World Development

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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Volume 204, issue C, 2026

Reinventing reproductive labor: childcare in rural China under collectivization (1956–1961)

Jing Zhai

Digital financial inclusion and transitory consumption: Household-level evidence from India

Abhishek Kumar, Sushanta Mallick and Apra Sinha

Weak by design: How agribusiness organize in congress to trap environmental reforms in Brazil and Chile

Belén Fernández Milmanda

Rebuilding after disaster in Haiti: effects of expecting external, diaspora, and local support

Tracy Kijewski-Correa, William Kakenmaster, Debra Javeline, Alexandros Taflanidis and Karen Richman

The double-edged impact of e-commerce participation on farm’s Income: Evidence from China

Yingjie Zhu, Naixi Liu, Yu Li and Yijun Han

Substitute or complement? Quantity–quality effects of agricultural production diversity and market access on diets

Jiaqi Xuan, Xiaoxi Wang, Changzheng Yuan, Songqing Jin and Xu Tian

Assessing distribution disputes over land expropriation compensation in China’s macro-regions using the conflict analysis model

Xiaolu Ni and Ying Chen

Can dollarization mitigate the macroeconomic cost of populism? Lessons from Latin America

Nicolás Cachanosky, John D. Gibson and Emilio Ocampo

Increasing responsiveness of civil servants. A field experiment on freedom of information compliance

Carlos Scartascini and Paula Zamora

Exploring synergistic pathways between urbanization, water use efficiency, and renewable energy adoption in enhancing food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A causal analysis using temporal causal modeling

Dennis Afriyie, Wei Wu, Ayimadu Edwin Twum and Yonas Derebe Derso

Open for business: mapping private sector investment incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa

Steffi Hamann

Rethinking development as structural transformation: a new structural economics perspective

Jiajun Xu

Electoral cycles in female sterilization

Simeon Nichter and Dario Toman

Past stateness, present strength: How (the lack of) state experience shapes today’s fragile states

Andrea Vaccaro and Rachel M. Gisselquist

A trapped green industrial policy? The challenges to lithium and green hydrogen development in Chile

Sebastián Carrasco, Cristian Flores, Antoine Maillet, Daniela Tapia, Valentina Cariaga and Carol Muñoz

Institutional capacities for GVC-oriented policies

Carlo Pietrobelli

Good for business, not so much for the environment? Entry into importing and the energy intensity of Indian plants

Michele Delera, Nanditha Mathew and Tania Treibich

Shocks and reconfiguration in global value chains: A complex network perspective on the global south

Roy Cerqueti, Pierluigi Montalbano, Silvia Nenci and Saverio Storani

Education on the cheap and early child development: Evidence from the free compulsory education reform in rural China

Xinwu Zhang, Xiyuan Jia and Yue Ma

Sibling correlations in schooling around the world: A new database

Ercio Muñoz and Gabriela Jaque

Gun violence and the political economy of forced labor investigations in Brazil

Gabriel Cepaluni and Jamil Civitarese

Teetering on the brink of debt and hunger: Empirical examination of the linkages between external debt and food security in Africa

Assem Abu Hatab and Emmanuel Orkoh

Corrigendum to “Unsustainable global freshwater consumption driven by economic growth” [World Dev. 196 (2025)107185]

Vito Frontuto, Tommaso Felici, Silvana Dalmazzone, Benedetta Falsetti, Rosaria Ignaccolo, Francesco Laio and Marco Maria Bagliani

Does crisis lending help China win friends and influence people?

David A. Steinberg, Selim Erdem Aytaç and Daniel McDowell

The Indigenous land titling trap: adaptive practices and the limits of climate governance

Maritza Paredes, Danitza Gil and Anke Kaulard

Who should be served first? Multidimensional prioritization in a Bolivian cash transfer program

Gabriel Rios and Ricardo Nogales

Beyond the tap: the limited value of democracy for delivering universal safe water access in low- and middle-income countries

Evan Lieberman and Naomi Tilles

Volume 203, issue C, 2026

A new estimate for global and country-level employment in agrifood systems

Benjamin Davis, Erdgin Mane, Leman Yonca Gurbuzer, Giulia Caivano, Natalia Piedrahita, Kate Schneider, Nimra Azhar, Marwan Benali, Nidhi Chaudhary, Rodrigo Rivera, Ramya Ambikapathi, Paul Winters, Veronica Boero and Esther Laske

The contentious history of Mao-era policies requiring cadres to participate in labor and workers to participate in management

Joel Andreas and Jingting Liang

Development as life-making

Alessandra Mezzadri

The American dream revisited: intergenerational education mobility in immigrant households

Yiping Wu, Jinghong Zhou and Julan Du

Investigating resilience of refugee households in Jordan

Giorgio Fagiolo, Marina Mastrorillo and Grazia Pacillo

From classrooms to crime prevention: The incapacitation effect of extending the school day in Mexico

Francisco Cabrera-Hernández and Bárbara A. Zárate-Tenorio

Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence from Peru

Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel, D’Exelle, Ben, Kristian López Vargas, Sebastian Tonke and Arjan Verschoor

Green finance and labor income share: evidence from China

Mingjin Luo and Shengquan Wang

Corrigendum to “Hidden work-family challenges in the low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of causes, consequences, and policy responses” [World Dev. 202 (2026) 107349]

Keonhi Son and Aysegul Kayaoglu

When it rains, it pours: On the spillover effects of corruption on firms’ tax evasion

Chei Bukari

Women’s entrepreneurship through collective institutional shaping

Madhobi Hossain, Francisca Farache and Carmen Lopez

Biodiversity conservation and contestations over land: Jihadist expansion in West Africa

Leif Brottem and Matthew Turner

Domestic violence laws and social norms: Evidence from Pakistan

Selim Gulesci, Marinella Leone and Sameen Zafar

Corrigendum to “Unveiling Injustice: Analyzing Child Mortality Inequality across decades in Peru (1981–2017)” [World Dev. 197 (2026) 107198]

César Huaroto, Pedro Francke and Claudia Vivas

Natural disasters and foreign aid allocation: how much, how quickly, and to whom?

Rabah Arezki, Youssouf Camara, Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar

Trading peace for hazard management? peace agreement implementation and United Nations peace operations during natural hazards

Wakako Maekawa and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis

Do social and humanitarian assistance mediate the impacts of conflict on lives and livelihoods? Lessons from Ethiopia during the Tigray crisis

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Camelia Vasilov, Mats Hoppenbrouwers and Jeremy Lind

Political change in African cities: transforming state-society relations

Kristian Hoelscher, Taibat Lawanson and Jeffrey W. Paller

Green window of opportunity in Latin America: local and global knowledge linkages

María de las Mercedes Menéndez, Sergio Palomeque, Jorge Valverde-Carbonell and Carlo Pietrobelli

Does women’s financial inclusion reduce corruption? role of socioeconomic and institutional factors

Kumar Debasis Dutta and Mallika Saha

Sanctions, Food Insecurity, and the Mitigating Role of Foreign Investment

Ahmed Alwadeai, Nataliia Vlasova, Na Wei and Zain Ul Abideen

Worldwide agroextractivism: A probabilistic approach

Andres Suarez and Carlos Cardona-Arenas

Forced migrant arrivals can reduce political trust in African host communities

Eirin Haugseth, Andreas Forø Tollefsen and Karin Dyrstad

The gendered dimensions of an ‘herbicide revolution’: a feminist analysis of herbicide adoption in central India

Carly Nichols and Nidhi Kumari

Institutional quality and risk depletion of natural resources: Evidence from explainable artificial intelligence modelling

Nicolae Stef, Hakan Başağaoğlu, Icen Yoosefdoost, Sami Ben Jabeur and Debaditya Chakraborty