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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	71
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	65
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	41
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	33
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	27
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	27
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	24
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	18
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa	17
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	16
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	16
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	16
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	15
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	14
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	14
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	13
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	13
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	13
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Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	12
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	12
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	11
Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive	11
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Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	10

Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs	10
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	10
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	10
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	9
Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria	9
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	9
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	8
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	8
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	8
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	8
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	8
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Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	8
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Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	7
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	7
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Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	7
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Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	6
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	6
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	6
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	6
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	6
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	6
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	6
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	6
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	6
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The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	5
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	5
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis	5
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	5
The Common Framework and its Discontents	5
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	5
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa	5
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	5
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The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization	5
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	5
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Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore	5
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?	5
Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India	5
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State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?	4
China's Market Reform Debate	4
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	4
The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	4
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	4
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility	4
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	4
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia	4
Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	4
Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico	3
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire	3
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Brokerage in Markets: The Role of Ambiguity in Distributing Value	3
The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report	3
The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania	3
The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency	3
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The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	3
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	3
Corrigendum	3
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Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	2
Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations	2
Everyday Politics of Dadan Contracts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	2
‘I Love Being My Own Boss (But the Work is Killing Me)’: Ride‐hail Drivers’ Contradictory Ideas about Work in African Cities	2
Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines	2
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	2
Pushcarts and Fountains: Masculinity, Agency and Labour Culture among Water Workers of N'Djamena, Chad	2
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	2
Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	2
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Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America	2
Acknowledgement to Reviewers	2
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Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?	2
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Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	2
Municipal Councillors and the Everyday State: New Representations of Political Accountability in Ahmedabad, India	2
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Multistakeholder Partnerships for Development and the Financialization of Development Assistance	1
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Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?	1
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	1
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing	1
Derisking Developmentalism: A Tale of Green Hydrogen	1
New Multilateral Development Banks and Green Lending: Approaching Scalar Complexities in the Global South	1
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Compressed Development and the Political Economy of Developmentalism	1
How the Institutional Context Creates a Neoliberal Politics of Aid: An Italian Case Study	1
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	1
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	1
Rereading Ujamaa, Rethinking Freedom	1
Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy	1
When Victors Claim Victimhood: Majoritarian Resentment and the Inversion of Reparations Claims	1
Post‐pandemic Transformations and the Recasting of Development: A Comment and Further Reflections	1
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach	1
Iran's Feminist School in the Diaspora: Dynamics of Decline and Demobilization	1
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	1
Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi	1
The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality	1
Governing Artisanal and Small‐scale Sand Mining in Bangladesh	1
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition?	1
Taiwan's COVID‐19 Response: The Interdependence of State and Private Sector Institutions	1
Black Economic Empowerment and Quota Allocations in South Africa's Industrial Fisheries	1
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