Word count: 2,000-4,000 words
Payment: $2,000 per piece
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About In Development
In Development is a magazine dedicated to exploring how progress actually happens in low- and middle-income countries. We publish narrative-driven essays on ideas, policies, and technologies that have the possibility to, or are already, improving global well-being. Our first issue is available here.
Our mission is to expand the conversation about development. We’re interested in stories that are intellectually serious, empirically grounded, and a pleasure to read – pieces that a policymaker in Nairobi, a donor in New York, or a grad student in Delhi could all find illuminating.
We also take a “yes, and” approach to development – we think NGOs and aid are a key part of the picture, but so are governments, entrepreneurship, infrastructure, innovation, and institutional reform.
What We’re Looking For
Pitches are currently closed. They will likely reopen January 2027.
AI Policy
We understand that AI tools have become a critical part of the research process for many writers. We welcome use of AI to brainstorming different angles, headlines, and structure or other copy-editing support.
However, AI may not be used to invent, fabricate, or “fill in” facts, quotes, citations, datasets, or references, produce numbers, tables, or empirical claims without verifying them against primary sources, or generate ideas or text wholesale.
The final text of both the pitch and article should be something you are confident in saying you wrote, with all ideas coming from you.
Payment and Process
Payment is $2,000 upon publication. In general, the editorial process will involve 2-3 rounds of revision, in addition to fact-checking and copy-editing; the process will likely take 1-2 months.