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{"title":"Do short-term unconditional cash transfers change behaviour and preferences? evidence from Indonesia","authors":"Ridho Al Izzati, D. Suryadarma, A. Suryahadi","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2204423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2204423","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Short-term unconditional cash transfers are used as a temporary mitigation strategy during adverse economic shocks. They can however, cause adverse unintended impacts on behaviour and preferences. We estimate the effect of receiving short-term unconditional cash transfers on behaviour, risk aversion, and intertemporal choice in Indonesia. The country first introduced the program in 2005 and continues to use it whenever adverse economic shocks occur. With 15.5 million beneficiary households, the program remains one of the largest in the world. We use an individual-level longitudinal dataset spanning 1997 – 2014. To identify a causal relationship, we combine coarsened exact matching with difference-in-differences. We find no evidence that the short-term unconditional cash transfer affected beneficiaries’ behaviour or preferences. Together with evidence of its positive impact in mitigating the impact of adverse economic shocks, our findings show that short-term unconditional cash transfers should continue to be part of the government’s portfolio of social protection programs.","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"291 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46776599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bracing for turmoil: temporalities of livelihood adaptation among informal workers in Facatativá, Colombia","authors":"Reidar Staupe-Delgado, Luis Eduardo Díaz Villarreal","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2195623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2195623","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study considers temporal aspects of livelihood adaptation in times of turmoil by drawing on interviews with informal street vendors in Facatativá, Colombia. By engaging a ‘time stories’ perspective, this article aims to provide a better understanding of how livelihood responses to shocks emerge from (and are constrained by) individuals’ initial and changing assumptions about the continued onset of a crisis. We found that livelihood adaptation to shock, in some cases, involves adopting a new livelihood that appears more durable. In other cases, adaptation is temporary with individuals returning to prior livelihoods when conditions allow. Many individuals had limited livelihood options. In such cases adaptation was more precarious generally, implying drastic consumption cuts or relying on neighborly networks. Also, changing one’s livelihood is a high-risk decision for people who are often already struggling to survive in a context of declining overall demand and falling incomes as a crisis hits.","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"233 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43622842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Sanjaya Lall Prize for 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2208448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2208448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"83 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42458653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of Covid-19 on household poverty: examining impacts and resilience in a 40-year timeframe in rural Rajasthan (India)","authors":"A. Krishna, Tushar Agrawal","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2190087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2190087","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To what extent has chronic poverty increased during the pandemic? In July and August 2021, we revisited seven villages of southern Rajasthan (India), where we had studied household poverty dynamics in 2002. We find that in the two decades before the pandemic (2002–2020), people’s structural positions improved vastly, chronic poverty fell from nearly half to less than 20% of households. These gains in resilience helped people cope with the pandemic. The majority suffered deep income losses between February 2020 and August 2021, but there is no evidence of any substantive rise in chronic poverty.","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"217 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47652671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Education as opportunity? The causal effect of education on labor market outcomes in Jordan","authors":"Daniel L. Hicks, Huiqiong Duan","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2177264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2177264","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper studies the impact of the 1988/1989 educational reform in Jordan which extended mandatory schooling from nine to ten years and restructured secondary schooling. Despite weakness in the Jordanian labor market, our estimates suggest that an additional year of required schooling in the late 1980s was sufficient to improve labor force participation, employment, and wages. These effects were initially largest for women, while males with more education were also slightly more likely to be self-employed, work longer hours, and earn higher wages. We show that the extensive margin gains we observe for women persist over the life cycle, while intensive margin gains materialize only later in life. In contrast, the impacts for men strengthen over the life-cycle. These patterns are consistent with a persistent influence of traditional gender norms in Jordanian society influencing labor market decision making.","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"179 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43137306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fuel–food nexus in urban areas: evidence from Burkina Faso","authors":"Zakaria Zoundi, Y. Uchida","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2183943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2183943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the transmission of fuel prices to food security among households with motorcycles in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, combining quantitative and behavioural analyses. The results indicate that approximately 61.3% of households were affected by food insecurity between 2018 and 2019. This share comprises those experiencing meagre forms of food insecurity (24.8%), moderate food insecurity (28.3%), and the most severely affected (8.2%). One of the chief reasons for food insecurity is households’ high reliance on motorcycles as a primary means of transportation. Low-income levels and unproductive rides can reinforce exposure to such vulnerability. Besides, households react differently and asymmetrically to fuel price changes. Reactions to hypothetical fluctuations in fuel prices suggest a positive association between gradual increases in fuel prices and food insecurity. Households’ exposure to food insecurity is further bolstered when the head is a female, non-salaried, less educated, of low income, or from a large household.","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"322 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45640496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urbanising futures and sustainability","authors":"J. Beall","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2176861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2176861","url":null,"abstract":"The ODS-sponsored opening plenary of the Development Studies Association Conference, 2022, focused on the challenges of sustainability in a world that is increasingly urbanized. Chaired by Christoph Linder (Dean of the Bartlett, UCL), the speakers included Jo Beall (Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics and Political Sciences), Aromar Revi (Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements [IIHS]) and William E. Rees (Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia)","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43773544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women and plant entanglements: pulses commercialization and care relations in Punjab, Pakistan","authors":"Muhammad A. Kavesh, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Rajendra Adhikari","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2177265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2177265","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Commercialization of agriculture in patriarchal rural Pakistan has transformed women’s critical roles in pulses production and has re-organised the gendered division of labour in what used to be widely known as a ‘women’s crop’. Pulses are grown in the marginal and arid lands by small-holder farming families where women care for the crops as an extension of their other caring roles for the households. Based on an ethnographic study of women pulse farmers in Pakistan, this paper examines the complex relations of women with the crop and the challenges they face. It argues that the restoration of a caring relationship between women and the pulses crop through a re-animation of multispecies contact zones may be a way to ensure everyday food provisioning in rural Punjab, maintain traditional socio-cultural and ecological relationships, understand the masculinity that has pushed women to the margins, and value women’s contribution, experience, and knowledge in agriculture.","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"84 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43656207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using solicited audio-recorded diaries to explore the financial lives of low-income women in Kenya during COVID-19: perspectives, challenges, and lessons","authors":"L. Rabinovich","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2168259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2168259","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Solicited diaries in audio, written and online forms are increasingly used in qualitative data collection. However, most studies using this approach are set in high-income, high-literacy country settings. This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges of this approach in a low-income, low-resource, low-literacy setting. We used solicited audio-recorded diaries to explore the financial lives of low-income women in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic. We enrolled 24 women to submit diary entries every day for seven days. We found that the audio-recorded diaries worked well with low-income women in Kenya, which has high penetration of cell phone ownership. The diaries provided textured, detailed insights into participants’ day-to-day challenges, fluctuations, and coping strategies while relying less on recall. Nevertheless, the approach required two pilots to perfect, which may be challenging when research resources and time are limited. This study provides timely evidence on the use of audio-recorded solicited diaries in low-income settings.","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"280 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41530236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The interconnection with climate crisis and inequality in the future of urbanization","authors":"Aromar Revi","doi":"10.1080/13600818.2023.2176863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2176863","url":null,"abstract":"I would like to look at the connection between the three agendas of this conference (sustainable development, climate change and disaster risk agendas) that many people, present here at this meeting and otherwise, have helped construct over the last decade. Before I do that, one way of looking forward through the question of urbanizing futures of sustainability, is to look back. If we want to get some sense of where we might be in the 2050s and the 2070s, it might be useful to look back (maybe 30 or 50 years) and see what distance we have come over that period of time. The obvious thing may be to go back to Brundtland and the framing of sustainable development in the formal process (United Nations, 1987). In that, of course, urbanization is tagged on at the end. It is not a central part of that agenda. Brundtland’s definition is very focused on intergenerational equity concerns. There are very serious issues of intergenerational questions, apart from other environmental considerations. Or, one could go back to Barbara Ward. It is 50 years since 1972 and Stockholm. She was pivotal in trying to frame this agenda, both in the sustainability space but also bringing together the urban and the sustainability argument, especially around the Habitat 1 forum in 1976 and her writing. I will take you to a slightly different space. I will take you back to 1972 and a book that made waves at that point of time, written by colleagues, friends and mentors of mine; a book called The Limits to Growth (Meadows et al., 1972). When I came to look at it analytically – maybe 30 years ago when we were in the run-up to the Rio conference and we recalibrated the models they put together in the early 70s – there was actually a shock that we experienced. What I found was that in the early 90s, we were unfortunately very much on track to where the broad global dynamics would work, as far as that model is concerned. It was an analytical model. It was a global model. It had lots of critiques that came from all shapes and sizes, including from the Harvard economists. The unfortunate fact today is (and it’s not a prediction) is that in the 2020s we are (in some dramatic and unfortunate ways) in the midst of a series of very deep challenges; on the development front of course, on the economic and political front, and also on the environmental front. In a sense what Limits was saying at that time in trying to get a handle on questions of sustainability of the global system and global society, is that there may well be an overshoot and these now manifest consequent challenges. It seems that we are close to at least one of those cusps at this current point of time. Two and a half years ago we would have had no sense that we would have the kind of global challenges seen with COVID. COVID (as I’ve written about elsewhere) is the perfect SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) crisis. It started around health (in SDG 3), but permeated through the entire system touching poverty, inequality a","PeriodicalId":51612,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"6 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48984662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}