Development Policy Review

1966 - 2025

Current editor(s): David Booth

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Volume A1, month 11, 1966

Preface pp. 5-6

William Clark

Volume 43, month 05, 2025

Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development

Anuradha Joshi, Jalia Kangave and Vanessa van den Boogaard

Shaping skills: A qualitative dive into India's evolving skill development policies

Dipika Dhiman and Ajay Solkhe

Women in the Indian labour market: Juxtaposed between time and work

Pallavi Gupta and Falguni Pattanaik

Aid paradox for unrecognized governments: The Taliban and aid

Haruyuki Shimada

FINANCING DEVELOPMENT AT A CROSSROADS: WHAT’S AT STAKE AND WHAT REFORMS ARE NEEDED?: A Development Policy Review Symposium

Annalisa Prizzon

Effect of sovereign risk and debt‐side governance on cross‐border infrastructure risk premium in a developing nation: The case of Kenya

Salome Oyuga, Edward Godfrey Ochieng and Geoffrey Ngene

Volume 43, month 03, 2025

Does mobile banking matter for the adoption of modern agricultural technology? Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

Arouna Kouandou and Rawaa Laajimi

Implications for Humanitarian‐Development‐Peace Nexus (HDPN) implementation in forced migration context: A collaborative governance approach

J. M. Cho, Minji Ju, Hyun Jung Cha and Minah Kang

Exploring climate change investment initiatives and funding challenges among faith‐based organizations in Ghana

Kelvin Omari Mintah, Solomon Nborkan Nakouwo, Albert Ahenkan and Justice Nyigmah Bawole

Enforcing contracts: The role of state subsidies as a hybrid enforcement mechanism in contracts between tomato processors and farmers in Algeria

Sami Assassi, Georgios Kleftodimos, Oualid Benharrat and Aybike Bayraktar

Proxy means test for targeting welfare benefits in Jamaica

Garfield O. Blake and Godfrey Gibbison

Early transition markers, opportunities, and limitations that define pathways into the labour market from adolescence to adulthood in South Africa

Laura Rossouw, Kathryn Grace Watt, Furzana Timol, Leslie L. Davidson and Chris Desmond

Analysing regional and sectoral productivity changes in the Indian economy

Puneet Prakash Kaur and Ravi Kiran

Ensuring fertilizer quality in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: The role of government and market initiatives

Yukichi Mano, Yutaka Arimoto, Nguyen Duy Can, Do Van Hoang, Emi Kojin, Nguyen Thiet, Kazunari Tsukada and Vo Hong Tu

Taxing high‐net‐worth individuals in Nigeria: Challenges and opportunities for policy‐makers from a preliminary investigation

Giovanni Occhiali, Jalia Kangave and Hamza Ahmed Khan

Socioeconomic development in the context of nuclear past: The case of Kazakhstan

Aigerim Mussabalinova, Artur Antimonov, Mukhtar Amanbaiuly and Nikita Durnev

Why do bureaucrats want mandatory training? A conjoint mixed‐methods analysis of individual learning preferences in German, Norwegian, and South Korean donor agencies

Alessandra Tangianu, Daniel E. Esser and Heiner Janus

Towards an institutional setup for industrial policy in late industrialization in the 21st century

Jan Grumiller and Werner Raza

Volume 43, month 01, 2025

Qatar's multifaceted humanitarian role in Afghanistan since August 2021

Sansom Milton and Ghassan Elkahlout

Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from a field survey in India

Deepti Goel and Rosa Abraham

Developing electric vehicles in China and the United States: Revisiting debates on industrial strategy

Shiufai Wong

The (un)targeted gendered vulnerabilities in Norwegian development aid—a corpus‐assisted discourse analysis

Hilde Ousland Vandeskog, Jan Buts, Kristin Margrethe Heggen and Eivind Engebretsen

The impact of financial literacy on access to formal financial products in Namibia

Alfred Kechia Mukong, Tiofilia Jentzsch and Nkwetta Ajong Aquilas

Why do governments fund some humanitarian appeals but not others?

Nicolas Rost and John N. Clarke

Value for money in humanitarian assistance: How does cost efficiency vary across cash and voucher programmes?

Caitlin Tulloch, Kayla Hoyer and Joel Chrisco

Supporting farmers dealing with climate change: The impact of Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) on smallholder lead farmers in Malawi

Babatunde Abidoye, Anastasia Aladysheva, Natascha Haitz, Giulia Montresor, Ted Nyekanyeka, Edvard Orlic and Martin Prowse

“Magic concepts” and USAID: Framing food systems reform to support the status quo

Lia R. Kelinsky‐Jones, Kim L. Niewolny and Max O. Stephenson

Changes in population literacy and numeracy in Ghana after three decades of free basic education

Pearl S. Kyei, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku and Samuel Kobina Annim

Volume 42, month 07, 2024

Adverse shocks, vulnerability, and coping by rural households in Vietnam

Thang T. Vo

Effects of free maternal healthcare on stunting in children under five years of age: Evidence from Ghana

Mark Bigool

Underpaid, undervalued, and overworked: The working conditions of cooks in India's school lunch programme

Lana Whittaker

Taxing the informal sector: Coping with Coercion in Bamako, Mali

Viljar Haavik and Abdoul Wahab Cissé

Neglecting the poor and marginalized: Participatory village governance in Indonesia's New Developmentalist state

Muhammad Syukri

Towards complete development finance data: Quantifying China's international education co‐operation and presence in the Global South

Kenichi Doi, Ami Ikeda, Yuki Murakami and Kazuo Kuroda

Participatory translation and anti‐racism in NGO development work: A method of co‐producing translations with community members

Michael Chasukwa and Angela Crack

The Arab uprising: A decade of transformations and challenges

Ammar Ahmad Ahmad Gady

Volume 42, month 06, 2024

Anticipatory Development Foresight: An approach for international and multilateral organizations

Aarathi Krishnan and Sophia Robele

Futuring Fragility: Embracing uncertainty, identifying opportunity, unlocking development

Dominik Balthasar

(Re)envisioning inclusive futures: Applying narrative foresight to deconstruct the problem of urban flooding in the slums of Bengaluru, India

SriPallavi Nadimpalli, Sahil Mathew and Tashina Madappa Cheranda

Foresight for a better African future: Lessons from six decades of practice

Olugbenga Adesida, Julius Gatune and Aidan Eyakuze

Institutionalizing foresight in science, technology, and innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa

John Ouma‐Mugabe, Anthon Botha and Petrus Letaba

Foresight and futures thinking for international development co‐operation: Promises and pitfalls

Fraser Reilly‐King, Colleen Duggan and Alex Wilner

Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative

Rika Preiser, Tanja Hichert, Reinette Biggs, Julia van Velden, Nyasha Magadzire, Garry Peterson, Laura Pereira, Keziah Mayer and Karina Benessaiah

Volume 42, month 05, 2024

Does development aid reach politically excluded groups? A Disaggregated Study of the Location of Aid in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Siri Aas Rustad, Kristian Hoelscher, Andreas Kotsadam, Gudrun Østby and Henrik Urdal

Supporting women's empowerment by changing intra‐household decision‐making: A mixed‐methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south‐west Tanzania

Els Lecoutere and Lan Chu

How do organizations in Chinese agriculture perceive sustainability certification schemes? An exploratory analysis

Xiaorui Wang and Shen Hu

Can European foreign aid motivate people to stay in Africa? The root causes policy debate and irregular migration

Lars Engberg‐Pedersen, Ida Marie Savio Vammen and Hans Lucht

Non‐farm activity reduces migration: Evidence from Bangladesh

Kazi Iqbal, Md Nahid Ferdous Pabon, Mohammad Rezoanul Hoque and Nahian Azad Shashi

The resilience of systems‐thinking approaches when faced with an evolving crisis: The case of Mumbai

Lina Sonne Vyas and Maren Duvendack

How does diversity affect the effectiveness of capacity building training? Evidence from the Republic of Korea

Ga‐Young So

Monetary incentives to improve tax compliance: A Brazilian case study

Jorge Luis Tonetto, Adelar Fochezatto and Josep Miquel Pique

Transformative organizational and programmatic change? Civil society responses to the Canadian Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP)

Sheila Rao and Anne Delorme

Volume 42, month 03, 2024

Do job aspirations cause job choice? Insights from women entering male‐dominated occupational training in India

Garima Sahai

An analysis of gender inclusion in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects: Intention vs. reality

Hannah Jayne Robinson, Dani Barrington, Barbara Evans, Paul Hutchings and Lata Narayanaswamy

Will policy help close the digital gender divide? An intersectional feminist policy analysis of Ethiopia's national digital policy

Robert Ferritto

The impact of patriarchal culture on Somali women's participation in politics

Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdullahi, Kim Williamson and Mohamed Yusuf Ahmed

Increased domestic violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: India's response

Venera Bekteshi, Christina Miller, Jennifer Bellamy and Nairruti Jani

Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective

Robert Beyer and Konstantin Wacker

Nigeria's Sugar Master Plan: Ignoring losers from industrial policy can be costly

Michael Odijie

The EU Trust Fund for Colombia: Valuable lessons for hybrid peacebuilding

Carlos Madridejos Ornilla

How to improve tax compliance by wealthy individuals? Evidence from Uganda

Fabrizio Santoro and Ronald Waiswa

Sudan's health sector partnership: From confined progression to openness and hope to uncertain demise

Huzeifa Aweesha, Anna‐Karin Hurtig, Anni‐Maria Pulkki‐Brännström and Miguel San Sebastian

Volume 42, month 01, 2024

Challenging the formality bias: The organization of informal work, working relations, and collective agency in Kenya and Tanzania

Lone Riisgaard, Nina Torm, Godbertha Kinyondo, Winnie Mitullah, Anne Kamau, Aloyce Gervas and Raphael Indimuli

What explains the gender gap in unpaid housework and care work in India?

Athary Janiso, Prakash Kumar Shukla and Bheemeshwar Reddy A

Do the principles of effective development co‐operation improve development outcomes? The case for clearer definitions and measurement

Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino and Andrea Vaccaro

Determinants of poverty among Indigenous people in Mexico's Guerrero Mountain Region

Jorge Mora‐Rivera, Isael Fierros‐González and Fernando García‐Mora

How humanitarian–development responses may discriminate by nationality: Refugee and migrant inclusion following the 2016 Jordan Compact

Shaddin Almasri

Uber's digital labour platform and labour relations in South Africa

Welmah N. Mutengwe, Adrino Mazenda and Moreblessing Simawu

Whose policy coherence counts? Assessing sustainable fisheries in Ghana and the European Union's engagement

Niels Keijzer, Lina Galvis and Sarah Delputte

Reported effects of non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) in health and education service provision: The role of NGO –government relations and other factors

Rachel S. Robinson, Jennifer N. Brass, Andrew Shermeyer and Nichole Grossman

Girls' schooling is important but insufficient to promote equality for boys and girls in childhood and across the life course

Chris Desmond, Kathryn Watt, Sara Naicker, Jere Behrman and Linda Richter

A multisource analysis of child streetism in Nigerian urban centres

David V. Ogunkan