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Heterogeneity and Labour Agency in Artisanal and Small‐scale Gold Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Sara Geenen, Divin‐Luc Bikubanya
This article considers the broad question of how to improve the conditions of workers in artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM), which relies on predominantly informal activities. While acknowledging that formalization can provide ASGM miners with tenure security and protection of labour rights, it is important to highlight that not all workers are likely to benefit from formalization in the
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NGOs and Civil Society at the End of a World Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Jim Igoe
Nidhi Srinivas, Against NGOs: A Critical Perspective on Civil Society, Management and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 343 pp. £ 42.00 hardback. Jenna H. Hanchey, The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility and the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 232 pp. £ 76.00 hardback.
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Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Noé Manuel Mendoza Fuente, Andrei Marin
This article seeks to understand why community forestry enterprises in the Mayan rainforest of Mexico are losing ground, while middlemen and manufacturers are regaining control over forestry resources. It focuses on the case of the Ejido San Felipe Oriente where an NGO codesigned a commercialization platform with the objective of bringing together local cooperatives to negotiate in the market from
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Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Ibrahim Abdullah
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Intimate Extractions: Demand Dowry and Neoliberal Development in Dhaka, Bangladesh Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Katy Gardner
Based on qualitative research on marital problems in Dhaka, this article uses the term ‘intimate extractions’ as a lens to explain the relationship between escalating levels of demand dowry and neoliberal development in Bangladesh. Evidence from across Bangladesh shows that demands for cash made by husbands, accompanied by threats of violence or divorce, are on the rise. Building on gendered theories
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Post-pandemic Transformations and the Recasting of Development: A Comment and Further Reflections Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Ian Scoones, Peter Taylor
This Comment is both a response to critique and a wider contribution to renewed debate on the politics of development and development studies amidst multiple, intersecting challenges. In an article published in World Development in 2021, Leach et al. proposed that COVID-19 and earlier epidemics provided fundamental lessons for post-pandemic transformations and for rethinking development more broadly
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Implementing Health Policy in Nigeria: The Basic Health Care Provision Fund as a Catalyst for Achieving Universal Health Coverage? Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Julia Ngozi Chukwuma
In 2014, Nigeria adopted a new law for its healthcare system, which mandated the establishment of a novel health-financing mechanism, the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF). The BHCPF was created to provide sustainable funding with a view to fast-tracking Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and improving health outcomes in Nigeria. This article places Nigeria's UHC reform process in the broader context
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The Distinct Dispossessions of Indian Settler Colonialism in Kashmir: Land, Narrative and Indigeneity Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Haris Zargar, Goldie Osuri
India's annexation of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 has generated debates within Critical Kashmir Studies regarding the kind of settler colonialism that is operating in this disputed Himalayan region. To illuminate the current relationship between land dispossession and narratives that legitimize land grab (for the settlement of Hindu Indian settlers), this article traces the
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Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Alyssa Morley, Rachel Silver
The decision of the United Kingdom government to reduce its Official Development Assistance by £ 4.6 billion in 2020 was framed by its proponents as a nationalist response to a domestic financial crisis. This Conservative-led austerity measure triggered the early closure of hundreds of aid projects globally. Concerned British politicians equated the cuts to moral failures as humanitarian and civil
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Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Shandana Mohmand, Vanessa van den Boogaard, Max Gallien, Umair Javed
What is the relationship between trust in the state and vaccine hesitancy among a marginalized sub-population? This article explores attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination programmes of informal workers in the context of Lahore, Pakistan, and draws on in-depth conversations with informal workers across four sectors in 2021. It finds a surprising disconnect between vaccine scepticism and actual decisions
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Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021 Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Advait Moharir, Arjun Jayadev, J.W. Mason
External trade balance is a critical constraint in the macroeconomic dynamics of a developing economy. Typically, external adjustment is said to occur through changes in the real exchange rate, and implicitly in the terms of trade. This article decomposes India's merchandise trade ratio into three parts, namely, change in terms of trade, relative expenditure growth and relative import intensity over
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Pushcarts and Fountains: Masculinity, Agency and Labour Culture among Water Workers of N'Djamena, Chad Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Ismaël Maazaz
Waters fountain managers and private porters are essential workers operating in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. Striving to supply water to areas and households that do not have connections to Chad's official provider, the Société Tchadienne des Eaux, water workers are subjected to a regulatory framework which complicates already precarious situations. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork around water
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Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill-scapes of Bangalore, India Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 P. Neethi, Deeksha Rao
This study takes a closer look at the deindustrialization of the South Indian city of Bangalore with respect to its former cotton mill sector, nearly two decades after the closure of the first three composite cotton mills in the city. The study views deindustrialization from sectoral, city- and community-centric perspectives. As well as identifying Bangalore as a significant site within the ‘bygone
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The World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery in the Context of the International Debt Crisis Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Robert H. Wade
World Bank Group, World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery. Washington, DC: World Bank Group, 2022. xix + 248 pp. www.worldbank/org/en/publication/wdr2022
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Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself? Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo
Recent accounts of the re-emergence of debt distress in Africa, while offering significant insights, fail to provide the historical political-economic context within which African indebtedness is set. On the surface, spending induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic fallout from the Russia–Ukraine war, and repeated examples of fiscal indiscipline by African governments appear to be the causes of
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The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI-driven Growth Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Samuele Bibi, Sebastian Valdecantos
In the period 2000–2019, Peru enjoyed sustained GDP growth and a long period of macroeconomic stability; as a result, poverty was reduced markedly in comparison to the 1980s and early 1990s, when the country faced severe recessions and hyperinflation. This positive economic performance coincided with the implementation of a mainstream macroeconomic framework which, alongside favourable external conditions
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The Myth of Counter-modern Ontologies: Indigenous People and the Modern Politics of Extractivism in Ecuador Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Christian Tym
Anti-extractivist critique still positions Indigenous people as protagonists of counter-modern political sentiment, whether as opponents of modernity's processes of productive rationalization and economic integration, or as embodying ontologies that reject modernity's conceptual separation of humanity from natural resources. Indigenous anti-extractivism is thus said to represent a rupture of modern
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From Multiple Deprivations to Exploitation: Politicizing the Multidimensional Poverty Index Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Nick Bernards
OPHI and UNDP, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022: Unpacking Deprivation Bundles to Reduce Multidimensional Poverty. Oxford and New York: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and United Nations Development Programme, 2022. 39 pp. https://ophi.org.uk/global-mpi-report-2022/
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State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 R.C. Sudheesh
The pressing need to manage the spiralling number of landless people around the world has compelled several states to experiment with scattered land distribution programmes in combination with welfare transfers, instead of comprehensive land reform. This article examines the chasm between land demands and state responses in such contexts. Focusing on the Aralam resettlement site for the landless Adivasis
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Local Financial Institutions and Income Inequality: Evidence from Brazil's Credit Cooperative Movement Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Philip Arestis, Peter Phelps
Local financial institutions can play a crucial role in reducing income inequalities at the within-country level by promoting inclusive economic growth and development across time and space. This is against a backdrop of increasing financial and economic fragility, to which emerging economies have also been exposed over more recent decades and years. This article adds emerging economy evidence from
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Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post-pandemic Development Studies Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Jörg Wiegratz, Pritish Behuria, Christina Laskaridis, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko, Ben Radley, Sara Stevano
The COVID-19 pandemic motivated calls for the field of development studies to be recast. This article analyses two prominent, future-gazing ‘pandemic papers’ to illustrate salient features of the ascendant trend towards a new ‘global development’ paradigm. By unpacking and interpreting major lines of reasoning put forward by two agenda-setting articles, this contribution appraises how these texts make
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Misaligned Social Policy? Explaining the Origins and Limitations of Cash Transfers in Sudan Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Muez Ali, Laura Mann
This article examines whether the transitional government in the wake of the December 2018 Sudanese revolution succeeded in realigning social policy with public demands. The article focuses on the evolution of cash transfer programmes from the 2012 cash programme under the Ingaz regime to the transitional government's programme 2021. While the recent programme was popularly viewed as a ‘World Bank
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Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For-profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Brendan Whitty, Jessica Sklair, Paul Robert Gilbert, Emma Mawdsley, Jo-Anna Russon, Olivia Taylor
While much attention has been paid to the ways in which the private sector is now embedded within the field of development, one group of actors — for-profit development consultancies and contractors, or service providers — has received relatively little attention. This article analyses the growing role of for-profit consultancies and contractors in British aid delivery, which has been driven by two
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Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation? Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Will Lock, Anthony Alexander
Forest frontiers are important areas for sustainable development as they combine the need to halt deforestation with the challenges of rural poverty. In the region of San Martín, Peru, the ‘Production, Protection and Inclusion’ model combines narratives of conservation, economic development and social inclusion in what can be defined as a ‘sustainable development frontier’. This article asks how such
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Derisking Developmentalism: A Tale of Green Hydrogen Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Daniela Gabor, Ndongo Samba Sylla
In the global race to scale up green hydrogen, a renewed appetite for the visible hand of the state once again promises to expand developmental space for low- and middle-income countries. On the African continent, several countries have announced green industrialization ambitions that rely on mobilizing, through various ‘derisking’ schemes, private (institutional) capital looking for investible opportunities
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The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 W. Nathan Green, Theavy Chhom, Reach Mony, Jennifer Estes
Microfinance is a dominant strategy used to promote rural development around the world. Rather than directly track its impact on borrowers, however, microfinance institutions rely on indicators of financial performance adopted from commercial banking as proxies for positive social impact. Yet, as critical research has shown, the industry depends on coercive peer pressure, social shaming and various
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Law and Famine: Learning from the Hunger Courts in South Sudan Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Naomi Pendle
Activists and scholars are seeking to end famine by promoting international legal accountability for starvation. This article deepens our understanding of the relationship between the politics of famine and law by observing the ongoing prevalence and power of legal norms and institutions during times of famine. It reveals the widespread use of hunger courts in famine-prone South Sudan and their role
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Lance Taylor (1940–2022): Reconstructing Macroeconomics Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Servaas Storm
INTRODUCTION On 15 August 2022, Lance Taylor, the towering structuralist macroeconomist and a thinker of uncommon breadth, sadly passed away. His work, spanning almost six decades, stands out for its originality, creativity, (policy) relevance and theoretical rigour as well as for its fearless commitment to speak truth to power in academic and policy-making circles. This essay reviews Taylor's progression
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Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: When Is an Agreement More than a Contract? Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh, Sally Babidge
While acknowledging advances in legal recognition of Indigenous rights, much of the research literature positions negotiated agreements between Indigenous peoples and corporations simply as ‘neoliberal technology’ that gives the appearance of Indigenous consent while allowing exploitation to continue. This analysis is flawed in considering agreements as discrete, stand-alone phenomena. It ignores the
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Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi-Biega National Park Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Fergus O'Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini
Ongoing debates in conservation studies stress the dire consequences of ‘fortress’ and ‘militarized’ conservation at violent frontiers. Presenting evidence from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this article shows how the park has become a focal point for armed insurgent groups in the region. Although fortress conservation has contributed to one major
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Formalization and its Discontents: Conceptual Fallacies and Ways Forward Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Max Gallien, Vanessa van den Boogaard
The concept of formalization has long underpinned policy interventions and measures intended to connect informal entities with state institutions or formal economic structures. However, despite the policy enthusiasm, the outcomes of formalization policies have frequently been disappointing. This article argues that this disconnect lies in the concept of formalization itself and that common approaches
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Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Jean Grugel, Pia Riggirozzi
This virtual issue reviews the post-neoliberalism literature published in Development and Change between 2012 and 2018. It reflects on recent and ongoing, multiple experiences of resistance to speculative, extractive, inequitable and unsustainable development and the demands for alternatives that emerged in Latin America. The argument is developed through an analysis of the 18 most relevant articles
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How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us? Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Georgina M. Gómez
Julie and Katherine Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombroski (eds), The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2020. 546 pp. £ 199.80 hardback.
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Theorizing Power in Community Economies: A Women's Cooperative in Northern Kurdistan Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Kaner Atakan Turker
Under the Democratic Autonomy project, Turkey's Kurdish Movement has pursued self-governance since the mid-2000s and promoted cooperatives and communal modes of production across Northern Kurdistan. Drawing upon the engagement of diverse and community economies studies with assemblage thinking, this article utilizes assemblage thinking to expand our understanding of power dynamics in community economies
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Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post-aid World Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Alin Kadfak, Miriam Wilhelm, Patrik Oskarsson
This article explores how domestic NGOs responded to new opportunities that emerged during the 2015–2020 ‘modern slavery’ labour reforms in Thailand's seafood sector. The analysis takes place against the background of civil society transitions in a ‘post-aid’ setting. Like NGOs in other middle-income countries, the Thai NGO sector has struggled to remain relevant and financially viable in recent decades
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Compelled to Compete: Rendering Climate Change Vulnerability Investable Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Kimberley Anh Thomas
The imperative for vulnerable populations to adapt to greater environmental variability is increasing in lockstep with the onset of wide-ranging climate change impacts. However, while critical adaptation research emphasizes the necessity of addressing the underlying drivers of vulnerability to climate change, mainstream approaches to adaptation stress economic growth as a prerequisite for climate responses
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‘Fundermediaries’ in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Lise Woensdregt, Lorraine Nencel
By representing the voice of communities, community-based organizations (CBOs) are increasingly joining development partnerships. This article explores the inherently contradictory relationship between ‘voice raising’ and the politics of listening. While academia has mostly focused on the inclusion of CBOs, few studies have approached this subject from the perspective of the listening practices of
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New Multilateral Development Banks and Green Lending: Approaching Scalar Complexities in the Global South Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Ali Rıza Güngen
Newly established multilateral development banks promote green finance and support a green transition in the global South. This article examines the new multilateral development banks using a dynamic view and documents the projects and lending preferences of New Development Bank (NDB) in Brazil and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Turkey. While AIIB and NDB have made it easier for global
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Corrigendum Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-02-17
In Development and Change (volume 46, issue 4, July 2015), Kees Biekart's article contains an omission and errors. On p. 913, the introductory paragraph should include the following footnote: ‘This article, especially the first part, draws strongly on an interview Gerardo Munck conducted with Guillermo O'Donnell on 23 March 2002 in Palo Alto, California. In the text, quotations and paraphrased remarks
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Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle-income Countries Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Louis O'Sullivan, Lena Rethel
Since the global financial crisis of 2008–09, there has been a renewed interest in the role of the state in processes of financial development and globalization. This article explores new forms of state economic activity via the development of debt capital markets in Southeast Asia, specifically Indonesia and Malaysia. It suggests that the expanding profile of various state-controlled entities in local
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Municipal Councillors and the Everyday State: New Representations of Political Accountability in Ahmedabad, India Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Rusha Das, Christine Lutringer
Scholarly literature on municipal councillors in urban India has variously labelled them as ‘lords’, ‘captains’ and ‘shrewd operators’ who have the power to mobilize resources and act as political intermediaries between the state and ordinary citizens. Conversely, voters are seen as collectively trading their votes to secure access to the state's resources. In this article, empirical fieldwork in the
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Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry-level Evidence from Emerging Economies Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Alexander Guschanski, Özlem Onaran
Participation in global value chains (GVCs) has been proposed as a central means for emerging economies to develop and technologically upgrade. However, the effects of GVCs on income distribution in the global South remain underexplored. This article presents an econometric analysis of the determinants of the labour share in seven emerging economies for the period 1995–2014. Drawing on industry-level
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Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Joeva Sean Rock, Matthew A. Schnurr, Ann Kingiri, Dominic Glover, Glenn Davis Stone, Adrian Ely, Klara Fischer
Genome editing — a plant-breeding technology that facilitates the manipulation of genetic traits within living organisms — has captured the imagination of scholars and professionals working on agricultural development in Africa. Echoing the arrival of genetically modified (GM) crops decades ago, genome editing is being heralded as a technology with the potential to revolutionize breeding based on enhanced
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Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Viviana García Pinzón
Extant research has analysed the impact of security policies, truces and informal agreements on both the dynamics and traits of organized violence in El Salvador. However, less is understood about variation in the levels of lethal violence across subnational units. This article contributes to filling this gap. Based on a case study of the municipality of Chalatenango, the analysis shows that community
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Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID-19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Kate Meagher
This article challenges the role of COVID-19 crisis narratives in shaping social policy choices in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on Africa's vast informal economies, both as a symbol of the continent's intense vulnerability to the ravages of the pandemic, and as a puzzle in the face of the uneven and limited effects of COVID-19 across the continent. Indeed, an examination of statistical
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Everyday Politics of Dadan Contracts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Bablu Chakma
This article analyses processes of dadan contract negotiations between Bengali intermediaries and indigenous Tanchangya peasants of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, in the culantro sector. The research extends the debates on the dadan system and interlocked market relationships by highlighting everyday dynamics of dadan and the issue of ‘just price’ that arises from such contracts. The article
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Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Tristan Dissaux
Financial inclusion has become a prominent development policy objective. Its promotion rests on the understanding that poverty and underdevelopment mainly result from financial constraints that individuals face. Better access to financial services, in particular via the use of mobile money services, is supposed to lift these constraints and allow for growth and development. After outlining this dominant
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COVID-19 and the Meaning of Crisis Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Maha Abdelrahman
Crisis is a concept that has a long history; it has come to denote moments of rupture and to foreground life and death decisions necessary for its resolution. The recent deployment of the concept in broad social, economic and political spheres has not only given rise to an industry of crisis management but has also established it as a framework through which to conceive, survive and reconstruct the
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Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Nikita Sud, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Researchers in development studies have expressed discomfort at the hierarchy inherent in the use of ‘North’ and ‘South’, and cognate concepts like ‘First’ and ‘Third World’, or ‘emerging economies’. Instead of setting aside the terminology, this article delves into the layered meaning-making around the notion of the South. Drawing on multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives, it maps out the South
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Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Itay Noy
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores two widespread types of informal and precarious work in eastern India's coal mining tracts. It seeks to contribute to recent attempts to disaggregate the umbrella notion of precarity and the related concept of ‘classes of labour’ in the context of the global South. It does so by illuminating the more nuanced yet significant relative distinctions
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Adding Insult to Injury: The COVID-19 Crisis Strikes Latin America Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Juan Grigera
This article takes on the task of historicizing the global crisis that unfolded after the outbreak of COVID-19, focusing on its particular dynamics in Latin America. It proposes a distinction between a first phase — an unmitigated crisis that lasted until the end of 2020 — and a second phase in the period since then, that is defined by managed crisis and lukewarm economic recovery. The first phase
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Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Josh Platzky Miller, Antoine Sander, Sharath Srinivasan
Across Africa, the deployment of digital solutions such as track and trace apps and vaccine passports to tackle COVID-19 largely failed in their public health objectives. Yet, in the process, these material interventions revealed and unleashed new potentialities of governance throughout the continent. This article examines these developments and their significance through historical and theoretical
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Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Surbhi Kesar, Snehashish Bhattacharya, Lopamudra Banerjee
The severe economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global working population can be interpreted as both a fallout from, and a violent assertion of, a larger crisis in the world of work. While this crisis has been attributed to the pre-existing conditions of widespread informality and precarity in the domain of remunerative work, the authors of this article dig deeper to read these conditions
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The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Alessandra Mezzadri
This article proposes a reading of the COVID-19 crisis through a social reproduction lens, with a focus on the restructuring of reproductive sectors, the world of work and the generation of differentiated surplus populations, and considers the implications of this reading for global development debates on inequality and informal labour. Learning from the pandemic and the social reproduction of the
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Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Max Ajl
UNDP, Human Development Report 2020. The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene. New York: United Nations Development Programme, 2020. 412 pp. Available for download at: https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2020.pdf
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Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Paul Segal
This article offers a multidimensional, interdisciplinary and dynamic framework for understanding socio-economic inequalities. It uses the tools of economic inequality measurement to demonstrate the link between interpersonal and categorical inequalities and to show the effect of progressive redistribution on both. It then presents two new concepts for analysing interactions between varieties of inequality:
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Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Rekha Wazir
The social norms approach (SNA), the new entrant from the behavioural sciences into the field of development practice, professes a scientific, more accurate, efficient and cost-effective methodology for identifying, measuring and changing harmful social norms. Despite its increasing popularity, no systematic, robust or long-term field evaluations are available to demonstrate the effectiveness and sustainability
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Black Economic Empowerment and Quota Allocations in South Africa's Industrial Fisheries Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Thando Vilakazi, Stefano Ponte
Power asymmetries in the governance of value chains mean that inequalities in access to resources and share of value added are skewed against smaller players. Policies enforcing market rules and ensuring fairness are ineffective when power is deeply entrenched, necessitating different rules to address such inequalities. South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies and competition laws target
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A Gendered Counter-archive: Mining and Resistance in Morocco Development and Change (IF 3.458) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Zakia Salime
In August 2011, thousands of villagers climbed Mount Alebban in Imider, southeast Morocco. They shut off the valve diverting water from the mountain's reservoir to a neighbouring silver mine. The villagers’ encampment on the mount lasted for eight years, withstanding state violence, prison sentences and political containment. Although Imider was considered a political protest camp, this article explores