Minh-Quang Nguyen, Michel Dimou, Thi Thu Huong Vu, Alexandra Schaffar, Cong Phan The, Ngoc Quynh Nguyen
{"title":"Testing the ecological footprint of economic growth in developing countries. The case of Vietnam","authors":"Minh-Quang Nguyen, Michel Dimou, Thi Thu Huong Vu, Alexandra Schaffar, Cong Phan The, Ngoc Quynh Nguyen","doi":"10.1002/jid.3918","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3918","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study focuses on the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation, by testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Vietnam, a main export-oriented country that features a long period of economic growth. The main originality of this work is that, unlike previous studies, it uses ecological footprint as the main indicator for environmental degradation. This allows to reconsider the results from previous studies that only focus on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions performances. The cointegration between the analysed variables is investigated using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. To determine the parameters of the Environmental Kuznets Curve in the sample, this work additionally analyses long- and short-run estimations. The paper shows that the EKC hypothesis holds in the long term for Vietnam when using ecological footprint. Nevertheless, it also shows that not only growth but also primary energy consumption contributes to increased environmental destruction. An active ecological policy and the decrease of fossil energy use seem necessary to allow Vietnam to keep a high level of economic growth and reduce environmental degradation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2457-2477"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3918","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141353863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Luz L. Malabayabas, Ashok K. Mishra, Joaquin Mayorga
{"title":"Impact of spouses' access to financial services on technological and managerial gaps in rice production","authors":"Maria Luz L. Malabayabas, Ashok K. Mishra, Joaquin Mayorga","doi":"10.1002/jid.3917","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3917","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study investigates the effect of the spouse's access to financial services via self-help groups (SHGs) on technical efficiency, technology and managerial gaps. We use farm-level data from rice farming households in eastern India, propensity score matching method and selectivity-corrected stochastic production frontier model. Results show that farms with access to financial services via a spouse's membership in SHGs have slightly higher technical efficiency than their counterparts. Technology and managerial gaps are higher for farms where spouses have access to financial services via SHGs than their counterparts. With access to financial services via spouses, rice farmers reallocated family labour and hired more labour for crop establishment. Thus, women joining SHGs can increase crop productivity, and extension agents should also focus on spouses and their role in farming decision-making, not just financial management.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2430-2456"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141386932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph B. Ajefu, Efobi Uchenna, Lydia Adeoye, Israel Davidson, Matthew Onalo Agbawn
{"title":"Exploring how mobile money adoption affects nutrition and household food security","authors":"Joseph B. Ajefu, Efobi Uchenna, Lydia Adeoye, Israel Davidson, Matthew Onalo Agbawn","doi":"10.1002/jid.3920","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3920","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores how using mobile money services affects food security and nutritional status of households in Tanzania. This study uses data obtained from three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Surveys and the instrumental variable (IV) approach. The evidence from this paper shows that using mobile money services resulted in household's enhanced nutritional and food security status. Households' receipt of remittances is the main pathway in which using mobile money services influences the food security and nutritional outcomes among households in Tanzania.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2414-2429"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3920","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141265755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laughing from the Outside-In: Considering ‘What's Up Africa’ as an(other) humorous humanitarian digilantism","authors":"Edward Ademolu","doi":"10.1002/jid.3916","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3916","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the intersection of humour and humanitarianism in engaging Northern audiences with global Southern poverty issues. It analyses witty social media campaigns that critique humanitarian practices and Africa’s representation, notably <i>What’s Up Africa</i> (WUA) on YouTube, <i>Radi-Aid</i> on YouTube, <i>Humanitarians of Tinder</i> on Tumblr and <i>Barbie Savior</i> on Instagram. Using ‘contraflow’, it shows how humour and positionality shape reception. WUA’s Black African-centric comedy, particualrly, highlights the often-underexplored role of race in development discourse, challenging the White institutional core of humanitarianism. These insights reveal power dynamics and invite further academic inquiry into the transformative potential of comedic humanitarian critique.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2393-2413"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3916","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141272598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philip Akrofi Atitianti, Samuel Kofi Asiamah, Benedict Arthur, John Archison Duku
{"title":"Does Aid Improve Local Wealth? Micro-Level Evidence from Africa","authors":"Philip Akrofi Atitianti, Samuel Kofi Asiamah, Benedict Arthur, John Archison Duku","doi":"10.1002/jid.3907","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3907","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper adopts a micro-level analysis to assess the effect of aid from China and the World Bank on the wealth of locals residing near aid project sites. We match geospatial data on aid projects financed by China and the World Bank in 35 African countries between 2008 and 2014 to respondents from rounds 5 and 6 of the Afrobarometer survey. The results indicate that aid from these two donors increases the wealth of the local population. Our transmission mechanism test suggests that aid impacts wealth by promoting employment opportunities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2372-2392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141020178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health resilience and the global pandemic: The effect of social conditions on the COVID-19 mortality rate","authors":"Shimaa Elkomy, Tim Jackson","doi":"10.1002/jid.3893","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3893","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Can ‘health resilience’ explain international differences in COVID-19 mortality? This paper aims to understand the significant diversity in mortality rates between countries in terms of their degree of preparedness for the crisis and the underlying health conditions of the population. We integrate COVID-19 data from the first year of the pandemic with panel data from 2009 to 2017 for 188 countries around the world in order to investigate international variation in COVID-19 mortality rates. Country-level data on health, medical, social and policy variables are compared with COVID-19 mortality rates, with further controls imposed to adjust for infection rate, population and health spending. The results show that prior health conditions, social deprivation and the demography of the country all have significant effects on the mortality rates associated with the virus. The evidence also suggests that countries with higher levels of health-related policy targets demonstrated lower levels of mortality during the crisis. Finally, we confirm that social habits such as smoking, alcohol consumption and over-eating create a highly vulnerable group of individuals who were exposed to a greater risk of mortality during the outbreak.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2342-2371"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3893","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140682736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial inclusion in India: How far do grassroots institutions matter?","authors":"Shika Saravanabhavan, Meenakshi Rajeev","doi":"10.1002/jid.3897","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3897","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Though the relevance of grassroots institutions for financial inclusion (FI) is widely recognised, we still do not fully understand its differential effect on FI, particularly in relation to commercial banks. To investigate this issue, we consider the household's moneylender dependence as an indicator of financial exclusion and thus our outcome variable. Further, we have developed FI indices using indicators of commercial and cooperative banks, which we used as explanatory variables in our analysis. Our results show that, while there is a decreased dependence on moneylenders even at low levels of FI through cooperatives, commercial banks show an inverted U-shaped relationship implying a decreasing effect only after a threshold level.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2318-2341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140689471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decoupling of functional and household income distribution by economic growth: new findings from analysing the three-way growth-equity nexus","authors":"Juneyoung Lee, Keun Lee","doi":"10.1002/jid.3903","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3903","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyses the three-way relationship between economic growth and the two aspects of income distribution, namely, functional income distribution (labour income share) and household income distribution (Gini coefficient). One contribution of such three-way analysis is to reveal the ‘decoupling’ pattern of the growth-equity nexus, namely decoupling between functional income distribution and household income distribution, as it finds that economic growth tends to increase labour income share but worsen household income inequality, and also to confirm the reverse relationship that that higher labour income shares and household income inequality lead to a higher rate of economic growth. We show that these findings co-exist with the traditional belief in the literature about the directly reinforcing relationship between functional and household income distribution. These findings are consistent with skilled labour compensated by performance-based higher wages, which is often associated with a skill-biassed technological change. The study confirms the same three-way relationship in both developed and developing countries, but with several different determinants and different trends in the key variables. Given this nuanced trade-off between economic growth and household income equality, coupled with no such trade-off between growth and labour income share, a sensible policy prescription may be a combination of growth-enhancing policy of increasing pre-tax labour income share and a separate redistribution policy to decrease disposable household income inequality, which can mitigate income inequality without harming economic growth.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2270-2299"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3903","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140690619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fentanyl's potential impact on public health in India and China: A comparative review","authors":"Nicholas Lassi","doi":"10.1002/jid.3905","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3905","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study reviewed and compared fentanyl's potential impact on public health in India and China, two nations linked to its production and distribution. A comparison of China and India's governance structures, historical experiences with opioids, ideologies, and drug policies on the potential for domestic fentanyl use showed that fentanyl will likely become a more significant threat to Indian society. India's relatively weak governance, historical acceptance of opium, and permissive drug culture facilitate an environment conducive to the production and use of fentanyl. In contrast, China's strong central government, the Opium Wars, the historical effects of opium addiction, and adherence to conservative Confucian ethics will likely contribute to opposition to fentanyl use. Understanding these disparities is paramount for policymakers and public health officials in both nations to develop and customise strategies to confront the challenges posed by fentanyl.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2300-2317"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140692671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Do Brokers Provide for Urban Slums?","authors":"Mahvish Shami","doi":"10.1002/jid.3902","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3902","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rapid urbanisation in developing countries has often resulted in slums with minimal public goods provision, where the poor rely on clientelist networks to provide for their basic needs. Using household-level data, this paper is the first to empirically document how political clientelism operates in Pakistani slums. It finds that urban brokers, unlike their rural counterparts, are unable to claim credit for public goods provision. Instead, they provide personalised and highly targeted services – such as dispute resolution and assistance with documentation. Moreover, unlike traditional clientelism, urban networks are found to be problem-solving and welfare-enhancing for slum dwellers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 5","pages":"2252-2269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3902","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140706583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}