World Development

1973 - 2026

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Volume 203, issue C, 2026

A new estimate for global and country-level employment in agrifood systems

Benjamin Davis, Erdgin Mane, Leman Yonca Gurbuzer, Giulia Caivano, Natalia Piedrahita, Kate Schneider, Nimra Azhar, Marwan Benali, Nidhi Chaudhary, Rodrigo Rivera, Ramya Ambikapathi, Paul Winters, Veronica Boero and Esther Laske

The contentious history of Mao-era policies requiring cadres to participate in labor and workers to participate in management

Joel Andreas and Jingting Liang

Development as life-making

Alessandra Mezzadri

The American dream revisited: intergenerational education mobility in immigrant households

Yiping Wu, Jinghong Zhou and Julan Du

Investigating resilience of refugee households in Jordan

Giorgio Fagiolo, Marina Mastrorillo and Grazia Pacillo

From classrooms to crime prevention: The incapacitation effect of extending the school day in Mexico

Francisco Cabrera-Hernández and Bárbara A. Zárate-Tenorio

Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence from Peru

Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel, D’Exelle, Ben, Kristian López Vargas, Sebastian Tonke and Arjan Verschoor

Green finance and labor income share: evidence from China

Mingjin Luo and Shengquan Wang

Corrigendum to “Hidden work-family challenges in the low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of causes, consequences, and policy responses” [World Dev. 202 (2026) 107349]

Keonhi Son and Aysegul Kayaoglu

When it rains, it pours: On the spillover effects of corruption on firms’ tax evasion

Chei Bukari

Women’s entrepreneurship through collective institutional shaping

Madhobi Hossain, Francisca Farache and Carmen Lopez

Biodiversity conservation and contestations over land: Jihadist expansion in West Africa

Leif Brottem and Matthew Turner

Domestic violence laws and social norms: Evidence from Pakistan

Selim Gulesci, Marinella Leone and Sameen Zafar

Corrigendum to “Unveiling Injustice: Analyzing Child Mortality Inequality across decades in Peru (1981–2017)” [World Dev. 197 (2026) 107198]

César Huaroto, Pedro Francke and Claudia Vivas

Natural disasters and foreign aid allocation: how much, how quickly, and to whom?

Rabah Arezki, Youssouf Camara, Patrick A. Imam and Kangni Kpodar

Trading peace for hazard management? peace agreement implementation and United Nations peace operations during natural hazards

Wakako Maekawa and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis

Do social and humanitarian assistance mediate the impacts of conflict on lives and livelihoods? Lessons from Ethiopia during the Tigray crisis

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Camelia Vasilov, Mats Hoppenbrouwers and Jeremy Lind

Political change in African cities: transforming state-society relations

Kristian Hoelscher, Taibat Lawanson and Jeffrey W. Paller

Green window of opportunity in Latin America: local and global knowledge linkages

María de las Mercedes Menéndez, Sergio Palomeque, Jorge Valverde-Carbonell and Carlo Pietrobelli

Does women’s financial inclusion reduce corruption? role of socioeconomic and institutional factors

Kumar Debasis Dutta and Mallika Saha

Sanctions, Food Insecurity, and the Mitigating Role of Foreign Investment

Ahmed Alwadeai, Nataliia Vlasova, Na Wei and Zain Ul Abideen

Worldwide agroextractivism: A probabilistic approach

Andres Suarez and Carlos David Cardona-Arenas

Forced migrant arrivals can reduce political trust in African host communities

Eirin Haugseth, Andreas Forø Tollefsen and Karin Dyrstad

The gendered dimensions of an ‘herbicide revolution’: a feminist analysis of herbicide adoption in central India

Carly Nichols and Nidhi Kumari

Institutional quality and risk depletion of natural resources: Evidence from explainable artificial intelligence modelling

Nicolae Stef, Hakan Başağaoğlu, Icen Yoosefdoost, Sami Ben Jabeur and Debaditya Chakraborty

Volume 202, issue C, 2026

Circular resettlement and ongoing risk: earthquakes, landslides, and the challenges of “integrated” reconstruction in Nepal

Sara Shneiderman, Amy Leigh Johnson, Jeevan Baniya, Dipak Basnet, Nyima Dorjee Bhotia, Tek Bahadur Dong, Anuradha Puri, Jonathan Rigg, Mukta Tamang and Katie Oven

Chinese vs. World Bank development projects: Insights from earth observation and computer vision on wealth gains in Africa, 2002–2013

Adel Daoud, Cindy Conlin and Connor T. Jerzak

Agri-labour mobility in a changing climate: A systems approach to vulnerability and precarity among migrant farmworkers

Sinem Kavak, Mine Işlar and Lennart Olsson

Complexity in institutional reform

Jean-Paul Faguet

Introduction: Socialist industrialization, deskilling, and reducing the gap between mental and manual labor in China

Joel Andreas, Ngai Pun, Jacob Eyferth and Yige Dong

Beyond overall income inequality: Racial income gaps and health disparities

Gedeão Locks and Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez

Conflict and democratic preferences

Nicole Stoelinga and Tuuli Tähtinen

Developing a multidimensional resilience index for farm households: A food system approach

Margherita Squarcina, Juliane Hänsch, Florena M. Montoya Cepeda, Magdalena Pallauf, Bruno Paz, Jonas Stehl, Jasmin Wehner and Meike Wollni

De-modernizing energy justice: Ivan Illich and the struggles for pluriversal territorialities in the Global South

Carlos Tornel

Urbanisation and the political demography of African cities

Nick Dorward and Kristian Hoelscher

Improving police management boosts economic development: Evidence from Brazil

Bruno Pantaleão

Individual entrepreneurial orientation from an economic lens: The U-shaped relationship with economic development and income inequality

Juan P. Perez, Izaias Martins, Sebastian Aparicio, Tatiana Lopez and David Urbano

The development revolution will not be nudged: The c2-frame approach as a proposal

Juan-Camilo Cardenas

Hidden work-family challenges in the low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of causes, consequences, and policy responses

Keonhi Son and Aysegul Kayaoglu

Sustainability governance diversifies: unpacking private-sector governance strategies in coffee and cocoa value chains

Samuel Bruelisauer, Gesabel Villar and Christoph Oberlack

Reservoir construction and deforestation

Huanguang Qiu, Yao Tang and Wei Chen

Who runs the NGOs? Women’s access to leadership in Nepal

Ingrid Vik Bakken and Johannes Vüllers

Benchmarking property institutions: conceptual background and evidence from 85 jurisdictions

Klaus Deininger, Thea Hilhorst, Emmanuel Nkurunziza and Jaap Zevenbergen

Do ‘Women hold up half the sky’ in fuel choices? Revisiting the role of adolescent empowerment in a developing country context

Somdeep Chatterjee and Prashant Poddar

Lithium for the global energy transition: how global forces and national legacies are driving resource-based development in South America

Martín Obaya and Teresa Kramarz

Measuring national entrepreneurial ecosystems in Africa

Erik Stam, Phumlani Nkontwana, Robert McDonald, Rafiki Murenzi, Kwabena Aboah Addo, Blaise Bayuo, Belinda Baah, Stefan Riezebos and Tim Gelissen

Can cash improve diet quality in old age? evidence from a large-scale unconditional transfer

Deivis Nicolas Guzman-Tordecilla, Antonio Trujillo, Shu Wen Ng and Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz

Volume 201, issue C, 2026

Can indigenous political representation improve forest conservation? India’s experience

Bina Agarwal, Shamindra Nath Roy and Shiva Chakravarti Sharma

A behavioral approach to social security compliance targeting self-employed workers in Brazil

Mariano Bosch, Danilo Silva and Juan M. Villa

Digging deep: Resource exploitation and higher education

Lenin H. Balza, Camilo De Los Rios and Nathaly M. Rivera

Introduction to special issue: The policy consequences of social movements

Santiago Anria, Candelaria Garay and Jessica A.J. Rich

Community norms, peer influence, and women’s digital financial inclusion: evidence from India

Rashmi Arora, Supriya Garikipati and Sukhpreet Kaur

Studying economic black holes: Lessons from North Korea

Stephan Haggard, Kyoochul Kim and Munseob Lee

Climate change vulnerability and the resilience of energy consumption

Xu Zhang, Shoufa Hu, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem and Abdul Rauf

On risk-based poverty traps

Christopher Barrett and Heather Schofield

The order behind disorder: informality, power, and the resilience of a transport policy trap in Lima, Peru

Eduardo Dargent and Skarlet Olivera

Insuring those who bear the risk: The impact of gender-inclusive framing on insurance uptake in Kenya

Julian Arteaga, Michael R Carter and Andrew Hobbs

Decentralization and the persistence of centralized power in Liberia

Viljar Haavik and Alessio Iocchi

ICT diffusion, gender inclusion, and structural transformation in Africa: A synergistic analysis for sustainable development

Ekene ThankGod Emeka, Simplice Asongu and Vanessa S. Tchamyou

Climate stressors and rural incomes: multi-country evidence on wealth, gender, and age disparities

Nicholas J. Sitko, Irene Staffieri, Jan Martin Rossi, Esther Heesemann, Jessika Kluth, Romina Cavatassi, Priti Rajagopalan, Luis Becerra Valbuena and Carlo Azzarri

Dutch disease and the resource curse: the progression of views from exchange rates to women’s agency and well-being

Nidhiya Menon and Yana Rodgers

What we have learned since Rostow

François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau

On Violent Conflict, Land Scarcity, and Power in an urban Frontier in Congo

Kasper Hoffmann, Christian Lund, Eric Batumike Banyanga, Alice Mugoli Nalunva and Mariève Pouliot