World Development

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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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

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