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Five decades of neoliberal developmentalism in “Least Developed Countries”: A decolonial critique Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Kapil Dev Regmi
“Least Developed Countries” (LDCs) were identified by the United Nations (UN) in 1971 to consolidate international support measures to address development challenges related to poverty, health and education. Using neoliberal developmentalism and decolonisation as a theoretical framework, this paper analyses key policy documents produced by the UN from 1971 to 2021 to investigate the support measures
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Association of international remittance with satisfaction and utilization of maternal healthcare services in Nepal: A secondary analysis of two cohort studies Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Kasperi Kilpi, Soorej Puthoopparambil, Rejina Gurung, Honey Malla, Omkar Basnet, Ashish KC
This study aimed to explore the association of international remittance with satisfaction and utilization of maternal health services in Nepal. This is a secondary analysis based on two prospective cohort studies. Regression analyses were carried out to assess the association. Women from remittance‐receiving households had 1.27 higher odds of receiving timely initiation of first ANC visit (aOR = 1
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Does revolution change risk attitudes? Evidence from Burkina Faso Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Mohammad H. Sepahvand, Roujman Shahbazian, Ranjula Bali Swain
A popular uprising in 2014, led to a revolution that overthrew the sitting President of Burkina Faso. We investigate if individuals' risk attitudes changed due to this revolution. We examine this impact by the main determinants of risk attitudes: gender, age and level of education. The analysis is based on unique panel survey data, allowing us to track the changes in the risk attitudes of the same
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Aspirations over tradition: Understanding Thai family farm succession planning Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Para Jansuwan, Kerstin K. Zander
Our study aimed to examine the factors affecting family farm succession plannung. Results from a survey of 368 elderly farmers showed that some farmers were at an early planning stage (Stage 1; 12%), starting conversations with their children about the potential succession, while most were at a more advanced stage, which included involving their children in daily farm work (Stage 2; 38%). Approximately
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Knowledge and power: Changing the education of the next generation of development practitioners Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Jo Murray Davies, Chernor Bah, Emma Mulhern, Precious Lamin, Arnold Williams
This research explores barriers to the academic space in which development knowledge is codified, legitimised and taught. It also speaks to these questions more broadly. Focus group discussions with representatives of 32 civil society organisations in Sierra Leone, 2 follow‐up workshops in Sierra Leone and 24 semi‐structured interviews with senior academics in the UK and North America were conducted
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Levelling the field: A review of the ICT revolution and agricultural extension in the Global South Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Rashid Parvez Khan, Saurabh Gupta, Thomas Daum, Regina Birner, Claudia Ringler
Information and communications technology has evolved significantly over the last seven decades, beginning with radio and video vans and culminating in the rise of smartphones and mobile internet in remote areas of the Global South. While ICT is an integral part of agricultural extension, little is known about how these changes have influenced agricultural extension practices. After a systematic review
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Exploring the effects of international experiences on cultural intelligence Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Geneviève Morin, David Talbot
This study aims to assess the effects of pre‐adult international experiences on expatriate workers' cultural intelligence (CQ). Two data sources were used to achieve this goal; a quantitative survey administered online to expatriates (n = 1713) and the culture database of Hofstede. The analyses identified six deep antecedents of CQ. This study contributes to the scientific literature on the antecedents
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The impact of financial inclusion initiatives: Evidence from meta‐analysis Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Ashenafi Biru, Alemayehu Molla, Salvatore Ferraro, Yonatan Navon
Developing an inclusive financial system is an important policy intervention to improve livelihood and reduce poverty. Despite this, the empirical evidence on the impacts of financial inclusion remains mixed. This study reports a meta‐analysis of studies on the impact of financial inclusion. The findings show that financial inclusion outcomes reflect small, positive and statistically significant average
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Out of the shadow: Encouraging online registration of micro and small businesses through a randomized controlled trial Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Sarah Xue Dong, Dewi Meisari, Banu Rinaldi
This paper presents the findings of a large‐scale randomized controlled field trial that tests the interest of informal businesses in free and online business registration. In collaboration with the Indonesian government, we designed a free and easy to use online registration portal for small businesses and sent WhatsApp or text messages to around 50 000 businesses to inform them about this new registration
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Mutuality in engaged North–South transnational higher education partnerships: The case of Kenya Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Lucy Mule, Eunice Kamaara
The quality of transnational higher education partnerships (THEPs) has increasingly come under scrutiny with the growing role of higher education in development. Mutuality has emerged as a key focus of this examination. We seek to understand how mutuality is expressed within North–South THEPs that have a major focus on community engagement. We refer to THEPs with this focus as engaged transnational
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Issue Information Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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When development cooperation principles clash: Country ownership and LGBTQI+ inclusion in hostile environments Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Stephen Brown
In some instances, two basic development cooperation principles appear to be in direct contradiction: on the one hand, the Sustainable Development Goals prescribe universal social inclusion under the leitmotif of “leave no one behind”, mandating an emphasis on the most marginalized. On the other hand, the cornerstone of development cooperation is “ownership”, which recognizes that countries must be
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Internal governance challenges of young independent coffee cooperatives in south‐west Ethiopia Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Walter Mswaka, Matthew Snell, Adrian Wood
This study analyses the internal governance practices of coffee marketing cooperatives in south‐west Ethiopia. The investigation argues that there is a need to go beyond democratic governance practices in order to understand the governance of these cooperatives working in multi‐stakeholder environments where the state is powerful and intervenes in their operations. The study concludes that the actions
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Globalization and the “zero hunger” goal in Africa: Starving in an open world? Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Isaac Ketu, Stéphane Mbiankeu Nguea
Despite commendable efforts to end hunger and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2, the prevalence of undernourishment is still inadmissibly high, especially in Africa. Though important determinants of undernourishment have been documented, little is known about the role of globalization. This paper aims to fill this gap using a sample of 48 African countries over 2000–2020 period and data from the
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Shifting the focus? From individual to collective‐level effects of cash transfers: A systematic review of the impacts on social capital Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Filippo Grisolia, Sara Dewachter, Nathalie Holvoet
Contrary to the individual and household levels, analysis on the collective‐level effects of cash transfers (CTs) is largely lacking. To fill such gap, this paper conducted a systematic review of the evidence around CT impacts on social capital. Available studies suggest that CTs can stimulate bonding social capital (social participation, membership of organizations), while often generate issues like
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Global challenges and developing economies: Strategies for inclusive and sustainable growth Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Claudiu Tiberiu Albulescu, Inmaculada Martínez‐Zarzoso, Dimitrios Papadas
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Manipulating the masses? Right‐wing populist messages, political ideology, and public support for multilateral development aid in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 A. Burcu Bayram, Sebastian H. Schneider, Jörg Faust, Catarina Thomson
How does right‐wing populism affect public preferences for foreign development aid spending across the liberal/conservative ideological spectrum? This research examines the complex interplay between exposure to right‐wing populist messages targeting aid and political ideology at the mass level in Germany, the United States (U.S.), and the United Kingdom (UK) with data from original survey experiments
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Issue Information Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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Analysing public policies for the creative economy: A systematic literature review Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Ana Maria Vicente da Silva, Henrique Muzzio, Denis Silva da Silveira
This paper seeks to conduct a comprehensive literature review analysing governmental initiatives, particularly public policies, pertaining to the needs of the creative economy (CE). The uniqueness of this paper lies in its unprecedented examination of literature on governmental actions for the CE. The methodology involved executing a rigorous systematic review of literature drawn from multiple credible
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Which freedoms benefit the poor? A two‐horse race between economic and political freedoms on health‐adjusted life expectancy and child mortality, 1990–2020 Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Ingrid Holthe Helmersen, Indra de Soysa
We examine theoretically and empirically whether democratic rights might be superior to economic rights in a two‐horse race, utilizing indicators of poverty reduction, such as health‐adjusted life expectancy (HALE) and child mortality as outcomes. The results show robustly that economic freedoms associate positively with HALE and negatively with child mortality, while the effect of democracy is more
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Structural change and gender sectoral segregation in sub‐Saharan African countries Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Izaskun Zuazu
Structural change has long been at the core of economic development debates. However, the gender implications of structural change are still largely unexplored. This paper helps to fill this gap by analysing the role of structural change in the gender distribution of sectoral employment in sub‐Saharan African countries. I employ aggregate and disaggregate measures of gender sectoral segregation in
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From colonialism to international aid: Social protection in former French colonies in sub‐Saharan Africa, 1890–2020 Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Louis Olié, Léo Delpy, Jérôme Ballet
This article examines social protection pathways in the former French colonies in sub‐Saharan Africa. We identify five steps to understanding the patterns and dynamics of social protection in these countries that provide evidence of its exogenous construction. First, we characterize the main developments in social protection systems and policies from their inception, covering the colonial era to the
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Knowledge, perception or disaster experience? The new determinants of household disaster preparedness behaviour in Bangladesh Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Azreen Karim
This paper explores the relationship among education, knowledge, perception and disaster experience to investigate whether household disaster preparedness behaviour mitigates income losses. We employ instrumental variables approach and generate indigenous knowledge from a large‐scale dataset to examine responsiveness of disaster preparedness via unemployment and production. We identify disaster and
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Issue Information Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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Health resilience and the global pandemic: The effect of social conditions on the COVID‐19 mortality rate Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Shimaa Elkomy, Tim Jackson
Can ‘health resilience’ explain international differences in COVID‐19 mortality? This paper aims to understand the significant diversity in mortality rates between countries in terms of their degree of preparedness for the crisis and the underlying health conditions of the population. We integrate COVID‐19 data from the first year of the pandemic with panel data from 2009 to 2017 for 188 countries
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Financial inclusion in India: How far do grassroots institutions matter? Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Shika Saravanabhavan, Meenakshi Rajeev
Though the relevance of grassroots institutions for financial inclusion (FI) is widely recognised, we still do not fully understand its differential effect on FI, particularly in relation to commercial banks. To investigate this issue, we consider the household's moneylender dependence as an indicator of financial exclusion and thus our outcome variable. Further, we have developed FI indices using
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Issue Information Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09
No abstract is available for this article.
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Convergence analysis of artificial intelligence research capacity: Are the less developed catching up with the developed ones? Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Saima Javed, Yu Rong, Babar Nawaz Abbasi
This study examines whether less developed countries are catching up with developed ones using the log t convergence technique (LCT) and the dynamic spatial ordered probit (DSOP) model. The findings revealed that first, there is no overall convergence in AI research capacity. Second, club clustering analysis showed convergence in four of the five groups of countries on AI research output and in three
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Conflict's impacts on food systems: Mapping available evidence of interactions Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Caitriona Dowd, Samuel S. Polzin, Kelsey Gleason, Rebecca Yang, Pranay Narang, Ronak Patel
This scoping study maps the conflict and food systems nexus to identify broad themes, specific components and remaining gaps in research. Applying systems thinking and network analysis, the analysis points to three trends. First, studies are heavily focused on production, with relatively less attention to aspects including transport, trade and household utilisation. Second, geographically, food systems
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Global value chains and economic growth: A study of resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Bhushan Praveen Jangam, Hari Venkatesh, Aviral Kumar Tiwari
This research examines the impact of trade related to global value chains (GVCs) and the COVID-19 pandemic on economic growth. To achieve this, we analyse a panel of 60 countries spanning from 2007 to 2021. Various models are estimated using the system generalized method of moments technique. The primary findings are as follows: Firstly, GVC trade is identified as a positive and beneficial factor influencing
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Impact of climate change training intervention in savings groups Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Armande Mahabi Nabami, Anaëlle Petre, Roy Mersland
This paper investigates the impact of integrating climate change interventions in informal community‐based institutions called savings groups. By integrating climate‐related activities into these groups, the aim is to simultaneously strengthen the group's financial activities as well as improve knowledge and investment capacity in climate adaptation. We find that the introduction of the training increases
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Issue Information Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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Following in the footsteps of the successful spice farmers: Determinants of spice income in Tanzania Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jacqueline George Kajembe, Göran Bostedt, Yonika M. Ngaga, Jumanne M. Abdallah
Factors influencing spice income in Tanzania are assessed, exploring household effects of spice diversification, socio‐economic and land characteristics on spice income. Spice diversification, household size, age and gender of the household head, non‐spice crops and off‐farm activities are factors influencing spice income. Results indicate that successful farmers can negotiate higher prices for most
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Social and emotional well‐being and economic insecurity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: A multidimensional approach Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sanjesh Kumar, Ranjan Ray
This study examines the relative deprivation in the mental health, henceforth referred to as ‘social and emotional well‐being (SEWB)’, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in relation to non‐Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The study uses the multidimensional deprivation methodology to quantify the deprivation in SEWB. The results show wide variation in the relative deprivation of
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The hidden costs of austerity for social programmes in the Global South: Qualitative insights from two complementary services in Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Abdul‐Rahim Mohammed
Promoted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in particular, fiscal austerity measures have been extensively implemented across the world in the last decade as a policy prescription to address the impacts of economic shocks. Consequently, the implementation of austerity has engendered a vast body of austerity impact assessment literature in the Global North, in particular. Although austerity measures
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Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann‐Kristin Reitmann
Youth empowerment has become a growing concern for achieving sustainable development worldwide. Yet, there is limited evidence on which domains of empowerment are important for youth and how they can be operationalized with indicators for measurement. We propose four domains of youth empowerment with corresponding indicators and use a well‐established methodology for constructing a composite index
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Inclusive human development effect of financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa: A gender perspective Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Issa Dianda, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Hamidou Sawadogo
This paper investigates the effect of financial inclusion on inclusive human development in a panel of 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the years 2011, 2014 and 2017 from a gender perspective. Different methods, including fixed effect and random effect models, Tobit and quantile regressions, are used for the estimates. We find that financial inclusion improves inclusive human development. In
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Spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 impacts on urban household incomes: Between- and within-city analyses of two African countries Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Yele Maweki Batana, Shohei Nakamura, Anirudh Rajashekar, Mervy Ever Viboudoulou Vilpoux, Christina Wieser
This paper examines spatial heterogeneity in the impacts of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban household incomes in Ethiopia and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Combining new panel household surveys with spatial data, the fixed-effects regression analysis for Ethiopia finds that households in large and densely populated towns were more likely to lose their labour incomes in the
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Impact of microfinance on income generation: Evidence from a rural community-driven development programme in Myanmar Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Jongwoo Chung, Booyuel Kim
This paper evaluates the impact of a rural community-driven development programme in Myanmar, which promoted village-level microfinance for income generation. Utilizing a three-round household survey consisting of 100 treatment and 50 comparison villages with approximately 8500 households per round, we employ difference-in-differences and two-stage least squares estimations. Our analysis shows three
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Perceptions of poverty: Evaluating Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool derived rankings and global development indicators in five African nations Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Fanny Minjauw, Md Rasheduzzaman, Philipp Baumgartner, Peter Dorward, Graham Clarkson, Alasdair Cohen
This study assessed an array of indicators for rural poverty assessments and evaluated use of the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) as a proxy for commonly used indicators, such as the Human Development Index, Gross National Income, Global Hunger Index, and the Gender Inequality Index. MPAT data from 5322 rural households across five countries in Africa were analyzed. While MPAT aligned
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A comparative economic analysis of industrial fisheries targeting small pelagic fish in Mauritanian waters: Free license versus charter regime Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Abou Ciré Ball, Elimane Abou Kane, Patrice Brehmer
Industrial fisheries targeting small pelagic fish have significant socio-economic implications for North West African countries. This study examines the economic performance of fleets operating in Mauritania's exclusive economic zone under the free license and chartering systems. Using national production data from 1989 to 2010 and economic indicator ratios from European pelagic fishing vessels, we
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Social sustainability, poverty and income: An empirical exploration Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jose Cuesta, Lucia Madrigal, Natalia Pecorari
Social sustainability is poorly understood and vaguely defined, despite growing appreciation for its relevance as a concept. This article advances our empirical understanding of social sustainability by constructing a global database of 71 indicators across 193 countries and 37 territories between 2016 and 2020. Indicators are flexibly clustered around four dimensions—social inclusion, resilience,
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The role of multi-stakeholder initiatives in advancing circularity and social sustainability in the textiles sector of Bangladesh Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Arif Mostafa Khan, Meine Pieter van Dijk
The global north is garnering multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) for circular textiles. Past MSIs however have yielded less-than-satisfactory social sustainability outcomes in Bangladesh. So this article asks, what impact has textiles MSIs have had on the sustainability transformation of the textiles chain in Bangladesh? And how can policymakers accelerate this transition to a circular economy? Fieldwork
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Rethinking social assistance amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Guaranteeing the right to income security in Ecuador Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 H. Xavier Jara, María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña
In the face of increased uncertainty and a slow economic recovery, it is crucial to protect populations from the effects of systemic crises beyond the narrow goal of poverty reduction. In Ecuador, social assistance programs had little effect in reducing earnings losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a renewed discussion on the implementation of a universal basic income (UBI). This study
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From expanding financial services to tackling poverty in West African Economic and Monetary Union: The accelerating role of mobile money Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Melain Modeste Senou, Denis Acclassato Houensou
This paper aims to assess the accelerating role of digital technology in fighting poverty through financial inclusion in the countries of West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Based on a sample of the adult population from the World Bank's Findex database, we estimate a recursive bivariate probit model that addresses endogeneity. The findings show that the regular usage of mobile money
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Trends, patterns and socioeconomic determinants of child and adolescent labour in India: Empirical analysis using national sample survey data Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Deepika Jajoria, Manoj Jatav, Rakesh Mishra
Indian official data points out a progressive decline in child labour during last three decades.Nevertheless, there are several gaps that need to be addressed for targed policy intervention. This paper highlights the key socioeconomic vulnerabilities among children in rural and urban India and also summarize the key focus areas to be prioritized. We posit that children's entry into the labour force
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Issue Information Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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Subjective expectations and schooling choices in Latin America and the Caribbean Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Marcelo Gantier, Rafael Novella, Andrea Repetto
Expectations about future labour market opportunities are essential for education and labour market decisions. This paper uses data from a survey of youths in seven Latin American and Caribbean countries to explore the role of expected returns to education on schooling decisions. We find substantial variation in subjective expectations partly explained by youths' socioeconomic characteristics. Also
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An analysis of the relationship between rental housing and adoption of self-generating energy sources in Brazil using matching methodology Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Maria Laura Victória Marques, Daniel de Abreu Pereira Uhr, Bruno Benevit, Júlia Gallego Ziero Uhr
We examine the effect of household tenure choice on adopting self-generation energy technologies in Brazil. We employ microdata from the Household Budget Survey (POF) dataset for 2017 and 2018 from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and matching methodology to evaluate various hypotheses regarding occupancy status, credit availability, purchasing power and life cycle theory
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Heterogeneous effects of violence on student achievement: Evidence from Colombia Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Hernando Grueso
In this paper, I study the causal relationship between violence and human capital accumulation. Due to a power vacuum left in conflict zones of Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement, large spikes in violence were reported in the municipalities of the country dominated by the rebel group FARC. I compare student test scores in municipalities that experienced the increase in violence to the ones that
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Untangling the nexus between marketization, crop diversity, farmers' wealth and nutrition: The case of Uzbekistan Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Lorena Lombardozzi
The effects of marketization on crop diversity and dietary diversity is very contested. Therefore, more empirical work is needed to unpack the multidimensional factors that underpin these processes. This article expands the analytical understanding of the linkages between these dimensions by looking at the case of Uzbekistan. First, it uses quantitative methods to assess the hypotheses that (a) wealth
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Entrepreneur characteristics and financing patterns in SMES of MENA countries: Overcoming the burdens of liability of newness Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Naima Lassoued, Imen Khanchel, Imen Fakhfakh, Mehdi Etteyeb
This study examines the impact of entrepreneur attributes on financing channels of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as the moderating role of firm age on this relationship. It examines a comprehensive dataset of 4139 firm-year observations operating in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region observed over the 2013–2019 period. The results are four-fold. First, our overall findings
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Empirical evidence on the relationship between migrants' remittances and private investment in Burkina Faso: A dynamic simultaneous equation model Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Abdoul Hadirou Yoda, Achille Augustin Diendere
This research explores the channels through which migrant remittances can promote private investment. The research method favours a dynamic simultaneous equation model estimated using a combination of the bootstrap method and the three-stage least squares estimator to account for the interdependence between remittances and private investment. The study area is Burkina Faso, and the period of analysis
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‘Happy’ activists: Non-governmental organization staff navigating the social movement/service provider divide in India Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Liz Mount
In the Global South, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) face criticism; staff employ strategies to mitigate it. What happens when NGO staff express different levels of awareness about such criticism? How are these differences shaped by whether staff identify themselves as ‘community’ members the NGO serves or ‘non-community’ members whose work serves the community? How do these identities impact
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Secular stagnation: Is immigration part of the solution? Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 José Alves, Sandro Morgado
We review the secular stagnation hypothesis, first postulated by Hansen in 1939, to describe the current macroeconomic dynamics faced by developed economies. We argue that these economies are experiencing secular stagnation and that demographic factors play a significant role in this macroeconomic environment. Using a panel data analysis covering the period 1965–2020 for 15 European Union economies
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Institutions and venture capital market development in sub-Saharan Africa Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Ebenezer Boateng, Peterson Owusu Junior, John G. Gatsi, Adam M. Anokye, Mac Junior Abeka, Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei
We investigate the critical interplay between economic institutions and political institutions and assess their influence on venture capital market development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To address endogeneity concern in our model specification, the two-step system generalised method of moments was employed on a sample of 34 SSA countries from 2007 to 2018. The findings reveal that strengthening
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Digital divides among microenterprises: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Damien Girollet
This paper investigates digital inequalities in usage within African informal sectors. In particular, we examine whether the uneven digital diffusion is embedded in pre-existing socio-economic inequalities. After identifying three segments of informal firms, we rely on multivariate and decomposition analyses to identify predictors of usage of digital technologies for business purposes and explain usage
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Does credit growth mitigate emission intensity in ASEAN countries? Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Abu Hanifa Md. Noman, Rulia Akhtar, Sonia Kumari A/P Selvarajan, Abdullah Al-Mamun
In empirical studies, the disparity between financial development and environmental quality has prompted us to examine the impact of credit growth on environmental quality in ASEAN countries. These countries have experienced phenomenal credit growth over the past three decades due to their adoption of financial liberalisation, integration and innovation. In this study, we investigated the role of credit
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Re-estimating the pollution haven–halo hypotheses for Brazil via a machine learning procedure Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Emmanuel Uche, Philip Chimobi Omoke, Charles Silva-Opuala, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan
In this study, we re-examined the pollution haven and halo hypotheses in Brazil for approximately five decades (1970–2019) while controlling for the effects of income, renewable energy and natural resource depletion. For clearer insights, the study employed both the conventional autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and the enhanced kernel regularized least squares (KRLS) techniques. Notably, the KRLS
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Impact of digital financial inclusion on the participation in farmer-based organisations, structured market and off-farm work in Ghana Journal of International Development (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Daniel Adu Ankrah, Bright Owusu Asante, Stephen Prah, Forster K. Boateng
This paper examines the impact of mobile money account ownership on farmers' participation in farmer-based organisations (FBOs), structured market and off-farm work. Relying on recursive bivariate probit model, our results reveal that owning a mobile money account increases the likelihood of farmers' participating in an FBO, structured market and off-farm work by 15.4%, 33.3% and 37.5%, respectively