World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ashwini Chhatre

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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

2023, volume 29, articles C

Arid fields where conflict grows: How drought drives extremist violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Carson W. Maconga

Short-run effects of grid electricity access on rural non-farm entrepreneurship and employment in Ethiopia and Nigeria

Setu Pelz, Shonali Pachauri and Giacomo Falchetta

Changing business as usual in global climate and development action: Making space for social justice in carbon markets

Seema Arora-Jonsson and Jeannette Gurung

Environmental non-migration: Analysis of drivers, factors, and their significance

Bishawjit Mallick

The backbone of agrifood value chain resilience: Innovation in the Ecuadorian banana value chain from a historical perspective

Claudia Coral and Dagmar Mithöfer

From distress migration to selective migration: Transformative effects of agricultural development on seasonal migration

Inga Mareike Nienkerke, Amit Thorat and Anthony Patt

Agency and time poverty: Linking decision-making powers and leisure time of male and female farmers of Central India

Vijayalaxmi D. Khed and Vijesh V. Krishna

First steps toward building respectful development: Three experiments on dignity in aid in Kenya and the United States

Tom Wein, Heather Lanthorn and Torben Fischer

Understanding gender differences on the choices of a portfolio of climate-smart agricultural practices in sub-saharan Africa

Hailemariam Teklewold

The discursive construction of gender identities and roles for women in cash transfer programmes: Implications for gender power relations

Dennis Puorideme and Lise Rolandsen Agustín

The impact of COVID-19 infection on labor outcomes of Mexican formal workers

Eva Arceo-Gomez, Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, Gerardo Esquivel, Eduardo Alcaraz, Luis A. Martinez and Norma G. Lopez

Education and agricultural household income: Comparative evidence from Vietnam and Thailand

Dai Binh Tran, Hanh Thi My Tran, Thao Dinh Ngoc Pham and Thuy Thanh Nguyen

Precarious work in the formal sector – Evidence from Ghana

Priscilla Twumasi Baffour and Emmanuel Abbey

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