World Development

1973 - 2027

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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Volume 209, issue C, 2027

Reducing early secondary school leaving: experimental evidence on information, tutoring, and incentives from Burkina Faso

Jan-Walter De Neve, Somkeita Pascal Zabré and Günther Fink

Development economics and the colonial encounter: Informality, caste, and postcolonial capitalist development in India

Snehashish Bhattacharya and Surbhi Kesar

Do coupled population, economic, and land use dynamics explain household energy transitions in Malawi?

Katerina E.B. Beach, Varun Goel, Yu Wu, Barbara Entwisle and Pamela Jagger

Climate-induced migration or immobility? Evidence from Nigeria

Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano and Adriana Paolantonio

Water expenditure, service quality and distributional outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean

María Pérez-Urdiales and Carolina Tojal Ramos dos Santos

The role of education in international migration decisions

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Avinandan Chakraborty

Breaking bonds, building mistrust: how coups reshape social capital in Africa

Linfeng Wang, Michael Appiah-Kubi, Joseph Amoah, Philip Akrofi Atitianti and Jeneshia Jarrett

Emotional and physical burdens of water poverty: evidence from the drinking water service ladder in Mozambique

Terrence Kairiza, Wanglin Ma and Abbi Kedir

Reducing antibiotics? experimental evidence from poultry farmers in China

Li Zhou, Lingzhi Li, Annemie Maertens, Jiazhu Wei and Meike Wollni

The dynamic impact of parental death on child labour: panel data evidence from Ethiopia

Gidisa Lachisa Tato

Environmental conditions, innovation capacity, and the transition to agriculture

Lothar Grall, Christian Haas, Karol Kempa and Jürgen Meckl

Are the blue and the green natural allies? Mapping the public foundations of just transition worldwide

Mengqi Xie and Sijeong Lim

Arrested development: analyzing popular resistance against the arrest of war-criminals in DR Congo and Liberia

Anders Themnér and Rosalie Biaba

Compulsory education, life trajectories, and intergenerational mobility: evidence from Mexico’s 1993 schooling reform

Diego De la Fuente Stevens

Corrigendum to “Measuring national entrepreneurial ecosystems in Africa” [WD 202 (2026) 107357 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107357]

Erik Stam, Phumlani Nkontwana, Robert McDonald, Rafiki Murenzi, Kwabena Aboah Addo, Blaise Bayuo, Belinda Baah, Stefan Riezebos and Tim Gelissen

Livestock ownership and child nutrition: Empirical evidence from East Africa

Astewale Bimr Melaku and Bethelhem Legesse Debela

Can strong donor governance rescue projects in weak-governance recipient countries? Evidence from the World Bank

Mengqi Wang, Yongkui Li and Shenyang Jiang

Economic abuse and food insecurity among women living with HIV in Ghana

Gervin Ane Apatinga and Eric Y. Tenkorang

Protected areas: questioning the development-conservation system. A socio-political-economic and ecological framework for a bottom-up approach

Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud, Florent Bédécarrats, Stéphanie M. Carrière and Emmanuel Pannier

The politics of environmental peacebuilding: global agendas, advocacy networks, and domestic policy arenas

Jacobo Grajales, Meryam El Bouhati, Benjamin Lévy and Toni-Giovanni Pegurri

Measuring global exploitation, 1990–2023: does globalization equalize exploitation rates?

Tomas N. Rotta

Foreign aid and power play: Political cycles in world bank’s procurement allocation

Antoine Boucher, Lisa Chauvet and Marin Ferry

Income inequality as a barrier to the CO2-reducing potential of public investment: evidence from Latin America

Tainari Taioka, Marina da Silva Sanches and Gilberto Tadeu Lima

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 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