World Development
Last updated ISSN 0305-750X
World Development is published by Elsevier BV in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $5,895.
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What it publishes
Recent work in World Development concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- International Development and Aid
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Global trade and economics
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0305-750X, 1873-5991 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $5,895 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 9,921 |
| Publishing since | 1973 |
| Journal website | www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_hom |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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