Development Policy Review

1966 - 2025

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Volume 40, month 11, 2022

The effects of financial crisis on income inequality

Thanh Cong Nguyen

Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset

Bernhard Reinsberg and Sebastian Dellepiane

Why has there been a fall in child labour and an increase in school attendance in Mexico?

Jorge Valero‐Gil and Jorge Valero-Gil

Education, anthropogenic environmental change, and sustainable development: A rudimentary framework and reflections on proposed causal pathways for positive change in low‐ and lower‐middle income countries

Colin Bangay

Tax Evasion Attitudes of Small Firms in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries: Evidence from Nigeria

Tom Moerenhout and Joonseok Yang

The impact of an additional year in high school on academic performance at university: Evidence from a policy experiment in Ghana

Gordon Abekah‐Nkrumah, Patrick Asuming and Hadrat Yusif

Do zombie firms crowd out healthy firms and slow their growth? Evidence from China

Xiaohan Guo, Jianliang Ye, Wunhong Su, Deming Luo and Xiangrong Jin

Governance of organic cocoa production: An analysis of EU regulation through the framework of multilevel governance

Godfred Adduow Obeng

Beyond rich and poor: Identifying global development constellations

Christine Hackenesch, Svea Koch and Sebastian Ziaja

Researcher effects in survey‐based research: Insights from research in South Sudan

Kerstin Tomiak

No employment without participation: An evaluation of India's employment programme in eastern Uttar Pradesh

Kartik Misra

Volume 40, month 10, 2022

Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia

Nicola Jones, Megan Devonald, Rebecca Dutton, Sarah Baird, Workneh Yadete and Kiya Gezahegne

EdTech for Ugandan girls: Affordances of different technologies for girls' secondary education during the Covid‐19 pandemic

Kalifa Damani, Rebecca Daltry, Katy Jordan, Libby Hills and Laura Evans

Teaching and learning for life skills development: Insights from Rwanda’s 12+ programme for adolescent girls: Special Issue Youth & Adolescent Skills Development: Preparing young people for diverse global challenges

Sophia D’Angelo, Rachel Marcus and Ernest Ngabonzima

A green skills framework for climate action, gender empowerment, and climate justice

Christina T. Kwauk and Olivia M. Casey

Improving pathways for girls and disadvantaged youth through secondary education and into work: Evidence and reflections from practice: Special Issue Youth & Adolescent Skills Development: Preparing young people for diverse global challenges

Mallory Baxter, Milena Novy‐Marx and Sophia D'Angelo

Building resilience now and for the future: Adolescent skills to address global challenges

Sophia D'Angelo

User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation

Stephanie Diepeveen and Melanie Pinet

Volume 40, month 09, 2022

Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies

Md Aslam Mia, Lucia Dalla Pellegrina and Wai‐Yan Wong

What happens to aid fungibility when the recipient government takes control? Effects of aid ownership in Rwanda

Zunera Ahmad Rana and Dirk‐Jan Koch

Growing cotton to produce food: Unravelling interactions between value chains in southern Mali

Arouna Dissa, Jos Bijman, Maja Slingerland, Ousmane Mama Sanogo, Ken E Giller and Katrien Descheemaeker

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and local institutions in Ghana’s mining communities: Challenges in understanding barriers to accountability

Hevina S. Dashwood, Uwafiokun Idemudia, Bill Buenar Puplampu and Kernaghan Webb

Corruption, gender, and small‐scale cross‐border trade in East Africa: A review

Jacqueline M. Klopp, Melissa Trimble and Eleanor Wiseman

Rural mechanization for equitable development: Disarray, disjuncture, and disruption

David Lewis, Stephen Biggs and Scott E. Justice

Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty

Matteo Caravani, Jeremy Lind, Rachel Sabates‐Wheeler and Ian Scoones

Contextual challenges of smart city implementation in Mashhad, Iran's second‐largest metropolis

Navidreza Alizadeh Bazrafshan and Omid Ali Kharazmi

Fires in the Amazon Region: Quick Policy Review

Luca Eufemia, Ana Paula Dias Turetta, Michelle Bonatti, Emmanuel Da Ponte and Stefan Sieber

Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption

Caryn Peiffer and Grant W Walton

Whose voice counts? Examining government‐donor negotiations in the design of Ethiopia’s large‐scale education reforms for equitable learning

Shelby Carvalho, Amare Asgedom and Pauline Rose

Volume 40, month 07, 2022

Turkey as an emerging donor in the development community: The Turkish‐type Development Assistance Model (TDAM)

Yunus Turhan

Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system

Gloria Novovic

The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal

Soumya Balasubramanya, David Stifel, Muzna Alvi and Claudia Ringler

Formalizing agricultural rentals in China: Does local public action help?

Tongwei Qiu, Xinjie Shi and Biliang Luo

Sources of divergence in income in Indian states, 2001–2015

Biswa Swarup Misra, Saban Nazlioglu and Ilhan Kucukkaplan

Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria

Katarzyna Cieslik, Roland Banya and Bhaskar Vira

Challenges and opportunities with social inclusion and community‐based water management in Solomon Islands

Mark William Love, Cara Beal, Diana Gonzalez, Joe Hagabore, Collin Benjamin, Hugo Bugoro, Nixon Panda, Jael O'oi, Carol Offer and Regina Souter

Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt

Mariz Tadros

The structural design of conditional cash transfers: Colombia, India, and the USA compared

Augusto De Venanzi

Testing multi‐stakeholder dialogue for better local governance in Niger: An experiment. Can we talk our way out of development problems?

Ariel BenYishay, Lisa Mueller, Katherine Nolan and Philip Roessler

Volume 40, month 06, 2022

Normative coherence for development: What relevance for responsive regionalism?

Harlan Koff and Sandra Häbel

Development as non‐migration? Examining normative and policy coherence in EU external action on migration and development

Alexandra Berger

A normative power or fortress Europe? Normative policy coherence between the European Unionʼs development, migration, and foreign policies

Lauri Siitonen

The African Small Island Developing States and normative coherence for sustainable development: The quality of civil rights and liberties

Victoria Graham and Suzanne Graham

Normative coherence for development and regionalism: Gender equality in ASEAN's migration policies

Sandra Häbel, Harlan Koff and Marie Adam

The adoption of global water norms in Central America: What separates normative coherence from normative hegemony?

Edith Kauffer and Carmen Maganda

Normative coherence through social entrepreneurship: Fostering women’s empowerment in Myanmar

Vlada Perekrestova

Volume 40, month 05, 2022

Protectors or enablers? Untangling the roles of traditional authorities and local elites in foreign land grabs in Cameroon

Frankline Anum Ndi, James Emmanuel Wanki and Joost Dessein

Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?

Terence Wood, Sabit Otor and Matthew Dornan

Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey

Taiyang Zhong, Jonathan Crush, Zhenzhong Si and Steffanie Scott

More evidence on the impact of government social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe

Sudhanshu Handa, Frank Otchere, Paul Sirma and the Evaluation Study Team

Using evaluation data to predict loan performance among poor borrowers: The case of BRAC’s asset transfer and microcredit programmes

Marup Hossain and Conner Mullally

Public perception of foreign aid in South Korea: The effects of policy efficacy in an emerging donor

Eunju Kim and KyungWoo Kim

Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap

Emma Blackmore, Alejandro Guarin, William Vorley, Silvia Alonso and Delia Grace

Scaling up sustainable investment through blockchain‐based project bonds

Yushi Chen and Ulrich Volz

WASH for all: A systematic review of Physiological and Sociological Characterization Framework segmentation in WASH policies, programmes, and projects

Venkata Santosh Kumar Delhi, Ganesh Devkar, Sriharini Narayanan, Reeba Devaraj, Akshaya Ayyangar and A. Thillai Rajan

Mapping the nutrient adequacy of farm production and food consumption to target policy in Uganda

Wim Marivoet and John Ulimwengu

Volume 40, month 03, 2022

Are growth diagnostics biased against the poor? Evidence from the Millennium Challenge Corporation

Jigar D. Bhatt

North–South research collaborations: An empirical evaluation against principles of transboundary research

Shelley Kotze and Mirek Dymitrow

Peacebuilding conditionalities: An alternative to migration conditionalities for European Union development policy

Ángel Rodríguez Aurrecoechea

“The SDGs are not God”: Policy‐makers and the queering of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Chimaraoke Izugbara, Meroji Sebany, Frederick Wekesah and Boniface Ushie

The rise and fall of government support for small‐scale voluntary development organizations—and their remarkable resilience

Sara Kinsbergen and Mieke Molthof

The COVID‐19 pandemic and the internationalization of production: A review of the literature

Ines Kersan‐Škabić

How can countries improve human development? Four distinct national planning strategies and the challenges for human development ahead

Fabian Telch and Susan Appe

Self‐employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana: Does gender make a difference?

Kehinde Ajayi and Nana Akua Anyidoho

Solidarity Economy and social inclusion: The Immigrant Fair in Florianópolis, Brazil

Danielle Annoni, Karine de Souza Silva and Gabriela Martini dos Santos

Well‐being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Is work enough?

Fiona Carmichael, Christian K. Darko and Nicholas Vasilakos

Openness processes and new subjectivities: Analysis of the Cuban case

Juan Carlos Palacios Cívico

Translating climate strategies into action: An analysis of the sustainable, green, and resilient city action plans of the multilateral development banks

Adrian Robert Bazbauers

Promoting Rwanda’s business environment: Impact of reforms and drivers of change

Talea Bernatzki, Matthias Busse and Ruth Hoekstra

Volume 40, month 01, 2022

Payment‐by‐results for health interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A critical review

Maren Duvendack

Aid instability, aid effectiveness and economic growth

Qiaoqiao Liu and Zenggang Li

Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard, Rachel Beach and Fariya Mohiuddin

Hybridization of Chinese international development volunteering: Evidence from three state‐funded programmes

Qianjin Zhang, Junjie Lin, Tianyang Liu and Guang Chen

Regulating agricultural intensification: Lessons from West Africa’s rapidly growing pesticide markets

Steven Haggblade, Amadou Diarra and Abdramane Traoré

Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?

Cristian Incaltarau, Ilkhom Sharipov, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and Teodor Lucian Moga

Child protection policy: Understanding drivers of violence affecting children in Côte d’Ivoire

Jerome Ballet, Francis Konaté, Séverin Yao Kouamé, Catherine Maternowska and Louis Olié

Reflections on the future role of the state in Somalia from the perspective of aid effectiveness

Gaël Raballand, Andreas Fiebelkorn, Guenter Heidenhof and Kirk Schmidt

Understanding public support for Canadian aid to developing countries: The role of information

Spencer Henson, John‐Michael Davis and Liam Swiss

“Securitized” UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan

Ivica Petrikova and Melita Lazell

Does affirmative action undermine meritocracy? “Meritocratic inclusion” of the marginalized in Nepal’s bureaucracy

Ramesh Sunam, Bishnu Pariyar and Krishna K Shrestha

Northernization for Breaking‐through International Isolation: Taiwan’s Trilateral Aid Cooperation in the Middle East Refugee Crisis and beyond

Yi‐Chen Wu and Shiuh‐Shen Chien

Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?

Jason Hickel and Stephane Hallegatte