Introduction

News

Issue 21.5 of EJDR, a special issue featuring papers from the 2008 DSA conference, is now available. To celebrate this issue, we are making Olivier Rubin's article, ‘The Merits of Democracy in Famine Protection – Fact or Fallacy?’ free to access until the end of the year. Professor Rubin's article was the winner of the EJDR essay prize in 2008.

Details of forthcoming special issues in 2010 and 2011 are now available.

The full EJDR archive, containing 20 volumes back to 1989, is now available from the Palgrave website.

From 2009 Palgrave Macmillan will publish The European Journal of Development Research on behalf of The European Association for Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). The EJDR is one of the leading international development research journals and has been published since 1989. The first volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan will be Volume 21, beginning in February 2009.

EJDR Press Release (PDF, 32KB)

Highlights from the current volume

Issue 21.1 includes hard-hitting opinion pieces from the directors of five major international development research centres in four continents, discussing what will be the most important development issues for the next five years.

Issue 21.2 sees the launch of the EJDR's new themed debate section. These occasional special sections will focus on landmark development reports, and we kick off with discussion of the CPRC's Chronic Poverty Report 2008-2009, with articles from report co-author Martin Prowse (Research Officer, Overseas Development Report), Duncan Green (Head of Research, Oxfam UK), and Tony Addison (Associate Director of the CPRC and professor of development studies at the University of Manchester.

Issue 21.4 will be a special issue on ‘China in Africa: A Relationship in Transition’, co-edited by Olu Ajakaiye (African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi) and Raphael Kaplinsky (Open University, UK and University of Cape Town)