| 2026-10-22 | Is it abundance or scarcity? Reassessing freshwater resources and civil war onset (1960–2023) | World Development | Sanggyu Suh | |
| 2026-10-22 | Voluntary sustainability standards and economic and ecological outcomes: panel evidence from Rwanda’s coffee sector | World Development | Marlene Yu Lilin Wätzold, Amanda Cooke, Carolina Ocampo‐Ariza et al. | University of Göttingen; Universidade de São Paulo; Technische Universität Darmstadt; … |
| 2026-10-21 | Despite the odds: assessing Africa’s new social welfare landscape | World Development | Yonatan L. Morse | University of Connecticut |
| 2026-10-21 | “Made in heaven, matched by parents”: Can arranged marriage restrict labour market autonomy and participation of women? | World Development | Sugata Bag, Anirban Kar | University of Delhi; Centre for Development Economics |
| 2026-10-21 | The impact of regional growth on internal migration: a district-level analysis for Malawi | World Development | Mauro Lanati, Rainer Thiele | |
| 2026-10-20 | Invisible bridge: Digital infrastructure, energy transition, and energy poverty | World Development | Shunlin Jin, Shuai Shao, Weidong Wang et al. | |
| 2026-10-15 | Why identity matters for development | World Development | Ashwini Deshpande | Ashoka University |
| 2026-10-13 | Extreme weather and human capital formation: evidence from Qing China | World Development | Weilong Li, Hua Liao, Meixuan Teng | Beijing Institute of Technology; China University of Petroleum, Beijing |
| 2026-10-10 | When heat hits: Short-run saving and withdrawal behavior among microfinance clients in Benin | World Development | Anna Mader, Oliver Mußhoff | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 2026-10-09 | Political elites and access to economic opportunities in China’s rural market transition | World Development | Lin Xie, Mengting Liang, Q.F. Hou J.M. Han C.Y. Li et al. | South China Agricultural University; Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Zhejiang University |
| 2026-10-09 | Drought, women’s time poverty, and the development costs of water collection in Sub-Saharan Africa | World Development | Xueyang Wang, Wenling Liu | Beijing Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-09 | The Olympic effect revisited: 1950–2019 | World Development | Renjing Chen, Meng Gao, Wenzheng Gao et al. | Wuhan University; Nankai University |
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| 2026-10-07 | Governing Indigenous territories: trust, moral economy, and the legitimation of Indigenous territorial authority in the Honduran Moskitia | World Development | Fernando Galeana | William & Mary |
| 2026-10-07 | Dependent development at the energy transition: placing lithium imaginaries in Neoliberal and Contentious Peru | World Development | José Carlos Orihuela, Arturo Mendieta, Sergio Serrano | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| 2026-10-05 | Mobile internet connectivity and climate change literacy in Africa | World Development | Yacouba Kassouri | Prague University of Economics and Business |
| 2026-10-05 | Deforestation in the Colombian amazon biome: socioeconomic and socio-environmental conflict drivers | World Development | Jorge Higinio Maldonado, RocÃo Moreno-Sánchez, Jorge Montero-Mestre | Universidad de Los Andes |
| 2026-10-05 | Early-life adversity and long-term outcomes: evidence from the cocoa swollen shoot virus outbreak in the Gold Coast | World Development | Mohammed Iddrisu Kambala | University of South Carolina |
| 2026-10-05 | Do workers value formal jobs? Evidence from Brazil | World Development | Katharina Fietz | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| 2026-10-03 | Foreign aid and power play: Political cycles in world bank’s procurement allocation | World Development | Antoine Boucher, Lisa Chauvet, Marin Ferry | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Aix-Marseille Université; Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques; … |
| 2026-10-02 | The politics of environmental peacebuilding: global agendas, advocacy networks, and domestic policy arenas | World Development | Jacobo Grajales, Meryam El Bouhati, Benjamin Lévy et al. | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Université de Lille |
| 2026-10-02 | Income inequality as a barrier to the CO2-reducing potential of public investment: evidence from Latin America | World Development | Tainari Taioka, Marina da Silva Sanches, Gilberto Tadeu Lima | |
| 2026-10-01 | Protected areas: questioning the development-conservation system. A socio-political-economic and ecological framework for a bottom-up approach | World Development | Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud, Florent Bédécarrats et al. | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Université Paris Dauphine-PSL; … |
| 2026-09-29 | Measuring global exploitation, 1990–2023: does globalization equalize exploitation rates? | World Development | Tomás Nielsen Rotta | University of London; Goldsmiths University of London |
| 2026-09-29 | Economic abuse and food insecurity among women living with HIV in Ghana | World Development | Gervin Ane Apatinga, Eric Yeboah Tenkorang | University of Calgary; Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| 2026-09-28 | Can strong donor governance rescue projects in weak-governance recipient countries? Evidence from the World Bank | World Development | Mengqi Wang, Yongkui Li, Shenyang Jiang | Tongji University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 2026-09-28 | Water expenditure, service quality and distributional outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean | World Development | María Pérez Urdiales, Carolina Tojal Ramos dos Santos | Inter-American Development Bank |