World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 188, issue C, 2025

Subnational democracy, protest, and welfare

Julia Smith Coyoli and Candelaria Garay

The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level

Aubin Vignoboul

Rewarding performance in disaster response: Evidence from local governments in Latin America

Felipe Livert, Julie Anne Weaver and Paola Bordón

Weather shocks and resilience to food insecurity: Exploring the role of gender and kinship norms

Immacolata Ranucci, Donato Romano and Luca Tiberti

Inclusion and social contracts in Tunisia: Navigating the complexities of political and socio-economic transformation

Erin McCandless

Global Distributions of Capital and Labor Incomes

Marco Ranaldi

Migration and nutrition of the left behind: Evidence from Ghana

Adrien Gosselin-Pali

Inequality and its strain on local Governments: Do external interventions Help?

Krister P. Andersson, Nathan J. Cook, Mark A. Trautmann and Patricio Valdivieso

Outward and upward construction: A 3D analysis of the global building stock

Thomas Esch, Klaus Deininger, Remi Jedwab and Daniela Palacios-Lopez

Detecting Corruption: Evidence from a World Bank project in Kenya

Jean Ensminger and Jetson Leder-Luis

Out of the Frying Pan: Weather shocks and internal migration in Brazil

Claire Brunel and Maggie Y. Liu

Cultural taboos and misinformation about menstrual health management in rural Bangladesh

Silvia Castro and Kristina Czura

Drivers of conflict over customary land in the Middle Drâa Valley of Morocco

Luis Miguel Silva-Novoa Sánchez, Janpeter Schilling, Lisa Bossenbroek, Rachid Ezzayyat and Elisabeth Berger

The roads towards complex water governance: The Colombian case study

Tiziano Distefano, Adrián Saldarriaga Isaza, G.S. Morlin, V. Posada Carmona, C.I. Villegas Palacio and S. Arango-Aramburo

Decolonizing development economics: A critique of the late neoclassical reason

Yahya M. Madra, Bengi Akbulut and Fikret Adaman

Gender and development in the agrarian south

Lyn Ossome

Crafting work and workspaces: A qualitative study of the meaning of work for women in the weaving sector in Kashmir

Humaira Chowdhury and Kamini Gupta

Wages and the division between mental and manual labor in China

Bolun Zhang and Yimang Zhou

Mass editing, mass writing: Experiments in collective literary production from Yan’an to the Great Leap forward

Benjamin Kindler

Political competition, fiscal policy, and economic performance in techno-creative places

Amitrajeet Batabyal, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

Urbanising the Villages: Three modes of village incorporation and the implications for structural transition in India’s “Chinese-style” special economic zones (SEZs)

Charlotte Goodburn

The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development

Remi Jedwab, Elena Ianchovichina and Federico Haslop

Fostering collective subjectivities: Technologies of the self and resistance in Colombian community forest initiatives

Darío Gerardo Zambrano-Cortés, Jelle Behagel and Georg Winkel

Green with envy? The effects of inequality and equity within and across social groups on greenhouse gas emissions, 1990–2020

Indra de Soysa

Can social protection contribute to social connectedness in contexts of forced displacement and crisis? Lessons from Jordan’s labelled cash transfer for education

Bassam Abu Hamad, Nicola Jones, Shoroq Abuhamad, Sarah Baird and Erin Oakley

Adapting the Women’s empowerment in nutrition index: Lessons from Kenya

Erin Lentz, Nathaniel Jensen, Watson Lepariyo, Sudha Narayanan and Elizabeth Bageant

Boosting the adoption of sustainable land-use systems for achieving Colombian land-based climate action and peacebuilding goals

Lisset Pérez-Marulanda, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen and Augusto Castro-Nunez

The labour market effects of cash transfers to the unemployed: Evidence from South Africa

Haroon Bhorat and Timothy Köhler

What explains the uneven uptake of forest certification at the global level? New evidence from a panel-data analysis

Matthias Bösch

Small-scale gold miners’ preferences on formalization: First steps toward sustainable supply chains in Colombia

María Alejandra Velez, Ximena Rueda, Juan Pablo Henao, Dayron Monroy, Danny Tobin, Jorge Maldonado and Alexander Pfaff

Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories

Wannes Slosse, Jean Paul Benavides, Boris Branisa, Jeroen Buysse, D’Haese, Marijke, Carlos Eduardo Quezada Lambertín and Koen Schoors

Explaining ethno-regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Elliott Green

Exploring the determinants of household water treatment in Kabul: A COM-B model perspective in a low-income context

Mohammad Daud Hamidi, Marco Haenssgen and H.Chris Greenwell

The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador

Molly Lipscomb, Cesar Montalvo and Brendan Novak

Relaxation of fertility policy and firm’s short-term hiring of female employees: Evidence from China

Qian Huang and Ziang Fan

The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries

Yacouba Coulibaly

Targeting coethnic voters, elites, or both? Evidence from aid allocation in Malawi

Dongil Lee

Asymmetric sovereign risk: Implications for climate change preparation

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Jorge Uribe and Oscar Valencia

On the evolution of the wage premium for party membership in China

Alessia Amighini, Weidi Fang and Martin Zagler

The cousin marriage tradition and performance of businesses during the economic crises in Nigeria

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Tolu Olarewaju

Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India

Yuko Mori, R. Manjula, D. Rajasekhar, Jun Goto and Takashi Kurosaki

Offsetting slow violence: Conservation, displacement and (Im)mobility at the anti-subversive capital of Colombia

Juan Felipe Riaño-Landazabal

Contestation, conflict and claims-making around the Lake Turkana Wind Power windfarm, northern Kenya

Jeremy Lind and Daniel Salau Rogei

On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives

Wenyuan Hua

Subway and entrepreneurship

Hua Cheng, Runliang Li, Kai Liu and Fucheng Wei

When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries

David Evans, Susannah Hares, Gabriela Smarrelli and Dongyi Wu

Immigration and labour productivity: A comparative effect

Blaise Gnimassoun

Robot and crime: Evidence from China

Guanfu Fang and Liya Miao

Unraveling financial exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: A gender perspective in Latin American countries

Marie-Anne Lorain, Jesús Barreal Pernas, Gil Jannes, Elena Urquía Grande, Pilar López Sánchez and Javier Sierra

Volume 187, issue C, 2025

To use financial incentives or not? Insights from experiments in encouraging sanitation investments in four countries

Sanghmitra Gautam, Michael Gechter, Raymond Guiteras and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature

Paola Vesco, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Stefan Döring, Anneli Eriksson, Hanne Fjelde, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Jonathan Hall, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Maxine R. Leis, Hannes Mueller, Christopher Rauh, Ida Rudolfsen, Ashok Swain, Alexa Timlick, Phaidon T.B. Vassiliou, Johan von Schreeb, Nina von Uexkull and Håvard Hegre

Is the emphasis on cofinancing good for environmental multilateral funds?

Matthew J. Kotchen and Andrew Vogt

How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Philip A. Martin

Shine a (night)light: Decentralization and economic development in Burkina Faso

Olivier B. Bargain, Rose Camille Vincent and Emilie Caldeira

Do conditional cash transfers improve intergenerational gains in educational achievement?: Evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program

Gabriel Cepaluni and Amanda Driscoll

Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania

Ulrike Grote, Gregor Mager, Anja Faße, Frank Neubacher and Luitfred Kissoly

Gender differences in agricultural productivity: Puzzling evidence from West Africa

Yiriyibin Bambio

A critical review of the state-of-the-art on social policy, conflict and peace in the Middle East and North Africa region: Why social policy matters for peace and why it is also not enough

Rana Jawad, Sophie Plagerson and Martina Jaskolski

The taxed informal economy: Fiscal burdens and inequality in Accra

Nana Akua Anyidoho, Max Gallien, Michael Rogan and Vanessa van den Boogaard