World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 135, issue C, 2020

Rethinking social contracts in the MENA region: Economic governance, contingent citizenship, and state-society relations after the Arab uprisings

Steven Heydemann

Anti-Muslim discrimination in France: Evidence from a field experiment

Marie-Anne Valfort

Resource scarcity and cooperation: Evidence from a gravity irrigation system in China

Zihan Nie, Xiaojun Yang and Qin Tu

Navigating multidimensional household recoveries following the 2015 Nepal earthquakes

Jeremy Spoon, Drew Gerkey, Ram Bahadur Chhetri, Alisa Rai and Umesh Basnet

Ethnic politics and Ebola response in West Africa

Souleymane Soumahoro

Who has the better story? On the narrative foundations of agricultural development dichotomies

Jonathan Mockshell and Regina Birner

Resource-based industrial policy in an era of global production networks: Strategic coupling in the Indonesian cocoa sector

Jeffrey Neilson, Angga Dwiartama, Niels Fold and Dikdik Permadi

Integration of a local fish market in Namibia with the global seafood trade: Implications for fish traders and sustainability

Julia Bronnmann, Martin D. Smith, James Abbott, Clinton J. Hay and Tor F. Næsje

Variegated work regimes of Chinese investment in Ethiopia

Ding Fei

Vietnam’s forest cover changes 2005–2016: Veering from transition to (yet more) transaction?

Roland Cochard, Van Hai Thi Nguyen, Dung Tri Ngo and Christian A. Kull

When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics: The sustainable development goals and agri-food governance in South America

Karen M. Siegel and Mairon G. Bastos Lima

Driving participatory reforms into the ground: The bureaucratic politics of irrigation management transfer in Pakistan

Sameen A. Mohsin Ali

Poverty reduction through land transfers? The World Bank’s titling reforms and the making of “subsistence” agriculture

Mihai Varga

Public-private sector wage gap by gender in Egypt: Evidence from quantile regression on panel data, 1998–2018

Aysıt Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin and Zeynel Ozdemir

The welfare effects of crop biodiversity as an adaptation to climate shocks in Kenya

Martina Bozzola and Melinda Smale

Examining social equity in community-based conservation programs: A case study of controlled hunting programs in Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

Bethlehem A. Abebe, Kelly W. Jones, Jennifer Solomon, Kathleen Galvin and Paul Evangelista

Chains of Meaning: Crops, commodities, and the ‘in-between’ spaces of trade

Sarah Osterhoudt, Shaila Seshia Galvin, Dana J. Graef, Alder Keleman Saxena and Michael R. Dove

Irrigation infrastructure and farm productivity in the Philippines: A stochastic Meta-Frontier analysis

Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, Daniel Higgins and Aslihan Arslan

Effects of input vouchers and rainfall insurance on agricultural production and household welfare: Experimental evidence from northern Ethiopia

Ho Lun Wong, Xiangdong Wei, Haftom Bayray Kahsay, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Cornelis Gardebroek, Daniel E. Osgood and Rahel Diro

Household resources and individual strategies

Sarah Deschênes, Christelle Dumas and Sylvie Lambert

Development and interdisciplinarity: A citation analysis

Sophie Mitra, Michael Palmer and Vu Vuong

Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous – A complementary methods approach

Abigail Barr, Trudy Owens and Ashira Perera

A meta-analysis understanding smallholder entry into high-value markets

Oreoluwa Ola and Luisa Menapace

The development of the international center model for agricultural research: A prehistory of the CGIAR

Derek Byerlee and John K. Lynam

Latecomer development in a “greening” world: Introduction to the Special Issue

Anna Pegels and Tilman Altenburg

Reconstituting social contracts in conflict-affected MENA countries: Whither Iraq and Libya?

Mark Furness and Bernhard Trautner

Land rental market and agricultural labor productivity in rural China: A mediation analysis

Jian Zhang, Ashok Mishra, Peixin Zhu and Xiaoshun Li

Responsibility to choose: Governmentality in China’s participatory dam resettlement processes

Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla and Jean-François Rousseau

Volume 134, issue C, 2020

Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? A critical review of recent evidence

Plamen Nikolov and Matthew Bonci

Joint provision of income and employment support: Evidence from a crisis response in Uruguay

Verónica Escudero, Elva López Mourelo and Clemente Pignatti

Unequal capabilities and natural resource management: The case of Côte d’Ivoire

Jerome Ballet, Damien Jérôme Albert Bazin and Boniface K. Komena

Does the old-age pension scheme improve household welfare? Evidence from India

Vidhya Unnikrishnan and Katsushi Imai

“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains

Laura A. German, Anya M. Bonanno, Laura Catherine Foster and Lorenzo Cotula

Property rights and risk aversion: Evidence from a titling program

Fernando Aragon, Oswaldo Molina and Ingo W. Outes-León

Remittances and economic growth: A meta-analysis

Alina Cazachevici, Tomas Havranek and Roman Horvath

Food politics and development

Melissa Leach, Nicholas Nisbett, Lídia Cabral, Jody Harris, Naomi Hossain and John Thompson

Realising poverty in all its dimensions: A six-country participatory study

Rachel Bray, Marianne de Laat, Xavier Godinot, Alberto Ugarte and Robert Walker

Supermarket procurement and farmgate prices in India

Chandra S.R. Nuthalapati, Rajib Sutradhar, Thomas Reardon and Matin Qaim

A cash plus program reduces youth exposure to physical violence in Zimbabwe

Averi Chakrabarti, Sudhanshu Handa, Gustavo Angeles and David Seidenfeld

Estimating the nutritional loss and the feeding potential derived from food losses worldwide

Eduardo Botti Abbade

Ethnic inequality and poverty in Malaysia since May 1969. Part 2: Poverty

Martin Ravallion

Ethnic inequality and poverty in Malaysia since May 1969. Part 1: Inequality

Martin Ravallion

COVID-19 and the case for global development

Johan A. Oldekop, Rory Horner, David Hulme, Roshan Adhikari, Bina Agarwal, Matthew Alford, Oliver Bakewell, Nicola Banks, Stephanie Barrientos, Tanja Bastia, Anthony J. Bebbington, Upasak Das, Ralitza Dimova, Richard Duncombe, Charis Enns, David Fielding, Christopher Foster, Timothy Foster, Tomas Frederiksen, Ping Gao, Tom Gillespie, Richard Heeks, Sam Hickey, Martin Hess, Nicholas Jepson, Ambarish Karamchedu, Uma Kothari, Aarti Krishnan, Tom Lavers, Aminu Mamman, Diana Mitlin, Negar Monazam Tabrizi, Tanja R. Müller, Khalid Nadvi, Giovanni Pasquali, Rose Pritchard, Kate Pruce, Chris Rees, Jaco Renken, Antonio Savoia, Seth Schindler, Annika Surmeier, Gindo Tampubolon, Matthew Tyce, Vidhya Unnikrishnan and Yin-Fang Zhang

Negotiating autonomy in capacity development: Addressing the inherent tension

B. Rajeshwari, Nandini Deo and Margit van Wessel

The dramatic rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in India: Obesity transition and the looming health care crisis

Zakaria Siddiqui and Ronald Donato

Comparison of the costs and benefits of the Clean India Mission

Guy Hutton, Sumeet Patil, Avni Kumar, Nicolas Osbert and Francis Odhiambo

Volume 133, issue C, 2020

Shedding light on regional growth and convergence in India

Areendam Chanda and Sujana Kabiraj

Contested terrain: International development projects and countervailing power for the excluded

Jonathan Fox

Who takes bribes and how much? Evidence from the China Corruption Conviction Databank

Toke Aidt, Arye Hillman and Liu Qijun

Social marketing and the corruption conundrum in morocco: An exploratory analysis

Nicolas Hamelin, Sonny Nwankwo and Ayantunji Gbadamosi

Making social services work better for the poor: Evidence from a natural experiment with health sector decentralization in Honduras

Alan Zarychta

The impact of microcredit on agricultural technology adoption and productivity: Evidence from randomized control trial in Tanzania

Yuko Nakano and Eustadius F. Magezi

The minimum wage in formal and informal sectors: Evidence from an inflation shock

Jorge Pérez Pérez

Why is household electricity uptake low in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Moussa Blimpo, Agnieszka Postepska and Yanbin Xu

Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches

Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Nutrition sensitive agriculture: An equity-based analysis from India

Carly Nichols

Shedding light on maternal education and child health in developing countries

Kien Le and My Nguyen

Where does the Fair Trade money go? How much consumers pay extra for Fair Trade coffee and how this value is split along the value chain

Helene Naegele

Effects of motherhood timing, breastmilk substitutes and education on the duration of breastfeeding: Evidence from Egypt

Firat Demir, Pallab Ghosh and Zexuan Liu