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Edited By: Maha Abdelrahman, Murat Arsel, Amrita Chhachhi, Andrew M. Fischer, Georgina Gómez, Kate Meagher and Servaas Storm
Journal Overview
One of the leading international journals in the field of development studies and social change, Development and Change now appears six times a year, including the Development and Change Forum issue. Truly interdisciplinary in character, it includes contributions from all the social sciences and all intellectual persuasions concerned with development. With its history of publishing unconventional and challenging articles, the journal covers a broad range of topics in a mix of regular and special theme issues. Development and Change is devoted to the critical analysis and discussion of the complete spectrum of development issues.
News and Announcements
Development and Change is pleased to announce a special virtual collection on Decolonizing Open Access in Development Research. Read the collection here.
It is with deep sadness that the Editorial Board of Development and Change shares the news that Martin Doornbos, one of the founding editors and a guiding spirit of the journal, passed away on 7 July 2020. Read the In Memoriam here.
Articles
COVID‐19 and the Unequalizing Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion in Tamil Nadu
-  927-951
-  16 August 2021
Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations
-  6 August 2021
Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate
-  2 August 2021
Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive
-  2 August 2021
Industrial Policy in the 21st Century
- Development and Change
-  324-351
-  11 January 2020
De‐centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development
- Development and Change
-  729-745
-  1 October 2019
Beyond Market Logics: Payments for Ecosystem Services as Alternative Development Practices in the Global South
- Development and Change
-  3-25
-  18 October 2019
The Sino‐centric Capital Export Regime: State‐backed and Flexible Capital in the Philippines
- Development and Change
-  970-997
-  23 June 2020
The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right‐wing Populism
- Development and Change
-  371-397
-  3 February 2020
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia's Apparel Sector
- Development and Change
-  1018-1043
-  21 June 2020
Chile's Export Diversification since 1960: A Free Market Miracle or Mirage?
- Development and Change
-  1624-1663
-  3 October 2019
Authoritarian Neoliberalism, Radical Conservatism and Social Policy within the European Union: Croatia, Hungary and Poland
- Development and Change
-  540-560
-  10 December 2019
Hybrid Outcomes of Payments for Ecosystem Services Policies in Vietnam: Between Theory and Practice
- Development and Change
-  253-280
-  18 October 2019
The ‘Populist’ Right Challenge to Neoliberalism: Social Policy between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Development and Change
-  418-441
-  19 February 2020
Recent issues
Article Spotlight
Focus
Evictions: A Global Capitalist Phenomenon
Susanne Soederberg
Debate
Financialization and Economic Development: A Debate on the Social Efficiency of Modern Finance
Servaas Storm
On the Social Efficiency of Finance
Gerald Epstein
The Collateralization of Social Policy under Financialized Capitalism
Lena Lavinas
The Developmental State: Dead or Alive?
Robert H. Wade
Risky Returns: The Implications of Financialization in the Food System
Jennifer Clapp and S. Ryan Isakson
Assessment
Paradoxes of Resilience: A Review of the World Disasters Report 2016
Tom Scott-Smith






