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Social equity and care for the earth: tensions and synergies in Latin America Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Severine Deneulin
Pursuing greater social equity in balance with ecosystems is one of today’s greatest challenges. Little is known about the conditions which might facilitate these objectives finding synergy. The pu...
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Microfinance trials on trial Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Olga Biosca, Neil Craig, Cam Donaldson, Neil McHugh
Microfinance has attracted great attention, stimulated, initially, by its association with the award of the Nobel Prize for Peace, based on its transformative potential in addressing poverty. Howev...
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Are wars detrimental to the environment? Evidence from air pollution and land use Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Walid Marrouch, Nagham Sayour
This paper studies the long-run effect of war on environmental quality. Using data from the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset and the World Development Indicators, we apply a generalized difference-...
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Non-contributory social protection for adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a review of government programmes and impacts Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Cristina Cirillo, Tia Palermo, Francesca Viola
Poverty in early life can have lasting effects on health and human capital; social protection can counter these effects to promote the development of capabilities across the life course. This paper...
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Process evaluation of a disability-inclusive employment programme: examining the design and implementation of STAR+ Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Tanvir Shatil, Mark T. Carew, Soujannita Chowdhury, Dipika Biswas, Afsana Adiba, Lena Morgon Banks, Tom Shakespeare, Narayan Das
Little is known about what works to facilitate disability-inclusive employment. This study reports initial findings of a process evaluation of a disability-inclusive employment programme, STAR+, be...
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Social conflicts over the use of water resources in Chile: the role of social movements and business power Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Ignacio Schiappacasse, Patricio Segura, Joaquín Rozas
This paper explores conflicts in contemporary Chile between local communities and economic elites over water resources usage, developing a frameworkthat seeks to bridge the gap between the literatu...
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Slave trade, trust, and corruption Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Hans Czap, Kanybek Nur-Tegin
Theory predicts that societies with higher social capital have lower levels of government corruption. This hypothesis has been difficult to evaluate empirically because of widespread reliance on ag...
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Stories from the Global South: the interplay of climate science, ‘action’ and the implications for development Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Coleen Vogel, Nadia Shah Naidoo
Calls for humanity to act on environmental changes are becoming increasingly critical. The growing polycrisis including the impact of ongoing conflicts in contested geopolitical spaces and the stru...
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Inequality in environmental risk exposure and procedural justice in the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Ann Elizabeth Mitchell, Mariano Rabassa
Using a capabilities-based perspective on socioenvironmental justice, this paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the interconnection between social equity and care for the earth in the c...
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The AfCFTA and the entrepôt economy: a clash of free trade and political realities Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Michael Ehis Odijie
This article uses the case of Benin to explore the tension between the political realities of African countries and the objectives of the AfCFTA. For most of the country’s independence, Benin’s pol...
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Editorial Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jo Beall
Published in Oxford Development Studies (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2024)
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Estimating poverty among refugee populations: a cross-survey imputation exercise for Chad Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Theresa Beltramo, Hai-Anh Dang, Ibrahima Sarr, Paolo Verme
Household consumption surveys do not typically offer poverty estimates for refugees. We test the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample ...
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New views of structural transformation: insights from recent literature Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Douglas Gollin, Joseph P. Kaboski
This paper describes an emerging literature in economics that aims to merge macro issues of structural change and growth with micro data and analysis. This literature focuses on a set of related pa...
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Financial frictions, financial market development, and macroeconomic development Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Joseph P. Kaboski
This paper reviews the state of knowledge on the impact of financial frictions and financial underdevelopment on firms. The focus is on their aggregate and distributional consequences for the macro...
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Heterogeneous market participation channels and household welfare Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, Kofi Takyi Asante, Louis Sitsofe Hodey
This paper uses panel data and qualitative interviews from southwestern Ghana to analyse farmers’ heterogeneous oil palm marketing decisions and the effect on household welfare. We show that despit...
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Agricultural productivity and structural transformation: evidence and questions for African development Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Douglas Gollin
This paper summarizes key findings from the recent literature on agricultural productivity and structural transformation and then identifies priority areas for further research. The paper discusses...
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The role of labor market frictions in structural transformation* Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Kevin Donovan, Todd Schoellman
Growth is closely related to structural transformation, the reallocation of economic activity among sectors. A well-functioning labor market plays an important role in this process by enabling work...
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The Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Natalie Naïri Quinn, Simone Lombardini
In this paper we develop the Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment, an innovative measurement tool that reflects its subjects’ own perceptions of empowerment. Participatory measurement is a re...
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Political economy and structural transformation: democracy, regulation and public investment Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Monica Martinez-Bravo, Leonard Wantchekon
Technological progress is widely recognized as a fundamental driver of economic development and structural transformation. Nevertheless, substantial variations in productivity persist both within a...
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The role of micro data in understanding structural transformation Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 David Lagakos, Martin Shu
This paper reviews the use of micro-level data for research on structural transformation. We survey the literature on the topics of cross-country productivity gaps, within-country gaps, labor marke...
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Perspectives on trade and structural transformation Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 George Alessandria, Robert C. Johnson, Kei-Mu Yi
This paper surveys macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives on the role of international trade in structural transformation. We start by describing canonical frameworks that have been used to q...
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Early effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on children in north-western Bangladesh Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Momoe Makino, Abu S. Shonchoy, Zaki Wahhaj
Using data collected through a structured telephone-based survey in north-western Bangladesh during the height of the pandemic, we present evidence on the effects of household specific shocks on ru...
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Regional income inequality in Egypt: evolution and implications for Sustainable Development Goal 10 Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Francesco Savoia, Ioannis Bournakis, Mona Said, Antonio Savoia
Research on income inequality in developing economies has scarcely looked at the regional dimension. This is important, as progress in reducing income inequality at national level can only be parti...
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Military dictatorship and the provision of public goods Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 T M Tonmoy Islam, Shabana Mitra
ABSTRACT Non-democracies, particularly dictatorships, provide local public goods differently when compared to democracies. We use the Partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 to examine how similar ethnic groups living in similar agro-climatic conditions obtain substantially different configurations of public goods when exposed to different governance regimes. Our methodology draws upon the shifts
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The Sanjaya Lall Prize for 2022 Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-08
Published in Oxford Development Studies (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2023)
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Women in paid employment: a role for public policies and social norms in Guatemala Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Rita K. Almeida, Mariana Viollaz
ABSTRACT With only 32% of women in the labor market, Guatemala has one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation (FLFP) in the Latin America and Caribbean region and in the world. We explore information from different micro data sets, including the most recent population censuses (2002 and 2018) to assess the drivers of recent progress. Between 2002 and 2018, FLFP increased from an average
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Do short-term unconditional cash transfers change behaviour and preferences? evidence from Indonesia Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Ridho Al Izzati, Daniel Suryadarma, Asep Suryahadi
ABSTRACT Short-term unconditional cash transfers are used as a temporary mitigation strategy during adverse economic shocks. They can however, cause adverse unintended impacts on behaviour and preferences. We estimate the effect of receiving short-term unconditional cash transfers on behaviour, risk aversion, and intertemporal choice in Indonesia. The country first introduced the program in 2005 and
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Bracing for turmoil: temporalities of livelihood adaptation among informal workers in Facatativá, Colombia Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Reidar Staupe-Delgado, Luis Eduardo Díaz Villarreal
ABSTRACT This study considers temporal aspects of livelihood adaptation in times of turmoil by drawing on interviews with informal street vendors in Facatativá, Colombia. By engaging a ‘time stories’ perspective, this article aims to provide a better understanding of how livelihood responses to shocks emerge from (and are constrained by) individuals’ initial and changing assumptions about the continued
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The impact of Covid-19 on household poverty: examining impacts and resilience in a 40-year timeframe in rural Rajasthan (India) Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Anirudh Krishna, Tushar Agrawal
ABSTRACT To what extent has chronic poverty increased during the pandemic? In July and August 2021, we revisited seven villages of southern Rajasthan (India), where we had studied household poverty dynamics in 2002. We find that in the two decades before the pandemic (2002–2020), people’s structural positions improved vastly, chronic poverty fell from nearly half to less than 20% of households. These
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The interconnection with climate crisis and inequality in the future of urbanization Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Aromar Revi
Published in Oxford Development Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2023)
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Education as opportunity? The causal effect of education on labor market outcomes in Jordan Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Daniel Hicks, Huiqiong Duan
ABSTRACT This paper studies the impact of the 1988/1989 educational reform in Jordan which extended mandatory schooling from nine to ten years and restructured secondary schooling. Despite weakness in the Jordanian labor market, our estimates suggest that an additional year of required schooling in the late 1980s was sufficient to improve labor force participation, employment, and wages. These effects
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Fuel–food nexus in urban areas: evidence from Burkina Faso Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Zakaria Zoundi, Yuichiro Uchida
ABSTRACT This study examines the transmission of fuel prices to food security among households with motorcycles in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, combining quantitative and behavioural analyses. The results indicate that approximately 61.3% of households were affected by food insecurity between 2018 and 2019. This share comprises those experiencing meagre forms of food insecurity (24.8%), moderate food
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Cities, energy and the uncertain future of urban civilization Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 William E. Rees
Published in Oxford Development Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2023)
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Urbanising futures and sustainability: ODS sponsored plenary panel discussion, DSA 2022 Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Jo Beall
Published in Oxford Development Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2023)
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Women and plant entanglements: pulses commercialization and care relations in Punjab, Pakistan Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Muhammad A. Kavesh, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Rajendra Adhikari
ABSTRACT Commercialization of agriculture in patriarchal rural Pakistan has transformed women’s critical roles in pulses production and has re-organised the gendered division of labour in what used to be widely known as a ‘women’s crop’. Pulses are grown in the marginal and arid lands by small-holder farming families where women care for the crops as an extension of their other caring roles for the
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Using solicited audio-recorded diaries to explore the financial lives of low-income women in Kenya during COVID-19: perspectives, challenges, and lessons Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Lila Rabinovich
ABSTRACT Solicited diaries in audio, written and online forms are increasingly used in qualitative data collection. However, most studies using this approach are set in high-income, high-literacy country settings. This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges of this approach in a low-income, low-resource, low-literacy setting. We used solicited audio-recorded diaries to explore the financial
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Spread of corruption in Indonesia after decentralisation: a spatiotemporal analysis Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Zuhairan Yunmi Yunan, Ben Freyens, Yogi Vidyattama, Itismita Mohanty
ABSTRACT The end of the Suharto era in 1998 brought two prominent reforms to Indonesia: (i) a raft of anti-corruption policies and (ii) decentralisation of administrative and fiscal functions. District-level reported corruption swelled in following years and the role of decentralisation came under scrutiny, but data limitations prevented direct examination of a contributing role. This paper combines
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The impact of precolonial political centralisation on local development: Ghana’s paradox Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Mohammed Iddrisu Kambala
ABSTRACT I investigate the impact of precolonial political centralisation (PPC) on local development in Ghana. Accounting for the potential endogeneity associated with the emergence of political centralisation, I find that PPC has a strong negative impact on local development. Further, PPC does not significantly correlate with the provision of local public goods. These results are robust to a battery
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Under pressure: assessing the cost of forced solidarity in Côte d’Ivoire Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Louis Olié
ABSTRACT Despite the extensive literature on forced solidarity – especially its substantial disincentive effects – some fundamental questions remain unanswered. How many households face pressure to share in a given country? How much does it cost to satisfy it? Which income group is the most impacted? What are the correlates of complying with strong sharing norms? This paper provides a novel measure
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Rural Classes and Credit Participation: The Itasy Livelihood Classes (Madagascar) Between Risk-aversion and Debt Capacity Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Tsiry Andrianampiarivo, Claire Gondard-Delcroix
ABSTRACT While technical and economic factors are traditionally advanced to explain the failures of microfinance, a growing literature explores how moral factors and socioeconomic norms help to shape financial behaviors. In order to examine this issue in more depth, we conducted an empirical analysis of the links between socioeconomic stratification and financial behaviors. This original perspective
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When coping strategies become a way of life: a gendered analysis of Syrian refugees in Lebanon Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Saja Al Zoubi
ABSTRACT Using a field survey in informal Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon, this paper analyses refugee coping strategies and demonstrates how severe strategies become a way of life. It addresses how each refugee’s strategic choices are determined by an environment that is conceptualized via four dimensions of displacement: the civil host community, national and international policy, and humanitarian
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Is rural household debt sustainable in a financially included region? Evidence from three districts of Kerala, India Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Remya Tressa Jacob, Rudra Sensarma, Gopakumaran Nair
ABSTRACT This paper explores whether institutional change brought about by financial inclusion results in sustainable debt management by households. We analyze household indebtedness and its various dimensions using primary data collected from 600 households across 3 districts of rural Kerala in India. We find that more than half of the sample households are indebted. Using flow and stock analysis
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Migrant remittances and consumption expenditure under rain-fed agricultural income: micro-level evidence from Ghana Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Eric Akobeng
ABSTRACT Using a repeated cross-section data set from Ghana for 1991/1992, 1998/1999, 2005/2006, 2012/2013 and 2016/17, and a Two-Stage Least Squares estimator, this paper investigates the effect of agricultural income on remittances and consumption expenditure. It is found that households in Ghana use remittances to protect themselves from decline in agricultural income due to rainfall failure. The
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The association between terrorist attacks and mental health: evidence from Nigeria Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Joseph B. Ajefu, Soazic Elise Wang Sonne
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between the Boko Haram conflict in Northeast Nigeria and the mental health of heads of households. The information on depressive symptoms (as a proxy for mental health) of household heads was collected using the Centre of Epidemiological Studies Short Depression Scale (CESD-10). The information on household coordinates provided in the 2015 wave of the Nigerian
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Twenty years of BRICS: political and economic transformations through the lens of land Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Mihika Chatterjee, Ikuno Naka
(2022). Twenty years of BRICS: political and economic transformations through the lens of land. Oxford Development Studies: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 2-13.
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The grower-trader relationship: experiments with coffee value chain actors in Uganda Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Alexandra Peralta, Robert Shupp, Cansin Arslan
ABSTRACT In this study, we explore the nature of the relationship between smallholder growers and local traders in the coffee value chain in Eastern Uganda. Analysing the results of two lab-in-the-field experiments (trust and dictator games), we highlight the complex relationship between these two value chain actors. We develop three competing hypotheses: (1) coffee growers will send more to fellow
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Investigating project sustainability: technology as a development object in a community-based project in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Katarzyna Cieslik, Art Dewulf, J. Marc Foggin
ABSTRACT The imperative of project sustainability has become explicit policy within development. This is especially true for technology transfer: ‘development objects’ are to be used by prospective beneficiaries long after the project’s closure. We argue that the link between project sustainability, technology and ‘success’ requires deeper scrutiny. We investigate a community-based project in Naryn
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Criminality and socioeconomic disadvantage: a spatial analysis throughout Brazilian municipalities Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Augusta Raiher
ABSTRACT This study uses situational action theory (SAT) to analyse the effects of socioeconomic disadvantages on criminality rates (namely, robbery) in Brazilian municipalities. To achieve this objective, the variation of robberies per thousand inhabitants was used as a proxy for criminality, estimating its determinants using a spatial panel data set. As a result, we identified social disadvantage
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Aye for the tiger: hegemony, authority, and volition in India’s regime of dispossession for conservation Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-16 Asmita Kabra, Budhaditya Das
ABSTRACT Dispossession of rural populations to create inviolate Protected Areas for biodiversity conservation is a shared concern in BRICS countries. This article explores the distinctive ideology, institutions, and actors that constitute the regime of dispossession for conservation (DfC) in India’s tiger reserves. It investigates the reasons for the regime’s continued stability and resilience in the
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Pareto efficiency in intrahousehold allocations: evidence from rice farming households in India Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Monica Shandal, Sandeep Mohapatra, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil
ABSTRACT Intrahousehold models assume that plots farmed by women are as productive as plots farmed by men within the same household. Using a large plot-level dataset on rice farming households in India, we find evidence of significant Pareto inefficiency: women’s plots produce lower yields compared to their spouse’s plots, conditional on crop, plot and other attributes. The inefficiency is larger in
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The politics of masculinity in the absence of work Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Raka Ray
ABSTRACT This paper is an attempt to draw attention to subaltern men – to the costs they are paying in a new global economy, and to the costs that society may well pay for misrecognizing those costs. With a specific focus on India, it highlights the creation of the powerful relationship of masculinity to breadwinning, the range of individual and collective responses to the loss of the ability to be
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Does disability increase the risk of poverty ‘in all its forms’? Comparing monetary and multidimensional poverty in Vietnam and Nepal Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Lena Morgon Banks, Monica Pinilla-Roncancio, Matthew Walsham, Hoang Van Minh, Shailes Neupane, Vu Quynh Mai, Saurav Neupane, Karl Blanchet, Hannah Kuper
ABSTRACT To meet the Sustainable Development Goals target of ending poverty “in all its forms”, it is critical to monitor progress towards poverty alleviation, including amongst people with disabilities. This research used data from a population-based nested case control studies (n=667) and compares monetary and multidimensional poverty levels amongst people with and without disabilities in the districts
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Input subsidy effects on crops grown by smallholder farm women: The example of cowpea in Mali Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-05 M. Smale, V. Thériault
ABSTRACT We examine the effects of fertilizer subsidies in Mali on the non-staple crop cowpea, often described as a women’s legume crop. We utilize a 2017/2018 dataset including both men and women plot managers in 2400 households. We find that women manage cowpea plots, as a primary and a secondary crop, less frequently relative to men. Yet, women also labor on male-managed fields where cowpea is grown
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Digitising microfinance: on the route to losing the traditional ‘human face’ of microfinance institutions Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Juliana Siwale, Cécile Godfroid
ABSTRACT Digitising how financial services are accessed in the microfinance industry is considered a magical pathway to increasing financial inclusion. This paper argues that beyond the numerous advantages digitisation is supposed to bring, it may also hinder financial inclusion if it completely replaces the loan officer-client relationship that has been a hallmark of microfinance. Based on questionnaires
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Re-thinking ‘harm’ in relation to children’s work: a ‘situated,’ multi-disciplinary perspective Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Roy Maconachie, Neil Howard, Rosilin Bock
ABSTRACT The UN calls for the elimination of child labour by 2030, and its ‘worst forms’ by 2025. Implicit in this mandate is the assumption that children’s work is harmful, yet no coherent theory of harm exists within the child labour field. Moreover, evidence suggests that simply removing children from supposedly harmful work is often damaging. This paper explores how harm may be understood and identified
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Access and fees in public health care services for the poor: Bangladesh as a case study Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Wahid Abdallah, Shyamal Chowdhury, Kazi Iqbal
ABSTRACT The redistributive objective of public services critically hinges on the extent to which the poor can avail themselves of such services. We investigate two factors that can compromise redistribution: unequal access and illegal fees. Using a nationally representative survey (a data source less prone to reporting bias), we find that poor patients in Bangladesh are 8–10% less likely to consult
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Movement allies: towards an analytical re-classification of civil rights groups in India Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Ankita Pandey
ABSTRACT In this paper, I propose a different classificatory lens to analyse the collective action of civil rights groups in India. To date, this collective action has been variously classified as ‘non-party groups,’ ‘macro initiatives’ for grassroots groups, ‘action groups or support groups,’ as part of an emergent new left citizen’s initiatives, but mostly as a ‘social movement’ or ‘human rights
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Household access to water and education for girls: The case of villages in hilly and mountainous areas of Nepal Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-29 Ram Prasad Dhital, Takahiro Ito, Shinji Kaneko, Satoru Komatsu, Yuichiro Yoshida
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of household water accessibility on children’s educational attainment in villages situated in the remote hilly and mountainous areas of Nepal. Educational attainment was measured based on school attendance, grade repetition, and completion of primary and lower-secondary schooling. The estimation results show that a one-hour increase in the time spent on a water-fetching
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Kaingang indigenous, family farmers and soy in southern Brazil: new old conflicts over land Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Daniele Barbosa, Edmundo Oderich, Angela Camana
ABSTRACT Over the past two decades, the expansion of agriculture in Brazil, along with indigenous peoples’ growing claims for land, has increased the tension between indigenous groups and farmers. This paper addresses the dispute for land between Kaingangs and family farmers in southern Brazil, aiming to reveal tensions, disagreements and coalitions – that is, the frictions – demonstrated by these
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Disability in Uganda: a medical intervention to measure gendered impacts on functional independence and labour-market outcomes Oxford Development Studies (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Aisha Abubakar, Sarah Bridges, Alessio Gaggero, Trudy Owens
ABSTRACT Using data from an orthotic intervention in Kampala, Uganda, this paper estimates the health and economic impacts of providing orthotic equipment to adults with lower limb disabilities. We examine changes to: (i) functional mobility and (ii) labour market outcomes, including type of employment and monthly earnings. One year after the intervention, the effects are noticeably gendered; men exhibit