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Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Kristin Skrabut
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Anna Thurlbeck
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Michaela Collord
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 James N. Green
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Sudipa Sarkar
This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early marriage—that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls. Using a nationa...
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Public–Private Development Cooperation: Interface and Conflicting Logics in the Formation of a Strategic Partnership The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jon Harald Sande Lie
Public–private development partnership constitutes the core of a deepening normative agenda that places private actors as active development agents and as means through which other development obje...
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Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Daria Trentini
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Be Happy, Be Loyal? Exploring Drivers for Renewal of Mobile-Delivered Index Insurance The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Ella Kirchner, Oliver Musshoff
Agricultural microinsurance is a promising risk management tool for smallholder farmers. However, adoption rates remain low and only a small share of farmers renew their policy after the first peri...
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Transfers as a Means to Mitigate COVID-19 Impacts on Food Security: Evidence from Refugee and Host Communities Uganda The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Marco d’Errico, Ellestina Jumbe, Lauren Oliver, Rebecca Pietrelli, Irene Staffieri, Paul Winters
Uganda is home to some 1.5 million refugees. Its self-reliance policy welcomes refugees with freedom of movement and work; a piece of land for building a house and home-gardening; and social protec...
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Identifying the COVID-19 Transmission Channels on Poverty and Food Security in Refugee-Hosting Districts of Uganda The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Margherita Squarcina, Donato Romano
It is well documented that COVID-19 increased poverty and food insecurity all over the world, especially in fragile contexts. However, it is still unclear how its effects were transmitted to these ...
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Poverty Dynamics and Poverty Traps among Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Giulia Malevolti, Donato Romano
This paper analyses poverty dynamics and checks for the existence of poverty traps among refugee and host communities living close to each other in Uganda. Although some non-linearities emerge in a...
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Cash for Coolers or Sustainable Lighting? Assessing Different Components of a Large-Scale Energy Efficiency Program in Mexico The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Dominik Naeher, Raghavan Narayanan, Virginia Ziulu
In one of the largest demand-side energy efficiency programs at the time, the Mexican government supported more than 11 million, mostly low-income households in replacing their old light bulbs and ...
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The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Julia Hampton
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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International Remittances, Domestic Sharing, and Income Inequality in Senegal The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Mahamat Moustapha
This study examines the impact of international remittances on internal cash transfers in Senegal using instrumental variable analysis with a large sample of individuals aged 13 and above. The find...
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Resilience of Social Transfer Programs to Large Unexpected Shocks The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Shyamal Chowdhury, Muhammad Nahian Bin Khaled, Debdulal Mallick, Kalyani Raghunathan, Shahidur Rashid
Large, unexpected shocks are becoming more frequent, making the design of robust social transfer programs more vital than ever. We evaluate the performance of the Food Friendly Program (FFP), the l...
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Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Lambek Michael
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ulaş Erdoğdu
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Reya Farber
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Women’s Resistance: An Alternative Perspective to Women’s Participation in Community-Driven Development The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Peter Shapland, Annemarie van Paassen, Conny J. M. Almekinders, Cees Leeuwis
Community-driven development (CDD) programs compel communities to adopt egalitarian decision-making processes for the duration of the project. However, dominant groups use their power to orchestrat...
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Inside Mining Capitalism: The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Iva Peša
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 60, No. 2, 2024)
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Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Lindsay Mayka
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 60, No. 2, 2024)
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Remittance Receivers as Targets for Corruption in Latin America The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Pui-Hang Wong, Ortrun Merkle, Melissa Siegel
Migration can affect the practice of corruption in migrant-sending countries in a number of ways. In this paper we test whether or not remittance receiving households are more likely to be targeted...
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Targeting Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Pascale Schnitzer, Quentin Stoeffler
This paper analyzes household data from nine programs in the Sahel region using a harmonized approach to compare Proxy-Means Testing (PMT) and Community-Based Targeting (CBT) as conducted in practi...
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Spatial Poverty in Benin: Human Capital, Isolation and Governance The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Francis Andrianarison
Benin has witnessed significant economic growth over the past decades, positioning itself as a rising economy in the west African subregion. This notwithstanding, persistent subnational differences...
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An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Alison D. Elder
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Killing Growth: Homicides and Corporate Investment in Brazil The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Tiago Loncan
We examine the effects of violent crime on corporate investment and financing decisions of Brazilian firms. Exploring city variation in homicides, we find that an increase in the growth rate of hom...
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Policy Evaluation in Polarized Polities: The Case of Randomized Controlled Trials The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Cristina Corduneanu-Huci, Michael T. Dorsch, Paul Maarek
This paper provides a political-economic analysis of policy evaluation. We focus on Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) as a subset of policy evaluations and argue that they are used instrumentally...
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Shifting the Balance: Examining the Impact of Local Labor Market Opportunities on Female Household Bargaining Power in India The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Savannah Adkins
There has been considerable interest in studying the effect of female labor market outcomes on intrahousehold bargaining. This paper examines the effects of local labor market opportunities in Indi...
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Foreign Aid and Female Empowerment The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Maria Perrotta Berlin, Evelina Bonnier, Anders Olofsgård
We estimate the community-level impact of foreign aid projects on women’s empowerment in the country with the most complete recent record of geo-coded aid project placement, Malawi. Our estimates c...
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Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Erum A. Haider
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Luis Felipe Mantilla
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Location-Based Tax Incentives for Non-Farm Rural Enterprises in Armenia The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Vardan Baghdasaryan, Arsine Sarikyan
The paper analyses the effect of location-based tax incentives on rural non-farm small business performance in Armenia. It uses administrative panel data for the population of the registered taxpay...
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Viral Frictions: Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Laura Ballerini
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Jane Esberg
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss among Syrian Labourers in Beirut The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Fuad Musallam
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 59, No. 12, 2023)
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They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Ding Fei
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara, Robin Shields, Andres Sandoval-Hernandez
This paper examines the link between decentralisation in school management and student achievement levels in secondary schools in India. It employs observational data from two school surveys conduc...
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Is There a Gender Gap in Health among Migrants in Russia? The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Sandra Pellet, Marine de Talancé
This study investigates whether there is a gender gap in health among migrants. Focusing on migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in Russia, where there are high levels of both immigration and ge...
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Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Fikir G. Haile
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Conflict Minerals Inc. War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Fergus O’Leary Simpson
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)
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Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the Gains? The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Alessandra Mezzadri
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the Gains? The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Alessandra Mezzadri
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)
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Remittance Receivers as Targets for Corruption in Latin America The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Pui-Hang Wong, Ortrun Merkle, Melissa Siegel
Migration can affect the practice of corruption in migrant-sending countries in a number of ways. In this paper we test whether or not remittance receiving households are more likely to be targeted...
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Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Phung N. Su
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families and the Failure of the Dependent Visa Program The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Smitha Radhakrishnan
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Correction The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-21
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Persistent Agricultural Shocks and Child Poverty The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Ray Miller, Lackson D. Mudenda, Ashish K. Sedai
This study shows how persistent agricultural shocks in Ethiopia affect education, health and labor outcomes through a time-use study of young people aged 5-22. Leveraging five rounds of the Young L...
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The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Jeroen Cuvelier
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 59, No. 12, 2023)
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Early-Life Shocks and Childhood Social Programs: Evidence of Catch-Up in Brazil The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Riley League, Dylan Fitz
Early-life shocks often produce negative long-run consequences lasting into adulthood, but little is known about how childhood social programs interact with early-life environments. In this paper, ...
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Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 David Arnold
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 59, No. 12, 2023)
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Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Shannon Marie McLaughlin, Martina Bozzola, Anne Nugent
In this study, we capture the impact of changing temperature and rainfall patterns on the estimated consumption of macro-and micronutrients among households in Malawi. We apply a fixed-effects mode...
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Premature Deindustrialisation and Income Inequality Dynamics: Evidence from Middle-Income Economies The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Rekha Ravindran, M. Suresh Babu
The structural transformation path in most developing economies follows an employment shift towards service activities, skipping an industrialisation phase. In this paper, we explore how this prema...
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The Link between Vulnerability to Poverty and Depression: Evidence from Vietnam The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Trang Thu Vu, Alistair Munro
Vulnerability to poverty is a measure of the downside risk of falling into poverty. We examine the relationship between vulnerability to poverty and self-reported mental health, using a four-wave l...
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African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Maggie Dwyer
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 59, No. 11, 2023)
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The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Johann Ole Willers
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 59, No. 11, 2023)
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The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Mindy Park
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 59, No. 12, 2023)
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Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Edward Ademolu
Photoelicitation is a creative and multidimensional visual methodology used to stimulate participant subjectivities and situated knowledges. International development research documenting this meth...
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Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Hannah Akanksha Patnaik, John McPeak
Climate change and extreme climate shocks pose a significant threat to resource-dependent rural communities. Successfully supporting households to anticipate and adapt to climate variability and sh...
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Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Gideon Tups
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Vol. 59, No. 11, 2023)
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The National Childcare Agenda in Cambodia: A Feminist Transformative Ethics of Care Perspective The Journal of Development Studies (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Sambath My
This article critically examines Cambodia’s national childcare agenda from a feminist transformative ethics of care perspective. It employs a discourse analysis for policy texts and examines, throu...