About the journal
Progress in Development Studies is the peer-reviewed review journal in international development — development theory, the political economy of aid and policy, poverty and inequality research, and the geography and political economy of the Global South. Founded at Hodder Arnold in 2001 with Rob Potter (Royal Holloway, later University of Reading) as founding editor, the journal was carried to SAGE Publications in the 2006 Hodder Arnold journal-list sale.
Editorial scope covers development theory and historiography, structural-adjustment and post-Washington-consensus political economy, poverty measurement and the Multidimensional Poverty Index literature, the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, urbanisation and informality in cities of the Global South, agrarian change and rural transformation, the geography of foreign aid, gender and development, climate change and development, and the postcolonial critique of development practice. The journal's "Progress Report" format mirrors that of the Progress in Human Geography / Progress in Physical Geography pair, providing regular subfield reviews alongside research articles.
Under SAGE the journal has continued without editorial disruption and remains a principal English-language review periodical in development studies.
Scope
- development studies
- international development policy
- poverty and inequality research
- the geography of the Global South
Editorial contributors
- Rob Potter
Founding Editor (from 2001)
Indexing & abstracting
- Scopus
- Web of Science (SSCI)
- IBSS
- EconLit
Indexing coverage reflects the journal’s inclusion in standard bibliographic databases during the Arnold imprint years and (where applicable) under subsequent publishers.
Bibliographic identifiers
- ISO 4 abbreviation
- Prog. Dev. Stud.
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