World Development

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Volume 139, issue C, 2021

Inequality, persistence of the informal economy, and club convergence

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero

Adaptation, spatial effects, and targeting: Evidence from Africa and Asia

Krisha Lim, Bruno Wichmann and Martin Luckert

The impact of iron-biofortified bean adoption on bean productivity, consumption, purchases and sales

Kate Vaiknoras and Catherine Larochelle

The medium-run and scale-up effects of performance-based financing: An extension of Rwanda’s 2006 trial using secondary data

Diana K.L. Ngo and Sebastian Bauhoff

The challenge of reconciling conservation and development in the tropics: Lessons from Brazil’s oil palm governance model

Frederico Brandão, George Schoneveld, Pablo Pacheco, Ima Vieira, Marc Piraux and Dalva Mota

Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers

Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Rocco Zizzamia, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod

Low-skilled workers and the effects of minimum wage in a developing country: Evidence based on a density-discontinuity approach

Sharon Katzkowicz, Gabriela Pedetti, Martina Querejeta and Marcelo Bergolo

Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul Raschky and Michael J. Tierney

Farmland investments in Tanzania: The impact of protected domestic markets and patronage relations

Joanny Bélair

Subnational favoritism in development grant allocations: Empirical evidence from decentralized Indonesia

Gerrit J. Gonschorek

Looking out, working in: How policymakers and experts conceptualize health system models in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Peru

Shiri Noy

It’s not price; It’s quality. Satisfaction and price fairness perception

Raul Jimenez Mori

Productive knowledge, economic sophistication, and labor share

Imran Arif

The rise and fall of import substitution

Douglas A. Irwin

The pandemic of poverty, vulnerability, and COVID-19: Evidence from a fuzzy multidimensional analysis of deprivations in Brazil

Fernando Flores Tavares and Gianni Betti

Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women’s respiratory health and household labour productivity

Poushali Maji, Zia Mehrabi and Milind Kandlikar

Localising Public Health: Refugee-led organisations as first and last responders in COVID-19

Alexander Betts, Evan Easton-Calabria and Kate Pincock

Women’s reproductive health and economic activity: A narrative review

Jocelyn E. Finlay

Private sustainability governance, the Global South and COVID-19: Are changes to audit policies in light of the pandemic exacerbating existing inequalities?

Graeme Auld and Stefan Renckens

Artisanal and small-scale mining, and COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A preliminary analysis

Gavin Hilson, Steven Van Bockstael, Titus Sauerwein, Abigail Hilson and James McQuilken

Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba

Gabriela Russo Lopes, Mairon G. Bastos Lima and Tiago N.P. dos Reis

Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions

João Prates Romero and Camila Gramkow

The evolution of community forestry through the growth of interlinked community institutions in Java, Indonesia

Heni Kurniasih, Rebecca M Ford, Rodney J Keenan and Barbara King

Increasing utilization of public health insurance programs: Evidence from an experiment in India

Raghav Puri and Changqing Sun

The micro-politics of corporate responsibility: How companies shape protest in communities affected by mining

Paul Alexander Haslam

Shaping alternatives to development: Solidarity and reciprocity in the Andes during COVID-19

Diana Córdoba, Ana Maria Peredo and Paola Chaves

The mutual constraints of states and global value chains during COVID-19: The case of personal protective equipment

Mark P. Dallas, Rory Horner and Lantian Li

Cooperation and coercion: The quest for quasi-voluntary compliance in the governance of African commons

Martin Sjöstedt and Amanda Linell

Getting institutions right: Matching institutional capacities to developmental tasks

Jacob I. Ricks and Richard F. Doner

Can e-government limit the scope of the informal economy?

Nasr Elbahnasawy

The Sustainable Development Goals and ‘legal identity for all’: ‘First, do no harm’

Bronwen Manby

Trade liberalization and the health of working-age adults: Evidence from China

Jin Feng, Qiang Xie and Xiaohan Zhang

Volume 138, issue C, 2021

Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis

Ranjula Bali Swain and Shyam Ranganathan

Do remittances reduce women’s acceptance of domestic violence? Evidence from Pakistan

Aniruddha Mitra, James Bang and Faisal Abbas

Production fragmentation and upgrading opportunities for exporters: An empirical assessment of the case of Brazil

Caio Torres Mazzi, Neil Foster-McGregor and Glaucia Estefânia de Sousa Ferreira

Who benefits from climate-friendly agriculture? The marginal returns to a rainfed system of rice intensification in Tanzania

Mare Sarr, Mintewab Bezabih Ayele, Mumbi E. Kimani and Remidius Ruhinduka

Innovation through iteration: Policy feedback loops in China’s economic reform

Wendy Leutert

Returns to farm child labor in Tanzania

Pierre André, Esther Delesalle and Christelle Dumas

Can the minimum wage reduce poverty and inequality in the developing world? Evidence from Brazil

Orlando J. Sotomayor

Reverse entrepreneurial migration in China and India: The role of the state

David Zweig, Kellee S. Tsai and Alwyn Didar Singh

Grassroots waste picker organizations addressing the UN sustainable development goals

Jutta Gutberlet

Bright as night: Illuminating the antinomies of ‘gender positive’ solar development

Ryan Stock

Who can work and study from home in Pakistan: Evidence from a 2018–19 nationwide household survey

Syed M. Hasan, Attique Rehman and Wendong Zhang

Influencing the means but not the ends: The role of entertainment-education interventions in development

Christopher Grady, Alice Iannantuoni and Matthew S. Winters

Returns to education in Vietnam: A changing landscape

Seamus McGuinness, Elish Kelly, Thi Thu Phuong Pham, Thi Thu Thuy Ha and Adele Whelan

Determinants of success of community forestry: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia

Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Berhanu Gebremedhin and Abebe D. Beyene

Measuring willingness to pay for reliable electricity: Evidence from Senegal

Joshua Deutschmann, Agnieszka Postepska and Leopold Sarr

Perceptions of relative deprivation and women’s empowerment

Katrina Kosec, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Emily Schmidt and Jie Song

Moving up or going under? Differential livelihood trajectories in coastal communities in Vietnam

Hoang Trung Thanh, Petra Tschakert and Matthew R. Hipsey

Measuring empowerment: Choices, values and norms

Diego Maiorano, Dishil Shrimankar, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Hans Blomkvist

More suffering, more involvement? The causal effects of seismic disasters on social capital

Yu Bai and Yanjun Li

The COVID-19 pandemic intensified resource conflicts and indigenous resistance in Brazil

Mary Menton, Felipe Milanez, Jurema Machado de Andrade Souza and Felipe Sotto Maior Cruz

Transparency and Trust in Government. Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Martin Alessandro, Bruno Cardinale Lagomarsino, Carlos Scartascini, Jorge Streb and Jerónimo Torrealday

Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda

Kate Ambler, Kelly Jones and Michael O'Sullivan

Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine

Igor Asanov, Francisco Flores, David McKenzie, Mona Mensmann and Mathis Schulte

Parents’ assets and child marriage: Are mother’s assets more protective than father’s assets?

Felix M. Muchomba

Weather shocks, climate change and human health

Daniel Meierrieks

COVID-19 response needs to broaden financial inclusion to curb the rise in poverty

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero and Mostak Ahamed

Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development

Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Ian Scoones and Annie Wilkinson

The local governance of COVID-19: Disease prevention and social security in rural India

Anwesha Dutta and Harry W. Fischer

Public support for development aid during the COVID-19 pandemic

Yoshiharu Kobayashi, Tobias Heinrich and Kristin A. Bryant

Why is the number of COVID-19 cases lower than expected in Sub-Saharan Africa? A cross-sectional analysis of the role of demographic and geographic factors

Pierre Nguimkeu and Sosson Tadadjeu

The dynamics of the Egyptian social contract: How the political changes affected the poor

Solava Ibrahim

The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle-income countries

Jonas Jessen and Jochen Kluve

India’s rural transformation and rising obesity burden

Anaka Aiyar, Andaleeb Rahman and Prabhu Pingali

Measuring educational inequality of opportunity: pupil’s effort matters

M Asadullah, Alain Trannoy, Sandy Tubeuf and Gaston Yalonetzky

On the malleability of gender attitudes: Evidence from implicit and explicit measures in Tunisia

Eleonora Nillesen, Michael Grimm, Micheline Goedhuys, Ann-Kristin Reitmann and Aline Meysonnat

Improving smallholder farmers’ gross margins and labor-use efficiency across a range of cropping systems in the Eastern Gangetic Plains

Mahesh K. Gathala, Alison M. Laing, Thakur P. Tiwari, Jagadish Timsina, Fay Rola-Rubzen, Saiful Islam, Sofina Maharjan, Peter R. Brown, Kalyan K. Das, Kausik Pradhan, Apurba K. Chowdhury, Ranvir Kumar, Ram Datt, Mazharul Anwar, Shakhawat Hossain, Ujjwal Kumar, Surya Adhikari, Dinesh B.T. Magar, Bibek K. Sapkota, Hari K. Shrestha, Rashadul Islam, Mamunur Rashid, Israil Hossain, Akbar Hossain, Brendan Brown and Bruno Gerard

Effects of time-dependent environmental regulations on air pollution: Evidence from the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan region, China

Ke Li, Weihong Yuan, Jianglong Li and Hongshan Ai

Why is it so hard to push Chinese railway projects in Southeast Asia? The role of domestic politics in Malaysia and Indonesia

Guanie Lim, Chen Li and Emirza Adi Syailendra

Why do some poor countries see armed conflict while others do not? A dual sector approach

Jonas Vestby, Halvard Buhaug and Nina von Uexkull

The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data

Wendy Janssens, Menno Pradhan, Richard de Groot, Estelle Sidze, Hermann Donfouet and Amanuel Abajobir

Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change

Anna Erwin, Zhao Ma, Ruxandra Popovici, Emma Patricia Salas O'Brien, Laura Zanotti, Eliseo Zeballos Zeballos, Jonathan Bauchet, Nelly Ramirez Calderón and Glenn Roberto Arce Larrea

Liberal land reform in Kazakhstan? The effect on land rental and credit markets

Vasyl Kvartiuk and Martin Petrick

Flesh and bones: Working with the grain to improve community management of water

Luke Whaley, Frances Cleaver and Evance Mwathunga

Analysing the economies of transactional sex amongst young people: Case study of Madagascar

Jane Freedman, Mina Rakotoarindrasata and Jean de Dieu Randrianasolorivo

Plantations, women, and food security in Africa: Interrogating the investment pathway towards zero hunger in Cameroon and Ghana

Lotsmart N Fonjong and Adwoa Y Gyapong