Table of Contents for Review of Development Economics. List of articles from both the latest and EarlyView issues.
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Poverty reduction and migration in rural Vietnam: Role of local firm clusters

Abstract Firm clusters are considered as a contributing factor to local economic development. However, there are limited studies on the effect of firm clusters on the well-being of rural communities, particularly in terms of income improvement, poverty reduction, and migration. Our research aims to shed light on these relationships at both the household...

Fri Mar 22, 2024 09:35
The impact of low‐skilled migrants on firm productivity: Evidence from hukou reform in China

Abstract In the past, China divided its citizens into “agricultural hukou” and “non-agricultural hukou” to limit rural–urban migration, which contributed to China's early industrialization. However, the binary household registration system no longer suits China's development, and cities in China have successively carried out hukou reforms. Based on...

Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:44
Does access to financial services improve nutritional intake among rural residents? Assessing potential action mechanism pathways

Abstract Scholars' attention to the association between access to financial services (FS) and nutritional intake has been profound, looking at the worsening levels of malnutrition worldwide. This research adds to literature by assessing the association between access to FS and nutritional intake among rural dwellers in a developing nation, Ghana. We...

Thu Mar 7, 2024 14:46
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China

Abstract The positive effects of rural tourism are widely recognized, yet its influence on local household consumption has been insufficiently explored. Our study fills this gap by investigating the relationship between rural tourism development and household consumption, using the Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration County (LARTDC)...

Thu Mar 7, 2024 14:46
The effect of mini‐grid rural electrification on urbanization: Evidence from the pilot mini‐grid systems in Ghana

Abstract Mini-grid electrification constitutes an increasingly important solution to universal access to energy, notably in off-grid rural Africa. Rural electrification has important implications for mitigating the immigration trends of the rural population toward urban regions. In this study, we adopted a mediation model to investigate the direct...

Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:40
Electoral cycles and public spending during the pandemic

Abstract This paper uses a newly assembled dataset on various types of social protection spending in 154 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 to analyze the effect of the electoral cycle on the size and composition of the social protection stimulus budget. The analysis shows that the longer the time since the last election in a country—and...

Tue Feb 20, 2024 22:55

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