World Development

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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Volume 208, issue C, 2026

Corrigendum to “Resource scarcity and cooperation: Evidence from a gravity irrigation system in China” [World Develop. 135 (2020) 105035]

Zihan Nie, Xiaojun Yang and Qin Tu

Can community policing improve police-community relations in a low-income country setting?

Robert A. Blair, Guy Grossman and Anna M. Wilke

Scarred by nature: How early exposure to natural disasters shapes risk attitudes

Despina Gavresi and Andreas Sintos

Cash transfers and time use within the household: an analysis of the effect of Familias en Acción

Edgar Marcillo-Yepez, Maira Emy Reimão, Conner Mullally and Pilar Useche

The gender dimension of refugees’ integration in the labor market

Tobias Müller, Pia Pannatier and Martina Viarengo

Rentier resource nationalism and overseas investment by multinational corporations: the impact of resource value

Liuguo Shao and Zhouyi Zhang

How do common pool natural resources relate to rural income, poverty and inequality? A multi-country assessment

Anamika Das, Sharachchandra Lele, Brian Robinson, Geoff Wells, Suman Attiwilli, Mahesh Poudyal, Kate S. Chreckenberg, Tim Daw and Siddappa Setty

Environmental foundations of human capital: Deforestation’s impact on early childhood health

Richard Damania, Luis Diego Herrera Garcia, Hyungju Henry Kim, Leonardo Viotti, Esha Zaveri, Stefanie Onder and Chrissie Pantoja

Why do eligible individuals fail to enrol for social assistance programmes? A systematic narrative review of factors affecting take-up

Mariona Tres Vilanova

Corrigendum to “Development and interdisciplinarity: additional insights on the ‘economics silo’” [World Dev. 205(2026) 107435]

Matthias Aistleitner

The development studies divide: fierce fault lines or fruitful frictions?

Arnim Scheidel

Heritage-sensitive interventions to support Indigenous peoples’ forest conservation: Evaluating an origin-label for highland produce in northern Thailand

Marco J. Haenssgen, Navaporn Sunanlikanon, Prasit Leepreecha, Mukdawan Sakboon, Putthida Kijdumnern, Giacomo Zanello, Daniele Asioli, Parichart Chawiwong, Pattarawadee Op-Ai, Inthanon Sutjathammawong, Phatsakorn Kiatsuntikun, Peter Petkoff, Anne Hertzog, Elizabeth Auclair and Ivo Vlaev

The politics of climate adaptation in Nepal: authority, knowledge, and resource inequality in multi-level governance

Suman Acharya

Weathering hard times with bushmeat: rural household coping under rainfall shocks

Prachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira and Martin Reinhardt Nielsen

Sowing discontent: Foreign land acquisitions and satisfaction with democracy in Africa

Kangwook Han

Aid and armed actors: Collaboration and aid delivery in the DRC

Haley Swedlund, Marie-Eve Desrosiers, Joshua Fawcett Weiner and Pierre Sosthène Kambidi

Locus of control, climate change adaptation and perception: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

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

Beyond the “supply chain” framing: Cattle ranching as a vanishing mediator of deforestation and dispossession in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon

Mairon G. Bastos Lima and Jesica López

Assessing the sensitivity of poverty to inequality: A method and an application to Brazil, 1981–2022

Florent Bresson

Hydropower development, resettlement, and urban water security: Evidence from Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam

Heather Randell, Peter Taylor Klein, Thais Tartalha and Thaise Constancio Temoteo

Enhancing financial inclusion measurements: A comparative analysis using unsupervised machine learning methods across Mexican municipalities

René Cabral, Salvador Ulises Cadena Espinoza and Jong-Min Kim

The skill premium across countries in the era of industrial robots and artificial intelligence

Marcos J. Ribeiro and Klaus Prettner

How does the availability of alternative coping strategies influence households’ reliance on charcoal as a coping strategy?

Protensia Hadunka and Vinicius Okada Da Silva

Corrigendum to “Locus of control, climate change adaptation and perception: Evidence from rural Ethiopia” [World Dev. 208 (2026) 107525]

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

Staying in power: how does political continuity shape debt?

Jaime Bonet-Morón, Jhorland Ayala-García and Jorge Guerra-España

From care-takers to breadwinners? Gendered livelihoods’ dynamics under climate change: Implications for resilient livelihood planning

Francis Dakyaga, Fuseini Waah Salifu, Samuel Z. Bonye and Emmauel K. Derbile

Where and how is money spent on international migration and refugees in World Bank operational projects?

David McKenzie, Charlotte Müller and Pablo Acosta

Yes to disarmament, yes to peace: Measuring the impact of Mexico city’s gun buyback initiative

Marco Méndez-Atienza and Aurora A. Ramírez-Álvarez

Trust beyond borders: the role of non-state actors in shaping immigration preferences

Annette Idler, Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Unraveling lithium dreams: Emergent imaginaries and discourses in the Altiplano’s new extractive frontier

Roger Merino, Tania Ramírez and Daniel Hernando

The ontological dimensions of coastal mangrove reserve conflicts——insights from China

Shuning Zhu, Annah Lake Zhu and Weiye Wang

The price of progress: Causal evidence on the health, economic, and gendered costs of construction-driven air pollution

Shaokang Xu, Yeyi Liu and Qiuyun Zhao

Volume 207, issue C, 2026

Distance, prospects, and migration to towns and cities

Joachim De Weerdt, Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur

No man’s land? The effect of forced displacement on forest cover change in Colombia

Emilio Leguízamo and Ana María Montoya

Employment aspirations of young agroindustry workers in Peru – Poverty, gender and role models

Monica Schuster and Miet Maertens

Coups d’état and the informal economy

Ablam Estel Apeti, Dorgyles C.M. Kouakou, Assi Okara and Kolotioloma I.H. Yéo

Is irregular migration responsive to recent German asylum policy adjustments?

Bernd Beber, Cara Ebert and Maximiliane Sievert

Corrigendum to “No need to wait for reporting – Examining learning from results-based management practices in development cooperation” [World Dev. 206 (2026) 107451]

Janet Vähämäki, Annika Hilgert, Kathrin Wolf and Martin Bruder

Beyond the aid model: innovating university-community partnerships in remote rural China

Xun Li, Luan Chen, Ye Long, Xianyu Hou and Jin Wang

Bridging the gap: how renewable energy development reduces urban-rural income inequality in China

Jing-Yue Liu, Quan Lei and Yue-Jun Zhang

The spatial allocation effects of central transfers: evidence from China

Wenbin Huang

Too complex to collaborate? Rethinking CSO–municipal relations for public service provision

Renzo de la Riva Agüero

Refugees, camps, and host communities: Evidence from Bangladesh’s humanitarian hosting system

Alvin Etang Ndip, Sandra V. Rozo, María José Urbina and Christina Wieser

The unexpected role of conditionality in shaping relational values: Insights from an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia

Brooke McWherter, Will Munger, Zhao Ma, Claudia Radel, Laura Zanotti, Jonathan Bauchet and Ricardo Godoy

Beyond urban–rural divides: A distributional analysis of spatial inequality in the WAEMU

Francis Andrianarison

Hospital allocation and politicians: Evidence from Malaysia

Kai Shen Lim

The politician, the press and the public: How politicians’ perceptions of the media shape UK aid allocations

Paul Clist and Martin Scott

Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana

Alex Yeandle and David Doyle

Enforcing discipline in China: Countering internal misinformation with public disclosure

Handi Li, Shengqiao Lin and Minh D. Trinh

Full-day school programs and higher education: Evidence from Peru

Vania Bitia Salas García, Germán Vega Acuña, Stefani Seminario Solano and Sinthia Morales Mendoza

When cash enters local markets: local economic spillover effects of cash transfers, remittances, and insurance

Constantin Johnen and Michael Ross Carter

Negotiating land, producing authority: hybrid rangeland governance on the pastoral Qinghai-Gansu Border, China

Palden Tsering

Can policy design build trust in local taxation? Experimental evidence of property taxation in Mexican municipalities

Aurora Echavarria

Growing global shipping costs increase population mortality in Africa

Yingnan Niu and Pengjun Zhao

Revolutionizing the underworld: Can the digital economy shrink the informal economy?

Zhike Lv, Wenqing Dai, Lei Han and Lingling Jiang

Partisan politics and sectoral policy in Africa’s agro-export commodity chains

Catherine Boone and Michael Mugisha

The contributions of community forests to rural prosperity in the United States

Reem Hajjar, Susan Charnley, Gregory E. Frey, Kathleen McGinley, John Schelhas and Frederick W. Cubbage

Development approaches for preventing violent extremism: A systematic review of the empirical evidence

Leanne M. Kelly, Greg Barton and Anthony Ware

Migration opportunities and human capital investments

Esther Gehrke

Identifying the types of government interventions that work in the sanitation sector

Britta Augsburg, Habiba Djebbari, Molly Lipscomb and Tetsushi Sonobe