OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Development and Change is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	129
Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice	96
Social Policy and Polanyi's Double Movement across Time	29
Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’	27
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	25
Opium Pathways: Mountains, Mules and Resource Extraction in Shan State, Myanmar	25
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa	25
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	21
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	20
Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity	19
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	19
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	19
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	17
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	16
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	16
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Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	15
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	14
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Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	14
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	14
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	13
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	13
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Checkpoint Taxation and Neo‐patrimonial Political Order in Afghanistan	13

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Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	12
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	11
Unbundling the Grid: Renewable Capital and the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States	11
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	11
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	11
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs	11
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	10
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	10
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	10
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	10
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	10
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	10
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	9
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Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	9
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	8
‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran	8
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	8
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Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India	7
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	7
The Enduring Problem of Statism: Social War, Total Liberation and Postdevelopment in the Decolonization Industry	7
Everyday Politics of Global China: Looking to, Reflecting on, and Enacting Authority in Rural Tajikistan	7
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Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	7
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	7
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	7
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Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	6
Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery	6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	6
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	6
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Isbaaro : Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia	6
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Where Did Development Economics Come From?	5
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Middle‐income Trap or Neoliberal Trap? Industrial Policy and Ideology in the World Development Report 2024	5
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?	5
The Common Framework and its Discontents	5
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	5
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	5
Decarbonizing Agriculture and Beyond: What Is at Stake?	5
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa	5
Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld	5
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis	5
Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore	5

The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization	4
The Migration–Development Nexus Revisited: A Place‐based Mobility Perspective from the Borderlands	4
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	4
Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India	4
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The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility	4
Financialization of and by International Organizations: The United Nations and the Global Climate Finance Architecture	4
Coastal Erosion, Enclosure and Displacement: The Impact of the Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala	4
China's Market Reform Debate	4
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The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report	3
Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar	3
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	3
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia	3
The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation	3
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	3
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Brokerage in Markets: The Role of Ambiguity in Distributing Value	3
Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico	3
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	3
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The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania	3
Corrigendum	3
The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency	3
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire	3
State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?	3
Developmental or Liberal? How Japan and South Korea Diffuse Hybrid Financial Market Norms	3
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A Conversation with Carlota Perez: A Life of Revolutions	2
Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations	2
How to Vaccinate a Fish: Merck, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Developing Surveillance Capitalism within the Blue Revolution	2
Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?	2
‘I Love Being My Own Boss (But the Work is Killing Me)’: Ride‐hail Drivers’ Contradictory Ideas about Work in African Cities	2
Municipal Councillors and the Everyday State: New Representations of Political Accountability in Ahmedabad, India	2
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Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	2
Pushcarts and Fountains: Masculinity, Agency and Labour Culture among Water Workers of N'Djamena, Chad	2
Acknowledgement to Reviewers	2
The Minerals–Energy Complex in South Africa: An Empirical Debunking	2
Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America	2
The Politics of Detailed Urban Planning: Institutional Change and Urban Rentiership in Madagascar	2
Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy	1
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing	1
Socially Necessary Green Development in India	1
The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality	1
Capitalist Development or Super‐exploitation? Exploring Divergent Patterns of Surplus Appropriation along Coffee Commodity Chains	1
Everyday Politics of Dadan Contracts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	1
Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives	1
Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?	1
Reviewer Acknowledgements November 2024–October 2025	1
Assembling Nutrition‐sensitive Agriculture: How Global Food Security Projects Are Sustained Despite Tensions, Contradictions and Failure	1
Learning to Industrialize: Ideas, Institutions and Power in the Development of Industrial Parks in Ethiopia	1
Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’	1
Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines	1
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Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi	1
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition?	1
From the Migration–Development Nexus to Mobility Justice: A Plea for Recognizing Double Embeddedness	1
How the Institutional Context Creates a Neoliberal Politics of Aid: An Italian Case Study	1
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	1
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	1
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Rereading Ujamaa, Rethinking Freedom	1
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Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	1