World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 194, issue C, 2025

What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions

Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans-Morse, Simeon Nichter and Arne Holverscheid

Taking off or putting on shoes?: Barefoot doctors, mental-manual labor, and the health revolution in Mao’s China

Xiaoping Fang

Decarbonisation and specialisation downgrading: The double harm of GVC integration

Giovanni Dosi, Federico Riccio and Maria Enrica Virgillito

Do government accountability and responsiveness enhance support for property taxes? Experimental evidence from China

Xiaobo Lü, Lily L. Tsai, Ping Zhang and Minh Trinh

Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Mhamed Ben Salah and Kritika Saxena

Bad signals? Foreign aid and tax morale across Sub-Saharan Africa

Alessandro Belmonte, Vincenzo Bove and Jessica Di Salvatore

Boundary-making, tenure insecurity, and conflict: regional dynamics of land tenure change and commodification in East Africa’s pastoralist rangelands

James Drew and Per Knutsson

Post-colonial trends of income inequality: Evidence from the overseas departments of France

Yajna Govind

Marx meets Weber: The dissolution of communes and the rise of religious public goods in China

Shukang Xiao and Pinghan Liang

Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China

Shang Xu, Yue Wang and Hongliang Zhang

Financial inclusion along the Rural-Urban Continuum: Empirical evidence from a decomposition analysis in Kenya between 2012 and 2021

Constantin Johnen, Anna Mader, Albert Nsengumuremyi and Oliver Mußhoff

Green credit and firms’ emission reduction performance: Evidence from China

Wen-Quan Hu and Jiewei Fang

Transnational capital and the scramble for land and profit: financialization, agrarian development, and resource conflict in Africa

Surulola Eke, J. Andrew Grant, Evelyn Mayanja and Nathan Andrews

Volume 193, issue C, 2025

Oil revenues and labor market reforms

Markus Brueckner, Gabriele Ciminelli and Norman Loayza

From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa

Roberto Cantoni, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Elia Apostolopoulou, Julien-François Gerber, Patrick Bond and Joan Martinez-Alier

Estimating the spillover economic effects of foreign conflict shocks: Evidence from Boko Haram

Remi Jedwab, Brian Blankespoor, Takaaki Masaki and Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán

Solar power play: Uncovering political capture in distributing electricity access

Rafia Zaman and Stefan Borsky

Sterilizations and women health in India

Maëlys De La Rupelle and Christelle Dumas

Who Benefits the Most from Micro-Credit? Micro-Level Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Emmanuel O. James, Dimitrios Bakas, Piers Thompson and John Ebireri

Effects of information about irregular migration on transit community attitudes towards migrants

Arne Wiig, Ivar Kolstad, Leander Kandilige and Cathrine Talleraas

Women’s labour force participation in developing countries: The impact of gendered landownership rights

Ece Kocabıçak and Yasemin Dildar

Catalyzing digital and environmental transformations by institutions in a diverse socio-economic world

Ramona Ţigănaşu, Alexandru Bănică and Pui Hang Wong

Earthquake severity and child nutrition: The Haiti 2010 earthquake

Hilde Orderud

Performance measurability, local government’s incentives, and regional air pollution reduction

Jianfu Shen, Daoju Peng, Eddie C.M. Hui and Kwok Yuen Fan

Does the homicide resource curse exist? Evidence in selected countries

Armand Totouom

Contentious cities? Urban growth and electoral violence in Africa

Emma Elfversson

Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries

Federica Cappelli

Corrigendum to “Sex ratio and fertility preferences in India: A longitudinal analysis” [World Dev. 192 (2025) 107046]

Matthieu Clément, Pierre Levasseur and Suneha Seetahul

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 Madsen and Miethy Zaman