Development Policy Review

1966 - 2025

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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

Volume 41, month 12, 2023

Foreign aid, human agency, and self‐reliance in the Pacific: Lessons from the pandemic

Rerekura Teaurere, Siulua Tokilupe Latu, Roxane de Waegh, Mark Orams and Michael Lück

Can civil society organizations and faith‐based organizations in Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands access climate finance?

Kristina Fidali, Ofusina Toamua, Hemah Aquillah, Sereima Lomaloma, Placida Riah Mauriasi, Steve Nasiu, Aliti Vunisea and Sangeeta Mangubhai

How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power

Theresa Meki and Jope Tarai

Should foreign aid consider inter‐Pacific Islands migration in the context of climate change? Evidence from Fiji

Sargam Goundar

Multidimensional design‐reality gaps in ICT in education projects in the Samoan aidscape

Masami Tsujita

Aid is not development: The true character of Pacific aid

Dame Meg Taylor and Solstice Middleby

Religion and development in Samoa: Time to draw on the strength of local culture?

Brian Alofaituli

“Want to help someone? Shut up and listen”: Foreign aid, maladaptation, and community development practices in the Pacific

Suliasi Vunibola

What do remote outer island populations in the Pacific think about foreign aid? Insights from Mauke, Cook Islands

Kim Andreas Kessler

How co‐design can localize development programmes and reduce dependency: Examples from Pacific Island Countries

Artila Devi

Pacific perspectives on aid and development

Vijay Naidu, Regina Scheyvens and Terence Wood

Volume 41, month 11, 2023

Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity: Radical implications for Haiti

Marylynn Steckley, Joshua Steckley, Walner Osna, Magalie Civil and Steve Sider

How gender mainstreaming plays out in Tanzania's climate‐smart agricultural policy: Isomorphic mimicry of international discourse

Ruth Smith, Anna Mdee and Susannah Sallu

Does Thinking and Working Politically improve support for social business? Evidence from a water business in Cambodia

Isaac Lyne

Green central banking under high inflation—more of a need than an option: An analytical exposition for Turkey

Burcu Ünüvar and Erinc Yeldan

Women, education, and violence: How women displaced into camps in north‐east Nigeria take up education

Cecilia Idika‐Kalu

How did COVID‐19 lockdowns affect firms and workers? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco

Rihab Baltaji, Ali Fakih and Nagham Sayour

Indoor air pollution and child development in Indonesia: Stunted by the smoke?

Younoh Kim, James Manley and Vlad Radoias

Participatory local governance in rural Nepal: The primacy of informality

Thaneshwar Bhusal

Are women more financially vulnerable than men? A tale of missed economic opportunities from Latin America

Maria Jose Roa, Sonia Di Giannatale, Alejandra Villegas and Jonathan Barboza

Illiberal democracy and nutrition advocacy

Danielle Resnick and Shilpa Deshpande

Volume 41, month 09, 2023

Blind spots and spotlights in bureaucratic politics: An analysis of policy co‐production in environmental governance dynamics in Indonesia

Muhammad Alif K. Sahide, Micah R. Fisher, Nurhady Sirimorok, Fatwa Faturachmat, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, Ahmad Maryudi, Karno B. Batiran and Supratman Supratman

Exploring SME environmental behaviour and practice: The case of Malaysia

Angathevar Baskaran, V. G. R. Chandran and Divyaasiny Rajaghantham

Tuloni Biya and its impact on menstrual health: A qualitative exploration of the menstrual experiences of adolescent girls in Assam

Daisy Dutta, Chhanda Chakraborti and Pulak Mishra

Legal knowledge and child labour in Nepal: Does knowing the law make a difference?

Tushi Baul and Susan L. Ostermann

Value chain research and development: The quest for impact

Jason Donovan and Dietmar Stoian

Mobile money taxation and informal workers: Evidence from Ghana's E‐levy

Nana Akua Anyidoho, Max Gallien, Mike Rogan and Vanessa van den Boogaard

Rethinking human capital: Perspectives from women working in the informal economy

Yogesh Ghore, Brad Long, Zeynep Ozkok and Derin Derici

Does access to water, sanitation, and hygiene improve children's health? An empirical analysis in Indonesia

Tri Mulyaningsih, Itismita Mohanty, Tesfaye Alemayehu Gebremedhin, Riyana Miranti and Vitri Widyaningsih

How much do development partners invest in disaster risk reduction? A data analysis

Suyeon Lee

Rural market imperfections in India: Revisiting old debates with new evidence

C.S.C. Sekhar and Namrata Thapa

The spatial and economic relationship between labour informality and homicides in Cali, Colombia

Magaly Herrera Giraldo, Carlos Giovanni González Espitia and Héctor Ochoa Díaz

Volume 41, month 05, 2023

Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges

Fredrick Bagamba, Proscovia R. Ntakyo, Geoffrey Otim, David Spielman and Bjorn Van Campenhout

Nutrition‐sensitive lockdowns: Conceptual framework and empirical insights from Africa during COVID‐19

Thomas Daum, Hans Konrad Biesalski, Nikola Blaschke, Christine Bosch, Denise Güttler, Jakob Heni, Juliet Kariuki, Roseline Katusiime, Anna Seidel, Zinsou‐Narcisse Senon, George Woode and Regina Birner

NGOs' approach to human rights and the challenges in Bangladesh

Md. Kamal Uddin

Agricultural development promises more growth and less poverty in Africa: Modelling the potential impact of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme in six countries

Mariam Diallo and Fleur Wouterse

Skills formation and (un)employment in Latin America: Evidence from Chile

Juan Bogliaccini, Aldo Madariaga and Miski Peralta

What do (future) civil servants think of bribery and corruption? Evidence from India

Rajiv Verma, Saurabh Gupta and Regina Birner

Benefits of enhanced access to education in Tanzania

Livini Donath, Oliver Morrissey and Trudy Owens

The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?

Hussam Hussein and Fatine Ezbakhe

School committee composition: Exploring the role of parental and female representation in India

Panchali Guha

Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

Owasim Akram and Mathilde Maîtrot

Volume 41, month 03, 2023

FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management

Alessia D’Andrea, Patrizia Grifoni and Fernando Ferri

Do subsidies on seed and fertilizer lead to child labour? Evidence from Malawi

Raymond Boadi Frempong

Bio‐pharma in Iran: Escaping the middle‐income trap

Ali Babaee, Iman Miremadi and Ali N. Mashayekhi

Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market

Ulrich Elmer Hansen, Padmasai Lakshmi Bhamidipati, Mathilde Brix Pedersen, Ivan Nygaard and Hope Nyambura Njoroge

Why national development experts are not included in development policy‐making and practice: The case of Ghana

Palash Kamruzzaman and Emmanuel Kumi

How evidence, implementation, policy, and politics come together within evidence systems: Lessons from South Africa

Ruth Stewart

Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar

Henrik Hansen, S. Kanay De, John Rand and Neda Trifkovic

From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation

Oda Hustad

Gendered perceptions in maize supply chains: Evidence from Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout and Anusha De

Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions

Walter Leal Filho, Franziska Wolf, Edmond Totin, Luckson Zvobgo, Nicholas Philip Simpson, Kumbirai Musiyiwa, Jokastah W. Kalangu, Maruf Sanni, Ibidun Adelekan, Jackson Efitre, Felix Kwabena Donkor, Abdul‐Lateef Balogun, Serafino Afonso Rui Mucova and Desalegn Yayeh Ayal

Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan

Shandana Khan Mohmand and Colin Anderson

Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings

John Gaventa

The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic

Rosie McGee

International aid actions for accountability: Identifying interaction effects between programmes

Rachel Nadelman, Rosie McGee, Ayesha Khan, Euclides Gonçalves, Jonathan Fox, Richard Burge, Fatai A. Aremu and Colin Anderson

What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability

Anuradha Joshi

Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan

Colin Anderson, Anuradha Joshi, Katrina Barnes, Affaf Ahmed, Muddabir Ali, Egidio Chaimite, Salvador Forquilha, Danyal Khan, Rizwan Khan, Miguel Loureiro, Myanmar Research Team, Lucio Posse, Jo Rowlands and Alex Shankland

Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan

Sohela Nazneen

Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences

Colin Anderson

Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned?

John Gaventa, Anuradha Joshi and Colin Anderson

Volume 41, month 01, 2023

Civil society organizations and managerialism: On the depoliticization of the adaptive management agenda

Lena Gutheil and Dirk‐Jan Koch

Growth, innovation, and policy for chicken in Latin America 1961–2019

Gregory Scott and Enrique Vigo

Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia

Francesca Blanc and Giancarlo Cotella

Assessing the impact of aid on public health expenditure in aid recipient countries

Yoojin Lim, Youngwan Kim and Daniel Connolly

Understanding the multifaceted impact of COVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India

Irudaya S. Rajan, Pooja Batra, Reddy Sai Shiva Jayanth and Tharatha Moolayil Sivadasan

COVID‐19 vaccination: Willingness and practice in Bangladesh

Avinno Faruk and Ishmam Al Quddus

Understanding inactive membership in voluntary contributory schemes: A case study of micro‐traders in Kenya

Raphael Indimuli, Winnie Mitullah, Lone Riisgaard and Anne Kamau

Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa

Mick Moore

The contestation of ideas behind Indonesia's rural electrification policies: The influence of global and national institutional dynamics

Hafidz Wibisono, Jon C. Lovett and Dhimas Bayu Anindito

Doing aid chains differently: Evaluating the potential of Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships

Kelly Gerard

International donors, domestic politics, and the expansion of social cash transfers in Malawi

Hangala Siachiwena