World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

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2024, volume 34, articles C

A financial maturity model for the empowerment of women’s saving groups

Sandrine Bonin, Tarek Rashed, Rajiv Nair, Seema Chaudhary, Bhanu V.R., Amritha Natarajan and Rao Bhavani

Edge of a Precipice: Multi-Party electoral violence in Jirapa Municipal in Ghana before and after the 2020 national elections

Thaddeus Arkum Aasoglenang, Francis Kwasi Amoah and Libanus Susan

Community groups as an enabler for access to livelihood capitals, deprivation of which contributes to multidimensional poverty in rural Uganda

Charlotte Arinaitwe

Trends in out-of-pocket health expenditure inequality in Turkey under comprehensive health reforms

Songul Cinaroglu

Changing land and labour relations on cocoa farms in Sefwi, Ghana: Continuity and change

Joseph Awetori Yaro, Joseph Kofi Teye and Steve Wiggins

Yemen's humanitarian collaboration during conflict: UN and local NGOs in focus

Moosa Elayah and Rawan Al-Mansori

Carbon pricing for sustainable transition in India

Sweta Sen and Pravakar Sahoo

Peace-centred sustainable development: An analysis of SDG 16 in the Arab states

Sansom Milton and Mohammad Alhamawi

A systems approach to understanding the interconnected factors affecting rural development: A case study from Türkiye

Ummugulsum Zor, Ayla Esen, Murad Canbulut, Nevran Karaca, Gencay Karakaya and Ipek Turker

Community participation and effective water management: A study on water user organizations (WUOs) in Thailand

Pavisorn Chuenchum, Chitchanuwat Meneesrikum, Chaiyraweepat Teerapanuchaikul and Anurak Sriariyawat

Spillover effects of medium- and large-scale farms on smallholder farmers in Tanzania: Evidence from the National Sample Census of Agriculture 2019/20

Nour Abdulwahid, Leguma Bakari, Abdallah Hussein, Samwel K. Kawa, Francis Lavoe, Titus Mwisomba, Basil Msuha and Ayala Wineman

Gender dynamics of the impact of cash transfer on female educational expenditure of informal settlements in Bangladesh

MD. Abdul Bari, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, Mari Katayanagi and Yuichiro Yoshida

Towards social equity and sustainable economic prosperity through ecotourism: A case of caste diversified community along Annapurna Sanctuary trail (AST), Nepal

Surendra Tiwari and Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen

Transformative approaches for peace-centred sustainable development: The role of social and solidarity economy

Isabel Lopera-Arbeláez and Solveig Richter

Wartime service provision and post-conflict state legitimacy: Perception-based foundation of sustainable development in Northwestern Pakistan

Yuichi Kubota, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Takashi Kurosaki, Kazuhiro Obayashi and Hirotaka Ohmura

Protection or pressure? reciprocity in informal social protection in southern Madagascar

Léo Delpy

The gig economy: The precariat in a climate precarious world

Anh Ngoc Vu and Duc Loc Nguyen

Understanding the interrelations between natural resources and development governance in federal Nepal

Shradha Khadka, Susmita Puri, Prakash Bhattarai, Kalpana Rana Magar, Anish Khatri and Dibesh Sayami

Institutional effects of nonviolent and violent revolutions

Joshua D. Ammons

Individuals’ experiences of multidimensional poverty through the lenses of gender and age – Findings from South Africa

Helen Suich, Trang Pham and Mandy Yap

Adoption of agroforestry by Medium Agricultural Exploitation (MEAs) in Cameroon: A case study of the Littoral Region

Sophie Michelle Eke Balla

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