World Development

1973 - 2026

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Volume 199, issue C, 2026

How green is China’s development finance? Power generation and air pollution in Africa

Leoni Mendler-Krakau and Michael Frenkel

The impact of foreign media on political mobilization during the Arab Spring

Laura Angelini, Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay and Jean-François Maystadt

Urbanization and decentralization in the Congo: Examining governance in rural towns

Soeren J. Henn, Aimable Lameke, Mastaki Mugaruka and Vincent Tanutama

Fabricated justice: How due process reform enables evidence manipulation

Beatriz Magaloni and Esteban Salmón

Balancing efficiency and equity in fiscal decentralization: theory and evidence from China

Yixin Chen, Bingyang Lyu and Mengqi Niu

Development as multidimensional environmental impoverishment

Joan Martínez-Alier and Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos

Grievances, greed or tactics? The political ecology of jihadist expansion in West Africa’s WAP complex

Luca Raineri

Gender, race and their interplay with economic status: intersectionality and asymmetric jeopardies in Brazilian education

Sunil Mitra Kumar, Lucio Esposito, Adrián Villaseñor and Sandra Macedo

Does land tenure security reduce deforestation? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

Joao Paulo Santos Mastrangelo, Alexandre Gori Maia and Stella Zucchetti Schons

Gendered laws and Women’s financial inclusion

Caroline Perrin and Marie Hyland

Economic convergence, intragenerational economic mobility, and inequality in a native Amazonian small-scale society of Indigenous People in Bolivia

Ricardo Godoy, Jonathan Bauchet, Victoria Reyes-García and Eduardo A. Undurraga

Citizenization and urban–rural income inequality: Evidence from the reform of hukou system in China

Anbang Wang, Junqiao Ma and Ke He

“A snake with no teeth”: Urbanization shifts perceptions of men who support women’s empowerment in Northwestern Tanzania

Joseph A Kilgallen, Alexander M Ishungisa, Pius Charles, Theresia Marco Chizi, Anuarite John, Israel Nicholaus, Ernest Sebarua, Mark Urassa and David W Lawson

Bringing contact interventions to the lab: Effects of brief bilateral discussions on interethnic trust in Senegal

Gwen-Jirō Clochard, Guillaume Hollard and Omar Sene

Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests

Olivier Bargain, H. Xavier Jara and David Rivera

Armed conflict, community-based cash transfers, and social cohesion: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Ethiopia

Halefom Yigzaw Nigus, Kibrom A. Abay and Martin Paul Tabe-Ojong

Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the World Inequality Database

Rachel Steenbrink and Ahmed Skali

Gendering the safety net: Social protection policy and the limits to Decent Work in Cambodia’s garment sector

Sabina Lawreniuk, Katherine Brickell, Theavy Chhom, Lauren McCarthy, Mony Reach and Hengvotey So

Estimating dynamic macroeconomic effects of exogenous remittances

Markus Brueckner, Sudyumna Dahal and Haiyan Lin

Identification of earnings dynamics using rotating samples over short periods: the case of Chile

Carlos Madeira

Effect of women’s inclusion on conservation and management practices of Water User Associations

Ariana Montoya-Lozano and Tara Grillos

Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development

Ian Scoones

“I have already died in this PLACE:” livelihood impact pathways of conservation and land use change among highland Indigenous groups in northern Thailand

Marco J Haenssgen, Prasit Leepreecha, Mukdawan Sakboon and Ta-Wei Chu

Friends or foes? The insurgent’s dilemma of seeking legitimacy while keeping secrets

Enrique Escalante

Who on earth is using Generative AI?

Yan Liu and He Wang

Do corruption experiences promote emigration? Observational and experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

John Maara and Barry Maydom

Can corporate good deeds reduce environmental injustice? Evidence from China

Chunxiao Wang and Yu Hao

Corrigendum to “Firebreaks as indigenous knowledge system and cultural practice: an emerging counternarrative in forest fire governance” [World Dev. 198 (2026) 107224]

Diana Suhardiman, Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, Saw Sha Bwe Moo and Paul Sein Twa

Volume 198, issue C, 2026

Official vigilantism

Rebecca Hanson and Dorothy Kronick

On unfounded claims of electoral fraud

Nicolás Idrobo, Dorothy Kronick and Francisco Rodríguez

Electoral effects of integrating forced migrants: Evidence from a Southern Country

Sandra V. Rozo, Alejandra Quintana and María José Urbina

A fuzzy-set QCA approach exploring the role of public and private debt in shaping environmental performance

Maria Pereira, Graça Miranda Silva and Filipe Coelho

Decentering climate in vulnerability analysis: On aspiration, striving, and the fullness of life in uncertain times

Harry W. Fischer, Kamal Devkota, Divya Gupta and Dil B. Khatri

Scarcity reimagined: global green imaginaries, frontier-making, and resource conflict in Africa

M.L. Gravesen, P. Albrecht and M. Yding

Kinship, dadon and patronage politics: The role of informal institutions in climate adaptation

Md. Masud-All-Kamal, S.M. Monirul Hassan and Julfiker Haidar

Introductory essay for special issue: future of work and welfare in India’s halting structural transition

Sunil Mitra Kumar, Soumya Mishra and Louise Tillin

Trapped institutional change: the quest for regulating fishing activities in protected areas

Gerardo Damonte, Isabel E. Gonzales and Nicola Espinosa

Distributional energy justice and the inclusive human development Agenda in Africa

Isaac K. Ofori

Firebreaks as indigenous knowledge system and cultural practice: an emerging counternarrative in forest fire governance

Diana Suhardiman, Saw Sha Bwe Moo, Chaya Vaddhanaphuti and Paul Sein Twa

Return migration and economic development: opportunities and challenges

Jackline Wahba

Falling into poverty or escaping from it? The effect of the minimum wage in urban China

Sylvie Démurger, Carl Lin, Achim Schmillen and Dewen Wang

Insiders and outsiders on mining extraction: A survey experiment in Peru

Andres A. Sandoval and Moises Arce

Against the Odds: Community forestry in the San Lucas Mountains, Colombia

Sara Vélez Zapata, Gonzalo A. Vargas, Elizabeth Castaño, Carolina Muñoz, Yeison Londoño, María Camila Zamudio-Mir, Mariela Ríos, Alexander Palau, Sergio Valencia, Manuel Tovar, Jorge Tobón, Mauricio Uribe and Adolfo Eslava

Does the baby that cries get milk? Direct and indirect effects of public participation on environmental governance in China

Huan-yu Cui and Yue-qun Cao

Volume 197, issue C, 2026

Climate change impacts on commodity price stability through changing ENSO patterns

Gilles Dufrénot, William Ginn and Marc Pourroy

Gender, Development, and Recognition of Anthropogenic Climate Change

Marija Verner, Hong Tien Vu, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Jennifer Carman, Seth A. Rosenthal and Anthony Leiserowitz

Gendered networks and demand for an agricultural technology in India

Kajal Gulati, Nicholas Magnan, Travis J. Lybbert and David Spielman

Globalization and gender equality

Klaus Gründler, Niklas Potrafke, Ramona Schmid and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Microwork as a development project: An ethnographic study of data annotators in Guizhou, China

Yu Huang and Yidan Kuang

Opportunistic behavior and discrimination in the mexican solar photovoltaic market: An audit experiment

Héctor Sandoval, Pedro Hancevic and Hernán Bejarano

The role of technology in reducing the gender gap in productivity

Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz, Antonio Neto, Kyung Min Lee and Caroline Nogueira

Unveiling Injustice: Analyzing Child Mortality Inequality across decades in Peru (1981–2017)

Cesar Huaroto, Pedro Francke and Claudia Vivas

Echoes of colonial disruption: historicizing vulnerability, raiding, and violence in Northwestern Kenya

Mads Yding

COVID-19 and rural livelihoods: lessons from a longer-term assessment and the path to recovery

Maria Lucia Berrospi, Francisco Ceballos, Manuel Hernandez and Cynthia Paz

Unpaid care work for the elderly in Thailand: does the social gender norm on altruistic behavior matter?

Minh Tam Bui, Ivo Vlaev and Katsushi Imai

Crop commercialization, structural change and income inequality: Insights from smallholder farmers in rural Southeast Asia

Manh Hung Do, Trung Thanh Nguyen and Ulrike Grote