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World Development

Volume 146

October 2021

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    1. Editorial Board

      Article 105641
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  1. Regular Papers

    1. How village leaders in rural Amazonia create bonding, bridging, and linking social capital configurations to achieve development goals, and why they are so difficult to maintain over time

      Article 105541
    2. Majoritarian politics and hate crimes against religious minorities: Evidence from India, 2009–2018

      Article 105540
    3. Monitoring health services delivery: Evidence from civil conflict in Nepal

      Article 105543
    4. The role of gender in agent banking: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

      Article 105551
    5. Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India

      Article 105553
    6. The welfare costs of uncertainty: Cross-country evidence

      Article 105478
    7. The timing and aggressiveness of early government response to COVID-19: Political systems, societal culture, and more

      Article 105550
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    8. Alternative routes to the institutionalisation of social transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: Political survival strategies and transnational policy coalitions

      Article 105549
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    9. Can decentralization lower poverty? Cambodia’s Commune and Sangkat Fund

      Article 105548
    10. Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights

      Article 105545
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    11. From targeted private benefits to public goods: Land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia

      Article 105571
    12. Conflict and health: Building on the role of infrastructure

      Article 105570
    13. Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China

      Article 105563
    14. Enforcing government policies: The role of state-owned enterprise in China’s one child policy

      Article 105574
    15. Challenges faced by smallholders in achieving sustainable palm oil certification in Indonesia

      Article 105565
    16. Coping with climate shocks: The complex role of livestock portfolios

      Article 105546
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    17. Can weak ties create social capital? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in rural India

      Article 105534
    18. Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan

      Article 105477
    19. Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India

      Article 105544
    20. In a network of lines that intersect: The socio-economic development impact of marine resource management and conservation in Southeast Asia

      Article 105576
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    21. Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas

      Article 105572
    22. A revisit of farm size and productivity: Empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria

      Article 105592
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    23. What do test scores really capture? Evidence from a large-scale student assessment in Mexico

      Article 105524
    24. Self-help groups as platforms for development: The role of social capital

      Article 105575
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    25. When armed groups refuse to carry out election violence: Evidence from Nigeria

      Article 105573
    26. Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South

      Article 105581
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    27. The politics of labour relations in global production networks: Collective action, industrial parks, and local conflict in the Ethiopian apparel sector

      Article 105564
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    28. Patronage or policy? The politics of property rights formalization in Kenya

      Article 105580
    29. How does governance mediate links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation? Results from a systematic mapping and thematic synthesis of literature

      Article 105595
    30. Multichain strategies and economic upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from Kenyan horticulture

      Article 105598
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    31. Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies

      Article 105596
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    32. Experts and resource users split over solutions to peatland fires

      Article 105594
    33. Is conventional wisdom about resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from transparency reporting

      Article 105597
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    34. Out of sight, out of mind? Terror in the home country, family reunification options, and the well-being of refugees

      Article 105562
    35. Democracy, hybrid regimes, and inequality: The divergent effects of contestation and inclusiveness

      Article 105606
    36. Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature

      Article 105599
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    37. Is landownership a ladder out of poverty?

      Article 105552
    38. The effect of parental migration on the schooling of children left behind in rural Cambodia

      Article 105593
    39. Falling price induced diversification strategies and rural inequality: Evidence of smallholder rubber farmers

      Article 105604
    40. The color of water: The contributions of green and blue water to agricultural productivity in the Western Brazilian Amazon

      Article 105607
    41. A multidimensional perspective on child labor in the value chain: The case of the cocoa value chain in West Africa

      Article 105601
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    42. Deliberate displacement during conflict: Evidence from Colombia

      Article 105547
    43. From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru

      Article 105610
    44. Down and up the “U” – A synthetic cohort (panel) analysis of female labor force participation in Turkey, 1988–2013

      Article 105609
    45. Impact of agricultural extension services on the adoption of improved wheat variety in Ethiopia: A cluster randomized controlled trial

      Article 105605
    46. Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico

      Article 105615
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    47. The long-term impact of the Vietnam War on agricultural productivity

      Article 105613
    48. Innovation, gender, and labour productivity: Small and medium enterprises in Vietnam

      Article 105619
    49. The benefits and limitations of agricultural input cooperatives in Zambia

      Article 105616
    50. Disentangling ecosystem services preferences and values

      Article 105621
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    51. Changing livelihoods at India’s rural–urban transition

      Article 105617
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    52. Encouraging technology adoption using ICTs and farm trials in Senegal: Lessons for gender equity and scaled impact

      Article 105620
    53. Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming

      Article 105582
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    54. Leveraging social protection to advance climate-smart agriculture: An empirical analysis of the impacts of Malawi’s Social Action Fund (MASAF) on farmers’ adoption decisions and welfare outcomes

      Article 105618
    55. Knowledge gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean and economic development

      Article 105602
  2. Developmental Reviews

    1. A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence

      Article 105612
  3. Special Section on Pandemics and Sustainability; Edited by the Editors at World Development

    1. Fossil fuels, stranded assets and COVID-19: Imagining an inclusive & transformative recovery

      Article 105608
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    2. Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

      Article 105561
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  4. Special Section on Sustainable Energy Transition in the Global South; Edited by Chuan Liao

    1. Electrification and cooking fuel choice in rural India

      Article 105539
    2. How land tenure and labor relations mediate charcoal’s environmental footprint in Zambia: Implications for sustainable energy transitions

      Article 105600
  5. Special Section on Women & Gender South Asia; Edited by Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Hazel Malapit

    1. The power of the collective empowers women: Evidence from self-help groups in India

      Article 105579
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    2. Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project in Bangladesh

      Article 105622
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  6. Special Section on Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility; Edited by Jean-Philippe Platteau

    1. Are women emancipating? Evidence from marriage, divorce and remarriage in Rural Northern Burkina Faso

      Article 105512
  7. Erratum

    1. Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]

      Article 105542
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ISSN: 0305-750X