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Development as life-making 发展是生命之源

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107347

Alessandra Mezzadri

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Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence from Peru 提醒是否能促进定期的环保行为？来自秘鲁的实验证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107369

Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel , Ben D’Exelle , Kristian López Vargas , Sebastian Tonke , Arjan Verschoor

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Women’s entrepreneurship through collective institutional shaping 通过集体制度塑造妇女创业

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107374

Madhobi Hossain , Francisca Farache , Carmen Lopez

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Biodiversity conservation and contestations over land: Jihadist expansion in West Africa 生物多样性保护和土地争端：圣战分子在西非的扩张

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107375

Leif Brottem , Matthew Turner

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Investigating resilience of refugee households in Jordan 调查约旦难民家庭的复原力

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107367

Giorgio Fagiolo , Marina Mastrorillo , Grazia Pacillo

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The American dream revisited: intergenerational education mobility in immigrant households 重新审视美国梦：移民家庭的代际教育流动性

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107353

Yiping Wu , Jinghong Zhou , Julan Du

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When it rains, it pours: On the spillover effects of corruption on firms’ tax evasion 祸不双全：论腐败对企业逃税的溢出效应

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107373

Chei Bukari

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Green finance and labor income share: evidence from China 绿色金融与劳动收入份额：来自中国的证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107371

Mingjin Luo , Shengquan Wang

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The development revolution will not be nudged: The c2-frame approach as a proposal 发展革命不会被推动：c2框架方法是一个建议

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107348

Juan Camilo Cardenas

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Complexity in institutional reform 机构改革的复杂性

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107338

Jean-Paul Faguet

{"title":"Complexity in institutional reform","authors":"Jean-Paul Faguet","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107338","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107338","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Why is there so much institutional reform in the world? If institutions are the deep rules of the game that determine how societies are governed, collective decisions taken, and resources mobilized for public purposes, then changing them is bound to have effects that are long-run and multidimensional across politics, the economy and society. Such effects will be unpredictable. Politicians with short time horizons should flee such initiatives, but instead embrace them the world over. Why? Because politicians design reform processes around often unstated private goals that may be orthogonal, or even directly opposed, to a reform’s stated, public goals. We characterize <em>instrumental mismatch</em> as the gap between stated goals and the specific reform instruments politicians deploy. Such reforms lead to <em>incongruous institutions</em> ill-suited to their core purpose, and hence to outcomes that are bad for society. Through 13 case studies from Latin America, India, Rwanda and the UK, we test and refine the theory. High instrumental mismatch leads to incongruous institutions in all our cases. Stated goals are never achieved, but private goals are. This is by design. Incongruous institutions sometimes produce good outcomes for reformers, but not for society. Low mismatch leads to institutions that are mostly congruous. Stated goals are always achieved. This makes sense: politicians’ private goals do not conflict with reform’s stated goals, increasing reform coherence. Ex-post, such reforms are good for society but bad for reformers. Medium mismatch also produces incongruous institutions. Stated goals and private goals are sometimes achieved. Outcomes for society are generally poor – not surprising given incomplete reform design and implementation. A twelfth article mines this evidence to propose three game-theoretic models of institutional change from a complex systems perspective. Taken together, we call this <em>the complexity approach to institutional reform</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 107338"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146193123","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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