Journal of Development Studies

Article	Citations
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis	29
Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana	24
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime	22
Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research	21
Being Dead Otherwise	19
Improving Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Do Women Policymakers Matter?	19
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company	19
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes: Gender-Differentiated Evidence from Cameroon	18
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?	17
The Paradox of Seclusion: Regional Differences in Female Employment and Wages in Urban India	17
Ex-Post Evaluations of Aid Projects: A Cost-Effective Approach	17
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism	16
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review	16
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Development: A Grid Cell Analysis	15
An Actor-Based Perspective On Informal Cross-Border Trading	15
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai	14
Education Empowers Residential Energy Transition: Causal Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reform in China	14
Does Regional Favoritism Affect Public Investment Budget Allocation? Evidence from Cameroon in the Context of Decentralization	13
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway	13
Determinants of Sustainability of Informal Community-Based Financial Groups: Insights from a Survival Analysis Approach	13
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought	12
Shortfall of Domestic Resources to Eradicate Extreme Poverty by 2030	11
From Temporary Migration to Urban Settlement: Children’s Co-Migration and Long-Term Residence in China	11
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry since 1947	11
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC	10

Renqing Consumption in the Digital Era: Evidence from China	10
Fiscal Reaction Functions Augmented with Bespoke Debt Indicators: Evidence from Small Island States	10
Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India	10
Child Work in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Differences and Similarities Between Income-Generating and Care and Domestic Work	10
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia	10
To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide	10
Decentralization and Criminal Gangs in El Salvador: Impacts on Municipal Finances and Local Economic Development	10
Left in the Dust: Infrastructural Violence of a Railway Project Through Pastoral Rangelands in Kenya	10
Free Education in Childhood and Health Benefits in Adulthood: Evidence from China	10
Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia	10
Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico	9
The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia	9
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century	9
Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath	9
In Memoriam: Professor Michael Lipton	9
Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition	9
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia	9
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine	9
Do Youth Work in Agriculture? Short-Term Dynamics of on-Farm Rural Youth Employment in Tanzania and Malawi	8
Can Risk Perception Alter Son Preference? Evidence from Gender-Imbalanced Rural China	8
Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability During a Growth Episode. Evidence from Bangladesh: 2000–2016	8
Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India	8
Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria	8
COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance	8
What We Can Learn When Impacts Fail to Replicate: Lessons From an Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Tanzania	8
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development	8
Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia	8
Mobilizing Teachers: Education Politics and the New Labor Movement in Latin America	8
The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East By James Shires London :	7
Trans-Sector Livelihood Resilience in an Urban Small-Scale Fishing Community	7
Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh	7
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa	7
Natural Disasters and Economic Resilience in Caribbean	7
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability	7
Infrastructure-Driven Development: The Local Social Impact of a Large Hydropower Plant in the Amazon	7
Hydropower Hegemony: Examining Civil Society Opposition to Dams in Cambodia	7
One-Minute Earthquake, Years of Patience: Evidence from Mexico on the Effect of Earthquake Exposure on Time Preference	7
Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics	7
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire	7
Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Kyrgyzstan	7
Understanding Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Collaborative Governance Challenges in Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) Jurisdictional Approach	7
Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India	7
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century	6
Starting a Non-Farm Enterprise to Escape Energy Poverty: Household Level Evidence from Rural West Africa	6
The Economic Sociology of Development	6
Why Should we Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation	6
Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World	6
Saving Transition in Asia	6
Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation	6
Motherly Care: The Impacts of Exiting a Childcare Program on Child and Maternal Health	6

Inequality and Economic Growth: The Effect of Urban-Rural Roads Construction in China	6
Reaching SDG 7: Shedding a Light on the Causal Effect of Mini-Grids on Rural Electrification	6
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data	6
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa	6
International Standards and Export Performance: Evidence from Pakistani Firms	6
The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics By Min-Hua Ch	6
Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda	6
Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development	6
Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities	6
Determinants of Private Tutoring Demand in Rural India	6
Externally Funded Civil Society in Nationally Owned Development. Rwandan and Cambodian CSO-Experiences Illustrating yet a Clash of Ideals	6
The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey	6
Global Value Chains in Agriculture and the Middle-income Trap: A Framework for Analysis Applied to Peru’s Boom	6
In Good Times and in Bad, in Sickness and in Health: The Continuous Rise in Adoption of Labour-Saving Agricultural Technologies in Myanmar	6
Being Well-in with the Joneses? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Conspicuous Consumption among Rural Communities	6
Free Senior High School Policy, Household Income, and Secondary School Enrollment in Ghana	5
Lithium Boom and Local Inequalities	5
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria	5
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda	5
A Different Difference: Nationality, Class, and the Complexities of Localisation at an Indian NGO	5
Shifting the Balance: Examining the Impact of Local Labor Market Opportunities on Female Household Bargaining Power in India	5
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India	5
Doubling Down on Debt: Crisis Restructuring and Portfolio Risk in Cambodian Microfinance	5
Climate-Induced Agricultural Productivity Shocks Undermine Child Nutritional Outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria	5
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire	5
The Impact of COVID-19 Cash Transfer Program on Food Security in Cambodia	5
The Role of Gender Inequality in the Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study from India	5
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Remittances and Intra-household Gender Disparity in Education Attainment: Evidence from Pakistan	5
A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela	5
The IMF, Structural Adjustment, and Poverty: A Cross-National Difference-in-Differences Analysis, 1980-2019	5
Valuing Children: Parents’ Perceptions, Spending Priorities and Children’s Capabilities	5
The National Childcare Agenda in Cambodia: A Feminist Transformative Ethics of Care Perspective	5
China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets	4
Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–2017	4
Re-Thinking Recipient Agency in South-South Cooperation: Strategies of Contestation, Strategies of Transformation and the South’s Own View of Development	4
Chiefly Patronage and Schooling	4
The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania	4
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali	4
Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity	4
Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus	4
The Impact of Social Insurance Reform on Skill Composition and Worker Turnover: Evidence from Ethiopia	4
Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi	4
MFIs and Financial Inclusion: The Role of Business Models	4
Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts	4
Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India	4
More Than Money: The Critical Role of Management in Educational Aid Effectiveness in Africa	4
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy	4
Mother’s Education and Child Nutrition: Evidence of Intergenerational Effect from a School Cycle Program, India	4
Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity	4
The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resources: Evidence from Ghana	4
Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Long	4
Impact of Weather Shocks on Food Security: How Effective are Forests as Natural Insurance?	4
The Surburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam	4
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China	4
The Violence of Law: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda	4
How Vulnerable are the Self-Employed? Evidence from Ugandan Small-Scale Entrepreneurs	4
Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India	3
Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness	3
Reforming of Women’s Litigant Rights and Child Wellbeing: Evidence from Nigeria	3
Premature Deindustrialisation and Income Inequality Dynamics: Evidence from Middle-Income Economies	3
List of Referees 2025	3
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi	3
Bleeding at the Margins: Understanding Period Poverty among SC and ST Women Using Decomposition Analysis	3
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders	3
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance	3
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty	3
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana	3
Impacts of Climate Change on Loan Performance: Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies for Rural Households and Lenders	3
Fiscal Consolidation and Firm Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data	3
Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform	3
Large Grant-Funded Research Centres and Concept Generation in Development Research	3
Understanding Farmer Preferences to Guide Crop Improvement: The Case of Grasspea in Ethiopia	3
The Impact of Input Trade Liberalization on the Entry of Foreign Firms: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China	3
Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa	3
Grandparenthood Penalty in Agriculture: Grandchild Caregiving and Farm Performance	3
Effects of Government Jobs on the Labour Market in Bangladesh	3
Effect of Gender Focused Program on the Educational Attainment of Adolescent Girls in India	3
Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries	3
Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia	3

Targeting Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel	3
Enhancing Women’s Income and Household Nutrition Through Training in Small-Scale Fisheries Value Chains in Sub-Sahara Africa	3
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?	3
What Are the Economic and Poverty Implications for Sudan If the Conflict Continues Through 2025?	3
African Military Politics in the Sahel: Regional Organizations and International Politics	3
Local Recruits in Development Finance Institutions: Relocating Global North-South Divides in the International Aid Industry	3
Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector	3
Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics	3
Changing Effects of Birth Order on Education Over Time: Evidence From Cambodia	3
The Short-Term Labour Market Impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru	3
The Patron and the Orchestrator: Imperfect Institutions and the Dual Influence of the State on Corporate R&D Investments	3
The Tax Elasticity of Formal Work in Sub-Saharan African Countries	3
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique	3
Does Taxation Improve Electoral Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa?	3
Be Happy, Be Loyal? Exploring Drivers for Renewal of Mobile-Delivered Index Insurance	3
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda	3
Private Investment in Education: Household Response to a Policy Change in English as a Second Language	2
Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires	2
Recovery for Development: A Multi-Dimensional, Practice-Oriented Framework for Transformative Change Post-Disaster	2
The Myth and Reality of Teacher Shortage in India	2
Beyond the Formal-Informal Dichotomy: Towards Accommodating Diverse Milk-Collection Practices in the Economic Middle of Kenya’s Dairy Sector	2
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria	2
Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist and Communal Violence since 1945	2
Can Farmer Collectives Empower Women and Improve Their Welfare? Mixed Methods Evidence from India	2
Electronic Services and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Medium and Small Businesses in Burkina Faso	2
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi	2
Reforming Gender Laws: The Economic Impact for Women in Saudi Arabia	2
Power and Informality in Urban Africa, Ethnographic Perspectives	2
Remaindered Life	2
Children Are the Riches of the Poor: The Possibility of Transgenerational Impacts of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) Campaign	2
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program	2
Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi	2
Livelihood Buffer Effect of Agriculture: Evidence from China’s Farm Household Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector	2
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy	2
The Impact of Early Marriage on the Life Satisfaction, Education and Subjective Health of Young Women in India: A Longitudinal Analysis	2
Using the Participation Cube to Conduct Participation Analysis of Development Projects in Zambia and Uganda	2
Habsburgs On the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire	2
The Fight Against Malaria: A New Index for Quantifying and Assessing Policy Implementation Actions to Reduce Malaria Burden in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
The Impact of Road Development on Household Welfare in Rural Papua New Guinea	2
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence	2
Technology Heterogeneity and Poverty Traps: A Latent Class Approach to Technology Gap Drivers of Chronic Poverty	2
Educational Inequality and the Poverty Trap in Teacher Recruitment	2
COVID-19 and Sub-Saharan Africa Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies	2
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India	2
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty	2
Death Is Our Business; Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare	2
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing	2
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use, and Learning Loss during COVID-19	2
Visible Consumption, Income Inequality and Social Comparisons. Evidence from Four Latin American Countries	2
To Reform and to Procure: An Analysis of the Role of the State and the Market in Indian Agriculture	2
Education Choices and the Gender Gap in Labour Market Outcomes: The Role of STEM in India	2
Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique	2
Can Prosperity be Purchased? An Analysis of Local Development as a Dynamic Community-Based Process in Iran	2
Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance	2
Double Bind: Financial Constraints, Corruption, and Women’s Entrepreneurship in India	2
Measuring Self-Employment Income in Household Surveys: Evidence From A Randomised Survey Experiment	2
Infrastructure, Spatial Imaginaries and Dispossession: Narratives of Port-City Making	2
Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia	2
Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America	2
Female Early Marriage and Son Preference in Pakistan	2
Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship	2
African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces By Emizet F. Kisangan	2
Identifying the COVID-19 Transmission Channels on Poverty and Food Security in Refugee-Hosting Districts of Uganda	2
A United Family Prospers : Intrahousehold Economic Discord, Household Income and Child Growth in Burkina Faso	2
Beyond Reducing Deforestation: Impacts of a REDD+ Project on Household Livelihoods	2