World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 196, issue C, 2025

Missing SDG gender indicators

Kathleen Beegle, Umar Serajuddin, Brian Stacy and Divyanshi Wadhwa

Expectations, authority and divergent market transitions

Susanne Wengle, Daniele Girardi and Roberto Veneziani

Does small-scale irrigation affect women’s time allocation? Insights from Ethiopia

Yeyoung Lee, Elizabeth Bryan, Nicole M. Mason, Ibrahim Worku Hassen, Veronique Theriault and Claudia Ringler

Maternal migration patterns and child development from infancy to early adolescence: a longitudinal study in rural China

Lei Wang, Yiwei Qian, Shanshan Li and Scott Rozelle

Between emancipatory potential and hierarchical reproduction: social movement aspirations and class in a South Indian NGO

Liz Mount

Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment

Masataka Harada, Ryo Mikami and Natsumi Shimada

Understanding education policy preferences: Survey experiments with policymakers in 35 developing countries

Lee Crawfurd, Susannah Hares, Ana Minardi and Justin Sandefur

Secularity and migration aspirations in the Arab world

Hajare El Hadri and Réda Marakbi

Fragmenting deliberation: Green hydrogen and the conditions for public participation

Lucrecia Wagner, Malayna Raftopoulos and Mattias Borg Rasmussen

Polarization in the product space: Skill intensity and economic development

Joris Bücker and Penny Mealy

Attitudes and behaviors in a fragile state. A list experiment in Mali

Olivia Bertelli, Thomas Calvo, Emmanuelle Lavallée, Marion Mercier and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Natural Disasters and Land Use Dynamics: Evidence from Earthquake-Induced Deforestation

Youpei Yan and Jayash Paudel

Autonomy, interrupted: constitutional weakening of indigenous activism from civil war to civil society

Cheng Xu

Inclusive reforms as levers for social exclusion: The paradoxical consequences of quotas for women in rural India

Simon Chauchard, Rachel E. Brulé and Alyssa R. Heinze

When aid misses the target: competing objectives, new classifications, and smarter delivery

Axel Dreher

International climate and biodiversity funding: does allocation follow need in Global South countries?

Charissa Bosma, Lars Hein and Daniel C. Miller

Crime and human capital in India

Smriti Sharma and Naveen Sunder

The new era of contested hydropower development: A systematic review from 2000 to 2022

Megan Mills-Novoa and Sophia Borgias

Unpacking the penetration of agrochemicals in China: The commodification of agricultural inputs and the invisible dispossession of smallholders

Yiyuan Chen and Yunan Xu

Child nutrition: The effect of micro and macro fertility levels at birth

Florence Arestoff, Elodie Djemai and Estelle Koussoubé

A regression discontinuity assessment of the differential impacts of China’s natural forest protection program across forestland property right regimes

Qi Liu, Shilei Liu, Zhaoyang Liu, Xiangzheng Deng, Jintao Xu and Andreas Kontoleon

Contraception to women’s economic empowerment: A narrative review

Jocelyn E. Finlay, Mariam Gulaid, Chiseche Mibenge, Nyovani Madise, Naa Dodua Dodoo, John Stover, Michelle Weinberger, O’Brien, Michelle and Marita Zimmermann

Are nationalist countries more protectionist?

Costas Hadjiyiannis, Doruk İriş, Chrysostomos Tabakis and Gi Khan Ten

The sex and gender dimensions of hunger in peace and conflict: a review

Caitriona Dowd, Liezelle Kumalo and Naledi Joyi

How robust are machine learning approaches for improving food security amid crises? - Evidence from COVID-19 in Uganda

Gewei Cao, Lukas Kornher and Clara Brandi

Seeing disparity: Marketization and perceived inequality in North Korea

Yongshin Cho and Taekbin Kim

The sound of silence: the politics of virtual water policies

Dik Roth and Jeroen Warner

Ethnic diversity and voting behavior at scale: Evidence from Uganda

Samuel S. Bird and Aleksandr Michuda

Unsustainable global freshwater consumption driven by economic growth

Vito Frontuto, Tommaso Felici, Silvana Dalmazzone, Benedetta Falsetti, Rosaria Ignaccolo, Francesco Laio and Marco Maria Bagliani

Electing governors: complexities of institutional design in Latin America’s unitary countries

Kent Eaton

Coping (more or less) with health shocks: A longitudinal perspective on financial protection from Nepal

Vishnu Prasad Sapkota and O’Donnell, Owen

The effects of civil war and forced migration on intimate partner violence among Syrian refugee women in Jordan

Merve Betül Gökçe and Murat Kırdar

Urban shrinkage and its drivers: time-series clustering and a panel model of Chinese cities

Fengdi Ma and Heeyeun Yoon

Membership in farmers’ organizations and intention to innovate: A mixed random utility and behavioral approach

Luca Mulazzani, Simone Piras, Claudia Giordano, Atsede Ghidey Alemayehu, Carla Barlagne, Ali Chebil, Chokri Thabet, Faten Khamassi, Johnny Mugisha, Josephine Kisakye, Evans Ligare Chimoita, Sophia Ngala, Dismas Lyegendili Mwaseba, Noureddine Mokhtari and Marco Setti

Taxing the wealthy in Haiti: Evidence from a conjoint experiment on property tax preferences

Ana Isabel López García and Sarah Berens

Security fosters generosity: Social security protection and charitable giving

Lin Lin, Min He and Wenkai Sun

Which countries does the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) talk about when it talks about international development?

Simone Dietrich, Alice Iannantuoni and Matthew S. Winters

Volume 195, issue C, 2025

Estimating the relationship between prolonged weather variability and accelerated marriage in Bangladesh

Livia Elisa Ortensi, Francesca Tosi and Rosella Rettaroli

The origins of dual malapportionment: Long-run evidence from Argentina

Victoria Paniagua and Joan Ricart-Huguet

Employment without empowerment: Low-wage manufacturing and intimate partner violence in Nicaragua, 1998–2012

Louise Grogan

Sanitation marketing in Nigeria

Laura Abramovsky, Nneka Akwunwa, Britta Augsburg, Ephraim Danladi, Erik Harvey, Emmanuel Iorkumbur, Julia Loh, Melanie Lührmann, Abdulazeez Musa, Ada Oko-Williams, Harriet Olorenshaw, Francisco Oteiza, Juan Pablo Rud and Kyla Smith

Trajectories of labour market transitions in the Indian economy

Rosa Abraham and Surbhi Kesar

The Jesuit expulsion: A double-edged sword for state authority in New Spain

Francisco Garfias and Emily A. Sellars

Women’s rights and the gender migration gap

Jerg Gutmann, Léa Marchal and Betül Simsek

Tracking Chinese aid through China Customs

Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian Leue, Felix Turbanisch and Feicheng Wang

Who is asking and how? Effects of survey mode and enumerator gender on measuring women’s life experience

Aditi Kadam, Ellen B. McCullough, Tamara McGavock and Nicholas Magnan

How much do norms matter for quantity and quality of children?

Zainab Iftikhar

Education and ethnic intermarriage: evidence from higher education expansion in Indonesia

Antonio Di Paolo and Khalifany-Ash Shidiqi

The price of war: A cross-country analysis on the conflict-growth nexus

A. Crippa, d’Agostino, G., J.P. Dunne and Luca Pieroni

Local context and mobilization in poor communities: Lessons from Kenya, Malawi and Zambia

Prisca Jöst and Ellen Lust

Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya

Eric M. Kioko and Winnie Changwony

Legislative responsiveness, urban growth, and popular mobilization: Evidence from Algeria

Jérémie Langlois and Marwa Shalaby

Varieties of Chinese capital in African agriculture: A bounded improvisation analysis

Yuezhou Yang

Production network disruption: Evidence from the civil-conflict in Ethiopia

Yohannes Ayele and Habtamu Edjigu

Retraction Notice to “Optimizing sports development: Identifying and prioritizing key indicators for professional and competitive sports” [World Dev. 180 (2024) 106651]

Fengyingna,, Xu Tingyu, S. Mohammad Sajadi, Sh. Baghaie and R. Rezaei

Reshaping Migrant-Native Health Disparities: evidence from the hukou reform in China

Chengxu He, Yinhe Liang and Gefei Wang

The role of green and non-green relatedness in the development of new green specialisations in Argentinean provinces

Andrea Belmartino

Meteorological disasters and labor allocation in rural China: A gendered perspective

Hao Feng, Jie Liang and Zhen Yan

Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?

Karl Wienhold and Peter W. Roberts

The last hurdle? Unyielding motherhood effects in the context of declining gender inequality in Latin America

Mariana Marchionni and Julián Pedrazzi

Effects of recurrent rainfall shocks on poverty and income distribution in rural Ecuador

Maria Cristhina Llerena Pinto, Alisher Mirzabaev and Matin Qaim

Extraordinary African cities? Zipf’s law and the emerging African system of cities☆

Camilo Gomez Osorio and Vlad Mykhnenko

“Dream brokers” and the moral economy of frontier investments

Yann le Polain de Waroux and Angela Kronenburg García

A socio-legal perspective on land market informality and accountability in urban land governance

Eric Hoddy, Simon Halliday, Jonathan Ensor, Amelia Macome, Christine Wamsler and Emily Boyd

Rice, resilience, and relationships: Unpacking the intangible sources of resilience in Southeast Asian heritage ricescapes

Laurence L. Delina, Kim-Pong Tam, Sanny D. Afable, Ivee Fuerzas, Wiwik Dharmiasih and Albert Salamanca

Settlement, inequality and wellbeing: Settled social structures and the creation of inequality and low life satisfaction in Northwest Cambodia

Jie Zhuo, Nicholas Harrigan, Ariane Utomo, Van Touch, Caitlin Finlayson, Andrew McGregor, Katharine McKinnon and Brian Cook

Customary courts, state institutions, or opting out: Patterns of forum pluralism in three African countries

Patricia Funjika and Lauren Honig

Three-generation educational mobility in six African countries: The role of grandparents

Giovanni Razzu and Ayago Wambile

Long-lasting consequences of being targeted

Thang Dang

International student mobility and poverty reduction: A qualitative study of the mechanisms of systemic change

Maia Chankseliani, Joonghyun Kwak, Natalya Hanley, Ahmad Akkad, Mercedes Crisostomo and Zhe Wang

The main global cultural differences today evolved from environment-related historical agricultural patterns

Michael Minkov, Plamen Akaliyski and Anneli Kaasa

Small policy changes can accelerate the adoption of improved on-farm storage among smallholder farmers

Michael Brander, Zewdu Abro, Menale Kassie, Wolfgang Mittmann, Lukas Stiefel and Matthias Huss

Scholar-activism in agrarian and development studies and practice

Saturnino M. Borras and Jennifer C. Franco

Beyond the individual: global socioeconomic, cultural, and religious contexts of male-perpetrated intimate partner violence

Wolfgang Messner

How natural disaster shocks to agriculture affect health care use and expenditure

Hung-Hao Chang and Chad D. Meyerhoefer

Can economic development and forest conservation coexist? Revisiting growth and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros and Ariaster Baumgratz Chimeli

Clientelism and programmatic redistribution: Evidence from a conjoint survey experiment in Brazil

Mogens K. Justesen, Sigrid Koob and Sina Smid

The sand curse: sand mining, environmental degradation and social conflicts in The Gambia

Luqman Saka

The impact of artificial intelligence on the energy transition: evidence from Chinese cities

Juan Xu, Yu Chen, Nan Yang and Shuai Shao

Heterogeneous impact of digital economy on employment quality of female migrant workers in an emerging economy: Evidence from China

Guiling Liu, Ruifeng Liu, Mengling Tian, Jian Wang and Hengyun Ma

The role of intermediaries in the implementation of sustainability standards. A case study of buyer-driven Rainforest Alliance certification in the Indonesian cocoa sector

Charline Depoorter, Janne Bemelmans and Axel Marx

Retraction notice to “Weather shocks and agricultural commercialization in colonial tropical Africa: Did cash crops alleviate social distress?”. [World Dev. 94 (2017) 346-365]

Kostadis J. Papaioannou and Michiel de Haas

Retraction notice to “Corrigendum to “Weather Shocks and Agricultural Commercialization in Colonial Tropical Africa: Did Export Crops Alleviate Social Distress?” [World Dev. 94 (2017) 346–365]” [World Dev. 104 (2018) 418]

Kostadis J. Papaioannou and Michiel de Haas

Deliberating towards development: A framework for co-constructing policies with people in poverty

Agathe Osinski, Olivier De Schutter and Xavier Godinot

Age structure and democratic development: the nonlinear and conditional role of youth bulges

Yao Lu and Zhirui Luo

Virtuous outcomes of instrumental intentions? The case of Uruguay’s 1996 constitutional reform

Germán Bidegain and Felipe Carozzi

From “just” energy to energy justice? Imaginaries of fair wind power in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico

Adolfo Mejía-Montero

Does cellphone banking change lives? Fintech, and poverty in Kenya

Derick T. Adu and Valentina Hartarska

Becoming a friend of the foe: The evolving perspectives on the ‘cohabitation’ strategies of large-scale and artisanal and small-scale mining operations

George Ofosu and Francis Arthur-Holmes

Foreign aid in a divided country: Subnational aid allocations in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zdeněk Opršal, Tereza Nováková, Jaromír Harmáček, Jiří Pánek and Boris Avdić

Corrigendum to ‘‘Imposing innovation: How ‘innovation speak’ maintains postcolonial exclusion in Peru”. [World Dev. 189 (2025) 106914]

Andrea Jimenez, Mario Pansera and Samer Abdelnour

Corrigendum to “Does the homicide resource curse exist? Evidence in selected countries” [World Dev. 193 (2025) 107057]

Armand Totouom

Skill regimes and rural industrial transformation in China: A case study of textile industry in Wujin County from 1949 to 2015

Shaohua Zhan and Yihong Jin

Sectoral effects of development aid on post-war violence: spatially disaggregated evidence from the Great Lakes region

Lucas Kori Leonhard

Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world

Gunther Maier

Indicators shaping urban greenspace spatial performance in China: A systematic review of the literature

Xi Peng, Yunfeng Jin, Cynthia Girling and Shaocheng Wu

Understanding and addressing “Benevolent Indignities”: Unintentional violations of human dignity by well-meaning international actors

Paul Clayton Perrin

Green industrial policy under financial constraints: Insights from India’s state-led decarbonization

Mathias Larsen

Devolution and economic resilience in Nepal

Raj Kharel and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose