World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

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2025, volume 39, articles C

Shifting paradigm in water resources management: Public willingness to participate in watershed management of Batu Kurau, Perak, Malaysia

Khalid Sayed, Ridzwan Nazimuddin, M.I. Syakir, Shaiful Yusuff, Rahmah Johar and Zaher Mundher Yaseen

(Re)making landscapes into resources: the role of Hass avocado plantations in Salamina, Colombia

Andres Suarez

Measuring poverty in Tanzania: Comparison of diary and recall approaches to food consumption data collection

Akuffo Amankwah, Darcey Jeanne Genou Johnson, Josephine Ofori Adofo, Maryam Gul and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

Colonial education disparity, contemporary institutions, and long-run economic performance

Yeti Nisha Madhoo and Shyam Nath

The dynamics of crop diversity and seed use in the context of recurrent climate shocks and poverty: Seasonal panel data evidence from rural Uganda

Clifton Makate, Arild Angelsen, Teshome Hunduma Mulesa and Ola Tveitereid Westengen

Traders and agri-food value chain resilience: the case of maize in Myanmar

Joseph Goeb, Cho Cho San, Ben Belton, Nang Lun Kham Synt, Nilar Aung, Mywish Maredia and Bart Minten

Towards community-driven rural development: Path of women group in empowering rural Women’s capacities and role in rural development

Adzani Ameridyani, Minori Tokito and Izuru Saizen

Understanding how national development planning (NDP) shapes public institutions and procedures for development: the case of Colombia

Fabian Telch

Determinants of use of digital innovation and its impact on land acquisition and food security among farming households in Nigeria

Adeolu Ayanwale and Ayodeji D. Kehinde

Public and household financing of education in India: are they substitutes or complements?

Aswathy Rachel Varughese and Indrajit Bairagya

An overview of financial subsidy programs in Vietnamese fisheries during the past 25 years: An evaluation and recommendations towards improved future mechanisms

Phuong Viet Le, Luong Trong Nguyen and Khanh Quoc Nguyen

Land Rights for Women in Rural Ethiopia: Legal Framework and Reality

Mekonnen Nigusie Asfaw, Ayelech Kidie Mengesha, Katharina Gugerell, Reinfried Mansberger and Doris Damyanovic

Economy-wide impacts of palm oil downstream in North Sumatra: A CGE approach

Rifa’i, Achmad

The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy. A replication study of Mahadevan and Shenoy (Journal of Public Economics, 2023)

Ryan McWay and Matthew Braaksma

Global mining and the production of inequality: a case for continued inquiry

Deanna Kemp and John R. Owen

The effect of fiscal decentralization on urbanization: Evidence from Cameroon

Justin Romuald Amougou Manga and Constant Djiogap Fouopi

Agricultural cooperatives boost food security through input subsidies in rural Zambia

Cornelius Zemba, Stephen Prah and Ng’ombe, John N.

‘The youth are not given a listening ear’: A critical analysis of the contributions of youth-led civil society organisations to Africa’s development

Emmanuel Kumi, Thomas Yeboah and Emmanuel Edudzie

Bridging the rural–urban energy transition divide: Place-specific challenges in renewable energy transitions for vulnerable communities in the Philippines

Laurence L. Delina, Sanny D. Afable and Chloe Chan

Experimental and ethnographic evidence on household-based lockboxes and savings nudges from rural Tanzania

Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Alan Hubbard, Robert Katikiro, Daniel M. Kammen and Isha Ray

Refugees’ home-making practices as assemblages: material & symbolic features of housing settlements in the camp

Heba Alqub and Osaid Matar

From ashes to opportunity? Reimagining job creation in a smoke-free Africa

Edmond Noubissi Domguia, Paul Tadzong Mouafo, Armand Mboutchounag Kountchou, Hilaire Nkengfack and Cerapis Mbognou Nchinda

Agricultural stakeholder panels and lead farmer visits: Evidence from Malawi

Festus O. Amadu and Paul E. McNamara

The socioeconomic effects of Fusarium TR4 on banana producers in Peru

Thea Ritter, Jonathan Mockshell, Diego Álvarez, Leslie Estefany Mosquera, Jorge Eliecer Vargas and Carolina Gonzalez

Has mandatory reporting improved environmental disclosure quality in Indonesia?

Indah Fajarini Sri Wahyuningrum, Sriningsih,, Annisa Sila Puspita, Mochamad Arief Budihardjo, Amin Chegenizadeh and Hamid Nikraz

How much of economic growth trickles down to the population in resource-rich countries? evidence from Papua New Guinea

Paripoorna Baxi, Darian Naidoo and Sharad Tandon

Impacts of livelihood empowerment programs on refugee wellbeing and economic inclusion: Evidence from Dollo Ado refugee camps in Ethiopia

Silas Amo-Agyei, Florence Nana Pokuaah Nimoh, Ibrahima Sarr and Maryada Vallet

Better tracking SDG progress with fewer resources? A call for more innovative data uses

Hai-Anh Dang, Calogero Carletto and Dean Jolliffe

Long-term health impacts of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war on young Ethiopian adults

Yemareshet Hailu Demeke and Dainn Wie

Committeefication of African urban development:The case of Ghana’s Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project (GARID)

Rosina Sheburah Essien, George Owusu, Kofi Kekeli Amedzro and Musah Aziba Issah

The determinants of multidimensional poverty in the urban slums of Dhaka city

S.M. Asif Ehsan, Mazharul Hoque Bhuiyan, Mashnur Rahman, Md Saifur Rahman Sayeef, Marufa Ferdausi, Md Sajadul Alam, Abdul Hannan Chowdhury and Md. Jakariya

Doubling: How it is impoverishing a mining community in India

Prajna Paramita Mishra, Ch. Sravan and Sujit Kumar Mishra

Military expenditures and macroeconomic indicators in selected countries of Asia and Africa

Faisal Jamil and Mayira Sabir

2025, volume 38, articles C

What factors are inducing or impeding the adoption of agricultural mechanization? Revisiting farm scale, overhead capital and spatial divergence

Yared Tefera, Bisrat G. Awoke and Thomas Daum

Optimisation of international financial institutions: A comparative analysis of Ukraine and South Korea’s roles in enhancing global economic stability

Eunkyung Yi, Bongchul Kim, Mehmet Fatih Oztarsu, Yevheniia Khaustova and Hanna Yatsenko

Tropical deforestation and the state: Settlement schemes in the Mau forest of Kenya (1991–2001)

Stefania Albertazzi and Valerio Bini

Managing two locations: Relocation, resettlement and negotiated immobility of climate-displaced communities in Zimbabwe

Tomy Ncube and Una Murray

Exploring health insurance as a financial buffer in Maternal and Child Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Alexis Nyamugira Biringanine and Steffen Flessa

Households’ resilience capacity in the Cameroon fishing communities: case of the internally displaced and Immigrants fishermen

Wirajing Kindzeka and Roger Tsafack Nanfosso

Community perceptions of potable water quality and public health implications in flood-affected areas of Nowshera District, Pakistan

Muhammad Tufail, Muhammad Jamal Nasir, Atta-ur Rahman, Syed Ihtisham Kakakhel, Mehreen Ashraf and Aqil Tariq

Impact of environmental practices on productive efficiency of industrial firms in Cameroon

Evrard Arnaud Ekani Bidzanga and Sophie Michelle Eke Balla

Transboundary water cooperation and joint river basin management are pivotal for climate resilient development in South Asia

Md. Arfanuzzaman

When closure fails: Uncovering the environmental impact of gold rewashing on abandoned mine sites in Southwestern Nigeria

Olushola Daniel Eniowo

Are women more or less likely to vote than men? Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Rubaiya Murshed

Trade openness and women’s empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of governance

Thierry Messie Pondie, Emmanuel Juakaly Wayisovia and Augustin Mumbere Sibayirwandeke

A study of Local Non-Governmental organisations (NGOs) as humanitarian Responders in Bakassi internally displaced Persons’ Camp, Borno State, Nigeria

Babatope Matthew Ajiboye

Perspectives from historical analyses of agri-food system transformations: A case study of Odisha, India

Anindita Sarkar and Aditi Mukherji

Beyond growth? Understanding the grassroots entrepreneurship of women fish processors in Ghana

Antonio Allegretti, Raymond K. Ayilu, Ifesinachi M. Okafor-Yarwood, Sophie Standen and Christina C. Hicks

‘Please don’t kill us; this is our ancestral land, we are not foreigners’: Green grabbing, (in)voluntary resettlement and Maasai ethnic minority’s land rights in Tanzania

Gabriel Kanuti Ndimbo and Evaristo Haulle

Towards an ‘Ethics of Evidence’: Unsettling knowledge inequalities in urban development practice

Stephanie Butcher, Kazi Nazrul Fattah, Jennifer Dam and Rewa Marathe

Road connectivity and contraceptive choices: Empirical evidence from rural India

Reshmi Sengupta and Debasis Rooj

Perception and factors affecting farmers’ adoption of smart agriculture in Vietnam: Implications for extension strategies

Duc Thanh Tran, My Thi Dieu Duong and Hung Gia Hoang

What do communities feel about community-driven development? Learning from investigations in rural Malawi

Anirudh Krishna, Daimon Kambewa, Frank Tchuwa, Frank Kasonga and Patrick Higdon

Local tourism as financial and economic development driver of the community: Management aspect

Nadiya Bakalo, Viktoriia Makhovka, Iryna Krekoten, Alla Glebova and Svitlana Kulakova