World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 156, issue C, 2022

Women’s political empowerment and economic growth

Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Valeriya Mechkova

Recovering from severe drought in the drylands of Ethiopia: Impact of Comprehensive Resilience Programming

Lisa C. Smith and Timothy R. Frankenberger

From fees to free: User fee removal, maternal health care utilization and child health in Zambia

Yohan Renard

Irrigation infrastructure and trust: Evidence from natural and lab-in-the-field experiments in rural communities

Keitaro Aoyagi, Yasuyuki Sawada and Masahiro Shoji

Is Chinese aid different?

Anke Hoeffler and Olivier Sterck

Does a joint United Nations microfinance ‘plus’ program empower female farmers in rural Ethiopia? Evidence using the pro-WEAI

Marya Hillesland, Susan Kaaria, Erdgin Mane, Mihret Alemu and Vanya Slavchevska

Divergent impacts of the grain to green program, landholdings, and demographic factors on livelihood diversification in rural China

Madeline M. Giefer and Li An

The impact of coffee leaf rust on migration by smallholder coffee farmers in Guatemala

Samuel I. Dupre, Celia A. Harvey and Margaret B. Holland

Does balancing gender composition lead to more prosocial outcomes? Experimental evidence of equality in public goods and extraction games from rural Kenya

Yuta J. Masuda, Gina Waterfield, Carolina Castilla, Shiteng Kang and Wei Zhang

Volume 155, issue C, 2022

Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates

Mariano-Florentino Cuèllar and Matthew C. Stephenson

The interrelated impacts of credit access, market access and forest proximity on livelihood strategies in Cambodia

John S. Felkner, Hyun Lee, Sabina Shaikh, Alan Kolata and Michael Binford

Weather shocks across seasons and child health: Evidence from a panel study in the Kyrgyz Republic

Hanna Freudenreich, Anastasia Aladysheva and Tilman Brück

The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War

Duong Le, Thanh Pham and Solomon Polachek

Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund

J. Andrew Harris and Daniel N. Posner

Domestic workers and sexual harassment in India: Examining preferred response strategies

Akshaya Vijayalakshmi, Pritha Dev and Vaibhavi Kulkarni

Proletarianization and gateways to precarization in the context of land-based investments for agricultural commercialization in Lao PDR

Vong Nanhthavong, Sabin Bieri, Anh-Thu Nguyen, Cornelia Hett and Michael Epprecht

Decentred regulation: The case of private healthcare in India

Benjamin M. Hunter, Susan F. Murray, Shweta Marathe and Indira Chakravarthi

Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts

Richard Akresh, German Caruso and Harsha Thirumurthy

Coping with shocks: How Self-Help Groups impact food security and seasonal migration

Timothée Demont

Teacher pay in Africa: Evidence from 15 countries

David Evans, Fei Yuan and Deon Filmer

Sex-disaggregated agricultural extension and weather variability in Africa south of the Sahara

Carlo Azzarri and Gianluigi Nico

A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century

Nithya Natarajan, Andrew Newsham, Jonathan Rigg and Diana Suhardiman

A place at the table is not enough: Accountability for Indigenous Peoples and local communities in multi-stakeholder platforms

Anne M. Larson, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti and Nicole Heise Vigil

Volume 154, issue C, 2022

Female entrepreneurs and productivity around the world: Rule of law, network, culture, and gender equality

Sheng Fang, Chorching Goh, Mark Roberts, Lixin Xu and Albert Zeufack

Limited benefits and high costs are associated with low monetary returns for Guatemalan household investment in water, sanitation, and hygiene technologies

Lee E. Voth-Gaeddert, Mahelet Fikru and Daniel B. Oerther

Do refugees cause crime?

Ayşegül Kayaoğlu

The effects of occupational mobility on wages of rehabilitated workers in Brazil

Rayssa Alexandre Costa, Alexandre Almeida, Edward Martins Costa, Pablo Urano de Carvalho Castelar and Erivelton de Souza Nunes

A simplified measure of nutritional empowerment: Using machine learning to abbreviate the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI)

Shree Saha and Sudha Narayanan

Trade-offs or synergies? Hybridity and sustainable performance of dairy cooperatives in India

Sanchayan Nath and Rakesh Arrawatia

Mobile phone ownership and welfare: Evidence from South Africa’s household survey

Ken Miyajima

Predicting wasteful spending in tree planting programs in Indian Himalaya

Pushpendra Rana, Forrest Fleischman, Vijay Ramprasad and Kangjae Lee

Land rental market reforms: Can they increase outmigration from agriculture? Evidence from a quantitative model

Arnaud Daymard

Impact of Rohingya refugees on food prices in Bangladesh: Evidence from a natural experiment

Ashraful Alam, Indranil Dutta, M. Emranul Haque and Ricardo Nogales

Cash transfers’ role in improving livelihood diversification strategies and well-being: short- and medium-term evidence from Zimbabwe

Noemi Pace, Ashwini Sebastian, Silvio Daidone, Ana Paula Dela O Campos, Ervin Prifti and Benjamin Davis

Impacts of negative shocks on wellbeing and aspirations – Evidence from an earthquake

Prabal K. De and Dhanushka Thamarapani

Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia

Kerstin Unfried, Marcela Ibañez Diaz and Lina Maria Restrepo-Plazaz

Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China

Di Guo, Kun Jiang, Chenggang Xu and Xiyi Yang

Building a tax state in the 21st century: Fiscal pressure, political regimes, and consumption taxation

Julian Limberg

Critical reflection on the extractive industries transparency initiative in Kyrgyzstan

Saipira Furstenberg and Janyl Moldalieva

Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence

Christophe Béné

An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan

Muhammad Salman Khan and Stephen Syrett

Environmental justice organizations and the diffusion of conflicts over mining in Latin America

Bryce W. Reeder, Moises Arce and Adrian Siefkas

The microeconomics of adaptation: Evidence from smallholders in Ethiopia and Niger

Fleur Wouterse, Marina Andrijevic and Michiel Schaeffer

Improving taxpayer registration through nudging? Field experimental evidence from Brazil

Simeon Schächtele, Huáscar Eguino and Soraya Roman

Contested water- and miningscapes – Explaining the high intensity of water and mining conflicts in a meta-study

Mirja Schoderer and Marlen Ott

Volume 153, issue C, 2022

The effect of armed conflict on intimate partner violence: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria

Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode, Lucia C. Hanmer, Eliana Rubiano-Matulevich and Diana Jimena Arango

Disentangling the impact of a multiple-component project on SDG dimensions: The case of durum wheat value chain development in Oromia (Ethiopia)

Mario Biggeri, Alessandro Carraro, Federico Ciani and Donato Romano

Women’s land rights and village institutions in Tanzania

Garance Genicot and Maria Hernandez-de-Benito

Forest income and livelihoods on Pemba: A quantitative ethnography

Jeffrey Andrews and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare

Ricardo Hausmann and Ulrich Schetter

Political competition and public healthcare: Evidence from India

Subham Kailthya and Uma Kambhampati

A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India

Vasudha Chhotray

Examining norms and social expectations surrounding exclusive breastfeeding: Evidence from Mali

Cristina Bicchieri, Upasak Das, Samuel Gant and Rachel Sander

The committeefication of collective action in Africa

Caroline Archambault and David Ehrhardt

The impacts of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake on Children’s health in Nepal

Binod Khanal

Using political settlements analysis to explain poverty trends in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania

Blessings Chinsinga, Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael, Tim Kelsall, Nicolai Schulz and Timothy P. Williams

The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam

Dzung Bui, Lena Dräger, Bernd Hayo and Giang Nghiem

Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Swenja Surminski, Jonathan Barnes and Katharine Vincent

Income shock and food insecurity prediction Vietnam under the pandemic

Khoa Vu, Nguyen Vuong, Tu-Anh Vu-Thanh and Anh Nguyen

Economies of scale of large-scale international development interventions: Evidence from self-help groups in India

Garima Siwach, Sohini Paul and Thomas Hoop

Employment and sustainability: The relation between precarious work and spatial inequality in the neoliberal city

Andrés Señoret, Maria Inés Ramirez and Johannes Rehner

Colonial origin, ethnicity and intergenerational mobility in Africa

Patricia Funjika and Yoseph Getachew

The short-term impacts of COVID-19 on households in developing countries: An overview based on a harmonized dataset of high-frequency surveys

Tom Bundervoet, Maria E. Dávalos and Natalia Garcia

Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform

Guanfu Fang and Ying Zhu