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{"title":"Subnational democracy, protest, and welfare","authors":"Julia Smith Coyoli ,&nbsp;Candelaria Garay","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106784","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106784","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>What accounts for subnational variation in the provision of social services and welfare outcomes? Taking inspiration from the literature explaining national-level variation, we look to the subnational political regime to help understand welfare disparities. Broadly consistent with the argument at the national level, we find that more democratic subnational units are more welfare-enhancing. Through a quantitative analysis of Argentine provinces, which show wide variation in regime type as well as welfare provision and outcomes, we find that democratic provinces have better welfare outcomes, measured as the infant mortality rate. By disaggregating different aspects of the regime, we show the effect is driven by permissive rules regarding gubernatorial term limits. We also find that, while the political regime is not systematically related to the provision of healthcare services, protest does have a positive effect on health service delivery, regardless of the subnational regime.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106784"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168769","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}

{"title":"Out of the Frying Pan: Weather shocks and internal migration in Brazil","authors":"Claire Brunel ,&nbsp;Maggie Y. Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When weather shocks under global warming affect productivity in climate-sensitive sectors, migration represents a potential adaptation mechanism. We exploit exogenous variation in temperature and precipitation across Brazil and examine the response in state-to-state migration flows between 1981 and 2010. Accounting for time-varying migration costs using a novel road dataset constructed by digitizing historical maps, and addressing the endogeneity of the roads network, we find strong evidence that a reduction in travel cost is associated with larger migrant flows. We also find suggestive evidence of climate-induced poverty trap −-- states with warming temperatures exhibit a smaller increase in out-migration, particularly among individuals who were likely employed in the agricultural sector at their origin states. Interestingly, our results imply that migrants are generally not sensitive to the destination weather conditions, with the exception for migrants working in agriculture at the destination.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106859"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168773","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}

{"title":"The roads towards complex water governance: The Colombian case study","authors":"Tiziano Distefano ,&nbsp;A. Saldarriaga Isaza ,&nbsp;G.S. Morlin ,&nbsp;V. Posada Carmona ,&nbsp;C.I. Villegas Palacio ,&nbsp;S. Arango-Aramburo","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106874","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106874","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research employs the principles of Post-Normal Science (PNS) and Systems of Systems (SoS) methodologies to extend the scope of the virtual water concept by incorporating numerous socioeconomic variables, including political factors, within the context of Colombia. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses, the study utilizes causal loop diagrams to explore complex dynamics and feedback effects within and across the ecological, social, and economic systems. The analysis is undertaken at a low spatial scale, by focusing on administrative departments, thereby capturing the geographical and socioeconomic heterogeneity and relationships existing within the national borders.</div><div>Furthermore, it considers the influence of the peace agreement, ratified in 2016, on deforestation and, then, on water governance. By spotlighting deforestation and its consequences on water availability as a prominent case study, this investigation underscores the necessity of incorporating diverse complex relationships in addressing water governance challenges. This study offers a comprehensive framework to support policy interventions in Colombia and similar contexts, ultimately advocating for a holistic approach that addresses the diverse dynamics at play.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106874"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories","authors":"Wannes Slosse ,&nbsp;Jean Paul Benavides ,&nbsp;Boris Branisa ,&nbsp;Jeroen Buysse ,&nbsp;Marijke D’Haese ,&nbsp;Carlos Eduardo Quezada Lambertín ,&nbsp;Koen Schoors","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106900","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the role of trust and reciprocity in the effectiveness of collective governance systems in hydrosocial territories, focusing on water associations managed by indigenous Aymara communities in the Bolivian Altiplano. Using path analysis and experimental economics, we measure the interplay between trust and reciprocity and cooperative behavior among 100 Aymara community members. Our results suggest that while trust is a critical factor in fostering cooperation, reciprocity is equally important in supporting the cooperation needed to establish effective collective governance in hydrosocial territories. We find that reciprocity is particularly low in the associations studied. Our results show that the initial acts of trust were not reciprocated, making cooperation within the governance system more difficult. Although communities exhibited prosocial behavior, this lack of reciprocity compromised trust between members of different communities, leading to ineffective functioning of collective governance of water resources. More generally, our findings highlight the vulnerability of collective governance in hydrosocial territories when collaboration relies heavily on negative reciprocal paradigms and is increasingly dependent on extrinsic motivations. To address the internal causes of ineffective collective governance, a nuanced exploration of ways to foster intrinsic motivation and positive reciprocal interactions is needed and seems to require joint efforts of communities and political actors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106900"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168772","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}

{"title":"Inequality and its strain on local Governments: Do external interventions Help?","authors":"Krister P. Andersson ,&nbsp;Nathan J. Cook ,&nbsp;Mark A. Trautmann ,&nbsp;Patricio Valdivieso","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106855","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106855","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Socioeconomic inequalities complicate the local governance process, especially in low- and middle-income countries. With limited public resources and high socioeconomic inequalities, local governments can find themselves in a vicious circle of increasing inequalities, declining ability to address needs, and mounting social problems. Here, we investigate a possible way out of the vicious circle: policy interventions that help reduce the strain of inequality on local government responsiveness. We argue that interventions are effective in dampening the strain when these recognize the leadership role of local government officials. To test our arguments, we analyze longitudinal data on how citizen satisfaction with local governments varies in 56 Chilean territories over a 15-year period. We find that high socioeconomic inequality is associated with lower overall citizen satisfaction with local government performance, but exogenous interventions can dampen this association when local politicians take the lead in planning and implementing the interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106855"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168350","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}

{"title":"Fostering collective subjectivities: Technologies of the self and resistance in Colombian community forest initiatives","authors":"Darío Gerardo Zambrano-Cortés ,&nbsp;Jelle Behagel ,&nbsp;Georg Winkel","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Subjectivity is at the core of contestations in environmental politics. This article explores the dynamics of such contestations by analyzing how collective subjectivities relate to the state in a forest conservation context, drawing on three cases of community forestry projects in Colombia. It applies Michel Foucault’s concept of technologies of the self and uses insights from social movement literature to analyze the process of collective subjectivity construction. The results highlight how subjectivities are shaped by resistance to state and extractive activities (i.e. mining and cattle ranching) on the one hand and by communitarian desires for political recognition on the other. Care of the environment was in all cases connected to a (historically) grown and shared identity of a specific community, including afrodescendant-, Amazonian peasant-, or indigenous identities to form a collectivity subjectivity. Collective subjectivities allowed communities to adapt to, and at the same time also resist volatile state environmental policy projects. Technologies of the self are used to create collective subjectivity, ranging from the appropriation of forest monitoring techniques to the establishment of community enterprises. Such collective subjectivities routinize a particular way of relating to the state and external actors, often opposing state interventions but frequently also tinkering with and adopting state technologies. We conclude by emphasizing that collective subjectivities draw from a heterogeneous set of discourses, strategies and technologies and are thus grounded in a fragile tension between peoples’ historical experiences of marginalization and perceived opportunities for self-determination in connection to the natural environment, while responding to changing state interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106884"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decolonizing development economics: A critique of the late neoclassical reason","authors":"Yahya M. Madra ,&nbsp;Bengi Akbulut ,&nbsp;Fikret Adaman","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106875","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106875","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we scrutinize contemporary development economics to render visible the colonial impulses that lead to forms of silencing and disavowal of economic differences in ontological and epistemological terms. As decolonizing <em>economies</em> and decolonizing <em>economics</em> are interwoven, we open our discussion with a history of decolonization efforts at the level of the political economy to form a background for the discussion of the ontological and epistemological issues on the coloniality of development economics. We then first engage with neoclassical economics and its antecedents in classical political economy—the orthodox and hegemonic stream in the discipline of economics—highlighting how its individualistic and mechanistic nature implicates the discipline with the coloniality of knowledge production, and second, unpack the current state of mainstream development economics after the late neoclassical turn (incorporating to standard economic models the problems emanating from market failures, cognitive biases, and multiple equilibria) in the discipline by focusing on two of its prominent research agendas: new institutional economics of development divergence, and the poor economics of development. Finally, we formulate some perspectives for decolonial development economics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106875"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168004","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}

{"title":"Outward and upward construction: A 3D analysis of the global building stock","authors":"Thomas Esch ,&nbsp;Klaus Deininger ,&nbsp;Remi Jedwab ,&nbsp;Daniela Palacios-Lopez","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106857","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106857","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The developing world has built structures on an unprecedented scale to accommodate population growth and urbanization. The horizontal and vertical structuring of the building stock resulting from this “megatrend construction” strongly influences urban and rural poverty, sustainability, resilience, and quality of life. However, due to data constraints, little is known about how and why 3D building patterns vary globally and in the developing world in particular. This study uncovers novel facts on global 3D building patterns as a result of outward and upward preferences in construction and investigates their relationship to the development process. To this end, new high-resolution cross-sectional data on the area, height, and volume of the global building stock around 2015 is combined with various analyses undertaken at different spatial domains. Building stock per capita increases convexly with income, but income only explains two-thirds of the differences in international volume. Additionally, while building upward systematically drives international volume differences, low-rise buildings still dominate construction patterns. Urbanization tends to reduce space consumption per capita as urban residents consume less volume than rural residents. Finally, the analyses of construction preferences may help to assess construction needs by forecasting volume requirements in developing Africa, Asia and Latin America.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106857"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168351","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}

{"title":"Weather shocks and resilience to food insecurity: Exploring the role of gender and kinship norms","authors":"Immacolata Ranucci ,&nbsp;Donato Romano ,&nbsp;Luca Tiberti","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106847","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106847","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social and cultural institutions interact with environmental and individual factors, shaping resilience to external shocks. This study examines the interplay between gender-differentiated land management, kinship norms, and the effects of droughts on agricultural households’ resilience to food insecurity in rural Malawi. Female land-managed households in Matrilineal-Matrilocal villages show higher resilience with respect to other communities. However, in times of drought, these households turn out to be less resilient to food insecurity than their counterparts in other areas. In support of this result, we find evidence that, when faced with drought, female land-managed households in Matrilineal-Matrilocal communities exhibit lesser involvement in more lucrative non-farm activities and a larger decrease in livestock. The study highlights the need to consider socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental factors interactions when assessing resilience and advocates for intersectional policies enhancing women’s resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106847"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can social protection contribute to social connectedness in contexts of forced displacement and crisis? Lessons from Jordan’s labelled cash transfer for education","authors":"Bassam Abu Hamad ,&nbsp;Nicola Jones ,&nbsp;Shoroq Abuhamad ,&nbsp;Sarah Baird ,&nbsp;Erin Oakley","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106886","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social protection programming can help address gender- and lifecycle-specific vulnerabilities, particularly in humanitarian contexts. Although adolescents are disproportionately affected by crises, there remains limited evidence about how such programming can mitigate risks they face, including social isolation. This article explores how a ‘cash-plus’ social protection response enhances refugee adolescents’ social connectedness and contributes to broader social cohesion and sustainable peace.</div><div>Mixed-methods data collected during the Covid-19 pandemic with 996 Syrian adolescents living in Jordanian host communities involved beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of <em>Hajati,</em> UNICEF’s unconditional cash transfer. Explicitly labelled to promote adolescent education, Hajati also encourages enrolment in an adolescent empowerment programme, <em>Makani</em> (My Space), designed to foster resilience and social connectedness.</div><div>Survey results were mixed, finding evidence of modest improvements among beneficiaries on a subset of social connectedness and resilience outcomes. <em>Hajati</em> beneficiaries (particularly girls and older adolescents, aged 15–18) report higher levels of family support and better coping with pandemic stressors. Among younger adolescents (12–14) and girls, beneficiaries were more likely to report having a trusted adult, and greater social support from non-family adults. Beneficiary status was not associated with measures of peer connectedness or perceived social cohesion. Qualitative interview findings, however, indicate beneficiaries enjoy stronger peer networks, partly due to participating in group-based programming. Overall, programme participation helped girls (and, less so, boys) cope with pandemic stressors, while strengthening adolescent social connectedness through opportunities for in-person and online interaction.</div><div>We conclude with suggestions on how to strengthen programming to promote social cohesion and sustainable peace.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106886"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}