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1383: Two-tier asymmetric information as a motive for trade, trade policies, and inefficient trade agreements

Bouët, Antoine, David Laborde Debucquet and David Martimort

1382: The tide that does not raise all boats: An assessment of EU preferential trade policies

Maria Cipollina, David Laborde Debucquet and Luca Salvatici

1381: The impact of India's rural employment guarantee on demand for agricultural technology

Anil K. Bhargava

1380: Towards understanding economic growth in Africa: A reinterpretation of the Lewis Model

Xinshen Diao and Margaret McMillan

1379: The nutritional returns to parental education

Harold Alderman and Derek Headey

1378: Evidence-based research and its effect on policymaking

Nurul Islam

1377: The development push of refugees: Evidence from Tanzania

Jean-François Maystadt and Gilles Duranton

1376: Food safety and developing markets: Research findings and research gaps

Laurian Unnevehr and Loraine Ronchi

1375: Costing alternative transfer modalities

Amy Margolies and John Hoddinott

1374: Do girls pay the price of civil war? Violence and infant mortality in Congo

Olivier Dagnelie, Giacomo De Luca and Jean-François Maystadt

1373: Variable returns to fertilizer use and its relationship to poverty: Experimental and simulation evidence from Malawi

Harou, Aurélie, Yanyan Liu, Christopher Barrett and Liangzhi You

1372: Drought risk reduction in agriculture: A review of adaptive strategies in East Africa and the Indo-Gangetic plain of South Asia

Nicola Cenacchi

1371: The political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh

Megan Sheahan, Yanyan Liu, Christopher Barrett and Sudha Narayanan

1370: Assessing progress made toward shared agricultural transformation objectives in Mozambique

Todd Benson, Tewodaj Mogues and Sileshi Woldeyohannes

1369: Strategies to control aflatoxin in groundnut value chains

Wojciech J. Florkowski and Shashi Kolavalli

1368: The agrarian reform experiment in Chile: History, impact, and implications

Valdés, Alberto and William Foster

1367: What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition-related practices and outcomes in Ghana?

Hazel Jean Malapit and Agnes Quisumbing

1366: The economywide effects of teff, wheat, and maize production increases in Ethiopia: Results of economywide modeling

Todd Benson, Ermias Engida and James Thurlow

1365: Identifying agricultural expenditures within the public financial accounts and coding system in Ghana: Is the ten percent government agriculture expenditure overestimated?

Samuel Benin

1364: Environmental migration and labor markets in Nepal

Jean-François Maystadt, Valerie Mueller and Ashwini Sebastian

1363: The role of agriculture in the fast-growing Rwandan economy: Assessing growth alternatives

Xinshen Diao, Godfrey Bahiigwa and Angga Pradesha

1362: Understanding the context for agriculture for nutrition research: Identifying country typologies of child-stunting determinants

Eduardo Maruyama, Laurian Unnevehr and Jiarui Wang

1361: Assessing the economic benefits of sustainable land management practices in Bhutan

Ephraim Nkonya, Raghavan Srinivasan, Weston Anderson and Edward Kato

1360: Examining the sense and science behind Ghana’s current blanket fertilizer recommendation

Antony Chapoto and Francis Tetteh

1359: Aid effectiveness in Ghana: How’s the L’Aquila food security initiative doing?

Samuel Benin, Tsitsi Makombe and Michael E. Johnson

1358: The other asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh

Derek Headey, John Hoddinott, Disha Ali, Roman Tesfaye and Mekdim Dereje

1357: Can market-based approaches to technology development and dissemination benefit women smallholder farmers? A qualitative assessment of gender dynamics in the ownership, purchase, and use of irrigation pumps in Kenya and Tanzania

Jemimah Njuki, Elizabeth M. Waithanji, Beatrice Sakwa, Juliet B. Kariuki, Elizabeth Mukewa and John Ngige

1356: The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh

Muntaha Rakib and Julia Matz

1355: Tractor owner-operators in Nigeria: Insights from a small survey in Kaduna and Nasarawa states

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Hyacinth Edeh, Akeem Lawal and Moshud Isiaka

1354: Co-movement of major commodity price returns: A time-series assessment

Francesca de Nicola, Pierangelo De Pace and Manuel Hernandez

1353: Bargaining power and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda

Daniel Gilligan, Neha Kumar, Scott McNiven, J.V. Meenakshi and Agnes Quisumbing

1352: Quality healthcare and health insurance retention: Evidence from a randomized experiment in the Kolkata slums

Clara Delavallade

1351: Sins of the fathers: The intergenerational legacy of the 1959-1961 Great Chinese Famine on children's cognitive development

Chih Ming Tan, Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang

1350: Direct seed marketing program in Ethiopia in 2013: An operational evaluation to guide seed-sector reform

Todd Benson, David Spielman and Leulsegged Kasa

1349: Agriculture for development in Iraq? Estimating the impacts of achieving the agricultural targets of the national development plan 2013–2017 on economic growth, incomes, and gender equality

Azhr Al-Haboby, Clemens Breisinger, Dario Debowicz, Abdul Hussein El-Hakim, Jenna Ferguson, Teunis van Rheenen and Roberto Telleria Juárez

1348: An evaluation of the effectiveness of farmland protection policy in China

Man Li

1347: Women’s individual and joint property ownership: Effects on household decisionmaking

Cheryl Doss, Sung Mi Kim, Jemimah Njuki, Emily Hillenbrand and Maureen Miruka

1346: Can smallholder fruit and vegetable production systems improve household food security and nutritional status of women? Evidence from rural Uganda

Nassul Kabunga, Shibani Ghosh and Jeffrey K. Griffiths

1345: Intellectual property rights, technology diffusion, and agricultural development: Cross-country evidence

David Spielman and Xingliang Ma

1344: Market interdependence and volatility transmission among major crops

Cornelis Gardebroek, Manuel Hernandez and Luis Robles

1343: Importance of rice research and development in rice seed policies: Insights from Nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima

1342: Can transfer programs be made more nutrition sensitive?

Harold Alderman

1341: The impact of cash and food transfers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Niger

John Hoddinott, Sandström, Susanna and Joanna Upton

1340: How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security?

Leslie Lipper and Philip K. Thornton

1339: Public sector agricultural research priorities for sustainable food security: Perspectives from plausible scenarios

Gerald Nelson and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

1338: Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: Evidence from China

Peng Chao, Kevin Z. Chen, Songqing Jin, Jeffrey Riedinger, Hui Wang and Jin Yang

1337: Farmers’ preferences for climate-smart agriculture an assessment in the Indo-Gangetic plain

Pramod Aggarwal, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Barun Deb Pal, Garima Taneja and N.K. Tyagi

1336: An empirical examination of the dynamics of varietal turnover in Indian wheat

Subash Ghimire, Vijesh Krishna, David Spielman and Prakashan Chellattan Veettil

1335: Agricultural policy processes and the youth in Malawi

Mariam A. T. J. Mapila

1334: Can cash transfers promote the local economy? A case study for Cambodia

Stephanie Levy and Sherman Robinson