World Development Perspectives
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Elsevier (RU) |
| ISSN | 2452-2929 / 2468-0532 |
| Scopus | 21100780469 |
| Wikidata | Q63883080 |
| OpenAlex | S2898425895 |
| MAG | 2898425895 |
| Website | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-development-perspectives |
| Total publications | 593 |
| Coverage period | 2016 - 2026 |
| Country | NL |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 330 |
| Impact factor | 0.929 |
| SJR | 0.79 (Q1) |
| SNIP | 1.306 |
| CiteScore | 4.4 |
| h-index | 5 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 0.038 |
| Overton policy citations | 2 |
| Female authorship share | 41.6% |
"World Development Perspectives" is a journal focused on development studies, which is explicitly listed as a related area for social anthropology. It examines global development issues from various perspectives, often incorporating social, cultural, and economic analyses relevant to anthropological research. This is a cognate social science venue with regular anthropological intersection
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Determinants of financial literacy and its impact on the financial inclusion of smallholder farmers in Osun state, Nigeria
Reframing women's participation in rural tourism
Resource efficiency in health care systems
How gender, power, and sexual relations shape women's access to fish in the fish supply chain of Lake Kivu, DRC
Does banking inclusion enhance banking performance in developing countries? A dynamic panel threshold regression analysis
Job satisfaction and migration intentions among PhD holders
The paradox of participation
Commute duration and subjective wellbeing in developing contexts
Noting that commute duration has increased over time and the negative relationship between commute time and wellbeing, this paper examines the relationship between commuting and wellbeing in a developing country context. The premise is that the welfare loss associated with increased travel time is not uniformly distributed and disproportionately affect those of lower socioeconomic status. Data is sourced from the Gauteng City-Region Observatory Q…
The reality of community engagement in humanitarian engineering projects
Centering a community's objectives within engineering decision-making is crucial in the development of robust and sustainable infrastructure, as it fosters a greater sense of autonomy for a community to maintain new technology over time. These considerations are not widely understood within engineering practice, resulting in a variety of approaches towards community engagement, many of which lack the processes to effectively integrate community c…
The double-edged sword of digital technology
Restoration of gold-mined degraded land for a sustainable environment and food production
Fragility by proxy
In the United States, racialized women are disproportionately responsible for unpaid care work and occupationally segregated into the paid care industry. Despite the importance of their labor, they are often devalued, resulting in poor compensation and exploitative working conditions that erode their health and well-being. For familial caregivers, this is compounded by gendered and cultural notions which demand their caring labor because of love …
Who are drop-out clients? A multi-year assessment of smallholder Farmers' Investment and repayment Behaviors in a microcredit program in Western Kenya
Microcredit programs in Africa are promoted as instruments for alleviating rural poverty by enabling smallholder farmers to access agricultural input loans. However, long-term participation dynamics and factors associated with client drop-out remain underexamined, particularly in contexts marked by socio-economic and structural inequalities. This study analyzes two years of portfolio data from approximately 20,000 smallholder farmers in Western K…
Civilizational mutual learning and cultural diplomacy
Factors associated with continued use of LPG for cooking over a two-month period in peri-urban Cameroon, Kenya and Ghana
To reduce household air pollution exposure, consistent use of clean cooking fuels (e.g. liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)) is needed. While several studies have investigated determinants of LPG adoption cross-sectionally, few have explored factors associated with its use over time. Two surveys were administered to primary cooks in three peri-urban communities: Mbalmayo, Cameroon; Obuasi, Ghana and Eldoret, Kenya, with an approximate two-month period …
Flood disasters, minority health, and community-led adaptations in Bangladesh's wetlands
This study explores the intersectional impacts of flood disasters on minority health within the unique context of Bangladesh's wetlands. Focusing on minority communities, it investigates the disproportionate vulnerabilities and health challenges they face during and after floods compared to the mainstream population. The research focuses into the intricate intersections of socio-economic disparities, cultural practices, and religious identity, ex…
Gender gap in agricultural productivity and crops selection
Toward Total empowerment
Contract farming through cooperatives and smallholder satisfaction
Contract farming (CF) through cooperatives represents a distinct hybrid governance structure that can strengthen smallholders' bargaining power while simultaneously resolving market failures in developing countries. This paper estimates the impact of CF through cooperatives on multiple dimensions of smallholders' satisfaction with production and marketing arrangements in Malawi's soybean sector. Using data collected from 504 farmers across five c…
Universal basic income and the purpose of work and labour
This article discusses the proposition that a Universal Basic Income provides an exit option from exploitative working conditions. This proposition has been defended from two perspectives. The liberal perspective looks at the proposition from the perspective of the individual human being and the liberal democratic constitution. The Marxian perspective looks at the collective level and the (a)symmetry of power relations between labour and capital.…
Trade costs and the stability of remittances outflows from developed countries
The impacts of agricultural commercialisation project on female farmers’ livelihood in Malawi
Supporting the transition from ‘beneficiary’ to ‘pivotal’ role in South-South Triangular Cooperation
South-South Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) is increasingly gaining traction as an international development approach, providing an intermediate modality between North-South and South-South Cooperation approaches. Successful implementation of SSTC-based approaches requires former beneficiary partners to transition to the role of pivotal partners. Based on our own experience with an agricultural-research-for-development (AR4D) project involving Camb…
Impacts of conditional cash transfers on subsistence practices and food security in rural forested areas of Southeastern Brazil
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become a widely used social protection approach, with well-documented impacts on child health, educational outcomes, food expenditure, and, in some contexts, diet quality. Their effects on labor allocation, however, remain debated, including indirect effects on productive activities. In remote, low-market-integrated rural contexts, reliance on natural resources is crucial. Introducing CCTs may shift the cost…
Role of credit access, improved varieties, and gender dynamics in commercialization of cassava seeds in Nigeria
Cassava seed entrepreneurship is critical for strengthening seed systems and advancing agricultural transformation in Nigeria. This study examines the determinants of smallholder participation in cassava seed entrepreneurship and simulates the effects of targeted policy interventions using survey data from 993 cassava farmers in Benue State. The analysis applies a binary logit framework with counterfactual scenario simulations and production-regi…
Governance of restoration and institutions
Understanding factors associated with agricultural mechanization
Novel governance for forest landscape restoration in Fandriana Marolambo, Madagascar
The mental health costs of human displacement
The making of resource frontier spaces in the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia
Forest frontiers are rapidly changing to sites of commodity agriculture throughout the tropics, with far-reaching transformations in landscapes and livelihoods. Many of the dynamics that drive frontier commodification are well-rehearsed since colonial times. Policies to deregulate markets, privatize or formalize land tenure and open borders to trade have stimulated resource exploitation. The accompanying territorial interventions such as new encl…
Social sustainability and the argan boom as green development in Morocco
Status and determinants of poverty and income inequality in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities
This paper analyzes poverty and its determinants and income inequality in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia. 2295 households from zone 1 and zone 2 of the Afar region were surveyed and examined using the FGT index, the Gini coefficient, and logistic regression. 47.6 percent of the households are poor, with poverty gap index of 0.178 and poverty severity index of 0.092. Food poverty accounts for 33.7 percent with an income gap of …
The endogeneity of domestic violence
Governing restoration
How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis
Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries. However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown. Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist…
Development and dependency in the periphery
A comparative measure of inclusive urbanisation in the cities of Africa
Gender and intergenerational challenges to Women's economic empowerment initiatives in Rwanda
The debate
A longitudinal study of agriculture households in Indonesia
Causality between income inequality and corruption in OECD countries
Effectiveness of mobile agri-advisory service extension model
This study examines the effectiveness of mobile as a novel approach for providing targeted and equitable agri-advisory services to farmers at scale. A cross-sectional survey of farmers registered on CABI's Direct2Farm (D2F) user database was undertaken using a combination of telephone interviews, household survey and focus group discussions covering six states in India. Results indicate that majority of farmers receive information from various so…
Institutional bricolage as a new perspective to analyse institutions of communal irrigation
Political ecology of climate change
Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end
The charcoal industry is among the most important semiformal economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and a key cash income source for local households who produce it. This has intensified the debate as to the role of income from charcoal production in the alleviation of rural poverty. While in a number of cases charcoal production has been identified as a potential alleviator of monetary poverty, this paper takes as its departure point a lack of a…
Against all policies
Governance innovations from a multi-stakeholder coalition to implement large-scale Forest Restoration in Brazil
Managing two locations
Lighting the path to sustainable development
Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals
Local views and structural determinants of poverty alleviation through payments for environmental services
Payments for environmental services (PES) are very often considered emblematic of the neoliberal trend in natural resources and ecosystem management. Even if they have been largely criticized as contributing to the commodification of nature, their worldwide application is obvious. The explanation of their diffusion in poor countries and regions can be partially attributed to the fact that PES are promoted as a “win–win” solution, capable of impro…
Impact of malaria control on infant mortality in Senegal
Determinants of loan repayment performance among borrowers of microfinance institutions
Jasmine cultivation in Tamil Nadu
Local agency at the intersection of global conservation discourse and the political economy of wildlife in Tanzania
A National Adaptation Programme of Action
This innovative sustainability case on Ethiopia’s National Adaptation Programme of Action was created through collaboration among professionals, scholars, students and media design professionals under the auspices of the Michigan Sustainability Case (MSC) initiative. It comprises a terse narrative about a decision maker, multimedia sources including a podcast that link to and enrich the text, and an engaged learning exercise that walks users thro…
The legitimation of development and GM crops
Towards a revolution in sustainability education
The challenges of sustainability and sustainable development are multifaceted and complex. Addressing them in the long run requires a revolution in the training of future generations of learners so that they can devise solutions for sustainability dilemmas in environments characterized by uncertainty, information deficits, and asymmetric power relationships. Such a revolution is under way in many disciplines. Within the field of sustainability st…
The politics of framing risk
Can nutrition be packaged and sold? The contradictions of a development policy debate
Interrogating the global health and development nexus
The endogeneity of domestic violence
The mental health costs of human displacement
Dynamics of multi-stakeholder engagement and its role in achieving high compliance of a tobacco control programme
Restoration through formalization? Assessing the potential of Peru’s Agroforestry Concessions scheme to contribute to restoration in agricultural frontiers in the Amazon region
Against all policies
Public-private partnerships for improved reforestation outcomes in the Philippines
Regional policy competition as an instrument for initiating governance innovations for forest nature conservation and restoration
An association of rural villagers leading by example at the landscape scale in Honduras
Governance of restoration and institutions
Communal management as a strategy for restoring cloud forest landscapes in Andean Ecuador
Nadi Bachao Samriddhi Lao – A forest landscape restoration initiative in Harda district, Madhya Pradesh, India
Making agricultural intervention attractive to farmers in Africa through inclusive innovation systems
Governing restoration
How to escape from a poverty trap