World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2026

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2026, volume 43, articles C

Universal basic income and the purpose of work and labour

Johannes Kananen

Gender gap in agricultural productivity and crops selection: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Relwendé Apollinaire Nikiema and Soumaila Bitibale

Fragility by proxy: Unconditional cash & care work in a Los Angeles micro-pilot

Mira Philips, Amy Castro and Stacia West

Contract farming through cooperatives and smallholder satisfaction: Evidence from Malawi

Innocent Mugwagwa, Jos Bijman and Jacques Trienekens

Overlooked and Undersupported: How financial and time scarcity disempower Students' Agency and the prospect of unconditional basic income (UBI)

Jessica Schulz and Matthias Nückles

Toward Total empowerment: Unravelling psychological, economic, political and social dynamics in women's lives in northern Pakistan

Noor Jehan, Sabina Gohar and Saleem Khan

The reality of community engagement in humanitarian engineering projects: Contextualizing the problem definition phase through the lens of community organizing

Jess Mingee and Ann-Perry Witmer

Civilizational mutual learning and cultural diplomacy: Chinese perceptions of China-African exchanges under the belt and road initiative

Yongliang Chen and Franca Adanne Enyiazu

Restoration of gold-mined degraded land for a sustainable environment and food production

Ridwan Mukaila and Festus Eluwande Awoyelu

Who are drop-out clients? A multi-year assessment of smallholder Farmers' Investment and repayment Behaviors in a microcredit program in Western Kenya

Keiji Jindo, Jake Onyango, Wytze Marinus, Yoshito Sawada, Foluke Quist-Wessel and Hans Langeveld

Factors associated with continued use of LPG for cooking over a two-month period in peri-urban Cameroon, Kenya and Ghana

Abdul-Azeez Kuna, Emily Nix, Judith Mangeni, Vickie Bates, Edna Sang, Federico Lorenzetti, Theresa Tawiah, Rachel Anderson de Cuevas, Miranda Baame, Sara Ronzi, Emmanuel Betang, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Reginald Quansah, Bertrand Hugo Mbatchou-Ngahane, Elisa Puzzolo, Kwaku Poku Asante, Daniel Pope, Diana Menya and Matthew Shupler

Commute duration and subjective wellbeing in developing contexts: The role of safety concerns

Adeola Oyenubi

Flood disasters, minority health, and community-led adaptations in Bangladesh's wetlands: an intersectional and relational analysis

Ranjan Datta, Barsha Kairy and Margot Hurlbert

The double-edged sword of digital technology: U-shaped effects on income inequality in Vietnam

Thang T. Vo, Thanh-Truc T. Nguyen, Hong-Lam B. Nguyen and Kim-Ngan T. Phan

Does banking inclusion enhance banking performance in developing countries? A dynamic panel threshold regression analysis

Omar Talbi and Meriem Sebai

Prenatal exposure to technological disaster and child health: evidence from a coastal oil spill in India

Yuya Aikawa

Job satisfaction and migration intentions among PhD holders: Evidence from a developing country

Luciana Méndez and Sofía Santín

Determinants of financial literacy and its impact on the financial inclusion of smallholder farmers in Osun state, Nigeria

Temitope Ojo, Ayodeji Kehinde, Adetoso Adetoro and Abiodun Ogundeji

Reframing women's participation in rural tourism: structural constraints, market barriers, and conditional pathways to empowerment

Farah Fathizadeh, Nader Sanati Sharghi and Farhad Azizpour

Resource efficiency in health care systems: a comparison of countries with different levels of economic development

Oleksandr Serdiuk, Ganna Oganezova, Olena Rohova, Yurii Kolomiichenko and Olena Ostapenko

The paradox of participation: A Hydrosocial perspective on India's water and livelihood missions in extractive regions

Chhanda Ruj and Aloke Majumdar

How gender, power, and sexual relations shape women's access to fish in the fish supply chain of Lake Kivu, DRC

Moïse Amisi Ezra, Koos Kingma, Marie Rose Bashwira and Dorothea Hilhorst

Basic income, reciprocity, and the power to exit

Michael W. Howard

Female self-employment and health performance in sub-Saharan Africa

Simplice Asongu

Varying socioeconomic effects across food insecurity severity levels in Chinese adults: A partial proportional odds model analysis

Muhammad Amjad, Guo-Ping Dong, Muhammad Abrar Ahmad, Yun-Ting Zhang, Wan-Ting He, Kun Zhao, Ming-Kun Sun, Wen-Wen Bao, Li-Zi Lin, Zhao-Huan Gui, Ru-Qing Liu, Li-Wen Hu and Guang-Hui Dong

Production and marketing bottlenecks in Ethiopia's sesame sector: Empirical evidence from Kafta Humera, Northwestern Ethiopia

Ashenafi Zewdu and Demis Mengist

Fiscal space for HIV and health in a polycrisis era: A descriptive macro-comparative analysis of financing asymmetries

Charles Birungi, Jaime Atienza-Azcona and Markus Haacker

Strengthening adolescent capabilities in an era of polycrisis: Introduction to the special issue

Kate Pincock, Nicola Jones and Tassew Woldehanna

Ethnic identity and economic development: a case study of the Bodoland territorial region in Assam, India

Daoharu Basumatary and Gurudas Das

Effect of environmental degradation on agricultural development: evidence from WAEMU countries

Nibontenin Soro, Myriam Mazella Traoré and Tiérégnimin Yaya Yéo

Exploring environmental health risks and community experiences near the Kiteezi landfill in Uganda

Mahadih Kyambade, Afulah Namatovu, Monica Tushabe and George William Mugerwa

Empowering women in rural Bihar: A mixed methods cluster-randomized controlled trial of a large-scale participatory learning and action programme

Lisa Bogler, Sini Susan Varghese, Anupam Sharma, Sagar Atre, Abhijeet Kumar, S V Subramanian and Sebastian Vollmer

Compensation governance framework and intergenerational mechanisms: insights from selected mining communities in the Ahafo region of Ghana

Benjamin Avurinyinbiik Ajabuin, Joseph Kwaku Kidido and Pascal Zini

Socioeconomic status and subjective well-being in Africa: exploring the moderating role of religiosity using world values survey data

Abdullahi Buba, Abubakar Salisu, Idi Adamu, Yusuf Isah Usman, Hanifa Mustapha Abubakar and Farouq Umar Yuguda

The role of culture in shaping the well-being of impoverished populations: a cross-national study

Mariano Rojas

Protected or exposed: the impact of rainfall shocks on children’s nutritional vulnerability and the role of women’s empowerment

Alexandra Geis

SHADOW economy, financial development, and inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Godwin Adolf Idan, Samuel Kwaku Agyei and Michael Owusu Appiah

Peer-to-peer (P2P) borrowing and its effect on financial well-being in Ghana

Michael Owusu Appiah and Musa Sam

2026, volume 42, articles C

Promoting livelihood diversification in vulnerable rural coastal communities in India

Mandida Gusha, Mary Mhuru, Mainah Chitengedza, S. Sabarinath and Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh

Migration and social reproduction of tribal communities in Rajasthan, India

Tanya Chaudhary

Socioeconomic feasibility of biocatalyst technology in salt farming: insights from West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Agus Heri Purnomo, Ekowati Chasanah, Tikkyrino Kurniawan, Moh.Awaludin Adam, Muhammad Yusuf and Margie Brite

Shield or substitute: financial development and the rise of government social protection

Wasseem Mina

Farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria: Examining the role of identity politics, women’s agency and impacts on local food production

Tobias Tseer, Agape Kanyiri Damwah and Robert Yakubu Adjuik

Impact of Chinese foreign direct investment on environmental stress in Pakistan: mediating role of technological innovation

Abid Ali Randhawa, Abdul Ghafoor, Bilal Hussain and Cosimo Magazzino

The endowment cost: Is natural resource dependence doom to low energy efficiency?

Fabrice Ewolo Bitoto, Thierry Messie Pondie and Isaac Appiah-Otoo

Empowering artistic labor: how guaranteed income enhances intrinsic motivation and fosters human flourishing

Guangli Zhang, Joanna Woronkowicz, Stephen Roll, Douglas Noonan, Leah Hamilton and Sarah Cowan

Labor supply and migration as household coping strategies: a meta-analysis

Ari Perdana, Kristof De Witte, Wim Groot and Alyssa C. Villanueva

Mandates through the rule of law: United Nations missions and foreign direct investment

Minju Kwon and Wukki Kim

Assessing inclusive well-being to leave no one behind

Suman Seth and Sabina Alkire

Male out-migration and its consequences on left-behind members: The case of Nepal

Clarice Colleen Manuel

Modeling UBI in Finland: challenging the infeasibility & mass resignation myths

Elisabet Miheludaki

Changing rural labor markets and welfare in Malawi

Joachim De Weerdt, Claire Duquennois and Adriana Oliveres-Mallol

Implications of non-governmental organizations’ roles in the success of agricultural public-private partnerships: A case study of Tanzania’s Southern agricultural growth corridor partnership initiative

Judith S. Kahamba and Xiuli Xu

Is the Moroccan fiscal system progressive ? A Shapley decomposition

T. Abdelkhalek and Dorothee Boccanfuso

Gender disparities in financial risk-taking: how cultural superstitions shape women’s investment behavior in China

Qiying Chen and Wenjian Xu

Role of credit access, improved varieties, and gender dynamics in commercialization of cassava seeds in Nigeria

D.O. Abioye, M. Yami, V. Fillipi, S. Omitoyin, A.I. Ogunniyi, A.P. Olufemi, D.A. Fadare, B. Olorode, J. Adeyeye, S.Z. Sore, R. Atser, G. Atser, L. Sanni, B. Popoola, A. Shaibu, F. Nwilene and A. Akande

Impacts of conditional cash transfers on subsistence practices and food security in rural forested areas of Southeastern Brazil

Isadora Cristina Ruttul Aguirra, Patricia Carignano Torres, Andrea Lucchesi and Carla Morsello

From procedural rhetoric to substantive urban citizenship: Right to the city and the limits of participatory neighbourhood planning in a Ghanaian secondary city

Michael Osei Asibey, Adonija Loriba, Francisca Agyei, Yetimoni Kpeebi, Kwaku Owusu Twum and Eric Nortey

Bonding, not bridging: LPG use and reallocation of time saved in rural India

YuJung Julia Lee, Zakir Husain and Mousumi Dutta

The impacts of agricultural commercialisation project on female farmers’ livelihood in Malawi

Audrey Khanyizira and Violet Khanyizira

Trade costs and the stability of remittances outflows from developed countries: role of participation in global value chains

Gnangnon Sèna Kimm

Supporting the transition from ‘beneficiary’ to ‘pivotal’ role in South-South Triangular Cooperation: A case study of an agricultural-research-for-development project

Michael A. Rimmer, Silva Larson, Asda Laining, Haryanti,, Somony Thay, Courtney Anderson and Janelle Allison

Sustainable pathways out of poverty: Evaluating the role of government-enterprise partnership in rural poverty alleviation in China

Jiahao Shi, Junyu Lu, Xiaowei Chuai, Xianjin Huang, Yi Li and Jiping Sheng