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jde-literature-positioning
Use when staking a manuscript's contribution against the development-economics literature for the Journal of Development Economics (JDE). Positions the paper at the frontier; it does not write a standalone survey.
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# Literature Positioning (jde-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- A reviewer would ask "what is new here relative to the development literature?"
- The introduction reads like a survey instead of staking a claim
- You cannot name the two or three papers you are directly building on or beating
- You are unsure whether a result is incremental or a genuine advance for the field
## The JDE positioning bar
JDE referees are specialists in development economics; they judge the **contribution first**. Positioning has to be precise about the field's frontier, not a general-economics frame. Three moves:
1. **Locate the conversation.** Name the specific development literature you join — e.g., the microeconomics of poverty traps, randomized evaluation of education or health interventions, agricultural technology adoption, credit and microfinance, migration, trade and firms in LMICs, political economy of development, or development macro and growth.