Development Policy Review

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Volume 34, month 11, 2016

The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on poor and vulnerable households in Nigeria: A retrospective approach to research inquiry pp. 763-788

Blessing Chiripanhura and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

From Schism to Synthesis: The Off-Centre Radical-Reformist Role of Development Management pp. 789-807

Godofredo Ramizo

The political economy of targeting – a critical review pp. 809-829

Esther Schüring and Franziska Gassmann

Do Aid Donors Specialize and Coordinate within Recipient Countries? The case of Malawi pp. 831-849

Peter Nunnenkamp, Albena Sotirova and Rainer Thiele

Youth Perspectives on Social Insurance in Egypt: Qualitative Insights on the Gap between Legal and Effective Coverage pp. 851-867

Maia Sieverding

Who Contributes to the Provision of Public Goods at the Community Level? The Case of Potable Water in Ghana pp. 869-888

Pilar Useche

The Failure of Economists to Explain Growth in African Economies pp. 889-893

Morten Jerven

History, Data and Economics for Africa: Can We Get Them Less Wrong?: Reply to Morten Jerven's ‘Trapped between tragedies and miracles: Misunderstanding African economic growth’ pp. 895-899

Denis Cogneau

Morten Jerven, and What Economists Do and Don't Get Wrong pp. 901-905

Jonathan Temple

Evolving Research on Growth and Development pp. 907-910

Dietrich Vollrath

Trapped between tragedies and miracles: Misunderstanding African economic growth pp. 911-915

Morten Jerven

Volume 34, month 09, 2016

Structural constraints and excess capacity: an international comparison of manufacturing firms pp. 623-641

Hulya Dagdeviren

Trying to stay ahead of the curve in Chile's economic development: exploring a way out of the middle-income trap through pragmatic export development pp. 643-669

Alfonso Dingemans

Pathways to poverty reduction pp. 671-690

Zahabia Saleem and John A. Donaldson

An exploration of the relationship between police presence, crime and firms in developing countries pp. 691-719

Asif Islam

The political economy of financial inclusion: tailoring donor policy to fit pp. 721-743

Susan Johnson and Richard Williams

A Practical Approach to Public Sector Reform: Following the Dollar in Reforming Road Maintenance pp. 745-757

Paul J. Kaiser and Jeremy Streatfeild

Volume 34, month 07, 2016

Can the New Deal solve the old problem of aid orphans and darlings? Aid effectiveness in fragile states pp. 467-481

Christine Smith Ellison

Responses to global challenges: trends in aid-financed global public goods pp. 483-507

Alessandra Cepparulo and Luisa Giuriato

Poverty, oil and corruption: the need for a Quad-Sector Development Partnership (QSDP) in Nigeria's Niger Delta pp. 509-538

Adrian Gonzalez

Democracy and human development: recent legislation in India pp. 539-561

Sujay Ghosh

Plan Colombia: illegal drugs, economic development and counterinsurgency – a political economy analysis of Colombia's failed war pp. 563-591

Tobias Franz

What future for the Global Aid for Trade Initiative? Towards an assessment of its achievements and limitations pp. 593-619

William Hynes and Patrick Holden

Volume 34, month 05, 2016

Beyond solidarity and losses in aid: strategic approaches towards adversity pp. 323-344

Clovis Ultramari

Applied ethics and allocation of foreign aid: disparity in pretensions and practice pp. 345-363

Jónína Einarsdóttir and Geir Gunnlaugsson

Foreign aid and domestic taxation: multiple sources, one conclusion pp. 365-383

Paul Clist

The dynamics of returns to education in Uganda: National and subnational trends pp. 385-422

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Anna Raggl

‘Going Out’ or Staying In? The Expansion of Chinese NGOs in Africa pp. 423-439

Jennifer Y.J. Hsu, Timothy Hildebrandt and Reza Hasmath

The future of small farms in Asia pp. 441-461

Keijiro Otsuka, Yanyan Liu and Futoshi Yamauchi

Volume 34, month 03, 2016

Targeting Disaster Aid in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka pp. 179-195

Asha Gunawardena and Jean-Marie Baland

Household Enterprises and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 197-221

Louise Fox and Thomas Sohnesen

Effects of ‘women empowerment’ on household food security in rural KwaZulu-Natal province pp. 223-252

S. Sharaunga, M. Mudhara and A. Bogale

Dangers of Decentralisation in Urban Slums: A Comparative Study of Water Supply and Drainage Service Delivery in Kolkata, India pp. 253-276

Indranil De and Tirthankar Nag

The ‘New Approach’ to Public Sector Reforms in Ghana: A Case of Politics as Usual or a Genuine Attempt at Reform? pp. 277-300

Frank L. K. Ohemeng and Joseph R. A. Ayee

Employment Conditions in the Senegalese Horticultural Export Industry: A Worker Perspective pp. 301-319

Goedele Van den Broeck, Kaat Van Hoyweghen and Miet Maertens

Volume 34, month 01, 2016

Probing for Proof, Plausibility, Principle and Possibility: A New Approach to Assessing Evidence in a Systematic Evidence Review pp. 5-27

Anouk S. Rigterink and Mareike Schomerus

Good Governance as Managerialism: Rationalisation and International Donors in Vietnam's Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector pp. 29-54

Nadine Reis

100 key research questions for the post-2015 development agenda pp. 55-82

Johan A. Oldekop, Lorenza B. Fontana, Jean Grugel, Nicole Roughton, Emmanuel A. Adu-Ampong, Gemma K. Bird, Alex Dorgan, Marcia A. Vera Espinoza, Sara Wallin, Daniel Hammett, Esther Agbarakwe, Arun Agrawal, Nurgul Asylbekova, Clarissa Azkoul, Craig Bardsley, Anthony J. Bebbington, Savio Carvalho, Deepta Chopra, Stamatios Christopoulos, Emma Crewe, Marie-Claude Dop, Joern Fischer, Daan Gerretsen, Jonathan Glennie, William Gois, Mtinkheni Gondwe, Lizz A. Harrison, Katja Hujo, Mark Keen, Roberto Laserna, Luca Miggiano, Sarah Mistry, Rosemary J. Morgan, Linda L. Raftree, Duncan Rhind, Thiago Rodrigues, Sonia Roschnik, Flavia Senkubuge, Ian Thornton, Simon Trace, Teresa Ore, René Mauricio Valdés, Bhaskar Vira, Nicola Yeates and William J. Sutherland

Open Data on a Closed Shop? Assessing the potential of transparency initiatives with a focus on efforts to strengthen capacity development support pp. 83-100

Niels Keijzer

Economywide Impact of Maize Export Bans on Agricultural Growth and Household Welfare in Tanzania: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis pp. 101-134

Xinshen Diao and Adam Kennedy

Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges pp. 135-174

Martin Hilbert

Volume 33, month 11, 2015

Not just another box to tick: Conflict-sensitivity methods and the role of research in development programming pp. 703-723

David Gullette and Dorothy Rosenberg

The Elasticity of Demand for Microcredit: Evidence from Latin America pp. 725-757

Vicki L. Bogan, Calum Turvey and Gabriela Salazar

Can Donor PIUs Support Country Systems? pp. 759-781

Sulaiman Aris and Michael Hubbard

Donor Requirements and Pockets of Effectiveness in Senegal's Bureaucracy pp. 783-804

Martha C. Johnson

Comparing Public Attitudes towards Aid to Developing Countries between ‘Traditional’ and ‘Emerging’ Donors: The Case of Japan and Korea pp. 805-826

Kunio Minato

Volume 33, month 09, 2015

The Politics of Regional Inequality in Ghana: State Elites, Donors and PRSPs pp. 529-553

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai and David Hulme

Public Debt Sustainability in Africa: Building Resilience and Challenges Ahead pp. 555-580

Mthuli Ncube and Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski

Africa's Rising Demand for Wheat: Trends, Drivers, and Policy Implications pp. 581-613

Nicole M. Mason, Thomas Jayne and Bekele Shiferaw

Which Domestic Firms Benefit from FDI? Evidence from Selected African Countries pp. 615-636

Amadou Boly, Nicola Coniglio, Francesco Prota and Adnan Seric

The Design of Conditional Cash Transfers: Experiences from Argentina's Universal Child Allowance pp. 637-652

Lila Rabinovich and Stephanie Diepeveen

Gender and Infrastructure in the World Bank pp. 653-671

Lucy Ferguson and Sophie Harman

Are There Myths on Road Impact and Transport in Sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 673-700

Monica Beuran, Marie Gachassin and Gaël Raballand

Volume 33, month 06, 2015

The State of Play in Poland's Unconventional Shale and Oil Development pp. 395-414

James Burnett, Randall Jackson and Robert Blobaum

A Less Gendered Access to Land? The Impact of Tanzania's New Wave of Land Reform pp. 415-432

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Doing Things Differently: Can Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services Support Peace- and State-Building Processes? pp. 433-456

Michelle Kooy, Leni Wild and Nathaniel Mason

Is Land Grabbing Always What It Is Supposed to Be? Large-scale Land Investments in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 457-478

Hans Holmén

From Poverty Reduction to Mutual Interests? The Debate on Differentiation in EU Development Policy pp. 479-502

Svea Koch

Politicisation of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Guatemala pp. 503-522

Johan Sandberg and Engel Tally

Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry. Edited by Anthony Bebbington. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 258+xx pp. £26.95 pp. 523-525

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

Volume 33, month 05, 2015

International Profit-Shifting out of Developing Countries and the Role of Tax Havens pp. 271-292

Petr Janský and Alex Prats

The Dynamics of Income Growth and Poverty: Evidence from Districts in India pp. 293-312

Anurag Banerjee, Nilanjan Banik and Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay

Performance-Based Aid: Why It Will Probably Not Meet Its Promises pp. 313-323

Elisabeth Paul

The Quest for Aid Complementarity: Reforming Co-operation between Nordic+ Donors and NGOs pp. 325-354

Nadia Molenaers, Anna Gagiano and Robrecht Renard

Roads and Diversification of Activities in Rural Areas: A Cameroon Case Study pp. 355-372

Marie Castaing Gachassin, Boris Najman and Gaël Raballand

Negotiating Compliance: The Case of Autonomous Hospitals in Vietnam pp. 373-390

Gillian Lê, Ha Thu Thi Bui, Tolib Mirzoev and Ha Thanh Nguyen

Volume 33, month 03, 2015

Public-Service Provision in Clientelist Political Settlements: Lessons from Ghana's Urban Water Sector pp. 135-158

Marja Hirvi and Lindsay Whitfield

How Traceability is Restructuring Malawi's Tobacco Industry pp. 159-174

Jason Moyer-Lee and Martin Prowse

Drivers of Economic Reform in Vietnam's Provinces pp. 175-193

Hubert Schmitz, Dau Anh Tuan, Pham Thi Thu Hang and Neil McCulloch

Would a Commodity-based Trade Approach Improve Market Access for Africa? A Case Study of the Potential of Beef Exports from Communal Areas of Namibia pp. 195-219

Diego Naziri, Karl M. Rich and Ben Bennett

Impact of Rising World Rice Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Burkina Faso pp. 221-244

Félix Badolo and Fousseini Traoré

A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Microfinance and Formal and Informal Credit by Farmers in Less Developed Areas of Rural China pp. 245-263

Xiangping Jia, Hao Luan, Jikun Huang and Zuowen Li

African Participation at the World Trade Organization. By Joan Apecu Laker pp. 265-266

Sheila Page

Volume 33, month 01, 2015

Equity: Not Only for Idealists pp. 5-13

Lawrence Haddad

Men and Masculinities in International Development: ‘Men-streaming’ Gender and Development? pp. 15-32

Thomas Wanner and Ben Wadham

Who Is Poorest? An Asset-based Analysis of Multidimensional Wellbeing pp. 33-59

Frank-Borge Wietzke

Livestock in the Household Economy: Cross-Country Evidence from Microeconomic Data pp. 61-81

Ugo Pica-Ciamarra, Luca Tasciotti, Joachim Otte and Alberto Zezza

Private Chinese Investment in Africa: Myths and Realities pp. 83-106

Xiaofang Shen

The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries: A Pseudo-Panel Approach pp. 107-131

Roberto González and Hector Sala