World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 183, issue C, 2024

Take the Highway? Paved roads and well-being in Africa

Elodie Djemai, Andrew Clark and D’Ambrosio, Conchita

Who Deserves Aid? Perceptions of Fairness in Contexts of Forced Displacement

Jori Breslawski

Women’s empowerment and child mortality

Neil M. Kellard, Yousef Makhlouf, Anna Sarkisyan and Dmitri V. Vinogradov

Export Performance Under Domestic Anti-Dumping Protection

Andrea Ciani and Joel Stiebale

Minority groups, Indigenousness and Indigeneity, and place in social perceptions of future climate interventions

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum and Livia Fritz

What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru

Isamu Okada

Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah and Robert E. Hinson

Elongating the causes of social vulnerability: Historical analysis of social sustainability dimensions in the Ivorian cocoa sector

Claudia Coral, Robert Carcamo, Franziska Ollendorf, Bonna Antoinette Tokou, Constant Yves Adou Yao, Stefan Sieber and Katharina Löhr

Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay

Juan A. Bogliaccini, Gustavo A. Flores-Macías and Emiliano Tealde

Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis

Maiko Sakamoto, S.M. Asik Ullah and Masakazu Tani

The Labor Market Worsening Effects of a Resource Bust: Evidence from the Crude Oil Price Shock in Ecuador

Sergio Parra-Cely and Wladimir Zanoni

Unraveling the factors behind women’s empowerment in the labor market in Colombia

Ana María Iregui-Bohórquez, Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra, Maria Ramirez-Giraldo, Ana María Tribín-Uribe and Héctor M. Zárate-Solano

Linking innovations adoption with farm sustainability: Empirical evidence from rainwater harvesting and fertilizer micro-dosing in Tanzania

Diana Escobar Jaramillo, Linda Arata, Kai Mausch, Paolo Sckokai, Anja Fasse, Jens Rommel and Pierre Chopin

Banking competition and financial inclusion: Evidence from Ethiopia

David Fielding and Dereje Regasa

Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan

Niloufer Siddiqui, Drew Stommes and Zoha Waseem

Hidden income and its impact on expenditure patterns in Uganda

Cansın Arslan, Daniel Gregg and Randy Stringer

Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana

Wilhelm Löwenstein, Christina Wetzel, Ibrahim Mustapha, Pay Drechsel and Abdul-Halim Abubakari

Fleeing a failing state: Self-selection, earnings, and migration costs

Federico Maggio

Exposure to drug trafficking and school truancy: Empirical evidence from Costa Rica

Beatriz Barrado, Marcos Fernández-Gutiérrez and Gregorio Gimenez

Climate shocks, regional favoritism and trust in leaders: Insights from droughts in Africa

Pelle Ahlerup, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers and Martin Sjöstedt

Volume 182, issue C, 2024

After displacement: Coal mining, development, and inequality in the Thar desert of Pakistan

Mustafa Khan and Vikram Das

Family business during the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia: Role of government financial aid and coping strategies

Wataru Kodama, Peter Morgan, Dina Azhgaliyeva, Long Trinh and Kunhyui Kim

Higher economic growth in poor countries, lower migration flows to the OECD – Revisiting the migration hump with panel data

David Benček and Claas Schneiderheinze

Protect incomes or protect jobs? The role of social policies in post-pandemic recovery

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Michael Lokshin and Iván Torre

The Great Lockdown and the Small Business: Impact, Channels and Adaptation to the Covid Pandemic

Minh-Phuong Le, Lisa Chauvet and Mohamed Marouani

The effects of illegal armed groups on municipal expenditures in Colombia

Manuel Pulido-Velásquez and Dietrich Earnhart

Civil society, the state and institutionalizing welfare rights in India

Anindita Adhikari and Patrick Heller

Do courts grant women their inheritance shares? An analysis of case law in India

Bina Agarwal and Shruthi Naik

Aid and child health: A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on impaired growth

Dick Durevall and Ann-Sofie Isaksson

Childhood vaccinations and the demand for children: Long-term evidence from India

Arindam Nandi, Amit Summan, Thoại D. Ngô and David E. Bloom

The economic lives of refugees

Alexander Betts, Maria Flinder Stierna, Naohiko Omata and Olivier Sterck

Developing a segregated homeland: How internal displacement in a remittance-receiving region affects transnational migrants’ development practices

Sanderien Verstappen

Drought-sensitive targeting and child growth faltering in Southern Africa

Javier Baez, Varun Kshirsagar and Emmanuel Skoufias

How to overcome rent seeking in Tanzania’s skills sector? Exploring feasible reforms through discrete choice experiments

Antonio Andreoni, Sophie van Huellen, Lucas Katera and Cornel Jahari

Geography, development, and power: Parliament leaders and local clientelism

John Cruzatti C., Christian Bjørnskov, Andrea Sáenz de Viteri and Christian Cruzatti

Patterns of government disaster policy response in Peru

Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Elise Pizzi

Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh

Obaida Shammama and Samuel Brazys

The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement

Omar Hammoud-Gallego

Do earthquakes increase or decrease crime?

Adan Silverio-Murillo, Jose Balmori-de-la-Miyar, Fernanda Sobrino and Daniel Prudencio

Chronicle of a disaster foretold: The politics of restoring Lake Urmia (Iran)

S. Jalal Mirnezami, François Molle and Soroush Talebi Eskandari

Navigating food price shocks in a pandemic: Food insecurity and coping mechanisms in Burkina Faso

Shamma Adeeb Alam, Shi Xi Liu and Claus Pörtner

Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India

John Kujur, Udaya S Mishra, S. Irudaya Rajan and Hrushikesh Mallick

The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America

Svenja Flechtner and Martin Middelanis

Patterns of temporary rural migration: A study in northern Bangladesh

Md. Sohel Rana and Matin Qaim

Alignment mechanisms to effectively govern the sustainable development goals

Daniel Wiegant, Art Dewulf and Josephine Van Zeben

Volume 181, issue C, 2024

Migrant selection and sorting during the Great American Drought

Christopher Sichko

Political settlements analysis and the study of pro-poor development: Laos and Rwanda compared

Patrick Illien and Sabin Bieri

The economic consequences of environmental enforcement: Evidence from an anti-deforestation policy in Brazil

Erik Merkus

Appropriation pathways of water grabbing

Paolo D'Odorico, Jampel Dell'Angelo and Maria Cristina Rulli

Understanding ‘refugee resettlement’ from below: Decoding the Rohingya refugees’ lived experience in Bangladesh

Nasir Uddin

Vent-for-surplus in Southeast Asian development since 1870

Gregg Huff

How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal

Charan van Krevel and Marlou Peters

Cash-based interventions improve multidimensional integration outcomes of Venezuelan immigrants

Achim Ahrens, Marine Casalis, Dominik Hangartner and Rodrigo Sánchez

The effects of mobile primary health teams: Evidence from the Médico del Barrio strategy in Ecuador

Omar Galarraga, Alonso Quijano-Ruiz and Marco Faytong-Haro

The impact of Communist Party membership on wealth distribution and accumulation in urban China

Matteo Targa and Li Yang

Rely on children or work longer? The impact of fertility and child gender on old-age labor supply

Ziwei Rao and Yi Zhang

Social protection and formalization in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of the literature

Nina Torm and Marty Oehme

Structural change and poverty reduction in developing economies

Abdul Azeez Erumban and Gaaitzen de Vries

Tracing China’s agrochemical complex

Yue Zhao and Sarah Rogers

Do aid agencies comply with human rights requirements in Practice? Systematic evidence on the integration of human rights in German development cooperation

Lea Smidt, Lena Taube and Tobias Polak

Mass involuntary migration and educational attainment

Abubakr Ayesh

Informal institutions and “Imperfect Equity” in internationally financed adaptation in Madagascar and Mauritius

Katherine Elizabeth Browne, Claudien Razafiarimanana and Rajini Jogannah

Effective land ownership, female empowerment, and food security: Evidence from Peru

Maja Schling and Nicolás Pazos

Does export underreporting contribute to the resource curse?

Thorsten Janus

Unravelling the nexus of illicit gold trade, protection rackets, and political settlement dynamics: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Fritz Brugger, Tongnoma Zongo, Joschka J. Proksik and Anna Bugmann

Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil

Dieison Casagrande, Lucas Emanuel, Carlos Freitas and Felipe Oliveira

Thriving in the rain: natural shocks, time allocation, and women’s empowerment in Bangladesh

Sveva Vitellozzi and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

Challenging and reinforcing the status quo: Services, civil society and conflict in the MENA region

Oliver Walton and Wali Aslam

The mixed impacts of peer punishments on common-pool resources: Multi-country experimental evidence

Arild Angelsen and Julia Naime