Development Policy Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Development Policy Review is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Rethinking food aid for immigrants and refugees: Insights from Syracuse34
Exploring climate change investment initiatives and funding challenges among faith‐based organizations in Ghana28
Social service inclusion of immigrants through the lens of human rights in Australia27
Indoor air pollution and child development in Indonesia: Stunted by the smoke?24
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Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty23
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Should foreign aid consider inter‐Pacific Islands migration in the context of climate change? Evidence from Fiji21
Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa20
Early transition markers, opportunities, and limitations that define pathways into the labour market from adolescence to adulthood in South Africa20
Aid paradox for unrecognized governments: The Taliban and aid19
The limits to cash‐plus provision in protracted crises17
Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt17
Governance of organic cocoa production: An analysis of EU regulation through the framework of multilevel governance16
The Arab uprising: A decade of transformations and challenges15
The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?13
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Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences12
Improving pathways for girls and disadvantaged youth through secondary education and into work: Evidence and reflections from practice11
Will policy help close the digital gender divide? An intersectional feminist policy analysis of Ethiopia's national digital policy11
Supporting women's empowerment by changing intra‐household decision‐making: A mixed‐methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south‐west Tanzania11
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Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system9
FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management9
Are women more financially vulnerable than men? A tale of missed economic opportunities from Latin America9
Teaching and learning for life skills development: Insights from Rwanda’s 12+ programme for adolescent girls9
Foresight for a better African future: Lessons from six decades of practice8
Using evaluation data to predict loan performance among poor borrowers: The case of BRAC’s asset transfer and microcredit programmes8
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WASH for all: A systematic review of Physiological and Sociological Characterization Framework segmentation in WASH policies, programmes, and projects7
Adaptive programming and going with the grain: IMAGINE's new water governance model in Goma, DRC6
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the internationalization of production: A review of the literature6
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Self‐employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana: Does gender make a difference?6
Towards complete development finance data: Quantifying China's international education co‐operation and presence in the Global South6
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan6
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Do subsidies on seed and fertilizer lead to child labour? Evidence from Malawi6
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Women, education, and violence: How women displaced into camps in north‐east Nigeria take up education6
African regional economic policy‐making: Understanding and catalysing the potentials of think tanks6
Rural market imperfections in India: Revisiting old debates with new evidence6
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Developing electric vehicles in China and the United States: Revisiting debates on industrial strategy5
Governance, institutions and human development: Rethinking government flagship projects and initiatives in Ghana5
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Climate and development: What opportunities, what threats?5
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?5
How well can real‐time indicators track the economic impacts of a crisis like COVID‐19?5
The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic5
The impact of an additional year in high school on academic performance at university: Evidence from a policy experiment in Ghana5
Building resilience now and for the future: Adolescent skills to address global challenges5
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Illiberal democracy and nutrition advocacy5
Futuring Fragility: Embracing uncertainty, identifying opportunity, unlocking development5
Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?4
Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective4
Exploring SME environmental behaviour and practice: The case of Malaysia4
What do (future) civil servants think of bribery and corruption? Evidence from India4
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings4
How do organizations in Chinese agriculture perceive sustainability certification schemes? An exploratory analysis4
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal4
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Legal knowledge and child labour in Nepal: Does knowing the law make a difference?4
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From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation4
Microfinance and economic and social empowerment of people with disabilities: Lessons from Bangladesh4
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity: Radical implications for Haiti3
International donors, domestic politics, and the expansion of social cash transfers in Malawi3
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Why national development experts are not included in development policy‐making and practice: The case of Ghana3
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Does access to water, sanitation, and hygiene improve children's health? An empirical analysis in Indonesia3
Qatar's multifaceted humanitarian role in Afghanistan since August 20213
How can countries improve human development? Four distinct national planning strategies and the challenges for human development ahead3
Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative3
Corruption, gender, and small‐scale cross‐border trade in East Africa: A review3
Do job aspirations cause job choice? Insights from women entering male‐dominated occupational training in India3
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey3
Growth, innovation, and policy for chicken in Latin America 1961–20193
“Want to help someone? Shut up and listen”: Foreign aid, maladaptation, and community development practices in the Pacific3
How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power3
A normative power or fortress Europe? Normative policy coherence between the European Unionʼs development, migration, and foreign policies3
Which resources should be developed into tourist attractions? The viewpoint of key stakeholders on the Slovenian coast3
Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges3
Monetary incentives to improve tax compliance: A Brazilian case study3
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Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia3
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Assessing the effectiveness of government and non‐governmental organization in assisting internally displaced women in Nigeria3
“My daughter wore pads only during the day and used rags at night”: Sanitary pad accessibility and educational outcomes for girls in Ghana3
The resilience of systems‐thinking approaches when faced with an evolving crisis: The case of Mumbai3
Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar3
Decoding the nexus: Finance availability and firm growth in the wake of COVID‐193
Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh3
Analysing regional and sectoral productivity changes in the Indian economy3
Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan3
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset3
Assessing the success of National Human Rights Action Plans from a political economy perspective: The case of Chile3
How did COVID‐19 lockdowns affect firms and workers? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco3
Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan3
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia3
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The rise and fall of government support for small‐scale voluntary development organizations—and their remarkable resilience3
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Public perception of foreign aid in South Korea: The effects of policy efficacy in an emerging donor3
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Solidarity Economy and social inclusion: The Immigrant Fair in Florianópolis, Brazil2
Participatory translation and anti‐racism in NGO development work: A method of co‐producing translations with community members2
Envisioning the humanitarian‐development‐peace nexus in the Rohingya response in Bangladesh: Implementation challenges and suggestions for the future2
Taxing high‐net‐worth individuals in Nigeria: Challenges and opportunities for policy‐makers from a preliminary investigation2
Multidimensional design‐reality gaps in ICT in education projects in the Samoan aidscape2
International aid actions for accountability: Identifying interaction effects between programmes2
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Increased domestic violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: India's response2
Whose policy coherence counts? Assessing sustainable fisheries in Ghana and the European Union's engagement2
Domestic workers' agency against workplace sexual harassment: The role of social norms in Bangladesh2
The impact of financial literacy on access to formal financial products in Namibia2
Sudan's health sector partnership: From confined progression to openness and hope to uncertain demise2
Adverse shocks, vulnerability, and coping by rural households in Vietnam2
Enforcing contracts: The role of state subsidies as a hybrid enforcement mechanism in contracts between tomato processors and farmers in Algeria2
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability2
Growing cotton to produce food: Unravelling interactions between value chains in southern Mali2
Nutrition‐sensitive lockdowns: Conceptual framework and empirical insights from Africa during COVID‐192
Openness processes and new subjectivities: Analysis of the Cuban case2
Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned?2
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Uber's digital labour platform and labour relations in South Africa2
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation2
“Something for everyone”: Ownership as a moving target in Swedish and British regional foreign aid to Africa2
Data Management for Sustainable Development: Case Analyses of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)1
Benefits of enhanced access to education in Tanzania1
Assessing the impact of aid on public health expenditure in aid recipient countries1
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Rural mechanization for equitable development: Disarray, disjuncture, and disruption1
Determinants of poverty among Indigenous people in Mexico's Guerrero Mountain Region1
How humanitarian–development responses may discriminate by nationality: Refugee and migrant inclusion following the 2016 Jordan Compact1
Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development1
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Gendered perceptions in maize supply chains: Evidence from Uganda1
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Can European foreign aid motivate people to stay in Africa? The root causes policy debate and irregular migration1
Does subsidizing seed help farmers? Nepal's rice seed subsidies1
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Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market1
Foresight and futures thinking for international development co‐operation: Promises and pitfalls1
Does Thinking and Working Politically improve support for social business? Evidence from a water business in Cambodia1
School committee composition: Exploring the role of parental and female representation in India1
Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap1
North–South research collaborations: An empirical evaluation against principles of transboundary research1
Foreign aid, human agency, and self‐reliance in the Pacific: Lessons from the pandemic1
Preventing and protesting workplace sexual harassment: Women agro‐processing workers in Bangladesh1
Navigating post‐conflict governance in Yemen: Decentralization, federalism, and the path to stability1
Why has there been a fall in child labour and an increase in school attendance in Mexico?1
Nigeria's Sugar Master Plan: Ignoring losers from industrial policy can be costly1
Rethinking human capital: Perspectives from women working in the informal economy1
The adoption of global water norms in Central America: What separates normative coherence from normative hegemony?1
How co‐design can localize development programmes and reduce dependency: Examples from Pacific Island Countries1
No employment without participation: An evaluation of India's employment programme in eastern Uttar Pradesh1
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Tax Evasion Attitudes of Small Firms in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries: Evidence from Nigeria1
Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies1
Changes in population literacy and numeracy in Ghana after three decades of free basic education1
The effects of financial crisis on income inequality1
Acknowledgement to Reviewers1
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Obituary: Constance Margaret Cornell (1915–2022)1
Public Policy for Trans People: Lessons from Brazil for Social Inclusion1
Effect of sovereign risk and debt‐side governance on cross‐border infrastructure risk premium in a developing nation: The case of Kenya1
Challenges and opportunities with social inclusion and community‐based water management in Solomon Islands1
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Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India1
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Shifting norms, multiplying actors, turbulent times: An emerging landscape of international development co‐operation1
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Understanding inactive membership in voluntary contributory schemes: A case study of micro‐traders in Kenya1
Shaping skills: A qualitative dive into India's evolving skill development policies1
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Does conditioning cash transfers on health treatment harm the health of other families on low incomes who depend on public services? Evidence from Brazil1
A multisource analysis of child streetism in Nigerian urban centres1
Challenging the formality bias: The organization of informal work, working relations, and collective agency in Kenya and Tanzania1
Acknowledgement of Reviewers1
Peacebuilding conditionalities: An alternative to migration conditionalities for European Union development policy1
Anticipatory Development Foresight: An approach for international and multilateral organizations1
“The SDGs are not God”: Policy‐makers and the queering of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa1
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How does diversity affect the effectiveness of capacity building training? Evidence from the Republic of Korea1
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