World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

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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

Muhamadu Awal Kindzeka Wirajing 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

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 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 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 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 36, articles C

Against Democracy, Neo-totalitarianism, or What? A Cross-Country Dynamic Panel Endogenous Switching Regressing Analysis of Innovation, Economic Growth, and Political Stability

Stephen Frimpong

The impact of LPG consumption on cooking energy efficiency: Evidence from rural Indian household panel data

Dawit Guta, Hisham Zerriffi, Jill Baumgartner, Abhishek Jain, Sunil Mani, Darby Jack, Ellison Carter, Guofeng Shen, Jennifer Orgill-Meyer, Joshua Rosenthal, Katherine Dickinson, Rob Bailis and Yuta J. Masuda

Colonial status and income inequality in developing countries

Boniface Ngah Epo, Fabrice Mvomo, Henri Ngoa Tabi and Henri Atangana Ondoa

Crowding-out effect of tobacco consumption on household food expenditures in Cameroon

Paul Tadzong Mouafo, Armand Mboutchouang Kountchou and Roger Tsafack Nanfosso

Investment cooperation as a digital economy development method for the Republic of Kazakhstan and the EU

Aina B. Otarbayeva, Akimzhan A. Arupov, Madina M. Abaidullayeva, Dardana M. Dadabayeva and Gulzhakhan U. Khajiyeva

Voluntary sustainability standards and technical efficiency of Honduran smallholder coffee producers

David Navichoc, Mengistu Alamneh, Paulo Mortara Batistic, Thomas Dietz and Bernard Kilian

Is seed aid distribution still justified in South Sudan?

Esther Smits, Rob Kuijpers, Justin Amos Miteng, David Deng Chol, Turo Thomas Mono and Nicola Francesconi

Analysis of the ‘Good’ performance indicators of Non-Governmental Development Organizations

Susana Álvarez-Otero, Emma Álvarez-Valle, Mar Arenas-Parra and Raquel Quiroga-García

Welfare effect of rice outgrower scheme participation: empirical evidence from northern Ghana

Joshua Diedong, Benjamin Tetteh Anang and Gideon Danso-Abbeam

The political economy of natural resource conflicts in Ghana: The case of the Songor

Eric Tamatey Lawer, Pius Siakwah, Chika C. Mba and Kofi Takyi Asante

Climate and security risks and their implications for sustainable livelihoods: The case of Maguindanao in conflict-ridden Philippine Bangsamoro

Laurence L. Delina, Jon H. Gaviola and Rufa Cagoco-Guiam

Beer, barley, livestock, milk: Who adopts agricultural innovations in rural Rajasthan?

Dina Najjar and Bipasha Baruah

Preferences for sustainable intensification: Do agricultural interventions matter? Plot-level evidence from Senegal

Arouna Kouandou