World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2021

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2020, volume 20, issue C

Climate and farmers’ willingness to pay for improved irrigation water supply

Kidanemariam Abreha Gebretsadik and Eirik Romstad

World librarians: A socio-technical system providing library search services to offline schools and libraries in Malawi

Charles M. Schweik, Carl Meyer, Pempho Chinkondenji, Jeremy Smith and Promise Mchenga

Improving living conditions of displacees: A review of the evidence benefit sharing scheme for development induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) in urban Jakarta Indonesia

Puput Ichwatus Sholihah and Shaojun Chen

Index-based weather insurance for perennial crops: A case study on insurance supply and demand for cocoa farmers in Ghana

Lydia Afriyie-Kraft, Astrid Zabel and Lawrence Damnyag

Social sustainability and the argan boom as green development in Morocco

Wendy Perry

Can climate information salvage livelihoods in arid and semiarid lands? An evaluation of access, use and impact in Namibia

Zachary M. Gitonga, Martine Visser and Chalmers Mulwa

The insertion of Mexico into the global value chain of berries

María Guadalupe González-Ramírez, Vinicio Horacio Santoyo-Cortés, José Jaime Arana-Coronado and Manrrubio Muñoz-Rodríguez

Resilience capacities and household nutrition in the presence of shocks. Evidence from Malawi

Conrad Murendo, Grace Kairezi and Kizito Mazvimavi

Citizen participation dilemmas in water governance: An empirical case of Kumasi, Ghana

Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Matthew Abunyewah, Joseph Edusei and Emmanuel Buernor Alimo

Local incentive structures and the constitution of community-based enterprises in the forest

Silvia Pinheiro, Maria L. Granados and Manaira Assunção

Participation in UTZ-RA voluntary cocoa certification scheme and its impact on smallholder welfare: Evidence from Ghana

Mubarak Iddrisu, Robert Aidoo and Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa

Vulnerability mapping: A conceptual framework towards a context-based approach to women’s empowerment

Christie M. Gressel, Tarek Rashed, Laura Aswati Maciuika, Srividya Sheshadri, Christopher Coley, Sreeram Kongeseri and Rao R Bhavani

Female matters: Impact of a workfare program on intra-household female decision-making in rural India

Anirudh Tagat

Dissemination and perception of adaptation co-benefits: Insights from the coastal area of Bangladesh

Syed Mahbubur Rahman and Akihisa Mori

Why fungibility of development aid can be good news: Pakistan case study

Zunera Rana and Dirk-Jan Koch

Strategy for the development of agro-based clusters

Keijiro Otsuka and Mubarik Ali

Understanding the past to plan for the future: The small-scale fisheries at Ilha Grande Bay, Brazil

Rodrigo Rodrigues De Freitas, Cristiana Simão Seixas and Sônia Regina Da Cal Seixas

Does the microcredit intervention change the life of the low- and middle-income households in rural Vietnam? Evidence from panel data

Nguyen Dinh Dao

Women’s approach to farming in the context of feminization of agriculture: A case study from the middle hills of Nepal

Kc Bhawana and Digby Race

A longitudinal study of agriculture households in Indonesia: The effect of land and labor mobility on welfare and poverty dynamics

Faizal Moeis, Teguh Dartanto, Jossy Prananta Moeis and Mohamad Ikhsan

Information acquisition and the adoption of a new rice variety towards the development of sustainable agriculture in rural villages in Central Vietnam

Thi Quynh Anh Le, Yasuharu Shimamura and Hiroyuki Yamada

The Flyer’s dilemma and the Logger’s case for climate justice

Matthew Jurjonas and Lesly Aldana

To what extent should farm households diversify? Implications on multidimensional poverty in Ghana

Gilbert Dagunga, Micheal Ayamga and Gideon Danso-Abbeam

Caste-ing wider nets of credit: A mixed methods analysis of informal lending and caste relations in Bihar

Madhulika Khanna and Shruti Majumdar

Designing pro-poor mobile financial services: Learning from the financial diaries of urban poor in India

Raman Saxena and Ravi Mokashi Punekar

The most marginalized people in Uganda? Alternative realities of Batwa at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Christine Ampumuza, Martijn Duineveld and René van der Duim

Addressing gendered varietal and trait preferences in West African maize

Amare Tegbaru, Abebe Menkir, Mohamed Nasser Baco, Latifou Idrisou, Dioukou Sissoko, Ayinde O. Eyitayo, Tsedeke Abate and Abdoulaye Tahirou

Aid to Africa’s agriculture towards building physical capital: Empirical evidence and implications for post-COVID-19 food insecurity

Edward Asiedu, Sylvester S. Sadekla and Godfred A. Bokpin

Adapting to drought and extreme climate: Hunger Safety Net Programme, Kenya

Carol Maione

2020, volume 19, issue C

Women’s empowerment, land and donor-driven agricultural interventions in Eastern Zambia

B.B. Umar, P.H. Nyanga, D. Chibamba and W.S. Nchito

Effects of neighborhood upgrading programs on domestic violence in Bolivia

Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren

“Selling the Dead”: More dignified options needed to assist widows in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan

Yvonne Su and Ladylyn Mangada

Conceptualizing and researching health equity in Africa through a political economy of health lens – Rwanda in perspective

Dennis Raphael and Morris Komakech

Effects of ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement on agricultural trade: The gravity model approach

Subhash Jagdambe and Elumalai Kannan

Women empowerment in Namibia: Measurement, determinants and geographical disparities

Lawrence N. Kazembe

Assessing governance of irrigation systems: A view from below

Margaret Atosina Akuriba, Rein Haagsma, Nico Heerink and Saa Dittoh

Migration, remittance, and agricultural productivity: Evidence from the Nepal Living Standard Survey

Kul Kapri and Shankar Ghimire

Multi-stakeholder platforms: Institutional options to achieve water security in the awash basin of Ethiopia

Reta Hailu and Degefa Tolossa

New development, old migration, and governance at two villages in Jeneponto, Indonesia

Nurlinah,, Haryanto, and Sunardi,

Assessing the economic impacts of post-harvest fisheries losses in Malawi

Elin C. Torell, Daniel M. Jamu, Geoffrey Z. Kanyerere, Levison Chiwaula, Joseph Nagoli, Patrick Kambewa, Alan Brooks and Peter Freeman

Impact of oil palm-related activities on women’s empowerment in Ghana

S. Etuah, K. Ohene-Yankyera, Robert Aidoo, J. Haleegoah, S. Wiggins and G. Henley

Loss of urban green spaces in Mafikeng, South Africa

C. Munyati and J.H. Drummond

Cash transfers for sustainable rural livelihoods? Examining the long-term productive effects of the Child Support Grant in South Africa

Flora Hajdu, Stefan Granlund, David Neves, Tessa Hochfeld, Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah and Emil Sandström

Children’s vulnerability to natural disasters: Evidence from natural experiments in Bangladesh

Ahsanuzzaman Ahsanuzzaman and Muhammad Q. Islam

Regional evidence of smallholder-based growth in Zambia’s livestock sector

Sarah Alobo Loison and Ellen Hillbom

Encouraging fertilizer adoption through risk free sales offer: A randomized control trial in Uganda

Annet Adong, James Tinker, David Levine, Swaibu Mbowa and Tony Odokonyero

Sugarcane outgrower schemes model: Friend or foe? A question for smallholder farmers in Mozambique

João Guilherme Dal Belo Leite, Felix Mario Langa, Graham von Maltitz, Manoel Regis Lima Verde Leal and Luís Augusto Barbosa Cortez

Assessment of capital expenditure in achieving sanitation-related MDG targets and the uncertainties of the SDG targets in Algeria

Nabil Kherbache and Kamal Oukaci

2020, volume 18, issue C

Nutritional status, poverty, and relative deprivation among socio-economic and gender groups in India: Is the growth inclusive?

Biswabhusan Bhuyan, Bimal Kishore Sahoo and Damodar Suar

Is there any interaction effect of mothers’ education and their bargaining power on children’s nutritional status? Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Mahbub Hossain

How effective are cluster development policies? Evidence from Uruguay

Diego Aboal, Gustavo Crespi and Marcelo Perera

The risk of survey bias in self-reports vs. actual consumption of clean cooking fuels

Abhishek Kar, Michael Brauer, Rob Bailis and Hisham Zerriffi

Managing the challenges of obtaining a social license to operate in the pre-mining phase: A focus on the oil sands communities in Ondo State, Nigeria

Adeyinka O. Omotehinse and Giorgio De Tomi

Global horticultural value chains, labour and poverty in Tanzania

Fabio De Blasis

Improved cookstoves as a pathway between food preparation and reduced domestic violence in Uganda

Juan Carlos Guzmán, Lila Kumar Khatiwada and Danice Brown Guzmán

Climate-smart agriculture, household income and asset accumulation among smallholder farmers in the Nyando basin of Kenya

Maurice Juma Ogada, Elizaphan J.O. Rao, Maren Radeny, John W. Recha and Dawit Solomon

When climate change is not psychologically distant – Factors influencing the acceptance of sustainable farming practices in the Mekong river Delta of Vietnam

Melanie Connor, Annalyn H. de Guia, Reianne Quilloy, Hung Van Nguyen, Martin Gummert and Bjoern Ole Sander

The debate: Is global development adapting to climate change?

E.L.F. Schipper, T. Tanner, O.P. Dube, K.M. Adams and S. Huq

What explains the gender differences in the adoption of multiple maize varieties? Empirical evidence from Uganda and Tanzania

Hailemariam Teklewold, Rahma I. Adam and Paswel Marenya