World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2022

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2021, volume 24, articles C

Development and dependency in the periphery: From bananas to tourism in Bocas del Toro, Panama

Traben Pleasant and Ana Spalding

How to stop wasting money in international development: Using a structured group selection approach to counter procedural inefficiency

Lisa Elena Fuchs, Levi Orero, Victoria Atieno Apondi and Lang'at Kipkorir

Patterns of loan use for women’s self-help groups in rural Rajasthan

Sumeet Sekhon and Miriam Grant

Where are the development actors in protracted crises? Refugee livelihood and food security outcomes in South Sudan demonstrate the potential for fragile settings

Maryada E. Vallet, Timothy R. Frankenberger, Carrie Presnall, Lilian Otieno, Christine Fu and Ellen Lee

Why is it so difficult to promote territorial development through public policies? The obstacles faced by a Brazilian experience

Wolney Felippe Antunes Junior, Ricardo Serra Borsatto and Vanilde Ferreira de Souza-Esquerdo

The political economy of coal: Lessons learnt from 15 country case studies

Jan C. Steckel and Michael Jakob

Mobile phones, leadership and gender in rural business groups

Stein Holden and Mesfin Tilahun

‘We would like this place to be a town’: The benefits and challenges of rural development near protected areas

Michael Strong and Julie A. Silva

Traditional water bodies and cultural ecosystem services: Experiences from rural West Bengal, India

Koushik Chowdhury and Bhagirath Behera

There is no economic case for new coal plants in India

Shoibal Chakravarty and E. Somanathan

Micro-finance and women’s perception of domestic violence in a fragile state

Martin Limbikani Mwale, Gowokani Chirwa, Martina Mchenga and Tayamika Kamwanja Zabula

2021, volume 23, articles C

An empirical analysis of the effect of floods on rural agricultural wages across Indian states

Yashobanta Parida and Joyita Roy Chowdhury

Strategic responses to food safety standards – The case of the Indian cashew industry

Jannes Tessmann

Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs

Albert Machistey Abane, Simon Mariwah, Samuel Asiedu Owusu, Adetayo Kasim, Elsbeth Robson and Kate Hampshire

Gender and intergenerational challenges to Women’s economic empowerment initiatives in Rwanda

Pascal Niyonkuru and Hazel Barrett

Measuring the impact of unconditional cash transfers on consumption and poverty in Rwanda

Dominique Habimana, Jonathan Haughton, Joseph Nkurunziza and Dominique Marie-Annick Haughton

The effect of mobile money on borrowing and saving: Evidence from Tanzania

Hisahiro Naito, Askar Ismailov and Albert Benson Kimaro

The impact of solidarity economy on poverty: The case of public centres of solidarity economy in Bahia, Brazil

Laura Dubois

Discriminatory effects of gender disparities in improved seed and fertilizer use at the plot-level in Malawi and Tanzania

Clifton Makate and Munyaradzi Mutenje

Introducing the Local Agricultural Potential Index: An approach to understand local agricultural extension impact for farmer adaptive capacity and gender equity

Rebecca Witinok-Huber and Steven M. Radil

Poverty dynamics in Indonesia: empirical evidence from three main approaches

Rudi Purwono, Wahyu Wisnu Wardana, Tri Haryanto and M. Khoerul Mubin

Does a portfolio of consumption adjustment coping strategies erode resilience? Panel data evidence from Ethiopia

Tagel Gebrehiwot, Hailemariam Teklewold, Mintewab Bezabih and Robel Seifemichael

Gender-based segregation in education, jobs and earnings in South Africa

Gareth Roberts and Volker Schöer

Religiosity and parental educational aspirations for children in Kenya

Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong and Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo

What drives environmental (Non-)migration around the Himalayan Region? Evidence from rural Nepal

Prabin Bhusal, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Kavi Raj Awasthi

Perspectives on enclosures in pastoralist drylands: From contradictory evidence to the formulation of innovative land management strategies

Per Knutsson, Stephen Mureithi, Ewa Wredle and Gert Nyberg

Relational governance, equity and social spill-over of agricultural value chains: Cotton case in Cameroon and beyond

Michel Fok

Contested forest management and the Nepalese Government’s forest policy

Bhagwan Dutta Yadav, Krishna Kumar Shrestha and Bishnu Prasad Acharya

2021, volume 22, articles C

Formal insurance for the informally insured: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Kelsey Hample

How culture and religion influence the agriculture technology gap in Northern Ghana

Mohammed Tanko and Salifu Ismaila

Gender relations in smallholder cattle production in Zambia

Mary Lubungu and Regina Birner

The mobile money’s poverty-reducing promise: Evidence from Cambodia

Kimty Seng

Financial inclusion and multidimensional poverty in Ecuador: A spatial approach

Javier Álvarez-Gamboa, Pablo Cabrera-Barona and Hugo Jácome-Estrella

A comparative measure of inclusive urbanisation in the cities of Africa

George Angelopulo

Willingness to cooperate in the context of post-communist economy – Why do local rules matter?

Olta Sokoli, Orjon Xhoxhi, Engjell Skreli, Drini Imami and Reiner Doluschitz

Global poverty: A first estimation of its uncertainty

Michail Moatsos and Achillefs Lazopoulos

From coupon to calories: Assessing input coupon impact on household food calories production

Manzamasso Hodjo, Timothy Dalton, Tebila Nakelse, Ram N Acharya and Don Blayney

Fish for whom?: Integrating the management of social complexities into technical investments for inclusive, multi-functional irrigation

Nicolette Duncan, Sanjiv de Silva, John Conallin, Sarah Freed, Michael Akester, Lee Baumgartner, Matthew McCartney, Mark Dubois and Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu

2021, volume 21, articles C

Climate induced vulnerability to poverty among smallholder farmers: Evidence from Malawi

Assa M. Maganga, Levison Chiwaula and Patrick Kambewa

The burdens and the benefits: Socio-economic impacts of mobile phone ownership in Tanzania

Meagan K. Malm and Kentaro Toyama

Determining critical factors of gender inequality: Evidence from 34 OECD and non-OECD countries

Seh Young Kim

Success in combating a pandemic: Role of fast policy responses

Le Tung

The gender gap in intergenerational mobility

Tharcisio Leone

Empowering rural women for sustainable development through the provision of water infrastructure in north-western Ghana

Constance Awinpoka Akurugu, Mathias Mwinlabagna Jatoe and Maximillian Kolbe Domapielle

The McGovern-Dole food for education and Child nutrition program (MGD): A comparative analysis of reading comprehension gains in Central America

Thomas M. Crea, Sarah E. Neville, Antonia Diaz-Valdes, Kerri Evans, Brenda Urizar, Emily Drummer, Jose Acevedo, Olga Canelas, Marlon Medina and Jennifer Mallman

The association between presence of sanitation facilities and school enrolment in Pakistan

Abbas A. Gillani

The enabling environment for household solar adoption: A systematic review

Hannah Girardeau, Alicia Oberholzer and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

Moving toward rice self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030: Lessons learned from 10 years of the Coalition for African Rice Development

Aminou Arouna, Irene Akoko Fatognon, Kazuki Saito and Koichi Futakuchi

Is community-based management of small-scale fisheries in Sierra Leone the answer to their problems?

Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor and Tim Gray

Multidimensional poverty of pastoralists and implications for policy in Boorana rangeland system, Southern Ethiopia

Galgalo Dika, Degefa Tolossa and Shiferaw Muleta Eyana

Relationship between community capitals and governance: The perspective of local actors in the Maya Biosphere Reserve

Megan Butler and Dean Current

Microcredit expansion and informal donor interests: Experiences from local NGOs in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh

Md Faisal Abedin Khan, Md Sazib Uddin and Lukas Giessen

Household behaviour and nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices: Experiences of smallholder farmers in Northern West Bengal, India

Nayana Baral, Bidur Paria, Bhagirath Behera and Pulak Mishra

Adoption of conservation agriculture-based tillage practices in the rice-maize systems in Bangladesh

Shaheen Akter, Mahesh K. Gathala, Jagadish Timsina, Saiful Islam, Mahbubur Rahman, Mustafa Kamrul Hassan and Anup Kumar Ghosh

Women’s decision-making roles in vegetable production, marketing and income utilization in Nepal’s hills communities

Ramesh Balayar and Robert Mazur

Gender-based differences in Myanmar’s labor force

Gustavo Nicolas Paez and Myat Su Tin