World Development

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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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

Volume 206, issue C, 2026

The environmental smile curve: input-output evidence on the pollution haven hypothesis

Giovanni Dosi, Federico Riccio and Maria Enrica Virgillito

The impact of the Tigray war on child education and labor in Ethiopia

Yemareshet Hailu Demeke and Dainn Wie

The two sides of migration in Central America: aggregate and distributional impacts in Guatemala

Luis Escalante, Emerta Aragie and Manuel Hernandez

No need to wait for reporting − Examining learning from results-based management practices in development cooperation

Janet Vähämäki, Annika Hilgert, Kathrin Wolf and Martin Bruder

Long panel studies of small-scale rural societies in the Global South: What is their value, why are they rare, and suggestions to make them happen

Jonathan Bauchet, Ricardo Godoy, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Asher Y. Rosinger, Susan Tanner and Eduardo A. Undurraga

FDI and coal lock-in: The Global South’s development dilemma

Xinya Hao, Lin Zhang and Huanhuan Zheng

Unintended consequences of externally aided projects on fiscal transfers: a subnational study of India

Vadlamannati Krishna Chaitanya and Roberto Iacono

Corporate governance in microfinance institutions: A systematic review of theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and empirical evidence

Giovanni Cardillo, Alessandra Cavallo and Giuseppe Torluccio

The mobilization curse? How oil wealth affects the composition of resistance episodes

Thea Johansen and Charles Butcher

Is there a business case for banks to increase lending to women and women-led firms? Cross-country evidence on financial performance

Christoph Sommer

Informal institutions and global trade: Real effects of the elusive

Eiji Fujii

Patrilocal residence and young women’s status: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Deborah S. DeGraff and Kone A.P. Siddhisena

The impact of trade integration on the business cycles synchronization in West African Countries: Implications for the AfCFTA

Ahmed Racine Yago, Samba Diop, Cheikh Tidiane Ndiaye and Simplice Asongu

Brazil’s pacifying police units revisited: A failed democratic policing project and lessons for institutional reforms

Julia Maia Goldani and Mariana Mota Prado

Diamonds aren’t forever: manufactured substitutes, irreversible substitution, and the new resource curse

Dwayne Woods

The disconnects between trade policy and the rhetoric of inclusive trade December 2025

Amrita Saha, Mattia Di Ubaldo, Amrita Bahri and L. Alan Winters

Heat after the Harvest: Farmer Choices and Perceptions of Crop Residue Burning in Thailand

Witsanu Attavanich, Adrian Lopes, Sailesh Tiwari and Ajalavat Viriyavipart

Not gone with the wind: Long-run impact of herbicidal warfare in Vietnam

Gaku Ito, Duc Tran and Yuichiro Yoshida

Here comes the rain: Precipitation shocks and economic outcomes in Ecuador

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas and Andrey Ramos

EU climate aid and trade interests: strategy or byproduct of closer ties?

Alexandra Bögner and Gabriele Spilker

Volume 205, issue C, 2026

Urban community-led total sanitation: opportunities, barriers and lessons from Nanded, India

Lyla Mehta, Ruth Kennedy-Walker, Apeksha Vohra, Tanvi Bhatkal, Pallavi Harshe, Veena Jadhav and Seema Kulkarni

Inequality and social unrest in India

Mathieu Couttenier, Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti and Lore Vandewalle

Trade openness, global value chain integration and firms’ adoption of environment-friendly strategies

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Fulvio Castellacci, Keun Lee and Matthias Staessens

Toward a clean drinking water act for India: A review of drinking water quality standards

Atul Singh, Aditya Shrinivas, Anil Suraj and Gopal Naik

Development and interdisciplinarity: additional insights on the ‘economics silo’

Matthias Aistleitner

Catalysts for third-country market entry: The role of preferential trade agreements

Qiugu He and Xuan Luo

Land tenure conflicts in Ghana and Zimbabwe: An institutional perspective

Abel Gwaindepi and Helen Akolgo-Azupogo

Feeding the accelerator: A metabolic historical analysis of the US food regime

Stefano Menegat

Public support for military conservation: Understanding public opinion to the ‘war on poachers’ in three countries

Lauren Yehle, Aksel Sundström, Patrik Michaelsen and Sverker C. Jagers

Measuring forest-related depth in preferential trade agreements: the forest provisions depth index

Michelle Márcia Viana Martins, Alan Leal and Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar