World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 129, issue C, 2020

The rise and decline of the populist social contract in the Arab world

Raymond Hinnebusch

Unprogrammed abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting

Brian Engelsma, Gerry Mackie and Brandon Merrell

Who are the climate migrants and where do they go? Evidence from rural India

Barbora Sedova and Matthias Kalkuhl

Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania

Mikael Bergius, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Faustin Maganga and Halvard Buhaug

End-of-conflict deforestation: Evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement

Mounu Prem, Santiago Saavedra and Juan Vargas

Property rights and deforestation: Evidence from the Terra Legal land reform in the Brazilian Amazon

Molly Lipscomb and Niveditha Prabakaran

Diagnosis of sustainability of trans-boundary water governance in the Great Lakes basin

Byomkesh Talukder and Keith W. Hipel

Agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity and nutritional status: Panel data evidence from Tanzania

Martin J. Chegere and Jesper Stage

Defining firm competitiveness: A multidimensional framework

Justine Falciola, Marion Jansen and Valentina Rollo

A meta-analysis of the effects of remittances on household education expenditure

Zohid Askarov and Chris Doucouliagos

Home-biased gravity: The role of migrant tastes in international trade

Penglong Zhang

Climate change and land: Insights from Myanmar

Saturnino M. Borras, Jennifer C. Franco and Zau Nam

A Bayesian framework for estimating human capabilities

Heath Henderson and Lendie Follett

The wage-productivity nexus in the world factory economy

Giovanni Dosi, Maria Enrica Virgillito and Xiaodan Yu

A fine predicament: Conditioning, compliance and consequences in a labeled cash transfer program

Carolyn Heinrich and Matthew T. Knowles

Outgrower schemes and sugar value-chains in Zambia: Rethinking determinants of rural inclusion and exclusion

S. Manda, A. Tallontire and A.J. Dougill

Gender wage inequality during Sri Lanka’s post-reform growth: A distributional analysis

Prathi Seneviratne

Can rural outmigration improve household food security? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia

Degnet Abebaw Ejigie, Assefa Admassie, Habtemariam Kassa and Christine Padoch

Adaptive policy implementation: Process and impact of Indonesia’s national irrigation reform 1999–2018

G.J. Alaerts

Plant clinics, farm performance and poverty alleviation: Panel data evidence from Rwanda

Justice A. Tambo, Bellancile Uzayisenga, Idah Mugambi, Mary Bundi and Silvia Silvestri

Estimating poverty rates in subnational populations of interest: An assessment of the Simple Poverty Scorecard

Emmanuel Skoufias, Alexis Diamond, Katja Vinha, Michael Gill and Miguel Rebolledo Dellepiane

Agriculture in the process of development: A micro-perspective

Jeffrey Michler

Cooperative behavior and common pool resources: Experimental evidence from community forest user groups in Nepal

Randall Bluffstone, Astrid Dannenberg, Peter Martinsson, Prakash Jha and Rajesh Bista

Welfare and forest cover impacts of incentive based conservation: Evidence from Kenyan community forest associations

Boscow Okumu and Edwin Muchapondwa

Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate: Forest & economic impacts of the Green Municipality Program in the Brazilian Amazon

Erin Sills, Alexander Pfaff, Luiza Andrade, Justin Kirkpatrick and Rebecca Dickson

Can roads contribute to forest transitions?

David J. Kaczan

Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?

Clara Brandi, Jakob Schwab, Axel Berger and Jean-Frédéric Morin

A payment by any other name: Is Costa Rica’s PES a payment for services or a support for stewards?

Mollie Chapman, Terre Satterfield, Hannah Wittman and Kai M.A. Chan

Risk, poverty or politics? The determinants of subnational public spending allocation for adaptive disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh

Azreen Karim and Ilan Noy

Budgetary influence under information asymmetries: Evidence from Nigeria’s subnational agricultural investments

Tewodaj Mogues and Tolulope Olofinbiyi

Risk aversion and certification: Evidence from the Nepali tea fields

Sarah Mohan

Improving access to savings through mobile money: Experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers

Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente

Farm diversification as an adaptation strategy to climatic shocks and implications for food security in northern Namibia

Chalmers K. Mulwa and Martine Visser

Decomposition of technical efficiency in agricultural production in Africa into transient and persistent technical efficiency under heterogeneous technologies

Philip Adom and Samuel Adams

The electoral benefits of unemployment, clientelism and distributive politics

Agustin Casas

Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bruno Martorano, Laura Metzger and Marco Sanfilippo

Volume 128, issue C, 2020

Will urban migrants formally insure their rural relatives? Family networks and rainfall index insurance in Burkina Faso

Harounan Kazianga and Zaki Wahhaj

Just a bit of cushion: The role of a simple savings device in meeting planned and unplanned expenses in rural Niger

Jenny C. Aker, Melita Sawyer, Markus Goldstein, Michael O'Sullivan and Margaret McConnell

What do we know about the impact of microfinance? The problems of statistical power and precision

Mahesh Dahal and Nathan Fiala

Legal identity for all? Gender inequality in the timing of birth registration in Mexico

Imke Harbers

Gender differences in associations of household and ambient air pollution with child health: Evidence from household and satellite-based data in Bangladesh

Masamitsu Kurata, Kazushi Takahashi and Akira Hibiki

Rethinking development policy: What remains of structural transformation?

Manoj Atolia, Prakash Loungani, Milton Marquis and Chris Papageorgiou

Assessing the downstream socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry in Kenya

Karl Hughes, Seth Morgan, Katherine Baylis, Judith Oduol, Emilie Smith-Dumont, Tor-Gunnar Vågen and Hilda Kegode

Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs

Balsher Singh Sidhu, Milind Kandlikar and Navin Ramankutty

Is collective titling enough to protect forests? Evidence from Afro-descendant communities in the Colombian Pacific region

Maria Vélez, Juan Robalino, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Andrea Paz and Eduardo Pacay

Exploring the linkages between energy, gender, and enterprise: Evidence from Tanzania

Ana Pueyo, Marco Carreras and Gisela Ngoo

The customer is king: Evidence on VAT compliance in Tanzania

Odd Fjeldstad, Cecilia Kagoma, Ephraim Mdee, Ingrid Hoem Sjursen and Vincent Somville

Education, skills and a good job: A multidimensional econometric analysis

Jaya Krishnakumar and Ricardo Nogales

Ability or opportunity to act: What shapes financial well-being?

Jonathan Fu

Pay, talk or ‘whip’ to conserve forests: Framed field experiments in Zambia

Hambulo Ngoma, Amare Teklay Hailu, Stephen Kabwe and Arild Angelsen

International linkages, technology transfer, and the skilled labor wage share: Evidence from plant-level data in Indonesia

Mahmut Yasar and Roderick Rejesus

Does trade reduce infant mortality? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Pallavi Panda

The political prioritization of welfare in India: Comparing the public distribution system in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand

Vasudha Chhotray, Anindita Adhikari and Vidushi Bahuguna

Incorporating local nature-based cultural values into biodiversity No Net Loss strategies

Victoria F. Griffiths, Joseph W. Bull, Julia Baker, Mark Infield, Dilys Roe, Dianah Nalwanga, Achilles Byaruhanga and E.J. Milner-Gulland

Willingness to pay for electricity access in extreme poverty: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Maximiliane Sievert and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

Does microcredit increase aspirational hope? Evidence from a group lending scheme in Sierra Leone

Adriana Garcia, Robert Lensink and Maarten Voors

From ‘MeToo’ to Boko Haram: A survey of levels and trends of gender inequality in the world

Stephan Klasen