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Navigating the shadows: Exploring the interaction between social progress and the shadow economy 在阴影中航行：探索社会进步与影子经济之间的相互作用

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107042

Aziz N. Berdiev , James W. Saunoris

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Sex ratio and fertility preferences in India: A longitudinal analysis 印度性别比与生育偏好：一项纵向分析

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107046

Matthieu Clément , Pierre Levasseur , Suneha Seetahul

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‘This country is free, but for the few’: Informal labour, class politics, and urban order in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania “这个国家是自由的，但只为少数人服务”：坦桑尼亚达累斯萨拉姆的非正式劳工、阶级政治和城市秩序

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107027

Michaela Collord , Sabatho Nyamsenda

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Land acquisition and economic development: A decolonised view 土地征用与经济发展：非殖民化观点

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107011

Amit Bhaduri , Kaustav Banerjee

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How patron-client relations influence fisheries co-management: A case study of Bangladesh 主顾关系如何影响渔业共同管理：以孟加拉国为例

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107043

Rehnuma Ferdous , Fiona Nunan

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Why elites sometimes undo their own constitutional privileges 为什么精英们有时会取消自己的宪法特权

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107024

Michael Albertus , Victor Menaldo , Jorge Rojas-Vallejos

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Migrant capital: The role of internal migrants in mediating agrarian-industrial transformation in Northern India 移民资本：国内移民在印度北部农业-工业转型中的中介作用

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107004

Soumya Mishra

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Beyond urban bias? Urban-rural inequalities and popular protest in Africa 超越城市偏见？非洲的城乡不平等和民众抗议

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107005

Frank-Borge Wietzke

{"title":"Beyond urban bias? Urban-rural inequalities and popular protest in Africa","authors":"Frank-Borge Wietzke","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article discusses the recent rise in protests in Africa from within the framework of Urban Bias Theory. It focuses on the often-made claim that higher rates of protest in urban areas disproportionately shift the attention of policy makers towards concerns of relatively advantaged urban populations. The article contrasts these assertions with evidence that wealthier rural producer regions also often have high propensities for protests. Building on these insights, it proposes a revised set of predictions that connect urban–rural protest differentials to local economic wellbeing through a U-shaped relationship: whereas urban populations have a mobilization advantage over rural inhabitants at the lowest and highest ends of local economic development, these advantages diminish at middling-to-higher levels of economic wellbeing, where protest propensities of rural producer regions are most likely to converge with those of urban areas. The article provides empirical support for these expectations based on Africa-wide subnational data and multi-country census records. The results hold in a range of robustness tests, using alternative data sources and model- and variable-specifications. The article speaks to the special issue’s central concern with place-based analysis, highlighting the need to study evolving forms of political contestation across the entire spectrum of places. It also provides novel micro-level evidence on the link between economic wellbeing, urbanization, and non-electoral forms of political mobilization that was often underdeveloped in earlier formulations of Urban Bias Theory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"192 ","pages":"Article 107005"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143848461","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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A machine learning approach to assessing multidimensional poverty and targeting assistance among forcibly displaced populations 一种机器学习方法，用于评估多维贫困和针对被迫流离失所人口的援助

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107013

Angela C. Lyons , Alejandro Montoya Castano , Josephine Kass-Hanna , Yifang Zhang , Aiman Soliman

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You go, I stay: intrahousehold evacuation behavior upon a disaster 你走，我留下：灾难发生时的家庭疏散行为

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107032

Elias Ndatabaye Maombi , Elie Lunanga , Nik Stoop , Marijke Verpoorten

{"title":"You go, I stay: intrahousehold evacuation behavior upon a disaster","authors":"Elias Ndatabaye Maombi , Elie Lunanga , Nik Stoop , Marijke Verpoorten","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Low-income countries are disproportionately affected by disasters, a situation that will worsen with global warming. Evacuation is an effective strategy to reduce the burden of disasters. Existing evacuation plans are however primarily based on studies conducted in high-income countries, ignoring contextual factors of low-income countries, such as large families with many children, low car ownership and high crime rates. We argue that these contextual factors give rise to partial evacuation, going against the long-held assumption in evacuation studies that households evacuate as a unit. To demonstrate this empirically, we study the evacuation behavior of almost 4,000 individuals from 500 households in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, after the 2021 Nyiragongo volcano eruption. We rely on a structured survey and statistical analysis, complemented with narratives from open-ended interviews. Almost a third of households partially evacuated, leaving some members behind. Traditional gender roles largely determined who stayed behind or evacuated. Able women were more likely to evacuate, mostly on foot, to accompany children and the least mobile to safety, while able men and household heads were more likely to stay behind to protect property against looting. Our findings highlight the need to consider intra-household dynamics in evacuation behavior and design evacuation policies tailored to the specific context of low-income countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"192 ","pages":"Article 107032"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828300","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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