World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 166, issue C, 2023

Inclusive refugee-hosting can improve local development and prevent public backlash

Yang-Yang Zhou, Guy Grossman and Shuning Ge

Allocation of humanitarian aid after a weather disaster

Lukas Mogge, Morag McDonald, Christian Knoth, Henning Teickner, Myagmartseren Purevtseren, Edzer Pebesma and Kati Kraehnert

Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting: Rules versus discretionary budgets

Dilip Mookherjee and Anusha Nath

Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment

Blake Angell, Obinna Onwujekwe, Pallavi Roy, Chukwudi Nwokolo, Martin McKee, Kate Mandeville, Divine Obodoechi, Prince Agwu, Aloysius Odii, Charles Orjiakor, Eleanor Hutchinson and Dina Balabanova

Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures

David Murphy

Has Chinese aid benefited recipient countries? Evidence from a meta-regression analysis

Pierre Mandon and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael

Explaining the development policy implementation gap: A case of a failed food sovereignty policy in Bolivia

Geovana Mercado and Carsten Nico Hjortsø

Entrepreneurship for all? The rise of a global “entrepreneurship for development” agenda, 1950–2021

Seungah S. Lee

Volume 165, issue C, 2023

Targeting hunger or votes? The political economy of humanitarian transfers in Malawi

Jan Duchoslav, Edwin Kenamu and Jack Thunde

Effects of education on political engagement in rural Burkina Faso

Elodie Djemai and Michael Kevane

The hierarchy of needs empirical examination of Maslow’s theory and lessons for development

Mariano Rojas, Alfonso Méndez and Karen Watkins-Fassler

The poverty effect of democratization

Christoph Dörffel and Andreas Freytag

With and beyond sustainability certification: Exploring inclusive business and solidarity economy strategies in Peru and Switzerland

Christoph Oberlack, Trent Blare, Luca Zambrino, Samuel Bruelisauer, Jimena Solar, Gesabel Villar, Evert Thomas and Marleni Ramírez

Blessed are the peacemakers: The future burden of intrastate conflict on poverty

Jonathan D. Moyer

A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?

Dennis Wesselbaum, Michael D. Smith, Christopher Barrett and Anaka Aiyar

Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe

Emmanuel Mavhura and Komal Raj Aryal

Community matters: Heterogeneous impacts of a sanitation intervention

Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Melanie Lührmann, Francisco Oteiza and Juan Pablo Rud

The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya

Becatien Yao, Aleksan Shanoyan, Benjamin Schwab and Vincent Amanor-Boadu

Market concentration, trade exposure, and firm productivity in developing countries: Evidence from Mexico

Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Luis Lopez-Calva and Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas

Multidimensional forests: Complexity of forest-based values and livelihoods across Amazonian socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts

Marina Londres, Marianne Schmink, Jan Börner, Amy E. Duchelle and Gabriel Ponzoni Frey

Stakeholder perspectives on cocoa’s living income differential and sustainability trade-offs in Ghana

Marshall Alhassan Adams and Sophia Carodenuto

Fighting against hunger: A country-wide intervention and its impact on birth outcomes

Francisco Beltran-Silva

Productivity gaps at formal and informal microfirms

Luis Hernando Gutierrez and Paul Rodriguez-Lesmes

Are smart cities green? The role of environmental and digital policies for Eco-innovation in China

Despoina Filiou, Effie Kesidou and Lichao Wu

Volume 164, issue C, 2023

Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar

Woojin Jung

Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism

Anh Ngoc Vu

Recovery mode: Non-cognitive skills after the storm

Christian Biener and Andreas Landmann

A macro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America

Diksha Arora, Elissa Braunstein and Stephanie Seguino

Kenya’s ‘Universal’ social pension: The politics of registration in Marsabit County

Alesha Porisky, Tahira Shariff Mohamed and Patrick Mutinda Muthui

Water insecurity, housing tenure, and the role of informal water services in Nairobi’s slum settlements

Nupur Joshi, Andrea K. Gerlak, Corrie Hannah, Sara Lopus, Natasha Krell and Tom Evans

The impact of intimate partner violence on women’s labour market outcomes

Cigdem Gedikli, Gurleen Popli and Okan Yilmaz

Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China

Lin Zhu, Hua Liao and Paul Burke

Roads, rails, and checkpoints: Assessing the permeability of nation-state borders worldwide

Emanuel Deutschmann, Lorenzo Gabrielli and Ettore Recchi

Perpetuating the malign legacy of colonialism? Traditional chiefs’ power and deforestation in Sierra Leone

Iva Mihaylova

The ecosystem approach to agricultural value chain finance: A framework for rural credit

Roberto Villalba, Terese E. Venus and Johannes Sauer

Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid

Isabelle Cohen

Seeing like a smartphone: The co-production of landscape-scale and rights-based conservation

Walker DePuy

Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labor market outcomes in an emerging economy: Evidence from Indonesia

Niken Kusumawardhani, Rezanti Pramana, Nurmala Selly Saputri and Daniel Suryadarma

The Agency, Resources, and Institutional Structures for Sanitation-related Empowerment (ARISE) Scales: Development and validation of measures of women’s empowerment in urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries

Sheela S. Sinharoy, Shauna McManus, Amelia Conrad, Madeleine Patrick and Bethany A. Caruso

Volume 163, issue C, 2023

The burdens of participation: A mixed-methods study of the effects of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program on women’s time use in Malawi

Amy Margolies, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Rosemary Morgan, Aulo Gelli and Laura Caulfield

Migration in Libya: A spatial network analysis

Michele Di Maio, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza and Vasco Molini

Reforming justice under a security crisis: The case of the criminal justice reform in Mexico

Camilo A. Cepeda-Francese and Aurora A. Ramírez-Álvarez

Price, credit or ambiguity? Increasing small-scale irrigation in Ethiopia

Soumya Balasubramanya, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Archisman Mitra and David Stifel

Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction

Ahram Han, Gi Khan Ten and Shun Wang

Does environmental regulation increase domestic value-added in exports? An empirical study of cleaner production standards in China

Chuanwang Sun, Yanhong Zhan and Xiang Gao

Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants

Lucas Chancel, Denis Cogneau, Amory Gethin, Alix Myczkowski and Anne-Sophie Robilliard

Volume 162, issue C, 2023

Intellectual property rights protection and trade: An empirical analysis

Emmanuelle Auriol, Sara Biancini and Rodrigo Paillacar

Economics of minority groups: Labour-market returns and transmission of indigenous languages in Mexico

Diego de la Fuente Stevens and Panu Pelkonen

Are trade preferences a Panacea? The export impact of the African growth and Opportunity Act

Ana M. Fernandes, Alejandro Forero, Hibret Maemir and Aaditya Mattoo

Skills training and business outcomes: Experimental evidence from Liberia

Ana Dammert and Aisha Nansamba

Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

Jorge Gallego, Jenny Guardado and Leonard Wantchekon

The aid-nutrition link – Does targeted development assistance related to food systems matter?

Lukas Kornher, Zaneta Kubik, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu and Maximo Torero

Poverty, social networks, and clientelism

Nico Ravanilla and Allen Hicken

Oiling up the field. Forced internal displacement and the expansion of palm oil in Colombia

Jaime Millán-Quijano and Sebastián Pulgarín

Voluntary audits: Experimental evidence on a new approach to monitoring front-line bureaucrats

Ana L. De La O, Lucas I. González and Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro

Does information about citizen participation initiatives increase political trust?

Martin Ardanaz, Susana Otálvaro-Ramírez and Carlos Scartascini

The Janus face of stateness: China's development-oriented equity investments in Africa

Ying Xia and Muyang Chen

Aid and internal migration in Malawi

Mauro Lanati, Marco Sanfilippo and Filippo Santi

Mining and women’s agency: Evidence on acceptance of domestic violence and shared decision-making in India

Amanda Guimbeau, Xinde James Ji, Nidhiya Menon and Yana Rodgers

Democracy, rural inequality, and education spending

David Samuels and Thomas R. Vargas

Relating risk preferences and risk perceptions over different agricultural risk domains: Insights from Ethiopia

Ashenafi Duguma Feyisa, Miet Maertens and Yann de Mey

The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey

Murat Demirci and Murat Kırdar