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Lives in exile? Perspectives on the resettlements of Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu, India World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud
This article looks at subjectivities and regimes of homing from a position of liminality and questions the placements dynamics displayed by Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, India. Based on long-term and longitudinal fieldwork conducted in Keezhputhupattu refugee camp near Pondicherry between 2010 and 2023, this study analyses the experience of the refugees, which combines a “know-how” that
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Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Alexander Kustov, Giuliana Pardelli
A long-standing scholarship argues that greater ethnic diversity harms social cohesion. However, recent research also suggests that these outcomes are primarily influenced by the strength of state institutions. We evaluate these arguments using new geocoded historical data from Brazilian municipalities. Our initial analysis confirms that local racial diversity is negatively associated with social cohesion
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The effects of exposure to violence on social network composition and formation World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Daniel Robert Thomas
How does exposure to violence affect civilian social networks during wartime? Social networks play critical roles in civil wars by enabling civilians to endure the destruction of conflict. However, little is known about how these networks change in response to violence. I employ original survey data from camps for the internally displaced in Kachin State, Myanmar, an area of active civil conflict,
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Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 L. Rodina, L. Harris, G. Ziervogel, J. Wilson
In 2017 and 2018, Cape Town faced historically unprecedented water shortages. With the imminent possibility of running out of water, the city’s leadership prioritized reducing water demand and expanding new water sources, while also reinvigorating the goal of seeking to build system-level water resilience for the longer term. Beyond the context of Cape Town, the crisis captured global attention, highlighting
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Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Johanna Choumert-Nkolo, Leonard le Roux
We document the relationship between rural–urban migration and energy poverty in South Africa using a nationally representative panel dataset. Employing a dynamic difference-in-differences approach, we track changes in energy poverty for migrants and non-migrants over a ten-year period from 2008 to 2017. Our findings show that migrants to urban areas experience significant reductions in energy poverty
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Corruption can cause healthcare deprivation: Evidence from 29 sub-Saharan African countries World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Chei Bukari, Suman Seth, Gaston Yalonetkzy
The WHO estimates that nearly half of the world’s population lacks access to essential healthcare, and that the proportion of the population with catastrophic out-of-pocket health spending (10% or more of the household budget) is on the rise. Meanwhile, the United Nations’ General Assembly has recently identified corruption as a vital factor undermining efforts to accomplish universal health coverage
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Mobile phone adoption, deforestation, and agricultural land use in Uganda World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Suhyun Jung, Martha Rogers
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Revisiting the trends in global inequality World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Carlos Gradín
I analyze trends in global income distribution since 1950 using a new companion WIID dataset with standardized country income percentiles. I investigate the robustness of these trends with respect to key data choices, as well as the degree to which the inequality trend depends on specific distributional views (such as the use of absolute versus relative inequality, or relative emphasis at the bottom
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“If my wife earns more than me, she will force me to do what she wants”: Women’s economic empowerment and family caregiving dynamics in Tanzania World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Alina Bhojani, Alya Alsager, Juliet K. McCann, Damas Joachim, Mary Kabati, Joshua Jeong
Women’s economic empowerment is recognized as a fundamental component of gender equality and global development. Despite a significant body of evidence highlighting the positive effects of women’s labor force participation in low- and middle-income countries, relatively few studies have explored how caregivers of young children perceive women’s economic empowerment in relation to childcare and family
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Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Joseph Cummins, Jingyan Guo, Neha Agarwal, Anaka Aiyar, Vaishali Jain, Andrew Bergmann
Using the fourth round of the Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), and subsequently replicating our results using the fifth round (NFHS-5), we document differential child physical growth patterns across caste groups in India, demonstrating that lower caste children are born shorter and grow less quickly than children from higher-caste households. We then show that, in line with work from
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Identifying the poor – Accounting for household economies of scale in global poverty estimates World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Dean Jolliffe, Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah
Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of scale in household size – a family of six needs three times as much as a family of two. This paper examines the sensitivity of global estimates of extreme poverty
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State-owned enterprises as countercyclical instruments: Quasi-experimental evidence from the infrastructure sector World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Matías Herrera Dappe, Aldo Musacchio, Burak Turkgulu, Carolina Pan, Jonathan Barboza, Yadviga Semikolenova
This paper examines the effects of a negative macroeconomic shock on the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in infrastructure. The main aim of the paper is to explore whether SOEs serve as countercyclical instruments or whether they end up generating fiscal costs during a downturn, perhaps amplifying negative shocks. The paper introduces a new measure of fiscal injections that
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How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, Sabrina M. Karim
Epidemics that overwhelm health and national institutions tend to disproportionately affect individuals from marginalized communities. The securitization of epidemics further exacerbates feelings of alienation and victimization by security forces among those in such communities. Focusing on this population, our study explores how experiences with securitization during the 2014 Ebola Virus epidemic
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Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Maria Camila Angulo Amaya
Non-state armed actors can shape provision of public goods by impeding provision, becoming providers themselves, or taking control of the means for provision. While the literature is prolific at analyzing the former two channels, the third one is underexplored. How does criminal governance affect public goods provisioning via state capture? And do these dynamics facilitate the survival of non-state
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Exploring migration decision-making and agricultural adaptation in the context of climate change: A systematic review World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Manisha Mukherjee, Sonja Fransen
This study presents a novel analysis of migration responses to climate change by agricultural households in middle- and low-income countries. We conduct a systematic review of 81 quantitative and qualitative studies, applying the New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory and insights from the development economics literature to understand the link between access to in situ agricultural adaptation
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Inherent Dilemma: Balancing conservation efficiency and social equity in natural resource governance World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Godfreyb Ssekajja
Natural resource governance often grapples with the challenge of balancing conservation efficiency and social equity. While both objectives are essential, their persistent collision exposes an inherent dilemma. Suggesting that existing studies fail to grasp the depth of such dilemmas adequately, this paper examines the comprehensive impacts of natural resource policies that strive to maximize conservation
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Trust funds and the sub-national effectiveness of development aid: Evidence from the World Bank World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Mirko Heinzel, Bernhard Reinsberg
Existing studies imply that multilateral development assistance is more effective than bilateral assistance. However, multilateral assistance is increasingly constrained through earmarked funding where donors restrict the use of their funds. Such funding shifts decision-making power away from multilateral donors and increases transaction costs through more stringent monitoring requirements. We argue
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The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on child food insecurity in Africa World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Antoine Castet
Food insecurity is a major concern in most African countries. Large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) frequently have a negative impact on local communities. In this paper, I examine the impact of LSLAs on the nutritional status of neighboring children. To this end, I use a difference-in-differences methodology applied to LSLAs in a large number of African countries at different times since the early
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Remedial, institutional or radical? Explaining community responses to violence against women in an NGO programme to prevent violence in Mumbai, India World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Lu Gram, Sukanya Paradkar, Chatush Singh, Anand Suryavanshi, Beniamino Cislaghi, David Osrin, Nayreen Daruwalla
Despite ambitions in development and global health policy to transform communities into supportive environments for women facing risks of violence, our understanding of how to best engage communities remains incomplete. In particular, there is little evidence on the types of strategies that communities employ to address violence against women (VAW). We aimed to describe and analyse the processes involved
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Does representation affect trust in political institutions?: Evidence from redistricting in India World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Rolly Kukreja
Trust in political institutions is considered to be distinctly crucial for maintaining the stability and legitimacy of such institutions. In this paper, I document an important channel through which characteristics of political institutions could affect political trust by studying the impact of a change in representation on political trust. I use the delimitation exercise of 2008 as a source of change
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Targeted sanctions, resource substitution, and violence against civilians: Localized evidence from African states World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Jerry Urtuzuastigui, Ore Koren
Since the 1990 s, the UN Security Council increased its use of targeted sanctions, yet we know very little about their unintended impact on civilian victimization, especially at the local level. This study argues that imposing sanctions on armed actors may compel them to seize non-sanctioned agricultural resources to replenish lost revenues and use violence to facilitate appropriation. A new dataset
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Does transparency pay? Natural resources, financial development and the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI) World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Harouna Kinda, Edouard Mien
Natural resources are known to hinder financial development in countries with weak institutions. We hypothesize that the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, an international norm aimed at promoting transparency in natural resource management, can mitigate this effect. Using fixed effects and entropy balancing methods, we provide empirical support for this hypothesis in a panel of 71 resource-rich
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Distributional impacts of cash transfers on the multidimensional poverty of refugees: The Emergency Social Safety Net in Turkey World Dev. (IF 6.678) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Matthew Robson, Frank Vollmer, Basak Berçin Doğan, Nils Grede
Most impact evaluations of humanitarian cash transfer programmes use traditional metrics of poverty and study average effects of outcomes separately. We analyse the impact of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) cash programme on the multidimensional poverty of refugees in Turkey, using a purpose-built Refugee Multidimensional Poverty Index. We conduct a causal analysis of both average and distributional
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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
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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