World Development Perspectives

2016 - 2025

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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 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

2020, volume 20, articles C

Climate and farmers’ willingness to pay for improved irrigation water supply

Kidanemariam Abreha Gebretsadik and Eirik Romstad

World librarians: A socio-technical system providing library search services to offline schools and libraries in Malawi

Charles M. Schweik, Carl Meyer, Pempho Chinkondenji, Jeremy Smith and Promise Mchenga

Improving living conditions of displacees: A review of the evidence benefit sharing scheme for development induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) in urban Jakarta Indonesia

Puput Ichwatus Sholihah and Shaojun Chen

Index-based weather insurance for perennial crops: A case study on insurance supply and demand for cocoa farmers in Ghana

Lydia Afriyie-Kraft, Astrid Zabel and Lawrence Damnyag

Social sustainability and the argan boom as green development in Morocco

Wendy Perry

Can climate information salvage livelihoods in arid and semiarid lands? An evaluation of access, use and impact in Namibia

Zachary M. Gitonga, Martine Visser and Chalmers Mulwa

The insertion of Mexico into the global value chain of berries

María Guadalupe González-Ramírez, Vinicio Horacio Santoyo-Cortés, José Jaime Arana-Coronado and Manrrubio Muñoz-Rodríguez

Resilience capacities and household nutrition in the presence of shocks. Evidence from Malawi

Conrad Murendo, Grace Kairezi and Kizito Mazvimavi

Citizen participation dilemmas in water governance: An empirical case of Kumasi, Ghana

Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Matthew Abunyewah, Joseph Edusei and Emmanuel Buernor Alimo

Local incentive structures and the constitution of community-based enterprises in the forest

Silvia Pinheiro, Maria L. Granados and Manaira Assunção

Participation in UTZ-RA voluntary cocoa certification scheme and its impact on smallholder welfare: Evidence from Ghana

Mubarak Iddrisu, Robert Aidoo and Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa

Vulnerability mapping: A conceptual framework towards a context-based approach to women’s empowerment

Christie M. Gressel, Tarek Rashed, Laura Aswati Maciuika, Srividya Sheshadri, Christopher Coley, Sreeram Kongeseri and Rao R Bhavani

Female matters: Impact of a workfare program on intra-household female decision-making in rural India

Anirudh Tagat

Dissemination and perception of adaptation co-benefits: Insights from the coastal area of Bangladesh

Syed Mahbubur Rahman and Akihisa Mori

Why fungibility of development aid can be good news: Pakistan case study

Zunera Rana and Dirk-Jan Koch

Strategy for the development of agro-based clusters

Keijiro Otsuka and Mubarik Ali

Understanding the past to plan for the future: The small-scale fisheries at Ilha Grande Bay, Brazil

Rodrigo Rodrigues De Freitas, Cristiana Simão Seixas and Sônia Regina Da Cal Seixas

Does the microcredit intervention change the life of the low- and middle-income households in rural Vietnam? Evidence from panel data

Nguyen Dinh Dao

Women’s approach to farming in the context of feminization of agriculture: A case study from the middle hills of Nepal

Kc Bhawana and Digby Race

A longitudinal study of agriculture households in Indonesia: The effect of land and labor mobility on welfare and poverty dynamics

Faizal Moeis, Teguh Dartanto, Jossy Prananta Moeis and Mohamad Ikhsan

Information acquisition and the adoption of a new rice variety towards the development of sustainable agriculture in rural villages in Central Vietnam

Thi Quynh Anh Le, Yasuharu Shimamura and Hiroyuki Yamada

The Flyer’s dilemma and the Logger’s case for climate justice

Matthew Jurjonas and Lesly Aldana

To what extent should farm households diversify? Implications on multidimensional poverty in Ghana

Gilbert Dagunga, Micheal Ayamga and Gideon Danso-Abbeam

Caste-ing wider nets of credit: A mixed methods analysis of informal lending and caste relations in Bihar

Madhulika Khanna and Shruti Majumdar

Designing pro-poor mobile financial services: Learning from the financial diaries of urban poor in India

Raman Saxena and Ravi Mokashi Punekar

The most marginalized people in Uganda? Alternative realities of Batwa at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Christine Ampumuza, Martijn Duineveld and René van der Duim

Addressing gendered varietal and trait preferences in West African maize

Amare Tegbaru, Abebe Menkir, Mohamed Nasser Baco, Latifou Idrisou, Dioukou Sissoko, Ayinde O. Eyitayo, Tsedeke Abate and Abdoulaye Tahirou

Aid to Africa’s agriculture towards building physical capital: Empirical evidence and implications for post-COVID-19 food insecurity

Edward Asiedu, Sylvester S. Sadekla and Godfred A. Bokpin

Adapting to drought and extreme climate: Hunger Safety Net Programme, Kenya

Carol Maione