World Development

• Expectations of financial support from neither the state/NGOs nor diaspora remittances promote more resilient rebuilding. • Expectations of local community support promote more resilient rebuilding, as does diversification of sources of support. • The positive effects of expecting local community and diversified support were observed after earthquakes, not hurricanes. • No one-size-fits-all pol…

• Green technologies offer a window of opportunity for Latin American countries. • Entry into new technologies is positively associated with both local and global interactions, but only within green domains. • Policies should support global and local knowledge collaboration for developing technologies in green domains. This paper investigates whether the green transition represents a “green windo…

• Globally, 1.29B people worked in agrifood systems in 2021: 868M in agriculture, 418M in non-agriculture AFS. • AFS jobs dominate Africa (64%) and Asia (42%), with agriculture accounting for 48% and 29%, respectively. • Overall, 3.78B people live in households reliant on agrifood system-based livelihoods. • New dataset covers 184 countries (99% of population) and includes a balanced panel of 149…

• Difference-in-differences analyses show that refugee arrivals may reduce political trust in host communities. • The negative effect is stronger among people with lower education. • It is important to mitigate negative consequences of arrivals in host communities to uphold political legitimacy. Previous research shows that the arrival of forcibly displaced people may have a considerable impact o…

• Constructs a global novel Women’s Financial Inclusion (WFI) Index integrating traditional and digital finance. • Finds a U-shaped link: early inclusion may weaken, but deeper inclusion strengthens corruption control. • Identifies actionable thresholds, with digital finance delivering earlier governance gains. • Female education, labor force participation, and institutional quality amplify the g…

• Herbicide adoption transforms women’s labor and rural gender relations. • A feminist lens reveals trade-offs in “labor-saving” agricultural change. • Herbicide use can erode women’s social spaces and ecological expertise. • “Drudgery” is context-specific and can devalue women’s unpaid labor. • Labor-saving tools like herbicide may not reduce women’s total workload. Across much of the world weed…

• Natural hazards can impede UNPOs activities and peace accord implementation. • Natural hazards in countries dependent on UNPOs can lower peace agreement implementation. • UNPOs face a trade-off between immediate humanitarian assistance and core peacekeeping activities. • Promoting programs enhancing host state resilience might mitigate such effects. Although United Nations Peace Operations (UNP…