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wber-literature-positioning

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Use when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and ruling out its sibling journals (JDE, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Research Observer). Sharpens the gap and the boundary claims; it does not run analysis or write the intro.

When to use

• staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier
• ruling out sibling journals (JDE, World Development, EDCC, Research Observer)
• sharpening the gap and boundary claims
• distinguishing WBER from its siblings
• positioning the contribution as a claim, not a topic
• connecting to the policy debate
• acknowledging the local-to-general step
• mapping referee pushback to positioning fixes

When not to use

• running analysis
• writing the intro

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