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This guide instructs researchers on how to adapt academic manuscripts for a highly cross-disciplinary, policy-oriented audience, modeled after the standards of World Development (WD). It emphasizes shifting the focus from literature gaps or technical methods to concrete development problems, translating complex jargon and statistical findings into clear, actionable policy implications, ensuring maximum readability for non-specialist policymakers and scholars.

This framework guides decision-makers to structure their thinking by classifying decisions based on the cost and feasibility of reversal. It emphasizes treating low-cost, reversible choices (two-way doors) quickly, while reserving deep deliberation for high-cost, irreversible commitments (one-way doors). It helps mitigate analysis paralysis and premature over-engineering.