Yadav

Structural Transformation in Africa: Static Gains, Dynamic Losses pp. 674-688

Gaaitzen de Vries, Marcel Timmer and Klaas de Vries

Tax Innovations and Public Revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 689-706

Pelle Ahlerup, Thushyanthan Baskaran and Arne Bigsten

Using Field Experiments to Elicit Risk and Ambiguity Preferences: Behavioural Factors and the Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies in Rural India pp. 707-724

Patrick Ward and Vartika Singh

Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa pp. 725-742

Lauren M. MacLean, Jennifer N. Brass, Sanya Carley, Ashraf El-Arini and Scott Breen

Land Accumulation Dynamics in Developing Country Agriculture pp. 743-761

Heath Henderson, Leonardo Corral, Eric Simning and Paul Winters

Diamonds, Smillie, Ian, Malden MA: Polity Press, 2014, pp. 204, £12.99 (paperback) pp. 762-763

Franziska Bieri

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, William Easterly, New York: Basic Books, 2014, pp. 416, £ 16.99, ISBN 978-0465031252 Aid on the Edge of Chaos. Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World, Ben Ramalingham, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 480, £ 25.00, ISBN 978-0199578023 pp. 763-765

Jonathan Glennie

Review: Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xvii, 272, £16.99, ISBN 978-0-19-973551-8 pp. 765-766

Anne-Marie Brook

Volume 51, issue 5, 2015

The Impact of Household Structure on Female Autonomy in Developing Countries pp. 485-502

Sisir Debnath

Gender Parity and Schooling Choices pp. 503-522

Kehinde Ajayi and Marric Buessing

Agricultural Workers, Credit Rationing and Family Networks in Rural Mexico pp. 523-537

Emmanuelle Bouquet, Sol�ne Morvant-Roux and Gerardo Rodriguez-Solis

Poverty and Disasters: Do Remittances Reproduce Vulnerability? pp. 538-553

L. Le De, J. C. Gaillard and W. Friesen

Remittances and Chain Migration: Longitudinal Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 554-568

Ralitza Dimova and François-Charles Wolff

Why are Informal Loans Still a Big Deal? Evidence from North-east Thailand pp. 569-585

Carmen Kislat

Connectedness and SME Financing in Post-Communist Economies: Evidence from Uzbekistan pp. 586-602

Kobil Ruziev and Peter Midmore

Business, Brokers and Borders: The Structure of West African Trade Networks pp. 603-620

Olivier Walther

Volume 51, issue 4, 2015

Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in the Developing World: Lessons from Recent Experience pp. 335-354

Michael Trebilcock and Michael Rosenstock

Labour Contractors and Global Production Networks: The Case of India's Auto Supply Chain pp. 355-369

Tom Barnes, Krishna Shekhar Lal Das and Surendra Pratap

Part-time Work, Job Satisfaction and Well-being: Evidence from a Developing OECD Country pp. 370-385

Rodrigo Montero and Tomás Rau

Social Security and Retirement in Uruguay pp. 386-406

Alvaro Forteza and Graciela Sanroman

Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey pp. 407-421

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

Exploring the Impact of Conflict Exposure during Formative Years on Labour Market Outcomes in Tajikistan pp. 422-446

Olga Shemyakina

The Impact of Chinese Import Penetration on the South African Manufacturing Sector pp. 447-463

Lawrence Edwards and Rhys Jenkins

Testing for Fairness in Regulation: Application to the Delhi Transportation Market pp. 464-483

Subrato Banerjee

Volume 51, issue 3, 2015

What do Household Surveys Really Tell Us about Risk, Shocks, and Risk Management in the Developing World? pp. 209-225

Rasmus Heltberg, Ana Mar�a Oviedo and Faiyaz Talukdar

Female Genital Cutting and Long-Term Health Consequences - Nationally Representative Estimates across 13 Countries pp. 226-246

Natascha Wagner

Improving the Health Coverage of the Rural Poor: Does Contracting-Out Mobile Medical Teams Work? pp. 247-261

Julian Cristia, William Evans and Beomsoo Kim

The Health of Farmer-Based Organisations in Ghana: Organisational Diagnostics and Governance Implications pp. 262-273

Gian Nicola Francesconi and Fleur Wouterse

Stakeholder Incentives and Aid Effectiveness - A Case Study in the Health District of Kayes in Mali pp. 274-286

Eva Devahive, Elisabeth Paul, Salif Samak�, Issa Berth�, Moussa Yattara and Marc Poncelet

Does beneficiary farmer feedback improve project performance? An impact study of a participatory monitoring intervention in Mindanao, Philippines pp. 287-304

Edoardo Masset and Lawrence Haddad

Gender and Livelihood Diversification: Maasai Women's Market Activities in Northern Tanzania pp. 305-318

Nicole M. Smith

Cattle Markets Integration and Price Discovery: The Case of Mali pp. 319-334

Jean-Claude Bizimana, Jay P. Angerer, David Bessler and Francis Keita

Volume 51, issue 2, 2015

Statistical Tragedy in Africa? Evaluating the Data Base for African Economic Development pp. 111-115

Morten Jerven and Deborah Johnston

The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey and Administrative Statistics pp. 116-132

Justin Sandefur and Amanda Glassman

From Tragedy to Renaissance: Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies pp. 133-148

Calogero Carletto, Dean Jolliffe and Raka Banerjee

The Invisibility of Wage Employment in Statistics on the Informal Economy in Africa: Causes and Consequences pp. 149-161

Matteo Rizzo, Blandina Kilama and Marc Wuyts

Poverty in African Households: the Limits of Survey and Census Representations pp. 162-177

Sara Randall and Ernestina Coast

The Making of the Middle-Class in Africa: Evidence from DHS Data pp. 178-193

Abebe Abebe and Mthuli Ncube

GDP Revisions and Updating Statistical Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reports from the Statistical Offices in Nigeria, Liberia and Zimbabwe pp. 194-207

Morten Jerven, Yemi Kale, Magnus Ebo Duncan and Moffat Nyoni

Volume 51, issue 1, 2015

Political Competition and Human Development: Evidence from the Indian States pp. 1-14

Bharatee Dash and Sacchidananda Mukherjee

Defining Corruption Where the State is Weak: The Case of Papua New Guinea pp. 15-31

Grant W. Walton

Does Female Reservation Affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India pp. 32-49

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Hari Nagarajan and Fang Xia

Political Connections and Elite Capture in a Poverty Alleviation Programme in India pp. 50-65

Sitakanta Panda

Taxes and Bribes in Uganda pp. 66-79

Pamela Jagger and Gerald Shively

Corruption Along Ethnic Lines: A Study of Individual Corruption Experiences in 17 African Countries pp. 80-92

Ann-Sofie Isaksson

Putting Up or Shutting Up: On the Individual-Level Relationship between Taxpaying and Political Interest in a Developmental Context pp. 93-109

Rasmus Broms