World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 169, issue C, 2023

Dismantling old or forging new clientelistic ties? Sudan’s civil service reform after uprising

Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda

The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road

Ana Alves, Xue Gong and Mingjiang Li

Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia

John Gibson, Yi Jiang and Bambang Susantono

Earthquakes and mental health

Luisito Bertinelli, Clotilde Mahé and Eric Strobl

Large-scale monitoring in the DRC’s Ituri forest with a locally informed multidimensional well-being index

Jessica L'Roe, Diane Detoeuf, Michelle Wieland, Bernard Ikati, Moïse Enduyi Kimuha, François Sandrin, Odette Angauko Sukari, Junior Nzale Nkumu, Heidi E. Kretser and David Wilkie

Impacts of hydropower development on locals’ livelihoods in the Global South

Laura Castro-Diaz, María Alejandra García, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas and Maria Claudia Lopez

License to educate: The role of national networks in colonial empires

Bastian Becker and Carina Schmitt

Household welfare effects of ROSCAs

Pushkar Maitra, Ray Miller and Ashish Sedai

Resource rents, coercion, and local development: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa

Paulo Bastos and Nicolas Bottan

Chinese capital, regulatory strength and the BRI: A tale of ‘fractured development’ in Cambodia

Linda Calabrese and Yuan Wang

Returning from greener pastures? How exposure to returnees affects migration plans

Daniel Auer and Max Schaub

How to cope with a refugee population? Evidence from Uganda

Mark Marvin Kadigo and Jean-François Maystadt

What makes a program good? Evidence from short-cycle higher education programs in five developing countries

Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Sergio Urzua and Marina Bassi

Impact of a pension program on healthcare utilization among older farmers: Empirical evidence from health claims data

Feng-An Yang and Hung-Hao Chang

How political insiders lose out when international aid underperforms: Evidence from a participatory development experiment in Ghana

Kate Baldwin, Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry and Ernest Appiah

Drivers of growth accelerations: What role for capital accumulation?

Eline Koopman and Konstantin Wacker

Foreign pressure and public opinion in target states

Masaru Kohno, Gabriella R. Montinola and Matthew S. Winters

When do anti-bribery laws affect international trade?

John Firth

How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi

Jessica Meyer

Rethinking agrarian transition in Southeast Asia through rice farming in Thailand

Arunee Promkhambut, Phanwin Yokying, Kevin Woods, Micah Fisher, Ming Li Yong, Kanokwan Manorom, Ian G. Baird and Jefferson Fox

Links between firm registration and performance: Does it pay to register?

Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Phyllis Mumia Machio, Michael Murigi Njoroge and Margaret Chemengich

Volume 168, issue C, 2023

Citizens’ understanding of the social contract: Lessons from Tunisia

Dina Bishara, Michelle Jurkovich and Chantal Berman

Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on India’s rural youth: Evidence from a panel survey and an experiment

Bhaskar Chakravorty, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Clément Imbert, Maximilian Lohnert, Poonam Panda and Roland Rathelot

Crime, inequality and subsidized housing: Evidence from South Africa

Roxana Elena Manea, Patrizio Piraino and Martina Viarengo

Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Jorge Uribe and Oscar Valencia

Remittances and land change: A systematic review

Elizabeth A. Mack, Laura Aileen Sauls, Brad D. Jokisch, Kerstin Nolte, Birgit Schmook, Yifan He, Claudia Radel, Ginger R.H. Allington, Lisa C. Kelley, Christian Kelly Scott, Stephen Leisz, Guangqing Chi, Lira Sagynbekova, Nicholas Cuba and Geoffrey M. Henebry

Technological trajectories as an outcome of the structure-agency interplay at the national level: Insights from emerging varieties of AI

Cristian Gherhes, Zhen Yu, Tim Vorley and Lan Xue

Resilience, endogenous policy responses to COVID-19, and their impacts on farm performance

Onasis Guedegbe, Adesoji Adelaja and Justin George

Aid effectiveness in sustainable development: A multidimensional approach

Omar A. Guerrero, Daniele Guariso and Gonzalo Castañeda

Gender imaginaries in energy transitions: How professionals construct and envision gender equity in energy access in the Global South

Cecilia Alda-Vidal, Rihab Khalid, Chris Foulds, Sarah Royston and Mary Greene

Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal

Tisorn Songsermsawas, Kashi Kafle and Paul Winters

Livelihood investments as incentives for community forestry in Africa

Susan Charnley

Does environmental regulation spur innovation? Quasi-natural experiment in China

Ming Zhang and Yingxue Zhao

The scientific revolution and its implications for long-run economic development

Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Klaus Prettner and Paul Tscheuschner

Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations

Anna-Maria Aksan and Shankha Chakraborty

The flag and the stick: Aid suspensions, human rights, and the problem of the complicit public

Niheer Dasandi and Lior Erez

Child health and the housing environment

Caitlin Brown, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

Do Chinese firms in Africa pay lower wages? A comparative analysis of manufacturing and construction firms in Angola and Ethiopia

Carlos Oya and Florian Schaefer

Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar

Kalyani Raghunathan, Neha Kumar, Shivani Gupta, Tarana Chauhan, Ashi Kohli Kathuria and Purnima Menon

Displacement and return in the internet Era: Social media for monitoring migration decisions in Northern Syria

Erin Walk, Kiran Garimella and Fotini Christia

The political economy of national development: A research agenda after neoliberal reform?

Adnan Naseemullah

Shocks and mental health: Panel data evidence from South Africa

Yonas Alem and Gidisa Lachisa Tato

Post-conflict restitution of customary land: Guidelines and trajectories of change

Sandra F. Joireman and Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo

The effects of refugees’ camps on hosting areas: Social conflicts and economic growth

Nicola Coniglio, Vito Peragine and Davide Vurchio

Volume 167, issue C, 2023

Weather information and agricultural outcomes: Evidence from a pilot field experiment in Benin

Rosaine N. Yegbemey, Gunther Bensch and Colin Vance

The collusion trap: Theory with evidence from informal markets in Lagos, Nigeria

Shelby Grossman and Alisha C. Holland

Social policy expansion from below? The case of Chile’s student movement and free tuition higher education

Sofia Donoso, Rodolfo Disi Pavlic and Belén Cumsille R.

Chinese aid and health at the country and local level

John Cruzatti C., Axel Dreher and Johannes Matzat

Which dimensions of religiosity matter for trust? New insights from the MENA region

Eliane El Badaoui

The trade effects of information provision about forced and child labor

Margaryta Klymak

Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries

Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata, María Edo and Mariana Marchionni

Coercive and catalytic strategies for human rights promotion: State violence and foreign assistance

Hillary Corwin

Forced Migration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from the 2015/16 Mass Inflow in Germany

E. Albarosa and B. Elsner

The gender labor productivity gap across informal firms

Asif Islam and Mohammad Amin

Patronage and authoritarian co-optation of the military: Theory with evidence from post-Mao China

Yumin Sheng

Macroeconomic exposure of developing economies to low-carbon transition

Guilherme Magacho, Etienne Espagne, Antoine Godin, Achilleas Mantes and Devrim Yilmaz

Narrowing women’s time and income gaps: An assessment of the synergies between working time reduction and universal income schemes

André Cieplinski, Simone D'Alessandro, Chandni Dwarkasing and Pietro Guarnieri

Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda

Els Lecoutere, David Spielman and Bjorn Van Campenhout

Village networks and entrepreneurial farming in Uganda

D’Exelle, Ben and Arjan Verschoor

Agricultural value chains in a fragile state: The case of rice in Myanmar

Bart Minten, Joseph Goeb, Khin Zin Win and Phoo Pye Zone

Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses

Petra Tschakert, Meg Parsons, Ed Atkins, Alicea Garcia, Naomi Godden, Noemi Gonda, Karen Paiva Henrique, Susannah Sallu, Karin Steen and Gina Ziervogel

The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion

Naohiko Omata

Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data

Robert MacTavish, Honor Bixby, Alicia Cavanaugh, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Ayaga Bawah, George Owusu, Majid Ezzati, Raphael Arku, Brian Robinson, Alexandra M. Schmidt and Jill Baumgartner

Last mile in anti-poverty drive: Impact of cadres’ appraisals on growth and poverty reduction

Liuyang He, Xi Lu and Chyen Yee Lee

Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition

Pedro Piris-Cabezas, Ruben N. Lubowski and Gabriela Leslie