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1080: Can conditional cash transfers improve maternal health and birth outcomes? Evidence from El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales

Alan de Brauw and Amber Peterman

1079: Intercommodity price transmission and food price policies: An analysis of Ethiopian cereal markets

Shahidur Rashid

1078: Randomizing the “Last Mile”: A methodological note on using a voucher-based approach to assess the impact of infrastructure projects

Tanguy Bernard and Maximo Torero

1077: Evaluating the long-term impact of antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh: An overview

Agnes Quisumbing, Bob Baulch and Neha Kumar

1076: Poverty rate and government income transfers: A spatial simultaneous equations approach

P. Wilner Jeanty and John Ulimwengu

1075: A model of labeling with horizontal differentiation and cost variability

Alexander Saak

1074: Cropping practices and labor requirements in field operations for major crops in Ghana: What needs to be mechanized?

Guyslain Ngeleza, Rebecca Owusua, Kipo Jimah and Shashidhara Kolavalli

1073: The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course

John Hoddinott, John Maluccio, Jere Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Paul Melgar, Agnes Quisumbing, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, Aryeh D. Stein and Kathryn M. Yount

1072: Farm households' preference for cash-based compensation versus livelihood-enhancing programs: A choice experiment to inform avian flu compensation policy in Nigeria

Adewale Oparinde and Ekin Birol

1071: Petroleum subsidies in Yemen: Leveraging reform for development

Clemens Breisinger, Wilfried Engelke and Olivier Ecker

1070: Joint estimation of farmers' stated willingness to pay for agricultural services

John Ulimwengu and Prabuddha Sanyal

1069: Using a spatial growth model to provide evidence of agricultural spillovers between countries in the NEPAD CAADP Framework

John Ulimwengu and Prabuddha Sanyal

1068: Social services, human capital, and technical efficiency of smallholders in Burkina Faso

Fleur Wouterse

1067: Decentralization of public-sector agricultural extension in India: The case of the district-level Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA)

Claire J. Glendenning and Suresh Babu

1066: Institutional and capacity challenges in agricultural policy process: The case of Democratic Republic of Congo

Catherine Ragasa, Suresh Chandra Babu and John M. Ulimwengu

1065: Cartels and rent sharing at the farmer-trader interface: An example from Ghana's tomato sector

Elizabeth J. Z. Robinson and Guyslain K. Ngeleza

1064: Agricultural, food, and water nanotechnologies for the poor: Opportunities, constraints, and role of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

Guillaume Gruère, Clare Narrod and Linda Abbott

1063: Decentralization and rural service delivery in Uganda

Bernard Bashaasha, Margaret Najjingo Mangheni and Ephraim Nkonya

1062: Dynamic informative advertising of new experience goods

Alexander Saak

1061: The role of elected and appointed village leaders in the allocation of public resources: Evidence from a low-income region in China

Ren Mu and Xiaobo Zhang

1060: Trade and investment in Latin America and Asia: Lessons from the past and potential perspectives from further integration

Valdete Berisha-Krasniqi, Antoine Bouët, Carmen Estrades and David Laborde Debucquet

1059: Transmission of world food price changes to markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicholas Minot

1058: Fertilizer market situation: Market structure, consumption and trade patterns, and pricing behavior

Manuel Hernandez and Maximo Torero

1057: The wealth and gender distribution of rural services in Ethiopia: A public expenditure benefit incidence analysis

Tewodaj Mogues, Carly Petracco and Josee Randriamamonjy

1056: The gender implications of large-scale land deals

Julia A. Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing

1055: Impact of global change on large river basins: Example of the Yellow River basin

Nicola Cenacchi, Zongxue Xu and Wang Yu

1054: Strategic grain reserves in Ethiopia: Institutional design and operational performance

Shahidur Rashid and Solomon Lemma

1053: Foreign aid to agriculture: Review of facts and analysis

Nurul Islam

1052: Impacts of global change on the Nile basin: Options for hydropolitical reform in Egypt and Ethiopia

Anja Kristina Martens

1051: Estimating the role of spatial varietal diversity on crop productivity within an abatement framework: The case of banana in Uganda

N. Kwikiriza, Enid Katungi and J Horna

1050: Strengthening innovation capacity of Nigerian agricultural research organizations

Catherine Ragasa, Suresh Babu, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi and Baba Yusuf Abubakar

1049: Asset dynamics in Northern Nigeria

Andrew Dillon and Esteban Quiñones

1048: Review of agricultural extension in India: Are farmers' information needs being met?

Claire J. Glendenning, Suresh Babu and Kwadwo Asenso-okyere

1047: Recent findings on trade and inequality

Ann Harrison, John McLaren and Margaret McMillan

1046: An analysis of institutions and policy processes for selected antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh

Akhter Ahmed and Mubina Khondkar

1045: Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: Evidence from handloom enterprises in Ethiopia

Merima Ali, Jack Peerlings and Xiaobo Zhang

1044: Access to improved water source and satisfaction with services: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

Degnet Abebaw Ejigie, Fanaye Tadesse and Tewodaj Mogues

1043: Valuing the environment in developing countries: Modeling the impact of distrust in public authorities' ability to deliver public services on the citizens' willingness to pay for improved environmental quality

Ekin Birol and Sukanya Das

1042: Climate change impacts on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from comprehensive climate change scenarios

Claudia Ringler, Tingju Zhu, Ximing Cai, Jawoo Koo and Dingbao Wang

1041: In-depth assessment of the public agricultural extension system of Ethiopia and recommendations for improvement

Kristin Davis, Burton Swanson, David Amudavi, Daniel Mekonnen, Aaron Flohrs, Jens Riese, Chloe Lamb and Elias Zerfu

1040: Do geese migrate domestically? Evidence from the Chinese textile and apparel industry

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang

1039: In pursuit of votes: The capture of the allocation of local public goods by the central state in Ghana

Leah Horowitz and Nethra Palaniswamy

1038: An econometric investigation of impacts of sustainable land management practices on soil carbon and yield risk: A potential for climate change mitigation

Edward Kato, Ephraim Nkonya, Frank Place and Majaliwa Mwanjololo

1037: Effects of inclusive public agricultural extension service: Results from a policy reform experiment in Western China

Ruifa Hu, Yaqing Cai, Kevin Z. Chen, Yongwei Cui and Jikun Huang

1036: Food as the basis for development and security: A strategy for Yemen

Clemens Breisinger, Olivier Ecker, Jose Funes and Bingxin Yu

1035: Purpose and potential for commodity exchanges in African economies

Shahidur Rashid, Alex Winter-Nelson and Philip Garcia

1034: Investigating economywide and household-level impacts of sector-specific shocks in a poor country: The case of avian flu in Ethiopia

Gezahegn Ayele, Ekin Birol, Xinshen Diao, Dorene Asare-Marfo, Devesh Roy and Marcelle Thomas

1033: Market and climatic risks and farmers' investment in productive assets under the Second Fadama Development Project in Nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Futoshi Yamauchi

1032: Factors affecting the choices of coping strategies for climate extremes: The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Temesgen Deressa, Claudia Ringler and Rashid Hassan

1031: Intellectual property rights, private investment in research, and productivity growth in Indian agriculture: A review of evidence and options

Deepthi Kolady, David Spielman and Anthony J. Cavalieri