World Development

1973 - 2026

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Volume 200, issue C, 2026

Does institutional design matter? Constitutional regime types and party system closure in Asia

Don S. Lee and Fernando Casal Bértoa

Trade agreements and sustainable fisheries

Basak Bayramoglu, Estelle Gozlan, Clément Nedoncelle and Thibaut Tarabbia

Citizen science, mobile technology, and environmental justice in Africa: rights-based legal pathways for community empowerment

Philippa Osim Inyang

Power and its discontents: The long road to systemic change in the aid sector

Nicola Banks, Badru Bukenya, Willem Elbers, Innocent Kamya, Emmanuel Kumi, Lau Schulpen, Gijs van Selm, Margit van Wessel and Thomas Yeboah

Humor for health: a randomized controlled trial of clown visits in Palestinian hospitals

Melanie Gräser, Christine Grimm and Roman Hoffmann

Conflicts and prosocial preferences

Dawoon Jung

Genocide, women’s empowerment, and intergenerational transmission of violent attitudes

Daniel Kammer and Alina Greiner-Filsinger

Empathy in action: unravelling crowdfunding dynamics for female refugee entrepreneurs in Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine

Ricardo Emanuel-Correia, Syahirah Abdul-Rahman and Doaa Althalathini

Impact of climate change adaptation on welfare and child nutrition of farm households in rural Ethiopia: A panel data analysis

Taye T. Fisiha and John McPeak

Catastrophe’s long reach: How historical natural disasters shape modern entrepreneurship?

Weihua Yu, Jinfei Niu, Xin Yao and Chenchen Deng

Poor performance of west Sumatran governments in resolving palm oil conflicts: a procedural justice perspective

Afrizal,, Eka Vydia Putra and Linda Elida

Policies for aspirations. And opportunities

Noël Muller, Anna Fruttero, Óscar Calvo-González and Jacobus de Hoop

DEVELOPMENT AS EQUALITY: A gender lens on progress and its hidden barriers

Bina Agarwal

Clientelist politics in Nigeria: Core voters, control and compliance

Diane Zovighian

Populism and global infrastructure investment

Lulu Pan, Eddie Chi-Man Hui and Jianfu Shen

Government data accessibility and firm dynamics: Encouraging entrepreneurship or accelerating exit?

Desheng Wu and Yu Xie

Restricting mothers’ international migration and human capital investment

Takuya Hasebe, Yuma Noritomo and Bilesha Weeraratne

Does free maternity care improve uptake and save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya

Roxanne Kovacs

The long shadow of natural disasters: educational impacts of the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh

Chowdhury Abdullah-Al-Baki and Ali Ahmed

The defanging effect of education and autocratic survival

Raouf Boucekkine, Rodolphe Desbordes and Paolo Melindi-Ghidi

Labor law and workplace injuries

Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez, Fernando Rosenblatt and Emiliano Tealde

Using spatial data to identify food accessibility in large African cities

Jordan Blekking, Kurt Waldman, Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx and Mboyonga Kaputula

Resilience of what and for whom? Climate change mitigation and adaptation in the global, Ethiopian, and Tanzanian coffee sectors

Janina Grabs, Gezahegn Berecha Yadessa, Marc Castellón Durán, Adugna Eneyew Bekele, Caleb Gallemore, Weyessa Garedew Terefe, Shitaye Gure Lemessa, Marta Hailemariam Mamo, Kasongi, Ng’winamila Donald, Melkamu Mamuye Kebede, Daniel Andwale Mwalutolo, Ina Niehues, Christine Noe, Stefano Ponte, Guta Regasa Megerssa, Pilly Silvano, Nestory Yamungu and Kristjan Jespersen

The dual role of small-scale fisheries on food security and poverty eradication in Vietnam: A latent profile analysis

Quach Thi Khanh Ngoc, Bui Bich Xuan and Pham Khanh Nam

Contested forests: how transnational networks mitigate and reproduce conflict

Shawkat Alam and Jona Razzaque

Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India

Vegard Iversen, Anustup Kundu, Rahul Lahoti and Kunal Sen

Settlements as dispossession: Forest conservation and frontiers’ violence in Mau Forest, Kenya

Marie Müller-Koné and Kennedy Mkutu

Unemployment impact of network sectors and employment protection legislation reforms: Evidence from selected african countries

Kwamivi Mawuli Gomado and Isaac Amedanou

50 Years of World Development

Eduardo Araral and Serik Orazgaliyev

Immigration, hukou system and crime: Evidence from China

Huan Liu and Taotao Shen

Has land finance driven China’s economic growth? Evidence from a quantitative counterfactual analysis

Yongmin Luo, Shenqi Ding, Xi Luo and Lujun Wang

What will it mean to end poverty?

Joshua D. Merfeld and Jonathan Morduch

On social inequality, financial inclusion, and poverty at the bottom of the pyramid: Is financial equity enough?

Charles B. Herron, Rahul Nilakantan, Deepak Iyengar, Robert Glenn Richey and Shashank Rao

Volume 199, issue C, 2026

How green is China’s development finance? Power generation and air pollution in Africa

Leoni Mendler-Krakau and Michael Frenkel

The impact of foreign media on political mobilization during the Arab Spring

Laura Angelini, Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay and Jean-François Maystadt

Urbanization and decentralization in the Congo: Examining governance in rural towns

Soeren J. Henn, Aimable Lameke, Mastaki Mugaruka and Vincent Tanutama

Fabricated justice: How due process reform enables evidence manipulation

Beatriz Magaloni and Esteban Salmón

Balancing efficiency and equity in fiscal decentralization: theory and evidence from China

Yixin Chen, Bingyang Lyu and Mengqi Niu

Development as multidimensional environmental impoverishment

Joan Martínez-Alier and Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos

Grievances, greed or tactics? The political ecology of jihadist expansion in West Africa’s WAP complex

Luca Raineri

Gender, race and their interplay with economic status: intersectionality and asymmetric jeopardies in Brazilian education

Sunil Mitra Kumar, Lucio Esposito, Adrián Villaseñor and Sandra Macedo

Does land tenure security reduce deforestation? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

Joao Paulo Santos Mastrangelo, Alexandre Gori Maia and Stella Zucchetti Schons

Gendered laws and Women’s financial inclusion

Caroline Perrin and Marie Hyland

Economic convergence, intragenerational economic mobility, and inequality in a native Amazonian small-scale society of Indigenous People in Bolivia

Ricardo Godoy, Jonathan Bauchet, Victoria Reyes-García and Eduardo A. Undurraga

Citizenization and urban–rural income inequality: Evidence from the reform of hukou system in China

Anbang Wang, Junqiao Ma and Ke He

“A snake with no teeth”: Urbanization shifts perceptions of men who support women’s empowerment in Northwestern Tanzania

Joseph A Kilgallen, Alexander M Ishungisa, Pius Charles, Theresia Marco Chizi, Anuarite John, Israel Nicholaus, Ernest Sebarua, Mark Urassa and David W Lawson

Bringing contact interventions to the lab: Effects of brief bilateral discussions on interethnic trust in Senegal

Gwen-Jirō Clochard, Guillaume Hollard and Omar Sene

Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests

Olivier Bargain, H. Xavier Jara and David Rivera

Armed conflict, community-based cash transfers, and social cohesion: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Ethiopia

Halefom Yigzaw Nigus, Kibrom A. Abay and Martin Paul Tabe-Ojong

Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the World Inequality Database

Rachel Steenbrink and Ahmed Skali

Gendering the safety net: Social protection policy and the limits to Decent Work in Cambodia’s garment sector

Sabina Lawreniuk, Katherine Brickell, Theavy Chhom, Lauren McCarthy, Mony Reach and Hengvotey So

Estimating dynamic macroeconomic effects of exogenous remittances

Markus Brueckner, Sudyumna Dahal and Haiyan Lin

Identification of earnings dynamics using rotating samples over short periods: the case of Chile

Carlos Madeira

Effect of women’s inclusion on conservation and management practices of Water User Associations

Ariana Montoya-Lozano and Tara Grillos

Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development

Ian Scoones

“I have already died in this PLACE:” livelihood impact pathways of conservation and land use change among highland Indigenous groups in northern Thailand

Marco J Haenssgen, Prasit Leepreecha, Mukdawan Sakboon and Ta-Wei Chu

Friends or foes? The insurgent’s dilemma of seeking legitimacy while keeping secrets

Enrique Escalante

Who on earth is using Generative AI?

Yan Liu and He Wang

Do corruption experiences promote emigration? Observational and experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

John Maara and Barry Maydom

Can corporate good deeds reduce environmental injustice? Evidence from China

Chunxiao Wang and Yu Hao

Corrigendum to “Firebreaks as indigenous knowledge system and cultural practice: an emerging counternarrative in forest fire governance” [World Dev. 198 (2026) 107224]

Diana Suhardiman, Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, Saw Sha Bwe Moo and Paul Sein Twa