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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID‐19’s impacts on global value chains, as seen in the apparel industry45
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?36
Africa’s “youth employment” crisis is actually a “missing jobs” crisis34
Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Tanzania30
Regulating agricultural intensification: Lessons from West Africa’s rapidly growing pesticide markets24
More evidence on the impact of government social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe23
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey19
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the internationalization of production: A review of the literature17
Policy coherence across Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Finland16
Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap15
Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies15
Community‐led reconstruction, social inclusion and participation in post‐earthquake Nepal15
Graduation after 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving but still not thriving14
Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system13
Embrapa and the construction of scientific heritage in Brazilian agriculture: Sowing memory13
Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia12
Inequalities in higher education in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A scoping review of the literature11
Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa11
Politics of success stories in the path towards Universal Health Coverage: The case of Turkey10
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions9
Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria9
Scaling up sustainable investment through blockchain‐based project bonds9
How culture may nurture institutional trust: Insights from Bangladesh and Nepal9
How earmarking has become self‐perpetuating in United Nations development co‐operation9
Addressing educational attainment inequities in rural Ethiopia: Leave no adolescent behind8
A green skills framework for climate action, gender empowerment, and climate justice8
Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone8
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability8
The effects of financial crisis on income inequality8
Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India8
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation8
“The SDGs are not God”: Policy‐makers and the queering of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa7
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings7
Are market‐based solutions a viable strategy for addressing micronutrient deficiency? Lessons from case studies in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia7
Urban social assistance: Evidence, challenges and the way forward, with application to Ghana7
The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?7
Understanding resilience: Lessons from lived experiences of extreme poverty in Bangladesh7
Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?7
What does resilience imply for development practice? Tools for more coherent programming and evaluation of resilience6
Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?6
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan6
The contestation of ideas behind Indonesia's rural electrification policies: The influence of global and national institutional dynamics6
China–Japan development finance competition and the revival of mercantilism6
Does affirmative action undermine meritocracy? “Meritocratic inclusion” of the marginalized in Nepal’s bureaucracy5
State‐oriented service‐delivery partnership with civil society organizations in the context of counter‐terrorism in Nigeria5
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal5
To make growth reduce poverty, industrialize: Using manufacturing to mediate the effect of growth on poverty5
Normative coherence for development: What relevance for responsive regionalism?5
Industrial policy: Clarifying options through taxonomy and decision trees5
Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences5
Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies5
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 coun5
Translating climate strategies into action: An analysis of the sustainable, green, and resilient city action plans of the multilateral development banks5
Fires in the Amazon Region: Quick Policy Review5
COVID‐19 vaccination: Willingness and practice in Bangladesh5
In the interest of saving: Refugee‐led microfinance in Kampala, Uganda4
The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic4
EdTechfor Ugandan girls: Affordances of different technologies for girls' secondary education during the Covid‐19 pandemic4
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
Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty4
How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power4
Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption4
Do zombie firms crowd out healthy firms and slow their growth? Evidence from China4
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia4
Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market4
Agricultural development promises more growth and less poverty in Africa: Modelling the potential impact of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme in six countries4
Participatory local governance in rural Nepal: The primacy of informality4
Putting power and politics central in Nepal’s water governance4
The effects of development aid on irregular migration to Europe: Deterrence or attraction?3
Promoting Rwanda’s business environment: Impact of reforms and drivers of change3
A normative power or fortress Europe? Normative policy coherence between the European Unionʼs development, migration, and foreign policies3
FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management3
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset3
Aid is not development: The true character of Pacific aid3
Workplace sexual harassment as a feature of precarious work in Uganda's agro‐processing factories: “Mince your words and watch yourself”3
Aid instability, aid effectiveness and economic growth3
Preventing and protesting workplace sexual harassment: Women agro‐processing workers in Bangladesh3
Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan3
“Securitized” UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan3
Lessons from reducing bribery in Uganda’s health services3
The adoption of global water norms in Central America: What separates normative coherence from normative hegemony?3
Teaching and learning for life skills development: Insights from Rwanda’s 12+ programme for adolescent girls3
Risk navigation for Thinking and Working Politically: The work and disappearance of Sombath Somphone3
North–South research collaborations: An empirical evaluation against principles of transboundary research3
Helping when it matters: Optimal time for supporting women’s self‐employment in India3
Skills formation and (un)employment in Latin America: Evidence from Chile3
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity: Radical implications for Haiti3
Chinese Development Finance and its determinants: Does global governance matter?3
Is the influence of neoliberalism on development norms waning? Evidence from the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development3
Normative coherence through social entrepreneurship: Fostering women’s empowerment in Myanmar3
“Want to help someone? Shut up and listen”: Foreign aid, maladaptation, and community development practices in the Pacific3
Protectors or enablers? Untangling the roles of traditional authorities and local elites in foreign land grabs in Cameroon3
Can civil society organizations and faith‐based organizations in Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands access climate finance?3
Do people displaced by development need more than financial compensation? Evidence from Bangladesh3
Normative coherence for development and regionalism: Gender equality in ASEAN's migration policies3
Challenges and opportunities with social inclusion and community‐based water management in Solomon Islands3
Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan3
Rethinking human capital: Perspectives from women working in the informal economy2
Brazilian foreign policy for the Global South: The creation of the Centre of Excellence against Hunger2
“Something for everyone”: Ownership as a moving target in Swedish and British regional foreign aid to Africa2
The cancer of corruption and World Bank project performance: Is there a connection?2
Value chain research and development: The quest for impact2
An analysis of gender inclusion in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects: Intention vs. reality2
Mobile money taxation and informal workers: Evidence from Ghana's E‐levy2
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
Religion and development in Samoa: Time to draw on the strength of local culture?2
Why has there been a fall in child labour and an increase in school attendance in Mexico?2
Formalizing agricultural rentals in China: Does local public action help?2
International donors, domestic politics, and the expansion of social cash transfers in Malawi2
WASH for all: A systematic review of Physiological and Sociological Characterization Framework segmentation in WASH policies, programmes, and projects2
Social and gender norms informing, voicing, and reporting against sexual harassment among domestic workers in Kampala's informal economy2
What role for aid in countries with and without a development bargain?2
From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation2
Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar2
Mapping the nutrient adequacy of farm production and food consumption to target policy in Uganda2
Evaluating a citizen security pilot in Honduras: The economic benefits of a much reduced murder rate2
Corruption, gender, and small‐scale cross‐border trade in East Africa: A review2
Rural mechanization for equitable development: Disarray, disjuncture, and disruption2
Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned?2
Growing cotton to produce food: Unravelling interactions between value chains in southern Mali2
Improving pathways for girls and disadvantaged youth through secondary education and into work: Evidence and reflections from practice2
Visions, promises and understandings of development around Kenya’s Masinga reservoir2
Whose voice counts? Examining government‐donor negotiations in the design of Ethiopia’s large‐scale education reforms for equitable learning2
Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh2
How did COVID‐19 lockdowns affect firms and workers? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco1
Foresight for a better African future: Lessons from six decades of practice1
No employment without participation: An evaluation of India's employment programme in eastern Uttar Pradesh1
“Thinking and Working Politically”: The case of donor‐supported reform coalitions in the Philippines1
Sources of divergence in income in Indian states, 2001–20151
What do remote outer island populations in the Pacific think about foreign aid? Insights from Mauke, Cook Islands1
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Reported effects of non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) in health and education service provision: The role of NGO –government relations and other factors1
Well‐being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Is work enough?1
Self‐employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana: Does gender make a difference?1
Testing multi‐stakeholder dialogue for better local governance in Niger: An experiment. Can we talk our way out of development problems?1
Monetary incentives to improve tax compliance: A Brazilian case study1
Withdrawn: A preliminary understanding of hybrid models in timebanking and volunteering1
Futuring Fragility: Embracing uncertainty, identifying opportunity, unlocking development1
Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt1
Green central banking under high inflation—more of a need than an option: An analytical exposition for Turkey1
Tax Evasion Attitudes of Small Firms in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries: Evidence from Nigeria1
Multidimensional design‐reality gaps in ICT in education projects in the Samoan aidscape1
Growth, innovation, and policy for chicken in Latin America 1961–20191
Do subsidies on seed and fertilizer lead to child labour? Evidence from Malawi1
How can countries improve human development? Four distinct national planning strategies and the challenges for human development ahead1
(Re)envisioning inclusive futures: Applying narrative foresight to deconstruct the problem of urban flooding in the slums of Bengaluru, India1
School committee composition: Exploring the role of parental and female representation in India1
International aid actions for accountability: Identifying interaction effects between programmes1
Bio‐pharma in Iran: Escaping the middle‐income trap1
Microfinance and economic and social empowerment of people with disabilities: Lessons from Bangladesh1
Foreign aid, human agency, and self‐reliance in the Pacific: Lessons from the pandemic1
The EU Trust Fund for Colombia: Valuable lessons for hybrid peacebuilding1
Exploring SME environmental behaviour and practice: The case of Malaysia1
Determinants of poverty among Indigenous people in Mexico's Guerrero Mountain Region1
Civil society organizations and managerialism: On the depoliticization of the adaptive management agenda1
Does conditioning cash transfers on health treatment harm the health of other families on low incomes who depend on public services? Evidence from Brazil1
Payment‐by‐results for health interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A critical review1
Solidarity Economy and social inclusion: The Immigrant Fair in Florianópolis, Brazil1
Anticipatory Development Foresight: An approach for international and multilateral organizations1
The impact of patriarchal culture on Somali women's participation in politics1
Nigeria's Sugar Master Plan: Ignoring losers from industrial policy can be costly1
Turkey as an emerging donor in the development community: The Turkish‐type Development Assistance Model (TDAM)1
Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges1
Governance of organic cocoa production: An analysis of EU regulation through the framework of multilevel governance1
Doing aid chains differently: Evaluating the potential ofMulti‐StakeholderPartnerships1
What happens to aid fungibility when the recipient government takes control? Effects of aid ownership in Rwanda1
Assessing the effectiveness of government and non‐governmental organization in assisting internally displaced women in Nigeria1
Development as non‐migration? Examining normative and policy coherence in EU external action on migration and development1
Will policy help close the digital gender divide? An intersectional feminist policy analysis of Ethiopia's national digital policy1
Challenging the formality bias: The organization of informal work, working relations, and collective agency in Kenya and Tanzania1
Northernization for Breaking‐through International Isolation: Taiwan’s Trilateral Aid Cooperation in the Middle East Refugee Crisis and beyond1
A multisource analysis of child streetism in Nigerian urban centres1
How co‐design can localize development programmes and reduce dependency: Examples from Pacific Island Countries1
Building resilience now and for the future: Adolescent skills to address global challenges1
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
Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative1
Transformative organizational and programmatic change? Civil society responses to the Canadian Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP)1
Shifting norms, multiplying actors, turbulent times: An emerging landscape of international development co‐operation1
Institutionalizing foresight in science, technology, and innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa1
Public perception of foreign aid in South Korea: The effects of policy efficacy in an emerging donor1
Should foreign aid consider inter‐Pacific Islands migration in the context of climate change? Evidence from Fiji1
Hybridization of Chinese international development volunteering: Evidence from three state‐funded programmes1
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