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Autonomy and Financial Performance in Informal Savings Associations
Daniël Van Hemert, Bert D’Espallier & Roy Mersland
Published online: 17 May 2024
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Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development
Edited by Charlotte Cross and John D. Giblin New York: Routledge, 2022, 314 pp., £35.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780367619756 (paperback)
Daniel Mulugeta
Published online: 17 May 2024
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Female Ownership of Firms and Regulation Experience
João Pedro Bastos & Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Published online: 16 May 2024
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Exports and Income Inequality in Mexico
Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Emmanuel Vazquez & Hernan Winkler
Published online: 14 May 2024
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The Effects of the Development Zone Upgrading on the Diversification of Firm’s Product Exports: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
Jinyong Zhan & Haihan Zhang
Published online: 13 May 2024
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Published online: 13 May 2024
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A Thousand Cuts: Social Protection in the Age of Austerity
By Alexandros Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 280 pp., $39.95 (hardback), $26.99 (e-book), ISBN: 978-0-190-63773-6 (hardback)
Lindsay R. Dolan
Published online: 13 May 2024
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The Critical Role of Implementing Partners: Evidence From Training Micro and Small Enterprises Across 12 Financial Service Providers
Alexandra Avdeenko, Markus Frölich & Simona Helmsmüller
Published online: 09 May 2024
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Savings Programmes and Food Security of Women and Their Children in Ethiopia
Soyoon Weon & Marnie Davidson
Published online: 07 May 2024
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Decentralization and Criminal Gangs in El Salvador: Impacts on Municipal Finances and Local Economic Development
Kent Eaton, Silvana Huanqui & Jose Larios
Published online: 29 Apr 2024
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Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China
By Annah Lake Zhu Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, 241 pp., $41.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780674276413
Matthew Himley
Published online: 29 Apr 2024
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Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation
By Caroline Shenaz Hossein and P.J. Christabell Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 288 pp., £81 (hardcover), £81 (ebook), ISBN: 9780198865629 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780192635068 (ebook)
Ananyo Mukherjee
Published online: 29 Apr 2024
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Teachers on the Move: Evidence From a Large-Scale Learning Intervention During Lockdown
Kartika Bhatia & Margaret Leighton
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Changing Effects of Birth Order on Education Over Time: Evidence From Cambodia
Yuki Kanayama & Hiroyuki Yamada
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought
By Musab Younis Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022, 286 pp., $29.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-520-38916-8 (hardback); $29.95 (eBook), ISBN: 978-0-520-38917-5 (eBook)
Isaac Kamola
Published online: 12 Apr 2024
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Saving Transition in Asia
Prema-Chandra Athukorala & Wanissa Suanin
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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Conservative Party-Building in Latin America. Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle
By James Loxton New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 279 pp., £56 (hardback), ISBN: 9780197537527
Julián Castro-Rea
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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Advanced Introduction to Critical Global Development
By Uma Kothari and Elise Klein Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2023, 162 pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN: 978 1 80037 609 0 (hardback)
Molly Sundberg
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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Minding ‘Productive Gaps’: An Appraisal of Non-operational Land Deals in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
Joanny Bélair, Linda Engström & Marie Gagné
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
By Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, 256 pp., $110.00 (hardback), $28.00 (paperback) ISBN: 9781503614703 (hardback); ISBN: 9781503614710 (paperback)
Marya Hannun
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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Property Institutions and State Capacity: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Agricultural Projects in Zambia
Yuezhou Yang
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review
Isabelle Baltenweck, Esther L. Achandi, Renee Marie Bullock, Zoe A. Campbell, Todd A. Crane, Erin R.B. Eldermire, Leah Gichuki, Nicoline de Haan, Elizabeth Katz, Nelly Njiru, Esther Njuguna-Mungai, Elizabeth Jane Poole & Alessandra Galiè
Published online: 21 Mar 2024
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From Alternative Development to Decolonisation: Transforming Drug Crop Policies in Bolivia
Linda Farthing & Thomas Grisaffi
Published online: 20 Mar 2024
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How Does Fertility Affect Female Employment? Evidence from Albania
Andrea Cinque, Cecilia Poggi & Juna Miluka
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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Unskilled Migration and Vertical Disintegration: Theory and Evidence from China
Jianan Li, Lulu Zhang, Rui Zhang & Xiliang Zhao
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms
By Alan Middleton New York: Routledge, 2020, 308 pp., $107.00 (hardback), $52.95 (paperback), $47.65 (e-book), ISBN: 978-0-367-19210-5 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-03-257072-3 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-429-20109-7 (e-book)
Julie Gamble
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty
By Maria Ivanova, Cambridge, MA; London: MIT Press, 2021, 329 pp., USD 30.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780262542104
Natalia Dalmer
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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Nutrition Matters: Numeracy, Child Nutrition and Schooling Efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Long Run
Sarah Ferber & Jörg Baten
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance
By Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, 368 pp., $140 (hardback), $35.00 (paperback), $34.99 (E-book), ISBN: 9780231205160 (hardback), ISBN: 9780231205177 (paperback), ISBN: 9780231555876 (E-book)
Kristin Skrabut
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime
By Anne Wolf Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 272 pp., $110.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780192868503.
Théo Blanc
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century
By Portia Roelofs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 335 pp., £75 (hardback), ISBN: 9781009235471
Anna Thurlbeck
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana
By Rachel Sigman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 332 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781009262835
Michaela Collord
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present
By Lilia Moritz, Schwarcz, Trans. Eric M. B. Becker Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022, 297 pp., $29.95 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780691210919.
James N. Green
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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Public–Private Development Cooperation: Interface and Conflicting Logics in the Formation of a Strategic Partnership
Jon Harald Sande Lie
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique
By Corinna Jentzsch Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 222 pp., £75 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781108936026
Daria Trentini
Published online: 03 Mar 2024
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Valuing Children: Parents’ Perceptions, Spending Priorities and Children’s Capabilities
Huaxin Wang-Lu, Flavio Comim & Octasiano Miguel Valerio Mendoza
Published online: 25 Feb 2024
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Be Happy, Be Loyal? Exploring Drivers for Renewal of Mobile-Delivered Index Insurance
Ella Kirchner & Oliver Musshoff
Published online: 25 Feb 2024
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Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal
By Bernard Moitt Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 206 pp., $110 (hardback, e-book), ISBN: 9-781-009-29647-2 (hardback)
Kelly M. Duke Bryant
Published online: 23 Feb 2024
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Everybody’s War: The Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis
By Jehan Bseiso, Michiel Hofman, Jonathan Whittall New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 210 pp., £22.99 (hardback), ISBN: 9780197514672
Sima Aldardari
Published online: 22 Feb 2024
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Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition
By Elizabeth Thurbon, Sung-Young Kim, Hao Tan and John Mathews Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 272 pp., £70.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780192897794
Jihyung Joo
Published online: 22 Feb 2024
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Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market
By Julia Chuang Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020, 231 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780520305458
Tiantian Liu
Published online: 22 Feb 2024
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Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty
By Paul Kreitman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 272 pp., $105.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781108489706
Alexander R. Bay
Published online: 21 Feb 2024
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Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique
By Julie Soleil Archambault, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 160 pp., £32.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-0-226-44757-5
Johanna M. Wetzel
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa
By Christine Jeske Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020, 230 pp., £98.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-501-75251-3
Julia Hampton
Published online: 14 Feb 2024
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Being Well-in with the Joneses? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Conspicuous Consumption among Rural Communities
Lena Kuhn, Ihtiyor Bobojonov & Laura Moritz
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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International Remittances, Domestic Sharing, and Income Inequality in Senegal
Mahamat Moustapha
Published online: 08 Feb 2024
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Networking Increases the Probability of Women’s Start-Ups in EMDEs
Jiří Balcar, Lenka Johnson Filipová, Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski & Prity Sinha
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness
By Jacob R. Boersema, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022, 299 pp., $110.00 (hardback), $28.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9781503627789 (paperback).
Jody Metcalfe
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance
By Benjamin Braun and Kai Koddenbrock. New York: Routledge, 2023, 282 pp., £34.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781032111193
Louis O’Sullivan
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
By Tasha Rijke-Epstein, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2023, 347 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478025290
Lambek Michael
Published online: 29 Jan 2024
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