Published in The European Journal of Development Research
Development evaluation refers to evaluating projects and programmes in development contexts. Some evaluations are too narrow. Narrow within-discipline impact evaluations are weaker than multidisciplinary, mixed-methods evaluations. A two-step process leads toward profoundly better arguments in assessing the impact of a development intervention. The...
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
This commentary reviews key arguments on both sides of a heated methodological debate that has dominated the development economics literature for more than a decade now. It argues that the debate is increasingly fatiguing and tends to overemphasise (empirical) methodological peculiarities at the expense of conceptual issues, the resolution of which...
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
This article addresses rural–urban transformations in the war-torn Kivu provinces. The spectacular growth and development processes of fast-expanding boomtowns in Kivu’s rural areas serve as an entry point to investigate the relationship between conflict, displacement, urbanisation and development in Eastern D.R. Congo. Based on qualitative researc...
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
Changing rural–urban connections are made evident in the patterns and dynamics of rural transformations. This study investigates these transformations by presenting data from a particularly dynamic area: Njombe Region in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. By taking its empirical point of departure in the development of Njombe Town and its rural hi...
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
This paper deals with the impact of livelihood diversification through multi-activity and multi-locality on small-town development in Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania. Based on a cross-country analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from ten different research sites, its central argument is that the tendencies of de-agrarianisation, agric...
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
This paper is based on data collected from fieldwork in 2003 and 2013 in and around the small town of Bora in the Oromiya Zone of the Amhara Region in north-eastern Ethiopia. When Bora was first visited in 2003 it was an isolated place with a population of less than 1000. There was a police station, a health centre dependent upon a diesel generator...
Published in The European Journal of Development Research
This paper focusses on urbanisation in rural regions of Africa, and in particular on the type of settlement growth that occurs not in proximity to, but rather disassociated from, existing urban centres. What characterises such settlements is that they are generally not acknowledged as urban entities, but are involved in an administrative process in...
