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2017: Political activism as a determinant of clientelistic transfers: Evidence from an Indian public works program

Nancy Chau, Yanyan Liu and Vidhya Soundararajan

2017: Productive inefficiency in dairy farming and cooperation between spouses: Evidence from Senegal

Jessica Hoel, Melissa Hidrobo, Tanguy Bernard and Maha Ashour

2017: Animal sourced foods and child stunting

Derek Headey, Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott

2017: Remoteness, urbanization and child nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa

Derek Headey, David Stifel, Liangzhi You and Zhe Guo

2017: The roles of agroclimatic similarity and returns on scale in the demand for mechanization: Insights from northern Nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima

2017: Are Ghana’s Public-Sector employees overpaid? Understanding the public/private wage gap and its effect on the government deficit

Stephen D. Younger and Eric Osei-Assibey

2017: Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

Emiko Fukase and Will Martin

2017: Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana

Kwaw S. Andam, Channing Arndt and Faaiqa Hartley

2017: Improving the equity and effectiveness of Nepal’s fertilizer subsidy program

Jordan Kyle, Danielle Resnick and Madhab Karkee

2017: The central position of agriculture within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Babatunde Omilola and Sophia Robele

2017: Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: What have we learned and where do we go from here?

Marie Ruel, Agnes Quisumbing and Mysbah Balagamwala

2017: Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana

Hiroyuki Takeshima, John Agandin and Shashi Kolavalli

2017: The effects of a CAADP-compliant budget on poverty and inequality in Ghana

Stephen D. Younger and Samuel Benin

2017: Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Postprogram evidence from rural Bangladesh

Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott and Akhter Ahmed

2017: 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

2017: 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

2017: Food expenditure patterns and dietary diversity in Nepal: Is dietary quality improving?

Anjani Kumar, Ganesh B. Thapa and Pramod Kumar Joshi

2017: US trade wars with emerging countries in the 21st century: Make America and Its partners lose again

Bouët, Antoine and David Laborde Debucquet

2017: Measuring trade integration in Africa

Bouët, Antoine, Lionel Cosnard and David Laborde Debucquet

2017: Policy options to accelerate variety change among smallholder farmers in South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara

David Spielman and Melinda Smale

2017: 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

2017: 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

2017: 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

2017: Overview of the evolution of agricultural mechanization in Nepal: A focus on tractors and combine harvesters

Hiroyuki Takeshima

2017: Cooking contests for healthier recipes: Impacts on nutrition knowledge and behaviors in Bangladesh

Berber Kramer

2017: Cash transfers and management advice for agriculture: Evidence from Senegal

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

2017: Understanding the measurement of women’s autonomy: Illustrations from Bangladesh and Ghana

Greg Seymour and Amber Peterman

2017: 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

2017: Is the WTO dispute settlement procedure fair to developing countries?

Bouët, Antoine and Jeanne Metivier

2017: Food and nutrition security in transforming Ghana: A descriptive analysis of national trends and regional patterns

Olivier Ecker and Joanna Van Asselt

2017: Pathways from agriculture to nutrition in India: Implications for sustainable development goals

Mousumi Das, Ajay Sharma and Suresh Chandra Babu

2017: Agribusiness competitiveness: Applying analytics, typology, and measurements to Africa

Suresh Chandra Babu and Mahika Shishodia

2017: 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

2017: Intertemporal choice and income regularity: Non-fungibility in a lab-in-the-field experiment

Berber Kramer and David Kunst

2017: Climate change and variability: What are the risks for nutrition, diets, and food systems?

Jessica Fanzo, Rebecca McLaren, Claire Davis and Jowel Choufani

2017: Building resilience for food systems in postwar communities case study and lessons from northern Sri Lanka

Hamsha Pathmanathan, Suresh Chandra Babu and Chandrashri Pal

2017: Empowerment, adaptation, and agricultural production: Evidence from Niger

Fleur Wouterse

2017: Insurance structure, risk sharing, and investment decisions: An empirical investigation of the implications of individual and group weather index insurance

Laura Munro

2017: Economic accounts for agriculture and farm income in Senegal

Fofana, Ismaël, Mahamadou Tankari and Traoré, Fousseini

2017: Food inflation and food price volatility in India: Trends and determinants

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

2017: 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

2017: 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

2017: The great Chinese inequality turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

2017: 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

2017: Impact of India’s National Food Security Act on domestic and international rice markets

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

2017: Agricultural diversification in Nepal: Status, determinants, and its impact on rural poverty

Ganesh B. Thapa, Anjani Kumar and Pramod Kumar Joshi

2017: The “Discouraged Worker Effect†in public works programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India

Sudha Narayanan, Upasak Das, Yanyan Liu and Christopher Barrett

2017: Measuring postharvest losses at the farm level in Malawi

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

2017: Nutrition transition and the structure of global food demand

Christophe Gouel and Houssein Guimbard

2017: 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

2017: Nutrition incentives in dairy contract farming in northern Senegal

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

2017: Chinese investment in Ghana’s manufacturing sector

Xiaoyang Tang

2017: Participation, learning, and equity in education: Can we have it all?

Clara Delavallade, Alan Griffith, Gaurav Shukla and Rebecca Thornton

2017: 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

2017: Cooperation in polygynous households

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

2017: Farmers’ quality assessment of their crops and its impact on commercialization behavior: A field experiment in Ethiopia

Gashaw Abate and Tanguy Bernard

2017: Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana

Isabel Lambrecht, Monica Schuster, Sarah Asare and Laura Pelleriaux

2017: 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

2017: 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

2017: Existing data to measure African trade

Cristina Mitaritonna and Traoré, Fousseini

2017: Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research

Anna Folke Larsen, Derek Headey and William Masters

2017: He says, she says: Exploring patterns of spousal agreement in Bangladesh

Kate Ambler, Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran and Simone Passarelli

2017: Forced gifts: The burden of being a friend

Erwin Bulte, Ruixin Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

2017: 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

2017: Cost-effectiveness of community-based gendered advisory services to farmers: Analysis in Mozambique and Tanzania

Tewodaj Mogues, Valerie Mueller and Florence Kondylis

2017: The European Union–West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement: Small impact and new questions

Bouët, Antoine, David Laborde Debucquet and Traoré, Fousseini

2017: The returns to empowerment in diversified rural household: Evidence from Niger

Fleur Wouterse

2017: 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

2017: 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

2017: Stimulating agricultural technology adoption lessons from fertilizer use among Ugandan potato farmers

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

2017: Trade and economic impacts of destination-based corporate taxes

Will Martin

2017: 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

2017: The impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme on the nutritional status of children: 2008–2012

Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott and Neha Kumar

2017: Economic transformation in Africa from the bottom up: Evidence from Tanzania

Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka and Margaret McMillan

2017: Liquid milk: Cash constraints and day-to-day intertemporal choice in financial diaries

Xin Geng, Wendy Janssens and Berber Kramer

2017: 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

2017: Gender justice and food security in India: A review

Nitya Rao, Mamata Pradhan and Devesh Roy

2017: Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural youth livelihoods in Ghana

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

2017: The changing structure of Africa’s economies

Xinshen Diao, Kenneth Harttgen and Margaret McMillan

2017: Perspectives on the role of the state in economic development: Taking stock of the “Developmental State†after 35 years

Jordan Kyle

2017: 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