World Development

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Volume 145, issue C, 2021

The social contract as a tool of analysis: Introduction to the special issue on “Framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”

Markus Loewe, Tina Zintl and Annabelle Houdret

Parental divorces and children’s educational outcomes in Senegal

Juliette Crespin-Boucaud and Rozenn Hotte

Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia

Manon Authelet, Julie Subervie, Patrick Meyfroidt, Nigel Asquith and Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

The effect of peer-to-peer risk information on potential migrants – Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Senegal

Jasper Tjaden and Felipe Alexander Dunsch

Trafficking as settler colonialism in eastern Panama: Linking the Americas via illicit commerce, clientelism, and land cover change

Colectivo Darién

Public good provision and democracy: Evidence from an experiment with farmer groups in Malawi

Vesall Nourani, Annemie Maertens and Hope Michelson

Food insecurity and compound environmental shocks in Nepal: Implications for a changing climate

Heather Randell, Chengsheng Jiang, Xin-Zhong Liang, Raghu Murtugudde and Amir Sapkota

Friends and benefits? Endogenous rotating savings and credit associations as alternative for women’s empowerment in India

Ashish Kumar Sedai, Ramaa Vasudevan and Anita Alves Pena

The forest transition as a window of opportunity to change the governance of common-pool resources: The case of Mexico’s Mixteca Alta

Matthew Lorenzen, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, Rosario Ramírez-Santiago and Gustavo G. Garza

Mental and physical health impacts of water/sanitation infrastructure in First Nations communities in Canada: An analysis of the Regional Health Survey

Melanie O'Gorman

Hiding behind the veil of ashes: Social capital in the wake of natural disasters

Victor Stephane

Gender-differentiated impacts of plant clinics on maize productivity and food security: Evidence from Zambia

Justice A. Tambo, Mathews Matimelo, Mathias Ndhlovu, Fredrick Mbugua and Noah Phiri

Large farms, large benefits? Sustainability certification among family farms and agro-industrial producers in Peru

Eva-Marie Meemken

Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropics

Rachel Carmenta, Federico Cammelli, Wolfram Dressler, Camila Verbicaro and Julie G. Zaehringer

A micro-based approach to evaluate the effect of water supply on health in Uganda

Raymond Frempong, Lucas Kitzmüller and David Stadelmann

New food regime geographies: Scale, state, labor

Jostein Jakobsen

On the capacity to absorb public investment: How much is too much?☆

Daniel Gurara, Kangni Kpodar, Andrea Presbitero and Dawit Tessema

Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand

Olaf Hübler, Melanie Koch, Lukas Menkhoff and Ulrich Schmidt

COVID-19, poverty and inclusive development

Joyeeta Gupta, Maarten Bavinck, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Kwabena Asubonteng, Hilmer Bosch, Edith van Ewijk, Michaela Hordijk, Yves Van Leynseele, Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Esther Miedema, Nicky Pouw, Crelis Rammelt, Joeri Scholtens, Courtney Vegelin and Hebe Verrest

Digital platforms and institutional voids in developing countries: The case of ride-hailing markets

Richard Heeks, Juan Erasmo Gomez-Morantes, Mark Graham, Kelle Howson, Paul Mungai, Brian Nicholson and Jean-Paul Van Belle

Tourism partnerships: Harnessing tourist compassion to ‘do good’ through community development in Fiji

Emma Hughes and Regina Scheyvens

Associations between hurricane exposure, food insecurity, and microfinance; a cross-sectional study in Haiti

Sina Kianersi, Reginal Jules, Yijia Zhang, Maya Luetke and Molly Rosenberg

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as an instrument for Chinese influence? Supplementary versus remedial multilateralism

Ayse Kaya, Christopher Kilby and Jonathan Kay

Reducing gender inequalities through land titling? The case of Gozamin Woreda

Ayelech Kidie Mengesha, Doris Damyanovic, Reinfried Mansberger, Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu and Gernot Stoeglehner

Lack of access to clean fuel and piped water and children’s educational outcomes in rural India

Pallavi Choudhuri and Sonalde Desai

Critical junctures, agrarian change, and the (re)production of vulnerability in a marginalised Indigenous society

Guy Jackson

Volume 144, issue C, 2021

Implications of poverty traps across levels

Sonja Radosavljevic, L. Jamila Haider, Steven J. Lade and Maja Schlüter

Betting on the lord: Lotteries and religiosity in Haiti

Emmanuelle Auriol, Diego Delissaint, Maleke Fourati, Josepa Miquel-Florensa and Paul Seabright

Social interaction and technology adoption: Experimental evidence from improved cookstoves in Mali

Jacopo Bonan, Pietro Battiston, Jaimie Bleck, Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Stefano Pareglio, Bassirou Sarr and Massimo Tavoni

The returns to higher education and public employment

Ravi Somani

Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS

Keun Lee, Jongho Lee and Juneyoung Lee

Narco-degradation: Cocaine trafficking’s environmental impacts in Central America’s protected areas

Jennifer A. Devine, David Wrathall, Bernardo Aguilar-González, Karina Benessaiah, Beth Tellman, Zahra Ghaffari and Daria Ponstingel

Long-term impacts of tropical cyclones and fluvial floods on economic growth – Empirical evidence on transmission channels at different levels of development

H. Krichene, T. Geiger, K. Frieler, S.N. Willner, I. Sauer and C. Otto

The impact of investing in social care on employment generation, time-, income-poverty by gender: A macro-micro policy simulation for Turkey

Ipek Ilkkaracan, Kijong Kim, Thomas Masterson, Emel Memiş and Ajit Zacharias

Moving out of agriculture in Bangladesh: The role of farm, non-farm and mixed households

Binayak Sen, Paul Dorosh and Mansur Ahmed

Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria

Thomas Daum, Roberto Villalba, Oluwakayode Anidi, Sharon Masakhwe Mayienga, Saurabh Gupta and Regina Birner

Migrants and access to health care in Costa Rica

Koen Voorend, Arjun Bedi and Rebeca Sura-Fonseca

Moving with risk: Forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia

Roger Few, Viviana Ramírez, Maria Teresa Armijos, Lina Andrea Zambrano Hernández and Hazel Marsh

Impact of family law reform on adolescent reproductive health in Ethiopia: A quasi-experimental study

Slawa Rokicki

In-utero Exposure to Rainfall Variability and Early Childhood Health

Kien Le and My Nguyen

Inter-household transfers: An empirical investigation of the income-transfer relationship with novel data from Burkina Faso

Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Ann-Kristin Reitmann and Fadima Yaya Bocoum

A multidimensional framework for disaster recovery: Longitudinal qualitative evidence from Puerto Rican households

Gemma Sou, Duncan Shaw and Felix Aponte-Gonzalez

Economic viability of community-based forest management for certified timber production in southeastern Tanzania

Gregory E. Frey, Susan Charnley and Jasper Makala

Cognitive bias in insurance: Evidence from a health scheme in India

Jean-Philippe Platteau and Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros

Caught between winning repeat business and learning: Reactivity to output indicators in international development

Emily Springer

Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding

Florian Krampe, Farah Hegazi and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Volume 143, issue C, 2021

Brand Aid and coffee value chain development interventions: Is Starbucks working aid out of business?

Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte

Improving food safety on the farm: Experimental evidence from Kenya on incentives and subsidies for technology adoption

Vivian Hoffmann and Kelly Jones

Identities and public policies: Unexpected effects of political reservations for women in India

Guilhem Cassan and Lore Vandewalle

Partnerships for development. Assessing the impact potential of cross-sector partnerships

Anne Vestergaard, Thilde Langevang, Mette Morsing and Luisa Murphy

From paper institutions to bureaucratic autonomy: Institutional change as a resource curse remedy

José Carlos Orihuela, Arturo Mendieta, Carlos Pérez and Tania Ramírez

Narco Robin Hoods: Community support for illicit economies and violence in rural Central America

Laura Ross Blume

Crowding-out or crowding-in? Effects of LEAP 1000 unconditional cash transfer program on household and community support among women in rural Ghana

Marlous de Milliano, Clare Barrington, Gustavo Angeles and Christiana Gbedemah

Towards smallholder food and water security: Climate variability in the context of multiple livelihood hazards in Nicaragua

Christopher M. Bacon, William A. Sundstrom, Iris T. Stewart, Ed Maurer and Lisa C. Kelley

Do benefits of expanded midstream activities in crop value chains accrue to smallholder farmers? Evidence from Zambia

Ahmed Salim Nuhu, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Titus Awokuse and Stephen Kabwe

Measuring sustainable food systems in Brazil: A framework and multidimensional index to evaluate socioeconomic, nutritional, and environmental aspects

Aline Martins de Carvalho, Eliseu Verly , Dirce Maria Marchioni and Andrew D. Jones

Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains

Hannah R. Bassett, Jacqueline Lau, Christopher Giordano, Sharon K. Suri, Sahir Advani and Sonia Sharan