Journal of Development Effectiveness

2009 - 2025

Current editor(s): Howard White

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Volume 17, issue 4, 2025

Impact of internship programs offered by public employment service on labour market indicators in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 429-449

Carrel Fokou, Benjamin Fomba Kamga and Eric Djimeu Wouabe

Improving reading proficiency in early childhood education classrooms: evidence from Liberia pp. 450-466

Michael Sebele, Jeffery McManus, Mtise Mwanza, Leah Mwai and Mico Rudasingwa

Aggregation models in agricultural value chains of staple crops and their potential application for biofortification: a scoping review pp. 467-485

Panam Parikh, Nathaline Onek Aparo, Marcia D. de Barcellos, Annette M. Nyangaresi, Ishank M. Gorla, Bho Mudyahoto, Valerie M. Friesen and Hans De Steur

Social housing and crime reduction: evidence from Malaysia’s People’s Housing Project pp. 486-504

Izzat Hassan Bin Halim

Country selectivity: project-level evidence on need and effectiveness pp. 505-522

Jake Grover

Conditional cash transfers: effects on labour market outcomes and household financial well-being in Kazakhstan pp. 523-542

Kairat Umargaliyev

The mitigation effects of irrigation rehabilitation on climate variability and water scarcity: evidence from a randomised experiment in the Philippines pp. 543-558

Angelica Maddawin and Kazushi Takahashi

Volume 17, issue 3, 2025

Subsidized loans and firms’ employment outcomes: evidence from a province in Iran pp. 297-317

Javad Nosratabadi

Impact of access to electricity on the well-being of rural households in Senegal pp. 318-341

Kadoukpè Gildas Magbondé, Djiby Thiam and Natascha Wagner

The power of narratives: edutainment’s impact on knowledge and behaviour change in faecal sludge management in Urban India pp. 342-361

Varinder Kaur Gambhir, Sonal Tickoo Chaudhuri, Pratima Singh, Narendra Bhalla, Anna Godfrey, Radharani Mitra, Tanvi Nagpal and Francis Rathinam

Improved access to safe water: effects on adult health and time allocation in rural Zambia pp. 362-381

Yasuharu Shimamura, Satoshi Shimizutani, Shimpei Taguchi and Hiroyuki Yamada

The effects of development assistance on sexual and reproductive health services in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a cross-country panel data analysis pp. 382-396

Björn Ekman, Jesper Sundewall and Jessy Schmit

The persistent effects of school meals on multidimensional human capital: evidence from rural China pp. 397-415

Jingru Ren and Yanran Zhou

Population aging, pensions, and vulnerability to multidimensional poverty pp. 416-428

Lijin Liu

Volume 17, issue 2, 2025

A booster to conditional cash transfer programme: experimental evidence on financial inclusion and livelihood enhancement project pp. 143-160

Ayako Matsuda, Keitaro Aoyagi, Takako Mochizuki and Miki Uematsu

Hospital construction and emergency waiting time: evidence from Nicaragua pp. 161-177

Sarah Frohnweiler, Esther Heesemann, Marcello Perez-Alvarez, Manuel Santos Silva and Sebastian Vollmer

Using social media for agricultural information dissemination: the role of informant-recipient homogeneity pp. 178-205

Ryo Takahashi, Yasuyuki Todo, Yu Ri Kim, Yuzuka Kashiwagi and Denu Tsegaye

Rural–urban analysis of parental time poverty and child over-nutrition in ghana pp. 206-230

Edward Martey, Prince M. Etwire, Daniel Adu Ankrah and John K.M Kuwornu

The impact of savings-led microfinance on the lives of refugees pp. 231-256

Stephen DeLoach and Alexa Rasmussen

Addressing selection bias while estimating aggregate development effectiveness: can we obtain externally valid estimates at portfolio level? pp. 257-276

Alessandra Garbero and Elena Stanghellini

Comprehensive social protection programming: what is the potential for improving sanitation outcomes? pp. 277-295

Keetie Roelen and Karol Rodriguez

Volume 17, issue 1, 2025

Mixed-methods impact evaluation in international development practice: distinguishing between quant-led and qual-led models pp. 1-20

James Copestake

Does social protection reach those left behind: empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty approaches pp. 21-35

Khaufelo Raymond Lekobane and Giel Ton

The long-term effect of a job training programme for youths in Peru pp. 36-49

Rafael Novella, Juan Jose Diaz and David Rosas-Shady

Does livestock-crop diversification improve food and nutrition security? Evidence from Eastern Ethiopia pp. 50-70

Bekele Wegi Feyisa, George Mavrotas, Teshome Lejissa, Million Sileshi and Hans De Steur

Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics for development effectiveness: a comprehensive approach to extract insights from project data pp. 71-100

Alessandra Garbero, Bia Carneiro, Giovanni Cerulli and Giuliano Resce

Enhancing food security through keyhole gardening in Lesotho pp. 101-117

Oluwasola Ogunleye, Abiodun A. Ogundeji and Gideon Danso-Abbeam

More is more. Combined livelihood-education interventions and their effect on child labour in the agricultural sector pp. 118-142

Vera Chiodi and Verónica Escudero

Volume 16, issue 4, 2024

Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda pp. 375-385

Vivian Hoffmann, Miki Khanh Doan and Tomoko Harigaya

Impact of cash transfer on food accessibility and calorie-intake in Pakistan pp. 386-407

Shagufta Shabbar

How do patent subsidies drive SMEs to patent? Evidence from China pp. 408-427

Runhua Wang

Does the small business programme benefit self-employed workers? Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 428-447

Booyuel Kim, Rony Rodriguez-Ramirez and Hee-Seung Yang

A sky view evaluation of the impact of mini-grid projects on progress towards SDG7 pp. 448-467

Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Mathilde Maurel

Challenges to groundnut value chain development: lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana pp. 468-484

Sean Posey, Nicholas Magnan, Ellen McCullough, Vivian Hoffmann, Nelson Opoku and Abdul-Hafiz Alidu

Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of light-touch aspirations interventions in rural Ethiopia pp. 485-498

Jessica Leight, Daniel Gilligan, Michael Mulford, Alemayehu Taffesse and Heleene Tambet

Volume 16, issue 3, 2024

Editorial – TREE special issue pp. 303-305

Chandan Jain, Marie Gaarder and Sudhanshu Handa

Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science pp. 306-316

David Evans

Policy equipoise and interventional superiority pp. 317-331

Douglas MacKay

A checklist to guide sensitivity analyses and replications of impact evaluations pp. 332-348

Sridevi K. Prasad, Fiona Kastel, Suvarna Pande, Chenxiao Zhang and Douglas M. Glandon

Surveyor physical and emotional well-being: learning from Indian context pp. 349-362

Indira Patil, Chandan Jain, Rohan Shah and Saumya Mathur

Research transparency and reproducibility policies and programmes at the international initiative for impact evaluation pp. 363-373

Sean Grant and Sayak Khatua

Publisher’s Note pp. 374-374

The Editors

Volume 16, issue 2, 2024

Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh pp. 159-186

Muhammed Nazmul Islam, Atonu Rabbani, Animesh Talukder, Rubaiya Riya Siddiqua, Sanjana Nujhat, Mushfiqur Rahman, Antara Roy and Malabika Sarker

The trade-off between economic development and pandemic control: strategy identification and effect analysis pp. 187-205

Hui Ye, Yunshu Tang, Zhixiang Zhou and Huaqing Wu

Inadequate teacher content knowledge and what could be done about it: evidence from El Salvador pp. 206-229

Aymo Brunetti, Konstantin Büchel, Martina Jakob, Ben Jann and Daniel Steffen

Adolescent girls’ agency and their labour force participation: experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh pp. 230-245

Sajeda Amin and Momoe Makino

Effects of a large-scale participatory learning and action programme in women’s groups on health, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Bihar, India pp. 246-263

Lisa Bogler, Christian Bommer, Cara Ebert, Abhijeet Kumar, Sv Subramanian, Malavika A. Subramanyam and Sebastian Vollmer

Technical efficiency and technology gap in Kenya’s tea industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity pp. 264-281

Vincent Ngeno

Grow the pie, or have it? Using machine learning to impact heterogeneity in the Ultra-poor graduation model pp. 282-301

Reajul Alam Chowdhury, Federico Ceballos-Sierra and Munshi Sulaiman

Volume 16, issue 1, 2024

Improving access and quality of civic infrastructure and amenities: how effective are the different interventions? A synthesis of the findings from meta analysis studies pp. 1-26

Ganesh Devkar, Venkata Santosh Kumar Delhi, Vinod Ramanarayanan, Suchismita Goswami and Thillai Rajan A

Does citizen engagement improve development outcomes? A realist-informed systematic review of participation and accountability mechanisms pp. 27-60

Ada Sonnenfeld, Jennifer Stevenson and Hugh Sharma Waddington

Community-based natural resource management: an effective tool to reduce poverty and inequality? pp. 61-76

Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Khan Jahirul Islam and A.B.M. Mahfuzul Haque

Implementation of graduation programs for alleviating rural poverty: an impact analysis in Paraguay pp. 77-100

Jorge Maldonado, John Gomez-Mahecha, Viviana León-Jurado, Laura Villa and Daniel A. Rodríguez

Supported cooperative groups and the economic performance of small farmers: evidence from Georgia pp. 101-117

Samuel Ahado, Jiri Hejkrlik, Tomas Ratinger and Tamila Arnania Kepuladze

Changing the logic in agricultural extension: evidence from a demand-driven extension programme in Kenya pp. 118-141

Juan D. Bonilla, Andrea Coombes, Dannie Romney and Paul C. Winters

How accurate are retrospective survey data? Evidence from rural Ethiopia pp. 142-158

Rob Fuller, Simone Lombardini and Cecilia Poggi