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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Early transition markers, opportunities, and limitations that define pathways into the labour market from adolescence to adulthood in South Africa28
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The Arab uprising: A decade of transformations and challenges23
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Indoor air pollution and child development in Indonesia: Stunted by the smoke?22
Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt20
Rethinking food aid for immigrants and refugees: Insights from Syracuse20
Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa19
Exploring climate change investment initiatives and funding challenges among faith‐based organizations in Ghana19
Aid paradox for unrecognized governments: The Taliban and aid17
Governance of organic cocoa production: An analysis of EU regulation through the framework of multilevel governance16
Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty16
Should foreign aid consider inter‐Pacific Islands migration in the context of climate change? Evidence from Fiji16
The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?14
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Will policy help close the digital gender divide? An intersectional feminist policy analysis of Ethiopia's national digital policy11
Improving pathways for girls and disadvantaged youth through secondary education and into work: Evidence and reflections from practice11
Supporting women's empowerment by changing intra‐household decision‐making: A mixed‐methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south‐west Tanzania11
Using evaluation data to predict loan performance among poor borrowers: The case of BRAC’s asset transfer and microcredit programmes10
Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences10
To understand the implications of different aid modalities, we need to analyse the bargaining logic between donors and recipient governments*9
Not such a good bargain for (the evidence on) budget support9
WASH for all: A systematic review of Physiological and Sociological Characterization Framework segmentation in WASH policies, programmes, and projects9
Are women more financially vulnerable than men? A tale of missed economic opportunities from Latin America9
Foresight for a better African future: Lessons from six decades of practice8
FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management8
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Teaching and learning for life skills development: Insights from Rwanda’s 12+ programme for adolescent girls7
Hybridization of Chinese international development volunteering: Evidence from three state‐funded programmes7
Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system7
Reflections on the future role of the state in Somalia from the perspective of aid effectiveness6
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
African regional economic policy‐making: Understanding and catalysing the potentials of think tanks6
Do subsidies on seed and fertilizer lead to child labour? Evidence from Malawi6
Women, education, and violence: How women displaced into camps in north‐east Nigeria take up education6
Futuring Fragility: Embracing uncertainty, identifying opportunity, unlocking development5
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Self‐employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana: Does gender make a difference?5
Rural market imperfections in India: Revisiting old debates with new evidence5
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?5
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the internationalization of production: A review of the literature5
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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
Climate and development: What opportunities, what threats?5
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Adaptive programming and going with the grain: IMAGINE's new water governance model in Goma, DRC5
Developing electric vehicles in China and the United States: Revisiting debates on industrial strategy4
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Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective4
How do organizations in Chinese agriculture perceive sustainability certification schemes? An exploratory analysis4
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The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic4
Governance, institutions and human development: Rethinking government flagship projects and initiatives in Ghana4
Illiberal democracy and nutrition advocacy4
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings4
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How well can real‐time indicators track the economic impacts of a crisis like COVID‐19?4
Legal knowledge and child labour in Nepal: Does knowing the law make a difference?4
Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?4
Corruption, gender, and small‐scale cross‐border trade in East Africa: A review3
Qatar's multifaceted humanitarian role in Afghanistan since August 20213
The rise and fall of government support for small‐scale voluntary development organizations—and their remarkable resilience3
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia3
Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia3
How can countries improve human development? Four distinct national planning strategies and the challenges for human development ahead3
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset3
From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation3
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“Want to help someone? Shut up and listen”: Foreign aid, maladaptation, and community development practices in the Pacific3
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey3
International donors, domestic politics, and the expansion of social cash transfers in Malawi3
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal3
What do (future) civil servants think of bribery and corruption? Evidence from India3
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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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Assessing the effectiveness of government and non‐governmental organization in assisting internally displaced women in Nigeria3
Microfinance and economic and social empowerment of people with disabilities: Lessons from Bangladesh3
Do job aspirations cause job choice? Insights from women entering male‐dominated occupational training in India3
A normative power or fortress Europe? Normative policy coherence between the European Unionʼs development, migration, and foreign policies3
Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges3
Public perception of foreign aid in South Korea: The effects of policy efficacy in an emerging donor3
The resilience of systems‐thinking approaches when faced with an evolving crisis: The case of Mumbai3
Exploring SME environmental behaviour and practice: The case of Malaysia3
Does access to water, sanitation, and hygiene improve children's health? An empirical analysis in Indonesia3
How did COVID‐19 lockdowns affect firms and workers? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco3
Analysing regional and sectoral productivity changes in the Indian economy3
Assessing the success of National Human Rights Action Plans from a political economy perspective: The case of Chile3
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Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan2
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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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Whose policy coherence counts? Assessing sustainable fisheries in Ghana and the European Union's engagement2
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Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar2
Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh2
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Increased domestic violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: India's response2
Growing cotton to produce food: Unravelling interactions between value chains in southern Mali2
The impact of financial literacy on access to formal financial products in Namibia2
International aid actions for accountability: Identifying interaction effects between programmes2
Enforcing contracts: The role of state subsidies as a hybrid enforcement mechanism in contracts between tomato processors and farmers in Algeria2
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Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan2
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Monetary incentives to improve tax compliance: A Brazilian case study2
Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative2
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity: Radical implications for Haiti2
Domestic workers' agency against workplace sexual harassment: The role of social norms in Bangladesh2
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability2
Participatory translation and anti‐racism in NGO development work: A method of co‐producing translations with community members2
Taxing high‐net‐worth individuals in Nigeria: Challenges and opportunities for policy‐makers from a preliminary investigation2
Solidarity Economy and social inclusion: The Immigrant Fair in Florianópolis, Brazil2
Growth, innovation, and policy for chicken in Latin America 1961–20192
How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power2
Public Policy for Trans People: Lessons from Brazil for Social Inclusion1
Rethinking human capital: Perspectives from women working in the informal economy1
A multisource analysis of child streetism in Nigerian urban centres1
Acknowledgement to Reviewers1
Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap1
Peacebuilding conditionalities: An alternative to migration conditionalities for European Union development policy1
Gendered perceptions in maize supply chains: Evidence from Uganda1
Adverse shocks, vulnerability, and coping by rural households in Vietnam1
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Uber's digital labour platform and labour relations in South Africa1
Preventing and protesting workplace sexual harassment: Women agro‐processing workers in Bangladesh1
Challenges and opportunities with social inclusion and community‐based water management in Solomon Islands1
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Understanding inactive membership in voluntary contributory schemes: A case study of micro‐traders in Kenya1
Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone1
Benefits of enhanced access to education in Tanzania1
Shifting norms, multiplying actors, turbulent times: An emerging landscape of international development co‐operation1
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How co‐design can localize development programmes and reduce dependency: Examples from Pacific Island Countries1
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Changes in population literacy and numeracy in Ghana after three decades of free basic education1
Data Management for Sustainable Development: Case Analyses of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)1
“Securitized” UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan1
Does conditioning cash transfers on health treatment harm the health of other families on low incomes who depend on public services? Evidence from Brazil1
Does Thinking and Working Politically improve support for social business? Evidence from a water business in Cambodia1
Tax Evasion Attitudes of Small Firms in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries: Evidence from Nigeria1
Envisioning the humanitarian‐development‐peace nexus in the Rohingya response in Bangladesh: Implementation challenges and suggestions for the future1
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Sudan's health sector partnership: From confined progression to openness and hope to uncertain demise1
Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market1
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Regulating agricultural intensification: Lessons from West Africa’s rapidly growing pesticide markets1
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Nutrition‐sensitive lockdowns: Conceptual framework and empirical insights from Africa during COVID‐191
Determinants of poverty among Indigenous people in Mexico's Guerrero Mountain Region1
Foresight and futures thinking for international development co‐operation: Promises and pitfalls1
Foreign aid, human agency, and self‐reliance in the Pacific: Lessons from the pandemic1
Challenging the formality bias: The organization of informal work, working relations, and collective agency in Kenya and Tanzania1
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No employment without participation: An evaluation of India's employment programme in eastern Uttar Pradesh1
Can European foreign aid motivate people to stay in Africa? The root causes policy debate and irregular migration1
“The SDGs are not God”: Policy‐makers and the queering of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa1
Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies1
North–South research collaborations: An empirical evaluation against principles of transboundary research1
Anticipatory Development Foresight: An approach for international and multilateral organizations1
Why has there been a fall in child labour and an increase in school attendance in Mexico?1
How does diversity affect the effectiveness of capacity building training? Evidence from the Republic of Korea1
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The effects of financial crisis on income inequality1
“Something for everyone”: Ownership as a moving target in Swedish and British regional foreign aid to Africa1
Does subsidizing seed help farmers? Nepal's rice seed subsidies1
Multidimensional design‐reality gaps in ICT in education projects in the Samoan aidscape1
School committee composition: Exploring the role of parental and female representation in India1
Assessing the impact of aid on public health expenditure in aid recipient countries1
Effect of sovereign risk and debt‐side governance on cross‐border infrastructure risk premium in a developing nation: The case of Kenya1
Acknowledgement of Reviewers1
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation1
Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India1
Obituary: Constance Margaret Cornell (1915–2022)1
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Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development1
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