World Development

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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 Alejandra 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 Camille 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

Volume 189, issue C, 2025

Foreign aid volatility and institutional development

Alice Iannantuoni

Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]

Yue Zhao and Sarah Rogers

Vernacular Modernity: The politics of the Project-Affected people in rural western India

Vikramaditya Thakur

Corrigendum to “Does household electrification empower rural boys and girls alike? Evidence from Brazil” [World Dev. 186 (2025) 106788]

Yeonbin Yang

Imposing innovation: How ‘innovation speak’ maintains postcolonial exclusion in Peru

Andrea Jimenez, Mario Pansera and Samer Abdelnour

After war ends: Aid paradigms and post-conflict preferences

Pamina Firchow, Julianne Funk and Roger Mac Ginty

Impact of civil conflict on household energy choices: Implications for the clean energy transition

Mukti Nath Subedi, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq and Lin Zhang

The dynamics of disappearing routine jobs in Chile: An analysis of the link between deroutinisation and informality

Isaure Delaporte and Werner Peña

When the State steps down: Reduced police surveillance and gang-related deaths in Brazil

André Mancha

The global distribution of authorship in economics journals

Ernest Aigner, Jacob Greenspon and Dani Rodrik

Disaster and political trust: Evidence from the 2017 Mexico city earthquake

Margaret H. Frost, SangEun Kim, Carlos Scartascini, Paula Zamora and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

Trust, hope, and collective action in fragile political settings: A qualitative comparative analysis of water user groups in Tunisia

Sophie Bhalla, Dustin Garrick and Constance L. McDermott

A social network analysis of family and community conflicts in post-civil war Mozambique

Victor Igreja, Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues and Alexandre Santos Cristino

Curse of low-skilled emigration on human capital formation: Evidence from the migration surge of the 2000s

Sam Hak Kan Tang, Yichen Wang and Yong Wang

The transfer of employment structure: Export expansion and the rise of lower-middle-skill occupations in China

Weishan Tan, Guangjun Shen and Guangsu Zhou

Climate change, collective shocks, and intra-community cooperation: Evidence from a public good experiment with farmers and pastoralists

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

From development to dependency in Latin America. A critical stance on Argentina’s developmentalist experiences

Mariano Féliz

Volume 188, issue C, 2025

Subnational democracy, protest, and welfare

Julia Smith Coyoli and Candelaria Garay

The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level

Aubin Vignoboul

Rewarding performance in disaster response: Evidence from local governments in Latin America

Felipe Livert, Julie Anne Weaver and Paola Bordón

Weather shocks and resilience to food insecurity: Exploring the role of gender and kinship norms

Immacolata Ranucci, Donato Romano and Luca Tiberti

Inclusion and social contracts in Tunisia: Navigating the complexities of political and socio-economic transformation

Erin McCandless

Global Distributions of Capital and Labor Incomes

Marco Ranaldi

Migration and nutrition of the left behind: Evidence from Ghana

Adrien Gosselin-Pali

Inequality and its strain on local Governments: Do external interventions Help?

Krister P. Andersson, Nathan J. Cook, Mark A. Trautmann and Patricio Valdivieso

Outward and upward construction: A 3D analysis of the global building stock

Thomas Esch, Klaus Deininger, Remi Jedwab and Daniela Palacios-Lopez

Detecting Corruption: Evidence from a World Bank project in Kenya

Jean Ensminger and Jetson Leder-Luis

Out of the Frying Pan: Weather shocks and internal migration in Brazil

Claire Brunel and Maggie Y. Liu

Cultural taboos and misinformation about menstrual health management in rural Bangladesh

Silvia Castro and Kristina Czura

Drivers of conflict over customary land in the Middle Drâa Valley of Morocco

Luis Miguel Silva-Novoa Sánchez, Janpeter Schilling, Lisa Bossenbroek, Rachid Ezzayyat and Elisabeth Berger

The roads towards complex water governance: The Colombian case study

Tiziano Distefano, Adrián Saldarriaga Isaza, G.S. Morlin, V. Posada Carmona, C.I. Villegas Palacio and S. Arango-Aramburo

Decolonizing development economics: A critique of the late neoclassical reason

Yahya M. Madra, Bengi Akbulut and Fikret Adaman

Gender and development in the agrarian south

Lyn Ossome

Crafting work and workspaces: A qualitative study of the meaning of work for women in the weaving sector in Kashmir

Humaira Chowdhury and Kamini Gupta

Wages and the division between mental and manual labor in China

Bolun Zhang and Yimang Zhou

Mass editing, mass writing: Experiments in collective literary production from Yan’an to the Great Leap forward

Benjamin Kindler

Political competition, fiscal policy, and economic performance in techno-creative places

Amitrajeet Batabyal, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

Urbanising the Villages: Three modes of village incorporation and the implications for structural transition in India’s “Chinese-style” special economic zones (SEZs)

Charlotte Goodburn

The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development

Remi Jedwab, Elena Ianchovichina and Federico Haslop

Fostering collective subjectivities: Technologies of the self and resistance in Colombian community forest initiatives

Darío Gerardo Zambrano-Cortés, Jelle Behagel and Georg Winkel

Green with envy? The effects of inequality and equity within and across social groups on greenhouse gas emissions, 1990–2020

Indra de Soysa

Can social protection contribute to social connectedness in contexts of forced displacement and crisis? Lessons from Jordan’s labelled cash transfer for education

Bassam Abu Hamad, Nicola Jones, Shoroq Abuhamad, Sarah Baird and Erin Oakley

Adapting the Women’s empowerment in nutrition index: Lessons from Kenya

Erin Lentz, Nathan Jensen, Watson Lepariyo, Sudha Narayanan and Elizabeth Bageant

Boosting the adoption of sustainable land-use systems for achieving Colombian land-based climate action and peacebuilding goals

Lisset Pérez-Marulanda, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen and Augusto Castro-Nunez

The labour market effects of cash transfers to the unemployed: Evidence from South Africa

Haroon Bhorat and Timothy Köhler

What explains the uneven uptake of forest certification at the global level? New evidence from a panel-data analysis

Matthias Bösch

Small-scale gold miners’ preferences on formalization: First steps toward sustainable supply chains in Colombia

María Alejandra Velez, Ximena Rueda, Juan Pablo Henao, Dayron Monroy, Danny Tobin, Jorge Maldonado and Alexander Pfaff

Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories

Wannes Slosse, Jean Paul Benavides, Boris Branisa, Jeroen Buysse, D’Haese, Marijke, Carlos Eduardo Quezada Lambertín and Koen Schoors

Explaining ethno-regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Elliott Green

Exploring the determinants of household water treatment in Kabul: A COM-B model perspective in a low-income context

Mohammad Daud Hamidi, Marco Haenssgen and H.Chris Greenwell

The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador

Molly Lipscomb, Cesar Montalvo and Brendan Novak

Relaxation of fertility policy and firm’s short-term hiring of female employees: Evidence from China

Qian Huang and Ziang Fan

The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries

Yacouba Coulibaly

Targeting coethnic voters, elites, or both? Evidence from aid allocation in Malawi

Dongil Lee

Asymmetric sovereign risk: Implications for climate change preparation

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Jorge Uribe and Oscar Valencia

On the evolution of the wage premium for party membership in China

Alessia Amighini, Weidi Fang and Martin Zagler

The cousin marriage tradition and performance of businesses during the economic crises in Nigeria

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Tolu Olarewaju

Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India

Yuko Mori, R. Manjula, D. Rajasekhar, Jun Goto and Takashi Kurosaki

Offsetting slow violence: Conservation, displacement and (Im)mobility at the anti-subversive capital of Colombia

Juan Felipe Riaño-Landazabal

Contestation, conflict and claims-making around the Lake Turkana Wind Power windfarm, northern Kenya

Jeremy Lind and Daniel Salau Rogei

On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives

Wenyuan Hua

Subway and entrepreneurship

Hua Cheng, Runliang Li, Kai Liu and Fucheng Wei

When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries

David K. Evans, Susannah Hares, Gabriela Smarrelli and Dongyi Wu

Immigration and labour productivity: A comparative effect

Blaise Gnimassoun

Robot and crime: Evidence from China

Guanfu Fang and Liya Miao

Unraveling financial exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: A gender perspective in Latin American countries

Marie-Anne Lorain, Jesús Barreal Pernas, Gil Jannes, Elena Urquía Grande, Pilar López Sánchez and Javier Sierra