World Development

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COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment	322
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?	271
Sustainability and development after COVID-19	243
Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Income, expenditure, savings, and job loss	223
Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development	202
COVID-19 and the rise of intimate partner violence	172
COVID-19 and the case for global development	167
Are we on the right path to achieve the sustainable development goals?	161
Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions	139
Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India	137
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?	124
Economic growth, convergence, and world food demand and supply	123
Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine	122
Household response to an extreme shock: Evidence on the immediate impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on economic outcomes and well-being in rural Uganda	120
Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development	112
The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance	107
Remittances and economic growth: A meta-analysis	107
Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature	106
The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: A viewpoint on India	104
Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China	101
The local governance of COVID-19: Disease prevention and social security in rural India	90
COVID-19 and small enterprises in the food supply chain: Early impacts and implications for longer-term food system resilience in low- and middle-income countries	88
Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19	84
The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data	83
Lessons for climate policy from behavioral biases towards COVID-19 and climate change risks	81

Bridging the financial inclusion gender gap in smallholder agriculture in Nigeria: An untapped potential for sustainable development	81
Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?	80
The impact of high-speed rail on innovation: An empirical test of the companion innovation hypothesis of transportation improvement with China’s manufacturing firms	79
Examining the economic impact of COVID-19 in India through daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity	76
Inequality of opportunity, inequality of income and economic growth	73
The pandemic of poverty, vulnerability, and COVID-19: Evidence from a fuzzy multidimensional analysis of deprivations in Brazil	73
Why is the number of COVID-19 cases lower than expected in Sub-Saharan Africa? A cross-sectional analysis of the role of demographic and geographic factors	70
Large and artisanal scale mine development: The case for autonomous co-existence	70
COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust	68
Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action	68
All things equal? Heterogeneity in policy effectiveness against COVID-19 spread in chile	67
Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways	67
Between stranded assets and green transformation: Fossil-fuel-producing developing countries towards 2055	67
Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches	67
Livelihoods in COVID times: Gendered perils and new pathways in India	65
Food politics and development	64
Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea	64
Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America	64
Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains	63
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 on households in developing countries: An overview based on a harmonized dataset of high-frequency surveys	62
Governance quality, remittances and their implications for food and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa	62
Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba	60
Defining firm competitiveness: A multidimensional framework	60
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg	59
Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis	59
Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania	58
COVID-19′s impacts on migrant workers from Bangladesh: In search of policy intervention	58
Life under lockdown: Illustrating tradeoffs in South Africa’s response to COVID-19	57
Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America	57
The dark side of environmental peacebuilding	53
Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era	53
Disability-inclusive responses to COVID-19: Lessons learnt from research on social protection in low- and middle-income countries	52
The Quality of Employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries: A multidimensional perspective	52
Tracking the sustainable development goals: Emerging measurement challenges and further reflections	52
A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century	51
Agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity and nutritional status: Panel data evidence from Tanzania	51
Fighting COVID-19 in Hong Kong: The effects of community and social mobilization	50
Poverty reduction saves forests sustainably: Lessons for deforestation policies	50
When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics: The sustainable development goals and agri-food governance in South America	50
Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries	49
Farm diversification as an adaptation strategy to climatic shocks and implications for food security in northern Namibia	48
The Kerala model in the time of COVID19: Rethinking state, society and democracy	48
Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic	48
COVID-19 in South Korea: Lessons for developing countries	48
Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth	48
Humanising agricultural extension: A review	47
Systematic prioritisation of SDGs: Machine learning approach	47
Can e-government limit the scope of the informal economy?	47
The impact of microcredit on agricultural technology adoption and productivity: Evidence from randomized control trial in Tanzania	47
End-of-conflict deforestation: Evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement	47

Whatever it takes? The global financial safety net, Covid-19, and developing countries	46
Gender differences in associations of household and ambient air pollution with child health: Evidence from household and satellite-based data in Bangladesh	46
“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains	45
How health inequality affect responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa	45
Taking power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa	45
Land rental market and agricultural labor productivity in rural China: A mediation analysis	45
Land consolidation as technical change: Economic impacts in rural Vietnam	45
COVID-19 and International Food Assistance: Policy proposals to keep food flowing	45
Psychological stress responses to COVID-19 and adaptive strategies in China	44
China’s green transformation through eco-industrial parks	44
Causes of Indonesia’s forest fires	44
The power of the collective empowers women: Evidence from self-help groups in India	44
Who are the climate migrants and where do they go? Evidence from rural India	43
Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China	43
Sensemaking and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A complex adaptive systems perspective on policy decision-making	43
Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability	43
Willingness to pay for electricity access in extreme poverty: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	43
Grassroots waste picker organizations addressing the UN sustainable development goals	43
Decomposition of technical efficiency in agricultural production in Africa into transient and persistent technical efficiency under heterogeneous technologies	43
Impacts of cooperative membership on rice productivity: Evidence from China	42
Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence	42
COVID-19, poverty and inclusive development	42
Targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic-based intervention: Rhetoric and reality in Qinghai, China	42
Latecomer development in a “greening” world: Introduction to the Special Issue	42
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”	42
Compounding crises of social reproduction: Microfinance, over-indebtedness and the COVID-19 pandemic	41
Is green rural transformation possible in developing countries?	40
Shedding light on maternal education and child health in developing countries	40
Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?	40
COVID-19 and armed conflict	40
On the susceptibility and vulnerability of agricultural value chains to COVID-19	39
How does Covid-19 affect urban slums? Evidence from settlement leaders in India	39
COVID-19 and conflict	39
An empirical assessment of the effects of electricity access on food security	38
Infrastructure and household poverty in Brazil: A regional approach using multilevel models	38
Ability or opportunity to act: What shapes financial well-being?	38
Wishful thinking or wise policy? Theorising tourism-led inclusive growth: Supply chains and host communities	38
COVID-19 response needs to broaden financial inclusion to curb the rise in poverty	38
Artisanal and small-scale mining, and COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A preliminary analysis	37
Weather shocks, climate change and human health	37
REDD+: If communities are the solution, what is the problem?	37
Grappling with the challenges of measuring women's economic empowerment in intrahousehold settings	37
Barriers to trade in environmental goods: How important they are and what should developing countries expect from their removal	36
Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria	36
Public support for development aid during the COVID-19 pandemic	36
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified resource conflicts and indigenous resistance in Brazil	36
Improving access to savings through mobile money: Experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers	36
Poverty alleviation and local environmental degradation: An empirical analysis in Colombia	36
COVID-19 in unequally ageing European regions	35
Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects	35
Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Insights and oversights of the headcount ratio	35
Empowerment in water, sanitation and hygiene index	35
Does deforestation increase malaria prevalence? Evidence from satellite data and health surveys	34
Tourism and local welfare: A multilevel analysis in Nepal’s protected areas	34
Steel in a circular economy: Global implications of a green shift in China	34
Changing livelihoods at India’s rural–urban transition	33
Fossil fuels, stranded assets and COVID-19: Imagining an inclusive & transformative recovery	33
Redefining the social contract in the wake of the Arab Spring: The experiences of Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia	33
The role of institutional entrepreneurs and informal land transactions in Mexico City’s urban expansion	32
Shedding light on regional growth and convergence in India	32
Short-run environmental effects of COVID-19: Evidence from forest fires	32
Improving smallholder farmers’ gross margins and labor-use efficiency across a range of cropping systems in the Eastern Gangetic Plains	32
Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa	32
Intrastate environmental peacebuilding: A review of the literature	32
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS	32
The ABCs of Covid-19 prevention in Malawi: Authority, benefits, and costs of compliance	31
Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen	31
Questioning the link between tenure security and sustainable land management in cocoa landscapes in Ghana	31
Why is it so hard to push Chinese railway projects in Southeast Asia? The role of domestic politics in Malaysia and Indonesia	31
When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory: A critical frame for thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals initiative	31
Is collective titling enough to protect forests? Evidence from Afro-descendant communities in the Colombian Pacific region	31
Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women’s respiratory health and household labour productivity	31
Social impact investing, agriculture, and the financialisation of development: Insights from sub-Saharan Africa	31
Effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts in the African small farm sector: Insights from oil palm production in Ghana	30
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	30
SDG interlinkage networks: Analysis, robustness, sensitivities, and hierarchies	30
Conflict in abundance and peacebuilding in scarcity: Challenges and opportunities in addressing climate change and conflict	30
Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis	30
Smaller-scale land grabs and accumulation from below: Violence, coercion and consent in spatially uneven agrarian change in Shan State, Myanmar	30
Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding	29

Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs	29
A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence	29
Will COVID-19 be one shock too many for smallholder coffee livelihoods?	29
Climate change and land: Insights from Myanmar	29
Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change	29
Contract farming as partial insurance	28
China’s investments in renewable energy in Africa: Creating co-benefits or just cashing-in?	28
Covid-19 outbreak and the need for rice self-sufficiency in West Africa	28
A meta-analysis of the effects of remittances on household education expenditure	28
Does the old-age pension scheme improve household welfare? Evidence from India	28
Lack of access to clean fuel and piped water and children’s educational outcomes in rural India	28
Impact of use of technology on student learning outcomes: Evidence from a large-scale experiment in India	27
Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic: Rural livelihoods, social vulnerability, and local governance in India and Nepal	27
The welfare effects of crop biodiversity as an adaptation to climate shocks in Kenya	27
Who can work and study from home in Pakistan: Evidence from a 2018–19 nationwide household survey	27
Irrigation infrastructure and farm productivity in the Philippines: A stochastic Meta-Frontier analysis	27
What do we know about the impact of microfinance? The problems of statistical power and precision	27
Exploring the linkages between energy, gender, and enterprise: Evidence from Tanzania	27
Designing for engagement: A Realist Synthesis Review of how context affects the outcomes of multi-stakeholder forums on land use and/or land-use change	27
Mining, rural livelihoods and food security: A disaggregated analysis of sub-Saharan Africa	27
Urban waste to energy recovery assessment simulations for developing countries	27
The political economy of aid allocation: Aid and incumbency at the local level in Sub Saharan Africa	27
Shaping alternatives to development: Solidarity and reciprocity in the Andes during COVID-19	26
Does value chain participation facilitate the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in developing countries?	26
Poverty reduction through land transfers? The World Bank’s titling reforms and the making of “subsistence” agriculture	26
The development of the international center model for agricultural research: A prehistory of the CGIAR	26
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability	26
Value of cleaner neighborhoods: Application of hedonic price model in low income context	26
Shocks and cherries: The production of vulnerability among smallholder coffee farmers in Jamaica	26
Demographic, health, and economic transitions and the future care burden	25
Impact of formal climate risk transfer mechanisms on risk-aversion: Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia	25
Women’s political empowerment and economic growth	25
Planning for a world beyond COVID-19: Five pillars for post-neoliberal development	25
Anti-corruption in aid-funded procurement: Is corruption reduced or merely displaced?	25
India’s rural transformation and rising obesity burden	25
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India	25
Do remotely-sensed vegetation health indices explain credit risk in agricultural microfinance?	25
Digital platforms and institutional voids in developing countries: The case of ride-hailing markets	24
Evaluating risk allocation and project impacts of sustainability-oriented water public–private partnerships in Southern California: A comparative case analysis	24
Estimating the nutritional loss and the feeding potential derived from food losses worldwide	24
Intra-seasonal climate variability and crop diversification strategies in the Peruvian Andes: A word of caution on the sustainability of adaptation to climate change	24
Epidemics, pandemics, and social conflict: Lessons from the past and possible scenarios for COVID-19	24
Realising poverty in all its dimensions: A six-country participatory study	24
Challenging dominant sustainability worldviews on the energy transition: Lessons from Indigenous communities in Mexico and a plea for pluriversal technologies	24
The benefits and limitations of agricultural input cooperatives in Zambia	24
The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia	23
More logistics, less aid: Humanitarian-business partnerships and sustainability in the refugee camp	23
Linking human capabilities with livelihood strategies to speed poverty reduction: Evidence from Rwanda	23
Challenges faced by smallholders in achieving sustainable palm oil certification in Indonesia	23
The impact of remittances on food insecurity: Evidence from Mexico	23
Who benefits from climate-friendly agriculture? The marginal returns to a rainfed system of rice intensification in Tanzania	23
Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh?	23
Using Google data to measure the role of Big Food and fast food in South Africa’s obesity epidemic	23
Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers	23
What happens when the money runs out? Forest outcomes and equity concerns following Ecuador’s suspension of conservation payments	23
“We live and we do this work”: Women waste pickers’ experiences of wellbeing in Ahmedabad, India	23
‘To prevent this disease, we have to stay at home, but if we stay at home, we die of hunger’ – Livelihoods, vulnerability and coping with Covid-19 in rural Mozambique	23
Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming	22
Coping with climate shocks: The complex role of livestock portfolios	22
Stigma, Trust, and procedural integrity: Covid-19 testing in Malawi	22
Climate change and within-country inequality: New evidence from a global perspective	22
Impact of Ethiopia’s 2015 drought on child undernutrition	22
Does environmental regulation increase domestic value-added in exports? An empirical study of cleaner production standards in China	22
From paper institutions to bureaucratic autonomy: Institutional change as a resource curse remedy	22
Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data	22
A payment by any other name: Is Costa Rica’s PES a payment for services or a support for stewards?	22
Are we accelerating equity investment into impact-oriented ventures?	22
Why is household electricity uptake low in Sub-Saharan Africa?	22
Gender, time-use, and energy expenditures in rural communities in India and Nepal	22
Mobile money and healthcare use: Evidence from East Africa	22
Adaptive governance along Chinese-financed BRI railroad megaprojects in East Africa	22
Productive knowledge, economic sophistication, and labor share	22
Measuring empowerment: Choices, values and norms	22
Viewpoint – Handwashing and COVID-19: Simple, right there…?	21
Leveraging private investment to expand renewable power generation: Evidence on financial additionality and productivity gains from Uganda	21
Forced off the farm? Farmers’ labor allocation response to land requisition in China	21
Bright as night: Illuminating the antinomies of ‘gender positive’ solar development	21
Implications of poverty traps across levels	21
The double bottom line of microfinance: A global comparison between conventional and Islamic microfinance	21
Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia	21
Energy access for marginalized communities: Evidence from rural North India, 2015–2018	21
From ‘MeToo’ to Boko Haram: A survey of levels and trends of gender inequality in the world	21
Perspectives on the rebel social contract: Exit, voice, and loyalty in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria	21
An analysis of UNFCCC-financed coastal adaptation projects: Assessing patterns of project design and contributions to adaptive capacity	21
Too little but not too late: nowcasting poverty and cash transfers’ incidence during COVID-19’s crisis	21
Who pays for water? Comparing life cycle costs of water services among several low, medium and high-income utilities	21
In-utero Exposure to Rainfall Variability and Early Childhood Health	21
Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative in Burkina Faso	21
Property rights and deforestation: Evidence from the Terra Legal land reform in the Brazilian Amazon	21
Can rural outmigration improve household food security? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia	21
Is employment a panacea for poverty? A mixed-methods investigation of employment decisions in South Africa	21
Effects of input vouchers and rainfall insurance on agricultural production and household welfare: Experimental evidence from northern Ethiopia	20
A revisit of farm size and productivity: Empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria	20
COVID-19 vaccines: Getting Anti-vaxxers involved in the discussion	20
Understanding China’s wildlife markets: Trade and tradition in an age of pandemic	20