World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 191, issue C, 2025

Non-state armed actors, war economies and postwar violence – Examining the connections

Sabine Kurtenbach, Angelika Rettberg, Gabriel Rosero and José Salguero

Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis

Itzel De Haro

From missing brothers to educated sisters: The effects of victimization during the Rwandan genocide

Thomas Gautier

Should the market decide where the waste goes? Municipal bidding war between private landfills in Santiago de Chile

N. Valenzuela-Levi, N. Gálvez Ramírez and J. Ponce-Méndez

The Green Revolution is not always bloodless: Agricultural modernization and rural conflict in Brazil

David Samuels and Henry Thomson

India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s

R Nagaraj

Contracts and effective Inter-Organizational Collaboration: The case of the Galápagos Wind partnership

Dario Piselli and Liliana B. Andonova

Illicit animal trade and infectious diseases

Cosimo Beverelli and Rohit Ticku

Place-based policies, pro-competitive effects, and allocative efficiency: Evidence from China’s economic zones

Wenyi Lyu, Jian Yang and Leng Yu

Trading off inclusion, value, and scale within smallholder targeted value chains

Daniel Hill, Daniel Gregg and Derek Baker

Greening agriculture for rural development

Edward B. Barbier

The structural transformation of transition economies

Calumn Hamilton and Gaaitzen J. de Vries

Who’s governing the market? bringing the individual back into the study of the developmental state

Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Adam William Chalmers and Robert H. Wade

Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya

Gabriele Restelli

Crimes of the current: Natural disasters and crime in Kenya

Jaslin Kalsi, Robert Mackay, Astghik Mavisakalyan and Yashar Tarverdi

Non-communicable diseases: Laws, legislation, and reforms as pathways towards managing non-communicable diseases in Africa

Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin and Ushotanefe Useh

Small businesses and new adaptation capacities in Georgia and Kazakhstan

Susanne Fehlings, Hasan H. Karrar and Philippe Rudaz

Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade

Philip Arestis and Peter Phelps

A multidimensional perspective of digitization in Romanian public institutions

Valerică Greavu-Şerban, Alexandra Gheorghiu and Cosmin Ungureanu

Corrigendum to “Climate change, collective shocks, and intra-community cooperation: Evidence from a public good experiment with farmers and pastoralists” [World Dev. 189 (2025) 106941]

Alexandra Krendelsberger, Francisco Alpizar, Mame Mor Anta Syll and Han van Dijk

Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa

Florian Léon

Intersectionality matters: An analysis of women’s empowerment among livestock holders in Nepal, Senegal and Uganda

Renata Serra, Sarah McKune, Nargiza Ludgate, Nitya Singh, Kabita Devkota, Mouhamed Fall, Gordon Obin, Alioune Touré, Chhavi Tiwari and Sandra Russo

Legislative decentralization and regulatory dilution: Evidence from air pollution control in China

Cong Zhang, Ran Tao and Fubing Su

Unlocking the transformative potential of multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: Assessing perceived effectiveness and contributions to systemic change

Maximilian S.T. Wanner and Matilda Miljand

Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness

Daniel E. Esser and Heiner Janus

Volume 190, issue C, 2025

Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot

Nikita Sud

The BRI in Pakistan’s power sector: From initial success to structural challenges

Muhammad Tayyab Safdar

Corrigendum to “Violent conflicts and education: The LRA insurgency in Northern Uganda revisited” [World Develop. 186 (2025) 106822]

Douglas Kazibwe

Gender differences in the adequacy of poverty-targeted food assistance programs

Jackson Schneider and O’Connell, Stephen D.

Women’s work, never done, now paid: Assessing Tamil Nadu’s Urimai Thogai scheme

Prabha Kotiswaran

From displacement to statehood: The ecological and political metamorphosis of Accompong marronage

Marie Widengård

How does food market respond to natural disaster Shocks? Evidence from the cabbage wholesale market

Yi-Ju Su, Pei-An Liao and Hung-Hao Chang

Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa

Ana Paula De la O Campos, Yeshwas Admasu, Katia Covarrubias, Benjamin Kaylor Davis and Ana Maria Díaz Gonzalez

Patronage networks and multitasking incentives: Evidence from local officials’ responses to public crises in China’s centralized bureaucracy

Bo Feng, Bei Lu, Zhen Wang and Dandan Yu

How do banks respond to violence?

Whelsy Boungou, Mahdi Fawaz and Alhonita Yatié

Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali

Maria Laura Alzua, Juan-Camilo Cardenas and Habiba Djebbari

Compound exposure: Climate change, vulnerability and the energy-extractives nexus in the Pacific

Nicholas Bainton, Emilia E. Skrzypek and Éléonore Lèbre

Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities

Howard Jo, Pradeep Narayanan, Sowmyaa Bharadwaj and Mayank Sinha

Corrigendum to “Shine a (night)light: Decentralization and economic development in Burkina Faso” [World Dev. 187(2025) 106851]

Olivier B. Bargain, Rose Camille Vincent and Emilie Caldeira

Taking it easy: Disrupting development, justice and reparations through black in-bodiment and creative expression in the USA

Xander Creed, Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and (Kelsey) Love, SLiNK

Have ‘life plans’ delivered on their transformative aspirations for Indigenous empowerment through conservation? Evidence from four watersheds in the Peruvian Amazon

Ashwin Ravikumar and Alonso Pérez Ojeda del Arco

Remittances, sanitation and child malnutrition in middle-income countries: A case study from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam

Trung Thanh Nguyen, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Manh Hung Do, Dil Rahut and Duy Linh Nguyen

Two decades of tax-benefit reforms in Ecuador: How much have they contributed to poverty and inequality reduction?

H. Xavier Jara, Lourdes Montesdeoca, María Gabriela Colmenarez and Lorena Moreno

Volume 189, issue C, 2025

Foreign aid volatility and institutional development

Alice Iannantuoni

Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]

Yue Zhao and Sarah Rogers

Vernacular Modernity: The politics of the Project-Affected people in rural western India

Vikramaditya Thakur

Corrigendum to “Does household electrification empower rural boys and girls alike? Evidence from Brazil” [World Dev. 186 (2025) 106788]

Yeonbin Yang

Imposing innovation: How ‘innovation speak’ maintains postcolonial exclusion in Peru

Andrea Jimenez, Mario Pansera and Samer Abdelnour

After war ends: Aid paradigms and post-conflict preferences

Pamina Firchow, Julianne Funk and Roger Mac Ginty

Impact of civil conflict on household energy choices: Implications for the clean energy transition

Mukti Nath Subedi, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq and Lin Zhang

The dynamics of disappearing routine jobs in Chile: An analysis of the link between deroutinisation and informality

Isaure Delaporte and Werner Peña

When the State steps down: Reduced police surveillance and gang-related deaths in Brazil

André Mancha

The global distribution of authorship in economics journals

Ernest Aigner, Jacob Greenspon and Dani Rodrik

Disaster and political trust: Evidence from the 2017 Mexico city earthquake

Margaret H. Frost, SangEun Kim, Carlos Scartascini, Paula Zamora and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

Trust, hope, and collective action in fragile political settings: A qualitative comparative analysis of water user groups in Tunisia

Sophie Bhalla, Dustin Garrick and Constance L. McDermott

A social network analysis of family and community conflicts in post-civil war Mozambique

Victor Igreja, Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues and Alexandre Santos Cristino

Curse of low-skilled emigration on human capital formation: Evidence from the migration surge of the 2000s

Sam Hak Kan Tang, Yichen Wang and Yong Wang

The transfer of employment structure: Export expansion and the rise of lower-middle-skill occupations in China

Weishan Tan, Guangjun Shen and Guangsu Zhou

Climate change, collective shocks, and intra-community cooperation: Evidence from a public good experiment with farmers and pastoralists

Alexandra Krendelsberger, Francisco Alpizar, Mame Mor Anta Syll and Han van Dijk

From development to dependency in Latin America. A critical stance on Argentina’s developmentalist experiences

Mariano Féliz