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Road connectivity and contraceptive choices: Empirical evidence from rural India 道路连接和避孕选择：来自印度农村的经验证据

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100690

Reshmi Sengupta , Debasis Rooj

In this study, we examine the role of rural roads construction in India in influencing women’s use of modern contraceptives. We show that improved road access at the district level leads to increased use of modern contraceptive methods among women living in rural areas. Furthermore, the study reveals a shift in family planning practices from short-acting reversible methods to long-acting reversible methods following infrastructure improvements. Additionally, the results indicate a significant increase in female sterilization due to enhanced accessibility. We observe distinct variations in the use of modern contraceptives among women with higher education, those in high-wealth households, and across different religious and caste groups. Moreover, our study identifies several channels through which rural roads influence these family planning practices. We show that local road improvements enhance women’s year-round employment opportunities, financial autonomy, and decision-making power within households, enabling more informed contraceptive choices. Moreover, last-mile road connectivity reduces the concern about distance as a barrier to accessing healthcare. Additionally, improved local roads increase access to modern contraceptives through private health facilities. Our findings suggest that rural road infrastructure can significantly influence family planning practices among women, shaping their reproductive health choices.

在本研究中，我们考察了印度农村道路建设在影响妇女使用现代避孕药具方面的作用。我们表明，地区一级道路通行的改善导致农村地区妇女更多地使用现代避孕方法。此外，该研究还揭示了基础设施改善后计划生育实践从短效可逆方法向长效可逆方法的转变。此外，结果表明，由于可及性的提高，女性绝育率显著增加。我们观察到，在受过高等教育的女性、高财富家庭的女性以及不同宗教和种姓群体中，现代避孕药具的使用存在明显差异。此外，我们的研究确定了农村道路影响这些计划生育做法的几个渠道。我们的研究表明，当地道路的改善提高了妇女全年的就业机会、财务自主权和家庭决策权，使她们能够做出更知情的避孕选择。此外，最后一英里的道路连接减少了人们对距离成为获得医疗保健障碍的担忧。此外，地方道路的改善增加了通过私人保健设施获得现代避孕药具的机会。我们的研究结果表明，农村道路基础设施可以显著影响妇女的计划生育做法，塑造她们的生殖健康选择。

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What do communities feel about community-driven development? Learning from investigations in rural Malawi 社区对社区驱动的发展有何看法？从马拉维农村调查中学习

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100692

Anirudh Krishna , Daimon Kambewa , Frank Tchuwa , Frank Kasonga , Patrick Higdon

Calls for bottom-up or community-driven development initiatives have been justified on the grounds that, compared to outsiders, rural communities are in better positions to determine their own priorities, utilize resources effectively, and underwrite benefits sustainably. But are communities in poorer parts of the world able and willing to take on these responsibilities? Or is the project an outsider’s aspiration? We, a mixed team of scholars and practitioners, inquire about these questions within nine rural Malawi communities, finding that community leaders share sophisticated understandings of what community-led development entails, and they consider it the only viable mode of local development – “orphan projects” result when outsiders manage local development. Communities aspire to become self-developing communities by building stronger local institutions and gaining technical and managerial capacities. Commonly, community groups asked for outside assistance to help with capacity building, including the capacity for evaluation and self-assessment.

呼吁自下而上或社区驱动的发展倡议是有道理的，因为与外界相比，农村社区在确定自己的优先事项、有效利用资源和可持续地保证利益方面处于更有利的地位。但是，世界上较贫穷地区的社区有能力并且愿意承担这些责任吗？或者这个项目只是局外人的愿望？我们是一个由学者和实践者组成的混合团队，在马拉维的9个农村社区中调查了这些问题，发现社区领导人对社区主导的发展需要什么有着复杂的理解，他们认为这是唯一可行的地方发展模式——“孤儿项目”是由外人管理地方发展的结果。社区渴望通过建立更强大的地方机构和获得技术和管理能力，成为自我发展的社区。通常，社区团体要求外部援助来帮助进行能力建设，包括评估和自我评估的能力。

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Perception and factors affecting farmers’ adoption of smart agriculture in Vietnam: Implications for extension strategies 感知和影响越南农民采用智慧农业的因素：对推广策略的影响

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100691

Duc Thanh Tran , My Thi Dieu Duong , Hung Gia Hoang

This research is designed to look at vegetable and crop farmers’ perception of smart agriculture and factors that influence farmers’ decision to adopt smart agriculture in Vietnam. The questionnaire was developed to randomly survey 211 vegetable and crop households from a total population of 477 vegetable and crop farming households. Data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. It was found that vegetable and crop farmers who frequently communicate with agronomists/researchers were in a better position to adopt smart agricultural technologies including soil georeferenced sampling, auto pilot spraying, management software and application of variable-rate fertilizers and correctives than those who did not communicate with these people. Vegetable and crop farmers who often communicate with extension workers tend to be users of auto pilot spraying and application of variable-rate fertilizers and correctives. Younger vegetable and crop farmers who had higher levels of education are in a greater position to adopt soil georeferenced sampling, auto pilot spraying, management software and application of variable-rate fertilizers and correctives than older vegetable and crop farmers who had lower levels of education. Vegetable and crop farmers who engaged in rural credit/training programmes are better soil georeferenced sampling users than those who did not engage in these development programmes. Developing and promoting a new agricultural extension model that bases on high-quality farmer and scientist interaction and considers demographic and socio-economic characteristics of farmers is a suitable agricultural education and extension strategy, which can facilitate farmers’ adoption of smart agriculture.

本研究旨在了解蔬菜和作物农民对智能农业的看法，以及影响越南农民决定采用智能农业的因素。采用问卷调查的方法，对全国477户蔬菜种植户中的211户进行随机调查。收集的数据使用描述性和推断性统计进行分析。研究发现，经常与农学家/研究人员交流的蔬菜和作物农民比那些没有与这些人交流的农民更能采用智能农业技术，包括土壤地理参考采样、自动驾驶喷洒、管理软件和应用可变率肥料和改良剂。经常与推广人员交流的蔬菜和作物农民往往是自动驾驶喷洒和应用可变剂量肥料和改良剂的用户。与受教育程度较低的年龄较大的蔬菜和作物农民相比，受教育程度较高的年轻蔬菜和作物农民更容易采用土壤地理参考采样、自动驾驶喷洒、管理软件和使用可变比率肥料和改良剂。参加农村信贷/培训方案的蔬菜和作物农民比没有参加这些发展方案的农民更好地使用土壤地理参考抽样。开发和推广基于高质量农民与科学家互动，并考虑农民人口和社会经济特征的新型农业推广模式是一种合适的农业教育和推广策略，可以促进农民采用智慧农业。

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Beyond growth? Understanding the grassroots entrepreneurship of women fish processors in Ghana 超越增长?了解加纳女性鱼类加工者的基层创业精神

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100687

Antonio Allegretti , Raymond K. Ayilu , Ifesinachi M. Okafor-Yarwood , Sophie Standen , Christina C. Hicks

Fish processing is crucial for women and households for its economic and food-related benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, entrepreneurial women involved in fish processing operate at the intersection of different growth agendas and interventions that will directly or indirectly determine the future of the sector. Blue Economy investments in Ghana are disconnected from the small-scale fisheries sector, focusing on large-scale development projects. Concurrently, interest in the post-harvest, women-led, fish processing sector is growing on the side of NGOs and international agencies that invest on the premise of an untapped potential of the sector. This paper aims to problematize what growth is for small-scale women fish processing entrepreneurs within this diverse and rapidly changing landscape of investments and priorities for the growth of the broad ocean-based sector. Drawing on insights from anthropology of entrepreneurship, innovation, skill and learning, we look at organization of space, management and utilization of resources, and application of skills and technology needed for the enterprises to operate; we show entrepreneurship as an assemblage of practices, visions and aspirations (for growth) that hinge on spatial, relational, and temporal contextual dimensions, between smaller fishing communities and larger urban centres along the coast. Accounting for the complex and diverse nature of post-harvest relations in the fish processing sector is critical for policies and interventions that are tailored to the needs and aspirations of women in different contexts. As growth takes centre stage in all dominant development agendas in Africa, this paper responds to the necessity for new tools to apprehend how African players position themselves on the global stage.

鱼类加工对撒哈拉以南非洲的妇女和家庭至关重要，因为它能带来经济和粮食方面的好处。在加纳，从事鱼类加工的创业妇女处于直接或间接决定该部门未来的不同增长议程和干预措施的交叉点。加纳的蓝色经济投资与小规模渔业部门脱节，侧重于大型发展项目。与此同时，非政府组织和国际机构对收获后由妇女领导的鱼类加工部门的兴趣越来越大，它们以该部门尚未开发的潜力为前提进行投资。本文旨在探讨在这种多样化和迅速变化的投资环境和广泛的海洋部门增长的优先事项中，小规模妇女鱼品加工企业家的增长是什么。借鉴人类学关于创业、创新、技能和学习的见解，我们着眼于空间的组织、资源的管理和利用，以及企业运作所需的技能和技术的应用；我们将企业家精神视为实践、愿景和愿望（增长）的集合，这些实践、愿景和愿望取决于空间、关系和时间背景维度，介于较小的渔业社区和沿海较大的城市中心之间。考虑到鱼类加工部门收获后关系的复杂性和多样性，对于根据不同情况下妇女的需要和愿望制定政策和干预措施至关重要。随着增长在非洲所有主要发展议程中占据中心位置，本文回应了需要新的工具来理解非洲参与者如何在全球舞台上定位自己的必要性。

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‘Please don’t kill us; this is our ancestral land, we are not foreigners’: Green grabbing, (in)voluntary resettlement and Maasai ethnic minority’s land rights in Tanzania “请不要杀我们；这是我们祖传的土地，我们不是外国人的：侵占土地，自愿重新安置，以及坦桑尼亚马赛少数民族的土地权利

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100688

Gabriel Kanuti Ndimbo , Evaristo Haulle

The Maasai ethnic minority has lived in the Loliondo Game Controlled Area (NGCA) and Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) for over six decades. They were evicted to these areas in 1959 from the area currently known as Serengeti National Park by the British colonial power, which claimed that the Maasai population overburdened the Serengeti ecosystem. Nevertheless, in the newly resettled areas of LGCA and NCA, the Maasai ethnic minority has been facing continuous eviction by the state using degradation and conservation narratives. In 2017, for example, the government issued eviction notices for villages in Loliondo, saying it wanted to protect 1,500 sq km from human activity, and the official demarcation of this land was carried out in 2022. Efforts by the Maasai people to protect their land ended in confrontation with the police officers, with one police officer killed and some wounded. In contrast, many of the Maasai people were injured, and several of them were arrested. In August 2024, the government issued a decree to delist several villages in Loliondo. The Maasai ethnic minority uses the ‘nature guardianship’ narrative as a way for them to assert their land rights and align their struggle with powerful international allies. The study advocates for more participatory approaches that include the voices of the Maasai people, government, and other stakeholders, ensuring that conservation strategies do not undermine their rights and livelihoods.

马赛少数民族在洛里昂多禁猎区（NGCA）和恩戈罗恩戈罗保护区（NCA）生活了60多年。1959年，他们被英国殖民政权驱逐出现在被称为塞伦盖蒂国家公园的地区，他们声称马赛人口使塞伦盖蒂生态系统负担过重。然而，在LGCA和NCA的新安置地区，马赛少数民族一直面临着政府以退化和保护为由不断驱逐的局面。例如，2017年，政府对洛里昂多的村庄发出了驱逐通知，称希望保护1500平方公里的土地不受人类活动的影响，并于2022年对这片土地进行了正式划界。马赛人保护自己土地的努力以与警察的对抗告终，一名警察被打死，一些人受伤。相反，许多马赛人受伤，其中一些人被捕。2024年8月，政府发布了一项法令，将洛里昂多的几个村庄从名单上除名。马赛少数民族使用“自然监护”的说法作为他们维护土地权利的一种方式，并将他们的斗争与强大的国际盟友联系起来。该研究倡导更多的参与性方法，包括马赛人、政府和其他利益相关者的声音，确保保护战略不会损害他们的权利和生计。

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Perspectives from historical analyses of agri-food system transformations: A case study of Odisha, India 农业食品系统转型的历史分析视角：以印度奥里萨邦为例

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100686

Anindita Sarkar , Aditi Mukherji

Rural society in Odisha, India, has been associated with widespread poverty and low purchasing power since the British colonial times. Odisha has consistently reported lower yields of crops and input use in agriculture compared to the national Indian average since India’s independence in 1947. Poor agricultural growth and rural poverty could be traced to colonial, extractive land revenue administration and poor land management practices. Post-independence scholarship has ascribed the continuation of rural poverty and distress to high exposure to natural hazards and high societal vulnerability due to development deficits. By analysing the historical evolution of policies since the 1850s, the study finds that even though the political and economic contexts have changed, low investment in agriculture remains the primary challenge even today. The cycle of low capital investment in agriculture, lack of adoption of better farm technologies, and overall public sector neglect of the agriculture sector has perpetuated, leading to low productivity. Therefore, it is time for the present policies to break away from these historical path dependencies to create a just and sustainable future for Odisha’s agri-food system.

自英国殖民时代以来，印度奥里萨邦的农村社会一直与普遍的贫困和低购买力联系在一起。自1947年印度独立以来，奥里萨邦的农作物产量和农业投入一直低于印度全国平均水平。农业增长不佳和农村贫困可以追溯到殖民时期、掠夺性的土地收入管理和不良的土地管理做法。独立后的学者将农村贫困和痛苦的持续归因于自然灾害的高度暴露和发展赤字造成的高度社会脆弱性。通过分析自19世纪50年代以来政策的历史演变，该研究发现，即使政治和经济背景发生了变化，农业投资不足仍然是今天的主要挑战。农业的低资本投资、缺乏采用更好的农业技术以及公共部门对农业部门的整体忽视的循环一直存在，导致生产力低下。因此，现在是时候让现行政策摆脱对历史道路的依赖，为奥里萨邦的农业食品系统创造一个公正和可持续的未来。

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Transboundary water cooperation and joint river basin management are pivotal for climate resilient development in South Asia 跨界水资源合作和流域联合管理对南亚的气候适应型发展至关重要

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100681

Md. Arfanuzzaman

Transboundary water cooperation and joint river basin management are critical for achieving climate-resilient development in South Asia. Home to major river systems such as the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra, the region’s water resources support nearly 1.9 billion people. However, climate change is altering monsoon patterns, increasing floods and droughts, and accelerating glacial melt, which affects water availability and threatens water-energy-food-environmental (WEFE) security, ecosystems, biodiversity, and livelihoods. This study underscores the importance of transboundary cooperation to address these risks, highlighting successful models of collaboration. Despite some initiatives, substantial gaps remain in integrated governance, climate-adaptive policy frameworks, equitable water sharing, basin-wide vulnerability reduction, empowering regional institutions, and data sharing among the South Asian basins. Barriers, such as geopolitical tensions, inadequate trust and confidence, unsustainable hydropower development, limited funding and stakeholder engagement hinder effective water resource management. Addressing these challenges requires coordinated climate-resilient strategies and basin wide approaches including flexible water-sharing agreements, improved disaster risk reduction systems, joint resource mobilization, capacity building, and enhanced community involvement. By fostering transboundary collaboration, South Asian nations can build resilience, reduce water conflicts, enhance WEFE security and well-being of millions who rely on these precious water resources, and promote sustainable development across shared river basins.

跨界水资源合作和流域联合管理对于南亚实现气候适应型发展至关重要。作为印度河、恒河和雅鲁藏布江等主要河流系统的所在地，该地区的水资源养活了近19亿人口。然而，气候变化正在改变季风模式，增加洪涝和干旱，加速冰川融化，从而影响水资源供应，威胁水-能源-粮食-环境（WEFE）安全、生态系统、生物多样性和生计。这项研究强调了跨界合作应对这些风险的重要性，突出了成功的合作模式。尽管采取了一些举措，但在综合治理、气候适应政策框架、公平水资源共享、全流域脆弱性降低、赋予区域机构权力以及南亚流域之间的数据共享方面仍存在巨大差距。地缘政治紧张局势、信任和信心不足、不可持续的水电开发、有限的资金和利益相关者参与等障碍阻碍了有效的水资源管理。应对这些挑战需要协调一致的气候适应战略和全流域办法，包括灵活的水资源共享协议、改进的减灾系统、联合调动资源、能力建设和加强社区参与。通过促进跨界合作，南亚国家可以建立复原力，减少水资源冲突，加强西非地区的安全和依赖这些宝贵水资源的数百万人的福祉，并促进共享流域的可持续发展。

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A study of Local Non-Governmental organisations (NGOs) as humanitarian Responders in Bakassi internally displaced Persons’ Camp, Borno State, Nigeria 在尼日利亚博尔诺州Bakassi国内流离失所者营地，当地非政府组织作为人道主义救援人员的研究

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100685

Babatope Matthew Ajiboye

Nigeria has had to deal with a series of challenges ranging from insurgency, herdsmen-farmers clashes, banditry, and other issues that have persistently been Nigeria’s weakness ever since the country returned to democratic dispensation in 1999. The most profound among them all happens to be the Boko Haram insurgency campaign in the northeastern region of the nation. As a result, Nigeria has assumed the headquarters of internally displaced persons camps in the southern hemisphere (Africa). Predictably, the number of non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) offering interventions continues to rise due to the dire condition of persons affected by the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency campaign, most especially in Borno State. By situating it within the framework of humanitarian intervention, this article studies the NGOs humanitarian efforts in assisting displaced persons at the Bakassi IDP camp to navigate the rigors of the unanticipated hardship created by the Boko Haram insurgency. This article utilizes a combination of qualitative research methods (semi-in-depth ethnographic observation and interview) to explore how NGOs operated in terms of humanitarian intervention for internally displaced persons at the Bakassi IDP camp. Findings from this study indicate that international donors’ efforts at providing succor for IDPs were undermined as a large chunk of the fund has been mismanaged or diverted to satisfy the rent-seeking desires of the many local NGOs scheme’s handlers. This article concludes that NGOs’ IDP interventions have not been dissimilar to a bizarre advanced fee fraud, as the schemes remain a conduit for scamming international donors by pretending to render humanitarian services for IDPs. It, however, recommends that state, federal, and international donors have crucial roles to play in order to curb local NGOs from deviating from the humanitarian aid they are to offer IDPs.

尼日利亚必须应对一系列挑战，包括叛乱、牧民与农民的冲突、盗匪和其他问题，这些问题自1999年尼日利亚回归民主制度以来一直是该国的弱点。其中影响最深远的恰好是尼日利亚东北部地区的博科圣地叛乱活动。因此，尼日利亚承担了南半球（非洲）国内流离失所者营地的总部。可以预见的是，提供干预的非政府组织（ngo）的数量继续增加，因为受到正在进行的博科圣地叛乱运动影响的人的悲惨状况，特别是在博尔诺州。通过将其置于人道主义干预的框架内，本文研究了非政府组织在帮助Bakassi国内流离失所者营地中的流离失所者应对博科圣地叛乱造成的意想不到的困难的人道主义努力。本文结合定性研究方法（半深度人种学观察与访谈），探讨非政府组织如何对Bakassi国内流离失所者营地进行人道主义干预。这项研究的结果表明，国际捐助者为国内流离失所者提供援助的努力受到了破坏，因为大部分资金管理不善或被转用于满足许多当地非政府组织计划处理者的寻租欲望。本文的结论是，非政府组织对国内流离失所者的干预与一种奇怪的高级费用欺诈没有什么不同，因为这些计划仍然是欺骗国际捐助者的渠道，假装为国内流离失所者提供人道主义服务。然而，它建议各州、联邦和国际捐助者发挥关键作用，以遏制当地非政府组织偏离它们向国内流离失所者提供的人道主义援助。

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Tropical deforestation and the state: Settlement schemes in the Mau forest of Kenya (1991–2001) 热带森林砍伐与国家：肯尼亚茂森林的定居计划（1991-2001）

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100675

Stefania Albertazzi, Valerio Bini

Combining interpretive perspectives from political ecology and political science, the article aims to explore the connection between tropical deforestation and the state in sub-Saharan Africa, based on the case study of the Mau forest in Kenya during 1991–2001.

With a high level of detail and resorting to data from documentary analysis, interviews, archives and remote sensing, the article will explain how the loss of forest in the Mau protected area originated in a foreign environmental conservation program, which was later embedded into the political dynamics of the ruling government, through the clientelist distribution of land in settlement schemes.

Questioning the assumptions that see deforestation in the sub-Saharan African region peculiarly driven by small-scale livelihood activities (agriculture, logging), the case study explores state leadership in deforestation, as implemented in close connection with the private sector. The article shows the specific political logic of this type of deforestation, which could be immediately translated into electoral advantages for the ruling government.

The conclusions reached are relevant since the region has seen net growth of forest loss in the past decades and as they offer a contribution to the debate around the ramifications between the state and private entities in deforestation.

结合政治生态学和政治学的解释观点，本文旨在以1991-2001年肯尼亚Mau森林的案例研究为基础，探索撒哈拉以南非洲热带森林砍伐与国家之间的联系。本文将通过文献分析、访谈、档案和遥感等数据，以高水平的细节，解释茂保护区森林的消失是如何起源于国外的环境保护计划，后来又通过安置计划中的庇护者分配土地，嵌入到执政政府的政治动态中。该案例研究质疑撒哈拉以南非洲地区的森林砍伐主要是由小规模生计活动（农业、伐木）驱动的假设，探讨了国家在森林砍伐方面的领导作用，并与私营部门密切联系实施。这篇文章展示了这种类型的森林砍伐的具体政治逻辑，这可以立即转化为执政政府的选举优势。得出的结论是相关的，因为在过去的几十年里，该地区的森林损失净增长，因为它们为围绕国家和私营实体在森林砍伐方面的后果的辩论做出了贡献。

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Are women more or less likely to vote than men? Evidence from rural Bangladesh 女性投票的可能性比男性高还是低？来自孟加拉国农村的证据

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World Development Perspectives

Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100683

Rubaiya Murshed

The established notion that men and women vote differently is well-documented, yet it remains unclear whether women are less likely to vote than men or, potentially, the reverse. Evidence on this topic is particularly scarce in Global South contexts. This paper addresses this gap by examining gender differences in voting behavior within rural Bangladesh. It also investigates the factors motivating women’s electoral participation, offering insights into the underlying reasons for any observed gender disparities. Rural Bangladesh remains understudied with regard to gendered electoral participation, despite significant structural transformations in its economy that may have reshaped gender dynamics across economic, social, and political spheres. Given its potential relevance as a model for similar contexts, this research provides a timely exploration of electoral gender dynamics in a setting of democratic fragility. Using nationally (rurally) representative Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) data and employing logit, Poisson, and propensity score matching models, the findings reveal a counterintuitive trend: women are more likely to vote than men and this is observed regardless of whether individuals are formal-educated or have never pursued formal education, and this trend is also more pronounced among younger cohorts. Additionally, married women exhibit a higher likelihood of voting, while formally educated women are less likely to participate. We contextualize these results within rural Bangladesh and propose several hypotheses to explain the observed gender differences in voting behavior.

男性和女性投票方式不同的既定观念有充分的证据，但尚不清楚女性投票的可能性是否低于男性，或者可能相反。在全球南方的背景下，关于这一主题的证据尤其缺乏。本文通过研究孟加拉国农村地区投票行为的性别差异来解决这一差距。它还调查了促使妇女参加选举的因素，对任何观察到的性别差异的潜在原因提供了见解。尽管孟加拉国农村经济发生了重大的结构性转变，可能重塑了经济、社会和政治领域的性别动态，但在性别选举参与方面，对其的研究仍不足。鉴于其作为类似背景的模型的潜在相关性，本研究及时探索了民主脆弱性背景下的选举性别动态。利用具有全国（农村）代表性的孟加拉国综合家庭调查（BIHS）数据，并采用logit、泊松和倾向得分匹配模型，研究结果揭示了一种违反直觉的趋势：女性比男性更有可能投票，无论个人是否受过正规教育或从未接受过正规教育，这一趋势在年轻人群中也更为明显。此外，已婚女性投票的可能性更高，而受过正规教育的女性参与投票的可能性更低。我们将这些结果置于孟加拉国农村地区的背景下，并提出了几个假设来解释观察到的投票行为的性别差异。

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