World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 126, issue C, 2020

Understanding the adoption of climate-smart agriculture: A farm-level typology with empirical evidence from southern Malawi

Festus O. Amadu, Paul McNamara and Daniel C. Miller

Restricting trade and reducing variety: Evidence from Ethiopia

Pramila Krishnan and Peng Zhang

The (un)making of marine park subjects: Environmentality and everyday resistance in a coastal Tanzanian village

Justin Raycraft

The impact of climate change on incomes and convergence in Africa

Florent Baarsch, Jessie R. Granadillos, William Hare, Maria Knaus, Mario Krapp, Michiel Schaeffer and Hermann Lotze-Campen

The concept of affectedness in international development

Giedre Jokubauskaite

Getting the specialization right. Industrialization in Southern China in a sustainable development perspective

Elisa Barbieri, Marco R. Di Tommaso, Chiara Pollio and Lauretta Rubini

Retirement effect on health status and health behaviors in urban China

Jin Feng, Qin Li and James Smith

Embracing complexity: A transdisciplinary conceptual framework for understanding behavior change in the context of development-focused interventions

Fiona Lambe, Ylva Ran, Marie Jürisoo, Stefan Holmlid, Cassilde Muhoza, Oliver Johnson and Matthew Osborne

Temporary migration and climate variation in eastern Africa

Valerie Mueller, Glenn Sheriff, Xiaoya Dou and Clark Gray

Remember when it rained – Schooling responses to shocks in India

Laura Zimmermann

The Southern origins of sustainable development goals: Ideas, actors, aspirations

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Bhumika Muchhala

Managing biodiversity & divinities: Case study of one twenty-year humanitarian forest restoration project in Benin

Julia Bello-Bravo

Local warming and violent armed conflict in Africa

Stijn van Weezel

The Proteus composite index: Towards a better metric for global food security

Oscar Maria Caccavale and Valerio Giuffrida

How can NGOs support collective action among the users of rural drinking water systems? A case study of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) systems in Bangladesh

Muhammad Badrul Hasan, Peter Driessen, Annelies Zoomers and Frank Van Laerhoven

Collateral damages: Cash transfer and debt transfer in South Africa

Erin Torkelson

Humanitarian food aid and civil conflict

Sébastien Mary and Ashok Mishra

The new extractivism in Mexico: Rent redistribution and resistance to mining and petroleum activities

Darcy Tetreault

Natural disasters, aid distribution, and social conflict – Micro-level evidence from the 2015 earthquake in Nepal

Alexander De Juan, Jan Pierskalla and Elisa Schwarz

Who are the world’s poor? A new profile of global multidimensional poverty

Gisela Robles Aguilar and Andy Sumner

Mothers’ health knowledge gap for children with diarrhea: A decomposition analysis across caste and religion in India

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Nabanita Datta Gupta

Labor movements and party system development: Why does the Caribbean have stable two-party systems, but the Pacific does not?

Matthew Louis Bishop, Jack Corbett and Wouter Veenendaal

The politics of late late development in renewable energy sectors: Dependency and contradictory tensions in India’s National Solar Mission

Pritish Behuria

Leveraging existing household survey data to map livelihoods in Nigeria

Richard Barad, Erin Fletcher and Chris Hillbruner

Do immigrants increase crime? Spatial analysis in a middle-income country

Mauricio Leiva, Felipe Vasquez-Lavín and Roberto D. Ponce Oliva

Access to marine ecosystem services: Examining entanglement and legitimacy in customary institutions

Jacqueline D. Lau, Joshua E. Cinner, Michael Fabinyi, Georgina G. Gurney and Christina C. Hicks

Aid projects: The effects of commodification and exchange

Scott Freeman and Mark Schuller

The impact of workplace harassment and domestic violence on work outcomes in the developing world

Dorota Węziak-Białowolska, Piotr Bialowolski and Eileen McNeely

Framing vulnerability and coffee farmers’ behaviour in the context of climate change adaptation in Nicaragua

Sonia Quiroga, Cristina Suarez, Juan Diego Solís and Pablo Martinez-Juarez

Are public sector workers in developing countries overpaid? Evidence from a new global dataset

T.H. Gindling, Zahid Hasnain, David Newhouse and Rong Shi

Volume 125, issue C, 2020

Searching for win-win forest outcomes: Learning-by-doing, financial viability, and income growth for a community-based forest management cooperative in the Brazilian Amazon

Shoana Humphries, Thomas Holmes, Dárlison Fernandes Carvalho de Andrade, David McGrath and Jeremias Batista Dantas

Can information improve rural governance and service delivery?

Katrina Kosec and Leonard Wantchekon

Innovations towards prosperity emerging in locally controlled forest business models and prospects for scaling up

Duncan Macqueen, Anna Bolin, Martin Greijmans, Sophie Grouwels and Shoana Humphries

India’s forests – Stepping stone or millstone for the poor?

Richard Damania, Anupam Joshi and Jason Russ

Beyond the neoliberal-statist divide on the drivers of innovation: A political settlements reading of Kenya’s M-Pesa success story

Matthew Tyce

Supporting pathways to prosperity in forest landscapes – A PRIME framework

Priya Shyamsundar, Sofia Ahlroth, Patricia Kristjanson and Stefanie Onder

Forests as pathways to prosperity: Empirical insights and conceptual advances

Daniel C. Miller and Reem Hajjar

Managing risk, changing aspirations and household dynamics: Implications for wellbeing and adaptation in semi-arid Africa and India

Nitya Rao, Chandni Singh, Divya Solomon, Laura Camfield, Rahina Sidiki, Margaret Angula, Prathigna Poonacha, Amadou Sidibé and Elaine T. Lawson

Interethnic and interfaith marriages in sub-Saharan Africa

Juliette Crespin-Boucaud

Gender differences in the relationship between land ownership and managerial rights: Implications for intrahousehold farm labor allocation

Munsu Kang, Benjamin Schwab and Jisang Yu

Improving learning and accountability in foreign aid

Paul Clements

Ask me why: Patterns of intrahousehold decision-making

Tanguy Bernard, Cheryl Doss, Melissa Hidrobo, Jessica Hoel and Caitlin Kieran

How much climate policy has cost for OECD countries?

Timo Kuosmanen, Xun Zhou and Sheng Dai

To diversify or not to diversify, that is the question. Pursuing agricultural development for smallholder farmers in marginal areas of Ghana

Mauricio R. Bellon, Bekele Hundie Kotu, Carlo Azzarri and Francesco Caracciolo

The Hazards of Mainstreaming: Climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions

Morgan Scoville-Simonds, Hameed Jamali and Marc Hufty

Learning for development: Learners’ perceptions of the impact of the Kha Ri Gude Literacy Campaign

Veronica Irene McKay

Characterizing the indigenous forest peoples of Latin America: Results from census data

Brian C. Thiede and Clark Gray

Crop diversity, household welfare and consumption smoothing under risk: Evidence from rural Uganda

Wondimagegn Tesfaye and Nyasha Tirivayi

Political trust, risk preferences, and policy support: A study of land-dispossessed villagers in China

Meina Cai, Pengfei Liu and Hui Wang

How does mortality affect innovative activity in the long run?

Dierk Herzer

Forest dependence is more than forest income: Development of a new index of forest product collection and livelihood resources

Lauren Nerfa, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla and Hisham Zerriffi

The impact of domestic and foreign R&D on agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa

Morakinyo O. Adetutu and Victor Ajayi

Climate and poverty in Africa South of the Sahara

Carlo Azzarri and Sara Signorelli

Renewable electricity and sustainable development goals in the EU

Ranjula Bali Swain and Amin Karimu

Role of malaria control in improving child health in mainland Tanzania: Evidence from a rapid policy scale-up

Romeo J. Gansey

Motivation for information exchange in a virtual community of practice: Evidence from a Facebook group for shrimp farmers

Guenwoo Lee and Aya Suzuki