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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The Wall Street Consensus	218
The Re‐making of the Turkish Crisis	48
Solar Power and its Discontents: Critiquing Off‐grid Infrastructures of Inclusion in East Africa	36
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	27
NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India	26
Regulating Over‐indebtedness: Local State Power in Cambodia's Microfinance Market	25
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	22
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	19
Derisking Developmentalism: A Tale of Green Hydrogen	18
Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise	18
Diffuse Drivers of Modern Slavery: From Microfinance to Unfree Labour in Cambodia	17
Bibliodiversity at the Centre: Decolonizing Open Access	16
Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction	15
Politics of Engagement: Gender Expertise and International Governance	15
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	15
From Global to Local Tea Markets: The Changing Political Economy of Tea Production within India's Domestic Value Chain	14
Rethinking Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State‒Labour Relations and Intersectionality	14
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing	14
From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	13
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	13
Introduction: The Politics of Open Access — Decolonizing Research or Corporate Capture?	12
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach	10
Situating Political Agronomy: The Knowledge Politics of Hybrid Rice in India and Uganda	10
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India	9
Give James Ferguson a Fish	9

Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi	8
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?	8
Open Access in Indonesia	8
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	8
Measuring Women's Empowerment: Gender and Time‐use Agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria	7
What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries	7
Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing	7
COVID‐19 and the Unequalizing Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion in Tamil Nadu	7
The European Response to Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment: Introducing a Dynamic Analytical Framework	7
Compelled to Compete: Rendering Climate Change Vulnerability Investable	6
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	6
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	6
COVID‐19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic	6
Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries	6
Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations	6
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	6
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	6
‘Aerial Silk Roads’: Airport Infrastructures in China's Belt and Road Initiative	6
Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field	6
The High Priests of Global Development: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Sacrifice in a Celebrity‐led Water Charity	6
Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate	6
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	5
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	5
Portfolios of Social Protection, Labour Mobility and the Rise of Life Insurance in Rural Central Vietnam	5
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	5
Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID‐19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy	5
Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	5
The World Bank's ‘Assault on Poverty’ as a Political Question (1968–81)	5
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	5
Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	5
The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour	5
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	5
Open Access, Plan S and ‘Radically Liberatory’ Forms of Academic Freedom	5
The Evolution of India's Industrial Labour Share and its Correlates	4
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	4
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	4
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	4
One Door Opens: Another Door Shuts?	4
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: When Is an Agreement More than a Contract?	4
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	4
Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour: The Challenge of Assessing Women's Empowerment	4
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	4
The Common Framework and its Discontents	4
Conceptualizing, Financing and Infrastructuring: Perspectives on Open Access in and from Africa	4
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	4
Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change	4
How Accessible are Journal Articles on Education Written by Sub‐Saharan Africa‐based Researchers?	4
Black Economic Empowerment and Quota Allocations in South Africa's Industrial Fisheries	4
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance: Legitimacy, Order and Leadership in India	4
Unsettling the American Dream: Mobility, Migration and Precarity among Translocal Himalayan Communities during COVID‐19	4

Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	4
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	4
Continuities in Transition: Ethnicity, Language and Labour Market Inequalities in Kyrgyzstan	3
Unravelling the ‘P’ Word in Environment and Development	3
Revisiting the Natural Resource Curse: Backward Linkages for Export Diversification and Structural Economic Transformation	3
Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’	3
Security, Resilience and Participatory Urban Upgrading in Latin America and the Caribbean	3
From Rebel to Humanitarian: Military Savoir Faire and Humanitarian Practice in Eastern DR Congo	3
External Financial Liberalization and Macroeconomic Performance in Emerging Countries: An Empirical Evaluation of the Brazilian Case	3
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	3
Hidden in Plain Sight: Chinese Development Finance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
The Rightful Share: Land and Effective Claim Making in Odisha, India	3
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	3
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	3
‘Fundermediaries’ in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain	3
Improvising an E‐state: The Struggle for Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique	3
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	3
New Multilateral Development Banks and Green Lending: Approaching Scalar Complexities in the Global South	3
‘Risky Data’ for Inclusive Microinsurance Infrastructures	3
Financialization for Development? Asset Making on Indigenous Land in Remote Northern Australia	3
Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina	3
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	3
Peasant Production in India: How the ‘Need Economy’ Facilitates Accumulation	3
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	3
Labour Formalization and Inequality: The Distributive Impact of Labour Formalization in Latin America since 2000	2
‘If You Fall, Stand Up Again’: The Moral Nature of Financial Literacy in the Global South	2
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	2
Multistakeholder Partnerships for Development and the Financialization of Development Assistance	2
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	2
Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	2
Old Cycles and New Vulnerabilities: Financial Deregulation and the Argentine Crisis	2
The Return of Debt Crisis in Developing Countries: Shifting or Maintaining Dominant Development Paradigms?	2
‘Start from the Garden’: Distribution, Livelihood Diversification and Narratives of Agrarian Decline in Papua, Indonesia	2
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	2
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	2
The Wind from the East: China and European Economic Development	2
Rethinking the Affirmative Value, Politics and Materiality of Waste on the Urban Periphery	2
The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	2
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	2
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	2
Falling through the Cracks: Digital Infrastructures of Social Protection in Ecuador	2
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India	2
On the Character and Causes of Inequality in Latin America	2
Taiwan's COVID‐19 Response: The Interdependence of State and Private Sector Institutions	2
The Virus, the Dollar, and the Global Order: The COVID‐19 Crisis in Comparative Perspective	2
Open Access and Academic Freedom: Teasing Out Some Important Nuances	2
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	2
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	2
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	1
China's Market Reform Debate	1
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	1
On Broker Exploitation and Violence: From Madalali to Cartel Bosses in the Food Aid Resale Economy of Tanzanian Refugee Camps	1
Issue Information	1
John Loxley: Radical Academic Activist	1
A Gendered Counter‐archive: Mining and Resistance in Morocco	1
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	1
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Green Growth and the Balance‐of‐payments Constraint	1
Misaligned Social Policy? Explaining the Origins and Limitations of Cash Transfers in Sudan	1
The Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: Towards a Local Eco‐developmental State	1
Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive	1
Social Relations, Gender and Empowerment in Economic Development: Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur	1
Food Sovereignty and the Struggle for Socio‐economic Justice in North Africa	1
‘Plant, Sleep, Pick’: Ambivalent Smallholder Market Engagement and Inclusive Value Chains in Northwest Nepal	1
Chronicles of Debt Crises Foretold	1
An Alternative View of Sri Lanka's Debt Crisis	1
Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	1
Erratum	1
Iran's Feminist School in the Diaspora: Dynamics of Decline and Demobilization	1
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	1
Formalization and its Discontents: Conceptual Fallacies and Ways Forward	1
Social Reproduction, Ecological Dispossession and Dependency: Life Beside the Río Santiago in Mexico	1