World Development

1973 - 2026

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Volume 198, issue C, 2026

Official vigilantism

Rebecca Hanson and Dorothy Kronick

On unfounded claims of electoral fraud

Nicolás Idrobo, Dorothy Kronick and Francisco Rodríguez

Electoral effects of integrating forced migrants: Evidence from a Southern Country

Sandra V. Rozo, Alejandra Quintana and María José Urbina

A fuzzy-set QCA approach exploring the role of public and private debt in shaping environmental performance

Maria Pereira, Graça Miranda Silva and Filipe Coelho

Decentering climate in vulnerability analysis: On aspiration, striving, and the fullness of life in uncertain times

Harry W. Fischer, Kamal Devkota, Divya Gupta and Dil B. Khatri

Scarcity reimagined: global green imaginaries, frontier-making, and resource conflict in Africa

M.L. Gravesen, P. Albrecht and M. Yding

Kinship, dadon and patronage politics: The role of informal institutions in climate adaptation

Md. Masud-All-Kamal, S.M. Monirul Hassan and Julfiker Haidar

Introductory essay for special issue: future of work and welfare in India’s halting structural transition

Sunil Mitra Kumar, Soumya Mishra and Louise Tillin

Trapped institutional change: the quest for regulating fishing activities in protected areas

Gerardo Damonte, Isabel E. Gonzales and Nicola Espinosa

Distributional energy justice and the inclusive human development Agenda in Africa

Isaac K. Ofori

Firebreaks as indigenous knowledge system and cultural practice: an emerging counternarrative in forest fire governance

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

Return migration and economic development: opportunities and challenges

Jackline Wahba

Falling into poverty or escaping from it? The effect of the minimum wage in urban China

Sylvie Démurger, Carl Lin, Achim Schmillen and Dewen Wang

Insiders and outsiders on mining extraction: A survey experiment in Peru

Andres A. Sandoval and Moises Arce

Against the Odds: Community forestry in the San Lucas Mountains, Colombia

Sara Vélez Zapata, Gonzalo A. Vargas, Elizabeth Castaño, Carolina Muñoz, Yeison Londoño, María Camila Zamudio-Mir, Mariela Ríos, Alexander Palau, Sergio Valencia, Manuel Tovar, Jorge Tobón, Mauricio Uribe and Adolfo Eslava

Does the baby that cries get milk? Direct and indirect effects of public participation on environmental governance in China

Huan-yu Cui and Yue-qun Cao

Volume 197, issue C, 2026

Climate change impacts on commodity price stability through changing ENSO patterns

Gilles Dufrénot, William Ginn and Marc Pourroy

Gender, Development, and Recognition of Anthropogenic Climate Change

Marija Verner, Hong Tien Vu, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Jennifer Carman, Seth A. Rosenthal and Anthony Leiserowitz

Gendered networks and demand for an agricultural technology in India

Kajal Gulati, Nicholas Magnan, Travis J. Lybbert and David Spielman

Globalization and gender equality

Klaus Gründler, Niklas Potrafke, Ramona Schmid and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Microwork as a development project: An ethnographic study of data annotators in Guizhou, China

Yu Huang and Yidan Kuang

Opportunistic behavior and discrimination in the mexican solar photovoltaic market: An audit experiment

Héctor Sandoval, Pedro Hancevic and Hernán Bejarano

The role of technology in reducing the gender gap in productivity

Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz, Antonio Neto, Kyung Min Lee and Caroline Nogueira

Unveiling Injustice: Analyzing Child Mortality Inequality across decades in Peru (1981–2017)

Cesar Huaroto, Pedro Francke and Claudia Vivas

Echoes of colonial disruption: historicizing vulnerability, raiding, and violence in Northwestern Kenya

Mads Yding

COVID-19 and rural livelihoods: lessons from a longer-term assessment and the path to recovery

Maria Lucia Berrospi, Francisco Ceballos, Manuel Hernandez and Cynthia Paz

Unpaid care work for the elderly in Thailand: does the social gender norm on altruistic behavior matter?

Minh Tam Bui, Ivo Vlaev and Katsushi Imai

Crop commercialization, structural change and income inequality: Insights from smallholder farmers in rural Southeast Asia

Manh Hung Do, Trung Thanh Nguyen and Ulrike Grote

Volume 196, issue C, 2025

Missing SDG gender indicators

Kathleen Beegle, Umar Serajuddin, Brian Stacy and Divyanshi Wadhwa

Expectations, authority and divergent market transitions

Susanne Wengle, Daniele Girardi and Roberto Veneziani

Does small-scale irrigation affect women’s time allocation? Insights from Ethiopia

Yeyoung Lee, Elizabeth Bryan, Nicole M. Mason, Ibrahim Worku Hassen, Veronique Theriault and Claudia Ringler

Maternal migration patterns and child development from infancy to early adolescence: a longitudinal study in rural China

Lei Wang, Yiwei Qian, Shanshan Li and Scott Rozelle

Between emancipatory potential and hierarchical reproduction: social movement aspirations and class in a South Indian NGO

Liz Mount

Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment

Masataka Harada, Ryo Mikami and Natsumi Shimada

Understanding education policy preferences: Survey experiments with policymakers in 35 developing countries

Lee Crawfurd, Susannah Hares, Ana Minardi and Justin Sandefur

Secularity and migration aspirations in the Arab world

Hajare El Hadri and Réda Marakbi

Fragmenting deliberation: Green hydrogen and the conditions for public participation

Lucrecia Wagner, Malayna Raftopoulos and Mattias Borg Rasmussen

Polarization in the product space: Skill intensity and economic development

Joris Bücker and Penny Mealy

Attitudes and behaviors in a fragile state. A list experiment in Mali

Olivia Bertelli, Thomas Calvo, Emmanuelle Lavallée, Marion Mercier and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Natural Disasters and Land Use Dynamics: Evidence from Earthquake-Induced Deforestation

Youpei Yan and Jayash Paudel

Autonomy, interrupted: constitutional weakening of indigenous activism from civil war to civil society

Cheng Xu

Inclusive reforms as levers for social exclusion: The paradoxical consequences of quotas for women in rural India

Simon Chauchard, Rachel E. Brulé and Alyssa R. Heinze

When aid misses the target: competing objectives, new classifications, and smarter delivery

Axel Dreher

International climate and biodiversity funding: does allocation follow need in Global South countries?

Charissa Bosma, Lars Hein and Daniel C. Miller

Crime and human capital in India

Smriti Sharma and Naveen Sunder

The new era of contested hydropower development: A systematic review from 2000 to 2022

Megan Mills-Novoa and Sophia Borgias

Unpacking the penetration of agrochemicals in China: The commodification of agricultural inputs and the invisible dispossession of smallholders

Yiyuan Chen and Yunan Xu

Child nutrition: The effect of micro and macro fertility levels at birth

Florence Arestoff, Elodie Djemai and Estelle Koussoubé

A regression discontinuity assessment of the differential impacts of China’s natural forest protection program across forestland property right regimes

Qi Liu, Shilei Liu, Zhaoyang Liu, Xiangzheng Deng, Jintao Xu and Andreas Kontoleon

Contraception to women’s economic empowerment: A narrative review

Jocelyn E. Finlay, Mariam Gulaid, Chiseche Mibenge, Nyovani Madise, Naa Dodua Dodoo, John Stover, Michelle Weinberger, O’Brien, Michelle and Marita Zimmermann

Are nationalist countries more protectionist?

Costas Hadjiyiannis, Doruk İriş, Chrysostomos Tabakis and Gi Khan Ten

The sex and gender dimensions of hunger in peace and conflict: a review

Caitriona Dowd, Liezelle Kumalo and Naledi Joyi

How robust are machine learning approaches for improving food security amid crises? - Evidence from COVID-19 in Uganda

Gewei Cao, Lukas Kornher and Clara Brandi

Seeing disparity: Marketization and perceived inequality in North Korea

Yongshin Cho and Taekbin Kim

The sound of silence: the politics of virtual water policies

Dik Roth and Jeroen Warner

Ethnic diversity and voting behavior at scale: Evidence from Uganda

Samuel Bird and Aleksandr Michuda

Unsustainable global freshwater consumption driven by economic growth

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

Electing governors: complexities of institutional design in Latin America’s unitary countries

Kent Eaton

Coping (more or less) with health shocks: A longitudinal perspective on financial protection from Nepal

vishnu Prasad Sapkota and O’Donnell, Owen

The effects of civil war and forced migration on intimate partner violence among Syrian refugee women in Jordan

Merve Betül Gökçe and Murat Kırdar

Urban shrinkage and its drivers: time-series clustering and a panel model of Chinese cities

Fengdi Ma and Heeyeun Yoon

Membership in farmers’ organizations and intention to innovate: A mixed random utility and behavioral approach

Luca Mulazzani, Simone Piras, Claudia Giordano, Atsede Ghidey Alemayehu, Carla Barlagne, Ali Chebil, Chokri Thabet, Faten Khamassi, Johnny Mugisha, Josephine Kisakye, Evans Ligare Chimoita, Sophia Ngala, Dismas Lyegendili Mwaseba, Noureddine Mokhtari and Marco Setti

Taxing the wealthy in Haiti: Evidence from a conjoint experiment on property tax preferences

Ana Isabel López García and Sarah Berens

Security fosters generosity: Social security protection and charitable giving

Lin Lin, Min He and Wenkai Sun

Which countries does the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) talk about when it talks about international development?

Simone Dietrich, Alice Iannantuoni and Matthew S. Winters