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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

1615: Forced gifts: The burden of being a friend

Erwin Bulte, Ruixin Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

1614: Institutional versus noninstitutional credit to agricultural households in India: Evidence on impact from a national farmers’ survey

Anjani Kumar, Ashok Mishra, Sunil Saroj and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1613: Cost-effectiveness of community-based gendered advisory services to farmers: Analysis in Mozambique and Tanzania

Tewodaj Mogues, Valerie Mueller and Florence Kondylis

1612: The European Union–West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement: Small impact and new questions

Bouët, Antoine, David Laborde Debucquet and Traoré, Fousseini

1611: The returns to empowerment in diversified rural household: Evidence from Niger

Fleur Wouterse

1610: Prospects for the Myanmar rubber sector: An analysis of the viability of smallholder production in Mon State

Joanna Van Asselt, Kyan Htoo and Paul Dorosh

1609: How do agricultural development projects aim to empower women? Insights from an analysis of project strategies

Nancy L. Johnson, Mysbah Balagamwala, Crossley Pinkstaff, Sophie Theis, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing

1608: Stimulating agricultural technology adoption lessons from fertilizer use among Ugandan potato farmers

L. Nazziwa-Nviiri, Bjorn Van Campenhout and D. Amwonya

1606: Trade and economic impacts of destination-based corporate taxes

Will Martin

1605: Can better targeting improve the effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program? Lessons from Ghana and other countries in Africa south of the Sahara

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

1604: The impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme on the nutritional status of children: 2008–2012

Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott and Neha Kumar

1603: Economic transformation in Africa from the bottom up: Evidence from Tanzania

Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka and Margaret McMillan

1602: Liquid milk: Cash constraints and day-to-day intertemporal choice in financial diaries

Xin Geng, Wendy Janssens and Berber Kramer

1601: A chicken and maize situation: The poultry feed sector in Ghana

Kwaw S. Andam, Michael E. Johnson, Catherine Ragasa, Doreen S. Kufoalor and Sunipa Das Gupta

1600: Gender justice and food security in India: A review

Nitya Rao, Mamata Pradhan and Devesh Roy

1599: Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural youth livelihoods in Ghana

Xinshen Diao, Peixun Fang, Eduardo Magalhaes, Stefan Pahl and Jed Silver

1598: The changing structure of Africa’s economies

Xinshen Diao, Kenneth Harttgen and Margaret McMillan

1597: Perspectives on the role of the state in economic development: Taking stock of the “Developmental State†after 35 years

Jordan Kyle

1596: Exploring extensions of the Subramanian–Deaton cost per calorie approach: Imputing nutrient intake from foods prepared and consumed away from home and other composite foods

Dena M. Mwangi, John L. Fiedler and Celeste Sununtnasuk

1595: Estimating spatial basis risk in rainfall index insurance: Methodology and application to excess rainfall insurance in Uruguay

Francisco Ceballos

1594: The effect of land inheritance on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

Katrina Kosec, Hosaena Ghebru, Brian Holtemeyer, Valerie Mueller and Emily Schmidt

1593: How headquarters relocation is affected by rising wages and ownership: Evidence from China's annual survey of industrial enterprises, 1999–2008

Qingtao Wang, Kevin Z. Chen, Longwen Chiang and Xuanli Xie

1592: External shocks, food security, and development: Exploring scenarios for Central America

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria and Pablo Elverdin

1591: The role of learning in technology adoption: Evidence on hybrid rice adoption in Bihar, India

Jared Gars and Patrick Ward

1590: Building effective clusters and industrial parks

Xiaobo Zhang

1589: Nepal’s 2072 federal constitution: Implications for the governance of the agricultural sector

Jordan Kyle and Danielle Resnick

1588: Entitlement fetching or snatching? Effects of arbitrage on India’s public distribution system

Suman Chakrabarti, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy

1587: Changing preferences through experimental games: Evidence from sanitation and hygiene in Tamil Nadu

Yaniv Stopnitzky