World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ashwini Chhatre

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2022, volume 26, articles C

Estimating China’s relative and multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from micro-level data of 6145 rural households

Junping Guo, Song Qu and Tiehui Zhu

Tribal economic development & entrepreneurship: A latin american perspective

Raul Gouvea, Leonardo Lehneman and Branca Terra

Understanding the relationship between income inequality and pollution: A fresh perspective with cross-country evidence

Monica Das and Sudip Ranjan Basu

Household resilience among fish value chain actors during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi

Levison S. Chiwaula, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Jupiter Simbeye and Mangani Katundu

Intersectional discrimination against women and girls with disabilities in educational opportunities in India

Saikat Ghosh, Lahari Chakraborty and Kaushik Basu

Why the poor pay higher energy prices: Evidence from Tanzania

Michael Olabisi and Robert B. Richardson

Growing cocoa today to preserve it for tomorrow

Barbara Wilson

Examining sanitation services for human excreta in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Andrea McFarland, Zerihun Getaneh Workneh and Avery Carlson

Livelihood considerations in land-use decision-making: Cocoa and mining in Ghana

Erich K. Eberhard, Jessica Hicks, Adam C. Simon and Brian K. Arbic

Futures of conservation funding: Can Indonesia sustain financing of the Bird’s Head Seascape?

Katherine Browne, Laure Katz and Arun Agrawal

Urbanizing the Eternal City: How did the ancient Romans transform and adapt to Rome’s riverine landscape?

Andrea L. Brock

How healthy and food secure is the urban food environment in Ghana?

Jonathan Mockshell, Sylvester O. Ogutu, Diego Álvarez, Collins Asante-Addo and Felix A. Asante

The marginalization of southern researchers in Development

Veronica Amarante and Julieta Zurbrigg

Tenancy and energy choices in Rwanda. A replication and extension study

Rebecca A. Klege, Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah and Martine Visser

Changing a leopard's spots or how people spot leopards? Managing human – leopard interactions in urban India

M. Vikas, Vidya Athreya and Sunil Limaye

The cost of sustainable palm oil: Should an Indonesian smallholder pursue RSPO-certification?

Elizabeth Oliphant and Adam C. Simon

The world’s electronic graveyard: What is the solution to Ghana’s e-waste dilemma?

Anne Canavati, Jayson Toweh, Adam C. Simon and Brian K. Arbic

2022, volume 25, articles C

Does institutional trust and governance matter for multidimensional well-being? Insights from Pakistan

Muhammad Hassan Danish and Shahzada Muhammad Naeem Nawaz

A coal renaissance is not coming to Africa

Jacob Kincer, Todd Moss and Mark Thurber

The slow transition to solar, wind and other non-hydro renewables in Africa – Responding to and building on a critique by Kincer, Moss and Thurber (2021)

Philipp A. Trotter

Endogeneity in water use behaviour across case studies of household water treatment adoption in developing countries

D. Daniel, Saket Pande and Luuk Rietveld

Anticipating gender impacts in scaling innovations for agriculture: Insights from the literature

Erin McGuire, Anne M. Rietveld, Amanda Crump and Cees Leeuwis

Food security, poverty and household resilience to COVID-19 in Burkina Faso: Evidence from urban small traders’ households

Youmanli Ouoba and Natéwindé Sawadogo

Is overweight still a problem of rich in sub-Saharan Africa? Insights based on female-oriented demographic and health surveys

Bertille Daran and Pierre Levasseur

Indigenous South Sudanese understanding of women empowerment

Winnifred Bedigen

Assessing nuanced social networks and its implication for climate change adaptation in northwestern Ghana

Rahinatu S. Alare, Elaine T. Lawson, Adelina Mensah, Armand Yevide and Prosper Adiku

Understanding the impacts of waste disposal site closure on the livelihood of local communities in africa: A case study of the kiteezi landfill in Kampala, Uganda

Shamim Aryampa, Basant Maheshwari, Elly N. Sabiiti, Najib L. Bateganya and Christopher Olobo

Association between rural electrification and agricultural output: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Salome Amuakwa-Mensah and Yves Surry

The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso

Pierre Ozer, Adama Dembele, Simplice S. Yameogo, Elodie Hut and Florence de Longueville

Farmyard manure use and adoption of agricultural mechanization among smallholders in the Mahottari District, Nepal

Ashok Kumar Chaudhary, Ram Pandit and Michael Burton

Women’s participation in household decisions and gender equality in children’s education: Evidence from rural households in Pakistan

Sundus Saleemi and Chiara Kofol

What drives Pakistan’s coal-fired power plant construction boom? Understanding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’s energy portfolio

Rishikesh Ram Bhandary and Kelly Sims Gallagher

China’s withdrawal from overseas coal in context

Cecilia Han Springer

Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals

Jean-Pierre Cling and Clément Delecourt

Primary healthcare effects of a well-designed anti-corruption program

Marislei Nishijima, Randall Ellis and Regina C. Cati

The forgotten coal: Charcoal demand in sub-Saharan Africa

Julian Rose, Gunther Bensch, Anicet Munyehirwe and Jörg Peters

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 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