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When Governments Deliver: Migrant Remittances and the Willingness to Pay Higher Local Taxes 政府何时兑现：移民汇款与支付更高地方税的意愿

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1111/dech.70002

Ana Isabel López García

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‘I Love Being My Own Boss (But the Work is Killing Me)’: Ride-hail Drivers’ Contradictory Ideas about Work in African Cities “我喜欢做自己的老板（但工作要了我的命）”：非洲城市叫车司机对工作的矛盾看法

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/dech.70003

Matteo Rizzo

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Rereading Ujamaa, Rethinking Freedom 重读乌贾马，重新思考自由

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1111/dech.70005

Stephanie Wanga

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How the Institutional Context Creates a Neoliberal Politics of Aid: An Italian Case Study 制度背景如何创造新自由主义的援助政治：一个意大利的案例研究

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1111/dech.70004

Lisa Ann Richey

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A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa 后殖民时代的卡片卡特尔：欧洲公司如何在非洲出售生物识别投票

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1111/dech.70000

Marielle Debos

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The Care Agenda in Latin America: Towards a New Understanding of Well-being? 拉丁美洲的关怀议程：对福祉的新理解？

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1111/dech.70001

Belén Villegas Plá

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Green Energy and State Power: The Case of Zhanatas Wind Power Project in Kazakhstan 绿色能源与国家电力：以哈萨克斯坦扎纳塔斯风电项目为例

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12880

Weishen Zeng

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The ‘Ethnic Fractionalization’ Variable in Development Economics — A Systematic Review 发展经济学中的“民族分化”变量——系统回顾

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12879

Irene van Staveren

{"title":"The ‘Ethnic Fractionalization’ Variable in Development Economics — A Systematic Review","authors":"Irene van Staveren","doi":"10.1111/dech.12879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12879","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article consists of a systematic review of 73 empirical articles in economics journals using the ‘ethnic fractionalization’ variable in cross-country analyses with developing countries. This variable was introduced in development economics in 1997 by two World Bank economists, Easterly and Levine. Their publication was followed by many others using the same variable. What is striking is that the variable does not measure fractionalization of ethnic groups but simply ethnic diversity. The negative connotation of such groups falling apart resulted in many hypotheses about a negative relationship of ‘ethnic divisions’ with a variety of economic development outcomes, including economic growth, investment and innovation. This systematic review reveals that less than half of the 73 publications confirm hypotheses about negative effects of ‘ethnic fractionalization’. Most of the selected studies do not discuss relevant theory and they do not include confounding variables about how ethnic groups relate to each other. Although more research is needed regarding Scholars' motivations for the use of the variable, the way in which researchers have used the variable points to normative choices made in terms of hypotheses, data, variable label and models. This calls for more reflection about research ethics in applied economics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"56 2","pages":"306-334"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12879","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144300059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire 布基纳法索、莫桑比克和Côte科特迪瓦的农业价值链发展项目和家庭营养

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12876

Rachel Schurman, William Munro, Thomas Bassett, Moussa Koné, William Moseley, Melanie Ouedraogo, Heidi Gengenbach, Alcino Comé, Justino Nhabinde, Matt Gunther

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Rice Self-sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis 印度尼西亚、孟加拉国和塞内加尔的大米自给倡议：比较分析

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12878

Jarvis Fisher, Jenny Goldstein, Anjana Ramkumar

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