World Development

1973 - 2025

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Volume 161, issue C, 2023

Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal

Vinish Shrestha and Juergen Jung

Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century

Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel

Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers

Man Li

Radio and technology adoption during India’s Green Revolution: Evidence from a natural experiment

Srinivasan Vasudevan

Community enforcement and tenure security: A fuzzy-set qualitative Comparative analysis of twelve community forest management initiatives in the Peruvian Amazon

Marieke van der Zon, Wil de Jong and Bas Arts

Explaining trends in adult height in China: 1950 to 1990

Minhee Chae, Timothy Hatton and Xin Meng

Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question survey module for women’s agency

Seema Jayachandran, Monica Biradavolu and Jan Cooper

Disease and diversity in long-term economic development

Javier Birchenall

Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation

Alexander Betts, Maria Flinder Stierna, Naohiko Omata and Olivier Sterck

Accelerating technical change through ICT: Evidence from a video-mediated extension experiment in Ethiopia

Gashaw T. Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Simrin Makhija and David Spielman

Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso

Tristan Le Cotty, Maître d’Hôtel, Elodie and Julie Subervie

Of cooks, crooks and slum-dwellers: Exploring the lived experience of energy and mobility poverty in Mexico's informal settlements

Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio and Benjamin K. Sovacool

Does professionalizing maintenance unlock demand for more reliable water supply? Experimental evidence from rural Uganda

Daniel W. Smith, Stephen Atwii Ongom and Jennifer Davis

Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor

Laura Fumagalli and Thomas Martin

Unravelling the ‘race to the bottom’ argument: Foreign direct investment and different types of labour rights

Luca Messerschmidt and Nicole Janz

The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures

Jeffrey Kentor, Rob Clark and Andrew Jorgenson

Bank deregulation and corporate environmental performance

Shiyi Chen, Tao Chen, Pingyi Lou, Hong Song and Chenyu Wu

Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019

Nicholas Li

Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali

Maxim Ananyev and Mikhail Poyker

Women who do not migrate: Intersectionality, social relations, and participation in Western Nepal

Gitta Shrestha, Emily L. Pakhtigian and Marc Jeuland

Household welfare in the digital age: Assessing the effect of mobile money on household consumption volatility in developing countries

Ablam Estel Apeti

Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China

Wanlin Lin and George C.S. Lin

Educate the girls: Long run effects of secondary schooling for girls in Pakistan

Tareena Musaddiq and Farah Said

Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts

Jenny E. Goldstein, Benjamin Neimark, Brian Garvey and Jacob Phelps

Looking for advice: The politics of consulting services procurement in the World Bank

Elena V. McLean

Tangential Movements: How feminist organizing against gender-based violence offers an alternative avenue for protesting drug violence in Latin America

Anjuli Fahlberg, Maya Velasquez, Harper Wise and Tori Simon

Does economic growth reduce multidimensional poverty? Evidence from low- and middle-income countries

P. Balasubramanian, Francesco Burchi and D. Malerba

Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives

Ryan Katz-Rosene, Andrew Heffernan and Anil Arora

Hospitalization due to fire-induced pollution in the Brazilian Amazon: A causal inference analysis with an assessment of policy trade-offs

Thiago Fonseca Morello

Is China forest landscape restoration (FLR) worth it? A cost-benefit analysis and non-equilibrium ecological view

Han Wang, Fuan Tian, Jianxian Wu and Xin Nie

Did a successful fight against COVID-19 come at a cost? Impacts of the pandemic on employment outcomes in Vietnam

Hai-Anh Dang, Cuong Nguyen and Calogero Carletto

Volume 160, issue C, 2022

Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence

Jessie Trudeau

Statistical disclosure and economic growth: What is the nexus?

Reynaldo Senra Hodelin

Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018

Tatiana Cantillo and Nestor Garza

Organizational, economic or cultural? Firm-side barriers to employing women in Saudi Arabia

Claudia Eger, Thiemo Fetzer, Jennifer Peck and Saleh Alodayni

Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives

Shannon G. Randolph, Daniel J. Ingram, Lisa M. Curran, James Holland Jones and William H. Durham

The economic efficiency of aid targeting

Ariel BenYishay, Matthew DiLorenzo and Carrie Dolan

Governance for global integration: Designing structure and authority in international advocacy NGOs

Alnoor Ebrahim, L. David Brown and Srilatha Batliwala

Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections

Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust and Lise Rakner

Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?

Martin Sjöstedt, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers and Herbert Ntuli

Examining the transfer of knowledge and training to smallholders in India: Direct and spillover effects of agricultural advisory services in an emerging economy

Deepak Varshney, Pramod K. Joshi, Anjani Kumar, Ashok K. Mishra and Shantanu Kumar Dubey

The long-term effects of genocide on antisocial preferences

Lata Gangadharan, Asad Islam, Chandarany Ouch and Liang Wang

Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Flückiger and Markus Ludwig

Conceptualisations of wellbeing and quality of life: A systematic review of participatory studies

Kate Sollis, Mandy Yap, Paul Campbell and Nicholas Biddle

Beyond a generalized deagrarianization: Livelihood heterogeneity and its determinants in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico

Carlos Dobler-Morales, Matthew Lorenzen, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez and Gerardo Bocco

From ‘prison’ to ‘paradise’? Seeking freedom at the rainforest frontier through urban–rural migration

Mariana Piva da Silva, James A. Fraser and Luke Parry

Conflicts between core purposes: Trade-offs associated with organizational shifts in Mexican community forest enterprises

Gretchen Engbring and Reem Hajjar

Going subnational: Wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay

Maria Josefina Baez, Pablo Brassiolo, Ricardo Estrada and Gustavo Fajardo

Aspirational hope, dairy farming practices, and milk production: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bolivia

Francesco Cecchi, Adriana Garcia, Robert Lensink and Bruce Wydick

Volume 159, issue C, 2022

Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South Africa

John Porten, Inbok Rhee and Clark Gibson

Political violence and endogenous growth

Macartan Humphreys

Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdata

Maria Lo Bue, Tu Thi Ngoc Le, Manuel Santos Silva and Kunal Sen

Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal

Scott Miller and Conner Mullally

What is equitable about equitable resilience? Dynamic risks and subjectivities in Nepal

Tim Forsyth, Constance L. McDermott and Rabindra Dhakal

Agricultural commercialization and nutrition; evidence from smallholder coffee farmers

Joanna van Asselt and Pilar Useche

Childcare and maternal employment: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh Dang, Masako Hiraga and Cuong Nguyen

Transfer preferences of bureaucrats and spatial disparities in local state presence

Anustubh Agnihotri

Do protected areas increase household income? Evidence from a Meta-Analysis

Pratikshya Kandel, Ram Pandit, Benedict White and Maksym Polyakov

The impact of spousal and own retirement on health: Evidence from urban China

Xi Chen

Gender differences in technology adoption and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Malawi

Adane Hirpa Tufa, Arega D. Alene, Steven M. Cole, Julius Manda, Shiferaw Feleke, Tahirou Abdoulaye, David Chikoye and Victor Manyong

High-resolution poverty maps in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kamwoo Lee and Jeanine Braithwaite

Can hypothetical measures of time preference predict actual and incentivised behaviour? Evidence from Senegal

Jacopo Bonan, Philippe LeMay-Boucher and Douglas Scott

Climate change and within-country inequality: New evidence from a global perspective

Elena Paglialunga, Andrea Coveri and Antonello Zanfei

Building back better? Resilience as wellbeing for rural migrant households in Bihar, India

Shreya Sinha, Nivedita Narain and Arundhita Bhanjdeo

The challenges for children’s rights in international child protection: Opportunities for transformation

Tara M. Collins and Laura H.V. Wright

Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania

Bedru B. Balana, Dawit Mekonnen, Beliyou Haile, Fitsum Hagos, Seid Yimam and Claudia Ringler

Oil palm cultivation improves living standards and human capital formation in smallholder farm households

Daniel Chrisendo, Hermanto Siregar and Matin Qaim

Transitions into and out of food insecurity: A probabilistic approach with panel data evidence from 15 countries

Dieter Wang, Bo Andree, Andres Fernando Chamorro and Phoebe Girouard Spencer

Labor conflict within foreign, domestic, and Chinese-owned manufacturing firms in Ethiopia

James Chu and Marcel Fafchamps

Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa

Tim Wegenast, Cécile Richetta, Mario Krauser and Alexander Leibik

Partner’s income shock and female labor supply. Evidence from the repeal of Argentina’s convertibility law

Laurine Martinoty

Undernutrition inequality between Dalits and non-Dalits in Nepal – A decomposition analysis

Hari Sharma and Fabrice Smieliauskas

Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region

Maximilian Meyer, Carolin Hulke, Jonathan Kamwi, Hannah Kolem and Jan Börner

Shocks, agricultural productivity, and natural resource extraction in rural Southeast Asia

Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Manh Hung Do, Duy Linh Nguyen and Ulrike Grote

Variability in the household use of cooking fuels: The importance of dishes cooked, non-cooking end uses, and seasonality in understanding fuel stacking in rural and urban slum communities in six north Indian states

Carlos F. Gould, Shaily Jha, Sasmita Patnaik, Shalu Agrawal, Alice Tianbo Zhang, Sonakshi Saluja, Vagisha Nandan, Sunil Mani and Johannes Urpelainen

Exploring gender and intersectionality from an assemblage perspective in food crop cultivation: A case of the Millennium Villages Project implementation site in western Kenya

Hellen Kimanthi, Paul Hebinck and Chizu Sato

The effect of natural disaster on economic growth: Evidence from a major earthquake in Haiti

Iverson-Love Joseph

Crops in crises: Shocks shape smallholders' diversification in rural Ethiopia

Clifton Makate, Arild Angelsen, Stein Holden and Ola Tveitereid Westengen

Rebuilding public authority in Uganda dualist theory, hybrid social orders and democratic statehood

E.A. Brett

Uncomfortable knowledge: Mechanisms of urban development in adaptation governance

Hallie Eakin, Svenja Keele and Vanessa Lueck

Why do aspirations matter for empowerment?: Discrepancies between the A-WEAI domains and aspirations of ethnic minority women in Vietnam

Joan DeJaeghere, Nancy Pellowski Wiger, Hue Le, Phuong Luong, Nga Thi Hang Ngo, Thanh Thi Vu and Jongwook Lee

Urban wage premium for women: evidence across the wage distribution

Eloiza R.F. Almeida, Veneziano Araujo and Solange L. Gonçalves

Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon

Stephen G. Perz, Elsa R.H. Mendoza and Alan dos Santos Pimentel