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Gender imbalance and temporary migration: Evidence from rural China 性别失衡与临时迁移：来自中国农村的证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106832

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Benefit or procedure? Determinants of perceived distributive fairness in rural China 利益还是程序？中国农村地区分配公平感的决定因素

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106821

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A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models 对印度小额信贷和亲密伴侣暴力的定性研究：了解男性反弹和家庭谈判模式的作用

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106805

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Indigenous forest destroyers or guardians? The indigenous Batwa and their ancestral forests in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC 土著森林破坏者还是守护者？刚果民主共和国 Kahuzi-Biega 国家公园的巴特瓦原住民及其祖先的森林

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106818

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Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection 拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的基础设施服务与幼儿发展：水、卫生设施和垃圾收集

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106817

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Fishery access benefits early childhood development through fish consumption and fishing income pathways 渔业准入通过鱼类消费和渔业收入途径促进儿童早期发展

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106819

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Conceptualizing and evaluating how international organizations collaborate 构思和评估国际组织如何开展合作

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106789

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Territorial arrangements and ethnic conflict management: The paradox that isn’t 领土安排与种族冲突管理：不存在的悖论

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106812

{"title":"Territorial arrangements and ethnic conflict management: The paradox that isn’t","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106812","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106812","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ethnic civil war, the most common type of war in the 21st century, is one of the biggest challenges for development practitioners and scholars. Like other types of armed conflict, it impedes countries’ economic, social and political development, and there is no consensus on how ‘best’ to solve it. Territorial self-governance has received much attention in efforts to reduce the risk of ethnic civil war, but the academic and policy debates over its effects remain inconclusive. This has reinforced the notion that territorial self-governance is a ‘paradoxical’ institution, which either increases or mitigates the risk of ethnic civil war. In this article, we argue that claims of a ‘paradox’ of territorial self-governance are exaggerated, as they stem from differences in empirical operationalization. We present a systematic overview of the underlying definitions, geographic and temporal scope of quantitative indicators from ten datasets, and compare how they capture aspects of self-rule, shared rule and their legal codification. Using a series of binary time-series-cross-section analyses, we illustrate that different measures of territorial arrangements lead to different results, both regarding the significance and direction of statistical effects. Our findings highlight the need to pay greater attention to the deceptively simple yet empirically fundamental question of which data are being used and why.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilization 重新审视经济不平等与政治暴力之间的联系：社会动员的作用

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106820

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Hunting militias at all cost: Urban military operation and birth outcomes 不惜一切代价猎杀民兵城市军事行动和生育结果

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World Development Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106809

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