World Development

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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Volume 150, issue C, 2022

Impacts of cooperative membership on rice productivity: Evidence from China

Bin Lin, Xiaoxi Wang, Songqing Jin, Wanjiang Yang and Houjian Li

El Niño and children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes

Arturo Aguilar Esteva and Marta Vicarelli

Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement

Susmita Dasgupta, David Wheeler, Sunando Bandyopadhyay, Santadas Ghosh and Utpal Roy

To sell, not to sell, or to quit: Exploring milk producers’ approaches after a supply chain disruption in Northwest Cameroon

Jennifer Provost, Gabriel Rosero, Bernhard Brümmer and Eva Schlecht

The impact of cash transfers on Syrian refugee children in Lebanon

Wael Moussa, Nisreen Salti, Alexandra Irani, Rima Al Mokdad, Zeina Jamaluddine, Jad Chaaban and Hala Ghattas

Matching grants and economic activities among horticultural entrepreneurs: Long-term evidence from Rwanda

Marup Hossain, Athur Mabiso and Alessandra Garbero

Risk and time preferences for participating in forest landscape restoration: The case of coffee farmers in Uganda

Hanna Julia Ihli, Brian Chiputwa, Etti Winter and Anja Gassner

Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan

Ritu Verma and Karma Ura

China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents

Ana Alves and Su-Hyun Lee

The right to fail? Problematizing failure discourse in international conservation

Josephine M. Chambers, Kate Massarella and Robert Fletcher

Challenging dominant sustainability worldviews on the energy transition: Lessons from Indigenous communities in Mexico and a plea for pluriversal technologies

Paola Velasco-Herrejón, Thomas Bauwens and Martin Calisto Friant

Are Chinese cities getting smarter in terms of knowledge and technology they produce?

Frank van der Wouden

Dams mitigate the effect of rainfall shocks on Hindus-Muslims riots

Sébastien Mary

Knowledge communities and policy influence in China

May Farid and Lori Noguchi

Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?

John F. McCauley, Margaret M. Pearson and Xiaonan Wang

Can patients improve the quality of care they receive? Experimental evidence from Senegal

Roxanne J. Kovacs, Mylene Lagarde and John Cairns

Volume 149, issue C, 2022

Educational and economic returns to cognitive ability in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Sachiko Ozawa, Sarah K. Laing, Colleen R. Higgins, Tatenda T. Yemeke, Christine C. Park, Rebecca Carlson, Young Eun Ko, L. Beryl Guterman and Saad B. Omer

South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health

Helena de Moraes Achcar

Land formalization – The new magic bullet in counternarcotics? A case study of coca cultivation and tenure (in)formality from Colombia

Frances Thomson, Monica Parada-Hernández and Camilo Acero

Passive versus active service delivery: Comparing the effects of two parenting interventions on early cognitive development in rural China

Sean Sylvia, Renfu Luo, Jingdong Zhong, Sarah-Eve Dill, Alexis Medina and Scott Rozelle

Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico

Cynthia Boruchowicz, Susan Parker and Lindsay Robbins

Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS

Nayantara Sarma

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries

Risto Rönkkö, Stuart Rutherford and Kunal Sen

The arithmetics and politics of domestic resource mobilization for poverty eradication

Kimberly B. Bolch, Lidia Ceriani and Luis Lopez-Calva

The finance-growth nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analytic perspective

Ichiro Iwasaki

SDG interlinkage networks: Analysis, robustness, sensitivities, and hierarchies

J.H.P. Dawes

Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city

Jac Davis, Nyasha Magadzire, Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx, Tijs Maes, Darryn Durno, Nobelusi Kenyana, Shuaib Lwasa, Anton Van Rompaey, Peter H. Verburg and Julian May

Institutional factors, religiosity, and entrepreneurial activity: A quantitative examination across 85 countries

Chao Miao, Johanna Gast, Rahma Laouiti and Walid Nakara

Forest governance in the Amazon: Favoring the emergence of local management systems

Gabriel da Silva Medina, Benno Pokorny and Bruce Campbell

Supermarket contracts, opportunity cost and trade-offs, and farm household welfare: Panel data evidence from Kenya

Dennis O. Ochieng and Sylvester O. Ogutu

Starting points matter: Cash plus training effects on youth entrepreneurship, skills, and resilience during an epidemic

Nina Rosas, Maria Cecilia Acevedo and Samantha Zaldivar

The role of agriculture in poverty escapes in Kenya – Developing a capabilities approach in the context of climate change

Marta Eichsteller, Tim Njagi and Elvin Nyukuri

Involuntary entrepreneurship – Evidence from Thai urban data

Alexander Karaivanov and Tenzin Yindok

The ‘Sustainable Public Health Index’: What if public health and sustainable development are compatible?

Miguel Alves Pereira and Rc Marques

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and transnational hybrid governance in Ecuador’s palm oil industry

Adrienne Johnson

Volume 148, issue C, 2021

Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam

L.C. Hagedoorn, P. Bubeck, P. Hudson, L.M. Brander, M. Pham and R. Lasage

What drives social returns to education? A meta-analysis

Ying Cui and Pedro Martins

Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks

Jagadeesh Sivadasan and Wenjian Xu

Measuring capabilities: Taking people’s values seriously

Tadashi Hirai

Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam

Hoa-Thi-Minh Nguyen, Huong Do and Tom Kompas

Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger

Takao Maruyama and Takashi Kurosaki

Fostering savings by commitment: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment at The Small Enterprise Foundation in South Africa

Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Angela De Michele, Giorgio Di Maio and Paolo Landoni

How important is culture to understand political protest?

Paolo Li Donni, Maria Marino and Christian Welzel

Do macroeconomic fluctuations at destination matter in determining migrants’ return decisions?

Smriti Tiwari

Dynamic pathways of barriers and opportunities for food security and climate adaptation in Southern Mali

Udita Sanga, Amadou Sidibé and Laura Schmitt Olabisi

The nutritional benefits of cash transfers in humanitarian crises: evidence from Yemen

Sikandra Kurdi

Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador

Richard Fischer, Fabian Tamayo Cordero, Tatiana Ojeda Luna, Rubén Ferrer Velasco, Maria DeDecker, Bolier Torres, Lukas Giessen and Sven Günter

Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency

Vítězslav Titl, Kristof De Witte and Benny Geys

NGO-state relations in the monitoring of illegal forest logging and wildlife trafficking in Central Africa

Aurelian Mbzibain and Teodyl Nkuintchua Tchoudjen

Stepping Up versus Stepping Out: On the outcomes and drivers of two alternative climate change adaptation strategies of smallholders

Md. Mofakkarul Islam, Md. Asaduzzaman Sarker, Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Md. Mamun-ur-Rashid and Debashis Roy

Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?

G.S. Cooper, Bhavani Shankar, K.M. Rich, N.N. Ratna, M.J. Alam, N. Singh and S. Kadiyala

Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of “last frontiers” in Brazil and Myanmar

Mairon G. Bastos Lima and Laura Kmoch

Gender and LPG use after government intervention in rural north India

Sangita Vyas, Aashish Gupta and Nazar Khalid