Journal of Development Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Development Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Economic Benefits of Empowering Women in Agriculture: Assumptions and Evidence49
What Drives Female Labour Force Participation? Comparable Micro-level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies44
The Rhetoric and Reality of Localisation: Refugee-Led Organisations in Humanitarian Governance42
Remittance Inflows and Export Complexity: New Evidence from Developing and Emerging Countries41
Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap38
Smallholder Farmers’ Dissatisfaction with Contract Schemes in Spite of Economic Benefits: Issues of Mistrust and Lack of Transparency30
How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and Intra-gender Gaps30
Digitally Down to the Countryside: Fintech and Rural Development in China26
Theoretical Underpinnings and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Cash Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries25
Somewhere in between Towns, Markets and Jobs – Agricultural Intensification in the Rural–Urban Interface24
Aspirations, Poverty, and Education. Evidence from India24
Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions: Rural (Peri-urban to Hinterland) vs. Urban23
The Gender-Differential Effect of Financial Inclusion on Household Financial Resilience20
Building a Social Contract? Understanding Tax Morale in Nigeria20
Ethnic Diversity and Food Insecurity: Evidence from Ghana19
Does Agricultural Commercialisation Increase Asset and Livestock Accumulation on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia?19
Quality of Sub-national Government and Regional Development in Africa17
Landscapes of opportunity: patterns of young people’s engagement with the rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa17
Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion, and Unmet Opportunities: Evidence from Uganda15
International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among Donors, NGOs, and Academics15
Mental Health Impacts of Child Labour: Evidence from Vietnam and India15
Confronting the Wall of Patriarchy: Does Participatory Intrahousehold Decision Making Empower Women in Agricultural Households?15
Rural Youth Inclusion, Empowerment, and Participation14
The Mitigating Impact of Land Tenure Security on Drought-Induced Food Insecurity: Evidence from Rural Malawi14
The Learning Trap in Late Industrialisation: Local Firms and Capability Building in Ethiopia’s Apparel Export Industry14
Herbicide Induced Hunger? Conservation Agriculture, Ganyu Labour and Rural Poverty in Central Malawi14
Economic Viability of Large-scale Irrigation Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa: What if Mwea Irrigation Scheme Were Constructed as a Brand-new Scheme?13
Evaluating Program Impact on Resilience: Evidence from Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme13
Regional Labour Informality in Colombia and a Proposal for a Differential Minimum Wage12
Transparent for Whom? Dissemination of Information on Ghana’s Petroleum and Mining Revenue Management12
Continuity and Change: Performing Gender in Rural Tanzania12
Factor Market Activity and the Inverse Farm Size-Productivity Relationship in Tanzania12
Effects of Credit ‘Plus’ on Poverty Reduction in Ghana12
The Impact of Academic Freedom on Democracy in Africa12
Does the Internet Reduce Gender Gaps? The Case of Jordan12
Intellectual Property Rights and Agricultural Development: Evidence from a Worldwide Index of IPRs in Agriculture (1961-2018)11
Knowing Versus Doing: Protective Health Behaviour Against COVID-19 in Aceh, Indonesia11
A New Green Revolution (GR) or Neoliberal Entrenchment in Agri-food Systems? Exploring Narratives Around Digital Agriculture (DA), Food Systems, and Development in Sub-Sahara Africa11
The Chinese are Here: Import Penetration and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa11
The Labour Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador10
Child Labour, Gender and Vulnerable Employment in Adulthood. Evidence for Tanzania10
Informality and Firm Performance in Myanmar10
Dynamics and Determinants of Participation in Integrated Aquaculture–Agriculture Value Chain: Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis of Indigenous Smallholders in Bangladesh10
Unemployment and Household Spending in Rural and Urban India: Evidence from Panel Data10
The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam10
Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Export Sophistication: Evidence from Chinese Domestic Manufacturing Firms10
Taxing Informality: Compliance and Policy Preferences in Urban Zambia9
Refugee-Host Proximity and Market Creation in Uganda9
Gender and Productivity Differentials in Smallholder Groundnut Farming in Malawi: Accounting for Technology Differences9
Population Ethics and the Prospects for Fertility Policy as Climate Mitigation Policy9
Microfinance and Small Business Development in a Transitional Economy: Insights from Borrowers’ Relations with Microfinance Organisations in Kazakhstan9
Rural Youth Welfare along the Rural-urban Gradient: An Empirical Analysis across the Developing World9
Building Resilience through Social Protection: Evidence from Malawi9
The Effects of Domestic and International Remittances on Food Insecurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries9
Intra-household Efficiency in Extended Family Households: Evidence from Rural India8
Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition: A Framework Linking Food, Health and Institutions8
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Level, Inequality, Progress, and Impact on Productivity and Efficiency8
A Decolonial Approach to Innovation? Building Paths Towards Buen Vivir8
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use, and Learning Loss during COVID-198
Who is Likely to Benefit from Public and Private Sector Investments in Farmer-led Irrigation Development? Evidence from Ethiopia8
Polygynous Family Structure and Child Undernutrition in Nigeria7
Youth Inclusion in Rural Transformation7
Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China’s Rural-urban Migrant Households7
Structural Transformation and Gendered Transitions to Adulthood among Rural Youth: Cross-National Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries7
Social Capital Encourages Disaster Evacuation: Evidence from a Cyclone in Bangladesh7
Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India’s Informal Sector Firms7
Four Decades of Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa7
The Party-Police Nexus in Bangladesh7
Global Governance Meets Local Land Tenure: International Codes of Conduct for Responsible Land Investments in Uganda7
Technological Catch-up to the National and Regional Frontier: Firm-level Evidence for India7
Understanding Difference to Build Bridges among Stakeholders: Perceptions of Participation in Four Multi-stakeholder Forums in the Peruvian Amazon6
The Anxious and the Climbers: Ambivalent Attitudes towards Democracy among South Africa’s Middle Class6
Caste Discrimination in Provision of Public Schools in Rural India6
Partners or Rivals? Exploring the Relationship between Men’s and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh6
Servicification of Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Upgrading of Local Suppliers of Embedded Services in the South African Market for Wind Turbines6
The Effects of Chinese Imports on Female Workers in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector6
Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico before and after the Drug War Onset6
Unravelling the Linkage between Food Security, Poverty Reduction, and Education for Sustainable Development6
Conditioning Factors for Re-election and Incumbency Advantage after a Natural Disaster: Evidence from a Large-scale Earthquake6
Lasting Impact of Early Life Interventions: Evidence from India’s Integrated Child Development Services6
Does Export Experience Improve Firms’ Productivity? Evidence from Indonesia6
Informal Short-term Borrowings and Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance in a Credit Crunch: Evidence from Vietnam6
Raising Aspirations of Boys and Girls through Role Models: Evidence from a Field Experiment6
Spatial Internet Spillovers in Manufacturing6
Electric Pumps, Groundwater, Agriculture and Water Buyers: Evidence from West Bengal6
Young Lives, Interrupted: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries6
Poverty Trap or Means to Escape Poverty? Empirical Evidence on the Role of Environmental Income in Rural Nepal6
Evaluating Water- and Health-related Development Projects: A Cross-project and Micro-based Approach5
Optimism Bias and World Bank Project Performance5
Just a Piece of Paper? Domestic Standards Certification and Small Firm Growth in Viet Nam5
What Sustains Informality? A Study of the Interactions between Formal and Informal Sector Firms5
High Reliability Knowledge Networks: Responding to Animal Diseases in a Pastoral Area of Northern Kenya5
A Decade Since Busan: Towards Legitimacy or a ‘New Tyranny’ of Global Development Partnership?5
Relationality and Economic Empowerment: The Role of Men in Supporting and Undermining Women’s Pathways5
Ethnic Diversity and Informal Work in Ghana5
Diversification is in the Detail: Accounting for Crop System Heterogeneity to Inform Diversification Policies in Malawi and Zambia5
Recovery for Development: A Multi-Dimensional, Practice-Oriented Framework for Transformative Change Post-Disaster5
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?5
Which Wheel Gets the Grease? Constituent Agency and Sub-national World Bank Aid Allocation5
State Engagement with Farmer-led Irrigation Development: Symbolic Irrigation Modernisation and Disturbed Development Trajectories in Tanzania5
Human Development by Gender and National Culture: A Comparative Analysis5
Women’s Inheritance Rights and Child Health Outcomes in India5
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
School Quality and Peer Effects: Explaining Differences in Academic Performance between China’s Migrant and Rural Students5
The Impact of Better Access to Improved Water Sources on Health, Schooling, and Water Collection of Girls and Boys in Rural Zambia5
Disability and Job Constraint in Post Civil War Cambodia4
Risk Aversion and Gender Gaps in Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia4
Stimulating Innovations for Sustainable Agricultural Practices among Smallholder Farmers: Persistence of Intervention Matters4
Political Connections Reduce Job Creation: Firm-level Evidence from Lebanon4
Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip4
Efficiency and Status in Polygynous Pastoralist Households4
Structural Change and Welfare: A Micro Panel Data Evidence from Ghana4
Aid for Trade and Trade in Services4
Health Consequences of Patriarchal Kinship System for the Elderly: Evidence from India4
Intervening in Cash Crop Value Chains for Improved Nutrition: Evidence from Rural Sierra Leone4
Tensions between Formal and Informal Water Providers: Receptivity toward Mechanised Boreholes in the Sunyani West District, Ghana4
Trust to Pay? Tax Morale and Trust in Africa4
Hunger and Health: Reexamining the Impact of Household Food Insecurity on Child Malnutrition in India4
The Role of Social Capital in Risk-Taking Decisions under Joint Liability Lending4
Addressing Declining Female Labor Force Participation in India: Does Political Empowerment Make a Difference?4
The Effect of Labour-Demand Shocks on Women’s Participation in the Labor Force: Evidence from Palestine4
Aid and Local Growth in Malawi4
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data4
Climate Finance Coordination From the Global to the Local: Norm Localization and the Politics of Climate Finance Coordination in Zambia4
The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance: Evidence from a Rural Microcredit Programme in Bolivia4
Unintended Spillovers of Targeted Health Insurance on Intra-household Resource Allocations3
The Good Life in the Face of Climate Change: Understanding Complexities of a Well-being Framework through the Experience of Pastoral Women3
Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation Revisited: Stagnating Food Production, Systematic Overestimation, and a Flawed Performance Contract System3
Mobilising Private Funding of Development Finance3
Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from Across Sub-Saharan Africa3
Hiding or Pleasing: Spousal Disagreement Among Ugandan Maize Farmers3
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?3
Who’s your Neighbour? Social Influences on Domestic Violence3
Weather Shocks, Coping Strategies and Household Well-being: Evidence from Rural Mauritania3
Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health in India3
Partnerships for Universal Health Coverage in Myanmar: Power and Politics within ‘Immunisation Encounters’ in Kayah State and Kayin State3
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan3
Linguistic Fragmentation at the Micro-Level: Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s) in a Multilinguistic Society3
Reflecting on an Integrated Approach to Understanding Pathways for Socially Inclusive Agricultural Intensification3
Agricultural Production Diversity and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Myanmar3
Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka3
Latin American Brotherhood? Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution3
Smallholders’ Personal Networks in Access to Agricultural Markets: A Case of African Leafy Vegetables Commercialisation in Kenya3
Can a Multipronged Strategy of “Soft” Interventions Surmount Structural Barriers for Financial Inclusion? Evidence From the Unbanked in Papua New Guinea3
Women’s Higher Education, Assortative Mating, and Empowerment: Long-Term Evidence from College Enrollment Expansion in South Korea3
Oil Palm Contract Farming in Brazil: Labour Constraints and Inclusivity Challenges3
Weak Street-level Enforcement of Tax Laws: The Role of Tax Collectors’ Persistent but Broken Public Service Expectations3
Anglo-Chinese Capitalism in Hong Kong and Singapore: Origins, Reproduction & Divergence3
Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi3
The Health Cost of Autocratization3
He Has Gone to a Better Place, but She Has Not: Health Status of Hindu Widows in India3
Foreign Direct Investment, Product Sophistication, and the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor in Chilean Manufacturing3
The Toxification of Population Discourse. A Genealogical Study3
Echo Effects of Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal and Early-Life Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China3
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC3
Does it (Re)pay to be Female? Considering Gender in Microfinance Loan Officer-Client Pairs3
Encouraging Community Action Against Teacher Absenteeism: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda3
Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anaemia: Evidence from India3
Incorporating Aspects of Institutionalist Theory into GPN Analysis: The Case of Brazilian Oil3
The Unintended Side-Effects of a Major Development Strategy: Commercialization of Smallholder Production and Women Empowerment in Uganda3
Do Anti-Corruption Messages Improve Public Service Delivery? Insights from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Burundi3
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Poverty: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Mexico3
The International Political Economy of the Middle-income Trap3
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