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{"title":"An overview of financial subsidy programs in Vietnamese fisheries during the past 25 years: An evaluation and recommendations towards improved future mechanisms","authors":"Phuong Viet Le ,&nbsp;Luong Trong Nguyen ,&nbsp;Khanh Quoc Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100704","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100704","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fisheries subsidies have been implemented for decades in many countries as a mechanism to support food security, livelihood and sustainable fisheries. However, there have been increasing concerns about the effectiveness, controllability, and relationship between subsidies and overfishing, and fisheries resource degradations since the early 1990 s. Because of the importance of marine fisheries in social economic development and national food security, the Vietnamese government introduced the first fisheries subsidies in 1997. After that three more subsidy programs were implemented in 2008, 2010, and 2014 with targeting on offshore fishing fleet development. This study provides an overview of the context, contents, application, achievement, and limitations of those four Vietnamese fisheries subsidies during the past 25 years. A total of more than $1.5 billion has been distributed for loans, quasi-lump sum fuel cost support, and insurance programs to improve fishing capacity and operation. The number of Vietnamese offshore fishing boats substantially increased from 2,891 boats in 1996 to 34,825 boats in 2023 partly based on those capital credit programs. However, subsidy schemes have shown several limitations. All of these have been discussed in this paper, in addition to recommendations of possible strategies for reform. The paper can help policy makers and managers to better design for future fisheries development programs to align with the World Trade Organization’s agreement on fisheries subsidies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100704"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public and household financing of education in India: are they substitutes or complements?","authors":"Aswathy Rachel Varughese ,&nbsp;Indrajit Bairagya","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100703","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100703","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study investigates the relationship between public and household education expenditures in India from 1987 to 2018, using data from the National Sample Survey. Unlike previous studies that often considered education financing in isolation, this study employs an Intertemporal Utility Maximization framework to estimate the substitutability or complementarity between these expenditures. The analysis is based on the Auspitz-Lieben-Edgeworth-Pareto (ALEP) approach, diverging from the traditional Hicks-Allen method. By doing so, it extends the theoretical literature on the substitutability and complementarity of these expenditures under the ALEP framework. Empirical findings, derived from the Generalised Method of Moments in dynamic panel data analysis, indicate that public and household education expenditures in India are complementary. Specifically, increased public spending on education enhances the marginal utility of household education expenditure. These results are consistent under both linear and non-linear utility function specifications. The study concludes by emphasizing the importance of increasing public spending to provide essential amenities, thereby encouraging Indian households to invest more in their children’s education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100703"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144514112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(Re)making landscapes into resources: the role of Hass avocado plantations in Salamina, Colombia","authors":"Andres Suarez","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100695","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100695","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The landscape of Salamina (Caldas, Colombia) has historically fulfilled multiple functions and undergone diverse transformations. The expansion of Hass avocado plantations (HAP) has marked a significant shift, redefining the landscape from a space of peasant self-sufficiency and social reproduction—characterized by landscape use-values—to a market-driven asset centered on the extraction of ecological surplus, represented as landscape exchange-values. This transition has been propelled by market compulsions, reinforced in recent years by the Hass avocado boom. This article applies a critical resource geography perspective to examine how land is reconfigured through the process of resource-making. It identifies the socio-historical, political, economic, and material factors that converge to facilitate HAP expansion, emphasizing the role of the state-capital nexus in enabling the commodification and exploitation of Salamina’s landscape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100695"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144470612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards community-driven rural development: Path of women group in empowering rural Women’s capacities and role in rural development","authors":"Adzani Ameridyani ,&nbsp;Minori Tokito ,&nbsp;Izuru Saizen","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100700","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100700","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increase in rural-development issues demand a shift from a highly centralised to a more decentralised development strategy. The Indonesian government has been implementing programs and policies to promote community-driven development that encourages participatory decision-making processes among marginalised groups, including rural women, at the local level. Whereas the Indonesian government has implemented several policies and programs aimed at promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, gender-mainstreaming strategies remain inadequately implemented at the local level, particularly in rural communities. Consequently, most women’s participation is limited to instrumental purposes only. This empirical study investigates the role, challenges, and strategy of women groups in decentralising rural development based on an actual case of women’s group formation in Kampung Areng, West Java, Indonesia, known as Kelompok Karya Ibu (KKI). To address the degrading environmental conditions of their village, KKI aims to improve the cattle waste-treatment system using biogas slurry for vermicompost production. KKI’s vermicompost production promotes zero-waste biogas, generates secondary income from vermicompost communal sales, and improves the community social network. Findings from social-network analysis indicate that the KKI’s collective effort not only enhances the socioeconomic status of the members but also contributes to the village’s overall socioeconomic development. KKI’s high betweenness centrality positions it as an intermediary that connects other nodes in Kampung Areng’s social network. KKI bridges relations between local and external actors, thus enabling knowledge and capital distribution from external actors to the Kampung Areng community, and vice versa. Results from ego-network analysis bolstered confidence in KKI’s role in bridging and circulating resources among local and external actors participating in Kampung Areng’s community-based cattle-farming waste management. Based on the case of KKI, our study reinforces previous evidence suggesting the significance of strong bonding in rural-community capacity building, particularly in amplifying the implementation and deliverability of the local initiative. Extending prior research, we discovered that the experience and knowledge obtained from local initiatives, which are bolstered through initial strong community bonding, foster mutual knowledge sharing with external actors, thus resulting in the bridging and linking of social capital. These findings are significant to policymakers, nongovernmental organisations, and other stakeholders involved in promoting rural development and women’s empowerment in rural communities. They highlight the necessity for concerted efforts to promote the participation of rural women in the development and planning process through policies that account for their unique demands and challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144366361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Colonial education disparity, contemporary institutions, and long-run economic performance","authors":"Yeti Nisha Madhoo,&nbsp;Shyam Nath","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100697","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100697","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We posit that colonial education disparity (relative to colonizer nations) at independence, reflecting dominant exploitative motives of colonists and initial drawback due to colonial illiteracy policy, to be exogenous determinant of long-run quality of institutions. A novel weighted colonial education disparity (CED) index is constructed capturing <em>early</em> versus <em>late</em> demise of colonialism, and the difference between uneducated population in a formerly <em>colonized</em> country at independence versus that in <em>colonizer</em> nations. Cross-country results suggest that CED impacts economic development via institutional quality channel. Robust OLS and 2SLS findings show that colonial education disparity directly harms long-run institutional quality whereas settler mortality rate works indirectly through the CED channel. The new historic CED index seems to be a plausible instrument for institutional measures. Additional results support the direct role of geography and the disease environment in shaping development outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100697"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144314306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Traders and agri-food value chain resilience: the case of maize in Myanmar","authors":"Joseph Goeb ,&nbsp;Cho Cho San ,&nbsp;Ben Belton ,&nbsp;Nang Lun Kham Synt ,&nbsp;Nilar Aung ,&nbsp;Mywish Maredia ,&nbsp;Bart Minten","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100699","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100699","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Myanmar has experienced a sequence of severe crises beginning in 2019 including the unexpected closure of a principal trade route, COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions, and a military coup leading to years of disruptions in the banking and transport sectors, inflation, and conflict. Despite these cascading shocks Myanmar’s maize sector experienced robust growth in production and exports. This paper examines the key factors underlying this apparent paradox. Our findings contribute to the small but growing literatures on agri-food value chain (AVC) resilience and adaptation by traders – an area of increasing interest from policymakers and development partners due to its important implications for food security and welfare. Using data from several sources, including rare panel data sets of traders and farmers and key informant interviews, we show that crop traders were central to the resilience of Myanmar’s maize value chain during this turbulent period. High global maize prices incentivized traders to adapt and continue trading despite the risks and disruptions, allowing them to perform three critical functions contributing to resilience: (i) market discovery when primary trade routes were closed; (ii) overcoming transportation disruptions and bank closures to move maize from the farmgate to local and export markets; (iii) maintaining flows of credit to farmers throughout the crises in the form of selling inputs on credit and direct cash lending, injecting much needed liquidity amid disruptions in the banking sector and rising input prices. These findings highlight how trader-driven adaptations, supported by favorable prices and returns, sustained the sector’s growth through profound economic and political uncertainty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100699"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144320928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The dynamics of crop diversity and seed use in the context of recurrent climate shocks and poverty: Seasonal panel data evidence from rural Uganda","authors":"Clifton Makate ,&nbsp;Arild Angelsen ,&nbsp;Teshome Hunduma Mulesa ,&nbsp;Ola Tveitereid Westengen","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100698","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100698","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change and variability impact smallholders’ use of seeds from different sources. Empirical studies of smallholders’ use of crop diversity and seed provide essential evidence for the continued adaptation of seed policies to changing climatic conditions. We address two key questions: (i) How do smallholders in Uganda use off-farm seed sourcing and crop diversity in response to climate shocks and variability? and (ii) How do differences in socioeconomic status influence smallholders’ crop diversity and seed use? We analyze household seasonal panel data from the Uganda National Panel Survey, complemented by high-resolution climate data. Smallholder farmers maintain high crop diversity. About half of the farmers purchase part of the seeds used, and more farmers buy local than improved varieties. Fewer than 5% of farmers buy certified seed, and the purchase of Quality Declared Seed is at about the same level. Exposure to less-than-normal rainfall over the previous five years is associated with higher crop diversification, more seed purchases, and more farm-saving of seeds. Farmers experiencing long-term rainfall variability increase seed purchasing, particularly of improved varieties, and reduce seed saving. These findings suggest that crop diversity, variety type, and seed source are integral to farmers’ strategies for coping with and adapting to climate shocks. Wealthier farmers are more likely to diversify and increase off-farm seed purchases in response to drought shocks, highlighting unequal access to these adaptation strategies. Realizing the adaptation potential in crop diversity and seeds will require policy coherence and concomitant implementation of social protection programs with seed system interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100698"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144314305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring poverty in Tanzania: Comparison of diary and recall approaches to food consumption data collection","authors":"Akuffo Amankwah ,&nbsp;Darcey Jeanne Genou Johnson ,&nbsp;Josephine Ofori Adofo ,&nbsp;Maryam Gul ,&nbsp;Amparo Palacios-Lopez","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100696","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100696","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Consumption data from household surveys continue to be the main source for poverty and inequality statistics in low- and middle-income countries. Although recent research has demonstrated that the choice of diary- versus recall-based methods for food consumption data collection can directly impact poverty measurement, the available evidence stems largely from small-scale, subnational survey experiments. This study uses data from a nationally representative randomized survey experiment in Tanzania to provide a comparative assessment of how household consumption and poverty measures may be impacted by relying on a 14-day food consumption diary versus two variants of a 7-day recall-based food consumption data collection. Both descriptive and regression analytical approaches were employed. The results reveal significant differences in food consumption expenditures across the diary and recall arms, and these differences result in some variations in total consumption expenditures as well. The results show further that while the diary method captures more diversity in food consumption items, the overall food consumption expenditure appears significantly lower than in the recall arms, even at different percentiles. Despite these disparities, the paper finds little statistically significant difference in poverty headcount between the diary and recall arms, even at different thresholds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100696"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144279900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards an ‘Ethics of Evidence’: Unsettling knowledge inequalities in urban development practice","authors":"Stephanie Butcher ,&nbsp;Kazi Nazrul Fattah ,&nbsp;Jennifer Dam ,&nbsp;Rewa Marathe","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100689","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100689","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Globally, ‘evidence-based’ approaches within urban development policy and planning are on the rise. However, terms such as data, evidence, research, information, and knowledge are often used interchangeably, which can obscure epistemological differences on the understandings of <em>knowledge.</em> Taking cues from Southern scholars, this article unpacks the epistemological underpinnings which shape how knowledge—and therefore evidence—are understood. To do so, this article focuses on three concepts which have a strong influence on global evidence discourse: objectivity, rigour, and value for money, unsettling their rationalities and manifestations in contemporary urban development practice. This paper argues that the turn towards evidence—while fundamental to addressing global challenges—also embodies many of the characteristics of a ‘boundary concept’, with sufficient interpretive flexibility to foster collaboration across a range of diverse stakeholders, but with risks attached to its conceptual fuzziness. This article concludes by calling for an ‘ethics of evidence’, which challenges the uneven geographies of knowledge, and draws out the implications for an approach to evidence which engages with how urban developmental challenges are understood, measured, and managed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100689"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144240942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local tourism as financial and economic development driver of the community: Management aspect","authors":"Nadiya Bakalo ,&nbsp;Viktoriia Makhovka ,&nbsp;Iryna Krekoten ,&nbsp;Alla Glebova ,&nbsp;Svitlana Kulakova","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100693","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100693","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study aims to analyse the role of local tourism in strengthening the financial and economic potential of the community through the optimisation of management processes and implementation of sustainable development strategies. The research methodology included an analysis of various areas of tourism, such as cultural, ecological, gastronomic, event and medical, which affect the development of the local economy, support small and medium-sized businesses and contribute to the creation of new jobs. The study is based on the analysis of local tourism in the Poltava region, which has a rich historical and cultural potential and significant natural resources. The results showed that local tourism significantly stimulates the development of the regional economy by increasing revenues to local budgets and supporting entrepreneurs. At the same time, it promotes the preservation of cultural heritage and natural resources, ensuring responsible use in the context of sustainable development. An important part of local tourism is cultural exchange, which deepens the interaction between tourists and local communities, promoting mutual understanding and preserving national identity. The impact of COVID-19 on the growth of interest in domestic tourism, as well as the impact of the war in Ukraine on the tourism industry, was highlighted. The war has created significant challenges, such as a decline in tourist flows due to security threats and the destruction of infrastructure. However, the role of domestic tourism, and volunteer and patriotic initiatives is growing, contributing to the economic support of local communities. Rebuilding infrastructure and developing new tourism products after the war will be essential for regional economic recovery and social stability. The study highlights the importance of cooperation between the state, business and local communities to ensure sustainable tourism development in the post-war period.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100693"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}