World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 178, issue C, 2024

The geopolitical strategy of refugee camps

Kara Ross Camarena

Environmental Peacebuilding: Moving beyond resolving Violence-Ridden conflicts to sustaining peace

Udi Sommer and Francesca Fassbender

Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya

Josephine G. Gatua

Interactions between sustainable development goals at the district level in Lao PDR

Diana C. Garcia Rojas, Jonas L. Appelt, Michael Epprecht, Sengchanh Kounnavong, Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw and Jasper van Vliet

The robustness mechanism of the rural social-ecological system in response to the impact of urbanization——Evidence from irrigation commons in China

Yiqing Su, Xiaohan Chen, Yanyan Li and Yahua Wang

Money backfires: How Chinese investment fuels anti-China protests abroad

Do Young Gong, Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell, Shuyuan Shen and Yujeong Yang

Associations between women’s bargaining power and the adoption of rust-resistant wheat varieties in Ethiopia

Michael Euler, Moti Jaleta and Hom Gartaula

Help with strings attached? China’s medical assistance and political allegiances during the Covid-19 pandemic

Angela Tritto, Hazwan Haini and Hongsen Wu

Public support for participation in local development

Katrin Hofer, Michael Wicki and David Kaufmann

Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil

María Alejandra García, Adam Mayer, Igor Cavallini Johansen, Maria Claudia Lopez and Emilio F. Moran

Foreign aid withdrawals and suspensions: Why, when and are they effective?

Nic Cheeseman, Haley J. Swedlund and Cleo O'Brien-Udry

Women’s involvement in intra-household decision-making and infant and young child feeding practices in Central Asia

Dilnovoz Abdurazzakova, Katrina Kosec and Ziyodullo Parpiev

Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?

Alex Acheampong, Eric Evans Osei Opoku and Godsway Korku Tetteh

Health and economic growth: Reconciling the micro and macro evidence

David E. Bloom, David Canning, Rainer Kotschy, Klaus Prettner and Johannes Schünemann

Perceptions of social class in Africa. Results from a conjoint experiment

Frank-Borge Wietzke

Beyond Ostrom: Randomized experiment of the impact of individualized tree rights on forest management in Ethiopia

Ryo Takahashi, Keijiro Otsuka, Mesfin Tilahun, Emiru Birhane and Stein Holden

Does women's economic empowerment promote human development in low- and middle-income countries? A meta-analysis

Pooja Balasubramanian, Marcela Ibanez, Sarah Khan and Soham Sahoo

Climate and sovereign risk: The Latin American experience with strong ENSO events

Olivier Damette, Clément Mathonnat and Julien Thavard

Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania

Aine McCarthy and Brooke Krause

Triple Bottom Line or Trilemma? Global Tradeoffs Between Prosperity, Inequality, and the Environment

Tong Wu, Juan C. Rocha, Kevin Berry, Tomas Chaigneau, Maike Hamann, Emilie Lindkvist, Jiangxiao Qiu, Caroline Schill, Alon Shepon, Anne-Sophie Crépin and Carl Folke

Caregivers’ parenting beliefs, practices, and child developmental outcomes: Evidence from randomized controlled trials in rural China

Lei Wang, Dingjing Jiang, Siqi Zhang and Scott Rozelle

Volume 177, issue C, 2024

Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods

Yunhui Zhang and Wei Zhao

The three eras of global inequality, 1820–2020 with the focus on the past thirty years

Branko Milanovic

Profit shifting of multinational corporations worldwide

Javier Garcia-Bernardo and Petr Janský

Quiet resistance speaks: A global literature review of the politics of popular resistance to climate adaptation interventions

Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Ebba Brink and Emily Boyd

Is there a fiscal resource curse? Resource rents, fiscal capacity and political institutions in developing economies

Tania Masi, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

The Determinants of Refugees’ Destinations: Where do refugees locate within the EU?

Valentina Di Iasio and Jackline Wahba

Collective urban green revitalisation: Crime control an sustainable behaviours in lower-income neighbourhoods

Diana M. Benjumea Mejia, John Chilton and Peter Rutherford

Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide

Rachel Gilbert, Leah Costlow, Julia Matteson, Jakob Rauschendorfer, Ekaterina Krivonos, Steven A. Block and William Masters

Fueling protest? Climate change mitigation, fuel prices and protest onset

Nina von Uexkull, Espen Geelmuyden Rød and Isak Svensson

How do transaction costs influence remittances?

Kangni Kpodar and Patrick Amir Imam

Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali

Orsola Torrisi

Role of personal network attributes in adoption of clean stoves among Congolese refugees in Rwanda

Praveen Kumar, Naira Kalra and Anita Shankar

How conflict affects education: Differences between Boko Haram and Farmer-Herder conflicts in Nigeria

Korede Ajogbeje and Kevin Sylwester

Escaping Corruption in the Demand for Public Services in Africa — The Dual Nature of Civic Networks

Davina Osei, Maty Konte and Elvis Avenyo

Manufacturing in structural change in Africa

Pierre Nguimkeu and Albert Zeufack

Occupational and asset adjustments in Tamil Nadu, India: The role of a finance and rebuilding program

Marup Hossain, Conner Mullally and Athur Mabiso

Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal

Stephanie Leder, Rachana Upadhyaya, Kees van der Geest, Yuvika Adhikari and Matthias Büttner

Donors want it faster, humanitarian organizations get it cheaper

Jorge García Castillo

Social setting, gender, and preferences for improved sanitation: Evidence from experimental games in rural India

Emily L. Pakhtigian and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

Global exports draining local water resources: Land concentration, food exports and water grabbing in the Ica Valley (Peru)

A. Pronti, E. Zegarra, D. Rey Vicario and A. Graves

Chinese sisal estates and smallholder land uses and livelihoods, Kilosa, Central Tanzania

Puyang Li, Yujia Zhang, B.L. Turner and Wei Li

“We fight to the end”: On the violence against social leaders and territorial defenders during the post-peace agreement period and its political ecological implications in the Putumayo, Colombia

Juan Antonio Samper and Torsten Krause

Dispossessions in Bolsonaro’s Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic

Daniel Bin

Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries

Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Hernán Ruffo

Volume 176, issue C, 2024

The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry

Morgan Hardy, Gisella Kagy, Eyoual Demeke, Marc Witte and Christian Johannes Meyer

Ideology at the Water’s Edge: Explaining Variation in Public Support for Foreign Aid

Lauren Prather

Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries

Alan Sánchez, Marta Favara, Margaret Sheridan and Jere Behrman

Forecasting the prevalence of child acute malnutrition using environmental and conflict conditions as leading indicators

David Backer and Trey Billing

The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance

Simon Bornschier and Manuel Vogt

Bridging the gap: Mobilization of multilateral Development Banks in Infrastructure

Leopoldo Avellan, Arturo Galindo, Giulia Lotti and Juan Pablo Rodríguez

Political trust and government performance in the time of COVID-19

Chengyuan Ji, Junyan Jiang and Yujin Zhang

Aid effectiveness and donor motives

Axel Dreher, Valentin Lang and Bernhard Reinsberg

State and NGO coproduction of health care in the Gran Chaco

Tulia G. Falleti, Santiago L. Cunial, Selene Bonczok Sotelo and Favio Crudo

From absences to emergences: Foregrounding traditional and Indigenous climate change adaptation knowledges and practices from Fiji, Vietnam and the Philippines

Justin See, Ginbert Permejo Cuaton, Pryor Placino, Suliasi Vunibola, Huong Do Thi, Kelly Dombroski and Katharine McKinnon

Scaling-up sustainable commodity governance through jurisdictional initiatives: Political pathways to sector transformation in the Indonesian palm oil sector?

Bahruddin,, Kate Macdonald, Rachael Diprose and Deborah Delgado Pugley

Capital Markets, Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Bangladesh

Laurent Bossavie, Joseph-Simon Görlach, Çağlar Özden and He Wang

Keeping communal peace in the shadow of civil war: A natural experiment from Côte d’Ivoire

Sebastian van Baalen

Do conditional cash transfers create resilience against poverty? Long-run evidence from Jamaica

Christopher Oconnor

Lasting scars: The long-term effects of school closures on earnings

Zsoka Koczan

Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations

Isaac Amedanou and Bertrand Laporte

Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities: An exploratory observational longitudinal study (2002–2010) of micro-level trends among Tsimane’, a small-scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon

Ricardo Godoy, Jonathan Bauchet, Jere Behrman, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Asher Rosinger, Susan Tanner, Eduardo A. Undurraga and Ariela Zycherman

Exposure to large-scale farms increases smallholders’ competitive behavior and closes the gender gap

Menusch Khadjavi, Kacana Sipangule and Rainer Thiele

Revisiting the Income Inequality-Crime Puzzle

Matteo Pazzona

Resilience – and collapse – of local food systems in conflict affected areas; reflections from Burkina Faso

Christophe Béné, Elodie Maître d'Hôtel, Raphaël Pelloquin, Outman Badaoui, Faroukou Garba and Jocelyne W. Sankima

Spatial education inequality for attainment indicators in sub-saharan Africa and spillovers effects

Marcos Delprato, Amita Chudgar and Alessia Frola

The economic impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies on agricultural productivity in developing countries, 1961–2020

Keith O. Fuglie and Ruben G. Echeverria

Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China

Jianglong Li, Jinfeng Gao and Hongxun Liu

Can information intervention improve dietary quality? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural China

Yi Cui, Qiran Zhao, Wei Si and Shenggen Fan

Status inequality and public goods

Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, Sumit Mishra and Andaleeb Rahman

How peace saves lives: Evidence from Colombia

Sergio Perilla, Mounu Prem, Miguel Purroy and Juan Vargas

United Nations peacekeeping operations and multilateral foreign aid: Credibility of good governance

Wakako Maekawa