World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 132, issue C, 2020

Re-evaluating the “traditional”: How the South Sudanese use established gender narratives to advance women’s equality and empowerment

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge

The ‘Heart Kuznets Curve’? Understanding the relations between economic development and cardiac conditions

Hitoshi Nagano, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Allan Kardec Barros and Altair da Silva Costa Junior

Economic growth, convergence, and world food demand and supply

Emiko Fukase and Will Martin

The geopolitical ecology of conservation: The emergence of illegal wildlife trade as national security interest and the re-shaping of US foreign conservation assistance

Francis Massé and Jared D. Margulies

Grappling with the challenges of measuring women's economic empowerment in intrahousehold settings

Sonia Laszlo, Kate Grantham, Ecem Oskay and Tingting Zhang

Forest commons, vertical integration and smallholder’s saving and investment responses: Evidence from a quasi-experiment

Dambala Gelo

Profits before patients? Analyzing donors’ economic motives for foreign aid in the health sector

Mao Suzuki

Improved sanitation increases long-term cognitive test scores

Jennifer Orgill-Meyer and Subhrendu Pattanayak

Fair trade or trade fair? International food trade and cross-border macronutrient flows

Silvio Traverso and Stefano Schiavo

Recessions and the vulnerable

Babatunde Aiyemo

Shocks and cherries: The production of vulnerability among smallholder coffee farmers in Jamaica

Zack Guido, Chris Knudson, Tim Finan, Malgosia Madajewicz and Kevon Rhiney

Forced off the farm? Farmers’ labor allocation response to land requisition in China

Shuang Ma and Ren Mu

Perspectives on the rebel social contract: Exit, voice, and loyalty in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

Mara Redlich Revkin and Ariel I. Ahram

Hybridizing the commons. Privatizing and outsourcing collective irrigation management after technological change in Spain

Marta García-Mollá, Mar Ortega-Reig, Rutgerd Boelens and Carles Sanchis-Ibor

How do institutions and infrastructure affect mobilization around public toilets vs. piped water? Examining intra-slum patterns of collective action in Delhi, India

Soundarya Chidambaram

The impact of knowledge diffusion on economic growth across countries

Manuel Pérez-Trujillo and Maricruz Lacalle-Calderon

Conflict in abundance and peacebuilding in scarcity: Challenges and opportunities in addressing climate change and conflict

Daniel Abrahams

Anti-corruption in aid-funded procurement: Is corruption reduced or merely displaced?

Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett and Mihály Fazekas

Precarious gains: Social mobility and volatility in urban slums

Emily Rains and Anirudh Krishna

Volume 131, issue C, 2020

The globalization of virtual water flows: Explaining trade patterns of a scarce resource

Esther Delbourg and Shlomi Dinar

Urban waste to energy recovery assessment simulations for developing countries

Afreen Siddiqi, Masahiko Haraguchi and Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Are we accelerating equity investment into impact-oriented ventures?

Saurabh A. Lall, Li-Wei Chen and Peter W. Roberts

Is green rural transformation possible in developing countries?

Edward Barbier

How cash transfers enable agency through livelihoods in South Africa

Chibuikem C. Nnaeme, Leila Patel and Sophie Plagerson

The effect of market competition on bribery in emerging economies: An empirical analysis of Vietnamese firms

Edmund J. Malesky, Thang V. Nguyen, Thang N. Bach and Bao D. Ho

Wishful thinking or wise policy? Theorising tourism-led inclusive growth: Supply chains and host communities

Julia Jeyacheya and Mark Hampton

Impact of Ethiopia’s 2015 drought on child undernutrition

Kalle Hirvonen, Thomas Sohnesen and Tom Bundervoet

Value of cleaner neighborhoods: Application of hedonic price model in low income context

Mani Nepal, Rajesh Rai, Madan S. Khadayat and E. Somanathan

Volume 130, issue C, 2020

The politics of export restrictions: A panel data analysis of African commodity processing industries

Nicolai Schulz

Barriers to trade in environmental goods: How important they are and what should developing countries expect from their removal

Jaime de Melo and Jean-Marc Solleder

Development programs, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in India

Heidi Kaila, Saurabh Singhal and Divya Tuteja

Ethno-Caste influences on migration rates and destinations

Nathalie E. Williams, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Christina Hughes, Loritta Chan, Arland Thornton and Cathy Sun

Questioning the link between tenure security and sustainable land management in cocoa landscapes in Ghana

Festus A. Asaaga, Mark A. Hirons and Yadvinder Malhi

Partisan responses to democracy promotion – Estimating the causal effect of a civic information portal

Peter John and Fredrik M Sjoberg

Does education secularize the Islamic population? The effect of years of schooling on religiosity, voting, and pluralism in Indonesia

Kazuya Masuda and Muhammad Yudhistira

Latin America in the vortex of social change: Development and social movement dynamics

Henry Veltmeyer

Social impact investing, agriculture, and the financialisation of development: Insights from sub-Saharan Africa

Natasha Watts and Ivan R. Scales

Large and artisanal scale mine development: The case for autonomous co-existence

Gavin Hilson, Titus Sauerwein and John Owen

Developing a middle-range theory to explain how cash transfers work to tackle the social determinants of health: A realist case study

Ebenezer Owusu-Addo, Andre M.N. Renzaho and Ben J. Smith

Mining, rural livelihoods and food security: A disaggregated analysis of sub-Saharan Africa

Tim Wegenast and Jule Beck

The evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in Yemen

Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath

Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, Janis Alcorn, Augusta Molnar, Christina Healy and Edmund Barrow

Starting early and staying longer: The effects of a Brazilian primary schooling reform on student performance

Hanbyul Ryu, Steven M. Helfand and Roni Barbosa Moreira

The path from ethnic inequality to development: The intermediary role of institutional quality

Aziz N. Berdiev, Rajeev Goel and James Saunoris

Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data

Stein Holden and Mesfin Tilahun

What’s Your Child Worth? An Analysis of Expected Dowry Payments in Rural India

Annemie Maertens and Amalavoyal Chari

The supply chain for seed in Uganda: Where does it go wrong?

Alicia Barriga and Nathan Fiala

Impact of formal climate risk transfer mechanisms on risk-aversion: Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia

Kaleab Haile, Eleonora Nillesen and Nyasha Tirivayi

Is employment a panacea for poverty? A mixed-methods investigation of employment decisions in South Africa

Rocco Zizzamia

REDD+: If communities are the solution, what is the problem?

Margaret Skutsch and Esther Turnhout

Minimum wages for domestic workers: impact evaluation of the Indian experience

Rohan Gudibande and Arun Jacob

Diverging identification of the poor: A non-random process. Chile 1992–2017

Stephan Klasen and Carlos Villalobos

The effects of economic globalisation and ethnic fractionalisation on redistribution

Regina Pleninger and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Urbanisation reshapes gendered engagement in land-based livelihood activities in mid-sized African towns

C.M. Shackleton, A. Drescher and J. Schlesinger

Between stranded assets and green transformation: Fossil-fuel-producing developing countries towards 2055

Dawud Ansari and Franziska Holz

Public support to R&D, productivity, and spillover effects: Firm-level evidence from Chile

Gustavo Crespi, Lucas Figal Garone, Alessandro Maffioli and Ernesto Stein

Child health across the rural–urban spectrum

Hannah Ameye and Joachim De Weerdt

Does agricultural aid reduce child stunting?

Sébastien Mary, Kelsey Shaw, Liesbeth Colen and Sergio Gomez Y Paloma