World Development

1973 - 2025

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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

Volume 180, issue C, 2024

Mobile phones and Mozambique farmers: Less asymmetric information and more trader competition?

Wouter Zant

Understanding the constraints to women’s use of urban public transport in developing countries

Girija Borker

The effects of mining on local poverty in developing countries: Evidence from Mali

Massa Coulibaly, Jeremy Foltz, Dominic Parker, Osaretin Olurotimi and Nouhoum Traoré

Computerization, offshoring and trade: The effect on developing countries

Camila Hidalgo and Alejandro Micco

Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa

L. Rodina, L. Harris, G. Ziervogel and J. Wilson

The effects of exposure to violence on social network composition and formation

Daniel Robert Thomas

Determinants of access to climate finance: Nuanced insights for SIDS and other vulnerable economies

David Tennant, Stuart Davies and Sandria Tennant

Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil

Alexander Kustov and Giuliana Pardelli

Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty

Johanna Choumert-Nkolo and Pierre Le Roux

Lives in exile? Perspectives on the resettlements of Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu, India

Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud

Corruption can cause healthcare deprivation: Evidence from 29 sub-Saharan African countries

Chei Bukari, Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetkzy

The impacts of rural development project on resilience to climatic disasters: The case of Bangladesh

Bokyeong Park and Haggai Kennedy Ochieng

When Facebook Is the Internet: The Role of Social Media in Ethnic Conflict

Tuuli Tähtinen

Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data

Klaus Ackermann, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth

Crude credit: The political economy of natural resource booms and sovereign debt management

Iasmin Goes and Stephen B. Kaplan

War and food insecurity in Ukraine

Ida Rudolfsen, Henrikas Bartusevičius, Florian van Leeuwen and Gudrun Østby

Short and medium-run effects of the Indian Ocean tsunami on health costs in Indonesia

Daim Syukriyah and Rozana Himaz

How much a dollar cost: Currency hierarchy as a driver of ecologically unequal exchange

Christopher Olk

Optimizing sports development: Identifying and prioritizing key indicators for professional and competitive sports

Fengyingna,, XuTingyu,, S. Mohammad Sajadi, Sh. Baghaie and R. Rezaei

Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums

Cinthya Silva and Gabriel Pino

Volume 179, issue C, 2024

Does representation affect trust in political institutions?: Evidence from redistricting in India

Rolly Kukreja

How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia

Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Sabrina M. Karim

Social Embeddedness, Power Balance, and Local Governance in China

Meina Cai, Qi Zhang and Xiaolu Zhao

Identifying the poor – Accounting for household economies of scale in global poverty estimates

Dean Jolliffe and Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah

Income inequality effect of public utility infrastructure: Evidence from rural China

Guanghua Wan, Chen Wang, Xun Zhang and Congming Zuo

The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on child food insecurity in Africa

Antoine Castet

Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects

Joseph Cummins, Jingyan Guo, Neha Agarwal, Anaka Aiyar, Vaishali Jain and Andrew Bergmann

Distributional impacts of cash transfers on the multidimensional poverty of refugees: The Emergency Social Safety Net in Turkey

Matthew Robson, Frank Vollmer, Basak Berçin Doğan and Nils Grede

Exploring migration decision-making and agricultural adaptation in the context of climate change: A systematic review

Manisha Mukherjee and Sonja Fransen

Remedial, institutional or radical? Explaining community responses to violence against women in an NGO programme to prevent violence in Mumbai, India

Lu Gram, Sukanya Paradkar, Chatush Singh, Anand Suryavanshi, Beniamino Cislaghi, David Osrin and Nayreen Daruwalla

Does transparency pay? Natural resources, financial development and the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI)

Harouna Kinda and Edouard Mien

Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia

Maria Camila Angulo Amaya

Targeted sanctions, resource substitution, and violence against civilians: Localized evidence from African states

Jerry Urtuzuastigui and Ore Koren

Revisiting the trends in global inequality

Carlos Gradín

State-owned enterprises as countercyclical instruments: Quasi-experimental evidence from the infrastructure sector

Matias Herrera Dappe, Aldo Musacchio, Burak Turkgulu, Carolina Pan, Jonathan Barboza and Yadviga Semikolenova

Trust funds and the sub-national effectiveness of development aid: Evidence from the World Bank

Mirko Heinzel and Bernhard Reinsberg

Mobile phone adoption, deforestation, and agricultural land use in Uganda

Suhyun Jung and Martha Rogers

Inherent Dilemma: Balancing conservation efficiency and social equity in natural resource governance

Godfreyb Ssekajja

Who Benefits from Free Trade?

Mathias Bühler

“If my wife earns more than me, she will force me to do what she wants”: Women’s economic empowerment and family caregiving dynamics in Tanzania

Alina Bhojani, Alya Alsager, Juliet K. McCann, Damas Joachim, Mary Kabati and Joshua Jeong

Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China

Hongyu Guan, Yunyun Zhang, Kang Du, Zhijie Wang and Yaojiang Shi