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1677: The effects of a CAADP-compliant budget on poverty and inequality in Ghana

Stephen D. Younger and Samuel Benin

1676: Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Postprogram evidence from rural Bangladesh

Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott and Akhter Ahmed

1675: The evolution of tractorization in India’s low-wage economy: Key patterns and implications

Madhusudan Bhattarai, Pramod Kumar Joshi, R. S. Shekhawa and Hiroyuki Takeshima

1673: Capacity and accountability in the Agricultural Extension System in Malawi: Insights from a survey of service providers in 15 districts

Catherine Ragasa, Diston Mzungu, Eric Kaima, Cynthia Kazembe and Kenan Kalagho

1670: Food expenditure patterns and dietary diversity in Nepal: Is dietary quality improving?

Anjani Kumar, Ganesh B. Thapa and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1669: US trade wars with emerging countries in the 21st century: Make America and Its partners lose again

Bouët, Antoine and David Laborde Debucquet

1667: Measuring trade integration in Africa

Bouët, Antoine, Lionel Cosnard and David Laborde Debucquet

1666: Policy options to accelerate variety change among smallholder farmers in South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara

David Spielman and Melinda Smale

1665: Assessing the health and nutrition risks of smallholder poultry production in Burkina Faso: Insights from formative research

Aulo Gelli, Derek Headey, Francis Ngure, Elodie Becquey, Ganaba, Rasmané, Lieven Huybregts, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, Armande Sanou, Abdoulaye Traore, Florence Zongo and Amanda Zongrone

1664: Health insurance, a friend in need? Evidence from financial and health diaries in Kenya

Xin Geng, Vera Ide, Wendy Janssens, Berber Kramer and Marijn van der List

1663: Women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: A framework and review of available evidence

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Sophie Theis and Cheryl Doss

1662: Overview of the evolution of agricultural mechanization in Nepal: A focus on tractors and combine harvesters

Hiroyuki Takeshima

1661: Cooking contests for healthier recipes: Impacts on nutrition knowledge and behaviors in Bangladesh

Berber Kramer

1659: Cash transfers and management advice for agriculture: Evidence from Senegal

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

1656: Understanding the measurement of women’s autonomy: Illustrations from Bangladesh and Ghana

Greg Seymour and Amber Peterman

1655: Addressing transboundary cooperation in the Eastern Nile through the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Insights from an E-survey and key informant interviews

Helen Berga, Claudia Ringler, Elizabeth Bryan, Hagar ElDidi and Sara Elnasikh

1652: Is the WTO dispute settlement procedure fair to developing countries?

Bouët, Antoine and Jeanne Metivier

1650: Food and nutrition security in transforming Ghana: A descriptive analysis of national trends and regional patterns

Olivier Ecker and Joanna Van Asselt

1649: Pathways from agriculture to nutrition in India: Implications for sustainable development goals

Mousumi Das, Ajay Sharma and Suresh Chandra Babu

1648: Agribusiness competitiveness: Applying analytics, typology, and measurements to Africa

Suresh Chandra Babu and Mahika Shishodia

1647: The Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI)

Hazel Jean Malapit, Crossley Pinkstaff, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik, Agnes Quisumbing and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

1646: Intertemporal choice and income regularity: Non-fungibility in a lab-in-the-field experiment

Berber Kramer and David Kunst

1645: Climate change and variability: What are the risks for nutrition, diets, and food systems?

Jessica Fanzo, Rebecca McLaren, Claire Davis and Jowel Choufani

1644: Building resilience for food systems in postwar communities case study and lessons from northern Sri Lanka

Hamsha Pathmanathan, Suresh Chandra Babu and Chandrashri Pal

1643: Empowerment, adaptation, and agricultural production: Evidence from Niger

Fleur Wouterse

1642: Insurance structure, risk sharing, and investment decisions: An empirical investigation of the implications of individual and group weather index insurance

Laura Munro

1641: Economic accounts for agriculture and farm income in Senegal

Fofana, Ismaël, Mahamadou Tankari and Traoré, Fousseini

1640: Food inflation and food price volatility in India: Trends and determinants

C.S.C. Sekhar, Devesh Roy and Yogesh Bhatt

1639: Revitalized agriculture for balanced growth and resilient livelihoods: Toward a rural development strategy for Mon State

Mateusz Filipski, Ulrike Nischan, Joanna Van Asselt, Ben Belton, Adam Kennedy, Aung Hein, Paul Dorosh and Duncan Boughton

1638: Rural livelihoods in Mon State: Evidence from a representative household survey

Mateusz Filipski, Joanna Van Asselt, Ulrike Nischan, Ben Belton, Kyan Htoo, Myat Thida Win, Aung Hein, L. Seng Kham, Zaw Min Naing, Ellen Payongayong and Duncan Boughton

1637: The great Chinese inequality turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

1636: Can agricultural aspirations influence preferences for new technologies? Cropping systems and preferences for high-efficiency irrigation in Punjab, Pakistan

Andrew R. Bell, Patrick Ward, Muhammad Ashfaq and Stephen Davies

1635: Impact of India’s National Food Security Act on domestic and international rice markets

Deepayan Debnath, Suresh Chandra Babu, Parijat Ghosh and Michael Helmer

1634: Agricultural diversification in Nepal: Status, determinants, and its impact on rural poverty

Ganesh B. Thapa, Anjani Kumar and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1633: The “Discouraged Worker Effect†in public works programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India

Sudha Narayanan, Upasak Das, Yanyan Liu and Christopher Barrett

1632: Measuring postharvest losses at the farm level in Malawi

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

1631: Nutrition transition and the structure of global food demand

Christophe Gouel and Houssein Guimbard

1630: Insuring against droughts: Evidence on agricultural intensification and index insurance demand from a randomized evaluation in rural Bangladesh

Ruth Hill, Neha Kumar, Nicholas Magnan, Simrin Makhija, Francesca de Nicola, David Spielman and Patrick Ward

1629: Nutrition incentives in dairy contract farming in northern Senegal

Tanguy Bernard, Melissa Hidrobo, Le Port, Agnès and Rahul Rawat

1628: Chinese investment in Ghana’s manufacturing sector

Xiaoyang Tang

1627: Participation, learning, and equity in education: Can we have it all?

Clara Delavallade, Alan Griffith, Gaurav Shukla and Rebecca Thornton

1626: Limitations of contract farming as a pro-poor strategy: The case of maize outgrower schemes in upper West Ghana

Catherine Ragasa, Isabel Lambrecht and Doreen S. Kufoalor

1625: Cooperation in polygynous households

Abigail Barr, Marleen Dekker, Wendy Janssens, Bereket Kebede and Berber Kramer

1624: Farmers’ quality assessment of their crops and its impact on commercialization behavior: A field experiment in Ethiopia

Gashaw Abate and Tanguy Bernard

1623: Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana

Isabel Lambrecht, Monica Schuster, Sarah Asare and Laura Pelleriaux

1622: Improving the targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs in Africa south of the Sahara: Perspectives from the Ghanaian experience

Nazaire Houssou, Collins Asante-Addo and Kwaw S. Andam

1619: Smog in our brains: Gender differences in the impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance in China

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang and Xin Zhang

1618: Existing data to measure African trade

Cristina Mitaritonna and Traoré, Fousseini

1617: Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research

Anna Folke Larsen, Derek Headey and William Masters

1616: He says, she says: Exploring patterns of spousal agreement in Bangladesh

Kate Ambler, Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran and Simone Passarelli