World Development Perspectives
Last updated ISSN 2452-2929
World Development Perspectives is published by Elsevier BV in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,128.
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What it publishes
Recent work in World Development Perspectives concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2452-2929, 2468-0532 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,128 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 673 |
| Publishing since | 2016 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/world-development-perspect |
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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