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Wegi Feyisa, K et al. 2025

Process evaluation of the adolescent and youth health program implementation in primary healthcare facilities of Woliso town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a case study evaluation design. Reproductive Health, 22(196).

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Venkatachalam, M., Banik, D. 2025

Moral geographies: Indian exceptionalism, Africa, and the politics of South–South cooperation. Third World Quarterly46(5), 505–522.

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Luyten E, Tubeuf S. 2025

Equity in healthcare financing: A review of evidence. Health Policy. 152:105218

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Bull, B., Banik, D. 2025

The Rebirth of the Global South: Geopolitics, Imageries and Developmental Realities. Forum for Development Studies52(2), 195–214

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Ramutsindela, M. et al. 2025

African Political Ecologies. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 50: 12.1-12.18.

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Aikpitanyi, J., and Tubeuf, S. 2025

Inequalities in women’s empowerment during childbirth in sub-Saharan Africa. The Lancet, 406 (10511), 1470

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Ramutsindela, M. 2025

Political Ecology of African Peace Parks. Routledge. 

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Souza, E. et al. 2024

Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during COVID-19: An examination of interviewer–respondent interactions, Demographic Research, 51(46), pp.1471-1490

Kayuni, H. 2024

The Politics and Anthropology of Combating Corruption in Africa, in Kuwali, D (Eds) Corruption Proofing in Africa: A Systems Thinking Approach, London: Routledge, pp. 38-51

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Kayuni, H. 2024

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Development Policy and Politics in Malawi, in Hopestone Kayiska Chavula, and others (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Malawi Economy, Oxford University Press, pp.17-39

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Fisher, S., and Chasukwa, M. 2024

The Political Economy of Global Health: The Case of Development Aid and Parallel Paths in Malawi’s Health System, in Chavula, H.K., Ngalawa, H., Munthali, T.C., and Dulani, B., (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Malawi Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.97-120

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Chasukwa, M., and Banik, D 2024

Development Aid: Complementarity or Competition? The West and China in Malawi. in Chavula, H.K., Ngalawa, H., Munthali, T.C., and Dulani, B., (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Malawi Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.121-140

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Chasukwa, M., and Crack, A. 2024

Participatory Translation and Anti-racism in NGO Development Work: A Method of Co-producing Translations with Community Members.  Development Policy Review, 42, e12787

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Biermann, F. et al. 2024

Reinvigorating the Sustainable Development Goals. The Utrecht Roadmap. Statement of the International Research Conference “GlobalGoals2024”. Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Anders, G., & Kayuni, H. 2024

The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice. Journal of Southern African Studies50(5), 843–847.

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Adolfsson, J. S., & Finyiza, G. 2024

The Western psychologization of global development: A cultural and decolonial approach. Theory & Psychology, 34(6), 713-735.

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Adolfsson, J. S., Banik, D., & Dulani, B. 2024

Power, Politics, and the Supernatural: Exploring the Role of Witchcraft Beliefs in Governance for Development. Forum for Development Studies, 51(3), 389–410

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Biermann, F. et al. 2023

Four Governance Reforms to Strengthen the SDGs. Science 381,1159-1160

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Banik, D. and Mawdsley, E 2023

South–South Cooperation and global development in a multipolar world: China and India in Africa. J. Int. Dev., 35: 539 548

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Banik, D., Venkatachalam, M., Modi, R. 2023

Catalysing Progress Through Capacity-Building Initiatives: Learnings from India’s Pan-African e-Network Project in Ghana and Malawi. Occasional Paper No. 420. Observer Research Foundation.

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