World Development

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Volume 158, issue C, 2022

When clients vote for brokers: How elections improve public goods provision in urban slums

Victoria Paniagua

A novel measure of developing countries' agricultural and food policy readiness

James F. Oehmke, Sera L. Young, Allen W. Heinemann, Mandivamba Rukuni, Alexandre Lyambabaje and Lori A. Post

Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition

Tseday J. Mekasha, Kiflu G. Molla, Finn Tarp and Jehovaness Aikaeli

The cash crop revolution, colonialism and economic reorganization in Africa

Philip Roessler, Yannick I. Pengl, Robert Marty, Kyle Sorlie Titlow and Nicolas van de Walle

Taxing dissent: The impact of a social media tax in Uganda

Levi Boxell and Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld

Repatriation during conflict: A signaling analysis

Kara Ross Camarena

Climate change, comparative advantage and the water capability to produce agricultural goods

Fabien Candau, Charles Regnacq and Julie Schlick

Maternity benefits mandate and women’s choice of work in Vietnam

Khoa Vu and Paul Glewwe

Negotiating spaces of marginality and independence: On women entrepreneurs within Ethiopian urbanization and water precarity

Marina Korzenevica, Catherine Fallon Grasham, Zoé Johnson, Amleset Gebreegzabher, Samrawit Mebrahtu, Zenawi Zerihun, Sonia Ferdous Hoque and Katrina Jane Charles

The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach

Lotanna E. Emediegwu, Ada Wossink and Alastair Hall

CSR and local conflicts in African mining communities

Selina Bezzola, Isabel Günther, Fritz Brugger and Erwin Lefoll

Social capital as a double-edged sword for sustained poverty escapes in Ethiopia

Tassew Woldehanna, Yisak Tafere and Manex B. Yonis

Transforming food systems through inclusive agribusiness

George C. Schoneveld

Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico

Steven Samford

Intersectionality, gender, and project-induced displacement in the informal city: The struggle over stormwater development in Los Platanitos, Dominican Republic

Bjørn Sletto, Alexandra Magaly Lamina Luguana, Kayla Rakes and Mary Stycos

Long-term finance provision: National development banks vs commercial banks

Bo Hu, Alfredo Schclarek, Jiajun Xu and Jianye Yan

The unfolding of women’s economic empowerment outcomes: Time path of impacts in an Indonesia trial

Mayra Buvinic, James C. Knowles and Firman Witoelar

Progressing gender equality in fisheries by building strategic partnerships with development organisations

Sangeeta Mangubhai, Sarah Lawless, Anna Cowley, Jayshree P. Mangubhai and Meryl J. Williams

Presidential extraversion: Understanding the politics of Sino-African mega-infrastructure projects

Yuan Wang

The long-term effects of early European settlement on local development: Evidence from Indonesia

Rossi Rizki Bestari, Yusuf Kurniawan and Muhammad Yudhistira

Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure

Mustapha Douch, Huw Edwards, Todd Landman and Sushanta Mallick

Convergence in resource productivity

Philip Kerner and Tobias Wendler

Ethnic diversity and forest commons

Francisco Barba and Dany Jaimovich

The effects of social infrastructure and gender equality on output and employment: The case of South Korea

Cem Oyvat and Ozlem Onaran

“What’s in the middle”: Scratching beneath the surface of the middle class(es) in Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, Turkey and Vietnam

Matthieu Clément, Eric Rougier, Jean-Philippe Berrou, François Combarnous and Dominique Darbon

Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law

Staffan I. Lindberg, Maria Lo Bue and Kunal Sen

State capacity, economic output, and public goods in China

Hua Cheng, Kishore Gawande and Shusen Qi

Armed conflicts, forced displacement and food security in host communities

Justin George and Adesoji Adelaja

Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China

Dongqin Wang and Yanni Shen

Does project-level foreign aid increase access to improved water sources? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda

Lynda Pickbourn, Raymond Caraher and Léonce Ndikumana

The confusions of democracy: The Arab spring and beyond

Daniel Bromley

Challenging conventional wisdom on illicit economies and rural development in Latin America

Laura Aileen Sauls, Anthony Dest and Kendra McSweeney

Consolidating and improving the assets indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Frank Vollmer and Sabina Alkire

Designing development interventions: The application of service design and discrete choice experiments in complex settings

Matthew Osborne, Fiona Lambe, Ylva Ran, Naira Dehmel, Giovanni Alberto Tabacco, Joshua Balungira, Borja Pérez-Viana, Erik Widmark, Stefan Holmlid and Arjan Verschoor

Female autonomy generated successful long-term human capital development: Evidence from 16th to 19th century Europe

Joerg Baten and Alexandra M. de Pleijt

Impact of a homestead food production program on women's empowerment: Pro-WEAI results from the FAARM trial in Bangladesh

Jillian L. Waid, Amanda S. Wendt, Sheela S. Sinharoy, Abdul Kader and Sabine Gabrysch

National policies encounter municipal realities: A critical analysis of the outcomes of the List of Priority Municipalities in curbing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Paulo Eduardo dos Santos Massoca and Eduardo Sonnewend Brondízio

Marital status and women’s nutrition in Africa

Marie Albertine Djuikom and Dominique van de Walle

Spatial interdependence and spillovers of fiscal grants in Benin: Static and dynamic diffusions

Rose Vincent and Victor Osei Kwadwo

The impacts of maternal migration on the cognitive development of preschool-aged children left behind in rural China

Yu Bai, Ning Yang, Lei Wang and Siqi Zhang

Receiving more, expecting less? Social ties, clientelism and the poor’s expectations of future service provision

Prisca Jöst and Ellen Lust

Global food price surge, in-kind transfers and household welfare: Evidence from India

Digvijay S. Negi

Does accountability enhance service delivery? Assessment of a local scorecard initiative in Uganda

Wil Hout, Natascha Wagner and Binyam A. Demena

What do we know about rural and informal non-farming labour? Evidence from a mixed methods study of artisanal and small-scale mining in Northwest Tanzania

Julian M. Goetz

Lost in transition? Modernization, formal education and violence in Karamoja

Simone Datzberger

Farmers’ perspectives and context are key for the success and sustainability of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in northeastern Ghana

Matt Kandel, Daniela Anghileri, Rahinatu S. Alare, Peter N. Lovett, Genevieve Agaba, Thomas Addoah and Kate Schreckenberg

Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption

Cansın Arslan, Meike Wollni, Judith Oduol and Karl Hughes

Framing the frame: Cause and effect in climate-related migration

Fabien Cottier, Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Jesse Ribot, Richard Seager and Godfreyb Ssekajja

Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial study

Cuong Nguyen and Finn Tarp

Volume 157, issue C, 2022

Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program

Liliana B. Andonova and Dario Piselli

Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison

Nouran Zenelabden and Johane Dikgang

Why New Zealand’s Indigenous reconciliation process has failed to empower Māori fishers: Distributional, procedural, and recognition-based injustices

Hekia Bodwitch, Andrew M. Song, Owen Temby, John Reid, Megan Bailey and Gordon M. Hickey

On the association between housing deprivation and urban size: Evidence from South Asia

Moisés Obaco, Nicola Pontarollo, Rodrigo Mendieta Muñoz and Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez

Prisoners of a distant past? Linguistic diversity and the time-depth of human settlement in Papua New Guinea

Jon Fraenkel and Colin Filer

Selective inclusion in cash transfer programs: Unintended consequences for social cohesion

Anne Della Guardia, Milli Lake and Pascale Schnitzer

IMF fairness: Calibrating the policies of the International Monetary Fund based on distributive justice

Adel Daoud, Anders Herlitz and S.V. Subramanian

The implications of aggregate measures of exposure to violence for the estimated impacts on individual risk preferences

Marc Rockmore and Christopher Barrett

Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal

Khushbu Mishra, Olga Kondratjeva and Gerald E. Shively

Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique

Luca Crudeli, Susanna Mancinelli, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Raul Pitoro

Autocracy and human capital

Eric C.C. Chang and Wen-Chin Wu

The politics of coproduction during Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’: Water, housing, and waste in comparative perspective

Geoff Goodwin, Patrick O'Hare, Miranda Sheild Johansson and Jonathan Alderman

Climate change, natural disasters, and institutional integrity

Ritika Khurana, Douglas Mugabe and Xiaoli Etienne

Institutional determinants of large land-based investments’ performance in Zambia: Does title enhance productivity and structural transformation?

Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger

Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil

Phoebe W. Ishak

An exploration of the association between fuel subsidies and fuel riots

Neil McCulloch, Davide Natalini, Naomi Hossain and Patricia Justino

Impact of natural disasters on the income distribution

Regina Pleninger

The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors

Guanfu Fang, Wei Li and Ying Zhu

It’s all about politics: Migration and resource conflicts in the global south

Charlotte Wiederkehr, Tobias Ide, Ralf Seppelt and Kathleen Hermans

The dynamics of income inequality in Africa: An empirical investigation on the role of macroeconomic and institutional forces

Michael Batuo, George Kararach and Issam Malki

The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017

Philip Barrett

Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy

Andrea Cattaneo, Anjali Adukia, David L. Brown, Luc Christiaensen, David Evans, Annie Haakenstad, Theresa McMenomy, Mark Partridge, Sara Vaz and Daniel J. Weiss

Local governance quality and law compliance: The case of Mozambican firms

Hanna Berkel, Christian Estmann and John Rand

Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Marinella Cirillo, Andrea Cattaneo, Meghan Miller and Ahmad Sadiddin

Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?

Dolores Agúndez, Sitou Lawali, Ali Mahamane, Ricardo Alía and Mario Soliño

“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution

Désirée Ruppen and Fritz Brugger

Contentious environmental governance in polluted gold mining geographies: The case of La Toma, Colombia

Irene Vélez-Torres and Diana Vanegas

What does equitable distribution mean in community forests?

Rachel S. Friedman, Kerrie A. Wilson, Jonathan R. Rhodes and Elizabeth A. Law

Governing the diverse forest: Polycentric climate governance in the Amazon

Fronika de Wit and João Mourato

How are institutions included in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects? Developing and testing a diagnostic approach on the World Bank’s Forest and Community project in Salta, Argentina

Louise Marie Busck-Lumholt, Esteve Corbera and Ole Mertz

Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean

Giorgos Kallis, Angelos Varvarousis and Panos Petridis

Impacts of applying for international labor migration before migration occurs

Yoshito Takasaki