SPECIAL ISSUES
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The Editors welcome suggestions for special issues at an early stage in their development. Initial contact may be made with any of the Editor-In-Chief, or the other Editors. Please see our Notes for Proposers and Guest Editors for full guidelines.
Top of pageForthcoming Special Issues
The following special issues have been announced by the EJDR Editorial Team. We welcome your submissions and encourage authors interested in submitting to a special issue to discuss their submissions with the special issue editors in advance. Once a proposal for a special issue has been approved, submissions will be managed through the journal’s centralized submission system - please do not email your submission to the editors.
New avenues for pastoral development in sub-Saharan Africa
| Guest Editors: | Tobias Hagmann, Department of Geography, University of Zürich; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, German Development Institute, Bonn |
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| Summary | In recent years pastoral production systems and lifestyles in sub-Saharan Africa – both sedentary and mobile – have gained increasing attention. While disciplinary approaches have produced important insights into the dynamics and problems of African drylands, few efforts have been made to problematize and conceptualize pastoral development from a holistic and comparative perspective. To fill this gap, this special issue aims to provide an overview of the current interdisciplinary research on the multiple challenges and opportunities faced by pastoralist societies and (semi-)arid ecosystems in SSA. |
| Submission Due Date: | No longer accepting submissions |
| Publication Date: | Early 2010 |
Female entrepreneurship across countries and in development
| Guest Editors: | Professor Wim Naudé, World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU, Finland; Maria Minniti, SMU Cox School of Business, Dallas, USA |
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| Summary | It is generally recognized that women have a vital role to play as entrepreneurs in development, and that they often face more obstacles in this role than men. The dilemma is that women’s challenges as entrepreneurs are tightly interwoven with the very fabric of their societies, so that perhaps more than any other topic, the role of women in entrepreneurship is a reflection of broader societal progress. This implies a dauntingly complex, but not insurmountable task for policy makers. The purpose of this planned special section is to throw light on this task by reviewing the state of empirical evidence on the broad position of women entrepreneurs across the world. Differing from other research on the topic the focus in this special section will be global and comparative. Papers will examine the international comparable data available between countries (e.g. taken from the GEM survey and the World Bank�s Doing Business Surveys) to better understand the profile, constraints and dynamics of women entrepreneurs. The papers in this special section will ask, from this, what are the institutional features of societies that influence women entrepreneurs, will explore how societal conventions in developing countries influence the success and outcomes of women entrepreneurs, and the extent to which these conventions may constrain or hinder other policy initiatives towards women entrepreneurship and empowerment, particularly in developing countries, such as the provision of micro-credit. |
| Submission Due Date: | No longer accepting submissions |
| Publication Date: | Late 2010 |
The PRSP legacy in Latin America
| Guest Editors: | Geske Dijkstra, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kristin Komives, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands |
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| Summary | The articles in this volume examine several aspects of the Poverty Reduction Strategy process in Latin America. Together, they not only illustrate the dynamics of the PRS process in the different countries, but also assess whether central goals of the process, such as promoting participation and accountability, a moving towards a more programmatic approach to aid, and improving the effectiveness of poverty reduction policies, have been achieved. The collection focuses on the four Latin American Heavily Indebted Poor Countries: Bolivia, Guyana, Honduras and Nicaragua. Most articles examine one of the expected outcomes of the PRS process (accountability, result-oriented budgeting, more effective spending, aid effectiveness) or deal with one sector or theme (gender, rural development, forestry). Most adopt a comparative approach; three take an in-depth look at the experience in one country. |
| Submission Due Date: | By invitation only; deadline 1 October 2009. |
| Publication Date: | Early 2011 |
