Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2026

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Volume 62, issue 8, 2026

An Actor-Based Perspective On Informal Cross-Border Trading pp. 1275-1295

Marcus M. Larsen, Rebecca Namatovu and Rajneesh Narula

Climate Justice in the Brazilian Amazon: Who Contributes to the Mitigation Effort and What Are the Short-Term Effects? pp. 1296-1319

Marcelo Bentes Diniz, Jorge Eduardo Macedo Simões, Márcia Jucá Teixeira Diniz, Vanessa Da Paixão Alves and Gabriel Costa Maciel Moia

One-Minute Earthquake, Years of Patience: Evidence from Mexico on the Effect of Earthquake Exposure on Time Preference pp. 1320-1336

Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Robin Rampaer and David Raymaekers

Social Norms and Female Labour Force Participation in Bangladesh: The Role of Social Expectations and Reference Networks pp. 1337-1355

Luna Bellani, Kumar Biswas, Sebastian Fehrler, Paul Marx, Shwetlena Sabarwal and Syed Rashed Al-Zayed Josh

How Does a Rural Poverty Alleviation Program Affect Parents’ Aspirations About Their Children? Evidence from BRAC-TUP in Bangladesh pp. 1356-1378

Alejandro Montoya Castaño and Mary Arends-Kuenning

Beyond Loans: Empowering Women Through Tailored Support pp. 1379-1415

Jinnat Ara and Dipanwita Sarkar

Cash Transfers and Business Survival During Covid: Evidence from Uganda pp. 1416-1430

Kjetil Bjorvatn, Denise Ferris, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz, Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle

How Do Migrants Fare in Africa’s Urban Labour Markets? pp. 1431-1453

Luc Christiaensen and Michael Keenan

Structural Change in Rural West Africa: Does Mobile Banking Have a Role to Play? pp. 1454-1474

Arouna Kouandou and Sophie Legras

Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana pp. 1475-1476

Remi Edwards

Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg pp. 1477-1479

Marcel Paret

Death Is Our Business; Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare pp. 1480-1481

Karen Philippa Larsen

Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda pp. 1482-1483

Thalia Gerzso

Rated A: Soft-porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India pp. 1484-1485

Vinod Kottayil Kalidasan

Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India pp. 1486-1487

Leya Mathew

The Political Economy of Divergent Welfare States in the Global South: The Case of South Africa and Mauritius pp. 1488-1489

Hamza Delbar

International State building in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire pp. 1490-1491

Giulia Piccolino

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America pp. 1492-1493

Christopher Chambers-Ju

Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State pp. 1494-1495

Jewellord T. Nem Singh

Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat pp. 1496-1497

Jozef Callan Robles

Volume 62, issue 7, 2026

Under the Gun: Military and Paramilitary Actors in Sudan’s Agrifood System pp. 1085-1106

Danielle Resnick, Hala Abushama, Mosab Ahmed, Oliver Kirui and Khalid Siddig

Cursed by Gold or Globalisation? Company Town and Divided Community in Kyrgyzstan pp. 1107-1125

Pengshan Pan

Estimating Poverty in Afghanistan Without Consumption Data: An Imputation-Based Approach pp. 1126-1147

Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas, Parth Chawla, Silvia Redaelli and Nobuo Yoshida

Ponds and Their Potential for Agricultural Sustainability in Punjab; Insights from a Century of Surface Water Change in the Granary of India pp. 1148-1168

Adam S. Green, Aftab Alam, Shruti Bhogal, Sandeep Dixit, Kamal Vatta and Cameron A. Petrie

Environmental Courts and Green Development: Evidence from China pp. 1169-1188

Xiulin Qi, Xiang Liang and Ziting Wang

Livelihood Buffer Effect of Agriculture: Evidence from China’s Farm Household Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 1189-1206

Yuqing Yin, Jingming Liu and Xianhui Hou

Grandparenthood Penalty in Agriculture: Grandchild Caregiving and Farm Performance pp. 1207-1224

Wenyuan Hua, Liangguo Luo and Xueqin Zhu

The Short-Term Labour Market Impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru pp. 1225-1247

Celia P. Vera and Bruno Jiménez

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence pp. 1248-1249

Elena Pérez Lagüela

Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence pp. 1250-1251

Paige Bollon

At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia pp. 1252-1253

César Bowley Castillo

To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide pp. 1254-1255

Nicole Fox

Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda: Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control pp. 1256-1257

Kasaija Phillip Apuuli

The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India pp. 1258-1259

Indulata Prasad

China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets pp. 1260-1261

Guanie Lim

Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics pp. 1262-1263

Maziar Samiee

Lifeworlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in the Chad–Sudan Borderlands pp. 1264-1265

Moudwe Daga

The Condor Trials Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America pp. 1266-1267

Caterina Preda

Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist and Communal Violence since 1945 pp. 1268-1269

Gabriel Lele

List of Referees 2025 pp. 1270-1273

The Editors

Volume 62, issue 6, 2026

A Different Difference: Nationality, Class, and the Complexities of Localisation at an Indian NGO pp. 877-890

Rachael Goodman

Women’s Greater Participation in Agriculture: Implications for Energy Expenditure, Time Use, and Nutrition from a Case Study in Telangana, India pp. 891-913

Oluwatosin Aderanti, Giacomo Zanello, Padmaja Ravula, Kavitha Kasala and C. S. Srinivasan

A Change is Gonna Come: Universality, Stability, and Shocks in Personality Traits in Rural India pp. 914-929

Arnaud Natal and Christophe Jalil Nordman

Heterogeneous Effect of the Indian Affirmative Action: The Role of Caste Certificates pp. 930-947

Sugata Bag, Suman Seth and Barnali Basak

State Capacity and the Catch-Up Effect pp. 948-973

Somdeep Chatterjee and Shubham Ojha

From Cash to Care: Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health in India pp. 974-999

Bhawna Taneja and Indrani Roy Chowdhury

Do Cash-Transfer Programs Protect from Poverty in the Case of Aggregate Shocks? A Study on Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines pp. 1000-1022

Tobias Pfutze

How Effective Are Cash Transfer Programs in Mitigating Income Instability? Evidence from the AUH in Argentina pp. 1023-1042

Sébastien Carrère

The Patron and the Orchestrator: Imperfect Institutions and the Dual Influence of the State on Corporate R&D Investments pp. 1043-1061

Jojo Jacob and Claudio Petti

Contending Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law pp. 1062-1063

Adam Kochanski

The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China pp. 1064-1065

Yige Dong

What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make pp. 1066-1067

Alexandra Boesel

Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders pp. 1068-1069

Sarah Wolff

Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste pp. 1070-1071

Selver B. Sahin

Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing pp. 1072-1073

Elizabeth L. Brannon

Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond pp. 1074-1075

Yolanda Ariadne Collins

The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism pp. 1076-1077

Max Ward

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala pp. 1078-1079

Cecilia Menjívar

Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism pp. 1080-1081

Andrew S. Rosenberg

Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier pp. 1082-1083

Ong Soon Keong

Volume 62, issue 5, 2026

Which Interpersonal Relationships Are More Important for Wellbeing? Evidence from Three Latin American Countries pp. 703-720

Mariano Rojas

Truth in Translation: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Everyday Practices of Monitoring in a Senegalese Sustainable Development NGO pp. 721-736

Mathilde Gouin-Bonenfant

A Gendered Bystander Effect: Experimental Evidence on the Vulnerability to International Human Trafficking of Wo(Men) in Tanzania pp. 737-757

Julia Kleinewiese and Sandra Morgenstern

When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency? Evidence from the Rural Philippines pp. 758-778

Aletheia Donald, Hillary C. Johnson, Aries A. Arugay, Aletheia KERYGMA B. Valenciano and Forest B. Jarvis

Microcredit and Child Labour Following Natural Disasters: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 779-796

Michell Yoonjei Dong and Hee-Seung Yang

The Role of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Improving Food Security in Rural Zimbabwe in Instances of Weather Information Deprivation pp. 797-815

Terrence Kairiza, George Kembo and Lloyd Chigusiwa

Impacts of Effective Altruism on Donor Behaviour: A Randomised Discrete Choice Experiment pp. 816-833

Joel W. Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Winson Chiu and Ivar Kolstad

Reforming Gender Laws: The Economic Impact for Women in Saudi Arabia pp. 834-854

Frode Martin Nordvik

Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire pp. 855-856

Oliver Pye

Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design pp. 857-858

Kent Eaton

Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles pp. 859-860

Pempho Chinkondenji and Alinafe Chinkondenji

Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil: An Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s–90s pp. 861-862

Markus Fraundorfer

Brown Saviours and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labour and the Global Politics of Help in India pp. 863-864

Rohini Rai

A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela pp. 865-866

Amy Penfield

Africa’s Struggle for its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat pp. 867-868

Yasmina Zian

The Economic Sociology of Development pp. 869-870

Sarah Babb

The State’s Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea pp. 871-872

Min Joo Lee

Pathways to Development: From Politics to Power pp. 873-874

Judith Teichman

The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey pp. 875-876

Fırat Genç

Volume 62, issue 4, 2026

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Actors on the Ground: A Missing Dimension in China’s Belt and Road Initiative pp. 527-544

Weishen Zeng

The Impact of Group Size and Kinship on Institutionalised Collective Action: Evidence from Pastoral Communities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China pp. 545-563

Yingjun Qi and Dong Huang

Market Integration Improves Traditional Hadza Male Childhood Health with no Effect on Females pp. 564-581

J. Colette Berbesque and Kara C. Hoover

Little Cash, Little Carry: Liquidity Constraints and Missing Out on Bulk Discounts in Tanzania pp. 582-603

Michael Olabisi and Alexander Persaud

Mutual Benefits of Proximity: Economic Interactions Between Refugees and Hosts in Uganda pp. 604-627

Rama Dasi Mariani, Furio Camillo Rosati and Pasquale Scaramozzino

Racial Earnings Gaps: The Role of Private Schooling, Technical Education and Graduate Degrees pp. 628-647

Alysson Portella and Michael França

Supply-Side Innovations to Increase Equitable Access to Digital Financial Services: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique pp. 648-670

Mahesh Karra, Mindy Hernandez, Catherine Brennan and Margaret A. Mcconnell

Family Gives Up on You: The Online-to-Offline Food Delivery and Children’s Educational Expenditures in Rural China pp. 671-697

Qinglin Lin and Jiwei Chen

Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War pp. 698-699

Ian Hall

Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of Marketisation in Senegal and Ghana pp. 699-701

Mohamed Abdiaziz Muse

Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared pp. 701-702

Nicholas Jon Crane

Volume 62, issue 3, 2026

The Phone Status Index: A Versatile Measure of Individual Socio-Economic Status in Developing Countries pp. 359-381

Jørgen Carling and Nicolás Caso

Enhancing Women’s Income and Household Nutrition Through Training in Small-Scale Fisheries Value Chains in Sub-Sahara Africa pp. 382-407

Emmanuel Orkoh and Assem Abu Hatab

First to Wake-Up, Last to Eat: Evidence of Disproportionate Morning Penalties on Women in India pp. 408-426

Udayan Rathore

Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities pp. 427-444

Adam Michael Auerbach and Tanu Kumar

Multidimensional Poverty: A New Perspective on Measurement pp. 445-459

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son

Decomposing Changes in Child Health Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 460-479

David Pérez-Mesa, Gustavo Marrero and Sara Darias-Curvo

Competition and Development in Automotive Global Value Chains: Insights from Thailand, South Africa and Argentina pp. 480-500

Tobias Wuttke, Bruno Perez-Almansi and Kriengkrai Techakanont

Inclusive Intellectual Property Rights? The Case of Collective Trademarks pp. 501-518

Carolina Castaldi, Milene Simone Tessarin and Rahmi Can Yamanoglu

Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa pp. 519-520

Tom Goodfellow

African Military Politics in the Sahel: Regional Organizations and International Politics pp. 521-522

Martin Welz

Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train pp. 522-523

Adonis M. Y. Li

Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile pp. 524-525

Ángela Vergara

Volume 62, issue 2, 2026

Developing Collective Impact to Improve Foundational Learning: Evidence from Madagascar pp. 175-198

Takao Maruyama and Kengo Igei

Culture, Kinship and Women’s Labour Opportunities: Evidence from Malawi and Indonesia* pp. 199-217

Cecilia D’Agostini and Luca Tiberti

The Impact of Social Insurance Reform on Skill Composition and Worker Turnover: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 218-239

Arjun S. Bedi, Admasu Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom and Getnet Alemu Zewdu

The Effects of Job Training on Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 240-262

Afsana Adiba, Md. Shakil Ahmed, Narayan Das, Md. Karimul Islam, Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder and Muhammad Siddiquee

Skills Training, Corruption and Organisational Capabilities: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry pp. 263-285

Mushtaq Khan, Sumaiya Kabir and Sophie van Huellen

The Impact of Microcredit on Household Welfare: Evidence from Bangladesh During the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 286-307

Mohammad Raied Arman, Narayan Das, Sakib Mahmood, Semab Rahman and Khandker Wahedur Rahman

Green Revolution in Collective-Era China: The Demographic Consequences of High-Yielding Rice pp. 308-331

Youhong Lin

Confucianism and Imbalance in the Sex Ratio at Birth in Modern China pp. 332-349

Jia Cao, Rongjie Chen and Minghao Li

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland pp. 350-351

Jessica Gottlieb

The Politics of Revenue Bargaining In Africa: Triggers, Processes, and Outcomes pp. 351-354

Sripriya Iyengar Srivatsa

How Governments Borrow: Partisan Politics, Constrained Institutions, and Sovereign Debt in Emerging Markets pp. 354-355

Alexandra O. Zeitz

Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making pp. 355-357

Alex Dyzenhaus

Volume 62, issue 1, 2026

Reaching SDG 7: Shedding a Light on the Causal Effect of Mini-Grids on Rural Electrification pp. 1-26

Vincent Nossek and Jean-Claude Berthélemy

Does Electrification Matter for Child Development? Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 27-45

Celina Proffen

Impact of Early Childhood School Intervention on Enrolment and Learning Outcomes: Evaluation of a Public Program in India pp. 46-67

Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Debayan Pakrashi, Sarani Saha and Soham Sahoo

Rural School Investment and the Rural-Urban Education Gap: Evidence from India pp. 68-82

Arijit Ray and Jane Ruseski

The Myth and Reality of Teacher Shortage in India pp. 83-105

Sandip Datta and Geeta Kingdon

What Are the Economic and Poverty Implications for Sudan If the Conflict Continues Through 2025? pp. 106-127

Mosab Ahmed, Mariam Raouf and Khalid Siddig

Climate Change and Disability-Inclusive Adaptation: Qualitative Evidence from Uzbekistan pp. 128-145

Adam Michael Auerbach, Abdulla Abdukhalilov, Audrey Sacks and Dilmurad Yusupov

Beyond Reducing Deforestation: Impacts of a REDD+ Project on Household Livelihoods pp. 146-167

Gabriela Demarchi, Julie Subervie, Caue D. Carrilho, Thibault Catry and Stibniati Atmadja

Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development pp. 168-169

Hilman S. Fathoni

Masquerades in African Society: Gender, Power, and Identity pp. 169-171

Raphael Chijioke Njoku

Indigenous Peoples and Borders pp. 171-173

Cara Westerberg Mattu

Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective pp. 173-174

Andries du Toit