World Development

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An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	314
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	218
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	144
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	106
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	104
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	91
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	91
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	88
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	86
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	80
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	79
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	75
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	71
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	71
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	71
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	70
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	69
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	67
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	64
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	62
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	61
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	59
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	56
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	56
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	53

Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	53
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	52
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	52
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	52
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	52
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	51
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	51
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies	50
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	49
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	48
Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights	48
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	47
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	46
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	45
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	44
Urban social movements and local state capacity	43
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	43
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	43
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	43
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	42
Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan	41
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	40
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	40
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	40
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	40
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	40
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	40
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	38
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	38
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	37
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	36
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	36
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	36
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	35
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China	35
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing	35
Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa	35
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure	35
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	35
The poverty effect of democratization	35
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	34
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania	34
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city	34
Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands	34
Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts	34
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor	34
Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam	34
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers	34
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries	33
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho	33

The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development	33
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia	32
Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS	31
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar	31
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives	31
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road	31
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty	31
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	31
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”	31
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan	30
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market	30
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison	30
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability	30
Editorial Board	29
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy	29
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?	29
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya	29
Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South	28
From targeted private benefits to public goods: Land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia	28
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania	28
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi	28
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited	28
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia	28
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition	28
Gender and development in the agrarian south	27
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda	27
Subway and entrepreneurship	27
Aid effectiveness and donor motives	27
Child poverty among refugees	27
From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru	26
Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan	26
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania	26
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection	26
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations	26
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China	26
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania	26
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia	26
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa	25
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India	25
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa	25
Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand	25
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India	25
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	25
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid	25
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund	25
Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam	25
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States	25
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake	24
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change	24
The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique	24
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana	24
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal	24
Critical junctures, agrarian change, and the (re)production of vulnerability in a marginalised Indigenous society	24
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?	24
Editorial Board	24
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment	24
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?	23
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis	23
South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health	23
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models	23
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war	23
Reducing gender inequalities through land titling? The case of Gozamin Woreda	23
Status inequality and public goods	23
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law	22
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	22
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence	22
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique	22
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso	22
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India	21
Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming	21
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund	21
Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of “last frontiers” in Brazil and Myanmar	21
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women	21
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide	21
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections	21
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control	21
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness	21
Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods	20
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru	20
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes	20

Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand	20
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region	20
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests	20
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic	20
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors	20
The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador	20
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities	20
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates	20
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries	20
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities	20
Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia	20
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil	20
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program	20
Hiding behind the veil of ashes: Social capital in the wake of natural disasters	20
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa	20
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]	20
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil	20
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries	20
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction	20
Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya	19
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	19
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China	19
Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa	19
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	19
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries	19
Editorial Board	19
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil	19
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	19
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	19
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	19
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh	19
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique	19
Editorial Board	19
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	19
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents	18
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	18
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	18
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	18
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	18
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil	18
India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s	18
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?	18
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	18
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador	18
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	18
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	18
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	18
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	18
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	18
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	18
Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya	17
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	17
Editorial Board	17
Enforcing government policies: The role of state-owned enterprise in China’s one child policy	17
Corrigendum to “Climate change, collective shocks, and intra-community cooperation: Evidence from a public good experiment with farmers and pastoralists” [World Dev. 189 (2025) 106941]	17
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	17
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam	17
Editorial Board	17
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives	17
Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade	17
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal	17
Sustainable and just energy transition in the Global South	17
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru	17
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali	17
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	17
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation	16
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú	16
El Niño and children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes	16
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures	16
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico	16
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey	16
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	16
Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses	16
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	16
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil	16
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories	16
Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries	16
Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement	16
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums	16
Female entrepreneurs and productivity around the world: Rule of law, network, culture, and gender equality	15
The economic consequences of environmental enforcement: Evidence from an anti-deforestation policy in Brazil	15
The mixed impacts of peer punishments on common-pool resources: Multi-country experimental evidence	15
Perceptions of injustices in the struggle for scarce critical lands: Farmer-herder conflict and violence escalation in the Benue-Nasarawa borderland	15
Global Distributions of Capital and Labor Incomes	15
Impacts of negative shocks on wellbeing and aspirations – Evidence from an earthquake	15
Nurse migration: Long-run determinants and dynamics of flows in response to health and economic shocks	15
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa	15
Short and medium-run effects of the Indian Ocean tsunami on health costs in Indonesia	15
The economic efficiency of aid targeting	15
From fees to free: User fee removal, maternal health care utilization and child health in Zambia	15
Air pollution and willingness to pay for health risk reductions in Egypt: A contingent valuation survey of Greater Cairo and Alexandria households	15
Natives’ gender norms and the labor market integration of female immigrants	15
Agricultural investment behaviour and contingency: Experimental evidence from Uganda	15
Convergence in resource productivity	15