World Development

1973 - 2023

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Volume 167, issue C, 2023

Weather information and agricultural outcomes: Evidence from a pilot field experiment in Benin

Rosaine N. Yegbemey, Gunther Bensch and Colin Vance

The collusion trap: Theory with evidence from informal markets in Lagos, Nigeria

Shelby Grossman and Alisha C. Holland

Social policy expansion from below? The case of Chile’s student movement and free tuition higher education

Sofia Donoso, Rodolfo Disi Pavlic and Belén Cumsille R.

Chinese aid and health at the country and local level

John Cruzatti C., Axel Dreher and Johannes Matzat

Which dimensions of religiosity matter for trust? New insights from the MENA region

Eliane Badaoui

The trade effects of information provision about forced and child labor

Margaryta Klymak

Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries

Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata, María Edo and Mariana Marchionni

Coercive and catalytic strategies for human rights promotion: State violence and foreign assistance

Hillary Corwin

Forced Migration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from the 2015/16 Mass Inflow in Germany

E. Albarosa and B. Elsner

The gender labor productivity gap across informal firms

Asif M. Islam and Mohammad Amin

Patronage and authoritarian co-optation of the military: Theory with evidence from post-Mao China

Yumin Sheng

Macroeconomic exposure of developing economies to low-carbon transition

Guilherme Magacho, Etienne Espagne, Antoine Godin, Achilleas Mantes and Devrim Yilmaz

Narrowing women’s time and income gaps: An assessment of the synergies between working time reduction and universal income schemes

André Cieplinski, Simone D'Alessandro, Chandni Dwarkasing and Pietro Guarnieri

Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda

Els Lecoutere, David J. Spielman and Bjorn Van Campenhout

Village networks and entrepreneurial farming in Uganda

D’Exelle, Ben and Arjan Verschoor

Agricultural value chains in a fragile state: The case of rice in Myanmar

Bart Minten, Joseph Goeb, Khin Zin Win and Phoo Pye Zone

Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses

Petra Tschakert, Meg Parsons, Ed Atkins, Alicea Garcia, Naomi Godden, Noemi Gonda, Karen Paiva Henrique, Susannah Sallu, Karin Steen and Gina Ziervogel

The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion

Naohiko Omata

Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data

Robert MacTavish, Honor Bixby, Alicia Cavanaugh, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Ayaga Bawah, George Owusu, Majid Ezzati, Raphael Arku, Brian Robinson, Alexandra M. Schmidt and Jill Baumgartner

Last mile in anti-poverty drive: Impact of cadres’ appraisals on growth and poverty reduction

Liuyang He, Xi Lu and Chyen Yee Lee

Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition

Pedro Piris-Cabezas, Ruben N. Lubowski and Gabriela Leslie

Volume 166, issue C, 2023

Inclusive refugee-hosting can improve local development and prevent public backlash

Yang-Yang Zhou, Guy Grossman and Shuning Ge

Allocation of humanitarian aid after a weather disaster

Lukas Mogge, Morag McDonald, Christian Knoth, Henning Teickner, Myagmartseren Purevtseren, Edzer Pebesma and Kati Kraehnert

Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting: Rules versus discretionary budgets

Dilip Mookherjee and Anusha Nath

Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment

Blake Angell, Obinna Onwujekwe, Pallavi Roy, Chukwudi Nwokolo, Martin McKee, Kate Mandeville, Divine Obodoechi, Prince Agwu, Aloysius Odii, Charles Orjiakor, Eleanor Hutchinson and Dina Balabanova

Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures

David M.A. Murphy

Has Chinese aid benefited recipient countries? Evidence from a meta-regression analysis

Pierre Mandon and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael

Explaining the development policy implementation gap: A case of a failed food sovereignty policy in Bolivia

Geovana Mercado and Carsten Nico Hjortsø

Entrepreneurship for all? The rise of a global “entrepreneurship for development” agenda, 1950–2021

Seungah S. Lee

Volume 165, issue C, 2023

Targeting hunger or votes? The political economy of humanitarian transfers in Malawi

Jan Duchoslav, Edwin Kenamu and Jack Thunde

Effects of education on political engagement in rural Burkina Faso

Elodie Djemaï and Michael Kevane

The hierarchy of needs empirical examination of Maslow’s theory and lessons for development

Mariano Rojas, Alfonso Méndez and Karen Watkins-Fassler

The poverty effect of democratization

Christoph Dörffel and Andreas Freytag

With and beyond sustainability certification: Exploring inclusive business and solidarity economy strategies in Peru and Switzerland

Christoph Oberlack, Trent Blare, Luca Zambrino, Samuel Bruelisauer, Jimena Solar, Gesabel Villar, Evert Thomas and Marleni Ramírez

Blessed are the peacemakers: The future burden of intrastate conflict on poverty

Jonathan D. Moyer

A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?

Dennis Wesselbaum, Michael D. Smith, Christopher Barrett and Anaka Aiyar

Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe

Emmanuel Mavhura and Komal Raj Aryal

Community matters: Heterogeneous impacts of a sanitation intervention

Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Melanie Lührmann, Francisco Oteiza and Juan Pablo Rud

The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya

Becatien Yao, Aleksan Shanoyan, Benjamin Schwab and Vincent Amanor-Boadu

Market concentration, trade exposure, and firm productivity in developing countries: Evidence from Mexico

Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Luis Felipe López-Calva and Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas

Multidimensional forests: Complexity of forest-based values and livelihoods across Amazonian socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts

Marina Londres, Marianne Schmink, Jan Börner, Amy E. Duchelle and Gabriel Ponzoni Frey

Stakeholder perspectives on cocoa’s living income differential and sustainability trade-offs in Ghana

Marshall Alhassan Adams and Sophia Carodenuto

Fighting against hunger: A country-wide intervention and its impact on birth outcomes

Francisco Beltran-Silva

Productivity gaps at formal and informal microfirms

Luis Hernando Gutierrez and Paul Rodriguez-Lesmes

Are smart cities green? The role of environmental and digital policies for Eco-innovation in China

Despoina Filiou, Effie Kesidou and Lichao Wu

Volume 164, issue C, 2023

Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar

Woojin Jung

Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism

Anh Ngoc Vu

Recovery mode: Non-cognitive skills after the storm

Christian Biener and Andreas Landmann

A macro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America

Diksha Arora, Elissa Braunstein and Stephanie Seguino

Kenya’s ‘Universal’ social pension: The politics of registration in Marsabit County

Alesha Porisky, Tahira Shariff Mohamed and Patrick Mutinda Muthui

Water insecurity, housing tenure, and the role of informal water services in Nairobi’s slum settlements

Nupur Joshi, Andrea K. Gerlak, Corrie Hannah, Sara Lopus, Natasha Krell and Tom Evans

The impact of intimate partner violence on women’s labour market outcomes

Cigdem Gedikli, Gurleen Popli and Okan Yilmaz

Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China

Lin Zhu, Hua Liao and Paul Burke

Roads, rails, and checkpoints: Assessing the permeability of nation-state borders worldwide

Emanuel Deutschmann, Lorenzo Gabrielli and Ettore Recchi

Perpetuating the malign legacy of colonialism? Traditional chiefs’ power and deforestation in Sierra Leone

Iva Mihaylova

The ecosystem approach to agricultural value chain finance: A framework for rural credit

Roberto Villalba, Terese E. Venus and Johannes Sauer

Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid

Isabelle Cohen

Seeing like a smartphone: The co-production of landscape-scale and rights-based conservation

Walker DePuy

Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labor market outcomes in an emerging economy: Evidence from Indonesia

Niken Kusumawardhani, Rezanti Pramana, Nurmala Selly Saputri and Daniel Suryadarma

The Agency, Resources, and Institutional Structures for Sanitation-related Empowerment (ARISE) Scales: Development and validation of measures of women’s empowerment in urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries

Sheela S. Sinharoy, Shauna McManus, Amelia Conrad, Madeleine Patrick and Bethany A. Caruso