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Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India 屏障还是催化剂？传统制度和印度农村的社会流动性

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107302

Vegard Iversen , Anustup Kundu , Rahul Lahoti , Kunal Sen

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Citizen science, mobile technology, and environmental justice in Africa: rights-based legal pathways for community empowerment 非洲的公民科学、移动技术和环境正义：社区赋权的基于权利的法律途径

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107254

Philippa Osim Inyang

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Clientelist politics in Nigeria: Core voters, control and compliance 尼日利亚的庇护主义政治：核心选民、控制与服从

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107281

Diane Zovighian

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50 Years of World Development 世界发展五十年

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107305

Eduardo Araral , Serik Orazgaliyev

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Power and its discontents: The long road to systemic change in the aid sector 权力及其不满：援助领域系统性变革的漫漫长路

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107259

Nicola Banks , Badru Bukenya , Willem Elbers , Innocent Kamya , Emmanuel Kumi , Lau Schulpen , Gijs van Selm , Margit van Wessel , Thomas Yeboah

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Friends or foes? The insurgent’s dilemma of seeking legitimacy while keeping secrets 朋友还是敌人？叛军在寻求合法性的同时又要保守秘密

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107258

Enrique Escalante

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Economic convergence, intragenerational economic mobility, and inequality in a native Amazonian small-scale society of Indigenous People in Bolivia 经济趋同、代际经济流动和玻利维亚土著亚马逊小规模社会的不平等

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107237

Ricardo Godoy , Jonathan Bauchet , Victoria Reyes-García , Eduardo A. Undurraga

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Can corporate good deeds reduce environmental injustice? Evidence from China 企业的善行能减少环境不公吗？来自中国的证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107265

Chunxiao Wang , Yu Hao

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Identification of earnings dynamics using rotating samples over short periods: the case of Chile 短期内使用轮换样本识别盈余动态：智利的案例

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107253

Carlos Madeira

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Gender, race and their interplay with economic status: intersectionality and asymmetric jeopardies in Brazilian education 性别、种族及其与经济地位的相互作用：巴西教育中的交叉性和不对称危害

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107232

Sunil Mitra Kumar , Lucio Esposito , Adrián Villaseñor , Sandra Macedo

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