Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2025

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Volume 57, issue 12, 2021

Mobilising Private Funding of Development Finance pp. 1979-2001

Christopher A. McHugh

School, Shocks, and Safety Nets: Can Conditional Cash Transfers Protect Human Capital Investments during Rainfall Shocks? pp. 2002-2026

Dylan Fitz and Riley League

Weather Shocks and Planting Stage Investments: Evidence from Niger pp. 2027-2044

Fleur Wouterse and Sunday Odjo

Cereal Prices and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia pp. 2045-2062

Paul Brenton and Mike Nyawo

Smallholders’ Personal Networks in Access to Agricultural Markets: A Case of African Leafy Vegetables Commercialisation in Kenya pp. 2063-2076

Catherine Mawia Mwema, Wibke Crewett and Job Lagat

Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China’s Rural-urban Migrant Households pp. 2077-2094

Carl Lin, Yan Sun and Chunbing Xing

Chinese vs. US Trade in an Emerging Country: The Impact of Trade Openness in Chile pp. 2095-2111

Alexandra Sotiriou and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

The Chinese are Here: Import Penetration and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 2112-2135

Christian Darko, Giovanni Occhiali and Enrico Vanino

Exports and New Products in China – A Generalised Propensity Score Approach with Firm-to-Firm Spillovers pp. 2136-2155

Yundan Gong and Aoife Hanley

Does Export Experience Improve Firms’ Productivity? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 2156-2176

Deasy D. Pane and Arianto Patunru

Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa: Agrarian Questions in Egypt and Tunisia pp. 2177-2178

Marion W. Dixon

Neoliberal Resilience. Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe pp. 2178-2180

Judith Teichman

Volume 57, issue 11, 2021

Life-course and Cohort Impacts in Women’s Pathways to Politics: Post-active Motherhood as a Time of Political Possibility in India pp. 1795-1806

Tanya Jakimow and Pragati

How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and Intra-gender Gaps pp. 1807-1829

Bina Agarwal, Pervesh Anthwal and Malvika Mahesh

Caste Discrimination in Provision of Public Schools in Rural India pp. 1830-1851

Neha Bailwal and Sourabh Paul

Effects of Monetary Policy on Food Inequality in India pp. 1852-1870

Kuhelika De and Venoo Kakar

Dynamics and Determinants of Participation in Integrated Aquaculture–Agriculture Value Chain: Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis of Indigenous Smallholders in Bangladesh pp. 1871-1892

Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam

Electric Pumps, Groundwater, Agriculture and Water Buyers: Evidence from West Bengal pp. 1893-1911

Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Soumya Balasubramanya and David Stifel

Ethnic Diversity and Food Insecurity: Evidence from Ghana pp. 1912-1926

Isaac Koomson and Sefa Awaworyi Churchill

Structural Change and Welfare: A Micro Panel Data Evidence from Ghana pp. 1927-1944

Richmond Atta-Ankomah and Robert Osei

The Long-Term Evolution of Income Polarisation in China, 1995-2018 pp. 1945-1972

Haiyuan Wan and Fabio Clementi

The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism pp. 1973-1974

Holly Jean Buck

Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery pp. 1974-1975

Sarah Babb

Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination pp. 1975-1977

Kerem Nisancioglu

Volume 57, issue 10, 2021

Conditioning Factors for Re-election and Incumbency Advantage after a Natural Disaster: Evidence from a Large-scale Earthquake pp. 1575-1592

Andrés Acuña-Duarte and César A. Salazar

Built to Last: Sustainability of Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia pp. 1593-1612

Nozomi Nakajima, Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Amelia Maika and Menno Pradhan

Poverty Trap or Means to Escape Poverty? Empirical Evidence on the Role of Environmental Income in Rural Nepal pp. 1613-1639

Solomon Zena Walelign, Lindy Callen Charlery and Mariève Pouliot

Polygynous Family Structure and Child Undernutrition in Nigeria pp. 1640-1661

Mulubrhan Amare, Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt and George Mavrotas

The Skills Space in Informal Work: Insights from Bangalore Slums pp. 1662-1689

Nandana Sengupta, Sarthak Gaurav and James Evans

The Long-term Effects of Violent Conflict on Women’s Intra-Household Decision-Making Power pp. 1690-1709

Joseph B. Ajefu and Daniela Casale

Trust in Providers of Domestic Water: A Comparison of the Public Utility and Informal Vendors in Dar Es Salaam pp. 1710-1722

Neil Munro and Opportuna Kweka

Aid for Trade and Trade in Services pp. 1723-1738

Bernard Hoekman and Anirudh Shingal

Digitally Down to the Countryside: Fintech and Rural Development in China pp. 1739-1754

Sherry Tao Kong and Nicholas Loubere

Measuring Spillover Effects from an Entrepreneurship Programme: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tanzania pp. 1755-1775

Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge and Armando Garcia Pires

Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan’s Transition pp. 1776-1790

Vincent Floreani, Gladys López-Acevedo and Martin Rama

Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance pp. 1791-1792

Philip Mader

Dimensions of Poverty Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism pp. 1792-1794

Vidhya Unnikrishnan

Volume 57, issue 9, 2021

Introduction: Population and Ethics: Difficult Questions, Global Challenges pp. 1449-1453

Simon J. Beard, Partha Dasgupta and Natalie Jones

The Toxification of Population Discourse. A Genealogical Study pp. 1454-1469

Diana Coole

Population Ethics for an Imperfect World: Basic Justice, Reasonable Disagreement, and Unavoidable Value Judgements pp. 1470-1482

Elizabeth Cripps

Government Transfers to Parents and Population Policy in a Global Perspective: An Economic Demographic Perspective pp. 1483-1498

Martin Kolk

Population Ethics and the Prospects for Fertility Policy as Climate Mitigation Policy pp. 1499-1510

Mark Budolfson and Dean Spears

The Afterlives of International Development Interventions: A Site-Specific Ethnographic Approach pp. 1511-1526

Yonatan N. Gez

Climate Change and Educational Attainment: The Role of Human Mobility pp. 1527-1548

Christoph Deuster

Human Development by Gender and National Culture: A Comparative Analysis pp. 1549-1570

Fernanda Pereira Sartori Falguera, Manuella A. F. Lima, Vanessa A. S. Ferrari, Gladys D. C. Barriga and Enzo B. Mariano

Mines, Communities, and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa pp. 1571-1572

Ben Radley

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India pp. 1572-1573

Tirthankar Roy

Volume 57, issue 8, 2021

Knowing Versus Doing: Protective Health Behaviour Against COVID-19 in Aceh, Indonesia pp. 1245-1266

Eliana Chavarría, Farah Diba, Maja E. Marcus, Marthoenis, Anna Reuter, Lisa Rogge and Sebastian Vollmer

Partnerships for Universal Health Coverage in Myanmar: Power and Politics within ‘Immunisation Encounters’ in Kayah State and Kayin State pp. 1267-1281

Anne Décobert

Quality of Sub-national Government and Regional Development in Africa pp. 1282-1302

Yohan Iddawela, Neil Lee and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Technological Catch-up to the National and Regional Frontier: Firm-level Evidence for India pp. 1303-1320

Shubin Yang, Sandra Lancheros and Chris Milner

Informal Short-term Borrowings and Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance in a Credit Crunch: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 1321-1335

Thang Bach, Thanh Le and Yen Bui

The Effects of the Temporary Protection on Firm Performances: Evidence from the Steel Industry in Vietnam pp. 1336-1350

Anh Dang and Hai Anh La

Just a Piece of Paper? Domestic Standards Certification and Small Firm Growth in Viet Nam pp. 1351-1372

Elisa Calza and Micheline Goedhuys

Political Connections Reduce Job Creation: Firm-level Evidence from Lebanon pp. 1373-1396

Ishac Diwan and Jamal Haidar

The Sounds of Development: Musical Representation as A(nother) Source of Development Knowledge pp. 1397-1412

David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock

Long-term Well-being among Survivors of the Rwandan and Cambodian Genocides pp. 1413-1427

Annamaria Milazzo and Jose Cuesta

Oil Palm Contract Farming in Brazil: Labour Constraints and Inclusivity Challenges pp. 1428-1442

Frederico Brandão and George Schoneveld

Climate Urbanism: Towards a Critical Research Agenda pp. 1443-1443

Ankit Bhardwaj

The Truth about Modern Slavery pp. 1444-1445

Tom Brass

Waste pp. 1446-1447

Nicolás Valenzuela-Levi

Volume 57, issue 7, 2021

Taxing Informality: Compliance and Policy Preferences in Urban Zambia pp. 1063-1085

Danielle Resnick

Trust to Pay? Tax Morale and Trust in Africa pp. 1086-1105

Wilfried Kouamé

Smallholder Farmers’ Dissatisfaction with Contract Schemes in Spite of Economic Benefits: Issues of Mistrust and Lack of Transparency pp. 1106-1119

Anette Ruml and Matin Qaim

The Good Life in the Face of Climate Change: Understanding Complexities of a Well-being Framework through the Experience of Pastoral Women pp. 1120-1137

Sarah E. Walker, Brett L. Bruyere, Apin Yasin, Elizabeth Lenaiyasa and Anna Lolemu

Relationality and Economic Empowerment: The Role of Men in Supporting and Undermining Women’s Pathways pp. 1138-1153

Ceridwen Spark, Timothy L. M. Sharp and Gina Koczberski

Plugging the Welfare Gap: The Role of Kinship Transfers in South Africa pp. 1154-1171

Ralph Abbey Ssebagala

Intra-household Efficiency in Extended Family Households: Evidence from Rural India pp. 1172-1197

Sweta Gupta, Christopher Ksoll and Annemie Maertens

The Effects of Domestic and International Remittances on Food Insecurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1198-1220

Michael D. Smith and Maria S. Floro

Evaluating Water- and Health-related Development Projects: A Cross-project and Micro-based Approach pp. 1221-1239

Christina Greßer and David Stadelmann

China–Africa and an Economic Transformation pp. 1240-1241

Motolani Agbebi

The Paradox of Scale: How NGOs Build, Maintain, and Lose Authority in Environmental Governance pp. 1241-1242s

Sarah Stroup

Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East pp. 1242-1244

Rosie Bsheer

Volume 57, issue 6, 2021

Class Coalitions and Social Protection: The Labouring Classes and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Eastern India pp. 863-881

Indrajit Roy

Confronting the Wall of Patriarchy: Does Participatory Intrahousehold Decision Making Empower Women in Agricultural Households? pp. 882-905

Els Lecoutere and Eva Wuyts

Partners or Rivals? Exploring the Relationship between Men’s and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh pp. 906-929

Sonia Akter and Andrew Francis-Tan

Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Level, Inequality, Progress, and Impact on Productivity and Efficiency pp. 930-948

Asif Reza Anik and Sanzidur Rahman

Raising Aspirations of Boys and Girls through Role Models: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 949-979

Jennifer Golan and Jing You

The Learning Trap in Late Industrialisation: Local Firms and Capability Building in Ethiopia’s Apparel Export Industry pp. 980-1000

Lindsay Whitfield and Cornelia Staritz

Incorporating Aspects of Institutionalist Theory into GPN Analysis: The Case of Brazilian Oil pp. 1001-1015

Mariane Santos Françoso, Beni Trojbicz, Patrícia Alencar Silva Mello and Celio Hiratuka

Regional Labour Informality in Colombia and a Proposal for a Differential Minimum Wage pp. 1016-1037

Luis Arango Thomas and Luz Florez

Communal Property Rights and Deforestation pp. 1038-1052

Mauricio Romero and Santiago Saavedra

The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa pp. 1053-1054

Marion Ouma

Wellbeing Economics: How and Why Economics Needs to Change pp. 1054-1056

Nuno Martins

The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India pp. 1056-1057

Surinder S. Jodhka

List of Referees 2020 pp. 1058-1061

The Editors

Volume 57, issue 5, 2021

The Rhetoric and Reality of Localisation: Refugee-Led Organisations in Humanitarian Governance pp. 719-734

Kate Pincock, Alexander Betts and Evan Easton-Calabria

Racially Inclusive Governance Makes (Almost) Everyone Happier: The End of Apartheid as Evidence for Procedural Utility pp. 735-749

Jeff Bookwalter, Douglas Dalenberg and Benjamin Fitch-Fleischmann

He Has Gone to a Better Place, but She Has Not: Health Status of Hindu Widows in India pp. 750-771

Ayush Agrawal, Chitwan Lalji and Debayan Pakrashi

Economic Viability of Large-scale Irrigation Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa: What if Mwea Irrigation Scheme Were Constructed as a Brand-new Scheme? pp. 772-789

Masao Kikuchi, Yukichi Mano, Timothy N. Njagi, Douglas Merrey and Keijiro Otsuka

Social Capital Encourages Disaster Evacuation: Evidence from a Cyclone in Bangladesh pp. 790-806

Masahiro Shoji and Akira Murata

The Effects of Chinese Imports on Female Workers in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector pp. 807-823

Lourenco Paz and John Ssozi

Occupational Variation in Quantity–Quality Trade-off in a Brawn-Based Economy pp. 824-841

Jayanta Sarkar

School Quality and Peer Effects: Explaining Differences in Academic Performance between China’s Migrant and Rural Students pp. 842-858

Xiaobing Wang, Zhouhang Yuan, Shi Min and Scott Rozelle

The Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Developing Countries: Risk and Reputation pp. 859-860

Juvaria Jafri

Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations pp. 860-861

Miriam Driessen

Correction pp. https//doiorg/1010800022038820201845028-https//doiorg/1010800022038820201845028

The Editors

Volume 57, issue 4, 2021

Youth Inclusion in Rural Transformation pp. 537-543

Aslihan Arslan, David Tschirley, Constanza Di Nucci and Paul Winters

Rural Youth Welfare along the Rural-urban Gradient: An Empirical Analysis across the Developing World pp. 544-570

Aslihan Arslan, David Tschirley and Eva-Maria Egger

Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions: Rural (Peri-urban to Hinterland) vs. Urban pp. 571-593

Michael Dolislager, Thomas Reardon, Aslihan Arslan, Louise Fox, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Christine Sauer and David Tschirley

Landscapes of opportunity: patterns of young people’s engagement with the rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 594-613

Kibrom A. Abay, Woinishet Asnake, Hailemariam Ayalew, Jordan Chamberlin and James Sumberg

Structural Transformation and Gendered Transitions to Adulthood among Rural Youth: Cross-National Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 614-634

Jessica Heckert, Audrey Pereira, Cheryl Doss, Emily C. Myers and Agnes Quisumbing

Rural Youth Inclusion, Empowerment, and Participation pp. 635-649

Carolina Trivelli and Jorge Morel

Intellectual Property Rights and Agricultural Development: Evidence from a Worldwide Index of IPRs in Agriculture (1961-2018) pp. 650-668

Mercedes Campi and Alessandro Nuvolari

Somewhere in between Towns, Markets and Jobs – Agricultural Intensification in the Rural–Urban Interface pp. 669-694

Linda Steinhübel and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip pp. 695-713

Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, Sumit Mishra and Andaleeb Rahman

Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms pp. 714-715

Ane Karoline Bak, Matilde Jeppesen, Anne Mette Kjær and Marianne S. Ulriksen

The Future of National Development Banks pp. 715-717

Georges Quist

Volume 57, issue 3, 2021

An Evaluation of the Policy Response to Drought in the City of São Paulo, Brazil: An Election Cycle Interpretation of Effectiveness pp. 365-382

David Grover and Claudio Lucinda

Tensions between Formal and Informal Water Providers: Receptivity toward Mechanised Boreholes in the Sunyani West District, Ghana pp. 383-399

Benjamin D. Agbemor and Sarah L. Smiley

The Effect of Labour-Demand Shocks on Women’s Participation in the Labor Force: Evidence from Palestine pp. 400-416

Belal Fallah, Marcelo Bergolo, Iman Saadeh, Arwa Abu Hashhash and Mohamad Hattawy

What Drives Female Labour Force Participation? Comparable Micro-level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies pp. 417-442

Stephan Klasen, Tu Thi Ngoc Le, Janneke Pieters and Manuel Santos Silva

Factor Market Activity and the Inverse Farm Size-Productivity Relationship in Tanzania pp. 443-464

Ayala Wineman and Thomas Jayne

The Anxious and the Climbers: Ambivalent Attitudes towards Democracy among South Africa’s Middle Class pp. 465-483

Simone Schotte

Contestable Credit Markets and Household Welfare: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 484-501

Dereje Regasa, David Fielding and Helen Roberts

Unintended Spillovers of Targeted Health Insurance on Intra-household Resource Allocations pp. 502-518

Anaka Aiyar

Which Wheel Gets the Grease? Constituent Agency and Sub-national World Bank Aid Allocation pp. 519-533

Tianyang Song, Samuel Brazys and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America pp. 534-535

Armando Barrientos

Volume 57, issue 2, 2021

Economic Benefits of Empowering Women in Agriculture: Assumptions and Evidence pp. 193-208

C. Leigh Anderson, Travis W. Reynolds, Pierre Biscaye, Vedavati Patwardhan and Carly Schmidt

Weak Street-level Enforcement of Tax Laws: The Role of Tax Collectors’ Persistent but Broken Public Service Expectations pp. 209-225

Moritz Schmoll

Building a Social Contract? Understanding Tax Morale in Nigeria pp. 226-243

Neil McCulloch, Tom Moerenhout and Joonseok Yang

Herbicide Induced Hunger? Conservation Agriculture, Ganyu Labour and Rural Poverty in Central Malawi pp. 244-263

T.I. Bouwman, J.A. Andersson and K.E. Giller

Diversification is in the Detail: Accounting for Crop System Heterogeneity to Inform Diversification Policies in Malawi and Zambia pp. 264-288

Giuseppe Maggio and Nicholas Sitko

Ethnic Diversity, Local Redistribution and Income Inequality: An Empirical Analysis Applied to Mexican Municipalities pp. 289-309

Matthieu Clement and Lucie Piaser

Continuity and Change: Performing Gender in Rural Tanzania pp. 310-325

Lone Badstue, Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Anya Umantseva, Adelbertus Kamanzi and Lara Roeven

Efficiency and Status in Polygynous Pastoralist Households pp. 326-342

Melissa Hidrobo, Jessica Hoel and Katie Wilson

Effects of Credit ‘Plus’ on Poverty Reduction in Ghana pp. 343-360

Chei Bukari, James Peprah, Rebecca Nana Yaa Ayifah and Samuel Kobina Annim

East Africa After Liberation Conflict, Security and the State Since the 1980s pp. 361-362

Hilary Matfess

Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes pp. 362-363

Musa Nxele

Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya pp. 363-364

Matthew Tyce

Volume 57, issue 1, 2021

Theoretical Underpinnings and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Cash Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-25

Victoria Baranov, Lisa Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez and Claire Thibout

International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among Donors, NGOs, and Academics pp. 26-44

Allison Schnable, Anthony DeMattee, Rachel Sullivan Robinson and Jennifer N. Brass

Mobilizing for Entitlement: A Randomised Evaluation of a Homestead Land Rights Initiative in Bihar, India pp. 45-69

Andre Nickow and Sanjay Kumar

Foreign Direct Investment, Product Sophistication, and the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor in Chilean Manufacturing pp. 70-87

Wei Jia and Ricardo López Rago

Beliefs and Investment in Child Human Capital: Case Study from Benin pp. 88-105

Sahawal Alidou

Lasting Impact of Early Life Interventions: Evidence from India’s Integrated Child Development Services pp. 106-138

Gaurav Dhamija and Gitanjali Sen

Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap pp. 139-162

Jerg Gutmann, Matthias Neuenkirch and Florian Neumeier

Aspirations, Poverty, and Education. Evidence from India pp. 163-183

Pieter Serneels and Stefan Dercon

50 Years of Asian Development pp. 184-191

Machiko Nissanke and V N Balasubramanyam