In Mexico, income transfers targeted at women are effective at improving their decision-making position within the household, translating into significant changes in household consumption and time allocation patterns.

In Andhra Pradesh, credit contraction in the rural economy, triggered by microfinance regulation, lowered educational investments and caused lasting learning losses, with larger effects for girls and younger children.

With international aid in structural decline, W. Gyude Moore argues that developing countries must recentre their strategies around growth diagnostics, tradable-sector expansion, and legally mandated development plans – using remaining aid flows strategically rather than waiting for a return to the status quo.

A new adjusted and harmonised satellite nighttime-lights series for 1992–2023 tracks local development in the Global South more accurately than the off-the-shelf data – especially in panels and at fine spatial resolution.