World Development

1973 - 2022

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Volume 157, issue C, 2022

Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program

Liliana B. Andonova and Dario Piselli

Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison

Nouran Zenelabden and Johane Dikgang

Why New Zealand’s Indigenous reconciliation process has failed to empower Māori fishers: Distributional, procedural, and recognition-based injustices

Hekia Bodwitch, Andrew M. Song, Owen Temby, John Reid, Megan Bailey and Gordon M. Hickey

On the association between housing deprivation and urban size: Evidence from South Asia

Moisés Obaco, Nicola Pontarollo, Rodrigo Mendieta Muñoz and Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez

Prisoners of a distant past? Linguistic diversity and the time-depth of human settlement in Papua New Guinea

Jon Fraenkel and Colin Filer

Selective inclusion in cash transfer programs: Unintended consequences for social cohesion

Anne Della Guardia, Milli Lake and Pascale Schnitzer

IMF fairness: Calibrating the policies of the International Monetary Fund based on distributive justice

Adel Daoud, Anders Herlitz and S.V. Subramanian

The implications of aggregate measures of exposure to violence for the estimated impacts on individual risk preferences

Marc Rockmore and Christopher B. Barrett

Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal

Khushbu Mishra, Olga Kondratjeva and Gerald E. Shively

Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique

Luca Crudeli, Susanna Mancinelli, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Raul Pitoro

Autocracy and human capital

Eric C.C. Chang and Wen-Chin Wu

The politics of coproduction during Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’: Water, housing, and waste in comparative perspective

Geoff Goodwin, Patrick O'Hare, Miranda Sheild Johansson and Jonathan Alderman

Climate change, natural disasters, and institutional integrity

Ritika Khurana, Douglas Mugabe and Xiaoli L. Etienne

Institutional determinants of large land-based investments’ performance in Zambia: Does title enhance productivity and structural transformation?

Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger

Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil

Phoebe W. Ishak

An exploration of the association between fuel subsidies and fuel riots

Neil McCulloch, Davide Natalini, Naomi Hossain and Patricia Justino

Impact of natural disasters on the income distribution

Regina Pleninger

The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors

Guanfu Fang, Wei Li and Ying Zhu

It’s all about politics: Migration and resource conflicts in the global south

Charlotte Wiederkehr, Tobias Ide, Ralf Seppelt and Kathleen Hermans

The dynamics of income inequality in Africa: An empirical investigation on the role of macroeconomic and institutional forces

Michael E. Batuo, George Kararach and Issam Malki

The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017

Philip Barrett

Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy

Andrea Cattaneo, Anjali Adukia, David L. Brown, Luc Christiaensen, David K. Evans, Annie Haakenstad, Theresa McMenomy, Mark Partridge, Sara Vaz and Daniel J. Weiss

Local governance quality and law compliance: The case of Mozambican firms

Hanna Berkel, Christian Estmann and John Rand

Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Marinella Cirillo, Andrea Cattaneo, Meghan Miller and Ahmad Sadiddin

Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?

Dolores Agúndez, Sitou Lawali, Ali Mahamane, Ricardo Alía and Mario Soliño

“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution

Désirée Ruppen and Fritz Brugger

Contentious environmental governance in polluted gold mining geographies: The case of La Toma, Colombia

Irene Vélez-Torres and Diana Vanegas

What does equitable distribution mean in community forests?

Rachel S. Friedman, Kerrie A. Wilson, Jonathan R. Rhodes and Elizabeth A. Law

Governing the diverse forest: Polycentric climate governance in the Amazon

Fronika de Wit and João Mourato

How are institutions included in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects? Developing and testing a diagnostic approach on the World Bank’s Forest and Community project in Salta, Argentina

Louise Marie Busck-Lumholt, Esteve Corbera and Ole Mertz

Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean

Giorgos Kallis, Angelos Varvarousis and Panos Petridis

Impacts of applying for international labor migration before migration occurs

Yoshito Takasaki

Volume 156, issue C, 2022

Women’s political empowerment and economic growth

Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Valeriya Mechkova

Recovering from severe drought in the drylands of Ethiopia: Impact of Comprehensive Resilience Programming

Lisa C. Smith and Timothy R. Frankenberger

From fees to free: User fee removal, maternal health care utilization and child health in Zambia

Yohan Renard

Irrigation infrastructure and trust: Evidence from natural and lab-in-the-field experiments in rural communities

Keitaro Aoyagi, Yasuyuki Sawada and Masahiro Shoji

Is Chinese aid different?

Anke Hoeffler and Olivier Sterck

Does a joint United Nations microfinance ‘plus’ program empower female farmers in rural Ethiopia? Evidence using the pro-WEAI

Marya Hillesland, Susan Kaaria, Erdgin Mane, Mihret Alemu and Vanya Slavchevska

Divergent impacts of the grain to green program, landholdings, and demographic factors on livelihood diversification in rural China

Madeline M. Giefer and Li An

The impact of coffee leaf rust on migration by smallholder coffee farmers in Guatemala

Samuel I. Dupre, Celia A. Harvey and Margaret B. Holland

Does balancing gender composition lead to more prosocial outcomes? Experimental evidence of equality in public goods and extraction games from rural Kenya

Yuta J. Masuda, Gina Waterfield, Carolina Castilla, Shiteng Kang and Wei Zhang

Volume 155, issue C, 2022

Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates

Mariano-Florentino Cuèllar and Matthew C. Stephenson

The interrelated impacts of credit access, market access and forest proximity on livelihood strategies in Cambodia

John S. Felkner, Hyun Lee, Sabina Shaikh, Alan Kolata and Michael Binford

Weather shocks across seasons and child health: Evidence from a panel study in the Kyrgyz Republic

Hanna Freudenreich, Anastasia Aladysheva and Tilman Brück

The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War

Duong Trung Le, Thanh Pham and Solomon Polachek

Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund

J. Andrew Harris and Daniel N. Posner

Domestic workers and sexual harassment in India: Examining preferred response strategies

Akshaya Vijayalakshmi, Pritha Dev and Vaibhavi Kulkarni

Proletarianization and gateways to precarization in the context of land-based investments for agricultural commercialization in Lao PDR

Vong Nanhthavong, Sabin Bieri, Anh-Thu Nguyen, Cornelia Hett and Michael Epprecht

Decentred regulation: The case of private healthcare in India

Benjamin M. Hunter, Susan F. Murray, Shweta Marathe and Indira Chakravarthi

Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts

Richard Akresh, German Daniel Caruso and Harsha Thirumurthy

Coping with shocks: How Self-Help Groups impact food security and seasonal migration

Timothée Demont

Teacher pay in Africa: Evidence from 15 countries

David K. Evans, Fei Yuan and Deon Filmer

Sex-disaggregated agricultural extension and weather variability in Africa south of the Sahara

Carlo Azzarri and Gianluigi Nico

A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century

Nithya Natarajan, Andrew Newsham, Jonathan Rigg and Diana Suhardiman

A place at the table is not enough: Accountability for Indigenous Peoples and local communities in multi-stakeholder platforms

Anne M. Larson, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti and Nicole Heise Vigil