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worlddev-tables-figures
Use when exhibits in a World Development (WD) manuscript are dense, asterisk-laden, or fail a multidisciplinary reader — including maps and qualitative displays. Makes every exhibit answer a development question; it does not invent evidence or citations.
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# Tables, Figures & Qualitative Displays (worlddev-tables-figures)
## When to trigger
- Tables report significance with asterisks instead of standard errors / confidence intervals
- Coefficients are shown in model units a non-economist cannot interpret (log points, latent indices)
- A geographic study has no map, or a busy map that communicates nothing
- A qualitative paper has no systematic display — just block quotes scattered through prose
- The main exhibits do not, on their own, let a reader reconstruct the paper's argument
## The WD exhibit standard
WD's readership is multidisciplinary and policy-facing, so exhibits must clear a higher legibility bar than in a specialist economics journal: **a development scholar from another field, or an informed practitioner, should grasp the headline from the exhibit and its note alone.** That changes priorities. Effect sizes in interpretable units beat starred coefficients; a clean figure beats a dense table; a well-built map or qualitative matrix can carry an argument that prose cannot.
