World Development

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Volume 137, issue C, 2021

The Lived Social Contract in Schools: From protection to the production of hegemony

Hania Sobhy

Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Bruno Turnheim, Andrew Hook, Andrea Brock and Mari Martiskainen

Targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic-based intervention: Rhetoric and reality in Qinghai, China

Chuan Liao, Ding Fei, Qingxu Huang, Lu Jiang and Peijun Shi

Infrastructure and household poverty in Brazil: A regional approach using multilevel models

Victor Medeiros, Rafael Ribeiro and Pedro Amaral

Short-run environmental effects of COVID-19: Evidence from forest fires

Jayash Paudel

Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China

Qing Miao, Susan Schwarz and Gary Schwarz

The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance

Gerhard Kling, Ulrich Volz, Victor Murinde and Sibel Ayas

Gendered differences in crop diversity choices: A case study from Papua New Guinea

Stella Nordhagen, Unai Pascual and Adam G. Drucker

Intrastate environmental peacebuilding: A review of the literature

McKenzie F. Johnson, Luz A. Rodríguez and Manuela Quijano Hoyos

Collaborative survival and the politics of livability: Towards adaptation otherwise

Jamie Haverkamp

The role of ethnic characteristics in the effect of income shocks on African conflict

Beatriz Manotas-Hidalgo, Fidel Pérez-Sebastián and Miguel Angel Campo-Bescós

Has the vision of a gender quota rule been realized for community-based water management committees in Kenya?

Corrie Hannah, Stacey Giroux, Natasha Krell, Sara Lopus, Laura E. McCann, Andrew Zimmer, Kelly K. Caylor and Tom P. Evans

You’ve got a friend in me: How social networks and mobile phones facilitate healthcare access among marginalised groups in rural Thailand and Lao PDR

Marco Haenssgen, Nutcha Charoenboon and Giacomo Zanello

Connecting Malian and Burkinabe women’s local experiences of livelihood security to how they participate in politics

Cathryn Evangeline Johnson

Empowerment in water, sanitation and hygiene index

Sarah Dickin, Elijah Bisung, Juste Nansi and Katrina Charles

More assets, more decision-making power? Mediation model in a cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of the graduation program on women's empowerment in Burkina Faso

Leyla Karimli, Els Lecoutere, Christine R. Wells and Leyla Ismayilova

A critique of overpopulation as a cause of pathologies in African cities: Evidence from building collapse in Ghana

Festival Godwin Boateng

Sensitivity matters. Comparing the use of multiple indicators and of a multidimensional poverty index in the evaluation of a poverty eradication program

Edoardo Masset and Jorge García-Hombrados

Do minimum wages reduce employment in developing countries? A survey and exploration of conflicting evidence

David Neumark and Luis Felipe Munguía Corella

The coca enclosure: Autonomy against accumulation in Colombia

Anthony Dest

The ABCs of Covid-19 prevention in Malawi: Authority, benefits, and costs of compliance

Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust, Boniface Dulani, Karen E. Ferree, Adam S. Harris and Erica Metheney

Life under lockdown: Illustrating tradeoffs in South Africa’s response to COVID-19

Ruth D. Carlitz and Moraka N. Makhura

Whatever it takes? The global financial safety net, Covid-19, and developing countries

Thomas Stubbs, William Kring, Christina Laskaridis, Alexander Kentikelenis and Kevin Gallagher

Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg

Kathrin Durizzo, Edward Asiedu, Antoinette Van der Merwe, Attie Van Niekerk and Isabel Günther

The market-reach of pandemics: Evidence from female workers in Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry

Christian Meyer, Morgan Hardy, Marc Witte, Gisella Kagy and Eyoual Demeke

Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America

Bastián González-Bustamante

Topographies of coal mining dissent: Power, politics, and protests in southern Philippines

Laurence L. Delina

Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea

June Park and Eunbin Chung

COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment

Monica K. Kansiime, Justice A. Tambo, Idah Mugambi, Mary Bundi, Augustine Kara and Charles Owuor

The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health: An observational cohort study from Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Golam Mustafa, Tapas Paul and David Wheeler

Can institutional innovations in agri-marketing channels alleviate distress selling? Evidence from India

Disha Bhanot, Vinish Kathuria and Debabrata Das

Upward or downward: Occupational mobility and return migration

Nelly El-Mallakh and Jackline Wahba

Energy access for marginalized communities: Evidence from rural North India, 2015–2018

Setu Pelz, Namrata Chindarkar and Johannes Urpelainen

The Kerala model in the time of COVID19: Rethinking state, society and democracy

Jos Chathukulam and Joseph Tharamangalam

All things equal? Heterogeneity in policy effectiveness against COVID-19 spread in chile

Magdalena Bennett

Different pathways of social protection reforms: An analysis of long-term institutional change in Kenya

Katja Bender, Barbara Rohregger, Bethuel Kinuthia, Grace Ikua, Esther Schüring, Clement Adamba, Kennedy A. Alatinga and Nicky Pouw

Rural electrification and changes in employment structure in Cambodia

Panharoth Chhay and Koji Yamazaki

Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era

Andrea Ferrannini, Elisa Barbieri, Mario Biggeri and Marco R. Di Tommaso

The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19

Tariq Omar Ali, Mirza Hassan and Naomi Hossain

COVID-19 and the rise of intimate partner violence

Jorge Agüero

Volume 136, issue C, 2020

Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake

Vera Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Sven Kunze and Eric Strobl

The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia

Jean-Paul Faguet, Fabio Sanchez Torres and Marta Villaveces Niño

Measuring governance: Why do errors matter?

Leandro Magnusson and Yashar Tarverdi

Does experience sharing affect farmers’ pro-environmental behavior? A randomized controlled trial in Vietnam

Ha Thu Vu, Duc Tran, Daisaku Goto and Keisuke Kawata

Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India

Francisco Ceballos, Samyuktha Kannan and Berber Kramer

International migration experience and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Mexico

Joshua Wassink

Two models of community-centered development in Myanmar

Woojin Jung

More than a decade in the making: A study of the implementation of India's Right to Information Act

Jeannine E. Relly, Md. Fazle Rabbi, Meghna Sabharwal, Rajdeep Pakanati and Ethan H. Schwalbe

Organizational and partisan brokerage of social benefits: Social policy linkages in Mexico

Candelaria Garay, Brian Palmer-Rubin and Mathias Poertner

Christianity and girl child health in India

Nidhiya Menon and Kathleen McQueeney

Effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts in the African small farm sector: Insights from oil palm production in Ghana

Anette Ruml and Matin Qaim

I read the news today, oh boy: The effect of crime news coverage on crime perception

Daniel Velásquez, Santiago Medina, Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Miguel Nunez-del-Prado, Hugo Alatrista-Salas and Juandiego Morzán

Information flow and COVID-19 recovery

Radeef Chundakkadan and Rekha Ravindran

Challenges to NGOs’ ability to bid for funding due to the repatriation of volunteers: The case of Samoa

Annika Tierney and Ramona Boodoosingh

Spatial inequality, geography and economic activity

Sandra Achten and Christian Lessmann

Inequality of opportunity, inequality of income and economic growth

Shekhar Aiyar and Christian Hubert Ebeke

Unintended effects of illegal economic activities: Illegal gold mining and malaria

Sandra Rozo

What happens when the money runs out? Forest outcomes and equity concerns following Ecuador’s suspension of conservation payments

Nicolle Etchart, José Luis Freire, Margaret B. Holland, Kelly W. Jones and Lisa Naughton-Treves

Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative in Burkina Faso

Jessie K. Luna and Brian Dowd-Uribe

When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory: A critical frame for thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals initiative

Heloise Weber and Martin Weber

The double bottom line of microfinance: A global comparison between conventional and Islamic microfinance

Syedah Ahmad, Robert Lensink and Annika Mueller

Geography of public service delivery in rural Ethiopia

Gashaw Abate, Mekdim Dereje, Kalle Hirvonen and Bart Minten

Gender, time-use, and energy expenditures in rural communities in India and Nepal

Fiorella Picchioni, Giacomo Zanello, Chittur Srinivasan, Amanda J. Wyatt and Patrick Webb

Unfreezing unspent social special-purpose funds for the Covid-19 crisis: Critical reflections from India

Deval Desai and Shalini Randeria

Who pays for water? Comparing life cycle costs of water services among several low, medium and high-income utilities

Anna Libey, Marieke Adank and Evan Thomas

Hungry birds do not sing: Coronavirus and the school feeding program

Khadijat Amolegbe