Development Policy Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Development Policy Review is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
China’s rapidly evolving practice of poverty resettlement: Moving millions to eliminate poverty53
COVID‐19’s impacts on global value chains, as seen in the apparel industry31
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?27
Africa’s “youth employment” crisis is actually a “missing jobs” crisis26
The changing face of agriculture in Tanzania: Indicators of transformation25
Confronting the scarcity of digital skills among the poor in developing countries21
Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Tanzania21
Regulating agricultural intensification: Lessons from West Africa’s rapidly growing pesticide markets19
More evidence on the impact of government social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe18
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey16
The power of narratives: Explaining inaction on gender mainstreaming in Uganda’s climate change policy16
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the internationalization of production: A review of the literature14
The rise and fall of budget support: Ownership, bargaining and donor commitment problems in foreign aid12
Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies11
Embrapa and the construction of scientific heritage in Brazilian agriculture: Sowing memory11
Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap11
Human development and advocacy journalism: Analysis of low editorial coverage in Pakistan11
Graduation after 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving but still not thriving11
Promoting ownership in a “post‐aid effectiveness” world: Evidence from Rwanda and Liberia10
Community‐led reconstruction, social inclusion and participation in post‐earthquake Nepal10
Government and civil society organizations: Close but comfortable? Lessons from creating the Dutch “Strategic Partnerships for Lobby and Advocacy”10
The politics of promoting social cash transfers in Uganda: The potential and pitfalls of “thinking and working politically”9
Special issue introduction Ownership in a post‐aid effectiveness era: Comparative perspectives9
Inequalities in higher education in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A scoping review of the literature9
Quantifying the coherence of development policy priorities8
Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system8
The effects of financial crisis on income inequality8
Politics of success stories in the path towards Universal Health Coverage: The case of Turkey8
How earmarking has become self‐perpetuating in United Nations development co‐operation8
Addressing educational attainment inequities in rural Ethiopia: Leave no adolescent behind8
Scaling up sustainable investment through blockchain‐based project bonds8
Industrial policy and structural transformation: Insights from Ethiopian manufacturing8
Foreign aid, the mining sector and democratic ownership: The case of Canadian assistance to Peru8
Policy coherence across Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Finland7
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings7
How culture may nurture institutional trust: Insights from Bangladesh and Nepal7
A green skills framework for climate action, gender empowerment, and climate justice7
Partnering capacities for inclusive development in food provisioning7
Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia7
Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria6
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability6
Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa6
Linking sanitation policy to service delivery in Rwanda and Uganda: From words to action6
A critical assessment of anti‐corruption strategies for economic development in sub‐Saharan Africa6
The open‐and‐shut case against inequality6
Development co‐operation and the partnership–ownership nexus: Lessons from the Canada–Ghana experience6
Disaggregated determinants of aid: Development aid projects in the Philippines5
What does resilience imply for development practice? Tools for more coherent programming and evaluation of resilience5
China–Japan development finance competition and the revival of mercantilism5
“The SDGs are not God”: Policy‐makers and the queering of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa5
Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies5
Normative coherence for development: What relevance for responsive regionalism?5
State‐oriented service‐delivery partnership with civil society organizations in the context of counter‐terrorism in Nigeria5
Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?5
Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?5
Large dams, norms and Indigenous Peoples5
Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India5
Translating climate strategies into action: An analysis of the sustainable, green, and resilient city action plans of the multilateral development banks5
The contestation of ideas behind Indonesia's rural electrification policies: The influence of global and national institutional dynamics4
Labour productivity in African manufacturing: Does the level of skills development matter?4
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation4
In the interest of saving: Refugee‐led microfinance in Kampala, Uganda4
Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone4
Are market‐based solutions a viable strategy for addressing micronutrient deficiency? Lessons from case studies in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia4
The rise and fall of government support for small‐scale voluntary development organizations—and their remarkable resilience4
The Samagra anti‐poverty programme in Madhya Pradesh: Integrating household data, overcoming silo‐problems and leaving nobody behind4
What happens to local participation when national ownership gets stronger? Initiating an exploration in Rwanda and Cambodia4
Urban social assistance: Evidence, challenges and the way forward, with application to Ghana4
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions4
Understanding resilience: Lessons from lived experiences of extreme poverty in Bangladesh4
Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences4
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia4
Development evaluation in authoritarian states: A case from Kazakhstan3
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal3
To make growth reduce poverty, industrialize: Using manufacturing to mediate the effect of growth on poverty3
Information, accountability and perceptions of public sector programme success: A conjoint experiment among bureaucrats in Africa3
Education, anthropogenic environmental change, and sustainable development: A rudimentary framework and reflections on proposed causal pathways for positive change in low‐ and lower‐middle income coun3
Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan3
Datafication, value and power in developing countries: Big data in two Indian public service organizations3
A comparative analysis of EU and US trade policies towards least developed countries and the African Growth and Opportunity Act beneficiaries3
Lessons from reducing bribery in Uganda’s health services3
Challenges and opportunities of trilateral co‐operation: Collaboration by the USA, Brazil and Mozambique on horticultural research, 2011–20153
Do people displaced by development need more than financial compensation? Evidence from Bangladesh3
Putting power and politics central in Nepal’s water governance3
Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty3
The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic3
“Securitized” UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan3
Does affirmative action undermine meritocracy? “Meritocratic inclusion” of the marginalized in Nepal’s bureaucracy3
Do conditional cash transfers (CCTs) raise educational attainment? An impact evaluation of Juntos in Peru3
The adoption of global water norms in Central America: What separates normative coherence from normative hegemony?3
Is the influence of neoliberalism on development norms waning? Evidence from the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development3
Industrial policy: Clarifying options through taxonomy and decision trees3
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan3
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset3
Risk navigation for Thinking and Working Politically: The work and disappearance of Sombath Somphone3
COVID‐19 vaccination: Willingness and practice in Bangladesh3
Helping when it matters: Optimal time for supporting women’s self‐employment in India3
Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan3
Exploring the complexity of partnerships in development policy and practice: Upstairs and downstairs3
The effects of development aid on irregular migration to Europe: Deterrence or attraction?3
EdTechfor Ugandan girls: Affordances of different technologies for girls' secondary education during the Covid‐19 pandemic3
Fires in the Amazon Region: Quick Policy Review3
Protectors or enablers? Untangling the roles of traditional authorities and local elites in foreign land grabs in Cameroon3
Enhancing export competitiveness by deeper integration: The case of the East African Community3
Can civil society organizations and faith‐based organizations in Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands access climate finance?2
The status of women and its influence on children’s well‐being: Do geography, religion and income matter? A comparative study2
Improving pathways for girls and disadvantaged youth through secondary education and into work: Evidence and reflections from practice2
Whose voice counts? Examining government‐donor negotiations in the design of Ethiopia’s large‐scale education reforms for equitable learning2
The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?2
Chinese Development Finance and its determinants: Does global governance matter?2
Agricultural development promises more growth and less poverty in Africa: Modelling the potential impact of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme in six countries2
Formalizing agricultural rentals in China: Does local public action help?2
A normative power or fortress Europe? Normative policy coherence between the European Unionʼs development, migration, and foreign policies2
Public perception of foreign aid in South Korea: The effects of policy efficacy in an emerging donor2
The cancer of corruption and World Bank project performance: Is there a connection?2
Social and gender norms informing, voicing, and reporting against sexual harassment among domestic workers in Kampala's informal economy2
North–South research collaborations: An empirical evaluation against principles of transboundary research2
Measuring household food security through surveys: Do the characteristics of the enumerators matter?2
The New Progressivism and its implications for institutional theories of development2
Aid instability, aid effectiveness and economic growth2
Normative coherence through social entrepreneurship: Fostering women’s empowerment in Myanmar2
Evaluating a citizen security pilot in Honduras: The economic benefits of a much reduced murder rate2
Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption2
International donors, domestic politics, and the expansion of social cash transfers in Malawi2
Participatory local governance in rural Nepal: The primacy of informality2
Do zombie firms crowd out healthy firms and slow their growth? Evidence from China2
FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management2
Visions, promises and understandings of development around Kenya’s Masinga reservoir2
Workplace sexual harassment as a feature of precarious work in Uganda's agro‐processing factories: “Mince your words and watch yourself”2
Normative coherence for development and regionalism: Gender equality in ASEAN's migration policies2
Eviction is not a disaster2
Brazilian foreign policy for the Global South: The creation of the Centre of Excellence against Hunger2
Rethinking human capital: Perspectives from women working in the informal economy2
Why has there been a fall in child labour and an increase in school attendance in Mexico?2
Corruption, gender, and small‐scale cross‐border trade in East Africa: A review2
Rural mechanization for equitable development: Disarray, disjuncture, and disruption2
Can agricultural subsidies reduce gendered productivity gaps? Panel data evidence from Zambia1
Reported effects of non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) in health and education service provision: The role of NGO –government relations and other factors1
Payment‐by‐results for health interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A critical review1
Does conditioning cash transfers on health treatment harm the health of other families on low incomes who depend on public services? Evidence from Brazil1
Bio‐pharma in Iran: Escaping the middle‐income trap1
Building resilience now and for the future: Adolescent skills to address global challenges1
Should foreign aid consider inter‐Pacific Islands migration in the context of climate change? Evidence from Fiji1
Religion and development in Samoa: Time to draw on the strength of local culture?1
“Want to help someone? Shut up and listen”: Foreign aid, maladaptation, and community development practices in the Pacific1
Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar1
“Donorship” and strategic policy‐making: Germany’s Middle Eastern and North African aid programme since the Arab uprisings1
Hybridization of Chinese international development volunteering: Evidence from three state‐funded programmes1
Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market1
The income diversification strategies of smallholders in the hills of Nepal1
Shifting norms, multiplying actors, turbulent times: An emerging landscape of international development co‐operation1
What happens to aid fungibility when the recipient government takes control? Effects of aid ownership in Rwanda1
Foreign aid, human agency, and self‐reliance in the Pacific: Lessons from the pandemic1
Teaching and learning for life skills development: Insights from Rwanda’s 12+ programme for adolescent girls1
International aid actions for accountability: Identifying interaction effects between programmes1
Aid is not development: The true character of Pacific aid1
Testing multi‐stakeholder dialogue for better local governance in Niger: An experiment. Can we talk our way out of development problems?1
Understanding public support for Canadian aid to developing countries: The role of information1
Understanding inactive membership in voluntary contributory schemes: A case study of micro‐traders in Kenya1
Domestic workers' agency against workplace sexual harassment: The role of social norms in Bangladesh1
“Thinking and Working Politically”: The case of donor‐supported reform coalitions in the Philippines1
Mapping the nutrient adequacy of farm production and food consumption to target policy in Uganda1
Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt1
How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power1
Multidimensional design‐reality gaps in ICT in education projects in the Samoan aidscape1
Northernization for Breaking‐through International Isolation: Taiwan’s Trilateral Aid Cooperation in the Middle East Refugee Crisis and beyond1
Promoting Rwanda’s business environment: Impact of reforms and drivers of change1
Preventing and protesting workplace sexual harassment: Women agro‐processing workers in Bangladesh1
Assessing the effectiveness of government and non‐governmental organization in assisting internally displaced women in Nigeria1
Green central banking under high inflation—more of a need than an option: An analytical exposition for Turkey1
No employment without participation: An evaluation of India's employment programme in eastern Uttar Pradesh1
How co‐design can localize development programmes and reduce dependency: Examples from Pacific Island Countries1
Value chain research and development: The quest for impact1
Solidarity Economy and social inclusion: The Immigrant Fair in Florianópolis, Brazil1
From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation1
Mobile money taxation and informal workers: Evidence from Ghana's E‐levy1
Well‐being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Is work enough?1
What role for aid in countries with and without a development bargain?1
Civil society organizations and managerialism: On the depoliticization of the adaptive management agenda1
Withdrawn: A preliminary understanding of hybrid models in timebanking and volunteering1
Challenges and opportunities with social inclusion and community‐based water management in Solomon Islands1
Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges1
Turkey as an emerging donor in the development community: The Turkish‐type Development Assistance Model (TDAM)1
Agrarian suicides in India: Myth and reality1
Do subsidies on seed and fertilizer lead to child labour? Evidence from Malawi1
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“Something for everyone”: Ownership as a moving target in Swedish and British regional foreign aid to Africa1
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity: Radical implications for Haiti1
Doing aid chains differently: Evaluating the potential of Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships1
What do remote outer island populations in the Pacific think about foreign aid? Insights from Mauke, Cook Islands1
Social accountability in metropolitan cities: Strategies and legacies in Delhi and São Paulo1
Growing cotton to produce food: Unravelling interactions between value chains in southern Mali1
An analysis of gender inclusion in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects: Intention vs. reality1
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