World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 175, issue C, 2024

Early life determinants of social disparities among young adults: A longitudinal study in vulnerable communities in South Africa

Georg Loss, Sara Naicker, Linda Richter and Günther Fink

How do energy-saving policies improve environmental quality: Evidence from China’s Top 10,000 energy-consuming enterprises program

Shuai Shao, Le Xu, Lili Yang and Dianfan Yu

One for all and all for one: Increasing the adaptive capacity of households and communities through a public work programme

Antonio Scognamillo, Marina Mastrorillo and Adriana Ignaciuk

Statebuilding and indigenous rights implementation: Political incentives, social movement pressure, and autonomy policy in Central America

Giorleny Altamirano Rayo, Eric S. Mosinger and Kai M. Thaler

Knowledge protects against pollution: The health effects of the cadmium rice event in China

Xiaohong Chen, Jinhua Zhao and Li Zhou

How Natural Resources Affect Corruption in China

Ji Yeon Hong and Wenhui Yang

Cofinancing and infrastructure project outcomes in Chinese lending and overseas development finance

Yangsiyu Lu, Cecilia Springer and Bjarne Steffen

Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy

Erol Taymaz, Ebru Voyvoda and Kamil Yilmaz

Not all supply chains are created equal: The linkages between soy local trade relations and development outcomes in Brazil

Tiago N.P. dos Reis, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Gabriela Russo Lopes and Patrick Meyfroidt

The politics of tied aid: Technology transfer and the maintenance and repair of water infrastructure

Lazarus Jambadu, Jochen Monstadt and Francesca Pilo'

Socioeconomic conditions and contagion dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic with and without mitigation measures: Evidence from 185 countries

Giorgos Galanis and Andreas Georgiadis

Using registry data to assess gender-differentiated land and credit market effects of urban land policy reform: Evidence from Lesotho

Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger

Short- and long-term food insecurity and policy responses in pandemics: Panel data evidence from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

Peter Hangoma, Kusum Hachhethu, Silvia Passeri, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Johnathan Rivers and Ottar Mæstad

Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing

Yannic Damm, Elías Cisneros and Jan Börner

The role of trainings in improving supplier sustainability performance

Kristina Encinas Bartos, Julia Schwarzkopf and Martin Mueller

Unconditional cash transfers and safe transitions to adulthood in Malawi

Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Amber Peterman, Sudhanshu Handa, Adria Molotsky, Frank Otchere, Peter Mvula, Maxton Tsoka, Jacobus de Hoop, Gustavo Angeles, Kelly Kilburn and Annamaria Milazzo

Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic

Ben Brunckhorst, Alexandru Cojocaru, Yeon Soo Kim and Maurice Kugler

Applying the six-dimensional food security framework to examine a fresh fruit and vegetable program implemented by self-help groups during the COVID-19 lockdown in India

Jonathan Mockshell and Thea Nielsen Ritter

The impact of urban green business environment on FDI quality and its driving mechanism: Evidence from China

Xiuqing Li and Liming Xiao

Contested firewood collection in Burkina Faso: Governance, perceptions, and practices

Jenny Friman

Volume 174, issue C, 2024

Drinking water facilities and inclusive development: Evidence from Rural China

Yuanzhe Li, Tianyang Xi and Li-An Zhou

Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India

Ashwini Deshpande and Naila Kabeer

The doublespeak of ‘leave no one behind’: Implications for religious inequality in Hindu and Muslim pastoralist communities in India

Emma Tomalin, Caroline Dyer and Archana Choksi

Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú

Andre Groeger, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Steven Stillman

Orchestrating self-empowerment in tribal India: Debt bondage, land rights, and the strategic uses of spirituality

Philip Mader

Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests

Bingcai Liu, Anand Roopsind and Brent Sohngen

Evaluating the determinants of participation in conservancy land leases and its impacts on household wealth in the Maasai Mara, Kenya: Equity and gender implications

Claire Bedelian, Joseph O. Ogutu, Katherine Homewood and Aidan Keane

Impact of energy poverty on public health: A non-linear study from an international perspective

Chien-Chiang Lee and Zihao Yuan

Nurse migration: Long-run determinants and dynamics of flows in response to health and economic shocks

Alina Botezat, Cristian Incaltarau and Peter Nijkamp

Long-term economic impact of disasters: Evidence from multiple earthquakes in China

Lulu Huang, Qiannan Liu and Yugang Tang

Can a knowledge calendar improve dietary knowledge? Evidence from a field experiment in rural China

Minghui Hou, Shi Min, Ping Qing and Xu Tian

Equity and empowerment effects: Multiple styles of ‘voluntarism’ in community-based health projects

Carly Nichols

“People are now working together for a common good”: The effect on social capital of participatory design for community-level sanitation infrastructure in urban informal settlements

Allison P. Salinger, Isabel Charles, Naomi Francis, Becky Batagol, Litea Meo-Sewabu, Sudirman Nasir, Audra Bass, Hamdan Habsji, Losalini Malumu, Liza Marzaman, Michaela F. Prescott, Mere Jane Sawailau, Syaidah Syamsu, Ruzka R. Taruc, Autiko Tela, Isoa Vakarewa, Alexander Wilson and Sheela S. Sinharoy

Securing development: Uneven geographies of coastal tourism development in El Salvador

Ruchi Patel

Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural–urban continuum in Ethiopia

Mulubrhan Amare, Channing Arndt, Zhe Guo and Greg Seymour

Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?

Mariz Tadros and Catherine Shutt

Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war

Rana B. Khoury and Emily K.M. Scott

COVID-19 and violence against women: Current knowledge, gaps, and implications for public policy

Fabiana Rocha, Maria Dolores Diaz, Paula Carvalho Pereda, Isadora Bousquat Árabe, Filipe Cavalcanti, Samuel Lordemus, Noemi Kreif and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

Policy preferences in response to large forced migration inflows

William L. Allen, Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Sharing norm, household efficiency and female demand for agency in the Philippines

Jean-Marie Baland, Ludovic Bequet, Catherine Guirkinger and Clarice Manuel

Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities

Vu Vuong and Michael Palmer

From grazing units to milking units: The gendered nature of intra-household livestock management and food security for pastoralists in Kenya

Kayla Yurco

Volume 173, issue C, 2024

Crouching beliefs, hidden biases: The rise and fall of growth narratives

Reda Cherif, Marc Engher and Fuad Hasanov

Cash transfers amid shocks: A large, one-time, unconditional cash transfer to refugees in Uganda has multidimensional benefits after 19 months

Prankur Gupta, Daniel Stein, Kyla Longman, Heather Lanthorn, Rico Bergmann, Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo, Noel Rutto, Christine Kahura, Winfred Kananu, Gabrielle Posner, K.J. Zhao and Penny Davis

How clientelism undermines state capacity: Evidence from Mexican municipalities

Ana L. De La O

Supply Chains in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Kenya’s Production Network

Peter Wankuru Chacha, Benard Kipyegon Kirui and Verena Wiedemann

Mitigating the legacy of violence: Can flood relief improve people’s trust in government in conflict-affected areas? Evidence from Pakistan

Kristina Petrova and Elisabeth L. Rosvold

Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups

Christopher Heitzig and O’Keeffe-O’Donovan, Rossa

Ideology and Rifles: The Agrarian Origins of Civil Conflict in Colombia

Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe and Fabio Sanchez Torres

Development Goals, commercial interest and EU Aid-for-Trade

Bernard Hoekman and Anirudh Shingal

Locating Kadu in Adivasi portrayals of protected forest areas in Southern India

Helina Jolly, Terre Satterfield, Milind Kandlikar and Tr Suma

Parental early-life exposure to land reform and household investment in children’s education

Haining Wang, Zhiming Cheng and Russell Smyth

Advancing UN digital cooperation: Lessons from environmental policy and governance

Daria Gritsenko

Impact of industrial logging concession on deforestation and forest degradation in the DRC

Colas Chervier, Arimatéa C. Ximenes, Blaise-Pascal Ntirumenyerwa Mihigo and Charles Doumenge

Political economy of refugees: How responsibility shapes the politics of education

Shelby Carvalho and Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Global value chains and firms’ environmental performance

Samuel Siewers, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Leila Baghdadi

Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market

Stephen Devadoss and William Ridley

Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control

Te Bao, Yuemei Yuan, Weidong Luo and Bin Xu

Mining and violence in Latin America: The state’s coercive responses to anti-mining resistance

Moises Arce and Camilo Nieto-Matiz

Agricultural production and food security implications of Covid-19 disruption on small-scale farmer households: Lessons from Kenya

James Mutegi, Ivan Adolwa, Abed Kiwia, Samuel Njoroge, Angela Gitonga, Joses Muthamia, Eileen Nchanji, Franklin Mairura, Kaushik Majumdar, Shamie Zingore, Thomas Oberthur, Mercy Kiremu and Monica Kansiime

Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean

Leonard Missbach, Jan Christoph Steckel and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia

Diego Escobari and Gary A. Hoover

Finance, informal competition, and expectations: A firm-level analysis

Emanuele Brancati, Michele Di Maio and Aminur Rahman

Is energy aid allocated fairly? A global energy vulnerability perspective

Kangyin Dong, Qingzhe Jiang, Yang Liu, Zhiyang Shen and Michael Vardanyan

External arms embargoes and their implications for government expenditure, democracy and internal conflict

Sajjad Faraji Dizaji and Syed Mansoob Murshed

Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Douglas Amuli Ibale, Frédéric Docquier and Zainab Iftikhar

Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs

Sarah Khan

Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Akhter Ahmed, John Hoddinott, Shalini Roy and Esha Sraboni

Urban social movements and local state capacity

Benjamin H. Bradlow

Forced displacement, social cohesion, and the state: Evidence from eight new studies

Emily Myers, Audrey Sacks, Juan F. Tellez and Erik Wibbels

The place of religious inequalities within international development and humanitarian response frameworks: Lessons from Iraq

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Jeremy P. Barker

Inviting oversight: Effects of forest certification on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Pushpendra Rana and Erin O. Sills

Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India

Aashima Sinha, Ashish Kumar Sedai, Dil Rahut and Tetsushi Sonobe

Effect of intergovernmental transfers on income and poverty rates: Evidence from the Philippines

Cheng-Tao Tang, Chun Yee Wong and Orelie Bathan Delas Alas

Going organic: Challenges for government-supported organic rice promotion and certification nationalism in Thailand

Ian G. Baird

COVID-19 and extreme weather: Impacts on food security and migration attitudes in the rural area of Guatemala

Francisco Ceballos, Manuel Hernandez and Cynthia Paz

Does reducing income inequality promote the decoupling of economic growth from carbon footprint?

Aoyu Hou, Ao Liu and Li Chai

Farmer personality and community-based extension effectiveness in Tanzania

Jarrad Farris, Mywish K. Maredia, Nicole M. Mason and David Ortega

The effects of the Indonesian conditional cash transfer program on transition out of agriculture

Efi Yuliani and Rus'an Nasrudin

Economics for an uncertain world

George DeMartino, Ilene Grabel and Ian Scoones

Agricultural investment behaviour and contingency: Experimental evidence from Uganda

D’Exelle, Ben, Alistair Munro and Arjan Verschoor

Income inequality in Guyana: Class or ethnicity? New evidence from survey data

Collin Constantine

Educational consequences of firsthand exposure to armed conflict: The case of the Sri Lankan Civil War

Takahiro Ito, Jia Li, Ramila Usoof-Thowfeek and Koji Yamazaki

Does transparency matter? Evaluating the Impacts of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on Deforestation in Resource-rich Developing Countries

Harouna Kinda and Noël Thiombiano

REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania

Mary Nantongo, Arild Vatn and Geofrey Soka

Catch up with my husband as I can: Women’s decision-making power consequences of China’s poverty alleviation relocation program

Yawen Ding, Xiaobing Wang, Alan de Brauw and Huanguang Qiu

Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women

Wanglin Ma, Xiaoshi Zhou, David Boansi, Godwin Seyram Agbemavor Horlu and Victor Owusu

Effective affordable housing strategies for the urban poor in Nigeria

Timothy Akinwande, Eddie C.M. Hui and Karien Dekker

Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka

Claire Mcloughlin

Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States

Smitha Rao and Ngozi V. Enelamah