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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	56
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	52
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	51
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	39
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	31
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	26
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	23
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	21
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	21
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	19
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	18
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	17
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	16
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	15
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	13
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	13
From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	13
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Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	12
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	12
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	11
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	11
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	11
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	11
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	11

Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive	10
John Loxley: Radical Academic Activist	10
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	10
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	10
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Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	9
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	9
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs	8
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	8
Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria	8
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	8
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	8
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Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	7
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	7
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	7
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India	7
Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	7
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	7
Labour Formalization and Inequality: The Distributive Impact of Labour Formalization in Latin America since 2000	6
What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries	6
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	6
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	6
Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction	6
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	6
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Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	6
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	6
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	5
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The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	5
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	5
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	5
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	5
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization	4
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	4
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	4
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?	4
Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India	4
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa	4
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The Common Framework and its Discontents	4
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	4
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	4
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis	4
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility	4

‘Risky Data’ for Inclusive Microinsurance Infrastructures	4
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	4
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	4
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	4
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	4
Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore	4
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia	3
Improvising an E‐state: The Struggle for Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique	3
Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	3
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Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	3
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Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	3
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The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	3
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	3
State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?	3
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China's Market Reform Debate	3
From Global to Local Tea Markets: The Changing Political Economy of Tea Production within India's Domestic Value Chain	3
The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania	3
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	3
Falling through the Cracks: Digital Infrastructures of Social Protection in Ecuador	3
The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency	2
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	2
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Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	2
Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations	2
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Corrigendum	2
Acknowledgement to Reviewers	2
The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report	2
Brokerage in Markets: The Role of Ambiguity in Distributing Value	2
Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico	2
Municipal Councillors and the Everyday State: New Representations of Political Accountability in Ahmedabad, India	2
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire	2
Pushcarts and Fountains: Masculinity, Agency and Labour Culture among Water Workers of N'Djamena, Chad	2
Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	2
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	1
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition?	1
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Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	1
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Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	1
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Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines	1
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The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality	1
Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’	1
Martin Khor: The Practice of Change	1
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Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	1
Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America	1
Everyday Politics of Dadan Contracts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	1
Multistakeholder Partnerships for Development and the Financialization of Development Assistance	1
Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi	1
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	1
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	1
Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?	1
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Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	1
Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?	1