World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

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2024, volume 33, articles C

Can farmers with higher capabilities fend off falling into future Poverty? Empirical evidence from a tribal region in eastern India

Pradyot Jena, Sunil Khosla and Dil Rahut

Heterogeneous effects from integrated farm innovations on welfare in Rwanda

Aimable Nsabimana and Philip Adom

Public decision making by women’s self-help groups and its contributions to women’s empowerment: Evidence from West Bengal, India

Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek and Priscilla E. Corbett

Geography of inequality, geography of development: Water politics in India

Sruthi Herbert

Making specialty coffee and coffee-cherry value chains work for family farmers’ livelihoods: A participatory action research approach

Johanna Jacobi, Derly Lara, Sebastian Opitz, Sabine de Castelberg, Sergio Urioste, Alvaro Irazoque, Daniel Castro, Elio Wildisen, Nelson Gutierrez and Chahan Yeretzian

Investigating the inclusiveness of the usipa value chain in Malawi

Park Muhonda, Emma Rice, Abigail Bennett, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Ben Belton and Eric Abaidoo

The Strong 'Dual-Necessity’ principle for ranking social progress

Shiri Cohen Kaminitz

Impact of dairy contract farming adoption on household resilience to food insecurity evidence from Ethiopia

Fikiru Temesgen Gelata, Jiqin Han and Shadrack Kipkogei Limo

A responsible mining approach to the economic modeling of small-scale gold mining

Oswaldo Menta Simonsen Nico, Carlos Henrique Xavier Araujo, Deborah Goldemberg and Giorgio de Tomi

Household air pollution could make children grow shorter in sub-Saharan Africa; but can households help stem the tide on their own?

Michael Larbi Odame and Kwame Adjei-Mantey

Socioeconomic implications of infrastructure development: Exploring the impacts of water infrastructure through stakeholders’ perceptions

Muazzam Sabir, Muhammad Saqib Sultan, Habibullah Magsi and Muhammad Khalid Bashir

Public and common interest in sustainable contract farming

Kim Van der Borght and Jorge Freddy Milian Gómez

The influence of large scale land acquisition on smallholder farming productivity - the case of Zambia

Mintewab Bezabih, Hailemariam Teklewold and Samuel A. Zewdie

Management of innovation processes in agriculture

Zhandos Taishykov, Madina Tolysbayeva, Kassymkhan Zhumanazarov, Saule Ibraimova and Zhamilya Mizambekova

Feminisation of adaptation interventions in Bangladesh: An intersectional analysis

Md. Masud-All-Kamal and Melissa Nursey-Bray

Women’s education through empowerment: Evidence from a community-based program

Pragya Bhuwania, Arnab Mukherji and Hema Swaminathan

Global corporations and local dependencies: Resource redistribution and the reconfiguration of dependency relations in Sierra Leone

Robert Jan Pijpers

Unveiling effects of cash transfers on poverty and social cohesion in conflict-affected zones: Insights from ex-FATA, Pakistan

Saima Nawaz and Sajid Hussain

Which rights matters: Girls’ education at the expense of their sexual and reproductive rights?

Linn Lövgren

Ministerial musical chairs: Does leadership turnover undermine the effectiveness of World Bank education aid?

Biniam Bedasso

Fertility responses to cash transfers in Uruguay

Cecilia Parada

2023, volume 32, articles C

Beyond the numbers: Group formation in the artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana

Richard Oppong Ntiri, Sabina Appiah-Boateng and Frederick Koomson

A critical analysis of selected global sustainability assessment frameworks: Toward integrated approaches to peace and sustainability

John Lee Candelaria, Ayyoob Sharifi, Dahlia Simangan and Rebeca Maria Ramos Tabosa

The labour market dilemma of young urban women in India: An outcome of family welfare optimization

Jajati Keshari Parida and Niharika Bhagavatula

Differences in peri-urban and rural farm production decisions amid policy change in Nigeria

Patrick Hatzenbuehler, George Mavrotas and Mulubrhan Amare

Using evidence to improve and scale up development program in education: A case study from India

Takao Maruyama

Early-life exposure to unimproved sanitation and delayed school enrollment: Evidence from Bangladesh

George Joseph, Yi Rong Hoo, Nazia Sultana Moqueet and Gnanaraj Chellaraj

Exploring impacts of resettlement and upgrading on the urban poor's daily lives in a second tier city in India

Tania Berger, Hiranmayi Shankavaram and Janani Thiagarajan

A five-year case study analysis of USAID local governance programming and public investment spending in post-earthquake Haiti

Vanessa L. Deane

COVID-19, livelihoods and gender: Material, relational and subjective realities in rural Zambia

Simon Manda

2023, volume 31, articles C

Bottom-up and bottom-top institutional changes in environmental management in the Niger Delta

Olalekan Adekola and Alan Grainger

The politics of policy failure in Ghana: The case of oil palm

Kofi Takyi Asante

Simulated economic and nutritional impacts of irrigated fodder and crossbred cows on farm households in southern Ethiopia

Jean-Claude Bizimana, Melkamu B. Derseh, Aberra Adie and Gregory A. Kiker

Re-examining the participation and empowerment nexus: Applications to community-based tourism

Eylla Laire M. Gutierrez

Case Report: Housing, land and property restitution after wars takes decades: Ukraine can change this

Yuliya Panfil, Jon Unruh and Michael Cholod

Good life in the Amazon? A critical reflection on the standard of living of cocoa and cattle-based smallholders in Pará, Brazil

Daniel P. P. Braga, Benno Pokorny, Roberto Porro and Edson Vidal

Impacts of hydro-meteorological phenomena and disaster policies on the Mexican agricultural sector

Jesús E. Robles-Chávez and Hector M. Nuñez

What drives activity of banking agents? Evidence from Rural India

Sanal Gupta and Puran Singh

COVID-19 impact on agriculture and food security in Africa. A systematic review and meta-analysis

Roland Azibo Balgah, Emmanuel Olatunbosun Benjamin, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Gertrud Buchenrieder, neé Schrieder

Public transfers and crowding-in and -out of private transfers: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Silas Ongudi, Djiby Thiam and Natascha Wagner

Community forest legislation in India: Rights-based polycentrism or responsibilization?

Aabha Ballal, Asi Guha, Sandeep Tambe, Suprava Patnaik and Elphin Tom Joe

Is the problem driven iterative adaptation approach (PDIA) a panacea for public financial management reform? Evidence from six African countries

Andrew Lawson and Jamelia Harris

State ownership in liberal economic governance? De-risking private investment in the electricity sector in Mexico

Jose Maria Valenzuela

African women in science and development, bridging the gender gap

Luria Leslie Founou, Kaunda Yamba, Vinie Kouamou, Esther Eyram Asare Yeboah, Binta Saidy, Lalia A. Jawara, Haddy Bah, Bissoume Sambe Ba, Mabel Kamweli Aworh and Saffiatou Darboe

Ecological shocks and children’s school attendance and farm work in Ghana

Edward Martey, Prince M. Etwire, Jonathan Mockshell, Ralph Armah and Eli Akorsikumah

2023, volume 30, articles C

A randomized trial of price subsidies for liquefied petroleum cooking gas among low-income households in rural India

Marc Jeuland, Manish A. Desai, Elizabeth F. Bair, Nafeesa Mohideen Abdul Cader, Durairaj Natesan, Wilson Jayakaran Isaac, Sankar Sambandam, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Gurusamy Thangavel and Harsha Thirumurthy

Late banking transitions: Comparing Uzbekistan to earlier reformers

Davit Babasyan, Yunfan Gu and Martin Melecký

Impact of health insurance on adult mortality in rural areas: Evidence of Seguro Popular in Mexico using panel data

Erika Arenas, Susan Parker, Luis Rubalcava and Graciela Teruel

Children’s early foundational skills and education continuation in India: Heterogeneous analysis by caste, gender and location

Deepak Kumar, Bhanu Pratap and Archana Aggarwal

Forecasting recovery from COVID-19 using financial data: An application to Vietnam

Jesse Lastunen and Matteo Richiardi

The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible

Thor Olav Iversen, Ola T. Westengen and Morten Jerven

Analysis of urban slum infrastructure projects financing in Ghana: A closer look at traditional and innovative financing mechanisms

G. Asumadu, R. Quaigrain, D. Owusu-Manu, D.J. Edwards, E. Oduro-Ofori and S.M. Dapaah

Improving migration experiences for workers: Recruitment practices along the Bangladesh–Qatar corridor

Laura G. Babbitt, Drusilla Brown, Ana Antolin and Negin R. Toosi

Ethiopia needs peace to accelerate its SDG 7 achievements

Mulualem G. Gebreslassie and Solomon T. Bahta

Care-based community communication, capacity, and agency during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the Complexo da Maré Favela, Brazil

Desiree Poets, Catherine Grimes, Max Stephenson, Neda Moayerian and Molly Todd