Kate Hampshire,Tawonga Mwase-Vuma,Kassahun Alemu et al.
Kate Hampshire et al.
The extraordinary global growth of digital connectivity has generated optimism that mobile technologies can help overcome infrastructural barriers to development, with 'mobile health' (mhealth) being a key component of this. However, while ...
The impact of iron-biofortified bean adoption on bean productivity, consumption, purchases and sales [0.03%]
生物强化豆类的采纳对大豆生产力、消费、购买和销售的影响
Kate Vaiknoras,Catherine Larochelle
Kate Vaiknoras
Staple food crops tend to be low in micronutrients; therefore, individuals whose diets rely heavily on them can suffer from micronutrient deficiency. Biofortification addresses this issue through the breeding of staple crops that are micron...
A Cash Plus Program Reduces Youth Exposure to Physical Violence in Zimbabwe [0.03%]
在津巴布韦，“现金+”项目减少青少年遭受身体暴力的风险
Averi Chakrabarti,Sudhanshu Handa,Gustavo Angeles et al.
Averi Chakrabarti et al.
Violence against children and adolescents, a highly prevalent problem, is a clear violation of child rights and has detrimental effects on later life outcomes. Programs that alleviate poverty address a structural determinant of child vulner...
Olivier Bargain,Ulugbek Aminjonov
Olivier Bargain
Since March 2020, governments have recommended or enacted lockdown policies to curb the spread of COVID-19. Yet, poorer segments of the population cannot afford to stay at home and must continue to work. In this paper, we test whether work-...
Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education?: Evidence from Tanzania [0.03%]
不同类型的资产对孩子教育的影响有所不同吗？坦桑尼亚的证据
Kashi Kafle,Dean Jolliffe,Alex Winter-Nelson
Kashi Kafle
To assess the conventional view that assets uniformly improve childhood development through wealth effects, this paper tests whether different types of assets have different effects on child education. The analysis indicates that household ...
Demographic, health, and economic transitions and the future care burden [0.03%]
人口、健康和经济转型与未来护理负担的关系
Elizabeth M King,Hannah L Randolph,Maria S Floro et al.
Elizabeth M King et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of infections and deaths worldwide, forced schools to suspend classes, workers to work from home, many to lose their livelihoods, and countless businesses to close. Throughout this crisis, families ...
COVID-19 and armed conflict [0.03%]
新冠肺炎与武装冲突
Tobias Ide
Tobias Ide
This article studies the impact of COVID-19 on armed conflict. The pandemic has significant health, economic and political effects. These can change the grievances and opportunity structures relevant for armed conflicts to either increase o...
Corrigendum to "Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and public-private partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea" [World Development 137 (2021) 105198] [0.03%]
关于“从过去的流行病治理中学习：韩国新冠肺炎检测的早期反应和公私合作伙伴关系”的勘误说明（世界发展，2021年第137期，105198）
June Park,Eunbin Chung
June Park
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105198.]. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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World development. 2021 Apr:140:105338. DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105338 2021
Short-run environmental effects of COVID-19: Evidence from forest fires [0.03%]
COVID-19的短期环境影响：来自森林火灾的证据
Jayash Paudel
Jayash Paudel
The outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has raised questions about changes in economic production and subsequent effects on the environment. This article employs satellite data on real-time active fire locations in Nep...
Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis [0.03%]
气候风险、文化与Covid-19死亡率：一项跨国分析
Aydin Ozkan,Gulcin Ozkan,Abdullah Yalaman et al.
Aydin Ozkan et al.
Why have some countries done significantly better than others in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Had some countries been better prepared than others? This paper attempts to shed light on these questions by examining the role of climate risk...