World Development

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): O. T. Coomes

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Volume 172, issue C, 2023

Pathways towards power shifts: State-society synergy

Jonathan Fox, Rachel Sullivan Robinson and Naomi Hossain

Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector

Michael B. Dwyer and Vong Nanhthavong

The impact of an improvement in the quality and reliability of rural residential electricity supply on clean cooking fuel adoption: Evidence from six energy poor Indian states

Sonia Akter, Nikhitha Mary Mathew and Marian Edward Fila

Synergies and trade-offs between agricultural export promotion and food security: Evidence from African economies

E. Aragie, J. Balié, C. Morales and Karl Pauw

Sanctions effectiveness, development and regime type. Are aid suspensions and economic sanctions alike?

Clara Portela and Juan Mora-Sanguinetti

Imports, supply chains and firm productivity

Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp

Air pollution and willingness to pay for health risk reductions in Egypt: A contingent valuation survey of Greater Cairo and Alexandria households

Samar Ghanem, Silvia Ferrini and Corrado Di Maria

The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda

Tewodaj Mogues, Bjorn Van Campenhout, Caroline Miehe and Nassul Kabunga

Trust in peacebuilding organizations: A survey experiment in Haiti

Zorzeta Bakaki and Han Dorussen

Governing the knowledge commons: Hybrid relational–contractual governance in china’s mining industry

Wanlin Lin, Peng Wang and Minjun Yuan

Leaving no one behind: Urban poverty traps in Sub-Saharan Africa

Teresa Janz, Britta Augsburg, Franziska Gassmann and Zina Nimeh

Volume 171, issue C, 2023

Child poverty among refugees

Theresa Beltramo, Rossella Calvi, Giacomo De Giorgi and Ibrahima Sarr

The effect of administrative divisions on the distribution of individual income in the new territories of Chile

Roberto Herrera and Gabriel Pino

The gendered effects of investing in physical and social infrastructure

Sarah Small and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

Towards an effective gender integration in the armed forces: The case of the Colombian Army Military Academy

Andres Eduardo Fernandez-Osorio, Marina Miron, Leidy Johana Cabrera-Cabrera, Maria Antonieta Corcione-Nieto and Luisa Fernanda Villalba-Garcia

Automated Deindustrialization: How Global Robotization Affects Emerging Economies—Evidence from Brazil

Henry Stemmler

No man is an Island: A spatially explicit approach to measure development resilience

Antonio Scognamillo, Chun Song and Adriana Ignaciuk

Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique

Chris Büscher

Roads, women’s employment, and gender equity: Evidence from Cambodia

Sebastian Anti and Zhihui Zhang

An intervention-focused review of modern slave labor in Brazil’s mining sector

Vaiddehi Bansal, Jessica Wallach, Juliana Lira Brandão, Sarah Lord, Ninar Taha, Tulay Akoglu, Ligia Kiss and Cathy Zimmerman

Revisiting the effects of the Ethiopian land tenure reform using satellite data. A focus on agricultural productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Alexis Rampa and Stefania Lovo

Gender and agricultural Productivity: Econometric evidence from Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda

Jacques C. Julien, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta and Nicholas E. Rada

Joint decision-making, technology adoption and food security: Evidence from rice varieties in eastern India

Maria Luz L. Malabayabas, Ashok K. Mishra and Valerien O. Pede

Varieties of participatory institutions and interest intermediation

Lindsay Mayka and Jared Abbott

Volume 170, issue C, 2023

Rebel group formation in Africa: Evidence from a new dataset

Janet I. Lewis

Colonial origins and quality of education evidence from cameroon

Yasmine Bekkouche and Yannick Dupraz

Indian dairy cooperative development: A combination of scaling up and scaling out producing a center-periphery structure

Marie Dervillé, Diego Manriquez, Bruno Dorin, Claire Aubron and Didier Raboisson

The impact of robots in Latin America: Evidence from local labor markets

Irene Brambilla, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone and Leonardo Gasparini

Labor market integration, local conditions and inequalities: Evidence from refugees in Switzerland

Tobias Müller, Pia Pannatier and Martina Viarengo

Contemporaneous and lasting effects of electoral gender quotas

Swapnil Motghare

Ecologically unequal exchange and uneven development patterns along global value chains

Jeffrey Althouse, Louison Cahen-Fourot, Bruno Carballa-Smichowski, Cédric Durand and Steven Knauss

Vulnerability and coping strategies within wild meat trade networks during the COVID-19 pandemic

Charis Enns, Nathalie van Vliet, Joseph Mbane, Jonas Muhindo, Jonas Nyumu, Brock Bersaglio, Francis Massé, Paolo Omar Cerutti and Robert Nasi

Long-term effects of the 1923 mass refugee inflow on social cohesion in Greece

Elie Murard

Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR

Rebecca Traldi, Julie A. Silva, Peter Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Michael Epprecht, Meredith L. Gore and Chittana Phompila

Valuing soil erosion control investments in Nigerian agricultural lands: A hedonic pricing model

Kritika Sen Chakraborty, Avinandan Chakraborty and Robert Berrens

Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?

Corinne Bocci and Lea Fortmann

Making meat and milk from plants: A review of plant-based food for human and planetary health

Prabhu Pingali, Jocelyn Boiteau, Abhinav Choudhry and Aaron Hall

Integrated policymaking: Institutional designs for implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Anita Breuer, Julia Leininger, Daniele Malerba and Jale Tosun

Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh

Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Raduan Hossin, Alexander Yu, Shampa Saha, Senjuti Saha, Samir K. Saha and Stephen P. Luby

Gender wage discrimination with employer prejudice and trade openness

Sarra Ben Yahmed

Following your lead: Migration networks and immigrants' education decisions

Ivette Contreras

When sterilizations lower immunizations: The Emergency experience in India (1975–77)

Charlotte Pelras and Andréa Renk

Community-based health programs and child vaccinations: Evidence from Madagascar

Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Maria Rosales-Rueda

Can CSR strategy mediate conflict over extraction? Evidence from two mines in Peru

Deborah Avant, Devin Finn and Tricia D. Olsen

Social networks, empowerment, and wellbeing among Syrian refugee and Jordanian women: Implications for development and social inclusion

Jannik J. Eggerman, Rana Dajani, Praveen Kumar, Susannah Chui, Lina Qtaishat, Amal El Kharouf and Catherine Panter-Brick

How did the COVID-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world?

Maurice Kugler, Mariana Viollaz, Daniel Duque, Isis Gaddis, David Newhouse, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Michael Weber

Fostering early childhood development in low-resource communities: Evidence from a group-based parenting intervention in Tanzania

Margaret Leighton, Anitha Martine and Julius Massaga

Stakeholder engagement in the co-production of knowledge for environmental decision-making

Andrea K. Gerlak, Zack Guido, Gigi Owen, Mariana Sofia Rodriguez McGoffin, Elena Louder, Julia Davies, Kelly Jay Smith, Andy Zimmer, Anna M. Murveit, Alison Meadow, Padmendra Shrestha and Nupur Joshi

Fish to fight: Does catching more fish increase conflicts in Indonesia?

Yifan Lu and Satoshi Yamazaki

Fair compensation in large-scale land acquisitions: Fair or fail?

Marcello De Maria, Elizabeth Robinson and Giacomo Zanello

Regime legitimation strategies and competition laws in autocracies

Nam Kyu Kim

Do green foreign direct investments increase the innovative capability of MNE subsidiaries?

Vito Amendolagine, Ulrich Elmer Hansen, Rasmus Lema, Roberta Rabellotti and Dalila Ribaudo

Fighting Covid-19 amidst civil conflict: Micro-level evidence from Burkina Faso

Mohammad H. Sepahvand and Philip Verwimp