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Effects of Fair Trade Certification on Social Capital: The Case of Rwandan Coffee Producers
Elder, Sara D.; Zerriffi, Hisham; Le Billon, Philippe - In: World Development 40 (2012) 11, pp. 2355-2367
Fair Trade certification may have important social effects on small-scale producers but empirical evidence is limited. We conducted logistic regressions using data from a 2009 survey of Rwandan coffee farmers to estimate the link between Fair Trade and social capital—measured as farmer trust...
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Conflict Management, Decentralization and Agropastoralism in Dryland West Africa
Turner, Matthew D.; Ayantunde, Augustine A.; Patterson, … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 4, pp. 745-757
This paper reports on a four-site study conducted in the Sahelian zone of Niger. The study takes a novel mixed methods approach for understanding conflict management from the perspective of rural peoples by not only describing past highly publicized conflicts but also by analyzing the steps...
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Determinants and Consequences of Internal Return Migration in Thailand and Vietnam
Junge, Vera; Revilla Diez, Javier; Schätzl, Ludwig - In: World Development 71 (2015) C, pp. 94-106
This paper draws a distinction between local return migrants, who move back to their home village, and regional return migrants, who return to other places within their home provinces in Thailand and Vietnam. Using multinomial regressions we firstly analyze determinants of internal return...
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Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria
Potts, Deborah - In: World Development 40 (2012) 7, pp. 1382-1393
urban in sub-Saharan Africa has slowed or is even stagnating. This has major policy implications. Many standard reviews of … the region still, however, tend to maintain that urbanization is occurring rapidly but, as this paper demonstrates, the … towns in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous country with the region’s most complex urban system. This paper also …
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Interpreting Institutional Fit: Urbanization, Development, and China’s “Land-Lost”
Lian, Hongping; Lejano, Raul P. - In: World Development 61 (2014) C, pp. 1-10
Urbanization-led development brings not just demographic, technological, and economic change, but profound … institutional transition, as well. The scale and pace of China’s urbanization project have generated a crisis for millions living in … rural–urban peripheries. We will utilize a model of institutional fit to conduct a critical analysis of China’s urbanization …
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Remoteness, Urbanization, and India’s Unbalanced Growth
Das, Samarjit; Ghate, Chetan; Robertson, Peter E. - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 572-587
district characteristics, particularly urbanization and the distance from a major urban agglomeration. State-level effects have …
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Growth of the Urban Shadow, Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities, and Commuting by Workers in Rural and Urban India
Sharma, Ajay; Chandrasekhar, S. - In: World Development 61 (2014) C, pp. 154-166
Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in developing countries. This paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India to analyze factors that affect the decision of workers to commute across rural and urban areas...
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Crime and Erosion of Trust: Evidence for Latin America
Corbacho, Ana; Philipp, Julia; Ruiz-Vega, Mauricio - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 400-415
Trust links citizens to the institutions intended to represent them and to one another. By reducing trust, crime has the potential to grind down social capital and become an obstacle to development. This paper analyzes the relationship between individual victimization and trust in Latin America...
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How Effective is a Big Push to the Small? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Mallick, Debdulal - In: World Development 41 (2013) C, pp. 168-182
This paper investigates whether a big push to the extreme poor in terms of a one-off large grant enables them to participate in the microfinance program. The analysis uses data from a quasi-experiment on BRAC’s ultra poor program in Bangladesh. The results for the baseline and repeat survey...
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Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital in Indonesia
Mavridis, Dimitris - In: World Development 67 (2015) C, pp. 376-395
This paper uses the variations of ethnic diversity between districts in Indonesia to show that diversity leads to lower social capital outcomes. I find that distinguishing between ethnic polarization and fractionalization matters for the results, as polarization has a larger negative effect. The...
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