World Development

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An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	265
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	235
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	174
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	119
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	97
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	95
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	91
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	87
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	82
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	80
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	75
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	73
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	73
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	70
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	68
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	66
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	65
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	64
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	64
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	61
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	60
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	60
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	58
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	56
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	55

Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	54
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	53
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	53
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	52
Switching it up: The effect of energy price reforms in Oman	52
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	47
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	47
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	46
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies	45
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	45
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	45
What do we know about rural and informal non-farming labour? Evidence from a mixed methods study of artisanal and small-scale mining in Northwest Tanzania	45
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	44
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	42
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	42
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	42
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	41
Urban social movements and local state capacity	41
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	40
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	39
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	39
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	38
Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan	38
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	37
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	37
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	37
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	36
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	36
Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights	36
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	35
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	35
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	35
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	35
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city	34
Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS	34
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	34
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure	34
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road	33
How are institutions included in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects? Developing and testing a diagnostic approach on the World Bank’s Forest and Community project in Salta, Argentina	33
“If we move, it moves with us:” Physical distancing in Africa during COVID-19	33
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia	33
The poverty effect of democratization	33
Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam	33
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing	33
Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands	33
The social contract as a tool of analysis: Introduction to the special issue on “Framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”	32
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho	32
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor	31
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar	31
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania	31

Moving out of agriculture in Bangladesh: The role of farm, non-farm and mixed households	31
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China	31
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives	31
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers	30
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty	30
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?	30
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development	30
Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts	30
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability	30
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries	30
Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa	30
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market	29
Editorial Board	29
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison	29
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition	29
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan	29
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid	29
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?	28
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa	28
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi	28
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy	28
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund	28
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia	28
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China	28
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya	28
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa	28
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	27
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania	27
Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam	27
Child poverty among refugees	27
From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru	27
Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South	27
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?	26
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda	26
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection	26
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania	26
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited	26
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake	25
From targeted private benefits to public goods: Land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia	25
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations	25
Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand	25
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia	25
Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan	25
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States	25
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India	25
Gender and development in the agrarian south	24
Aid effectiveness and donor motives	24
Subway and entrepreneurship	24
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal	24
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania	24
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India	24
Critical junctures, agrarian change, and the (re)production of vulnerability in a marginalised Indigenous society	23
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana	23
Editorial Board	23
Reducing gender inequalities through land titling? The case of Gozamin Woreda	23
The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique	23
Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand	23
Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming	23
Status inequality and public goods	22
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war	22
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change	22
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund	22
South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health	22
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence	22
The impact of investing in social care on employment generation, time-, income-poverty by gender: A macro-micro policy simulation for Turkey	22
Water scarcity & procedural justice in Honduras: Community-based management meets market-based policy	22
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law	22
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities	22
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis	22
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso	22
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models	22
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections	21
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	21
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa	21
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India	21
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique	21
Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding	21
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment	21
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru	21
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide	21

Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of “last frontiers” in Brazil and Myanmar	21
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control	21
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women	20
Why are boys falling behind? Explaining gender gaps in school attainment in Sri Lanka	20
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program	20
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]	20
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes	20
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?	20
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors	20
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil	20
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests	19
Hiding behind the veil of ashes: Social capital in the wake of natural disasters	19
Would community conservation initiatives benefit from external financial oversight? A framed field experiment in Namibia’s communal conservancies	19
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil	19
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates	19
Local interest group activity and environmental degradation in authoritarian regimes	19
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh	19
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities	19
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries	19
Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia	19
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction	19
Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa	19
More logistics, less aid: Humanitarian-business partnerships and sustainability in the refugee camp	19
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China	19
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic	19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries	19
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique	19
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents	18
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	18
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	18
The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador	18
The social costs of titling land: Evidence from Uganda	18
Editorial Board	18
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	18
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	18
The effectiveness of protected areas in the context of decentralization	18
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	18
Editorial Board	18
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	18
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil	18
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region	18
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil	17
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	17
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	17
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS	17
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries	17
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	17
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador	17
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	17
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	17
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	17
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	17
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	17
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	17
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	17
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?	17
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	17
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives	16
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China	16
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru	16
Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya	16
Editorial Board	16
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Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú	16
Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement	16
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali	16
Sustainable and just energy transition in the Global South	16
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil	16
Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter: Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia	16
El Niño and children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes	16
Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia	16
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	16
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal	16
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	16
Editorial Board	16
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation	16
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam	15
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	15
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures	15
Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses	15
The empirics of and policies for sustainability in global value chains	15
Enforcing government policies: The role of state-owned enterprise in China’s one child policy	15
In-utero Exposure to Rainfall Variability and Early Childhood Health	15
Short- and long-term food insecurity and policy responses in pandemics: Panel data evidence from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries	15
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya	15
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories	15
Impacts of negative shocks on wellbeing and aspirations – Evidence from an earthquake	15
The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu	15
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	15
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey	15
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums	15
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	15
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico	15
Employment and sustainability: The relation between precarious work and spatial inequality in the neoliberal city	14