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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa43
Indoor air pollution and child development in Indonesia: Stunted by the smoke?38
Exploring climate change investment initiatives and funding challenges among faith‐based organizations in Ghana36
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Early transition markers, opportunities, and limitations that define pathways into the labour market from adolescence to adulthood in South Africa18
Social service inclusion of immigrants through the lens of human rights in Australia17
The Arab uprising: A decade of transformations and challenges17
Gender mainstreaming in Korean aid? Rethinking narratives about women's economic empowerment16
The limits to cash‐plus provision in protracted crises15
Supporting women's empowerment by changing intra‐household decision‐making: A mixed‐methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south‐west Tanzania11
Should foreign aid consider inter‐Pacific Islands migration in the context of climate change? Evidence from Fiji11
Improving pathways for girls and disadvantaged youth through secondary education and into work: Evidence and reflections from practice11
The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?11
Rethinking food aid for immigrants and refugees: Insights from Syracuse11
Can we increase the effectiveness of ODA (official development assistance) for renewable energy development? An assessment of the relative performance of financial incentive policy measures11
Aid paradox for unrecognized governments: The Taliban and aid11
FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management10
Will policy help close the digital gender divide? An intersectional feminist policy analysis of Ethiopia's national digital policy10
Shared governance as a pathway to regional cooperation and development through the ItaipuCorpus10
Foresight for a better African future: Lessons from six decades of practice10
Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences10
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Are women more financially vulnerable than men? A tale of missed economic opportunities from Latin America9
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Teaching and learning for life skills development: Insights from Rwanda’s 12+ programme for adolescent girls9
Towards complete development finance data: Quantifying China's international education co‐operation and presence in the Global South8
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan8
African regional economic policy‐making: Understanding and catalysing the potentials of think tanks8
Building resilience now and for the future: Adolescent skills to address global challenges8
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Digital access and women's work in Pakistan: Constraints, use patterns, and policy directions8
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Do subsidies on seed and fertilizer lead to child labour? Evidence from Malawi8
Adaptive programming and going with the grain: IMAGINE's new water governance model in Goma, DRC8
Women, education, and violence: How women displaced into camps in north‐east Nigeria take up education8
Futuring Fragility: Embracing uncertainty, identifying opportunity, unlocking development8
Rural market imperfections in India: Revisiting old debates with new evidence7
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The impact of an additional year in high school on academic performance at university: Evidence from a policy experiment in Ghana7
Climate and development: What opportunities, what threats?7
How well can real‐time indicators track the economic impacts of a crisis like COVID‐19?7
Citizens' aid preferences amid state collapse: Experimental evidence from Haiti7
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From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation6
Governance, institutions and human development: Rethinking government flagship projects and initiatives in Ghana6
Legal knowledge and child labour in Nepal: Does knowing the law make a difference?6
Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective6
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The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic6
Illiberal democracy and nutrition advocacy6
How do organizations in Chinese agriculture perceive sustainability certification schemes? An exploratory analysis6
What do (future) civil servants think of bribery and corruption? Evidence from India6
Developing electric vehicles in China and the United States: Revisiting debates on industrial strategy6
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings6
Microfinance and economic and social empowerment of people with disabilities: Lessons from Bangladesh5
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Does access to water, sanitation, and hygiene improve children's health? An empirical analysis in Indonesia5
Analysing regional and sectoral productivity changes in the Indian economy5
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Exploring SME environmental behaviour and practice: The case of Malaysia5
Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia5
How Tanzania's levy on mobile money affects small businesses5
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia5
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The resilience of systems‐thinking approaches when faced with an evolving crisis: The case of Mumbai5
Assessing the effectiveness of government and non‐governmental organization in assisting internally displaced women in Nigeria5
Corruption, gender, and small‐scale cross‐border trade in East Africa: A review4
Correction to “Rural mechanization for equitable development: Disarray, disjuncture, and disruption”4
International donors, domestic politics, and the expansion of social cash transfers in Malawi4
Assessing the success of National Human Rights Action Plans from a political economy perspective: The case of Chile4
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Qatar's multifaceted humanitarian role in Afghanistan since August 20214
Decoding the nexus: Finance availability and firm growth in the wake of COVID‐194
How did COVID‐19 lockdowns affect firms and workers? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco4
Why national development experts are not included in development policy‐making and practice: The case of Ghana4
Policy and performance in Uganda's seed sector: Opportunities and challenges4
“Want to help someone? Shut up and listen”: Foreign aid, maladaptation, and community development practices in the Pacific4
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The role of institutional quality in shaping economic growth: Evidence from Somalia4
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Navigating Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation4
An investigation into the impact of mobile money transactions on economic growth in Zambia4
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Do job aspirations cause job choice? Insights from women entering male‐dominated occupational training in India4
Monetary incentives to improve tax compliance: A Brazilian case study4
“My daughter wore pads only during the day and used rags at night”: Sanitary pad accessibility and educational outcomes for girls in Ghana4
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset4
Taxing high‐net‐worth individuals in Nigeria: Challenges and opportunities for policy‐makers from a preliminary investigation3
International aid actions for accountability: Identifying interaction effects between programmes3
Growth, innovation, and policy for chicken in Latin America 1961–20193
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity: Radical implications for Haiti3
Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh3
Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan3
Which resources should be developed into tourist attractions? The viewpoint of key stakeholders on the Slovenian coast3
Whose policy coherence counts? Assessing sustainable fisheries in Ghana and the European Union's engagement3
Corporate implementation of certification and its impact on cocoa producers in Indonesia3
Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned?3
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Enforcing contracts: The role of state subsidies as a hybrid enforcement mechanism in contracts between tomato processors and farmers in Algeria3
Publish where you fund! On geospatial transparency of aid3
Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan3
A critical approach to co‐producing knowledge for development3
Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative3
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Increased domestic violence during the COVID‐19 pandemic: India's response3
The impact of financial literacy on access to formal financial products in Namibia3
Nutrition‐sensitive lockdowns: Conceptual framework and empirical insights from Africa during COVID‐193
Participatory translation and anti‐racism in NGO development work: A method of co‐producing translations with community members3
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability3
Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar3
How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power3
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Everyday governance on the Somalia‐Kenya border: Flourishing without state support3
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Domestic workers' agency against workplace sexual harassment: The role of social norms in Bangladesh3
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation3
From data to sustainability: Using explainable AI to promote electric vehicle development and understand consumer preferences3
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Why has there been a fall in child labour and an increase in school attendance in Mexico?2
Understanding inactive membership in voluntary contributory schemes: A case study of micro‐traders in Kenya2
Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India2
Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development2
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“Something for everyone”: Ownership as a moving target in Swedish and British regional foreign aid to Africa2
Does Thinking and Working Politically improve support for social business? Evidence from a water business in Cambodia2
Envisioning the humanitarian‐development‐peace nexus in the Rohingya response in Bangladesh: Implementation challenges and suggestions for the future2
Different Worlds, Different Cooperation Models2
Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market2
Assessing the impact of aid on public health expenditure in aid recipient countries2
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Changes in population literacy and numeracy in Ghana after three decades of free basic education2
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Determinants of poverty among Indigenous people in Mexico's Guerrero Mountain Region2
Can European foreign aid motivate people to stay in Africa? The root causes policy debate and irregular migration2
Adverse shocks, vulnerability, and coping by rural households in Vietnam2
Effect of sovereign risk and debt‐side governance on cross‐border infrastructure risk premium in a developing nation: The case of Kenya2
Multidimensional design‐reality gaps in ICT in education projects in the Samoan aidscape2
Challenging the formality bias: The organization of informal work, working relations, and collective agency in Kenya and Tanzania2
Shifting norms, multiplying actors, turbulent times: An emerging landscape of international development co‐operation2
School committee composition: Exploring the role of parental and female representation in India2
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Anticipatory Development Foresight: An approach for international and multilateral organizations2
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Rethinking human capital: Perspectives from women working in the informal economy2
How co‐design can localize development programmes and reduce dependency: Examples from Pacific Island Countries2
Sudan's health sector partnership: From confined progression to openness and hope to uncertain demise2
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Foreign aid, human agency, and self‐reliance in the Pacific: Lessons from the pandemic2
Uber's digital labour platform and labour relations in South Africa2
Benefits of enhanced access to education in Tanzania2
Preventing and protesting workplace sexual harassment: Women agro‐processing workers in Bangladesh2
What would it take for private capital to replace ODA?1
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The Prospects for International Development Cooperation in Times of Geopolitical Conflict and Resource Scarcity1
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Civil society, donor dynamics, and climate justice in Jordan: Navigating aid for inclusive climate action1
Digital innovations and institutional barriers in agricultural input subsidy programmes in sub‐Saharan Africa: Evidence from Nigeria1
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions1
Gendered perceptions in maize supply chains: Evidence from Uganda1
Tax Evasion Attitudes of Small Firms in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries: Evidence from Nigeria1
Non‐farm activity reduces migration: Evidence from Bangladesh1
Obituary: Constance Margaret Cornell (1915–2022)1
NGOs' approach to human rights and the challenges in Bangladesh1
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Navigating post‐conflict governance in Yemen: Decentralization, federalism, and the path to stability1
Data Management for Sustainable Development: Case Analyses of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)1
The benefits of US foreign aid in rural US communities: The case of northwestern North Carolina1
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Shaping skills: A qualitative dive into India's evolving skill development policies1
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Taking (anti‐)‘woke’ seriously: the future of development cooperation and humanitarian aid1
A multisource analysis of child streetism in Nigerian urban centres1
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How does diversity affect the effectiveness of capacity building training? Evidence from the Republic of Korea1
Trade policies for low‐carbon development in developing countries: Insights from Kenya1
Does subsidizing seed help farmers? Nepal's rice seed subsidies1
Beyond rich and poor: Identifying global development constellations1
When Empathy Fades: The Collapse of Humanitarian Responsibility in a Structurally Broken World1
Rural mechanization for equitable development: Disarray, disjuncture, and disruption1
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How humanitarian–development responses may discriminate by nationality: Refugee and migrant inclusion following the 2016 Jordan Compact1
No employment without participation: An evaluation of India's employment programme in eastern Uttar Pradesh1
Nigeria's Sugar Master Plan: Ignoring losers from industrial policy can be costly1
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Does conditioning cash transfers on health treatment harm the health of other families on low incomes who depend on public services? Evidence from Brazil1
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Taxing the informal sector: Coping with Coercion in Bamako, Mali1
Neglecting the poor and marginalized: Participatory village governance in Indonesia's New Developmentalist state1
Public Policy for Trans People: Lessons from Brazil for Social Inclusion1
Aid in the Age of Amazon: Imperial Logics, Pacific Resistance and an Alternate Paradigm1
Agricultural development promises more growth and less poverty in Africa: Modelling the potential impact of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme in six countries1
Foresight and futures thinking for international development co‐operation: Promises and pitfalls1
Ensuring fertilizer quality in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: The role of government and market initiatives1
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Green central banking under high inflation—more of a need than an option: An analytical exposition for Turkey1
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