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1238: The comprehensive Africa agriculture program as a collective institution

Regina Birner, Kathleen Flaherty and Shashi Kolavalli

1237: Mechanization in Ghana: Searching for sustainable service supply models

Patrick Aboagye, Frances Cossar, Xinshen Diao, Nazaire Houssou, Kipo Jimah and Shashi Kolavalli

1236: Differential export taxes along the oilseeds value chain:: A partial equilibrium analysis

Bouët, Antoine, Carmen Estrades and David Laborde Debucquet

1235: The role of rural producer organizations for agricultural service provision in fragile states

Jennifer Golan and Catherine Ragasa

1234: Cash, food, or vouchers?: Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador

Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Amy Margolies, Vanessa Moreira and Amber Peterman

1233: Public expenditures, private incentives, and technology adoption: The economics of hybrid rice in South Asia

Harun Ar-Rashid, Kajal Gulati, Deepthi Kolady, David Spielman and Patrick Ward

1232: Malaria and agriculture: A global review of the literature with a focus on the application of integrated pest and vector management in East Africa and Uganda

Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Claudia Ringler, Daniel Tsegai and Benjamin Wielgosz

1231: Did using input vouchers improve the distribution of subsidized fertilizer in Nigeria?: The case of Kano and Taraba states

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie

1230: The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Tanzania: Evidence for fertilizer policy development

Todd Benson, Stephen L. Kirama and Onesmo Selejio

1229: The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Mozambique: Evidence for fertilizer policy development

Todd Benson, Benedito Cunguara and Tewodaj Mogues

1228: The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Uganda: Evidence for Fertilizer Policy Development

Stephen Bayite-Kasule, Todd Benson, Patrick Lubega, Tewodaj Mogues and Julian Nyachwo

1227: Taxation policy and gender employment in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A comparative analysis of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia

Omar Bouazouni, Rim Chatti, Erwin Corong and Fofana, Ismaël

1226: Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia: Little by little the egg begins to walk

Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing

1225: Improving the measurement of food security

Olivier Ecker and Derek Headey

1224: Improved performance of agriculture in Africa South of the Sahara: Taking off or bouncing back?

Michael E. Johnson, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Bingxin Yu

1223: Review of input and output policies for cereals production in Pakistan

Abdul Salam

1222: Supply and demand for cereals in Pakistan, 2010-2030

Syed Hamza Haider, Hina Nazli and Asjad Tariq

1221: The road to specialization in agricultural production:: Evidence from rural China

Yu Qin and Xiaobo Zhang

1220: Change and diversity in smallholder rice-fish systems: Recent evidence from Bangladesh

Madan M. Dey, A.B.M. Mahfuzul Haque, Md. Saidur Rahman, Spielman David J. and Rowena Valmonte-Santos

1219: Is MERCOSUR’s External Agenda Pro-Poor?: An assessment of the European Union-MERCOSUR free-trade agreement on poverty in Uruguay applying MIRAGE

Carmen Estrades

1218: Heterogeneous pro–poor targeting in India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Christopher Barrett and Yanyan Liu

1217: The impacts of public investment in and for agriculture: Synthesis of the existing evidence

Shenggen Fan, Linden McBride, Tewodaj Mogues and Bingxin Yu

1216: What determines public expenditure allocations?: A review of theories, and implications for agricultural public investments

Tewodaj Mogues

1215: Nonlinear dynamics of livestock assets: Evidence from Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon and Bjorn Van Campenhout

1214: An overview of Chinese agricultural and rural engagement in Tanzania

Bräutigam, Deborah and Xiaoyang Tang

1213: The partially liberalized cocoa sector in Ghana: Producer price determination, quality control, and service provision

Shashi Kolavalli, Haruna Maamah, John Poku and Marcella Vigneri

1212: Structural change in Argentina, 1935–60: The role of import substitution and factor endowments

Dario Debowicz and Paul Segal

1211: Traceability in a supply chain with repeated moral hazard

Alexander Saak

1210: Managing transition in Yemen: An assessment of the costs of conflict and development scenarios for the future

Abdulmajeed Al-Bataly, Perrihan Al-Riffai, Clemens Breisinger, Olivier Ecker and Wilfried Engelke

1209: Bangladesh rice trade and price stabilization: Implications of the 2007/08 experience for public stocks

Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid

1208: Analyzing intersectoral convergence to improve child undernutrition in India: Development and application of a framework to examine policies in agriculture, health, and nutrition

Purnima Menon and Rajani Ved

1207: Branding and agricultural value chains in developing countries: insights from Bihar, India

Bart Minten, Krishna Singh and Rajib Sutradhar

1206: Costly posturing: relative status, ceremonies and early child development in China

Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang

1205: Should private storage be subsidized to stabilize agricultural markets after price support schemes are removed?

Fabienne Femenia

1204: Mapping the contemporary fertilizer policy landscape in Malawi: a guide for policy researchers

Noora-Lisa Aberman, Regina Birner, Klaus Droppelmann, Peter Gaff, Michael E. Johnson and Eva Schiffer

1203: The Economic Consequences of Excess Men: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Simon Chang and Xiaobo Zhang

1202: The value of customized insurance for farmers in rural Bangladesh

Danielle Clarke, Narayan C. Das, Ruth Hill, Neha Kumar, Parendi Mehta and Francesca de Nicola

1201: Gender assessment of the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Catherine Ragasa, Annie Kinwa-Muzinga and John Ulimwengu

1200: Toward an integrated approach for addressing malnutrition in Zambia: a literature review and institutional analysis

Scott Drimie and Jody Harris

1199: Review of input and output policies for cereal production in Bangladesh

Anand Ganesh-Kumar and Hemant Pullabhotla

1198: Onset risk and draft animal investment in nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima

1197: Farmer Groups, Input Access and Intragroup Dynamics: A Case Study of Targeted Subsidies in Nigeria

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie

1196: Does Food Security Matter for Transition in Arab Countries?

Clemens Breisinger, Jean-François Maystadt and Jean-François Trinh Tan

1195: Agriculture, Income, and Nutrition Linkages in India: Insights from a Nationally Representative Survey

Priya Bhagowalia, Derek Headey and Suneetha Kadiyala

1194: Targeted Subsidies and Private Market Participation: An Assessment of Fertilizer Demand in Nigeria

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie

1193: Mineral Resources and Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Case of Ecological Fallacy

Giacomo De Luca, Renato Folledo, Jean-François Maystadt, Petros Sekeris and John Ulimwengu

1192: What Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment Matter Most for Child Nutrition? Evidence Using Nationally Representative Data from Bangladesh

Priya Bhagowalia, Purnima Menon, Agnes Quisumbing and Vidhya Soundararajan

1191: Unattended but not undernourished: young children left behind in rural China

Ren Mu and Alan de Brauw

1190: Measuring aspirations: discussion and example from Ethiopia

Tanguy Bernard and Alemayehu Taffesse

1189: The Feminization of Agriculture with Chinese Characteristics

Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and Alan de Brauw