World Development

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COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment	327
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?	282
Sustainability and development after COVID-19	248
Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Income, expenditure, savings, and job loss	227
Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development	206
COVID-19 and the rise of intimate partner violence	173
COVID-19 and the case for global development	167
Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions	142
Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India	138
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?	128
Economic growth, convergence, and world food demand and supply	127
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	121
Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature	114
Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development	114
Remittances and economic growth: A meta-analysis	112
The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance	109
The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: A viewpoint on India	108
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	93
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	91
Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19	88
The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data	86
Inequality of opportunity, inequality of income and economic growth	84
Lessons for climate policy from behavioral biases towards COVID-19 and climate change risks	82

Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?	80
Examining the economic impact of COVID-19 in India through daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity	78
The pandemic of poverty, vulnerability, and COVID-19: Evidence from a fuzzy multidimensional analysis of deprivations in Brazil	73
Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches	72
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	71
Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways	71
COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust	70
Large and artisanal scale mine development: The case for autonomous co-existence	70
All things equal? Heterogeneity in policy effectiveness against COVID-19 spread in chile	69
Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea	68
Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action	68
Between stranded assets and green transformation: Fossil-fuel-producing developing countries towards 2055	68
Livelihoods in COVID times: Gendered perils and new pathways in India	68
Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America	65
Food politics and development	64
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg	63
Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains	63
Defining firm competitiveness: A multidimensional framework	62
Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis	62
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 on households in developing countries: An overview based on a harmonized dataset of high-frequency surveys	62
Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba	61
Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania	59
COVID-19′s impacts on migrant workers from Bangladesh: In search of policy intervention	59
Life under lockdown: Illustrating tradeoffs in South Africa’s response to COVID-19	58
Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America	57
A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century	56
Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era	54
Agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity and nutritional status: Panel data evidence from Tanzania	54
Disability-inclusive responses to COVID-19: Lessons learnt from research on social protection in low- and middle-income countries	53
When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics: The sustainable development goals and agri-food governance in South America	52
Fighting COVID-19 in Hong Kong: The effects of community and social mobilization	52
End-of-conflict deforestation: Evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement	50
Humanising agricultural extension: A review	50
Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries	49
Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic	49
The Kerala model in the time of COVID19: Rethinking state, society and democracy	49
“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains	48
Systematic prioritisation of SDGs: Machine learning approach	48
The impact of microcredit on agricultural technology adoption and productivity: Evidence from randomized control trial in Tanzania	48
COVID-19 in South Korea: Lessons for developing countries	48
Grassroots waste picker organizations addressing the UN sustainable development goals	48
Farm diversification as an adaptation strategy to climatic shocks and implications for food security in northern Namibia	48
The power of the collective empowers women: Evidence from self-help groups in India	47
Can e-government limit the scope of the informal economy?	47
Who are the climate migrants and where do they go? Evidence from rural India	47
Taking power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa	46
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
Land rental market and agricultural labor productivity in rural China: A mediation analysis	46
COVID-19 and International Food Assistance: Policy proposals to keep food flowing	46

Targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic-based intervention: Rhetoric and reality in Qinghai, China	45
Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability	45
Willingness to pay for electricity access in extreme poverty: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	45
How health inequality affect responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa	45
Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China	45
Impacts of cooperative membership on rice productivity: Evidence from China	44
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”	44
Psychological stress responses to COVID-19 and adaptive strategies in China	44
China’s green transformation through eco-industrial parks	44
Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence	44
Decomposition of technical efficiency in agricultural production in Africa into transient and persistent technical efficiency under heterogeneous technologies	43
Sensemaking and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A complex adaptive systems perspective on policy decision-making	43
Latecomer development in a “greening” world: Introduction to the Special Issue	43
Is green rural transformation possible in developing countries?	42
COVID-19 and armed conflict	42
COVID-19, poverty and inclusive development	42
Compounding crises of social reproduction: Microfinance, over-indebtedness and the COVID-19 pandemic	41
Shedding light on maternal education and child health in developing countries	41
How does Covid-19 affect urban slums? Evidence from settlement leaders in India	40
COVID-19 and conflict	40
Ability or opportunity to act: What shapes financial well-being?	40
On the susceptibility and vulnerability of agricultural value chains to COVID-19	40
Grappling with the challenges of measuring women's economic empowerment in intrahousehold settings	40
Wishful thinking or wise policy? Theorising tourism-led inclusive growth: Supply chains and host communities	39
An empirical assessment of the effects of electricity access on food security	39
COVID-19 response needs to broaden financial inclusion to curb the rise in poverty	39
Infrastructure and household poverty in Brazil: A regional approach using multilevel models	38
Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria	38
REDD+: If communities are the solution, what is the problem?	38
Weather shocks, climate change and human health	38
Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects	38
Empowerment in water, sanitation and hygiene index	37
Public support for development aid during the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Artisanal and small-scale mining, and COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A preliminary analysis	37
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified resource conflicts and indigenous resistance in Brazil	37
COVID-19 in unequally ageing European regions	36
Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Insights and oversights of the headcount ratio	36
Improving access to savings through mobile money: Experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers	36
Barriers to trade in environmental goods: How important they are and what should developing countries expect from their removal	36
Changing livelihoods at India’s rural–urban transition	35
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS	34
Fossil fuels, stranded assets and COVID-19: Imagining an inclusive & transformative recovery	33
Why is it so hard to push Chinese railway projects in Southeast Asia? The role of domestic politics in Malaysia and Indonesia	33
Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa	33
Intrastate environmental peacebuilding: A review of the literature	33
Short-run environmental effects of COVID-19: Evidence from forest fires	33
Questioning the link between tenure security and sustainable land management in cocoa landscapes in Ghana	32
Is collective titling enough to protect forests? Evidence from Afro-descendant communities in the Colombian Pacific region	32
Improving smallholder farmers’ gross margins and labor-use efficiency across a range of cropping systems in the Eastern Gangetic Plains	32
Will COVID-19 be one shock too many for smallholder coffee livelihoods?	32
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
When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory: A critical frame for thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals initiative	32
Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis	32
Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women’s respiratory health and household labour productivity	32
Conflict in abundance and peacebuilding in scarcity: Challenges and opportunities in addressing climate change and conflict	32
The ABCs of Covid-19 prevention in Malawi: Authority, benefits, and costs of compliance	31
Mining, rural livelihoods and food security: A disaggregated analysis of sub-Saharan Africa	31
Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding	31
Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen	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	31
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	31
SDG interlinkage networks: Analysis, robustness, sensitivities, and hierarchies	30
Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs	30
A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence	29
A meta-analysis of the effects of remittances on household education expenditure	29
Contract farming as partial insurance	29
Lack of access to clean fuel and piped water and children’s educational outcomes in rural India	29
Climate change and land: Insights from Myanmar	29
Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change	29
China’s investments in renewable energy in Africa: Creating co-benefits or just cashing-in?	29
Does the old-age pension scheme improve household welfare? Evidence from India	28
Irrigation infrastructure and farm productivity in the Philippines: A stochastic Meta-Frontier analysis	28
Covid-19 outbreak and the need for rice self-sufficiency in West Africa	28
What do we know about the impact of microfinance? The problems of statistical power and precision	28
India’s rural transformation and rising obesity burden	28
The development of the international center model for agricultural research: A prehistory of the CGIAR	27
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability	27
Women’s political empowerment and economic growth	27

Who can work and study from home in Pakistan: Evidence from a 2018–19 nationwide household survey	27
Urban waste to energy recovery assessment simulations for developing countries	27
Exploring the linkages between energy, gender, and enterprise: Evidence from Tanzania	27
Poverty reduction through land transfers? The World Bank’s titling reforms and the making of “subsistence” agriculture	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
Value of cleaner neighborhoods: Application of hedonic price model in low income context	26
Shaping alternatives to development: Solidarity and reciprocity in the Andes during COVID-19	26
Shocks and cherries: The production of vulnerability among smallholder coffee farmers in Jamaica	26
Does value chain participation facilitate the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in developing countries?	26
Digital platforms and institutional voids in developing countries: The case of ride-hailing markets	26
Estimating the nutritional loss and the feeding potential derived from food losses worldwide	26
Adaptive governance along Chinese-financed BRI railroad megaprojects in East Africa	26
Impact of formal climate risk transfer mechanisms on risk-aversion: Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia	26
Does environmental regulation increase domestic value-added in exports? An empirical study of cleaner production standards in China	26
Demographic, health, and economic transitions and the future care burden	26
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India	26
Realising poverty in all its dimensions: A six-country participatory study	26
Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh?	25
The impact of remittances on food insecurity: Evidence from Mexico	25
More logistics, less aid: Humanitarian-business partnerships and sustainability in the refugee camp	25
Evaluating risk allocation and project impacts of sustainability-oriented water public–private partnerships in Southern California: A comparative case analysis	25
The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia	25
Challenging dominant sustainability worldviews on the energy transition: Lessons from Indigenous communities in Mexico and a plea for pluriversal technologies	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
Who benefits from climate-friendly agriculture? The marginal returns to a rainfed system of rice intensification in Tanzania	25
What happens when the money runs out? Forest outcomes and equity concerns following Ecuador’s suspension of conservation payments	24
From paper institutions to bureaucratic autonomy: Institutional change as a resource curse remedy	24
Epidemics, pandemics, and social conflict: Lessons from the past and possible scenarios for COVID-19	24
Impact of Ethiopia’s 2015 drought on child undernutrition	24
“We live and we do this work”: Women waste pickers’ experiences of wellbeing in Ahmedabad, India	24
Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges	24
The benefits and limitations of agricultural input cooperatives in Zambia	24
From ‘MeToo’ to Boko Haram: A survey of levels and trends of gender inequality in the world	24
Linking human capabilities with livelihood strategies to speed poverty reduction: Evidence from Rwanda	24
Mobile money and healthcare use: Evidence from East Africa	24
Climate change and within-country inequality: New evidence from a global perspective	24
Using Google data to measure the role of Big Food and fast food in South Africa’s obesity epidemic	24
‘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
Challenges faced by smallholders in achieving sustainable palm oil certification in Indonesia	23
Bright as night: Illuminating the antinomies of ‘gender positive’ solar development	23
Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia	23
Why is household electricity uptake low in Sub-Saharan Africa?	23
Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data	23
Productive knowledge, economic sophistication, and labor share	23
Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers	23
Are we accelerating equity investment into impact-oriented ventures?	22
Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts	22
Energy access for marginalized communities: Evidence from rural North India, 2015–2018	22
Gender, time-use, and energy expenditures in rural communities in India and Nepal	22
The double bottom line of microfinance: A global comparison between conventional and Islamic microfinance	22
A payment by any other name: Is Costa Rica’s PES a payment for services or a support for stewards?	22
Measuring empowerment: Choices, values and norms	22
In-utero Exposure to Rainfall Variability and Early Childhood Health	22
Implications of poverty traps across levels	22
Stigma, Trust, and procedural integrity: Covid-19 testing in Malawi	22
Is employment a panacea for poverty? A mixed-methods investigation of employment decisions in South Africa	22
Understanding inclusive innovation processes in agricultural systems: A middle-range conceptual model	22
Viewpoint – Handwashing and COVID-19: Simple, right there…?	22
Perspectives on the rebel social contract: Exit, voice, and loyalty in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria	22
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
Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project in Bangladesh	21
Women farm what they can manage: How time constraints affect the quantity and quality of labor for married women’s agricultural production in southwestern Nigeria	21
Does experience sharing affect farmers’ pro-environmental behavior? A randomized controlled trial in Vietnam	21
Who pays for water? Comparing life cycle costs of water services among several low, medium and high-income utilities	21
Forced off the farm? Farmers’ labor allocation response to land requisition in China	21
Property rights and deforestation: Evidence from the Terra Legal land reform in the Brazilian Amazon	21
The evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in Yemen	21
Can rural outmigration improve household food security? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia	21
Leveraging private investment to expand renewable power generation: Evidence on financial additionality and productivity gains from Uganda	21
Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative in Burkina Faso	21
Assessing the downstream socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry in Kenya	21
Precarious gains: Social mobility and volatility in urban slums	21
Too little but not too late: nowcasting poverty and cash transfers’ incidence during COVID-19’s crisis	21
A revisit of farm size and productivity: Empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria	21
Localising Public Health: Refugee-led organisations as first and last responders in COVID-19	20
The mutual constraints of states and global value chains during COVID-19: The case of personal protective equipment	20
Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy	20
A multidimensional perspective on child labor in the value chain: The case of the cocoa value chain in West Africa	20
The supply chain for seed in Uganda: Where does it go wrong?	20
COVID-19 vaccines: Getting Anti-vaxxers involved in the discussion	20
Self-help groups as platforms for development: The role of social capital	20
Plantations, women, and food security in Africa: Interrogating the investment pathway towards zero hunger in Cameroon and Ghana	20
Inequality, persistence of the informal economy, and club convergence	20
Improved sanitation increases long-term cognitive test scores	20
Effects of input vouchers and rainfall insurance on agricultural production and household welfare: Experimental evidence from northern Ethiopia	20
Understanding China’s wildlife markets: Trade and tradition in an age of pandemic	20
The effects of economic globalisation and ethnic fractionalisation on redistribution	20
Covid-19 vs. Ebola: Impact on households and small businesses in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo	19
Hybridizing the commons. Privatizing and outsourcing collective irrigation management after technological change in Spain	19
Do financial crises increase income inequality?	19
Encouraging technology adoption using ICTs and farm trials in Senegal: Lessons for gender equity and scaled impact	19
Brand Aid and coffee value chain development interventions: Is Starbucks working aid out of business?	19