Development Policy Review

1966 - 2025

Current editor(s): David Booth

From Overseas Development Institute
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Volume A1, month 11, 1966

Preface pp. 5-6

William Clark

Volume 43, month 09, 2025

Corporate implementation of certification and its impact on cocoa producers in Indonesia

Janne Bemelmans, Charline Depoorter and Miet Maertens

“My daughter wore pads only during the day and used rags at night”: Sanitary pad accessibility and educational outcomes for girls in Ghana

Clement Adamba and Justina Addai

Navigating post‐conflict governance in Yemen: Decentralization, federalism, and the path to stability

Moosa Elayah, Ahmed Almaweri and Bakeel Alzandani

A critical approach to co‐producing knowledge for development

Ryan Nehring, Fernando Galeana and Hilary Faxon

Can we increase the effectiveness of ODA (official development assistance) for renewable energy development? An assessment of the relative performance of financial incentive policy measures

Gumin Jung and Shin Lee

Navigating Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation

Jiajun Xu

Can the end of ‘foreign aid’ be the beginning of global public investment?

Jayati Ghosh

The Prospects for International Development Cooperation in Times of Geopolitical Conflict and Resource Scarcity

André de Mello e Souza

Aid in the Age of Amazon: Imperial Logics, Pacific Resistance and an Alternate Paradigm

Dame Meg Taylor, Solstice Middleby and Suli Vunibola

Taking (anti‐)‘woke’ seriously: the future of development cooperation and humanitarian aid

Emma Mawdsley, Glenn Banks, Chloe Sanyu, Regina Scheyvens and John Overton

Why the Polycrisis can also be a Polytunity

Yuen Yuen Ang

What would it take for private capital to replace ODA?

Ishac Diwan

Has forest titling strengthened tenure security? A multidimensional analysis of collective forest tenure reform in Southwest China

Jun He, Jiping Wang, Bin Yang and Na Guo

When Empathy Fades: The Collapse of Humanitarian Responsibility in a Structurally Broken World

Carlos Lopes

Special economic zones and firm resilience in Ghana: Evidence from the COVID‐19 shock

Charles Godfred Ackah, Nana Yaw Agyeman Owusu and Robert Darko Osei

Foreign aid transparency amid politicization

Heiner Janus and Tim Röthel

Safeguarding women in digital spaces: Legal responses to cyber harassment and objectification on social media

K. C. Mythili and K. Nagamani

Volume 43, month 07, 2025

Competition or collaboration? EU and Chinese engagement with aquaculture sustainability in Africa

Fatime L. Traore, Lin Zhang, Yuan Yuan, Annah Lake Zhu and Simon R. Bush

Which resources should be developed into tourist attractions? The viewpoint of key stakeholders on the Slovenian coast

Gorazd Sedmak and Ksenija Vodeb

Digital literacy evangelists in Rwanda: A case study of the Digital Ambassador Programme

In Cheol Jang

Can ODA enable autocratic entrenchment? Investigating donor‐driven cash transfer programmes in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt

Guido Maschhaupt, Ahmed El Assal and Petronilla Wandeto

Public Policy for Trans People: Lessons from Brazil for Social Inclusion

João Vitor Rodrigues Gonçalves and Liziane Angelotti Meira

Decoding the nexus: Finance availability and firm growth in the wake of COVID‐19

Iman Cheratian and Saleh Goltabar

Data Management for Sustainable Development: Case Analyses of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Kalim U. Shah and Ilan Kelman

Assessing infrastructure projects funded by World Bank and Chinese financial institutions: A case study of Sri Lanka

Clara Chedid, Montserrat Ferré and Mercedes Teruel

African regional economic policy‐making: Understanding and catalysing the potentials of think tanks

Peter Taylor and Maria Alejandra Ormeño Oviedo

The limits to cash‐plus provision in protracted crises

Rachel Sabates‐Wheeler, Jeremy Lind and Carolina Holland‐Szyp

Social service inclusion of immigrants through the lens of human rights in Australia

Obed Adonteng‐Kissi, Matthew Mabefam, Nnaemeka Meribe, Frank Darkwa Baffour and Elizabeth Archibong

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