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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill world-development --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the world-development skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill world-development --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.