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Institutional Voids or Organizational Resilience? Business Groups, Innovation, and Market Development in Latin America

Castellacci, Fulvio - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 43-58

The paper compares the innovativeness of group-affiliated firms (GAFs) and standalone firms (SAFs), and it investigates how country-specific institutional factors affect the group–innovation relationship. The paper analyzes the contrasting predictions of two competing views: the institutional...

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Growth, Growth Accelerations, and the Poor: Lessons from Indonesia

Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Resosudarmo, Budy P. - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 154-165

covering 26 provinces over the period 1977–2010. This dataset allows us to distinguish between mining and non-mining in … Indonesia. Growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth and growth in mining … appears to have no effect on the same. Growth acceleration in non-mining reduces poverty and inequality whereas the same in …

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Decentralization, Institutional Ambiguity, and Mineral Resource Conflict in Mindanao, Philippines

Verbrugge, Boris - In: World Development 67 (2015) C, pp. 449-460

Based on an analytical framework that builds on theories of incremental institutional change, this article interrogates the relationship between decentralization and mineral resource conflict in the Philippines. Here, efforts to decentralize control over mineral resource wealth have resulted in...

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Historicizing Sustainable Livelihoods: A Pathways Approach to Lead Mining in Rural Central China

Lu, Jixia; Lora-Wainwright, Anna - In: World Development 62 (2014) C, pp. 189-200

This article adopts a “pathways to sustainability” approach to study lead mining in rural China. Through an in …-depth case study, it reveals how shifting mining practices are tied to institutional and political economic contexts, cost … longitudinal analysis may resolve the contradictory accounts of whether mining aids or hinders development, and whether local …

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Magic and witchcraft: Implications for Democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa

Kohnert, Dirk - In: World Development 24 (1996) 8, pp. 1347-1355

The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of...

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Coping with the Upheavals of Globalization in the Shea Value Chain: The Maintenance and Relevance of Upstream Shea Nut Supply Chain Organization in Western Burkina Faso

Rousseau, Karen; Gautier, Denis; Wardell, D. Andrew - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 413-427

Market globalization has had only a weak impact on the regional shea nut supply chain in western Burkina Faso despite the boom in the shea trade and the arrival of leading foreign firms. We show that despite the fact that wholesalers have kept the shea chain locked in an oligarchic organization...

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Food Standards, Certification, and Poverty among Coffee Farmers in Uganda

Chiputwa, Brian; Spielman, David J.; Qaim, Matin - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 400-412

Voluntary standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability-oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score...

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Analysis of Adoption and Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties in Eastern Zambia

Khonje, Makaiko; Manda, Julius; Alene, Arega D.; … - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 695-706

This paper analyzes the adoption and welfare impacts of improved maize varieties in eastern Zambia using data obtained from a sample of over 800 farm households. Using both propensity score matching and endogenous switching regression models, the paper shows that adoption of improved maize leads...

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Female Migration for Marriage: Implications from the Land Reform in Rural Tanzania

Kudo, Yuya - In: World Development 65 (2015) C, pp. 41-61

Using the longitudinal household panel data drawn from rural Tanzania (1991–2004), this study investigates impacts of the land reform on women’s marriage-motivated relocation. During the period under study, several villages that initially banned a widow’s land inheritance abolished this...

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Is Africa Actually Developing?

King, Alan; Ramlogan-Dobson, Carlyn - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 598-613

The results of previous time-series studies of the income convergence hypothesis indicate that practically no African economies are systematically closing their income gap with the rich world. This implies that almost the entire continent is not ‘developing’ in the literal sense of the term....

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