World Development

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Volume 140, issue C, 2021

Too little but not too late: nowcasting poverty and cash transfers’ incidence during COVID-19’s crisis

Matias Brum and Mauricio De Rosa

Institutional pluralism and water user behavior in rural Africa

Johanna Koehler, Patrick Thomson, Susanna Goodall, Jacob Katuva and Rob Hope

Evaluating risk allocation and project impacts of sustainability-oriented water public–private partnerships in Southern California: A comparative case analysis

Evgenia Nizkorodov

Jobs’ amenability is not enough: The role of household inputs for safe work under social distancing in Latin American cities

Lucila Berniell and Daniel Fernandez

China’s green transformation through eco-industrial parks

Douglas Zhihua Zeng, Lei Cheng, Lei Shi and Wilfried Luetkenhorst

Is the agricultural sector cursed too? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Elizavetta Dorinet, Pierre-André Jouvet and Julien Wolfersberger

“We live and we do this work”: Women waste pickers’ experiences of wellbeing in Ahmedabad, India

Josie Wittmer

Sisterhood partnerships for conflict-related sexual violence

Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Natalie F. Hudson

Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges

Kate Hampshire, Tawonga Mwase-Vuma, Kassahun Alemu, Albert Abane, Alister Munthali, Tadesse Awoke, Simon Mariwah, Elita Chamdimba, Samuel Asiedu Owusu, Elsbeth Robson, Michele Castelli, Ziv Shkedy, Nicholas Shawa, Jane Abel and Adetayo Kasim

There’s Technology Improvement, but is there Economy-wide Energy Leapfrogging? A Country Panel Analysis

Brantley Liddle and Hillard Huntington

Can communal systems work? The effects of communal water provision on child health in Peru

Joan Calzada and Susana Iranzo

Corrective lenses for a myopic state: Unseeing coca or not unseeing comunidades negras in Colombia?

Alexander Huezo and Gerardo Bazán Orobio

Systematic prioritisation of SDGs: Machine learning approach

Atie Asadikia, Abbas Rajabifard and Mohsen Kalantari

Rural poverty, violence, and power: Rejecting and endorsing gender mainstreaming by food security NGOs in Armenia and Georgia

Anna Jenderedjian and Anne C. Bellows

Contract farming as partial insurance

Marc Bellemare, Yu Na Lee and Lindsey Novak

Land tenure and economic development: Evidence from Vietnam

Hoang-Anh Ho

Large-scale farms in Zambia: Locational patterns and spillovers to smallholder agriculture

Jann Lay, Kerstin Nolte and Kacana Sipangule

Measuring fuel poverty in tropical territories: A latent class model

Dorothée Charlier, Bérangère Legendre and Olivia Ricci

Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow, Edward Challies, Benedetta Cotta and Jens Newig

Aid or exploitation?: Food-for-work, cash-for-work, and the production of “beneficiary-workers” in Ethiopia and Haiti

Lauren Carruth and Scott Freeman

Analyzing community forest enterprises in the Maya Biosphere Reserve using a modified capitals framework

Megan Butler

Examining the economic impact of COVID-19 in India through daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity

Robert Beyer, Sebastian Franco-Bedoya and Virgilio Galdo

Is there political elite capture in access to energy sources? Evidence from Indian households

Somdeep Chatterjee and Debdatta Pal

The dangers of performative scientism as the alternative to anti-scientific policymaking: A critical, preliminary assessment of South Africa’s Covid-19 response and its consequences

Sean Muller

Taking power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jeannie Annan, Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez Martinez and Gayatri Koolwal

COVID-19 and conflict

Jeffrey Bloem and Colette Salemi

Mobilising urban knowledge in an infodemic: Urban observatories, sustainable development and the COVID-19 crisis

Michele Acuto, Ariana Dickey, Stephanie Butcher and Carla-Leanne Washbourne

Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Income, expenditure, savings, and job loss

Hai-Anh Dang and Cuong Nguyen

Perceptions and acceptability of electricity theft: Towards better public service provision

Jason Chun Yu Wong, Brian Blankenship, Johannes Urpelainen, Karthik Ganesan, Kapardhi Bharadwaj and Kanika Balani

How does Covid-19 affect urban slums? Evidence from settlement leaders in India

Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil

Household response to an extreme shock: Evidence on the immediate impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on economic outcomes and well-being in rural Uganda

Mahreen Mahmud and Emma Riley

Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia

Daniel LaFave, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen and Michael Toman

Decentralization and the governance of climate adaptation: Situating community-based planning within broader trajectories of political transformation

Harry W. Fischer

Developing educational and vocational aspirations through international child sponsorship: Evidence from Kenya, Indonesia, and Mexico

Phillip Ross, Paul Glewwe, Daniel Prudencio and Bruce Wydick

Humanising agricultural extension: A review

Brian R. Cook, Paula Satizábal and Jayne Curnow

Leveraging private investment to expand renewable power generation: Evidence on financial additionality and productivity gains from Uganda

Benedict Probst, Lotte Westermann, Laura Díaz Anadón and Andreas Kontoleon

Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries

Sarah Lawless, Philippa J. Cohen, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Danika Kleiber and Tiffany H. Morrison

The impact of remittances on food insecurity: Evidence from Mexico

Jorge Mora-Rivera and Edwin van Gameren

Mining and quality of public services: The role of local governance and decentralization

Maty Konte and Rose Vincent

Covid-19 vs. Ebola: Impact on households and small businesses in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Nik Stoop, Sébastien Desbureaux, Audacieux Kaota, Elie Lunanga and Marijke Verpoorten

Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh?

M Asadullah, Nazia Mansoor, Teresa Randazzo and Zaki Wahhaj

Do inequalities predict fear of crime? Empirical evidence from Mexico

Matthieu Clément and Lucie Piaser

COVID-19 and armed conflict

Tobias Ide

Does the COVID-19 pandemic threaten global solidarity? Evidence from Germany

Sebastian H. Schneider, Jens Eger, Martin Bruder, Jörg Faust and Lothar H. Wieler

Planning for a world beyond COVID-19: Five pillars for post-neoliberal development

Bram Büscher, Giuseppe Feola, Andrew Fischer, Robert Fletcher, Julien-François Gerber, Wendy Harcourt, Martijn Koster, Mindi Schneider, Joeri Scholtens, Marja Spierenburg, Vincent Walstra and Han Wiskerke

The power paradigm in practice: A critical review of developments in the Zambian electricity sector

Kate Bayliss and Gabriel Pollen

Redistributing resilience? Deliberate transformation and political capabilities in post-Haiyan Tacloban

Jonathan Ensor, Heidi Tuhkanen, Michael Boyland, Albert Salamanca, Karlee Johnson, Frank Thomalla and Ladylyn Lim Mangada

Integrating the four faces of climate change adaptation: Towards transformative change in Guatemalan coffee communities

Gail Hochachka

The role of ICT in collective management of public bads: The case of potato late blight in Ethiopia

Katarzyna Cieslik, Francesco Cecchi, Elias Assefa Damtew, Shiferaw Tafesse, Paul C. Struik, Berga Lemaga and Cees Leeuwis

Predicting the long-term social and ecological impacts of tree-planting programs: Evidence from northern India

Pushpendra Rana and Daniel C. Miller

Using Google data to measure the role of Big Food and fast food in South Africa’s obesity epidemic

Steffen Otterbach, Hamid Reza Oskorouchi, Michael Rogan and Matin Qaim

Demographic, health, and economic transitions and the future care burden

Elizabeth King, Hannah Randolph, Maria S. Floro and Jooyeoun Suh

Troubling the idealised pageantry of extractive conflicts: Comparative insights on authority and claim-making from Papua New Guinea, Mongolia and El Salvador

Jennifer Lander, Pascale Hatcher, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Anthony Bebbington and Glenn Banks

Deportations and the transnational roots of gang violence in Central America

Christian Ambrosius

The role of institutional entrepreneurs and informal land transactions in Mexico City’s urban expansion

Beth Tellman, Hallie Eakin, Marco A. Janssen, Felipe de Alba and B.L. Turner

Understanding inclusive innovation processes in agricultural systems: A middle-range conceptual model

Elizabeth Hoffecker