World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 186, issue C, 2025

Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil

Yeonbin Yang

Conceptualizing and evaluating how international organizations collaborate

Tamar Gutner and Rasmus Heltberg

A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models

Annabel Dulhunty

Can donors prevent aid misallocations? Evidence from Chinese and World Bank aid

Pierre André, Paul Maarek and Fatoumata Tapo

“You need to have this information!”: Using videos to increase demand for accountability on public revenue management

Christa Brunnschweiler, Ishmael Edjekumhene, Päivi Lujala and Sabrina Scherzer

What do aid recipients want? Public attitudes toward foreign aid in developing countries

Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, Inbok Rhee and Joonseok Yang

Indigenous forest destroyers or guardians? The indigenous Batwa and their ancestral forests in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC

O’Leary Simpson, Fergus, Kristof Titeca, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Thomas Muller and Mwamibantu Muliri Dubois

Fishery access benefits early childhood development through fish consumption and fishing income pathways

Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson, Erin M. Milner, Brian J. Mattah, Justin S. Brashares, Lia H. Fernald and Kathryn J. Fiorella

Benefit or procedure? Determinants of perceived distributive fairness in rural China

Cai Zuo and Xian Huang

Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited

Douglas Kazibwe

How city shrinkage affect public service provision for disadvantaged groups? Evidence from China

Hongchuan Wang and Kaibo Xu

Perceptions of injustices in the struggle for scarce critical lands: Farmer-herder conflict and violence escalation in the Benue-Nasarawa borderland

Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Water affordability challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: Accounting for coping costs due to reliance on multiple, non-exclusive sources

Roberto Martínez-Espiñeira and María Pérez-Urdiales

Climate change and energy poverty: Evidence from China

Shu Wu, Fangfang Hu and Zhijian Zhang

The impact of independence on reported aid performance

Terence Wood and Stephen Howes

Restoring property rights: The effects of land restitution on credit access

Francesco Bogliacino, Christian Posso and Marta Juanita Villaveces

Gender imbalance and temporary migration: Evidence from rural China

Huiqiong Duan, Weici Yuan and Thomas Snyder

Barriers to humanitarian migration, victimization and integration outcomes: Evidence from Germany

Teresa Freitas-Monteiro and Lars Ludolph

The data revolution in justice

Manuel Ramos-Maqueda and Daniel L. Chen

Rethinking climate conflicts: The role of climate action and inaction

Tobias Ide

Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries

Anaise Williams, Colleen Stuart, Nancy Perrin, Lori Heise, Philip Anglewicz and Michele R. Decker

The empirics of and policies for sustainability in global value chains

Jann Lay, Stefan Pahl and Rainer Thiele

Volume 185, issue C, 2025

How Does Small-Scale Mining Stabilize Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa? The Case of Mozambique

Gavin Hilson, Tim Laing, Abigail Hilson, Alex Arnall and Salvador Mondlane

The Impact of China’s “Stadium Diplomacy” on Local Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Valentin Lindlacher and Gustav Pirich

Crush and Burn: How the destruction of ivory fails to save elephants

Emma Gjerdseth

The multi-level determinants of international migration aspirations in 25 communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Jørgen Carling, Nicolás Caso and Marcela G. Rubio

Men can cook: Effectiveness of a men’s engagement intervention to change attitudes and behaviors in rural Ethiopia

Harold Alderman, Daniel Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, Jessica Leight, Michael Mulford and Heleene Tambet

Temporary labor mobility to various geographical and sectoral destinations improves rural incomes − Insights from Peru

Anna Fabry and Miet Maertens

Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities

Edo Andriesse, Thu L.T. Dinh, Jawanit Kittitornkool, Abdul Kodir, Chaturong Kongkaew, Adirake Markphol, Quynh T.N. Pham and Widyawati Sumadio

What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes

V.A. Maguire-Rajpaul, M. Hirons, V.M. Rajpaul, R.A. Asare, E. Boyd, Y. Malhi, J. Mason, A.C. Morel, K. Norris and C. McDermott

Adolescence, Interrupted: A narrative review of the impact of Covid-19 on adolescent wellbeing

Erin Oakley, Joost Vintges, Bassam Abu Hamad, Khadija Mitu, Jennifer Seager, Workneh Yadete, Nicola Jones and Sarah Baird

Can solar water kiosks generate sustainable revenue streams for rural water services?

Johannes Wagner, Sara Merner, Stefania Innocenti, Alinta Geling and Rob Hope

Living policy Labs: A case study of collaborative dialogue about social protection to alleviate grievances and facilitate peaceful outcomes in Egypt

Rachel Forrester-Jones, Rana Jawad, Chahir Zaki and Gihan Ismail

Land reform, emerging grassroots democracy and political trust in China

Xing Chen, Jintao Xu, Yuanyuan Yi and Andong Zhuge

“Leave no one behind”. A power-capabilities-energy justice perspective on energy transition in remote rural communities in Cambodia

Giuseppina Siciliano, Roberto Cantoni, Pichdara Lonn, Narith Por, Solany Kry, Chimmor Morn and Ham Oudom

Natives’ gender norms and the labor market integration of female immigrants

Julia Bredtmann and Sebastian Otten

Fatalism or vigilance? Exposure to infant and maternal deaths and subsequent use of maternal health services in Malawi

Eric Lungu, Jeffrey W. Rozelle and Emily Smith-Greenaway

Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone

Wilson Prichard, Samuel Jibao and Nicolas Orgeira Pillai

Energy Trade Access and Market Monopoly: Evidence from China’s Power Sector

Yu Zhao and Ning Zhang

Resources coupled with executive authority: Implications of relocating government administrative headquarters for local economic development

Jing Chen, Shenglong Liu and Xiaoming Zhang

Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania

Martina Manara

Legitimacy under pressure: Energy firms’ expansion in countries with weak environmental performance

Sihong Wu, Snejina Michailova and Di Fan

The political ecology of our water footprints: Rethinking the colours of virtual water

Jeroen Vos

Traditional clans and environmental governance: Evidence from China

Congming Ding, Zhiyuan Chen and Qiucen Ma

Challenges for implementing zero deforestation commitments in a highly forested country: Perspectives from Liberia’s palm oil sector

Joss Lyons-White, Philip A. Zodua, Christian Mikolo Yobo, Solomon C. Carlon, Robert M. Ewers and Andrew T. Knight

Economic complexity and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Fabricio Silveira, João Prates Romero, Arthur Queiroz, Elton Freitas and Alexandre Stein

Poor health: Credit and blame attribution in India’s multi-level democracy

Oliver Heath, Louise Tillin, Jyoti Mishra, Sanjay Kumar and Sandhya Venkateswaran

Institutional coalescence and illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana

Paul Stacey

Hunting militias at all cost: Urban military operation and birth outcomes

Darwin Cortés, Catalina Gómez, Christian Posso and Gabriel Suárez

Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam

Dung D. Le, Minh T. Nguyen and Yoko Ibuka

Territorial arrangements and ethnic conflict management: The paradox that isn’t

Natascha S. Neudorfer, Ulrike G. Theuerkauf and Stefan Wolff

Does sovereignty help economic growth? A recent reassessment

Jose Caraballo-Cueto

Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect

Yingbo Li, Zihan Wang, Ziqiu Lin and Yuning Gao

Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection

Lenin Balza, Jorge Cuartas, Nicolas Gomez-Parra and Tomas Serebrisky

Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilization

Patricia Justino