Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2025

Current editor(s): Howard White, Oliver Morrissey and Ken Shadlen

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Volume 59, issue 12, 2023

Assessing the Transformative Potential of Extractive Sector Transparency Initiatives: Evidence from Local Oil Revenue Management in Indonesia pp. 1787-1806

Primi Putri and Päivi Lujala

Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research pp. 1807-1826

Edward Ademolu

Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi pp. 1827-1848

Shannon Marie McLaughlin, Martina Bozzola and Anne Nugent

The Link between Vulnerability to Poverty and Depression: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 1849-1866

Trang Thu Vu and Alistair Munro

Does Proximity to Expressways Improve Manufacturing Productivity? Evidence from Chinese Firms pp. 1867-1884

Zhihua Tian, An Hu and Yongran Lin

Premature Deindustrialisation and Income Inequality Dynamics: Evidence from Middle-Income Economies pp. 1885-1904

Rekha Ravindran and M. Suresh Babu

Early-Life Shocks and Childhood Social Programs: Evidence of Catch-Up in Brazil pp. 1905-1926

Riley League and Dylan Fitz

Is There a Gender Gap in Health among Migrants in Russia? pp. 1927-1948

Sandra Pellet and Marine de Talancé

The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics pp. 1949-1950

Mindy Park

The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo pp. 1950-1952

Jeroen Cuvelier

Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia pp. 1952-1954

David Arnold

Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss among Syrian Labourers in Beirut pp. 1954-1955

Fuad Musallam

Volume 59, issue 11, 2023

Local Recruits in Development Finance Institutions: Relocating Global North-South Divides in the International Aid Industry pp. 1635-1651

Molly Sundberg

Re-Thinking Recipient Agency in South-South Cooperation: Strategies of Contestation, Strategies of Transformation and the South’s Own View of Development pp. 1652-1669

Helena de Moraes Achcar

Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia pp. 1670-1682

Yoriko Masunaga, Joan Muela Ribera, Thuan Thi Nguyen, Daniel H. de Vries and Koen Peeters Grietens

The National Childcare Agenda in Cambodia: A Feminist Transformative Ethics of Care Perspective pp. 1683-1698

Sambath My

Understanding Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Collaborative Governance Challenges in Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) Jurisdictional Approach pp. 1699-1717

Julia Su Chen Ng, Colas Chervier, Jean-Marc Roda, Zaiton Samdin and Rachel Carmenta

Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali pp. 1718-1740

Hannah Akanksha Patnaik and John McPeak

Land Rights Recognition and Political Participation: Evidence from India pp. 1741-1759

Bharti Nandwani

Impact of Weather Shocks on Food Security: How Effective are Forests as Natural Insurance? pp. 1760-1779

Kelvin Mulungu and Dale T. Manning

The Case for a New Bretton Woods pp. 1780-1781

Viktor Skyrman and Stefan Zylinski

African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces pp. 1782-1783

Maggie Dwyer

Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania pp. 1783-1785

Gideon Tups

The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East pp. 1785-1786

Johann Ole Willers

Volume 59, issue 10, 2023

The Effect of Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and European Influences on Contemporary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1469-1490

Leoné Walters, Carolyn Chisadza and Matthew Clance

The Linkage between School Autonomy and Inequality in Achievement in 69 Countries: Does Development Level Matter? pp. 1491-1507

Mobarak Hossain

Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries pp. 1508-1530

Lindsay Whitfield

Global Value Chains in Agriculture and the Middle-income Trap: A Framework for Analysis Applied to Peru’s Boom pp. 1531-1548

Eva Paus, Luis Abugattas and Maria Amparo Cruz Saco

Female Early Marriage and Son Preference in Pakistan pp. 1549-1569

Mazhar Mughal, Rashid Javed and Thierry Lorey

Informal Worker Access to Formal Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Kenya and Tanzania pp. 1570-1588

Nina Torm

Compulsory Schooling Laws, Overcrowding, and Youth Crime: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Brazilian Municipalities pp. 1589-1607

Marislei Nishijima and Sarmistha Pal

The Welfare Effects of Land Reform: Lessons from Yunnan, China pp. 1608-1625

Guanghua Wan, Jiansheng Zhang and Congmin Zuo

Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation pp. 1626-1627

Christian Lund

Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa pp. 1628-1629

Joan Ricart-Huguet

The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi pp. 1629-1631

Erin Riggs

Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists pp. 1631-1633

John Aloysius Zinda

Volume 59, issue 9, 2023

In Memoriam: Professor Michael Lipton pp. 1315-1316

Mick Moore

The Changing Faces of Farmer-Led Irrigation: Lessons from Dynamic Irrigation Trajectories in Kenya and Zimbabwe pp. 1317-1336

Annelieke E. C. Duker, Sambulisiwe Maseko, Mehluli A. Moyo, Benson M. Karimba, Alex Bolding, Pooja Prasad, Charlotte de Fraiture and Pieter van der Zaag

Beyond the Formal-Informal Dichotomy: Towards Accommodating Diverse Milk-Collection Practices in the Economic Middle of Kenya’s Dairy Sector pp. 1337-1353

Vera Vernooij, Sietze R. Vellema and Todd A. Crane

Land Tenure and Agricultural Investment: Do Ugandan Polygynous Households Comport with Theory? pp. 1354-1372

Khadidja Ngom, Amy L. Damon and Hannah R. Whipple

Welfare Effects of Smallholder Export Participation: Evidence from Panel Data in Kyrgyzstan pp. 1373-1390

Damir Esenaliev

How Vulnerable are the Self-Employed? Evidence from Ugandan Small-Scale Entrepreneurs pp. 1391-1408

Tabea Lakemann

Givers of Great Dinners Know Few Enemies: The Impact of Food Sufficiency and Food Sharing on Low-intensity Household Conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1409-1426

Naureen Fatema and Shahriar Kibriya

Addressing Non-response Bias in Surveys of Wealthy Households in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Strategies and Implementation pp. 1427-1442

Johanna Choumert-Nkolo, Gabriela Santana Tavera and Prakhar Saxena

Universal Basic Income Programs: How Much Would Taxes Need to Rise? Evidence for Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa pp. 1443-1463

Ali Enami, Ugo Gentilini, Patricio Larroulet, Nora Lustig, Emma Monsalve, Siyu Quan and Iamele Rigolini

Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath pp. 1464-1465

Samer Abboud

Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies pp. 1465-1467

Weishen Zeng

Football in the Middle East: state, society and the beautiful game pp. 1467-1468

Bjørn Olav Utvik

Volume 59, issue 8, 2023

Infrastructure-Driven Development: The Local Social Impact of a Large Hydropower Plant in the Amazon pp. 1123-1143

Rita Schmutz

Canada’s Small INGOs: Growth Aspirations, Strategies, and Constraints pp. 1144-1162

John-Michael Davis, Heather Dicks, Craig Johnson, Andréanne Martel and Andrea Paras

Spatial Internet Spillovers in Manufacturing pp. 1163-1186

Joël Cariolle and Maëlan le Goff

Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza pp. 1187-1212

Amit Loewenthal, Sami H. Miaari and Anke Hoeffler

The Role of Political Connections in COVID Policy Response: Effectiveness of Firm-Level Government Support in Egypt pp. 1213-1235

Amirah El-Haddad and Chahir Zaki

Drivers of SME Resilience in Southeast Asia during COVID-19 pp. 1236-1257

Justine Falciola, Sarah Mohan, Barbara Ramos and Valentina Rollo

Good Business Practices Improve Productivity in Myanmar’s Manufacturing Sector pp. 1258-1282

Paolo Falco, Henrik Hansen, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

Business Licencing Reform and Gender Equality: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 1283-1307

Amrita Saha, Kelbesa Megersa and Keir Macdonald

The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 1308-1309

Oliver Morrissey

Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America pp. 1310-1311

Logan Puck

Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda pp. 1311-1313

Moses Khisa

Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural Transformation pp. 1313-1314

Boris Gershman

Volume 59, issue 7, 2023

Hydropower Hegemony: Examining Civil Society Opposition to Dams in Cambodia pp. 961-979

Dustin Barter and Mory Sar

The Role of Gender Inequality in the Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study from India pp. 980-996

Valentina Alvarez-Saavedra, Pierre Levasseur and Suneha Seetahul

Revisiting the Determinants of Non-farm Labour Income in the Peruvian Andes: The Role of Intra-Seasonal Climate Variability and Widespread Family Networks pp. 997-1022

Carmen Ponce San Roman

Assessing Community Readiness for Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes for Tropical Primary Forest Protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1023-1045

Andrew Buckwell, Christopher Fleming, Glenn Bush, Joseph Zambo Mandea, Fitalew Taye and Brendan Mackey

Self-Help, Natality and ‘Civic Growth’ pp. 1046-1059

Mukulika Banerjee

The Expansive Corridor: Testing Acemoglu and Robinson (2019) pp. 1060-1075

Ryan Murphy and Colin O’reilly

Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Kyrgyzstan pp. 1076-1091

Kamalbek Karymshakov, Burulcha Sulaimanova and M. Bergolo

The Fight Against Malaria: A New Index for Quantifying and Assessing Policy Implementation Actions to Reduce Malaria Burden in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1092-1113

Carlos Bethencourt, Gustavo Marrero and Charlie Y. Ngoudji

Fueling Resistance: The Contentious Political Economy of Biofuels and Fracking pp. 1114-1115

Anil Hira

Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda pp. 1115-1117

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart and Abigail Opoku

Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise of Xi pp. 1117-1118

Christina Maags

List of Referees 2022 pp. 1119-1122

The Editors

Volume 59, issue 6, 2023

Correction pp. I-II

The Editors

Anglo-Chinese Capitalism in Hong Kong and Singapore: Origins, Reproduction & Divergence pp. 787-810

Bryan Cheang

The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda pp. 811-832

Giulia Mascagni and Fabrizio Santoro

Covid-19 Lockdown in Ecuador: Are there Gender Differences in Unemployment? pp. 833-853

Grace Armijos-Bravo and Segundo Camino-Mogro

COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance pp. 854-872

Giel Ton, Mauricio Espinoza Hermoza and R. Fort

Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program pp. 873-893

Jonathan Steinke, Lemlem Teklegiorgis Habtemariam, Christoph Kubitza, Markolf Maczek, Boran Altincicek and Stefan Sieber

Women’s Participation in Contract Farming pp. 894-910

Phyllis Mumia Machio and Eva-Marie Meemken

The Role of Spatial Inequalities on Youth Migration Decisions: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria pp. 911-932

Mulubrhan Amare, Kibrom A. Abay and Jordan Chamberlin

The Impact of Road Development on Household Welfare in Rural Papua New Guinea pp. 933-953

Martin Wiegand, Eric Koomen, Menno Pradhan and Christopher Edmonds

Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy pp. 954-955

Priya Chacko

Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia pp. 955-957

Wanheng Hu

Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector pp. 957-959

Adam Sneyd

Volume 59, issue 5, 2023

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful? pp. 619-636

Nic Cheeseman and Susan Dodsworth

Engaging Traditional Leaders in Local Governance: Devising a Generalisable Framework for Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 637-652

Kanishka Balasuriya

Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management? pp. 653-672

Godfreyb Ssekajja

Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 673-690

Kangni Kpodar, Montfort Mlachila, Saad Quayyum and Vigninou Gammadigbe

Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform pp. 691-715

Segundo Camino-Mogro and Grace Armijos Bravo

Educational Inequality and the Poverty Trap in Teacher Recruitment pp. 716-738

Valeria Lentini, Gregorio Gimenez and Javier Valbuena

Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from Across Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 739-757

David K. Evans, Susannah Hares, Peter A. Holland and Amina Mendez Acosta

Does the Landowner’s Gender Affect Self-Cultivation and Farm Productivity? An Analysis for India pp. 758-777

Bina Agarwal and Malvika Mahesh

Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond pp. 778-779

Jürgen Rüland

Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia pp. 780-781

Jen Dickinson

Inter-Imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance pp. 781-783

Jini Kim Watson

Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine pp. 783-785

Lauren M. Baker

Volume 59, issue 4, 2023

Becoming ‘Mother-Activists’: Deconstructing the Boundaries of the ‘Ghar’ and ‘Bahir’ in Shaheen Bagh, India pp. 457-471

Deepta Chopra and Kaliat Ammu Sanyal

Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India pp. 472-489

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India pp. 490-515

Kalyani Raghunathan, Neha Kumar, Shivani Gupta, Giang Thai, Samuel Scott, Avijit Choudhury, Madhu Khetan, Purnima Menon and Agnes Quisumbing

Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India pp. 516-532

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Daniel Rosenblum

Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anaemia: Evidence from India pp. 533-551

Gaurav Datt, Pushkar Maitra, Nidhiya Menon and Ranjan Ray

Care Functions within the Kinship Network: Explaining Care Arrangements and Female Health Choices in Post-Disaster Nepal pp. 552-569

Kathrin Fischer

Do Large Estates Benefit Smallholder Neighbours? Evidence from Malawi pp. 570-592

Julian Joseph, Michiel van Dijk and Tamás Krisztin

Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Neighborhood and Racial Group Networks pp. 593-610

Marcelo Arbex, Jéssica Faciroli, Ricardo Silva Freguglia and Marcel de Toledo Vieira

Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia pp. 611-613

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Invisible China: How the Urban–Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise pp. 613-614

Qian Forrest Zhang

Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa pp. 615-616

Max Gallien

The World that Latin America Created: The United Nation Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era pp. 616-617

Cristóbal Kay

Volume 59, issue 3, 2023

Taxation and Migration of Peasants: Evidence from the Tax-for-Fee Reform in Rural China pp. 307-323

Bingdao Zheng and Yanfeng Gu

Heterogeneous Effects of Forced Migration on the Female Labor Market: The Venezuelan Exodus in Colombia pp. 324-341

Julian Pedrazzi and Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco

Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector pp. 342-359

Jamelia Harris

The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Poverty: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Mexico pp. 360-380

Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez and Gerardo Esquivel

Impact of Intergovernmental Transfers on Household Multidimensional Well-Being pp. 381-397

Joseph B. Ajefu and Joseph O. Ogebe

Government Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Expenditure in Ghana pp. 398-412

Samuel Ampaw, Simon Appleton and Xuyan Lou

The Gendered Impact of Rural Road Improvement on Schooling Decisions and Youth Employment in Morocco pp. 413-429

Yasuharu Shimamura, Satoshi Shimizutani, Eiji Yamada and Hiroyuki Yamada

Women’s Higher Education, Assortative Mating, and Empowerment: Long-Term Evidence from College Enrollment Expansion in South Korea pp. 430-447

Dahye Kim

Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy pp. 448-450

Caroline Norma

Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose pp. 450-451

Mick Moore

The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance pp. 452-453

Larry Au

Power and Informality in Urban Africa, Ethnographic Perspectives pp. 453-455

Clare Cummings

Volume 59, issue 2, 2023

Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC pp. 153-169

Tobias Wuttke

A Multilateral Donation that Boomerangs Home: Analysing the Donor State Advantage in UN Procurement pp. 170-187

Wenqing Huangfu, Tao Li and Xiangning Wu

Colonial Origins of Comparative Development in Ghana pp. 188-208

Mohammed Iddrisu Kambala

The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data pp. 209-223

Martina Querejeta and Marisa Bucheli

Technology Heterogeneity and Poverty Traps: A Latent Class Approach to Technology Gap Drivers of Chronic Poverty pp. 224-241

Daniel Hill, Stephanie McWhinnie, Shalander Kumar and Daniel Gregg

Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh pp. 242-257

Samuel Brazys, Minhaj Mahmud and Arya Pillai

Inequality of Educational Opportunity and Time-Varying Circumstances: Longitudinal Evidence from Peru pp. 258-278

José María Rentería

Inequality, Outreach, and Impact in Public Goods Contributions pp. 279-298

Carolyn Chisadza, Nicky Nicholls and Eleni Yitbarek

Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China pp. 299-300

Jeremy L. Wallace

Finance, Growth and Inequality: Post-Keynesian Perspectives pp. 300-302

Antonia Settle

Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India By Michael Levien pp. 302-304

Praveen Jha

For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers pp. 304-306

Amanda Rizkallah

Volume 59, issue 1, 2023

Recovery for Development: A Multi-Dimensional, Practice-Oriented Framework for Transformative Change Post-Disaster pp. 1-20

Andrew G. McClelland, Duncan Shaw, Nathaniel O'Grady and Ayham Fattoum

Increasing Access to Formal Agricultural Credit: The Role of Rural Producer Organisations pp. 21-38

Allison Benson and Jean-Paul Faguet

Hiding or Pleasing: Spousal Disagreement Among Ugandan Maize Farmers pp. 39-57

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere and David Spielman

Reforming of Women’s Litigant Rights and Child Wellbeing: Evidence from Nigeria pp. 58-72

Uchenna R. Efobi and Joseph B. Ajefu

Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria pp. 73-93

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Jessica Leight and Vandana Sharma

Do Shocks and Environmental Factors Shape Personality Traits? Evidence from the Ultra-Poor in Uganda pp. 94-113

Shikhar Mehra, Yaniv Stopnitzky and Mo Alloush

Demand-Side Factors in Maternal Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Community Health Worker Programme in Uganda pp. 114-132

Joshua L. Greenberg, Jordan Bateisibwa, Joseph Ngonzi and Katherine Donato

Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health in India pp. 133-147

Uttara Balakrishnan and Magda Tsaneva

Combating Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It pp. 148-149

Kate Manzo

Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico pp. 149-150

Jared P. Van Ramshorst

Trade Wars are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace pp. 151-152

J. P. Singh