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From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa 从法国到中国？非洲的生态不平等交换、新殖民主义和环境冲突

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107015

Roberto Cantoni , Marcel Llavero-Pasquina , Elia Apostolopoulou , Julien-François Gerber , Patrick Bond , Joan Martinez-Alier

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Earthquake severity and child nutrition: The Haiti 2010 earthquake 地震严重程度与儿童营养：2010年海地地震

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107053

Hilde Orderud

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Effects of information about irregular migration on transit community attitudes towards migrants 关于非正常移徙的资料对过境社区对移徙者态度的影响

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107044

Arne Wiig , Ivar Kolstad , Leander Kandilige , Cathrine Talleraas

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Who Benefits the Most from Micro-Credit? Micro-Level Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 小额信贷的最大受益者是谁？来自撒哈拉以南非洲的微观证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107023

Emmanuel O. James , Dimitrios Bakas , Piers Thompson , John Ebireri

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The impact of a sudden asylum seeker influx on host attitudes: Quasi-experimental evidence from South Korea 寻求庇护者突然涌入对东道国态度的影响：来自韩国的准实验证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.106981

Seonho Shin

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Blood, education and economic Development: How the 19th century wars in Latin America Foiled its economic development 血液、教育和经济发展：19世纪拉丁美洲的战争如何阻碍其经济发展

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107050

Jakob B. Madsen , Miethy Zaman

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Evaluating eurozone financial assistance collaboration: A case study 评估欧元区金融援助合作：一个案例研究

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107031

Kari Korhonen , Marla Hinkenhuis , Olga Francová , Dušan Kovačević , John Goossen

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Nonconventional Logistics: Rebellion, Resources and Rationalities in eastern Congo 非传统物流：刚果东部的叛乱、资源和理性

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107025

Christoph N. Vogel

{"title":"Nonconventional Logistics: Rebellion, Resources and Rationalities in eastern Congo","authors":"Christoph N. Vogel","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on war economies is dominated by positivist paradigms of rationality and epistemic assumptions of alterity. Such frames misread how rebellions pursue strategies of revenue generation. Entrepreneurial activity in conflict and its impact on political order oscillates between ideology and pragmatism. In the context of the Congolese wars – currently involving over 100 armed groups – belligerents weigh between opportunity and need, leading to contextual and diverse forms of rationality. In so doing, they combine subsistence with revenue-maximising accumulation. Coined by one peculiar armed group in eastern Congo, the <em>Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda</em> (FDLR), the notion of ‘nonconventional logistics’ (LNC) has come to be a euphemistic moniker for revenue generation. In a nutshell, LNC describes insurgents’ attempts to inscribe political governance and economic need into strategies of <em>un</em>making authority, including techniques of resource extraction, population control, territorial aspirations and the production of political order amidst insecurity. Revisiting contemporary political economies of conflict, this paper investigates LNC as a specific emic category of belligerent entrepreneurship. Based on long-term ethnography and archival research, the paper demonstrates the imbricated relationships between violence, business and political order amidst protracted war to develop a novel, evidence-based critique of dominant theories about the nexus between resources and conflict.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"192 ","pages":"Article 107025"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ostromian institutions and violence: Community forestry and Nepal’s civil war 东欧制度与暴力：社区林业与尼泊尔内战

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107018

Nathan J. Cook , Birendra K. Karna , Jessica Steinberg , Gustavo Torrens

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Gold mining, conflict, and post-war governmentality in Côte d’Ivoire 金矿开采，冲突和战后治理Côte科特迪瓦

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107049

Jeremy Allouche

{"title":"Gold mining, conflict, and post-war governmentality in Côte d’Ivoire","authors":"Jeremy Allouche","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the last twenty years, there has been a new gold rush in West African countries along a new resource frontier. The article’s key question is how mining governance reform and discourses around the 2014 Mining Code in Côte d’Ivoire create socio-environmental conflicts over the local development model, property rights and identity politics. The article draws upon direct observation, semi-structured interviews, focus groups with gold panners, mine managers and local village populations, as well as a household survey.</div><div>Building on the resource frontier literature, this article explains how gold mining sites in Côte d’Ivoire are spaces at the intersection between patronage economies, state territorialisation, capital accumulation and informality. The governance of gold mining can be viewed as a shock which destabilises local political, social and cultural practices and thereby leads to a reconfiguration of the local social order along this resource frontier.</div><div>The analysis around three dimensions, the development model, property rights and identity politics, reveal a number of important characteristics with respect to the evolution of the local social order in Côte d’Ivoire. More broadly, these conflicts are a microcosm of post-war governmentality in Côte d’Ivoire: conflicts around the new norms and values in defining the social order and direction of the Ivorian state.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"192 ","pages":"Article 107049"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143876534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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