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Use when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature. Sharpens the gap and the claim; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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# Literature Positioning (worlddev-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The intro cites only one disciplinary literature (e.g. only development economics) for a problem that spans several
- A referee asks "what do we learn that we did not already know?" and the answer is thin
- The contribution is framed as "first study of X in country Y" with no conceptual payoff
- The paper sits between economics and another field and risks reading as derivative to both
- The cited frontier is a top-5 economics literature, but WD's actual conversation is broader and more applied

## Positioning for a multidisciplinary readership

WD readers come from economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, geography, public health, and practice. Positioning that satisfies only one of these communities reads as parochial to the rest. The strongest WD intros do three things:
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