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Climate and sovereign risk: The Latin American experience with strong ENSO events World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Olivier Damette, Clément Mathonnat, Julien Thavard
Using monthly panel data over the period 2007–2019 for seven Latin American countries, we empirically test the impact of climate shocks, here strong ENSO events ( Southern Oscillations), on sovereign risk. Local Projections are computed to assess the dynamic response of sovereign spreads to ENSO events. Results show that strong and shocks lead to a significant increase in sovereign spreads, but with
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Clientelist politics and development World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Rachel M. Gisselquist, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Kunal Sen
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Does women's economic empowerment promote human development in low- and middle-income countries? A meta-analysis World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Pooja Balasubramanian, Marcela Ibanez, Sarah Khan, Soham Sahoo
Reducing gender inequality in economic opportunities is considered valuable in its own right and a critical element in ending poverty and boosting economic prosperity. Does the evidence from multiple interventions support this view? This paper investigates the impact of women's economic empowerment (WEE) on human development in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This meta-analysis focuses on
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Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Aine Seitz McCarthy, Brooke Krause
Understanding the effectiveness of programs designed to empower women is important for development policy, and critically important in places with historically unequal gender norms. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a multidimensional program on women’s empowerment in northern Tanzania, where our study sample is among the pastoralist and traditionally patriarchal Maasai tribe. The multidimensional
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Triple Bottom Line or Trilemma? Global Tradeoffs Between Prosperity, Inequality, and the Environment World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Tong Wu, Juan C. Rocha, Kevin Berry, Tomas Chaigneau, Maike Hamann, Emilie Lindkvist, Jiangxiao Qiu, Caroline Schill, Alon Shepon, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Carl Folke
A key aim of sustainable development is the joint achievement of prosperity, equality, and environmental integrity: in other words, material living standards that are high, broadly-distributed, and low-impact. This has often been called the “triple bottom line”. But instead, what if there is a “trilemma” that inhibits the simultaneous achievement of these three goals? We analysed international patterns
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Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 María Alejandra García, Adam Mayer, Igor Cavallini Johansen, Maria Claudia Lopez, Emilio F. Moran
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking significant political and economic influence. There is relatively little research on how hydroelectric projects change local energy services. In this study, we investigate whether Jirau and Santo Antônio—two dams in
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Environmental Peacebuilding: Moving beyond resolving Violence-Ridden conflicts to sustaining peace World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Udi Sommer, Francesca Fassbender
The literature on environmental peacebuilding (EP) is focused on overcoming or preventing violent conflict using environmental collaboration (EC), typically on common environmental issues between two or more parties. When environmental peacebuilding focuses on international conflicts, parties involved are mostly neighboring states. In this article, we examine whether the concept of environmental peacebuilding
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Women’s involvement in intra-household decision-making and infant and young child feeding practices in Central Asia World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Dilnovoz Abdurazzakova, Katrina Kosec, Ziyodullo Parpiev
This paper examines the relationship between women’s empowerment and infant and young child feeding practices in Central Asia using Demographic and Health Survey datasets collected during 1995–2017. We employ a measure of women’s empowerment with three dimensions that is available for many recent surveys as well as a measure of decision-making power over use of one’s own income present for income-earning
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Interactions between sustainable development goals at the district level in Lao PDR World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Diana C. Garcia Rojas, Jonas L. Appelt, Michael Epprecht, Sengchanh Kounnavong, Chris Elbers, Peter F. Lanjouw, Jasper van Vliet
Monitoring the status and evolution of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is typically carried out at the national level. However, significant variation can exist within countries, and this may not be captured by aggregate statistics. Here, we develop a unique dataset representing indicators for three SDGs at a district level for Lao PDR. The indicators comprise prevalence of stunting (SDG 2, Zero
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Public support for participation in local development World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Katrin Hofer, Michael Wicki, David Kaufmann
Public participation in local development is an integral part of democratic agendas across the world. Yet not much research specifically focuses on people’s perspectives of participation, especially among underprivileged populations. Gaining a better understanding of people’s support for public participation is, however, important as it may inform people’s interest in future engagements with the state
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Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter? World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Alex O. Acheampong, Eric Evans Osei Opoku, Godsway Korku Tetteh
Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) is crucial for disease prevention and improving general health outcomes. However, a significant number of people across the globe still lack access to safe drinking water and practice open defecation. Therefore, evidence-based research is needed to guide policymakers in improving WASH adoption and practice across the globe. In this study
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Perceptions of social class in Africa. Results from a conjoint experiment World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Frank-Borge Wietzke
Africa’s so-called ‘new middle classes’ are receiving increasing attention. So far, much of this debate has been based on ‘objective’ criteria like household income or asset wealth. This article follows an emerging literature that asks Africans directly how they perceive class differences in their societies. In doing so we engage with the inherent multidimensionality of class experiences, which makes
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Associations between women’s bargaining power and the adoption of rust-resistant wheat varieties in Ethiopia World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Michael Euler, Moti Jaleta, Hom Gartaula
The dynamics in intra-household decision-making are often neglected in literature on the adoption of agricultural innovations. However, households’ farm management decisions are often made following negotiations between female and male farmers. These may differ in terms of individual bargaining power and personal preferences. A better understanding of the links between gender roles in household decision-making
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Foreign aid withdrawals and suspensions: Why, when and are they effective? World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Nic Cheeseman, Haley J. Swedlund, Cleo O'Brien-Udry
In this introduction to the special issue, “Foreign Aid Withdrawals and Suspensions: Why, When and Are They Effective,” we both summarize the current state of the literature and outline a robust new agenda for studying aid suspensions and withdrawals. A common contribution of the papers in this special issue is that they emphasize that donors and aid-recipient states have more options available to
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Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Josephine G. Gatua
This research estimates the role of social connections in primary health care provision and their impact on health-related behavior. The study employs novel survey data from Kenya, combining information on households and community health workers (CHWs). The results show that social connections strongly influence the provision of health care: Being a relative or close friend to a CHW increases the probability
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Health and economic growth: Reconciling the micro and macro evidence World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 David E. Bloom, David Canning, Rainer Kotschy, Klaus Prettner, Johannes Schünemann
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either negative and close to zero or positive and an order of magnitude larger than the range of estimates derived from the micro-based approach. This presents a micro-macro puzzle regarding the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile
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Global exports draining local water resources: Land concentration, food exports and water grabbing in the Ica Valley (Peru) World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 A. Pronti, E. Zegarra, D. Rey Vicario, A. Graves
The agro-export boom is threatening the sustainability of water resources in many regions around the world. This is the case of the Ica valley in Peru, where in the last decades traditional agriculture has been replaced by big agricultural businesses to meet the growing international food demand. This has led to increasing land concentration by large exporting farms jointly with an increase in groundwater
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Social setting, gender, and preferences for improved sanitation: Evidence from experimental games in rural India World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Emily L. Pakhtigian, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak
Unimproved sanitation and hygiene practices present a persistent threat to public health and well-being. Increasing the adoption of safe hygiene and sanitation requires both technological investments as well as behavioral change, suggesting that social contexts may be important in determining the success of efforts towards improved sanitation and hygiene. We examine how the social setting, particularly
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Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Stephanie Leder, Rachana Upadhyaya, Kees van der Geest, Yuvika Adhikari, Matthias Büttner
Rural out-migration is changing agrarian political economies and natural resource governance worldwide, and gender and social relations play an important mediating role. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of rural out-migration on collective action in farmer-managed irrigation systems, with a particular focus on household structure and gender relations.
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“We fight to the end”: On the violence against social leaders and territorial defenders during the post-peace agreement period and its political ecological implications in the Putumayo, Colombia World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Juan Antonio Samper, Torsten Krause
Just over seven years into the implementation of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP in October 2016, the armed conflict has reconfigured and reactivated in several parts of the country. In the Putumayo department, tensions between the state, various armed groups, and rural communities over territory and crops for illicit use persisted, and even accentuated in the wake
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Manufacturing in structural change in Africa World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Pierre Nguimkeu, Albert Zeufack
We investigate the scale, causes and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares tends to occur “prematurely” in this region (Rodrik, 2016). We perform our analysis using panel data methods for fractional responses and data from a variety of sources
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Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Orsola Torrisi
This study examines the consequences of armed violence on family planning in Mali, a country where modern contraceptive use is low and a violent insurrection has been ongoing since 2012. I combine data from the 2006 and 2018 Demographic and Health Surveys with information on conflict events location and exploit spatial and temporal variation in violence intensity in a difference-in-difference framework
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Donors want it faster, humanitarian organizations get it cheaper World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jorge García Castillo
Donors provide yearly over 20 billion USD for international assistance to humanitarian organizations who transfer up to 23% of these funds to local implementing partners. Each transfer of funds seeks the maximum effectiveness through the compliance with the rules of the donor. The question of how aligned are donor policies with the ones of the recipients of funds, and what is the impact of this gap
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Role of personal network attributes in adoption of clean stoves among Congolese refugees in Rwanda World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Praveen Kumar, Naira Kalra, Anita Shankar
Social networks can play an important role in influencing uptake of new technologies, especially within limited resource settings. This study explored the association of personal network attributes on adoption of a clean (tier 4+) cookstove technology by Congolese women living in a Rwandan refugee camp. This study was conducted within the context of an on-going randomized controlled trial (RCT) where
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Quiet resistance speaks: A global literature review of the politics of popular resistance to climate adaptation interventions World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Ebba Brink, Emily Boyd
Despite that climate hazards are increasingly felt across the globe, there is widespread and often subtle resistance to climate adaptation interventions. However, adaptation research and practice have largely focused on overcoming barriers to implementation. By presuming adaptation programs are welcome, they miss that many people oppose or refuse to participate in them, and the politics hidden behind
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Occupational and asset adjustments in Tamil Nadu, India: The role of a finance and rebuilding program World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Marup Hossain, Conner Mullally, Athur Mabiso
Financial inclusion is important for long-term recovery from natural disaster-driven losses when access to safety nets or informal assistance fades away. We examine how an intervention promoting access to finance has altered primary occupations and asset accumulation among smallholders affected by the 2004 tsunami in Tamil Nadu, India, 16 years after the initial event. We show that the program increased
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How do transaction costs influence remittances? World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Kangni Kpodar, Patrick Amir Imam
Using a new quarterly panel database on remittances, this paper investigates the elasticity of remittances to transaction costs using local projections. The findings suggest that cost reductions have a short-term positive impact on remittances within a quarter, before they stabilize at a higher level. According to our estimates, reducing transaction costs to the Sustainable Development Goal target
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Fueling protest? Climate change mitigation, fuel prices and protest onset World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Nina von Uexkull, Espen Geelmuyden Rød, Isak Svensson
Mitigating global warming requires a rapid reduction in the use of fossil fuels which form the foundation of modern economies. Fossil fuel reduction is crucial for minimizing future loss and damage associated with a changing climate, but a challenging task. In diverse contexts, climate-friendly policies that increased fuel prices have sparked massive, at times violent, protests, ultimately leading
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How conflict affects education: Differences between Boko Haram and Farmer-Herder conflicts in Nigeria World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Korede Ajogbeje, Kevin Sylwester
We investigate effects of conflict on educational attainment in Nigeria, a country suffering from two types of conflict: the Boko Haram insurgency and violence between farmers and herders. These two conflicts involve different perpetrators having differing goals and selecting different targets. To what extent do the effects from these two types of conflict on education differ? Employing a difference-in-difference
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Escaping Corruption in the Demand for Public Services in Africa — The Dual Nature of Civic Networks World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Davina Osei, Maty Konte, Elvis Korku Avenyo
Understanding bureaucratic corruption in access to public services and exit mechanisms particularly for the poor remains a core question in the economics of corruption literature. This paper examines the role of social networks in easing bureaucratic corruption in the demand for public services, using a bivariate ordered probit model and the sixth wave of the Afrobarometer survey from 36 African countries
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Collective urban green revitalisation: Crime control an sustainable behaviours in lower-income neighbourhoods World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Diana M. Benjumea Mejia, John Chilton, Peter Rutherford
The growing need to increase green spaces in highly urbanised cities has become more prominent recently. Special attention is paid to involving communities in the design process to enhance societal changes for a meaningful appreciation of the natural environment. Urban green collective initiatives in lower-income neighbourhoods have the potential to promote meaningful relatedness to the natural environment
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The Determinants of Refugees’ Destinations: Where do refugees locate within the EU? World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Valentina Di Iasio, Jackline Wahba
The recent so called Mediterranean refugee crisis has ignited concerns about the magnitude of the flows of asylum seekers to Europe. This paper examines the determinants of the destination choice of first time non-EU asylum applicants to the EU, between 2008–2020. It investigates the role played by policies related to employment rights, processing of asylum applications, attractiveness of the welfare
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Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Rachel Gilbert, Leah Costlow, Julia Matteson, Jakob Rauschendorfer, Ekaterina Krivonos, Steven A. Block, William A. Masters
Recent use of least-cost diets as a measure of global food security revealed that over 3 billion people are unable to afford sufficient nutritious food for an active and healthy life, driving demand for policy changes to improve access and affordability. This study quantifies the role of imports in consumer prices, matching retail prices in 144 countries to imports by origin of the item or its main
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Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Ashwini Deshpande, Maria C. Lo Bue, Janneke Pieters, Kunal Sen
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Aid effectiveness and donor motives World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Axel Dreher, Valentin Lang, Bernhard Reinsberg
A vast literature evaluates the effectiveness of development aid, often reaching sobering conclusions. We argue that a key shortcoming of this literature is the focus on a narrow concept of effectiveness—mostly economic growth—that does not match the kind of effectiveness that aid donors actually aim at. To determine actual donor motives, we first survey the literature on aid and identify a large set
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Profit shifting of multinational corporations worldwide World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Petr Janský
We exploit the new country-by-country reporting data of multinational corporations, with unparallelled country coverage, to reveal the distributional consequences of profit shifting. We estimate that multinational corporations worldwide shifted over $850 billion in profits in 2017, primarily to countries with effective tax rates below 10%. Countries with lower incomes lose a larger share of their total
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How peace saves lives: Evidence from Colombia World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Sergio Perilla, Mounu Prem, Miguel E. Purroy, Juan F. Vargas
The victimization of civilians and combatants during internal conflicts causes large socioeconomic costs. Unfortunately, it is not clear whether peace negotiations can significantly reduce this burden. One key reason is the lingering presence of antipersonnel landmines, which are hidden underground and remain active for decades. Looking at the recent experience of Colombia, we quantify the number of
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Exposure to large-scale farms increases smallholders’ competitive behavior and closes the gender gap World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Menusch Khadjavi, Kacana Sipangule, Rainer Thiele
We investigate how exposure to large-scale farms affects smallholders’ competitive behavior. Based on lab-in-the-field experimental measures covering more than 900 smallholders and 400 children in Zambia, we find that smallholders who are traditionally dependent on subsistence agriculture behave more competitively when they are located close to large-scale farms. This effect is especially pronounced
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Revisiting the Income Inequality-Crime Puzzle World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Matteo Pazzona
The economics literature generally supports a positive theoretical link between income inequality and crime. However, despite this consensus, empirical evidence has struggled to yield definitive conclusions. To address this puzzle, I conducted a meta-analysis based on 1,341 estimates drawn from 43 studies in economics journals. The findings indicate a statistically significant but economically insignificant
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Scaling-up sustainable commodity governance through jurisdictional initiatives: Political pathways to sector transformation in the Indonesian palm oil sector? World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 , Kate Macdonald, Rachael Diprose, Deborah Delgado Pugley
Voluntary systems of sustainable commodity governance have come under intensified criticism for failing to catalyse transformative change beyond directly regulated supply chains. In response, there has been a surge of efforts to ‘scale-up’ sustainability impacts through governance interventions at landscape and jurisdictional scales. While these ambitious, scaled-up approaches are attracting significant
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Lasting scars: The long-term effects of school closures on earnings World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Zs. Kóczán
We examine the impact of education disruptions on earnings in the long term using a natural experiment. In particular, we estimate the effects of school closures due to the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia on earnings 20 years later. Our results point to substantial and lasting effects: those in first grade at the time of the shock earn about 7–9 percent less 20 years after the shock than unaffected cohorts
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Capital Markets, Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Bangladesh World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Laurent Bossavie, Joseph-Simon Görlach, Çağlar Özden, He Wang
This paper examines international temporary migration as an intermediary step among aspiring entrepreneurs to accumulate the needed capital when they face credit constraints at home. The analysis is based on a representative dataset of lifetime employment histories of return migrants from Bangladesh. After establishing the credit constraints that potential entrepreneurs face, the paper shows that non-agricultural
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Resilience – and collapse – of local food systems in conflict affected areas; reflections from Burkina Faso World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Christophe Béné, Elodie Maître d'Hôtel, Raphaël Pelloquin, Outman Badaoui, Faroukou Garba, Jocelyne W. Sankima
Armed conflicts are among the major disruptions affecting local food systems in low- and middle-income countries, having devastating effects on populations’ food security. The understanding of the mechanisms linking conflicts to food insecurity is limited, however, by a lack of data on how these conflicts affect the different actors of local food systems. In this study, we aim to address this gap,
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State and NGO coproduction of health care in the Gran Chaco World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Tulia G. Falleti, Santiago L. Cunial, Selene Bonczok Sotelo, Favio Crudo
The collaboration between state and civil society in the delivery of public services is paramount to sustainable and participatory development in rural areas with marginalized populations. Previous research identified complementarity and embeddedness as two essential features of successful coproduction. However, most of the literature on coproduction studies users and providers who share the same language
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Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities: An exploratory observational longitudinal study (2002–2010) of micro-level trends among Tsimane’, a small-scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Ricardo Godoy, Jonathan Bauchet, Jere R. Behrman, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Asher Rosinger, Susan Tanner, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Ariela Zycherman
Knowing what happens over time to the lifeways of people in contemporary small-scale non-industrial societies of the rural Global South matters because it helps assess changes in the quality of life of underrepresented groups. It has been hard to answer the question because longitudinal information is rarely collected in such settings. A longitudinal dataset of nine years (2002–2010) from a horticultural-foraging
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United Nations peacekeeping operations and multilateral foreign aid: Credibility of good governance World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Wakako Maekawa
Does hosting UN Peacekeeping Operations (UN PKOs) increase multilateral foreign aid inflows into civil war-affected countries? Under what conditions do UN PKOs make multilateral foreign aid effective, enhancing governance quality? Multilateral foreign aid agencies increasingly focus on good governance as an allocation criterion. However, multilateral aid assistance faces dilemmas when allocating aid
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Spatial education inequality for attainment indicators in sub-saharan Africa and spillovers effects World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Marcos Delprato, Amita Chudgar, Alessia Frola
Space plays a prominent role on educational inequalities. Spatially proximate communities are likely to behave and perform similarly than spatially distant communities because educational processes, demand and supply factors, are often location specific within a country, with educational outcomes and educational inequalities being spatially dependent. Yet, studies on monitoring education inequalities
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Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Isaac Amedanou, Bertrand Laporte
Our study reexamines the link between country risk and government take, following research by Adebayo et al. (2021). Our approach complements theirs. We study the mining tax policy choices in an environment of uncertainty and risk country for twenty-one African gold-producing countries. We calculate a de jure government take based on the complete application of laws and regulations for three “representative
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Status inequality and public goods World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, Sumit Mishra, Andaleeb Rahman
The association between social diversity and state-provided public goods is a central political economy problem. This paper highlights how status inequality is a distinct political channel when diverse groups are spatially segregated. Social status impacts citizens’ ability to petition the state successfully and modulates state favoritism or discrimination. We use data from nearly 600,000 Indian villages
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From absences to emergences: Foregrounding traditional and Indigenous climate change adaptation knowledges and practices from Fiji, Vietnam and the Philippines World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Justin See, Ginbert Permejo Cuaton, Pryor Placino, Suliasi Vunibola, Huong Do Thi, Kelly Dombroski, Katharine McKinnon
The differential impacts of climate change have highlighted the need to implement fit-for-purpose interventions that are reflective of the needs of vulnerable communities. However, adaptation projects tend to favour technocratic, market-driven, and Eurocentric approaches that inadvertently disregard the place-based and contextual adaptation strategies of many communities in the Global South. The paper
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Keeping communal peace in the shadow of civil war: A natural experiment from Côte d’Ivoire World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Sebastian van Baalen
Violent communal conflicts between identity-based groups are a severe threat to human security and development. While most communal conflicts take place in civil war-affected countries, communal conflict is not an inevitable byproduct of civil war. What explains communal peace in civil war? Existing research tends to overlook interlinkages between communal conflict and civil war, meaning that knowledge
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Forecasting the prevalence of child acute malnutrition using environmental and conflict conditions as leading indicators World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 David Backer, Trey Billing
Millions of children worldwide experience acute malnutrition. Forecasts of prevalence that afford sufficient reliability, precision, and advance warning are valuable to facilitate anticipatory action capable of mitigating the extent and downsides of crises. Existing research and resources lack prediction based on statistical analysis with broad cross-national scope and a focus on identifying leading
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The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Simon Bornschier, Manuel Vogt
Natural resource exploitation often generates negative externalities and fuels social conflict. Yet, patterns of social resistance against mining differ considerably within and across countries. What explains differences in the occurrence and duration of anti-mining protest? Distinguishing explicitly between protest onset and continuation, we theorize that communities affected by mining engage in social
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Political trust and government performance in the time of COVID-19 World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Chengyuan Ji, Junyan Jiang, Yujin Zhang
Governments around the world have exhibited markedly different levels of effectiveness in handling the COVID-19 pandemic, and these variations have not been adequately explained by conventional correlates of good governance. This paper advances a co-production perspective, arguing that citizens’ predisposition to support and comply with government policies has played a crucial role in shaping countries’
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The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Morgan Hardy, Gisella Kagy, Eyoual Demeke, Marc Witte, Christian Johannes Meyer
We analyze matched employee–employer data from Ethiopia’s largest special economic zone during a period of downsizing pressure from the COVID-19 world import demand shock. We observe substantial job displacement during the shock peak, particularly for new hires. These largely female and rural-to-urban migrants persistently “fall off the employment ladder”, remaining unemployed both within and outside
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Ideology at the Water’s Edge: Explaining Variation in Public Support for Foreign Aid World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Lauren Prather
To explain variation in foreign aid levels and attitudes in donor countries, past research emphasizes the importance of values related to the welfare state such as economic ideology. Scholars argue that liberals support redistribution at home in the form of a strong welfare state and redistribution abroad in the form of foreign aid. Yet, the conditions under which values related to domestic politics
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Statebuilding and indigenous rights implementation: Political incentives, social movement pressure, and autonomy policy in Central America World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Giorleny Altamirano Rayo, Eric S. Mosinger, Kai M. Thaler
What explains when states strengthen, maintain, or erode political-territorial Indigenous autonomy regimes? Indigenous activists around the world have fought for the right to govern their own lands and communities and have sometimes won major legal concessions from national governments. Yet initial breakthroughs often give way to lackluster state implementation or even erosion of Indigenous autonomy
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Not all supply chains are created equal: The linkages between soy local trade relations and development outcomes in Brazil World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Tiago N.P. dos Reis, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Gabriela Russo Lopes, Patrick Meyfroidt
Global agricultural trade is a key driver of socioenvironmental transformations in rural areas, including development dynamics. By creating revenue and wealth opportunities, it influences the economic and social relations in a landscape. However, not all landscapes shaped by a given agricultural sector are the same: one variable is how supply chain actors and their embedded networks (including commodity