World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ashwini Chhatre

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2020, volume 19, articles C

Women’s empowerment, land and donor-driven agricultural interventions in Eastern Zambia

B.B. Umar, P.H. Nyanga, D. Chibamba and W.S. Nchito

Effects of neighborhood upgrading programs on domestic violence in Bolivia

Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren

“Selling the Dead”: More dignified options needed to assist widows in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan

Yvonne Su and Ladylyn Mangada

Conceptualizing and researching health equity in Africa through a political economy of health lens – Rwanda in perspective

Dennis Raphael and Morris Komakech

Effects of ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement on agricultural trade: The gravity model approach

Subhash Jagdambe and Elumalai Kannan

Women empowerment in Namibia: Measurement, determinants and geographical disparities

Lawrence N. Kazembe

Assessing governance of irrigation systems: A view from below

Margaret Akuriba, Rein Haagsma, Nico Heerink and Saa Dittoh

Migration, remittance, and agricultural productivity: Evidence from the Nepal Living Standard Survey

Kul Kapri and Shankar Ghimire

Multi-stakeholder platforms: Institutional options to achieve water security in the awash basin of Ethiopia

Reta Hailu and Degefa Tolossa

New development, old migration, and governance at two villages in Jeneponto, Indonesia

Nurlinah,, Haryanto, and Sunardi,

Assessing the economic impacts of post-harvest fisheries losses in Malawi

Elin C. Torell, Daniel M. Jamu, Geoffrey Z. Kanyerere, Levison Chiwaula, Joseph Nagoli, Patrick Kambewa, Alan Brooks and Peter Freeman

Impact of oil palm-related activities on women’s empowerment in Ghana

S. Etuah, K. Ohene-Yankyera, Robert Aidoo, J. Haleegoah, S. Wiggins and G. Henley

Loss of urban green spaces in Mafikeng, South Africa

C. Munyati and J.H. Drummond

Cash transfers for sustainable rural livelihoods? Examining the long-term productive effects of the Child Support Grant in South Africa

Flora Hajdu, Stefan Granlund, David Neves, Tessa Hochfeld, Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah and Emil Sandström

Children’s vulnerability to natural disasters: Evidence from natural experiments in Bangladesh

Ahsanuzzaman Ahsanuzzaman and Muhammad Q. Islam

Regional evidence of smallholder-based growth in Zambia’s livestock sector

Sarah Alobo Loison and Ellen Hillbom

Encouraging fertilizer adoption through risk free sales offer: A randomized control trial in Uganda

Annet Adong, James Tinker, David Levine, Swaibu Mbowa and Tony Odokonyero

Sugarcane outgrower schemes model: Friend or foe? A question for smallholder farmers in Mozambique

João Guilherme Dal Belo Leite, Felix Mario Langa, Graham von Maltitz, Manoel Regis Lima Verde Leal and Luís Augusto Barbosa Cortez

Assessment of capital expenditure in achieving sanitation-related MDG targets and the uncertainties of the SDG targets in Algeria

Nabil Kherbache and Kamal Oukaci

2020, volume 18, articles C

Nutritional status, poverty, and relative deprivation among socio-economic and gender groups in India: Is the growth inclusive?

Biswabhusan Bhuyan, Bimal Kishore Sahoo and Damodar Suar

Is there any interaction effect of mothers’ education and their bargaining power on children’s nutritional status? Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Mahbub Hossain

How effective are cluster development policies? Evidence from Uruguay

Diego Aboal, Gustavo Crespi and Marcelo Perera

The risk of survey bias in self-reports vs. actual consumption of clean cooking fuels

Abhishek Kar, Michael Brauer, Rob Bailis and Hisham Zerriffi

Managing the challenges of obtaining a social license to operate in the pre-mining phase: A focus on the oil sands communities in Ondo State, Nigeria

Adeyinka O. Omotehinse and Giorgio De Tomi

Global horticultural value chains, labour and poverty in Tanzania

Fabio De Blasis

Improved cookstoves as a pathway between food preparation and reduced domestic violence in Uganda

Juan Carlos Guzmán, Lila Kumar Khatiwada and Danice Brown Guzmán

Climate-smart agriculture, household income and asset accumulation among smallholder farmers in the Nyando basin of Kenya

Maurice Juma Ogada, Elizaphan J.O. Rao, Maren Radeny, John W. Recha and Dawit Solomon

When climate change is not psychologically distant – Factors influencing the acceptance of sustainable farming practices in the Mekong river Delta of Vietnam

Melanie Connor, Annalyn H. de Guia, Reianne Quilloy, Hung Van Nguyen, Martin Gummert and Bjoern Ole Sander

The debate: Is global development adapting to climate change?

E.L.F. Schipper, T. Tanner, O.P. Dube, K.M. Adams and S. Huq

What explains the gender differences in the adoption of multiple maize varieties? Empirical evidence from Uganda and Tanzania

Hailemariam Teklewold, Rahma I. Adam and Paswel Marenya

2020, volume 17, articles C

Big data and the electricity sector in African countries

Ijeoma Onyeji-Nwogu, Morgan Bazilian and Todd Moss

Economic globalization and regional income convergence: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Jun Zhao and John Serieux

Opportunities and struggles of decentralized governance reform for urban municipalities in India

Purva Sharma

What does autonomy mean for forest communities? The politics of transnational community forestry networks in Mesoamerica and the Congo Basin

Emilie Dupuits and Symphorien Ongolo

Bribery, motivations for bribery and life satisfaction in transitional countries

Timothy Hinks

Vietnam’s Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries: How do they perform against Ostrom’s institutional design principles?

Chi Nguyen Thi Quynh, Steven Schilizzi, Atakelty Hailu and Sayed Iftekhar

What are the determinant of international tourism in Tanzania?

Evelyn Wamboye, Peter John Nyaronga and Bruno S. Sergi

Social protection in Ghana and Kenya through an inclusive development Lens. Complex effects and risks

Nicky R.M. Pouw, Barbara Rohregger, Esther Schüring, Kennedy A. Alatinga, Bethuel Kinuthia and Katja Bender

Which aid targets poor at the sub-national level?

K.C. Dipendra

Determinants of the adoption of mobile phones for fruit marketing by Vietnamese farmers

Hung Gia Hoang

2019, volume 16, articles C

Designing interventions in local value chains for improved health and nutrition: Insights from Malawi

Jason Donovan and Aulo Gelli

Forgone opportunities of large-scale agricultural investment: A comparison of three models of soya production in Central Mozambique

Sophia Baumert, Janet Fisher, Casey Ryan, Emily Woollen, Frank Vollmer, Luis Artur, Pedro Zorrilla-Miras and Mansour Mahamane

Universal income in developing countries: Issues, options, and illustration for India

David Coady and Delphine Prady

Institutional capital, urban poverty and household wealth in Cape Town

Singumbe Muyeba

Recognizing the dynamics of household water insecurity in the rapidly changing polar north: Expected uncertainties in access, quality, and consumption patterns in Niugtaq (Newtok), Alaska

Laura Eichelberger

Engaging youth in conversations about community and forests: Methodological reflections from Asia, Africa, and the Americas

James P. Robson, Hugo Asselin, Miriam Castillo, Leigh Fox, Scott Francisco, Birendra Karna, Amanda Karst, Julia Quaedvlieg, Michelle Sanchez Luja, Maria Paula Sarigumba, Marlene Soriano, Fermín Sosa Pérez, Sarah J. Wilson and Julio Zetina

Collective action and heterogeneous welfare effects: Evidence from Ethiopian villages

Dambala Gelo and Johane Dikgang

Do social protection programs improve life satisfaction? Evidence from Iraq

Talajeh Livani and Carol Graham

Enhancing livestock vaccination decision-making through rapid diagnostic testing

Ashley F. Railey, Felix Lankester, Tiziana Lembo, Richard Reeve, Gabriel Shirima and Thomas Marsh

2019, volume 15, articles C

Dissemination pathways for drought-tolerant rice cultivars: A farmer-participatory evaluation in the Philippines pp. -

Aurora M. Corales, Royette C. Santos, Niño M.C. Banayo, Crisanta S. Bueno, David E. Johnson and Yoichiro Kato

Evaluating producer preferences and information processing strategies for drought risk management tools in Bangladesh pp. -

David Ortega, Patrick Ward and Vincenzina Caputo

On the ground in sunny Mexico: A case study of consumer perceptions and willingness to pay for solar-powered devices pp. -

Anna Ebers Broughel

Can cash transfers mitigate child labour? Evidence from Indonesia’s cash transfer programme for poor students in Java pp. -

Achsanah Hidayatina and Arlene Garces-Ozanne

Patrons of disaster: The role of political patronage in flood response in the Solomon Islands pp. -

Carl Adams and Andreas Neef

Status and determinants of poverty and income inequality in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities: Household-based evidence from Afar Regional State, Ethiopia pp. -

Araya M. Teka, Gabriel Temesgen Woldu and Zeremariam Fre