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Why some digital payment systems replace cash and others don’t

This week in development economics at VoxDev: 19/06/2026

How Brazilian criminals adapted to a crackdown on trafficking in the Amazon

Non-elite women in politics: Participation, power, and patriarchal norms

How land formalisation protects widows from dispossession

How China became a global pharmaceutical powerhouse

Dean Karlan on USAID, evidence-based policy, and key research gaps

This week in development economics at VoxDev: 12/06/2026

Why are so many women in Africa converting to Christianity?

How targeting cash transfers at women strengthens bargaining power within the household

When microfinance credit contracted in India, children’s education suffered

Why railways alone don’t drive development

The end of aid dependency

The long shadow of the 1997 financial crisis in Thailand

An improved nighttime-lights dataset for development research

Ethiopia’s economy: Mamo Mihretu on economic reform and the macroeconomic foundations of growth

Monitoring markets from space

This week in development economics at VoxDev: 05/06/2026

How US-supplied weapons fuel migration to the US border

When an entire country loses access to fertiliser: Evidence from Sri Lanka's import ban

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