Development Policy Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Development Policy Review is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Illiberal democracy and nutrition advocacy45
Governance of organic cocoa production: An analysis of EU regulation through the framework of multilevel governance37
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Exploring climate change investment initiatives and funding challenges among faith‐based organizations in Ghana26
Does mobile banking matter for the adoption of modern agricultural technology? Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire19
The structural design of conditional cash transfers: Colombia, India, and the USA compared19
Obituary: Constance Margaret Cornell (1915–2022)19
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Researcher effects in survey‐based research: Insights from research in South Sudan15
Acknowledgement to Reviewers15
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and local institutions in Ghana’s mining communities: Challenges in understanding barriers to accountability13
Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty12
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Workplace sexual harassment as a feature of precarious work in Uganda's agro‐processing factories: “Mince your words and watch yourself”11
Helping when it matters: Optimal time for supporting women’s self‐employment in India11
Growth, innovation, and policy for chicken in Latin America 1961–201910
Should foreign aid consider inter‐Pacific Islands migration in the context of climate change? Evidence from Fiji9
Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa9
Turkey as an emerging donor in the development community: The Turkish‐type Development Assistance Model (TDAM)8
To make growth reduce poverty, industrialize: Using manufacturing to mediate the effect of growth on poverty8
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Whose voice counts? Examining government‐donor negotiations in the design of Ethiopia’s large‐scale education reforms for equitable learning7
Introduction to special section: Workplace sexual harassment7
The Arab uprising: A decade of transformations and challenges7
Indoor air pollution and child development in Indonesia: Stunted by the smoke?7
Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar6
Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone6
Transformative organizational and programmatic change? Civil society responses to the Canadian Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP)6
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Normative coherence for development and regionalism: Gender equality in ASEAN's migration policies5
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Early transition markers, opportunities, and limitations that define pathways into the labour market from adolescence to adulthood in South Africa5
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings5
Institutionalizing foresight in science, technology, and innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa5
Proxy means test for targeting welfare benefits in Jamaica5
Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective5
Governance, institutions and human development: Rethinking government flagship projects and initiatives in Ghana4
Rethinking food aid for immigrants and refugees: Insights from Syracuse4
How do organizations in Chinese agriculture perceive sustainability certification schemes? An exploratory analysis4
Foresight and futures thinking for international development co‐operation: Promises and pitfalls4
Reshaping gender norms: Exploring the ripple effect of refugeeism on women's empowerment4
Does subsidizing seed help farmers? Nepal's rice seed subsidies4
Assessing investment priorities for inclusive agricultural transformation in Tanzania4
The impact of patriarchal culture on Somali women's participation in politics4
Acknowledgement of Reviewers4
Social sustainability discourse in cohesion policy: A critical review of Interreg Europe 2021–20274
Testing multi‐stakeholder dialogue for better local governance in Niger: An experiment. Can we talk our way out of development problems?3
COVID‐19 vaccination: Willingness and practice in Bangladesh3
Domestic workers' agency against workplace sexual harassment: The role of social norms in Bangladesh3
Does conditioning cash transfers on health treatment harm the health of other families on low incomes who depend on public services? Evidence from Brazil3
Towards an institutional setup for industrial policy in late industrialization in the 21st century3
The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?3
Tax Evasion Attitudes of Small Firms in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries: Evidence from Nigeria3
Aid paradox for unrecognized governments: The Taliban and aid3
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia3
Visions, promises and understandings of development around Kenya’s Masinga reservoir3
Increased domestic violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: India's response3
Withdrawn: A preliminary understanding of hybrid models in timebanking and volunteering3
Measuring household food security through surveys: Do the characteristics of the enumerators matter?3
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Legal knowledge and child labour in Nepal: Does knowing the law make a difference?3
Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?3
How to improve tax compliance by wealthy individuals? Evidence from Uganda3
Improving pathways for girls and disadvantaged youth through secondary education and into work: Evidence and reflections from practice3
Solidarity Economy and social inclusion: The Immigrant Fair in Florianópolis, Brazil3
Strategies for better integrating nutrient supplementation and dietary diversity approaches for stunting reduction and improved nutrition outcomes: A Rwandan case study3
How evidence, implementation, policy, and politics come together within evidence systems: Lessons from South Africa3
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Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt3
The effects of financial crisis on income inequality3
Pacific perspectives on aid and development3
Gendered perceptions in maize supply chains: Evidence from Uganda3
What do (future) civil servants think of bribery and corruption? Evidence from India2
Mobile money taxation and informal workers: Evidence from Ghana's E‐levy2
“Magic concepts” and USAID: Framing food systems reform to support the status quo2
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal2
Exploring SME environmental behaviour and practice: The case of Malaysia2
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Open government and US development co‐operation in Colombia: Lessons for locally led development2
The African Small Island Developing States and normative coherence for sustainable development: The quality of civil rights and liberties2
Understanding public support for Canadian aid to developing countries: The role of information2
Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from a field survey in India2
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Reported effects of non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) in health and education service provision: The role of NGO –government relations and other factors2
How much do development partners invest in disaster risk reduction? A data analysis2
Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap2
How gender mainstreaming plays out in Tanzania's climate‐smart agricultural policy: Isomorphic mimicry of international discourse2
“The SDGs are not God”: Policy‐makers and the queering of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa2
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Are growth diagnostics biased against the poor? Evidence from the Millennium Challenge Corporation2
Openness processes and new subjectivities: Analysis of the Cuban case2
Whose policy coherence counts? Assessing sustainable fisheries in Ghana and the European Union's engagement2
Supporting farmers dealing with climate change: The impact of Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) on smallholder lead farmers in Malawi2
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Microfinance and economic and social empowerment of people with disabilities: Lessons from Bangladesh2
Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?2
Sources of divergence in income in Indian states, 2001–20152
Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences2
Correction to The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?1
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Are women more financially vulnerable than men? A tale of missed economic opportunities from Latin America1
Teaching and learning for life skills development: Insights from Rwanda’s 12+ programme for adolescent girls1
What happens to aid fungibility when the recipient government takes control? Effects of aid ownership in Rwanda1
Understanding resilience: Lessons from lived experiences of extreme poverty in Bangladesh1
Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia1
Blind spots and spotlights in bureaucratic politics: An analysis of policy co‐production in environmental governance dynamics in Indonesia1
A multisource analysis of child streetism in Nigerian urban centres1
Do zombie firms crowd out healthy firms and slow their growth? Evidence from China1
How does diversity affect the effectiveness of capacity building training? Evidence from the Republic of Korea1
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(Re)envisioning inclusive futures: Applying narrative foresight to deconstruct the problem of urban flooding in the slums of Bengaluru, India1
International aid actions for accountability: Identifying interaction effects between programmes1
Not such a good bargain for (the evidence on) budget support1
Taxing high‐net‐worth individuals in Nigeria: Challenges and opportunities for policy‐makers from a preliminary investigation1
Analysing regional and sectoral productivity changes in the Indian economy1
Social and gender norms informing, voicing, and reporting against sexual harassment among domestic workers in Kampala's informal economy1
Why national development experts are not included in development policy‐making and practice: The case of Ghana1
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Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned?1
To understand the implications of different aid modalities, we need to analyse the bargaining logic between donors and recipient governments*1
How can countries improve human development? Four distinct national planning strategies and the challenges for human development ahead1
Using evaluation data to predict loan performance among poor borrowers: The case of BRAC’s asset transfer and microcredit programmes1
From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation1
The resilience of systems‐thinking approaches when faced with an evolving crisis: The case of Mumbai1
Will policy help close the digital gender divide? An intersectional feminist policy analysis of Ethiopia's national digital policy1
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Aid is not development: The true character of Pacific aid1
How did COVID‐19 lockdowns affect firms and workers? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco1
Supporting women's empowerment by changing intra‐household decision‐making: A mixed‐methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south‐west Tanzania1
Can civil society organizations and faith‐based organizations in Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands access climate finance?1
FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management1
Growing cotton to produce food: Unravelling interactions between value chains in southern Mali1
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The impact of financial literacy on access to formal financial products in Namibia1
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Doing aid chains differently: Evaluating the potential ofMulti‐StakeholderPartnerships1
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What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability1
Does access to water, sanitation, and hygiene improve children's health? An empirical analysis in Indonesia1
Country need in the allocation of foreign assistance1
When do petrostates diversify their exports? Urgency, interests, and policy design in Egypt, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia1
An analysis of gender inclusion in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects: Intention vs. reality1
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Decentralization as spectacle: An empirical reflection from Pakistan1
Assessing the effectiveness of government and non‐governmental organization in assisting internally displaced women in Nigeria1
What role for aid in countries with and without a development bargain?1
Foresight for a better African future: Lessons from six decades of practice1
North–South research collaborations: An empirical evaluation against principles of transboundary research1
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Value chain research and development: The quest for impact1
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset1
Socioeconomic development in the context of nuclear past: The case of Kazakhstan1
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A green skills framework for climate action, gender empowerment, and climate justice1
No employment without participation: An evaluation of India's employment programme in eastern Uttar Pradesh1
The contestation of ideas behind Indonesia's rural electrification policies: The influence of global and national institutional dynamics0
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Contextual challenges of smart city implementation in Mashhad, Iran's second‐largest metropolis0
NGOs' approach to human rights and the challenges in Bangladesh0
The EU Trust Fund for Colombia: Valuable lessons for hybrid peacebuilding0
Normative coherence for development: What relevance for responsive regionalism?0
Why do governments fund some humanitarian appeals but not others?0
Understanding inactive membership in voluntary contributory schemes: A case study of micro‐traders in Kenya0
Futuring Fragility: Embracing uncertainty, identifying opportunity, unlocking development0
The (un)targeted gendered vulnerabilities in Norwegian development aid—a corpus‐assisted discourse analysis0
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Self‐employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana: Does gender make a difference?0
Rural market imperfections in India: Revisiting old debates with new evidence0
Well‐being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Is work enough?0
Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies0
Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria0
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Mapping the nutrient adequacy of farm production and food consumption to target policy in Uganda0
More evidence on the impact of government social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe0
Anticipatory Development Foresight: An approach for international and multilateral organizations0
Does Thinking and Working Politically improve support for social business? Evidence from a water business in Cambodia0
The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic0
Acknowledgement to Reviewers0
Tuloni Biya and its impact on menstrual health: A qualitative exploration of the menstrual experiences of adolescent girls in Assam0
Development as non‐migration? Examining normative and policy coherence in EU external action on migration and development0
Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development0
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Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions0
Northernization for Breaking‐through International Isolation: Taiwan’s Trilateral Aid Cooperation in the Middle East Refugee Crisis and beyond0
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity: Radical implications for Haiti0
Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan0
Implications for Humanitarian‐Development‐Peace Nexus (HDPN) implementation in forced migration context: A collaborative governance approach0
Monetary incentives to improve tax compliance: A Brazilian case study0
How well can real‐time indicators track the economic impacts of a crisis like COVID‐19?0
Determinants of poverty among Indigenous people in Mexico's Guerrero Mountain Region0
Developing electric vehicles in China and the United States: Revisiting debates on industrial strategy0
What do remote outer island populations in the Pacific think about foreign aid? Insights from Mauke, Cook Islands0
Does affirmative action undermine meritocracy? “Meritocratic inclusion” of the marginalized in Nepal’s bureaucracy0
Aid instability, aid effectiveness and economic growth0
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Civil society organizations and managerialism: On the depoliticization of the adaptive management agenda0
Does development aid reach politically excluded groups? A Disaggregated Study of the Location of Aid in Sub‐Saharan Africa0
Benefits of enhanced access to education in Tanzania0
Normative coherence through social entrepreneurship: Fostering women’s empowerment in Myanmar0
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Changes in population literacy and numeracy in Ghana after three decades of free basic education0
What explains the gender gap in unpaid housework and care work in India?0
Foreign aid, human agency, and self‐reliance in the Pacific: Lessons from the pandemic0
Peacebuilding conditionalities: An alternative to migration conditionalities for European Union development policy0
Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh0
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Challenges and opportunities with social inclusion and community‐based water management in Solomon Islands0
The spatial and economic relationship between labour informality and homicides in Cali, Colombia0
Bio‐pharma in Iran: Escaping the middle‐income trap0
Skills formation and (un)employment in Latin America: Evidence from Chile0
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Assessing the impact of aid on public health expenditure in aid recipient countries0
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Taxing the informal sector: Coping with Coercion in Bamako, Mali0
Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption0
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Do the principles of effective development co‐operation improve development outcomes? The case for clearer definitions and measurement0
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?0
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Beyond rich and poor: Identifying global development constellations0
School committee composition: Exploring the role of parental and female representation in India0
How co‐design can localize development programmes and reduce dependency: Examples from Pacific Island Countries0
Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India0
Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market0
Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan0
Challenging the formality bias: The organization of informal work, working relations, and collective agency in Kenya and Tanzania0
COVID‐19’s impacts on global value chains, as seen in the apparel industry0
The impact of an additional year in high school on academic performance at university: Evidence from a policy experiment in Ghana0
Religion and development in Samoa: Time to draw on the strength of local culture?0
Value for money in humanitarian assistance: How does cost efficiency vary across cash and voucher programmes?0
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation0
How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power0
Preventing and protesting workplace sexual harassment: Women agro‐processing workers in Bangladesh0
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Education, anthropogenic environmental change, and sustainable development: A rudimentary framework and reflections on proposed causal pathways for positive change in low‐ and lower‐middle income coun0
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