Showing papers in "World Development in 2019"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that current attempts to equate or subsume healthy diets within sustainability in the context of food system may be misleading and need to be challenged, and stress that trade-offs between different dimensions of sustainable food system sustainability are unavoidable.

TL;DR: The links between transparency and sustainability are poorly understood and a typology of information for supply chain governance is presented, which presents ten ways in which transparency can improve sustainability governance.

TL;DR: The pro-WEAI is a new tool designed to meet projects’ impact assessment needs and is decomposable into sub-indices, indicators, and by population subgroup.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of the literature on the linkages between food security and conflict is presented, focusing on findings that account for endogeneity issues and have a causal interpretation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the importance of remittances given financial development for economic growth in developing countries and showed that the more financially developed a country is, the smaller the impact of remittance on economic growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that SDG 8's focus on decent work and economic growth is inadequate; that productive employment and decent work for all men and women by 2030 needs to take into account the value and costs of social reproduction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the expected incidence of moderate carbon price increases for different income groups in 87 mostly low and middle-income countries and find that for countries with per capita incomes of below USD 15,000 per year (at PPP-adjusted 2011 USD) carbon pricing has, on average, progressive distributional effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop an analytical model to estimate the welfare effects of progress in attaining one SDG while accounting for interactions in achieving other SDGs, and assess quantitatively progress in the SDGs over 2000-2016 at the global level and for low-income countries, using a representative indicator for each goal.

TL;DR: This article examined the association between the development of oil palm plantations and change in objective or material well-being between 2000 and 2014 across villages in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, and found that plantations developed in remote villages with higher forest cover, in which the majority of communities previously relied on subsistence-based livelihoods.

TL;DR: Differences in I-SDI scores and rankings are compared with those generated by the SDG Index and the geometric mean to illustrate the value of a more flexible and integrated measure for guiding policymakers and monitor overall progress.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied how conflict affects household resilience capacity and food security, drawing on panel data collected from households in Palestine before and after the 2014 Gaza conflict, and found that the food security of households in the Gaza Strip was not directly affected by the conflict.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effect of commercialization on income poverty and multidimensional poverty in terms of education, nutrition, health, and other dimensions of living standard.

TL;DR: This article examined the extent to which participating cities focus on social equity in their narratives, and whether justice is operationalized in the strategies' embedded actions, concluding that the decision to prioritize or ignore equity may not be a direct result of the 100RC program offerings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assesses governance challenges at the local level associated with SDG 6, which pledges to ensure sustainable water and sanitation for all, and identify potential barriers to implementation.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated with local sourcing by foreign investors, and found that more intense GVC participation and upstream specialization are associated with a higher share of inputs sourced locally by the foreign investors.

TL;DR: Investment in agriculture alone will not achieve SDG2 in Africa; complementary non-ag investments will be needed, according to a multi-model ensemble used to more holistically assess cost and benefits of increased agricultural investments in Africa.

TL;DR: The authors argues that the form of sustainability offered by certification schemes such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil fetishes the commodity palm oil in order to assuage critical consumer initiatives in the North.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the empirical linkages between crop and livelihood diversification strategies, extreme weather events, and household welfare using a unique dataset that integrates harmonized, national representative household surveys and geo-referenced climatic information collected in Malawi, Niger and Zambia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the impacts of nature reserves and ecotourism on the poverty and income inequality of local communities in China by surveying households residing inside and outside of six giant panda nature reserves in the Qinling Mountains from 2015 to 2017.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an integrated literature review organized around three disciplinary perspectives central to realizing SDG 2: ecology and agricultural sciences, nutrition and public health, and political economy and policy science.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a panel multinomial-logit approach to model the determinants of household cooking-and lighting-fuel choices, focusing explicitly on energy stacking behavior, proposing various ways of measuring what is inferred when stacking behaviour is thought of in the context of the energy transition and presenting household level correlates of energy stacking behaviour.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a typology of the new generation of national development plans and explore the ways in which the new national development planning and the SDGs may interact.

TL;DR: In this article, an inter-temporal model of agricultural production is developed in which the impact of conflict is transmitted through violent shocks and uncertainty brought about by conflict, and the authors test the model using a unique household survey applied to 4800 households in four micro-regions of Colombia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the determinants of women's entry into and exit from employment in India and found that an increase in wealth and income of other members of the household leads to lower entry and higher exit probabilities of women.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the tensions, visions and metaphors used by different stakeholders, including activists, the media, and state and industry officials, to imagine and thus legitimate lithium extraction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the effects of patent rights on total factor productivity growth, using dynamic panel regression analysis for 70 countries from 1965 to 2009, and find that while patents rights are increasingly irrelevant to productivity, the relationship between economic complexity and productivity is highly positive and significant.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the literature on the nature of power to develop a new conceptual framework that highlights the multiple dimensions of power involved in institutional development and change, and argue that such a theoretically informed mapping of power in institutions will enable scholars, practitioners and citizen groups to go beyond the standard critiques in order to analyze the multifaceted effects of neoliberal institutional change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the effects of conflict on agriculture using the Boko Haram insurgency as a case study and identify the output, input, infrastructure and human capital effects as direct effects and the loss of talent and other environmental factors as indirect effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between social inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and economic development was analyzed using a fixed effects regression approach and a newly-created dataset, the Global Index on Legal Recognition of Homosexual Orientation (GILRHO).

TL;DR: This article revisited the relationship between decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity issue stemming from reverse causality and unobserved factors that has plagued previous extensive literature on this subject.