The Board of Oxford Development Studies journal awards a £500 prize to honour the memory of the late Professor Sanjaya Lall, a development economist and Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. The prize is awarded annually for the best article published in each volume of the journal.

In respect of Volume 51 (2023), the prize has been awarded to Louis Olié (Bordeaux School of Economics, University of Bordeaux) for ‘Under pressure: assessing the cost of forced solidarity in Côte d’Ivoire‘.

In respect of Volume 52 (2024), the prize has been awarded to V. Kalyan Shankar (Symbiosis International, Deemed University, Pune, India); Ira Deulgaonkar, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK; and Rohini Sahni for ‘A functional typology of exclusions: why and how women fail to access government schemes in India’.

The Board of Oxford Development Studies also awards a £1000 prize every two years for the best article by a student or students published in the journal.

In respect of Volumes 51 and 52, the student prize has been awarded to Mohammed Iddrisu Kambala (University of South Carolina) for ‘The impact of precolonial political centralisation on local development: Ghana’s paradox’.

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