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Community participation and effective water management: A study on water user organizations (WUOs) in Thailand 社区参与和有效的水资源管理：对泰国用水者组织（WUOs）的研究

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100589

Pavisorn Chuenchum , Chitchanuwat Meneesrikum , Chaiyraweepat Teerapanuchaikul , Anurak Sriariyawat

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A systems approach to understanding the interconnected factors affecting rural development: A case study from Türkiye 以系统方法理解影响农村发展的相互关联因素：图尔基耶案例研究

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100588

Ummugulsum Zor , Ayla Esen , Murad Canbulut , Nevran Karaca , Gencay Karakaya , Ipek Turker

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Peace-centred sustainable development: An analysis of SDG 16 in the Arab states 以和平为中心的可持续发展：对阿拉伯国家可持续发展目标 16 的分析

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100587

Sansom Milton , Mohammad Alhamawi

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Yemen's humanitarian collaboration during conflict: UN and local NGOs in focus 也门冲突期间的人道主义合作：聚焦联合国和当地非政府组织

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-04-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100585

Moosa Elayah, Rawan Al-Mansori

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Carbon pricing for sustainable transition in India 碳定价促进印度的可持续转型

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100586

Sweta Sen , Pravakar Sahoo

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Changing land and labour relations on cocoa farms in Sefwi, Ghana: Continuity and change 加纳塞夫维可可农场不断变化的土地和劳动关系：延续与变化

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100584

Joseph Awetori Yaro , Joseph Kofi Teye , Steve Wiggins

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Trends in out-of-pocket health expenditure inequality in Turkey under comprehensive health reforms 全面医疗改革下土耳其自费医疗支出不平等的趋势

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100583

Songul Cinaroglu

{"title":"Trends in out-of-pocket health expenditure inequality in Turkey under comprehensive health reforms","authors":"Songul Cinaroglu","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100583","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The success of Turkey's inclusive health policies has served as a strategic tool for building progressivity and improving social welfare. The objective of this study is to examine the inequality trend in out of pocket (OOP) health expenditures in Turkey. Data from the Turkish Statistical Institute's Household Budget Survey conducted in 2015 and 2019 were used to measure inequalities in OOP total health, pharmaceutical and hospital expenditure variables across socioeconomic status. Decomposition analysis was conducted to identify the factors contributing to inequalities. The study findings demonstrate that OOP health expenditure is higher among the poor in Turkey. Evidence suggests that in Turkey inequalities in OOP health expenditures continue to persist. The results show that OOP health, pharmaceutical, and hospital expenditures increased from 2015 to 2019. The inequality index and curve approaches reveal that the pro-rich distribution of OOP health expenditures is remarkable from 2015 to 2019. The burden of OOP pharmaceutical and hospital services expenditures stands on the shoulders of poor households. Progressive universalism is essential to achieve poverty alleviation strategies and reduce inequality for egalitarian development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"34 ","pages":"Article 100583"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140187654","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}

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Edge of a Precipice: Multi-Party electoral violence in Jirapa Municipal in Ghana before and after the 2020 national elections 悬崖边缘：2020 年全国大选前后加纳吉拉帕市的多党选举暴力事件

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100581

Thaddeus Arkum Aasoglenang , Francis Kwasi Amoah , Libanus Susan

{"title":"Edge of a Precipice: Multi-Party electoral violence in Jirapa Municipal in Ghana before and after the 2020 national elections","authors":"Thaddeus Arkum Aasoglenang , Francis Kwasi Amoah , Libanus Susan","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100581","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Countries in Africa experience both violent and non-violent conflicts during elections. Ghana, specifically Jirapa Municipality, has experienced this challenge in eight national elections since 1992. The Theory of Social Identity was used to establish the theoretical framework. The mixed research design for data collection and analyses was adopted. The study administered household questionnaires with a sample size of 400, and interviewed 15 key informants. The questionnaires were analyzed descriptively using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22 while the interviews were analyzed using the thematic analysis. The results showed that the major multiple causal factors responsible for the periodic violence were youth unemployment, political parties/politicians seeking re-election, clientelism and inadequate political education. These have had an effect on the social structure of the community relative to weakened communal cohesion, reduced loyalty to traditional leaders, voter apathy, weak public institutions, slowed down economic activities and general distortion of democratic development. The study recommends that the dictates of chapter nine of the 1992 Fourth Republican Constitution of Ghana should be strictly followed by public institutions in charge of electoral governance without biases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"34 ","pages":"Article 100581"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140179994","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}

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Community groups as an enabler for access to livelihood capitals, deprivation of which contributes to multidimensional poverty in rural Uganda 社区团体是获得生计资本的促进因素，而生计资本的匮乏导致了乌干达农村地区的多层面贫困

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100582

Charlotte Arinaitwe

{"title":"Community groups as an enabler for access to livelihood capitals, deprivation of which contributes to multidimensional poverty in rural Uganda","authors":"Charlotte Arinaitwe","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100582","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using the 2016/2017 and 2019/2020 Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS), this study analyses the effect of saving and credit community groups, both cooperatives and associations, on multidimensional poverty. Access to livelihood capitals reduces poverty. Poverty being a rural phenomenon in Uganda, this study assesses whether households in rural Uganda with community group members have access to livelihood capitals. The study also examined the effect of non-membership in a community group on multidimensional poverty and whether being multidimensionally poor affects membership in community groups. The Alkire-Foster method is applied to calculate the Adjusted Headcount Ratio (M0), which is used in the propensity score model to establish the effect of membership in a community group on household multidimensional poverty. Analysis of how the estimated multidimensional poverty varies with the estimated propensity score is achieved using the estimated Average Treatment Effect of the Treated (ATET) obtained with four matching methods (nearest neighbour, radius, kernel, and stratification). Findings reveal that community groups enable rural dwellers to access livelihood capitals, hence enabling them to overcome their multiple deprivations and reducing their likelihood of being multidimensionally poor. Membership in community groups is robustly linked to a decreased probability of being multidimensionally poor by over 3 percentage points.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"34 ","pages":"Article 100582"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140162670","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}

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A financial maturity model for the empowerment of women’s saving groups 增强妇女储蓄团体能力的财务成熟度模型

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100573

Sandrine Bonin , Tarek Rashed , Rajiv Nair , Seema Chaudhary , Bhanu V.R. , Amritha Natarajan , Rao Bhavani

{"title":"A financial maturity model for the empowerment of women’s saving groups","authors":"Sandrine Bonin , Tarek Rashed , Rajiv Nair , Seema Chaudhary , Bhanu V.R. , Amritha Natarajan , Rao Bhavani","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100573","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Women's microfinance groups are increasingly recognized as a space for empowerment, access to financial and social capital, and personal growth. However, few studies have attempted to evaluate these groups' performance, as evidenced by the lack of adequate instruments to measure their success. This study proposes and tests a financial maturity model (FMM) for assessing and monitoring women's groups' performance and supporting effective intervention design. The proposed FMM was conceived based on applicable theoretical and operational frameworks for women's groups. Three groups of grassroots stakeholders validated and ranked the FMM constructs in terms of their importance. A sample of 31 Self-Help Groups in rural India was utilized to test the applicability of the FMM. One of the most important findings relates to the necessity of enhancing the loan management capabilities of groups, including loan repayment, identification of defaulters, delinquency ratio, risk management, and financial reporting. These results can provide stakeholders with baseline measures for designing and implementing interventions to improve the performance and sustainability of women's groups, as well as testing the efficacy of these interventions. While FMM was developed in the Indian context with 7 million registered groups, it has the potential to be adapted in other international contexts to inform decision-making in low- and middle-income countries where women's economic groups are promoted for socioeconomic empowerment and poverty reduction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":"34 ","pages":"Article 100573"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140113531","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}

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