No. 28-4, November 2024

Index

• Analysing the informal economy: Data challenges, research design, and research transparency
• Application of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in the Indian core industries: Towards a greener economy
• Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re‐examination of the evidence
• Does fiscal expenditure matter for agricultural development? Examining the impact of technological progress on food production
• Does opening up change customs? Evidence from trade liberalization and marriage payments in China
• Does reversal of the educational gender gap affect Men's happiness: Evidence from China
• Dynamics of energy transition and climate actions on sustainable cities: A cross country comparison of East Asia and Pacific
• Foreign direct investment spillovers and regional innovation in China: The spatial moderating role of absorptive capacity
• Free zones and manufactured export competitiveness from Africa
• From climatic to international shocks: Where does the evidence stand on income changes and child labor
• Improved livestock production system and welfare in rural Ethiopia
• Income‐linked pathways towards sustainable development goals: Analyzing the interplay of green energy, financial inclusion, and militarization in shaping aggregated economic sustainability
• Issue Information
• Land ownership and nutrition in Nepal
• Minimum wages and household income distribution: Evidence from China
• Mobile phones, income diversification, and poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh
• Money, methods, and morals: What are development economists up to?
• Poor economics and its missing mechanisms: The case for causal mediation
• Population aging and saving: Evidence from China
• Publishing experiences of researchers in the developing world: An analysis of submissions to the Review of Development Economics, January 2015 to April 2022
• Research collaboration in development economics
• Re‐evaluating Africa's growth, poverty and inequality nexus
• Some questions of ethics in randomized controlled trials
• The case for mixed methods research: Embracing qualitative research to understand the (informal) economy
• The effects of local economic development on female obesity (overweight) in sub‐Saharan Africa
• The impact of international sanctions on income mobility: Evidence from Iran
• The perils of embedded experiments
• The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion
• The role of formal, informal, and family credit in the business performance of young entrepreneurs in Benin
• The tax revenue implication of trade liberalisation in sub‐Saharan Africa: Some new evidence
• Urban strategy in an era of public policy assessment: Beyond the methodological divide
• Whither ethics in research? Randomized controlled trials at the nexus of technocratization and Eurocentrism
• “Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice