Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are pivotal actors in international affairs. They
manage billions of dollars in funding, work all around the world, and shape global policies …

Motivation Critical development studies have overlooked water‐related nexuses and
frameworks proposed by development agencies that recognize that water and sanitation are …

Purpose: This study intends to determine whether family businesses empower women,
encourage their entrepreneurship, and enable them to become fully engaged in activities …

This working paper is a review of keywords that communicate ideas associated with
accountability. The format is unconventional, designed so that readers can dip in and out …

Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development
world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These …

This article discusses how the relationship between recipients and providers of development
aid is deliberated in top-level international fora, where current and future aid practices are …

We analyse the popularity of the term 'financial inclusion'in relation to other development
buzzwords. We extract trend data for multiple development buzzwords across countries and …

The debates around remote warfare have grown significantly over the last decade, leading
to the term acquiring a certain buzz in the media, think-tank, and policy discourse. The lack …

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the effective economic engines of most
developing countries. Unfortunately, due to resource constraints, the failure rate of SMEs is …

For decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have helped to fill the development
gap in Ghana, often through donor-funded projects targeting the most impoverished …