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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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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

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Fertility responses to cash transfers in Uruguay 乌拉圭对现金转移的生育反应

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100574

Cecilia Parada

{"title":"Fertility responses to cash transfers in Uruguay","authors":"Cecilia Parada","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have been the most used tool to reduce poverty and inequality in developing countries in the last decades. In addition to the objectives pursued by these programs, it has been shown that they can have unintended effects on different dimensions. Particularly, they can have an impact on fertility due to an increase in the household's income. This paper examines the relationship between non-labor income and women's childbearing behavior in a developing country. The assignment mechanism of the Uruguayan cash transfer program Asignaciones Familiares – Plan de Equidad (AFAM-PE) alters non-labor incomes across the applicant’s households. I estimate the impact of this program on women's fertility and teenage pregnancy. The identification strategy exploits the discontinuity present in the program eligibility criteria. I combined longitudinal vital statistics provided by the Ministry of Public Health and administrative data to assemble a panel of AFAM-PE applicants aged between 15 and 49 (in 2008 and 2009). The study finds no statistically significant impact of AFAM-PE on fertility rates or teenage pregnancy. These results are robust to different specifications and women samples. This provides evidence against the idea that transfer programs targeting disadvantaged individuals generate a direct effect on fertility.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139993236","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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Ministerial musical chairs: Does leadership turnover undermine the effectiveness of World Bank education aid? 部长级音乐椅：领导层更替是否会削弱世界银行教育援助的有效性？

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100572

Biniam Bedasso

{"title":"Ministerial musical chairs: Does leadership turnover undermine the effectiveness of World Bank education aid?","authors":"Biniam Bedasso","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100572","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Government ministers can play such a significant role in the implementation of development projects under their portfolio that a high turnover of ministers may have implications for aid effectiveness. This paper examines the link between ministerial continuity in borrower governments and the performance of World Bank education projects implemented between 2000 and 2017 in 114 countries. I use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to trace the link between number of ministers during project implementation and project outcome ratings. There is a statistically significant and qualitatively meaningful negative correlation between ministerial turnover and project performance. Delays caused by transition and reshuffling of senior managers by new education ministers are shown to constitute possible causal mechanisms. There is some evidence that strong supervision by World Bank staff could mitigate the negative implications of ministerial turnover on project outcome.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000092/pdfft?md5=0c140a8dbc79bed74be5bbcde1543dbb&pid=1-s2.0-S2452292924000092-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139718346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Which rights matters: Girls’ education at the expense of their sexual and reproductive rights? 哪些权利重要？女孩的教育是否牺牲了她们的性权利和生殖权利？

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100571

Linn Lövgren

{"title":"Which rights matters: Girls’ education at the expense of their sexual and reproductive rights?","authors":"Linn Lövgren","doi":"10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Globally, girl’s education is seen as a human right and means through which to achieve gender equality and is frequently championed by the international development community as the ultimate empowerment of girls (Desai, 2016; Khoja-Moolji, 2018; Robinson, 2021; Tarabini, 2011). Along the same lines, girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is also presented in international development discourse as a fundamental right and precondition for achieving gender equality (UNFPA, 2021). However, the relationship between girls’ right to education and girls’ right to sexual and reproductive health has not been adequately explored. In the context of Tanzania, the prevalence of teenage pregnancies is high and one of the leading causes of girls' attrition from school (Centre for Reproductive Rights, 2013). Therefore, pregnancy in school has been prohibited by the Tanzanian government, and as a response many schools have practised a number of regulations aimed at preventing girls from becoming pregnant in the first place (ibid.). While many studies<span><sup>3</sup></span> have focused on the different factors leading to teenage pregnancy in Tanzania and how education serves as an antidote to it, this paper explores the relationship between girls’ right to education and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights by specifically looking at how girls’ bodies and sexuality are regulated through secondary school in Tanzania. Based on semi-structured online interviews with Tanzanian women, I argue that girls’ secondary education in Tanzania is gained at the expense of their sexual and reproductive rights. In doing so, this paper sheds light on girls’ education and the “trade-off” that emerges between, on the one hand, girls’ right to education, and on the other hand, girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37831,"journal":{"name":"World Development Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139714018","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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The influence of large scale land acquisition on smallholder farming productivity - the case of Zambia 大规模征地对小农生产率的影响--赞比亚案例

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100565

Mintewab Bezabih , Hailemariam Teklewold , Samuel A. Zewdie

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Unveiling effects of cash transfers on poverty and social cohesion in conflict-affected zones: Insights from ex-FATA, Pakistan 揭示现金转移对受冲突影响地区的贫困和社会凝聚力的影响：巴基斯坦前联邦直辖部落地区的启示

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World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100570

Saima Nawaz, Sajid Hussain

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