World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

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2025, volume 37, articles C

Cash transfers and women’s economic inclusion in rural Zambia

Francesca Viberti, Silvio Daidone, Noemi Pace and Nicholas Sitko

Evaluation of gender-based challenges during natural disasters in the central region of Afghanistan; A case study of Parwan Province

Hayatullah Mushwani, Abidullah Arabzai, Lutfullah Safi, Chitralada Chaiya and Kawoon Sahak

When does new information encourage adoption, and where can we observe it: A synthesis of 3ie’s thematic window on agricultural innovation

Andrew Reid Bell and Mark Engelbert

Domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV): The institutional and NGOs intervention in Fiji

Mumtaz Alam

Perceptions of people in host communities on the implementation of dam-induced involuntary resettlement programme in the Global South: The case of Bui Dam in Ghana

Emmanuel Junior Adugbila, Dimo Todorovski, Karin Pfeffer and Jaap Zevenbergen

Access or exclusion to land: An overview of evolving trends in cocoa landscapes in Ghana

Doreen Asumang-Yeboah, Joana Akua Serwa Ameyaw, Emmanuel Acheampong and Winston Adams Asante

Sustaining rural water infrastructure in Mbala, Zambia: A modelling approach for community-based management

Babra Namwiinga Nkolola and Adrian Phiri

Modern strategies for conceptualising and implementing state youth policy

Arailym Junussova, Aliya Ayapbekova, Bibigul Byulegenova, Karakat Nagymzhanova and Ryskeldy Aykenova

Organisational-economic mechanism for increasing the innovative activity of carpet industry enterprises in the digitalisation of technological processes

Daulet Kanashayev, Altyn Yessirkepova, Parida Baineyeva, Aigul Alzhanova and Asylkhan Tursyn

Lighting the path to sustainable development: The impact of sustainability disclosure, corporate tax, and economic growth

Alhassan Haladu, Saeed Awadh Bin-Nashwan, Abdulmalik Yusuf and Nura Alhaji Yaro

Climate change impact on food security: Household-level adaptation barriers to Charland community in Bangladesh

Most. Mitu Akter and N. M. Refat Nasher

Financing the Basic income support in South Africa under fiscal constraints

Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Martin Henseler, Helene Maisonnave and Ramos E. Mabugu

“De” centralization of natural resources and environmental governance in Armenia

Gor Samvel, Eleonora Matevosyan, Heghine Grigoryan-Hakhverdyan and Olimpia Geghamyan

‘I feed my family but I own no land’: Understanding the complexities of women’s irrigable land access and wellbeing in northern Ghana

Ibrahim Abu Abdulai

Does fiscal decentralisation hamper happiness? Evidence from African countries

Borice Augustin Ngounou, Constant Fouopi Djiogag, Edmond Noubissi Domguia, Linda Tiague Zanfack and Thierry Messie Pondie

Multistakeholder forums in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: Stakeholders’ perspectives regarding their outcomes and effectiveness for low-emission food systems

Thu Thuy Pham, Thi Kim Hong Tang, Vy Thao Ngo, Ngoc My Hoa Tran, Thi Thuy Anh Nguyen, Thi Van Anh Nguyen, Trung Son Nguyen and Dinh Yen Khue Nguyen

Ethics and Equity: Addressing Violations of the Belmont Report principles for research staff

Jana Kuhnt, Lennart Kaplan, Ana Garcia-Hernandez, Julia Leininger and Janina I. Steinert

Assessing the effectiveness of a rights based approach for pro-poor WASH services: A study in urban poor settlements in Khulna, Bangladesh

Sumya Naz, Md. Zakir Hossain and Khan Rubayet Rahaman

Measuring energy poverty in Senegal: A multifaceted approach

Saidou Abdoulaye Sy and Lamia Mokaddem

“It feels like we’re doing something good.” Mapping farmer perceptions of zero budget natural farming onto crop yields in Andhra Pradesh

Grady Walker, Henny Osbahr, Sarah Duddigan, Jayna George, Sravanthi Ponnolu, Himabindu Anisetti, Chris Collins and Zakir Hussain

Ice roads and income in remote indigenous communities of Canada

Fatma Ahmed

Political stability versus food self-sufficiency policy in arid countries: Evidence from the Persian Gulf

Alireza Alipour, Mohammad Sadegh Ebrahimi, Nafiseh Ghodrati and Zahra Ghodrati Shatoori

Camel leasing as a resilience-building practice: Insights from Somali pastoralist households and dairy farms

Emily Decker, Rebecca M. Flueckiger, Micah Frumkin, Rebecca H. Jeudin, Christelle Celestin, Abdul Kareem Osman Essa and Ezgi E. Yilmaz

Corrigendum to “Financing the basic income support in South Africa under fiscal constraints” [World Dev. Perspect. 37 (2025) 100657]

Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Martin Henseler, Helene Maisonnave and Ramos E. Mabugu

Financial inclusion and institutional quality: Catalysts for economic growth in Asia-Pacific countries

Dananjani Basnayake, Athula Naranpanawa, Saroja Selvanathan and Jayatilleke S. Bandara

Understanding livelihood strategies and coping mechanisms adopted during COVID-19: A study on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Minakshi Keeni

Modern agrotechnology, women’s empowerment and poverty reduction nexus: Mediation of farm performance; empirical evidence on BAU-STR dryer

Lavlu Mozumdar, Samantha Lindgren and Nazia Nishat

2024, volume 35, articles C

Impacts of climate change in post-conflict Somalia: Is the 2030 Agenda for SDGs endangered?

Khadar Ahmed Dirie, Selamah Maamor and Md. Mahmudul Alam

Inequalities in mental health between post-conflict recovery and pandemic-induced challenges in conflict-affected territories in Colombia

Sebastian Leon-Giraldo

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan

Gender discrimination and the biased Indian labour market: Evidence from the National Sample Survey

Pallavi Gupta and Satyanarayan Kothe

Effect of electricity access on the value of women’s labour and time in Ghana

Enoch Ntsiful, John Bosco Dramani, Frank Adusah-Poku and Prince Boakye Frimpong

Mining resources, the inconvenient truth of the “ecological” transition

Jeremy Bourgoin, Roberto Interdonato, Quentin Grislain, Matteo Zignani and Sabrina Gaito

The impact of microfinance on entrepreneurship and welfare among women borrowers in rural Pakistan

Issam Malki, Asad Ghalib and Rukhsana Kaousar

COVID-19 lockdown: The triple effects on gender-based violence

Vincent Canwat

How do governance mechanisms between farmer and traders advance sustainability goals and enhance the resilience of agricultural value chains?

Angela Navarrete-Cruz and Athena Birkenberg

Local supply chain actor roles in farmer organisation information networks: Empirical findings from two Indonesian farmer organisations

Kusnandar Kusnandar, Eki Karsani Apriliyani, Adityo Wicaksono and Ramadhona Saville

More than a meeting? The potential and limitations of invited multi-stakeholder spaces in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon

Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti and Nicole Heise Vigil

Post-COVID economic crisis, citizen-state relations, and the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) controversy in Ghana

Kofi Takyi Asante, Emmanuel Kumi and Michael Kodom

Understanding drivers of fuel stacking among pay-as-you-go LPG customers in Nairobi, Kenya

Tash Perros, Ayse Lisa Allison, Willah Nabukwangwa, James Mwitari, Patricia Kavuli, Winnie Chepkirui, Ghislaine Rosa, Matthew Shupler, Daniel Pope and Elisa Puzzolo

Spatial typology for food system analysis: Taking stock and setting a research agenda

Wim Marivoet and John M. Ulimwengu

Social mobility and CCT programs: The Bolsa Família program in Brazil

Eloah Fassarella, Sergio Ferreira, Samuel Franco, Valdemar Pinho Neto, Giovanna Ribeiro, Vinicius Diniz Schuabb and Paulo Tafner

Bride price payment and marriage Stability: An ethnographic study of the Brifors of the Upper West Region, Ghana

Thaddeus Arkum Aasoglenang, Libanus Susan and Patrick Bonye

2024, volume 34, articles C

A financial maturity model for the empowerment of women’s saving groups

Sandrine Bonin, Tarek Rashed, Rajiv Nair, Seema Chaudhary, Bhanu V.R., Amritha Natarajan and Rao Bhavani

Edge of a Precipice: Multi-Party electoral violence in Jirapa Municipal in Ghana before and after the 2020 national elections

Thaddeus Arkum Aasoglenang, Francis Kwasi Amoah and Libanus Susan

Community groups as an enabler for access to livelihood capitals, deprivation of which contributes to multidimensional poverty in rural Uganda

Charlotte Arinaitwe

Trends in out-of-pocket health expenditure inequality in Turkey under comprehensive health reforms

Songul Cinaroglu

Changing land and labour relations on cocoa farms in Sefwi, Ghana: Continuity and change

Joseph Awetori Yaro, Joseph Kofi Teye and Steve Wiggins

Yemen's humanitarian collaboration during conflict: UN and local NGOs in focus

Moosa Elayah and Rawan Al-Mansori

Carbon pricing for sustainable transition in India

Sweta Sen and Pravakar Sahoo

Peace-centred sustainable development: An analysis of SDG 16 in the Arab states

Sansom Milton and Mohammad Alhamawi

A systems approach to understanding the interconnected factors affecting rural development: A case study from Türkiye

Ummugulsum Zor, Ayla Esen, Murad Canbulut, Nevran Karaca, Gencay Karakaya and Ipek Turker

Community participation and effective water management: A study on water user organizations (WUOs) in Thailand

Pavisorn Chuenchum, Chitchanuwat Meneesrikum, Chaiyraweepat Teerapanuchaikul and Anurak Sriariyawat

Spillover effects of medium- and large-scale farms on smallholder farmers in Tanzania: Evidence from the National Sample Census of Agriculture 2019/20

Nour Abdulwahid, Leguma Bakari, Abdallah Hussein, Samwel K. Kawa, Francis Lavoe, Titus Mwisomba, Basil Msuha and Ayala Wineman

Gender dynamics of the impact of cash transfer on female educational expenditure of informal settlements in Bangladesh

MD. Abdul Bari, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, Mari Katayanagi and Yuichiro Yoshida

Towards social equity and sustainable economic prosperity through ecotourism: A case of caste diversified community along Annapurna Sanctuary trail (AST), Nepal

Surendra Tiwari and Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen

Transformative approaches for peace-centred sustainable development: The role of social and solidarity economy

Isabel Lopera-Arbeláez and Solveig Richter

Wartime service provision and post-conflict state legitimacy: Perception-based foundation of sustainable development in Northwestern Pakistan

Yuichi Kubota, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Takashi Kurosaki, Kazuhiro Obayashi and Hirotaka Ohmura

Protection or pressure? reciprocity in informal social protection in southern Madagascar

Léo Delpy

The gig economy: The precariat in a climate precarious world

Anh Ngoc Vu and Duc Loc Nguyen

Understanding the interrelations between natural resources and development governance in federal Nepal

Shradha Khadka, Susmita Puri, Prakash Bhattarai, Kalpana Rana Magar, Anish Khatri and Dibesh Sayami

Institutional effects of nonviolent and violent revolutions

Joshua D. Ammons

Individuals’ experiences of multidimensional poverty through the lenses of gender and age – Findings from South Africa

Helen Suich, Trang Pham and Mandy Yap

Adoption of agroforestry by Medium Agricultural Exploitation (MEAs) in Cameroon: A case study of the Littoral Region

Sophie Michelle Eke Balla