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world-development
Use when targeting World Development or deciding whether a development-studies manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# World Development (world-development)
## Journal positioning
World Development is a leading multidisciplinary development-studies journal, not a pure economics journal. It publishes policy-engaged work on poverty, inequality, institutions, health, education, agriculture, environment, conflict, and governance across the global South, drawing on economics, political science, sociology, geography, and other social sciences. What wins here is a paper that advances understanding of a real development problem and speaks to policy and practice, whether the evidence is quantitative, qualitative, or mixed. The readership is interdisciplinary development scholars and practitioners, so a narrowly technical econ paper with no development substance is a poor fit.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Elsevier / journal site and the submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names World Development as the target venue.
- A development paper sits between economics and the wider social sciences and the author is unsure whether to aim for an econ field journal or a development-studies venue.
- A general applied or qualitative manuscript needs re-framing around a development problem and a policy-relevant contribution.
- The author needs World Development's desk-reject risks and a credible development / field alternative list.