World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 152, issue C, 2022

Bureaucrat time-use: Evidence from a survey experiment

Jozefina Kalaj, Daniel Rogger and Ravi Somani

Legacies of Islamic Rule in Africa: Colonial Responses and Contemporary Development

Vincent Bauer, Melina R. Platas and Jeremy M. Weinstein

Conditional cash transfers and child labor

Gabriel Cepaluni, Taylor Kinsley Chewning, Amanda Driscoll and Marco Antonio Faganello

Towards A Virtuous Spiral Between Poverty Reduction And Growth: Comparing Sub Saharan Africa With The Developing World

Erik Thorbecke and Yusi Ouyang

Regionalized liquidity: A cross-country analysis of mobile money deployment and inflation in developing economies

Christina M. Qiu

Urban informalities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A solution for or barrier against sustainable city development

Gideon Abagna Azunre, Owusu Amponsah, Stephen Appiah Takyi, Henry Mensah and Imoro Braimah

Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data

Gabriel Burdín, Mauricio De Rosa, Andrea Vigorito and Joan Vilá

Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa

Capucine Chapel

The correlates of declining income inequality among emerging and developing economies during the 2000s

Edward Anderson

International trade in rough diamonds and the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme

Stefan Borsky and Andrea Leiter

The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Diego Ubfal, Irani Arráiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch

Does value chain participation facilitate the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in developing countries?

Michele Delera, Carlo Pietrobelli, Elisa Calza and Alejandro Lavopa

Smallholder farmers’ preferences for sustainable intensification attributes in maize production: Evidence from Ghana

Bekele Hundie Kotu, Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Abdul Rahman Nurudeen, Fred Kizito and Benedict Boyubie

Decent work in global food value chains: Evidence from Senegal

Anna Fabry, Goedele Van den Broeck and Miet Maertens

Regimes and industrialization

John Gerring, Haakon Gjerløw and Carl Henrik Knutsen

Nitrogen efficiency by soil quality and management regimes on Malawi farms: Can fertilizer use remain profitable?

William Burke, Thomas Jayne and Sieglinde S. Snapp

Long-term impacts of the 1970 cyclone in Bangladesh

Shaikh Eskander and Edward Barbier

Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund

Ken Ochieng' Opalo

The effect of Universal Salt Iodization on cognitive test scores in rural India

Wiktoria Tafesse

Clientelism and governance

Pranab Bardhan

Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands

Tomoko Honda, Sarah Homan, Loksee Leung, Adi Bennett, Emma Fulu and Jane Fisher

Women farm what they can manage: How time constraints affect the quantity and quality of labor for married women’s agricultural production in southwestern Nigeria

Rachael S. Pierotti, Sophia Friedson-Ridenour and Olubukola Olayiwola

Exchange rate fluctuations, labour laws, and gender differences in job flows: Analysis of manufacturing industries across Indian states

Choorikkad Veeramani and Purna Banerjee

The power of employment: Effects of India’s employment guarantee on women empowerment

Zachary Rodriguez

In between rights and power: Women’s land rights and the gendered politics of land ownership, use, and management in Mexican ejidos

Ana García-Morán and Julian S. Yates

Partisan alignment and political corruption: Evidence from a new democracy

Alexander Stoecker

Active Ghosts: Nil-filing in Rwanda

Giulia Mascagni, Fabrizio Santoro, Denis Mukama, John Karangwa and Napthal Hakizimana

Decentralization, historical state capacity and public goods provision in Post-Soviet Russia

Roberto Stefan Foa

Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa

Yujeong Yang

Microfinance loan officers before and during Covid-19: Evidence from India

Kristina Czura, Florian Englmaier, Hoa Ho and Lisa Spantig

Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado

Rachael Garrett, J. Grabs, F. Cammelli, F. Gollnow and S.A. Levy

The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation

Marketta Vuola

Increasing engagement in price crowdsourcing initiatives: Using nudges in Nigeria

Gloria Solano-Hermosilla, Jesús Barreiro-Hurlé, Julius B. Adewopo and Celso Gorrín-González

Adapting the WEAI to explore gender equity among Fishers, Processors, and sellers at Zambia’s Lake Bangweulu

Kathleen Ragsdale, Mary Read-Wahidi, Pamela Marinda, Lauren Pincus, Elin Torell and Robert Kolbila

Volume 151, issue C, 2022

Women’s empowerment and gender equality in South Asian agriculture: Measuring progress using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) in Bangladesh and India

Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Hazel Malapit

Sustaining escapes from poverty

Vidya Diwakar and Andrew Shepherd

Winds of fire and smoke: Air pollution and health in the Brazilian Amazon

Rudi Rocha and Sant’Anna, André Albuquerque

Boosting rural labor off-farm employment through urban expansion in China

Yu Sheng, Yuhan Zhao, Qian Zhang, Wanlu Dong and Jikun Huang

Linking human capabilities with livelihood strategies to speed poverty reduction: Evidence from Rwanda

Kate Bird, Bastien Chabé-Ferret and Alexandre Simons

Assessing gender parity in intrahousehold allocation of educational resources: Evidence from Bangladesh

Sijia Xu, Abu Shonchoy and Tomoki Fujii

Impact of an integrated youth skill training program on youth livelihoods: A case study of cocoa belt region in Ghana

Vidhya Unnikrishnan, Melanie Pinet, Lukasz Marc, Nathaniel Amoh Boateng, Ethel Seiwaa Boateng, Tiina Pasanen, Maya Atta-Mensah and Sophie Bridonneau

Fewer, better pathways for all? Intersectional impacts of rural school consolidation in China’s minority regions

Emily Hannum and Fan Wang

Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya

Conrad Schetter, Kennedy Mkutu and Marie Müller-Koné

From public service access to service quality: The distributive politics of piped water in Bangalore

Tanu Kumar, Alison E. Post, Isha Ray, Megan Otsuka and Francesc Pardo-Bosch

Accelerators for achieving the sustainable development goals in Sub-Saharan-African children and young adolescents – A longitudinal study

Katharina Haag, Stefani Du Toit, William E. Rudgard, Sarah Skeen, Franziska Meinck, Sarah L. Gordon, Helen Mebrahtu, Kathryn J. Roberts, Lucie Cluver, Mark Tomlinson and Lorraine Sherr

Targeting social safety net programs on human capabilities

Heath Henderson and Lendie Follett

The redistributive power of cash transfers vs VAT exemptions: A multi-country study

Ross Warwick, Tom Harris, David Phillips, Maya Goldman, Jon Jellema, Gabriela Inchauste and Karolina Goraus-Tańska

Corruption, institutional trust and political engagement in Peru

Celeste Beesley and Darren Hawkins

Spousal concordance in joint and separate households: Survey evidence from Nepal

Kate Ambler, Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran and Simone Passarelli

The economic impact of weather anomalies

Gabriel Felbermayr, Jasmin Gröschl, Mark Sanders, Vincent Schippers and Thomas Steinwachs

Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand

Juthathip Jongwanich, Archanun Kohpaiboon and Ayako Obashi

The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil

Pablo Balán, Juan Dodyk and Ignacio Puente

Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake

Shishir Shakya, Subuna Basnet and Jayash Paudel

Substitution versus wealth: Dual effects of non-pastoral income on livestock herd size

Jie Zhou, Hua Zhong, Wuyang Hu and Guanghua Qiao

Inflation news and the poor: The role of ethnic heterogeneity

Frode Martin Nordvik

Debunking the Chinese unitary state via legal pluralism: Historical, indigenous and customary rights in China (1949–present)

Peter Ho

Curtailing Covid-19 on a dollar-a-day in Malawi: Role of community leadership for shaping public health and economic responses to the pandemic

Iliana V. Kohler, Fabrice Kampfen, Alberto Ciancio, James Mwera, Victor Mwapasa and Hans-Peter Kohler

The impact of domestic and foreign R&D on TFP in developing countries

Dierk Herzer

The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique

Eric Cezne and Jana Hönke

‘To prevent this disease, we have to stay at home, but if we stay at home, we die of hunger’ – Livelihoods, vulnerability and coping with Covid-19 in rural Mozambique

Judith E. Krauss, Luis Artur, Dan Brockington, Eduardo Castro, Jone Fernando, Janet Fisher, Andrew Kingman, Hosia Mavoto Moises, Ana Mlambo, Milagre Nuvunga, Rose Pritchard, Natasha Ribeiro, Casey M. Ryan, Julio Tembe and Clemence Zimudzi

The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam

Pham Tien Thanh and Pham Bao Duong

The times are changing: understanding past, current and future resource use in rural Papua New Guinea using participatory photography

Mirjam Hazenbosch, Shen Sui, Brus Isua, E.J. Milner-Gulland, Rebecca J. Morris and Emilie Beauchamp

Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran

Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi and Roberto Nisticò

Diversifying violence: Mining, export-agriculture, and criminal governance in Mexico

Joel Salvador Herrera and Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez

Local corruption, total factor productivity and firm heterogeneity: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Firat Demir, Chenghao Hu, Junyi Liu and Hewei Shen

Is schooling the same as learning? – The impact of the learning-adjusted years of schooling on growth in a dynamic panel data framework

Linda Glawe and Helmut Wagner

Policy instrument choice under globalization: Do authoritarian states choose differently?

Olga Ulybina

Food policies and obesity in low- and middle-income countries

Kibrom A. Abay, Hosam Ibrahim and Clemens Breisinger

A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change

Solomon Zena Walelign and Päivi Lujala

Perceptions of inequality and social mobility in Mexico

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Alice Krozer, Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez, Rodolfo de la Torre and Roberto Velez-Grajales

Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia

Jean-Philippe Venot, Casper Bruun Jensen, Etienne Delay and William's Daré