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Agricultural market participation impact on gender health inequality: Evidence from Guinea-Bissau 农业市场参与对两性健康不平等的影响：来自几内亚比绍的证据

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100737

Júlio Vicente Cateia

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Keynes’ theory of liquidity preference and microfinance banks in Africa 凯恩斯流动性偏好理论与非洲小额信贷银行

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100732

Jacob Tche

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The determinants of multidimensional poverty in the urban slums of Dhaka city 达卡城市贫民窟多维贫困的决定因素

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100725

S.M. Asif Ehsan , Mazharul Hoque Bhuiyan , Mashnur Rahman , Md Saifur Rahman Sayeef , Marufa Ferdausi , Md Sajadul Alam , Abdul Hannan Chowdhury , Md. Jakariya

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Military expenditures and macroeconomic indicators in selected countries of Asia and Africa 亚洲和非洲某些国家的军事开支和宏观经济指标

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100727

Faisal Jamil, Mayira Sabir

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Long-term health impacts of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war on young Ethiopian adults 厄立特里亚-埃塞俄比亚战争对埃塞俄比亚青年健康的长期影响

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100723

Yemareshet Hailu Demeke , Dainn Wie

{"title":"Long-term health impacts of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war on young Ethiopian adults","authors":"Yemareshet Hailu Demeke , Dainn Wie","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100723","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100723","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000), triggered by a border dispute in Badme, caused thousands of deaths and widespread disruption. This study investigates whether in utero exposure to the conflict has long-term effects on young adult health outcomes, focusing on height and BMI measured 16 years after the war. We identify these effects based on individuals’ birth cohorts and their proximity to major conflict sites, using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). Difference-in-differences estimates reveal a significant and negative impact of in utero conflict exposure on adult height, while effects on BMI are smaller and less consistent. The height effect remains robust to socioeconomic controls, supporting the critical period programming hypothesis. Higher parental socioeconomic status mitigates the adverse effects, suggesting that access to resources offers a protective buffer. We test robustness across alternative conflict measures and functional forms and find little evidence of selective fertility or mortality, though some caution is warranted due to possible selection that remains uncaptured.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100723"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145048574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Doubling: How it is impoverishing a mining community in India 加倍：它是如何使印度的一个矿业社区变得贫困的

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100726

Prajna Paramita Mishra , Ch. Sravan , Sujit Kumar Mishra

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Committeefication of African urban development:The case of Ghana’s Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project (GARID) 非洲城市发展委员会：以加纳大阿克拉弹性综合发展项目（GARID）为例

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100724

Rosina Sheburah Essien , George Owusu , Kofi Kekeli Amedzro , Musah Aziba Issah

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Impacts of livelihood empowerment programs on refugee wellbeing and economic inclusion: Evidence from Dollo Ado refugee camps in Ethiopia 生计赋权项目对难民福祉和经济包容的影响：来自埃塞俄比亚多洛阿多难民营的证据

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100720

Silas Amo-Agyei , Florence Nana Pokuaah Nimoh , Ibrahima Sarr , Maryada Vallet

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How much of economic growth trickles down to the population in resource-rich countries? evidence from Papua New Guinea 在资源丰富的国家，有多少经济增长惠及了人口？证据来自巴布亚新几内亚

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100719

Paripoorna Baxi, Darian Naidoo, Sharad Tandon

{"title":"How much of economic growth trickles down to the population in resource-rich countries? evidence from Papua New Guinea","authors":"Paripoorna Baxi, Darian Naidoo, Sharad Tandon","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100719","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100719","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There has been substantial growth in the resource sector in PNG during the last resource boom and significant increases in international assistance, both of which might have translated into improved well-being outcomes across the country. To better understand whether these changes improved household-level outcomes, we update estimates of key well-being outcomes in the country. Specifically, we impute monetary poverty status using non-monetary indicators in the 2016–18 Demographic and Health Survey and estimate the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure. Despite the significant growth since 2009, monetary poverty and access to several essential services hardly changed, which stands in stark contrast to the substantial improvement across the rest of the world and other comparison regions over the same period. Combined, the results illustrate that it is possible that very little resource-led growth trickles down to the population and that the link between macroeconomic and microeconomic outcomes is more tenuous in PNG than found in other resource-intensive settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100719"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy. A replication study of Mahadevan and Shenoy (Journal of Public Economics, 2023) 资源短缺的政治后果：水资源紧张的民主国家的定向支出。Mahadevan和Shenoy的复制研究（Journal of Public Economics, 2023）

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100707

Ryan McWay, Matthew Braaksma

{"title":"The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy. A replication study of Mahadevan and Shenoy (Journal of Public Economics, 2023)","authors":"Ryan McWay, Matthew Braaksma","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100707","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100707","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mahadevan and Shenoy (2023) assesses the use of state influence on funding for welfare programs in West Bengal for political targeting during periods of economic distress. Using a multidimensional regression discontinuity design, the authors find a misallocation of funding for a make-work program to support incumbent majority parties in electoral jurisdictions facing water-stress. This clientelism increased voting shares from farming communities using vote-buying strategies during a period of high unemployment (the dry season). We successfully computationally reproduce their results, and note some potential revisions to the replication packet to improve future replication. Further, we test the robustness replicability of the results through re-analyses modifying the definition of labor allocation, the definition of water-stress, as well as sub-analysis by voter turnout and voter population. We find that extreme water-stress jurisdictions are heavy recipients of reallocated labor, and find that labor is reallocated from part-time to full-time employment through the welfare program. Electoral victories from the ruling party successful implement vote-buying strategies in water-stressed electorates with high voter-turnout and large constituencies. This replication provides support for the internal validity of Mahadevan and Shenoy (2023)’s results and sheds a deeper light into the reallocation of welfare programs during periods of economic disaster.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100707"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144867312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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