World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 192, issue C, 2025

The impact of a sudden asylum seeker influx on host attitudes: Quasi-experimental evidence from South Korea

Seonho Shin

Migrant capital: The role of internal migrants in mediating agrarian-industrial transformation in Northern India

Soumya Mishra

Beyond urban bias? Urban-rural inequalities and popular protest in Africa

Frank-Borge Wietzke

Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Party political campaigning and the illegal extraction of gold in Ghana

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Lars Buur and Paul Stacey

Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods

Damilola Agbalajobi, Mohammed S. Awal, Taibat Lawanson and Jeffrey W. Paller

Land acquisition and economic development: A decolonised view

Amit Bhaduri and Kaustav Banerjee

What is driving reliance on shared sanitation in urban informal settlements? Challenges and pathways for improvement

Lauren Sprouse, Sarah Lebu, Jackqueline Nguyen, Chimdi Muoghalu, Swaib Semiyaga and Musa Manga

A machine learning approach to assessing multidimensional poverty and targeting assistance among forcibly displaced populations

Angela C. Lyons, Alejandro Montoya Castano, Josephine Kass-Hanna, Yifang Zhang and Aiman Soliman

The curse of television: Evidence from nutritional outcomes in rural China

Luchen Huang, Yanjun Ren, Omid Zamani and Jens-Peter Loy

Ostromian institutions and violence: Community forestry and Nepal’s civil war

Nathan J. Cook, Birendra K. Karna, Jessica Steinberg and Gustavo Torrens

Why elites sometimes undo their own constitutional privileges

Michael Albertus, Victor Menaldo and Jorge Rojas-Vallejos

Nonconventional Logistics: Rebellion, Resources and Rationalities in eastern Congo

Christoph N. Vogel

Smart carbon–neutral development: Embracing complexity with multi-level governance and convolution

Nicos Komninos and Anastasia Panori

‘This country is free, but for the few’: Informal labour, class politics, and urban order in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Michaela Collord and Sabatho Nyamsenda

“Mitti se Sona [Gold from Dirt]?”: Solar India and colonial modernity in Agropastoral Rajasthan

Shayan Shokrgozar and Siddharth Sareen

Displacement Ecologies: An alternative conceptual framework for navigating how to reorient to a changing world

Michaela Korodimou and Thomas F. Thornton

Evaluating eurozone financial assistance collaboration: A case study

Kari Korhonen, Marla Hinkenhuis, Olga Francová, Dušan Kovačević and John Goossen

You go, I stay: intrahousehold evacuation behavior upon a disaster

Elias Ndatabaye Maombi, Elie Lunanga, Nik Stoop and Marijke Verpoorten

Navigating the shadows: Exploring the interaction between social progress and the shadow economy

Aziz N. Berdiev and James W. Saunoris

How patron-client relations influence fisheries co-management: A case study of Bangladesh

Rehnuma Ferdous and Fiona Nunan

Sex ratio and fertility preferences in India: A longitudinal analysis

Matthieu Clément, Pierre Levasseur and Suneha Seetahul

Gold mining, conflict, and post-war governmentality in Côte d’Ivoire

Jeremy Allouche

Blood, education and economic Development: How the 19th century wars in Latin America Foiled its economic development

Jakob B. Madsen and Miethy Zaman

Volume 191, issue C, 2025

Non-state armed actors, war economies and postwar violence – Examining the connections

Sabine Kurtenbach, Angelika Rettberg, Gabriel Rosero and José Salguero

Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis

Itzel De Haro

From missing brothers to educated sisters: The effects of victimization during the Rwandan genocide

Thomas Gautier

Should the market decide where the waste goes? Municipal bidding war between private landfills in Santiago de Chile

N. Valenzuela-Levi, N. Gálvez Ramírez and J. Ponce-Méndez

The Green Revolution is not always bloodless: Agricultural modernization and rural conflict in Brazil

David Samuels and Henry Thomson

India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s

R Nagaraj

Contracts and effective Inter-Organizational Collaboration: The case of the Galápagos Wind partnership

Dario Piselli and Liliana B. Andonova

Illicit animal trade and infectious diseases

Cosimo Beverelli and Rohit Ticku

Place-based policies, pro-competitive effects, and allocative efficiency: Evidence from China’s economic zones

Wenyi Lyu, Jian Yang and Leng Yu

Trading off inclusion, value, and scale within smallholder targeted value chains

Daniel Hill, Daniel Gregg and Derek Baker

Greening agriculture for rural development

Edward Barbier

The structural transformation of transition economies

Calumn Hamilton and Gaaitzen J. de Vries

Who’s governing the market? bringing the individual back into the study of the developmental state

Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Adam William Chalmers and Robert H. Wade

Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya

Gabriele Restelli

Crimes of the current: Natural disasters and crime in Kenya

Jaslin Kalsi, Robert Mackay, Astghik Mavisakalyan and Yashar Tarverdi

Non-communicable diseases: Laws, legislation, and reforms as pathways towards managing non-communicable diseases in Africa

Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin and Ushotanefe Useh

Small businesses and new adaptation capacities in Georgia and Kazakhstan

Susanne Fehlings, Hasan H. Karrar and Philippe Rudaz

Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade

Philip Arestis and Peter Phelps

A multidimensional perspective of digitization in Romanian public institutions

Valerică Greavu-Şerban, Alexandra Gheorghiu and Cosmin Ungureanu

Corrigendum to “Climate change, collective shocks, and intra-community cooperation: Evidence from a public good experiment with farmers and pastoralists” [World Dev. 189 (2025) 106941]

Alexandra Krendelsberger, Francisco Alpizar, Mame Mor Anta Syll and Han van Dijk

Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa

Florian Léon

Intersectionality matters: An analysis of women’s empowerment among livestock holders in Nepal, Senegal and Uganda

Renata Serra, Sarah McKune, Nargiza Ludgate, Nitya Singh, Kabita Devkota, Mouhamed Fall, Gordon Obin, Alioune Touré, Chhavi Tiwari and Sandra Russo

Legislative decentralization and regulatory dilution: Evidence from air pollution control in China

Cong Zhang, Ran Tao and Fubing Su

Unlocking the transformative potential of multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: Assessing perceived effectiveness and contributions to systemic change

Maximilian S.T. Wanner and Matilda Miljand

Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness

Daniel E. Esser and Heiner Janus

Volume 190, issue C, 2025

Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot

Nikita Sud

The BRI in Pakistan’s power sector: From initial success to structural challenges

Muhammad Tayyab Safdar

Corrigendum to “Violent conflicts and education: The LRA insurgency in Northern Uganda revisited” [World Develop. 186 (2025) 106822]

Douglas Kazibwe

Gender differences in the adequacy of poverty-targeted food assistance programs

Jackson Schneider and O’Connell, Stephen D.

Women’s work, never done, now paid: Assessing Tamil Nadu’s Urimai Thogai scheme

Prabha Kotiswaran

From displacement to statehood: The ecological and political metamorphosis of Accompong marronage

Marie Widengård

How does food market respond to natural disaster Shocks? Evidence from the cabbage wholesale market

Yi-Ju Su, Pei-An Liao and Hung-Hao Chang

Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa

Ana Paula De la O Campos, Yeshwas Admasu, Katia Covarrubias, Benjamin Kaylor Davis and Ana Maria Díaz Gonzalez

Patronage networks and multitasking incentives: Evidence from local officials’ responses to public crises in China’s centralized bureaucracy

Bo Feng, Bei Lu, Zhen Wang and Dandan Yu

How do banks respond to violence?

Whelsy Boungou, Mahdi Fawaz and Alhonita Yatié

Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali

Maria Laura Alzua, Juan-Camilo Cardenas and Habiba Djebbari

Compound exposure: Climate change, vulnerability and the energy-extractives nexus in the Pacific

Nicholas Bainton, Emilia E. Skrzypek and Éléonore Lèbre

Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities

Howard Jo, Pradeep Narayanan, Sowmyaa Bharadwaj and Mayank Sinha

Corrigendum to “Shine a (night)light: Decentralization and economic development in Burkina Faso” [World Dev. 187(2025) 106851]

Olivier B. Bargain, Rose Vincent and Emilie Caldeira

Taking it easy: Disrupting development, justice and reparations through black in-bodiment and creative expression in the USA

Xander Creed, Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and (Kelsey) Love, SLiNK

Have ‘life plans’ delivered on their transformative aspirations for Indigenous empowerment through conservation? Evidence from four watersheds in the Peruvian Amazon

Ashwin Ravikumar and Alonso Pérez Ojeda del Arco

Remittances, sanitation and child malnutrition in middle-income countries: A case study from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam

Trung Thanh Nguyen, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Manh Hung Do, Dil Rahut and Duy Linh Nguyen

Two decades of tax-benefit reforms in Ecuador: How much have they contributed to poverty and inequality reduction?

H. Xavier Jara, Lourdes Montesdeoca, María Gabriela Colmenarez and Lorena Moreno