World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2022

Current editor(s): Ashwini Chhatre

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2022, volume 28, articles C

Explaining Chinese SOEs’ risk tolerance in the developing world: Evidence from Chinese hydropower investment in Cambodia

Youyi Zhang

Impact of Non-Profit Organizations’ Accountability: Empirical evidence from the democratic Republic of Congo

Elena Urquía-Grande, Raquel Pérez Estébanez and Francisco José Alcaraz-Quiles

Developing food markets in Vanuatu: Re-examining remote island geographies of food production and trade

Alexandra Langford

Environmental (in)justices of land leases in Ethiopia: Premises, promises, and lived realities

Gutu Olana Wayessa

State-facilitated Industrial Parks in the Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a framework for understanding the localization of the Chinese development model

Angela Tritto and A. Camba

Micro-financial institutions and processes of women empowerment in Zambia

Suzan Mukendi and Simon Manda

Does universal electrification shield firms from productivity loss?

Kehinde Abiodun and Ben Gilbert

Culture, scale and the adaptation of good governance: Insights from SOEs in Samoa and Tonga

Elisabeth Poppelwell and John Overton

COVID-19 outbreak and rural household food security in the Western Democratic Republic of the Congo

Victor Manyong, Mpoko Bokanga, Dieu-Merci Akonkwa Nyamuhirwa, Zoumana Bamba, Razack Adeoti, Gregoire Mwepu, Steven M. Cole and Paul Martin Dontsop Nguezet

Analyzing the impacts of informal institutional factors affecting gender inequality: Evidence from 43 countries

Seh Young Kim

Toxic diplomacy through environmental management: A necessary next step for environmental peacebuilding

Richard A. Marcantonio

2022, volume 27, articles C

Evaluating governability challenges of Saint Martin’s Island (SMI) in Bangladesh

Jewel Das, Md. Humayain Kabir, Faiz Md Taimur, Mohammed Hossain and Uttam Kumar

Impact pathways of voluntary sustainability standards on smallholder coffee producers in Honduras: Price premiums, farm productivity, production costs, access to credit

Andrea Estrella, David Navichoc, Bernard Kilian and Thomas Dietz

Community participation and forest management dynamics in rural Cameroon

Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Ngu Deodatus Ngu

The edu-workscape: Re-conceptualizing the relationship between work and education in rural children’s lives in Sub-Saharan Africa

Máiréad Dunne and Sara Humphreys

Famine, remittances, and global justice

J. Matthew Hoye

The joint effects of terrorism and land access on livestock production decisions: Evidence from northern Nigeria

Olusegun Fadare, Giacomo Zanello and Chittur Srinivasan

Community capacity influencing community participation: Evidence from Ethiopia

Bereket Roba Gamo and Duk-Byeong Park

Cultural norms and women’s health: Implications of the practice of menstrual restrictions in Nepal

Rahul Kumar and Bipasha Maity

The making of resource frontier spaces in the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia: A critical analysis of narratives, actors and drivers in the scientific literature

Grace Y. Wong, Minda Holm, Niina Pietarinen, Alizee Ville and Maria Brockhaus

Rising to the occasion: Diaspora remittances to Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic

Beacon Mbiba and Daisy Mupfumira

2022, volume 26, articles C

Estimating China’s relative and multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from micro-level data of 6145 rural households

Junping Guo, Song Qu and Tiehui Zhu

Tribal economic development & entrepreneurship: A latin american perspective

Raul Gouvea, Leonardo Lehneman and Branca Terra

Understanding the relationship between income inequality and pollution: A fresh perspective with cross-country evidence

Monica Das and Sudip Ranjan Basu

Household resilience among fish value chain actors during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi

Levison S. Chiwaula, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Jupiter Simbeye and Mangani Katundu

Intersectional discrimination against women and girls with disabilities in educational opportunities in India

Saikat Ghosh, Lahari Chakraborty and Kaushik Basu

Why the poor pay higher energy prices: Evidence from Tanzania

Michael Olabisi and Robert B. Richardson

Growing cocoa today to preserve it for tomorrow

Barbara Wilson

Examining sanitation services for human excreta in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Andrea McFarland, Zerihun Getaneh Workneh and Avery Carlson

Livelihood considerations in land-use decision-making: Cocoa and mining in Ghana

Erich K. Eberhard, Jessica Hicks, Adam C. Simon and Brian K. Arbic

Futures of conservation funding: Can Indonesia sustain financing of the Bird’s Head Seascape?

Katherine Browne, Laure Katz and Arun Agrawal

Urbanizing the Eternal City: How did the ancient Romans transform and adapt to Rome’s riverine landscape?

Andrea L. Brock

How healthy and food secure is the urban food environment in Ghana?

Jonathan Mockshell, Sylvester O. Ogutu, Diego Álvarez, Collins Asante-Addo and Felix A. Asante

The marginalization of southern researchers in Development

Veronica Amarante and Julieta Zurbrigg

Tenancy and energy choices in Rwanda. A replication and extension study

Rebecca A. Klege, Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah and Martine Visser

Changing a leopard's spots or how people spot leopards? Managing human – leopard interactions in urban India

M. Vikas, Vidya Athreya and Sunil Limaye

The cost of sustainable palm oil: Should an Indonesian smallholder pursue RSPO-certification?

Elizabeth Oliphant and Adam C. Simon

The world’s electronic graveyard: What is the solution to Ghana’s e-waste dilemma?

Anne Canavati, Jayson Toweh, Adam C. Simon and Brian K. Arbic

2022, volume 25, articles C

Does institutional trust and governance matter for multidimensional well-being? Insights from Pakistan

Muhammad Hassan Danish and Shahzada Muhammad Naeem Nawaz

A coal renaissance is not coming to Africa

Jacob Kincer, Todd Moss and Mark Thurber

The slow transition to solar, wind and other non-hydro renewables in Africa – Responding to and building on a critique by Kincer, Moss and Thurber (2021)

Philipp A. Trotter

Endogeneity in water use behaviour across case studies of household water treatment adoption in developing countries

D. Daniel, Saket Pande and Luuk Rietveld

Anticipating gender impacts in scaling innovations for agriculture: Insights from the literature

Erin McGuire, Anne M. Rietveld, Amanda Crump and Cees Leeuwis

Food security, poverty and household resilience to COVID-19 in Burkina Faso: Evidence from urban small traders’ households

Youmanli Ouoba and Natéwindé Sawadogo

Is overweight still a problem of rich in sub-Saharan Africa? Insights based on female-oriented demographic and health surveys

Bertille Daran and Pierre Levasseur

Indigenous South Sudanese understanding of women empowerment

Winnifred Bedigen

Assessing nuanced social networks and its implication for climate change adaptation in northwestern Ghana

Rahinatu S. Alare, Elaine T. Lawson, Adelina Mensah, Armand Yevide and Prosper Adiku

Understanding the impacts of waste disposal site closure on the livelihood of local communities in africa: A case study of the kiteezi landfill in Kampala, Uganda

Shamim Aryampa, Basant Maheshwari, Elly N. Sabiiti, Najib L. Bateganya and Christopher Olobo

Association between rural electrification and agricultural output: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Salome Amuakwa-Mensah and Yves Surry

The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso

Pierre Ozer, Adama Dembele, Simplice S. Yameogo, Elodie Hut and Florence de Longueville

Farmyard manure use and adoption of agricultural mechanization among smallholders in the Mahottari District, Nepal

Ashok Kumar Chaudhary, Ram Pandit and Michael Burton

Women’s participation in household decisions and gender equality in children’s education: Evidence from rural households in Pakistan

Sundus Saleemi and Chiara Kofol

What drives Pakistan’s coal-fired power plant construction boom? Understanding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’s energy portfolio

Rishikesh Ram Bhandary and Kelly Sims Gallagher

China’s withdrawal from overseas coal in context

Cecilia Han Springer

Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals

Jean-Pierre Cling and Clément Delecourt

Primary healthcare effects of a well-designed anti-corruption program

Marislei Nishijima, Randall P. Ellis and Regina C. Cati

The forgotten coal: Charcoal demand in sub-Saharan Africa

Julian Rose, Gunther Bensch, Anicet Munyehirwe and Jörg Peters