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Contested forests: how transnational networks mitigate and reproduce conflict 有争议的森林：跨国网络如何缓解和再现冲突

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107301

Shawkat Alam , Jona Razzaque

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Humor for health: a randomized controlled trial of clown visits in Palestinian hospitals 幽默促进健康：巴勒斯坦医院小丑来访的随机对照试验

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107263

Melanie Gräser , Christine Grimm , Roman Hoffmann

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Restricting mothers’ international migration and human capital investment 限制母亲的国际移民和人力资本投资

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107284

Takuya Hasebe , Yuma Noritomo , Bilesha Weeraratne

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Does free maternity care improve uptake and save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya 免费产科保健是否能提高吸收率并挽救生命？来自肯尼亚的准实验证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107285

Roxanne Kovacs

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DEVELOPMENT AS EQUALITY: A gender lens on progress and its hidden barriers 发展即平等：进步及其隐藏障碍的性别视角

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107280

Bina Agarwal

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On social inequality, financial inclusion, and poverty at the bottom of the pyramid: Is financial equity enough? 关于社会不平等、金融包容性和金字塔底层的贫困：金融公平就足够了吗？

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107313

Charles B. Herron , Rahul Nilakantan , Deepak Iyengar , Robert Glenn Richey , Shashank Rao

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Empathy in action: unravelling crowdfunding dynamics for female refugee entrepreneurs in Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine 行动中的同理心：揭示黎巴嫩、约旦和巴勒斯坦女性难民企业家的众筹动态

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107268

Ricardo Emanuel-Correia , Syahirah Abdul-Rahman , Doaa Althalathini

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Has land finance driven China’s economic growth? Evidence from a quantitative counterfactual analysis 土地财政是否推动了中国的经济增长？来自定量反事实分析的证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107307

Yongmin Luo , Shenqi Ding , Xi Luo , Lujun Wang

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The dual role of small-scale fisheries on food security and poverty eradication in Vietnam: A latent profile analysis 越南小规模渔业对粮食安全和消除贫困的双重作用：潜在剖面分析

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107300

Quach Thi Khanh Ngoc , Bui Bich Xuan , Pham Khanh Nam

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Poor performance of west Sumatran governments in resolving palm oil conflicts: a procedural justice perspective 西苏门答腊政府在解决棕榈油冲突方面表现不佳：程序正义的视角

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107278

Afrizal , Eka Vydia Putra , Linda Elida

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