Development Policy Review

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Volume 30, month 11, 2012

Asset Accumulation: An Alternative Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals pp. 663-680

Alfredo Stein and Philipp Horn

Make Schools, Not War? Donors' Rewriting of the Social Contract in the DRC pp. 681-701

Tom De Herdt, Kristof Titeca and Inge Wagemakers

The Revival of Non-Traditional State Actors' Interests in Africa: Does it Matter for Policy Autonomy? pp. 703-718

Peter Kragelund

Inclusive Financial Markets: Is Transformation Under Way in Kenya? pp. 719-748

Susan Johnson and Steven Arnold

Taking Stock of Monitoring and Evaluation Arrangements in the Context of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: Evidence from 20 Aid-Dependent Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 749-772

Nathalie Holvoet, Marie Gildemyn and Liesbeth Inberg

Poverty Reduction and Growth Interactions: What Can Be Learned from the Syrian Experience? pp. 773-787

Anda David and Mohamed Marouani

Volume 30, month 09, 2012

Inheritance: A Gendered and Intergenerational Dimension of Poverty pp. 527-541

Elizabeth Cooper and Kate Bird

Widowhood and Asset Inheritance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical Evidence from 15 Countries pp. 543-571

Amber Peterman

Inheritance Practices and Gender Differences in Poverty and Well-Being in Rural Ethiopia pp. 573-595

Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing

Women, Marriage and Asset Inheritance in Uganda pp. 597-616

Cheryl Doss, Mai Truong, Gorrettie Nabanoga and Justine Namaalwa

Characteristics and Patterns of Intergenerational Poverty Traps and Escapes in Rural North India pp. 617-640

Anirudh Krishna

Women and Inheritance in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can Change? pp. 641-657

Elizabeth Cooper

Volume 30, month 07, 2012

Wealth, Rights, and Resilience: An Agenda for Governance Reform in Small-scale Fisheries pp. 371-398

Blake D. Ratner and Edward H. Allison

Bilateral Donors' Efforts to Assess and Manage UN Agencies' Effectiveness: Seeking a Balance between Paris Principles and Domestic Accountability pp. 399-424

Koen De Koster and Nathalie Holvoet

The Feasibility of IFI-Led Institutional Reform: Four Turkish Experiments Compared pp. 425-449

Ali Burak Güven

Policy Sequencing and the Development of Rice Value Chains in Senegal pp. 451-472

Matty Demont and Amy C. Rizzotto

Modern Food Supply Chains and Development: Evidence from Horticulture Export Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 473-497

Miet Maertens, Bart Minten and Johan Swinnen

Cash Transfers and Children's Education and Labour among Malawi's Poor pp. 499-522

Candace Miller and Maxton Tsoka

Volume 30, month 05, 2012

How Countries Become Rich and Reduce Poverty: A Review of Heterodox Explanations of Economic Development pp. 239-260

Lindsay Whitfield

Questioning the Pro‐Poor Agenda: Examining the Links between Social Protection and Poverty pp. 261-281

Marianne Sandvad Ulriksen

Foreign Aid Transaction Costs: What Are They and When Are They Minimised? pp. 283-304

Elisabeth Paul and Frieda Vandeninden

The Socio‐Economic Determinants of HIV/AIDS Infection Rates in Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland and Zimbabwe pp. 305-326

Christobel Asiedu, Elizabeth Asiedu and Francis Owusu

Disaster and Development Paradigms: Too Close for Comfort? pp. 327-345

Siambabala Bernard Manyena

Local Support Organisations: An Exit Strategy for Rural Development NGOs pp. 347-367

Shaheen Rafi Khan and Shahrukh Rafi Khan

Volume 30, month 03, 2012

Paris in Bogotá: The Aid Effectiveness Agenda and Aid Relations in Colombia pp. 115-131

Rosemary McGee and Irma García Heredia

Making Development Assistance More Effective Through Using Political‐economy Analysis: What Has Been Done and What Have We Learned? pp. 133-148

Alex Duncan and Gareth Williams

Diaspora and Development? London‐based Nigerian Organisations and the Transnational Politics of Socio‐economic Status and Gender pp. 149-167

Ben Lampert

Paddling on One Side of the Canoe? The Changing Nature of New Zealand's Development Assistance Programme pp. 169-186

Glenn Banks, Warwick Murray, John Overton and Regina Scheyvens

From Boom to Bust: How Different Has Microfinance Been from Traditional Banking? pp. 187-210

Charlotte Wagner

A Fragile Guideline to Development Assistance pp. 211-230

Simone Bertoli and Elisa Ticci

Volume 30, month 02, 2012

Tracking Development in South‐East Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa: The Primacy of Policy pp. s5-s24

Jan Kees van Donge, David Henley and Peter Lewis

The Agrarian Roots of Industrial Growth: Rural Development in South‐East Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa pp. s25-s47

David Henley

Flawed Vision: Nigerian Development Policy in the Indonesian Mirror, 1965–90 pp. s49-s71

David Henley, Riwanto Tirtosudarmo and Ahmad Helmy Fuady

Erratic Development in Kenya: Questions from the East Asian Miracle pp. s73-s99

Othieno Nyanjom and David Ong'olo

Volume 30, month 01, 2012

External Financing of Social Protection: Opportunities and Risks pp. 5-27

Göran Holmqvist

Demand‐Side Challenges to Poverty Monitoring and Assessment Systems: Illustrations from Tanzania pp. 29-48

Paul Shaffer

Food‐Retail Development and the Myth of Everyday Low Prices: The Case of Brazil pp. 49-66

Guilherme Monteiro, Elizabeth Farina and Rubens Nunes

Millennium Development Goal Achievements and Policies in Education and Health: What Has Been Learnt? pp. 67-85

Jann Lay

Fair Trade Certification: The Case of Tea Plantation Workers in India pp. 87-107

Rie Makita

Volume 29, month 11, 2011

Getting Real About Food Prices pp. 647-664

Andrew Dorward

The Right Price of Food pp. 667-688

Johan Swinnen

Impact of Public and Private Cash Transfers on Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 689-728

Marrit Van den Berg and Cuong Nguyen

Agricultural Exports and Food Insecurity in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Qualititative Configurational Analysis pp. 729-748

Anne Margrethe Brigham

Newcomers to Like‐Minded Aid and Donor Darlings: The Strange Case of Spain in Vietnam pp. 749-770

Iliana Olivie Aldasoro

Volume 29, month 09, 2011

Impacts of Economic Crises on Child Well‐being pp. 511-526

Caroline Harper and Nicola Jones

Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Children's School and Employment Outcomes in El Salvador pp. 527-546

Suzanne Duryea and Melisa Morales

The Effects of Economic Crises on Families Caring for Children: Understanding and Reducing Long‐term Consequences pp. 547-564

Parama Sigurdsen, Samantha Berger and Jody Heymann

A ‘Lost Generation’? Impacts of Complex Compound Crises on Children and Young People pp. 565-584

Naomi Hossain and J. Allister McGregor

Cash Transfers, Children and the Crisis: Protecting Current and Future Investments pp. 585-601

Ariel Fiszbein, Dena Ringold and Santhosh Srinivasan

Financing Social Protection for Children in Crisis Contexts pp. 603-620

Armando Barrientos and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa

Promoting Children's Well‐being: Policy Lessons from Past and Present Economic Crises pp. 621-641

Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones, Paola Pereznieto and Andy McKay

Volume 29, month 07, 2011

Losing Control: Policy Space to Prevent and Mitigate Financial Crises in Trade and Investment Agreements pp. 387-413

Kevin P. Gallagher

Global Anti‐Money Laundering Standards and Developing Economies: The Regulation of Mobile Money pp. 415-431

William Vlcek

The Politics of Investment and Growth in Egypt: Experimenting with a New Approach pp. 433-458

Abla Abdel‐Latif and Hubert Schmitz

Immanent and Interventionist Inland Asian Aquaculture Development and its Outcomes pp. 459-484

Ben Belton and David C. Little

Access to Water in the Slums of Sub‐Saharan Africa pp. 485-505

Hulya Dagdeviren and Simon A. Robertson

Volume 29, month 05, 2011

DPR Debate: Growth Identification and Facilitation: The Role of the State in the Dynamics of Structural Change pp. 259-310

Dirk Willem te Velde, Justin Lin, Célestin Monga, Suresh D. Tendulkar, Alice Amsden, K. Y. Amoako, Howard Pack and Wonhyuk Lim

Poverty Research in a Development Policy Context pp. 311-330

Alesia Zuccala and Nees Jan van Eck

Whither Commodity‐based Trade? pp. 331-357

Karl M. Rich and Brian D. Perry

Pathways of Technological Change in Developing Countries: Review and New Agenda pp. 359-380

Henny A. Romijn and Marjolein Caniëls

Volume 29, month 03, 2011

State Fragility and Governance: Conflict Mitigation and Subnational Perspectives pp. 131-153

Derick W. Brinkerhoff

Impacts of the Triple Global Crisis on Growth and Poverty: The Case of Yemen pp. 155-184

Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, Marie‐Helen Collion and Pierre Rondot

Grants to Needy Countries? A Study of Aid Composition between 1975 and 2005 pp. 185-209

Pernilla Johansson

The Food Crisis and its Impacts on Poverty in Senegal and Mali: Crossed Destinies pp. 211-247

Dorothee Boccanfuso and Luc Savard

Volume 29, month 01, 2011

The Political Role of Service Delivery in State‐Building: Exploring the Relevance of European History for Developing Countries pp. 5-21

Steven Van de Walle and Zoe Scott

Aid, Institutions and Governance: What Have We Learned? pp. s5-s26

David Booth

The View from Le Château: USAID's Recent Decentralisation Programming in Uganda pp. 23-46

Michael Gubser

Politics and Growth pp. s28-s55

Gareth Williams, Alex Duncan, Pierre Landell‐Mills and Sue Unsworth

Infrastructure Privatisation: Oversold, Misunderstood and Inappropriate pp. 47-74

Jeff Tan

Marketing Reform? The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Liberalisation in Tanzania pp. s57-s81

Brian Cooksey

The Millennium Development Goals: Key Current Issues and Challenges pp. 75-90

Michael Chibba

The Macroeconomics of Doubling Aid to Africa and the Centrality of the Supply Side pp. s83-s108

Tony Killick and Mick Foster

From Commoditisation to De‐commoditisation … and Back Again: Discussing the Role of Sustainability Standards for Agricultural Products pp. 91-113

Benoit Daviron and Isabelle Vagneron

The PRSP Approach and the Illusion of Improved Aid Effectiveness: Lessons from Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua pp. s110-s133

Geske Dijkstra

Turning Governance Upside Down pp. 115-124

David Booth

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Approach Six Years On: An Examination of Principles and Practice in Uganda pp. s135-s156

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Arthur van Diesen

No Country Left Behind? Performance Standards and Accountability in US Foreign Assistance pp. s157-s176

Arthur A. Goldsmith

Generalised and Particularistic Thinking in Policy Analysis and Practice: The Case of Governance Reform in South Africa pp. s178-s198

Olle Frödin

Good Enough Governance Revisited pp. s199-s221

Merilee S. Grindle

Going with the Grain in African Development? pp. s223-s251

Tim Kelsall