Journal of Development Studies (JDS)

📢 Our 7th [July] issue of 2025 is up! ✨Featuring 8⃣ articles & 3⃣ book reviews on climate , development research, finance, economics, social development, education & more! 👉Check it out: tandfonline.com/toc/fjds20/cur… 🇮🇳🇵🇭🇨🇱🇧🇷🇳🇬

How does electrification impact child development in rural 🇪🇹? New study in #JDevStudies finds that children spend more time on education, especially girls, and less time sleeping or helping families, even as access stays low Read more👉🏾: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @WorldBank

New in @JDevStudies: Women in 🇮🇳 are more likely to wake up first & eat last, facing morning burdens that impact health & well-being. Economic progress alone isn’t enough. Policy change is needed. Read by more➡️: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @UdayanRathore

Happy to share a new article published in the @JDevStudies, co-authored with Tobias Wuttke and Kriengkrai Techakanont: "Competition and Development in Automotive Global Value Chains: Insights from Thailand, South Africa and Argentina" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How does tradition shape women’s work? 📊 D’Agostini & @luca_tibe show matrilocality (husbands join wives’ families) raises women’s wage/formal jobs in 🇲🇼& 🇮🇩. Read more👉🏼: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

New in #JDevStudies! Skills training in 🇧🇩’s garment sector often falls short not just due to corruption, but because many firms lack the organizational capacity to use skilled workers.👩‍🏭 Dig deeper👉🏼: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @mushtaqkhan100 @S_vanHuellen

Why are some new neighborhoods on 🇮🇳’s urban edges formalized, while others aren’t? 🏘️ Adam Michael Auerbach & @tanu_kumar1 show how citizen action & local politics shape access to public services in Jaipur’s periphery. Read more 👉🏽: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

New research by Mosab Ahmed et al. in @JDevStudies shows 🇸🇩’s GDP could fall by 42% if conflict continues through 2025, with poverty rising most for rural people and women. Read more 👉🏽: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @IFPRI

How does social insurance reform affect 🇪🇹’s workforce? 🆕research by Arjun S. Bedi et al. finds a decrease in the share of high-skill workers and reduced turnover, mainly due to fewer low-skill workers quitting. Read more👉🏽: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @erasmusuni

📚 A pre-primary program in West Bengal 🇮🇳 boosted enrolment but did not improve learning outcomes @Nilanjanb01 et al. show how poor infrastructure may limit policy impact. Read more 👉: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @sohamsahoo

📢 New in #JDevStudies How does social capital shape farmers’ access to services and markets in 🇨🇮 and 🇬🇭? Ahoudjo [@AhoudjoS] and Soullier examine rice value chains across 7 cases using network analysis. Read more 👉🏽: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

State of dev journals 2025 out from David McKenzie at @wb_research --> @JDevStudies reporting that 31% of accepted papers have an author from global south ~ curious to see how this stacks up for others! #EconTwitter blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

⚡ Can mini-grids expand rural electrification? @NossekVincent & Jean-Claude Berthelemy study 144 projects in 🇧🇫 & 🇲🇬 using geo-spatial data + Nighttime Lights as a proxy. Result: clear gains in electricity access over 3 yrs. Read more 👉🏽: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

💡Shock-responsive cash transfers work. In 🇰🇪, during COVID-19, flexible cash support helped reduce income loss, hunger, and poverty especially for informal workers. What mattered most? Adapting quickly with larger, faster payments. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

🔍 New in @JDevStudies! How can we better assess women's 👩🏻empowerment in agriculture? The WEaL Scale offers a fresh, cost-effective tool rooted in property rights to measure control over labor in South Asia. Read more 👉🏽: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @UniversitySA

📢 New in @JDevStudies! In 🇷🇼, CSOs follow government plans which helps efficiency but limits independence. In 🇰🇭, CSOs face government suspicion which makes their work harder. As donors step back, state control grows. 👉 Read more: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @JoakimOjen

New in #JDevStudies! Woensdregt [@WoeLise] examines how community-led organizations in 🇰🇪 are often excluded from real decision-making despite their critical on-the-ground insights. Read more 👉🏽: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

💡 What helps informal savings groups thrive? New @JDevStudies study shows group size, meeting attendance & financial efficiency support long-term success in 🇧🇫, 🇲🇱 & 🇳🇪. Extra group activities = greater resilience! Read more 👉🏽: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @uiagder

What does justice look like decades after dictatorship? Preda [@CaterinaPreda] reviews the book The Condor Trials by @UruguayFran, an in-depth account of transnational repression and accountability efforts in South America. 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇺🇾🇧🇴🇵🇾🇧🇷 Read more 👉🏼: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

📢 Our 6th [June] issue of 2025 is up! ✨Featuring 8⃣ articles & 4⃣ book reviews on climate change, environment, finance, agriculture, democracy, labor & more! 👉Check it out: tandfonline.com/toc/fjds20/cur… 🇹🇿🇮🇳🇿🇲🇬🇭🇹🇳