Review of Development Economics

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Volume 29, issue 4, 2025

Introduction to the Special Issue, Inequality in the 21st Century in the Developing World pp. 2041-2042

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Andy McKay

Equal Opportunity Sensitive Aggregate Wellbeing Measurement: Food Security and Basic Household Income on Sub‐Sahara African Farms pp. 2043-2062

Gordon Anderson, Ana Manero and Henning Bjornlund

Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development? pp. 2063-2075

Hai‐Anh H. Dang, Shatakshee Dhongde, Minh N. N. Do, Cuong Viet Nguyen and Obert Pimhidzai

Growth, Crises, and COVID‐19: Tracking Poverty Changes in Turkey From 2003 to 2021 pp. 2076-2093

M. Emre Bilgiç and Quentin Stoeffler

Health Shocks, Vulnerability and Coping Mechanisms of Poor Households in Eastern India: Observations From NSSO Data pp. 2094-2112

Susanta Nag, Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh and Phanindra Goyari

Business Cycles, Leading Indicators, and Fiscal Dynamics in Brazil pp. 2113-2125

Benito Adelmo Salomão Neto and Cleomar Gomes da Silva

Charting the RMB's Development as a Global Currency Anchor: An Empirical Analysis pp. 2126-2143

Yuan Li and Jin Chen

Social Networks and Household Electricity Reliability: Evidence From Africa's Household Survey pp. 2144-2156

Hong Zhang, Helian Xu and Yuping Deng

On the Economic Impacts of Investment in Road Construction and Maintenance: New Applied CGE Analysis for Guinea‐Bissau pp. 2157-2180

Júlio Vicente Cateia and Luc Savard

Drivers of Income Growth Inequality pp. 2181-2195

Hakan Yilmazkuday

Redistribution Trends in Turkey: Unintended Consequences vs. Deliberate Policies pp. 2196-2210

Hasan Tekgüç and Değer Eryar

Does Fiscal Efficiency Affect Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence Based on Spatial Panel Data Models pp. 2211-2226

Lei Jiang, Yuan Chen, Yang Jiang and Bo Zhang

Women's Inheritance Rights and Wages in India: Measuring Impact Through Unobservable Human Capital Improvements pp. 2227-2241

Asuka Yamamoto

Exploring the Impact of Cooking Fuel Choices on Household Food Security and Healthy Food Consumption in Indonesia pp. 2242-2257

Moh Shadiqur Rahman, Sujarwoto Sujarwoto, Hery Toiba, Tri Wahyu Nugroho, Fahriyah Fahriyah, Mohammad Ilyas Shaleh, Tina Sri Purwanti and Bagus Andrianto

Internet Use as a Catalyst for High‐Quality Nonfarm Employment Among Rural Laborers in China pp. 2258-2275

Fanlue Li and Ke He

Does Farmland Leasing Affect Agricultural Total Factor Productivity? Insights From Chinese Rice Farmers pp. 2276-2292

Xiaoheng Zhang, Junwei Lu, Han Liu and Lingxiao Hu

The Myth of Meritocracy: Does Meritocracy Promote Economic Growth? Evidence From Turkey pp. 2293-2310

Barış Alpaslan and Mevza Kurtulmuşlar

Mobile Money Use and Entrepreneurs' Access to Trade Credit in the Informal Sector pp. 2311-2331

Godsway Korku Tetteh, Micheline Goedhuys, Maty Konte and Pierre Mohnen

Efficiency Performance of Latin American Vis‐à‐Vis North American Countries Between 1980 and 2019 pp. 2332-2343

Mario Seffino and Germán González

Does Intermediate Input Trade Liberalization Reduce Firm Air Pollution? Evidence From China's Accession to the WTO pp. 2344-2360

Lejing Ao

Unveiling the Causes of Low Women's Political Participation: Novel Perspectives From China pp. 2361-2378

Zhongwu Li

The Geopolitics of Foreign Aid pp. 2379-2396

Thi Hong Hanh Pham

Does Monetary Policy Affect Urban Food Inflation? Some Evidence From India pp. 2397-2413

Razique Anwar and Atulan Guha

Network Size and Temporary Migration pp. 2414-2430

Vikram Bahure and Pritam Saha

Population Aging and Corporate Innovation: A U‐Shaped Evidence From China pp. 2431-2448

Jie Peng, Xiaodong Yang and Junyu Pan

Do New Energy Vehicles Really Reduce Carbon Emissions? A Quasi‐Natural Experiment From China pp. 2449-2463

Jianlong Wang, Haitao Wu, Yong Liu and Weilong Wang

The Role of Energy Poverty on the Gender‐Health Gap in Ghana pp. 2464-2480

Abdul Ganiyu Iddrisu, Euan Phimister and Alexandros Zangelidis

Corruption, Land, and Housing: The Cleaning and Chilling Effects of China's Anti‐Corruption Campaign pp. 2481-2504

Hongyan Shi, Benlai Wang and Bohong Zhu

Female Labor Supply in Latin America and the Business Cycle: Instability and Asymmetry pp. 2505-2533

Ángel Maridueña‐Larrea and Ángel Martín‐Román

Green Aid and Environmental Quality in Developing Countries: The Role of Donor‐Recipient Institutional Differences pp. 2534-2549

Mehmet Pinar

Women's Economic Empowerment and Financial Well‐Being: Evidence From Rural China pp. 2550-2560

Di Wang, Rong Kong, Shaoxiong Yang and Zhengxiao Wang

The Long‐Term Effects of a Medical Intervention: Determinants and Implications of Orthotic Equipment Failure in Uganda pp. 2561-2575

Aisha Abubakar, Sarah Bridges and Trudy Owens

Achieving Affordable and Clean Energy Goal (SDG 7): Do National Development Zones Matter? pp. 2576-2591

Xiaojie Liu, Nan Zhao and Bo Han

Resource Booms and Entrenched Gender Roles in the Andes pp. 2592-2616

Victor J. Gamarra and José Carlos Orihuela

Labor Market Participation and Gender Wage Gap: The Case of Young Workers in Senegal pp. 2617-2637

Mamadou Abdoulaye Diallo

Endogenous Employment Protection and Total Factor Productivity: Plant‐Level Evidence From India pp. 2638-2651

Irfan Ahmad Sofi

Role of Regulatory Quality Toward a Sustainable Economic Development: A Dual Study of Ease of Doing Business and Economic Growth Amid Bank Efficiency pp. 2652-2666

Edmund Ntom Udemba, Selin Karlilar and Firat Emir

Can We Do Well, While Doing Good? A Comparison Between Sustainable and Conventional Investments pp. 2667-2692

E. Bruno, J. Längberg and G. Gavorskis

Unpacking the COVID‐19 Gender Employment Gap Among Young People in the Global South pp. 2693-2705

Douglas Scott, Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter and Alan Sánchez

Do China's Loans Associate With Economic Growth in Africa? pp. 2706-2709

Philip Hans Franses

Do Structural Transformation and Energy Transition Cause Growth? pp. 2710-2735

Olatunji A. Shobande, Lawrence Ogbeifun and Aviral Kumar Tiwari

Multidimensional Determinants of Life Expectancy in Developing Countries: Evidence From Preston Curve Hypothesis pp. 2736-2746

Gloria Nnadwa Alhassan, Festus Victor Bekun, Mahruk Rashidi and Turgay Karalinç

The Path to Overcoming the Middle‐Income Trap pp. 2747-2760

Yang Song, Dayu Liu, Yadong Song and Bin Xu

Volume 29, issue 3, 2025

Inequality and Development in Rural Asia pp. 1297-1303

Wanglin Ma, Andy McKay, Dil Rahut, Aya Suzuki and Tetsushi Sonobe

The Impact of Income Inequality on Rural Household's Adoption of Climate‐Smart Agriculture Practices: Evidence From Yellow River Basin Region, China pp. 1304-1322

Boqian Wang, Yu Wang, Rong Kong and Yan Hong

Build or Break? The Impact of Rural E‐Commerce on Household Income Inequality in China pp. 1323-1343

Yongming Sun, Yiming Yuan and Lei Wang

Digital Finance Use and Household Consumption Inequality: Evidence From Rural China pp. 1344-1360

Xuejun Wang, Xiaocheng Li and Huiying Zhou

The Impact of the County‐to‐District Transition on Rural Consumption Inequality in China pp. 1361-1378

Chengjun Wang, Juanjuan Chen, Ximin Fei, Junfei Bai and Lei Li

Understanding the Inequality of Opportunity in Stunting Among Chinese Children and Adolescents: An Urban–Rural Comparison pp. 1379-1392

Peng Nie and Xili Lin

The Impact of Returnee Migrants’ Remittances on Reducing Household Inequality and Poverty in Bangladesh: A Micro‐Level Study pp. 1393-1415

Faroque Ahmed, Md. Monirul Islam and Md. Moniruzzaman

Agricultural Mechanization Socialized Services and Gender Disparities in Labor Reallocation: Insights From Rural China pp. 1416-1434

Zisen Chen and Tonglong Zhang

Does Mobile Payment Raise the Poverty‐Alleviation Resilience of Chinese Households? pp. 1435-1452

Lian Hu, Luhan Ji, Ting Zhu, Chengyu Yang and Dianshuang Wang

How Does Tax Avoidance Affect a Firm's Investment Inefficiency in Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry? pp. 1453-1463

Jr‐Tsung Huang and Po‐Sheng Kuo

How Does the Adoption of e‐Commerce Impact the Selling Prices of Agricultural Products? Empirical Evidence From Apple Farmers in China pp. 1464-1485

Min Liu, Tianjun Liu, Yanjun Ren and Leslie Wu

The Effects of FDI on School Enrollment in Developing Countries: New Evidence pp. 1486-1504

Horst Feldmann

Revisiting the Schooling Inputs Debate: Experimental Evidence From an Early Grade Literacy Intervention in Lao PDR pp. 1505-1521

Uttara Balakrishnan, Jessica Li, Elnaz Safarha and Daniel Zaas

Beyond Competitiveness: Is Productivity Everything? pp. 1522-1545

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Boris Fisera and Menbere Workie Tiruneh

Assessing the Impact of Financing on SMEs' Innovation in China pp. 1546-1568

Bing Hu, Chinedu Increase Onwachukwu, Isabel Kit‐Ming Yan, Weikang Zhang and Shuanghe Shang

The Nexus Between Financial Literacy and Saving Performance: Implications for Creating Self‐Financing Society pp. 1569-1582

Girma Jirata Duguma and Jiqin Han

A Novel Decomposition Framework for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Global Supply Chain Perspective pp. 1583-1596

Xiaodong Chen

Are Credit Doors Equally Open? Gender Perspectives on Agricultural Credit Access in Sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 1597-1612

Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe, Obed Quaicoe, Roger Vorsah and Stephen Prah

Risk and Time Preferences Among the Urban Poor in Saudi Arabia pp. 1613-1633

Miriam Al Lily and Sabine Liebenehm

Economic Growth Expectations and Corporate Innovation: Evidence From China pp. 1634-1646

Lujun Wang, Yuyang Ji and Yongmin Luo

Role of Globalization and Innovation Pattern in Growth of Bank Credit: Evidence From Emerging and Advanced Asia pp. 1647-1662

Shreya Pal and Mantu Kumar Mahalik

The Bias of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises’ Export: Profit Margin or Productivity? pp. 1663-1676

Qinqin Fan, Liming Wang and Wei Jia

Gender Wage Gap in Early Careers: Evidence From University Graduates in China pp. 1677-1692

Yue Zhang and Yanyan Dong

Livelihood Capital, Risk Response, and Rural Household Poverty Vulnerability: An Empirical Experience Based in China pp. 1693-1711

Junxia Zhang, Zhixiong Fan, Juan Liu, Fayyaz Ahmad and Zijian Cao

Can Adjust the Fiscal Expenditure Structure Promote Inclusive Green Growth? Empirical Evidence From China pp. 1712-1733

Yanghong Wu, Li Song and Xiaoliang Zhou

Redistributive Impacts of Civil War: The Case of Côte d'Ivoire pp. 1734-1767

Vladimir Hlasny

Does Mobile Money Adoption and Credit Access Improve Enterprise Innovation and Performance in Sierra Leone? pp. 1768-1779

Gbetoton Nadege Djossou, James Fomba Sandy and Jacob Novignon

Digitalization and Food Security: Evidence From Developing Countries pp. 1780-1791

Yogeeswari Subramaniam, Nanthakumar Loganathan and Muzafar Shah Habibullah

The Nexus Between Flush Toilet Use and Off‐Farm Performance of Rural Households pp. 1792-1807

Junpeng Li, Xiao Liu, Xianghai Meng and Wenguang Zhang

Does Pollution Control Foster Innovation? Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From China's Two‐Control Zone Policy pp. 1808-1833

Isea Cieply and Feicheng Wang

Assessing the Impact of ICT on Export Performance: A Comparative Analysis of ASEAN‐5 and Partner Countries pp. 1834-1848

Thi Thanh Tuyen Nguyen and Chang Hwan Choi

Spatial Price Integration and Spillover Linkages Between Regional Grain Markets in Nigeria pp. 1849-1862

Yacouba Kassouri and Zué Felix Fofana N'

“Rising Women”: Evidence From China's Agricultural Mechanization pp. 1863-1876

Rui Pan, Mengfei Gao and Yueqing Ji

IMF Standby Agreements and Inequality: The Role of Informality pp. 1877-1889

Ceyhun Elgin and Adem Yavuz Elveren

Fruitless or Fruitful? Examining Ghana's Agricultural Inputs Subsidy and Household Welfare pp. 1890-1906

Bright Owusu Asante, Stephen Prah, Daniel Adu Ankrah and Nana Afranaa Kwapong

Financial Inclusion, Digital Technology and Farmers' Well‐Being Nexus: Evidence From Rural of Xizang, China pp. 1907-1920

Fanghua Li, Abbas Ali Chandio, Dungang Zang and Haiyue Liu

Traditional Versus Improved Varieties of Seed: Is There a Trade‐Off Between Productivity and Risk? pp. 1921-1939

Mintewab Bezabih, Finn Tarp, Hailemariam Teklewold, Alemu Mekonnen and Tagel Gebrehiwot

Impact of Microcredit on Performance of Women‐Owned Non‐Farm Microenterprises pp. 1940-1951

Faith Muyonga M. Namayengo, Gerrit Antonides and Johan van Ophem

FDI Determinants in Developing Countries: A Firm‐Level Analysis pp. 1952-1964

Jorge Cerdeira and Natércia Fortuna

Nutri‐Farming! Estimating the Impacts of a Nutritional Security Programme on Agricultural Productivity pp. 1965-1980

Sarthak Agarwal and Somdeep Chatterjee

Hydrocarbon Revenues, the Non‐Hydrocarbon Tax Offset, and the Government Policy Mix pp. 1981-2005

Nasr Elbahnasawy, Osama D. Sweidan and Rouzbeh Razavi

Does the Asset‐Type Matter in Vulnerability Reduction? Evidence From Rural Indian Households pp. 2006-2020

Niladri Sekhar Dhar and Meghna Dutta

Does It Help or Hinder? The Impact of Population Aging on Industrial Structure Upgrading in Transition Economic Systems pp. 2021-2035

Dahui Zhou

Volume 29, issue 2, 2025

Trade credit, labor employment, and demand for skills: An empirical investigation of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises pp. 721-746

Thang Ngoc Bach and Thanh Le

Patriarchal norms and women's labor market outcomes pp. 747-774

Anirban Mukherjee and Sukanya Sarkhel

Natural resource management, green energy, financial development, and ecological sustainability: Reshaping urban landscape in G7 countries pp. 775-794

Shanming Xu and Li Xu

Gender and corruption in firms: The importance of regional context pp. 795-830

João Pedro Bastos and Jamie Bologna Pavlik

Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms pp. 831-854

Bethuel Kinyanjui Kinuthia and Damiano Kulundu Manda

Does it matter how we measure poverty? Correlates of income and multidimensional poverty in Sri Lanka pp. 855-886

N. P. Ravindra Deyshappriya and Simon Feeny

Oil rents shocks and corruption in Iran pp. 887-916

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Reza Zamani

Religion and female labor force participation in India pp. 917-948

Sujata Kar

The impact of trade barriers on outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 949-973

Chunlai Yuan, Zhaojie Han and Haitao Wu

Dynamic influence of remittances on energy poverty eradication in Pakistan: A moderation analysis through consumption and investment pp. 974-1003

Sadia Bano, Anwar Khan and Gulnora Murodova

Does aid for trade promote FDI from enterprises of donors to recipient countries? Based on the spatial spillover effect of China's Aid for Trade pp. 1004-1023

Churen Sun, Jiamin Zhao, Jinqiang Xu and Jingjing Liang

Nutrition for all? Input subsidies and equitable diets pp. 1024-1057

John Ng'ombe, Stephen Prah, Rebecca N. Kiwanuka‐Lubinda and Chewe Nkonde

The impact of financial inclusion on rural–urban households welfare inequality in Ghana: A decomposition analysis pp. 1058-1079

Thompson Ogajah Tawiah, Daniel Sakyi, Raphael Edem Ayibor and Kofi Amanor

Gendered distributional impacts of ownership of mobile money account on farm input expenditures: A micro perspective from rural maize farmers in Ghana pp. 1080-1110

Bright Owusu Asante, Daniel Adu Ankrah, Andrew Agyei‐Holmes and Stephen Prah

More transparency, more trust: Evidence from anti‐corruption campaign in China pp. 1111-1143

Yaxin Zhang and Daxin Sun

Health expenditure, and economic growth in Sub‐Saharan African countries: The role of governance quality pp. 1144-1169

Marius Ikpe, Stella I. Madueme, Richard Okey Ojike, Tobechi F. Agbanike, Lasbrey I. Anochiwa and Joseph Chukwudi Odionye

From non‐renewables to renewables and high‐tech production: The impact of natural wealth and technology on ecological load capacity in sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 1170-1194

Chinazaekpere Nwani, Kingsley Ikechukwu Okere, Stephen Kelechi Dimnwobi, Emmanuel Uche and Paul Terhemba Iorember

Why do some African firms export? The role of regional economic communities? pp. 1195-1227

Ibrahim Mike Okumu, Joseph Mawejje, Nicholas Kilimani and Edward Bbaale

Taxation in the context of high informality: Conceptual challenges and evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 1228-1249

Abel Gwaindepi

Assessing the impacts of Brazil's expenditure ceiling with a multiple‐household CGE model pp. 1250-1272

Guilherme Silva Cardoso, Débora Freire Cardoso and Edson Paulo Domingues

Pandemic‐induced job loss and mental health: Evidence from a moderated mediation model pp. 1273-1293

Rui Yao and Jie Zhang

Volume 29, issue 1, 2025

Financial inclusion, gender gaps and agricultural productivity in Mali pp. 3-42

Babajide Fowowe

A gendered analysis of the effect of financial inclusion on household welfare in Burundi pp. 43-63

Jonathan Atta‐Aidoo, Ester Cosmas Matthew, Abdulkarim Onah Saleh and Saidi Bizoza

Does household welfare change with finance access? The case of women and the youth in The Gambia pp. 64-104

Laston Manja and Isatou A. Badjie

The classical and neoclassical perspectives: A theoretical framework for studying the advent and growth of mobile money—The Tanzanian experience pp. 105-144

Deogratius Joseph Mhella

Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective pp. 145-165

Francis F. B. Mulbah, Dennis Etemesi Olumeh, Vida Mantey and Billy Okemer Ipara

Employment transitions and COVID‐19 containment measures: Evidence from a developing country pp. 166-202

Adeola Oyenubi

Decomposition of the impact of government and private transfers on income inequality in China pp. 203-225

Jingqi Liu, Chen Wang, Jinxian Wang and Chen Yang

Assessing the role of tax‐benefit policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from the Andean region pp. 226-246

H. Xavier Jara, David Rodríguez, Diego Collado, Javier Torres, Andrés Mideros, Lourdes Montesdeoca, Andrés Avellaneda, Rodrigo Chang and Omar Vanegas

The informal economy and the reach of policy interventions: Evidence from the COVID‐19 lockdown in India pp. 247-268

Andrei Zhirnov and Abdul Basit Adeel

Inequality in Africa: Does injustice matter? pp. 269-290

Jean‐Claude Kouladoum, Serge Monglengar Nadingar, Joseph Pasky Ngameni and Mathias Marie Adrien Ndinga

An empirical comparison of stabilization funds and futures hedging for oil exporting developing countries pp. 291-323

Ricardo Lalloo

Power to the researchers: Calculating power after estimation pp. 324-358

Jiarui Tian, Tom Coupé, Sayak Khatua, W. Reed and Benjamin D. K. Wood

The shadow wage of child labor: An application to Nepal pp. 359-383

Elisa Meneghello, Martina Menon, Federico Perali and Furio Rosati

Climate threat and price stability: A case study of Belize pp. 384-434

Bazoumana Ouattara, C. Soutar and G. Waight

The impact of a disaster recovery policy on health status of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake victims: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 435-449

Qiong Huang, Gautam Bhandari, Ghulam Dastgir Khan and Yuichiro Yoshida

Comparative responses of renewable energy stock market to economic policy uncertainty and climate policy uncertainty shocks: Evidence from China pp. 450-475

Xiuqi Yang and Jing Nie

Does democracy stimulate remittances? pp. 476-498

Farid Makhlouf

Is rapid urbanisation in Africa jeopardising the health and education of the population? pp. 499-547

Borice Augustin Ngounou, Honoré Tekam Oumbe, Jean‐Marie Gankou Fowagap and Edmond Noubissi Domguia

Immigration and the economic performance of countries pp. 548-575

Stelios Roupakias and Michael Chletsos

Can world heritage sites boost sales in non‐tourism firms? The role of visibility pp. 576-591

Yiming Liu and Hua Cheng

Women as presidents: The impact on the female labor force pp. 592-621

Daniela Carla Decaro Schettini and Ana Helena Baptista Rodrigues

Informality, foreign ownership and bribery in developing countries pp. 622-648

Erica Aparecida Ribeiro and Gilberto Fraga

Unveiling the synergy: How natural resources, energy prices and financial development drive the energy transition in N‐11 countries pp. 649-669

Aiping Zhou, Xiao Zhang, Weichen Li and Muhammad Wasif Zafar

Unveiling complexities: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in China pp. 670-717

Mingying Zhu