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Showing papers in "World Development in 2018"


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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing, emerging and developed countries is analyzed based on a sample of 59 countries for the period 1995 to 2010.

305 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the emergence of frontier spaces, arguing that these are transitional, liminal spaces in which existing regimes of resource control are suspended, making way for new ones.

259 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect on financial inclusion and use of financial services, and the causal interpretation of these results is supported by IV-regressions.

238 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the ability of the entrepreneurial activity to simultaneously enhance economic growth, advance environmental objectives, and improve social conditions in developing countries, and found that entrepreneurship in these countries positively contributes to the economic and social dimensions of sustainable development, while its contribution to the environmental dimension is negative.

186 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the modern life of caste in society, economy and development, and find that caste has been treated as an archaic system and source of historical disadvantage due compensation through affirmative action in ways that overlook its continuing importance as a structure of advantage and of discrimination in the modern economy.

165 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the technology dissemination pathways among smallholder rice producers within a rural irrigation scheme in Tanzania and found that the ordinary farmers who were a relative or residential neighbor of a key or intermediate farmer were more likely to adopt new technologies than those who were not, while the key farmers' technology adoption rates rose immediately after the training, those of the non-trained ordinary farmers caught up belatedly.

143 citations


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TL;DR: This article reviewed the findings of the economics literature on contract farming and discussed its implications for development policy and research, highlighting the methodological weaknesses that limit much of the literature in answering questions of relevance for policy Despite valiant research effort, many of the core features of contract farming imply substantial challenges for researchers aiming to study the question “Does contract farming improve welfare?”

139 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a systematic review that analyzed the evidence in the literature on income effects for smallholders, and they show that the most effective contractual arrangements included a price premium, especially when there was no farmers' organization to broker the contract between the farmer and the firm.

136 citations


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TL;DR: By proposing a middle-range theory, this paper expands the system to include social, cultural and political factors that distribute resilience outcomes and can be applied alongside existing resilience indicators to drive resilience practice towards more equitable outcomes.

135 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the profitability and potential impact of contract farming in Ghana using a unique plot-level dataset that covers two periods of data and two maize plots per household, and employing matching techniques and an instrumental variable approach to address selection bias and unobserved heterogeneity across farmers.

133 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the Household Livelihood Resilience Approach (HLRA), which draws from the sustainable livelihoods approach and it's five capital assets to measure resilience.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of corruption using an open economy version of the endogenous growth model with international capital mobility is studied. And the authors test empirically the predictions of the theory using a sample of 142 countries for the period 1994-2014 and GMM methods.

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of income on residents' willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental protection at both macro and micro perspectives based on the ordered Logit model.

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TL;DR: This approach demonstrates the feasibility of using Facebook data for real-time tracking of digital gender gaps, and enables us to improve geographical coverage for an important development indicator, with the biggest gains made for low-income countries for which existing data are most limited.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a critical appraisal of existing trap conceptualizations in different disciplines, and assess the characteristics and mechanisms that are used to explain poverty traps in rural contexts, thereby broadening the traps concept to better account for social-ecological interactions.

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TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of the impact of social protection programs on food security outcomes and asset formation is presented, showing that the average social protection program increases the value of food consumed/expenditure by 13% and caloric acquisition by 8%.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the political drivers behind the CBHI design and implementation in Rwanda and found that the commitment to expanding health insurance coverage was made possible by a dominant political settlement.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse data on bilateral adaptation aid from 2010 through 2015 to assess to what extent adaptation aid is provided in response to recipient need (that is, vulnerability to climate change impacts) as opposed to recipient merit and donors' interests.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data collected before and after the catastrophic flooding that took place in northern Bangladesh in 2014, and found suggestive evidence that the following capacities reduced the negative impact of the flooding on household food security: social capital, human capital, exposure to information, asset holdings, livelihood diversity, safety nets, access to markets and services, women empowerment, governance, and psycho-social capabilities such as aspirations and confidence to adapt.

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TL;DR: The authors analyzes the role of real exchange rate (RER) policies in promoting economic development and shows that a stable and competitive RER policy may correct for this externality and other related market failures.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate whether the unequal distribution of costs women bear as a result of climate change are reflected across broader macro-social institutions to the detriment of gender equality and women's rights, and empirically test this relationship across a sample of developing states between 1981 and 2010.

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TL;DR: The results show that being struck by an extreme event substantially changes individuals' risk perceptions as well as their beliefs about the frequency and magnitude of future shocks, and that both ethnic groups over-infer the risk of future disasters relative to the model predictions.

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TL;DR: This article presented a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 developing countries.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda to test factor structure and measurement invariance of women's empowerment among married women ages 15-49.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that small-scale gold mining territories emerge at the nexus of land use, property, and labor relations in some of Indonesian Borneo's most vibrant and populated spaces, entangling state actors while sitting comfortably beyond the reach of formal state authority.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a mixed-method systematic review that synthesized the literature on socioeconomic effects of certification systems on agricultural producers and wage workers in low and middle income countries.

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TL;DR: In this article, the first systematic attempt to study how official development aid (ODA) affects infant mortality at the subnational level was made, and the results indicated very clearly that geographical proximity to active aid projects reduces infant mortality.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at adaptation to climate change from the point of view of (poor) households and ask both how government interventions affect the set of options available for adaptation and risk coping, and also what these adaptive responses imply for the prospects of sustainable development.

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TL;DR: In the case of Bangladesh, climate change policies implemented under the country's National Adaptation Program of Action have enabled elites to capture land through public servants, the military, and even gangs carrying bamboo sticks.

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TL;DR: In this article, the main drivers and impacts of crop and labor diversification are identified, which constitute two livelihood strategies on moderating the adaptation deficit in Niger rural communities using original longitudinal socioeconomic panel data merged with granular geo-referenced climatic information.