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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Wall Street Consensus	180
Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme	88
The Re‐making of the Turkish Crisis	43
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia's Apparel Sector	41
The Sino‐centric Capital Export Regime: State‐backed and Flexible Capital in the Philippines	34
Solar Power and its Discontents: Critiquing Off‐grid Infrastructures of Inclusion in East Africa	31
NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India	26
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	21
Regulating Over‐indebtedness: Local State Power in Cambodia's Microfinance Market	20
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	18
Disaster Financialization: Earthquakes, Cashflows and Shifting Household Economies in Nepal	18
Diffuse Drivers of Modern Slavery: From Microfinance to Unfree Labour in Cambodia	16
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	16
Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise	16
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	15
Rethinking Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State‒Labour Relations and Intersectionality	14
Waste Political Settlements in Colombia and Chile: Power, Inequality and Informality in Recycling	13
Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction	13
Politics of Engagement: Gender Expertise and International Governance	13
Bibliodiversity at the Centre: Decolonizing Open Access	13
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	13
From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	11
From Global to Local Tea Markets: The Changing Political Economy of Tea Production within India's Domestic Value Chain	10
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing	10
Betting on Potatoes: Accumulation in Times of Agrarian Crisis in Punjab, India	9

Introduction: The Politics of Open Access — Decolonizing Research or Corporate Capture?	9
Situating Political Agronomy: The Knowledge Politics of Hybrid Rice in India and Uganda	9
Give James Ferguson a Fish	8
Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi	8
Derisking Developmentalism: A Tale of Green Hydrogen	8
Open Access in Indonesia	8
What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries	7
COVID‐19 and the Unequalizing Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion in Tamil Nadu	7
Remote Sensing, Land Quotas and Mass Relocation: China's Governance of Farmland	7
Measuring Women's Empowerment: Gender and Time‐use Agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria	7
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach	7
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
Capitalism without Surveillance?	6
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?	6
The European Response to Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment: Introducing a Dynamic Analytical Framework	6
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India	6
Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing	6
COVID‐19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic	6
Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field	5
The World Bank's ‘Assault on Poverty’ as a Political Question (1968–81)	5
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	5
Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries	5
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	5
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	5
‘Aerial Silk Roads’: Airport Infrastructures in China's Belt and Road Initiative	5
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	5
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	5
Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations	5
Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	4
Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour: The Challenge of Assessing Women's Empowerment	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
Open Access, Plan S and ‘Radically Liberatory’ Forms of Academic Freedom	4
Compelled to Compete: Rendering Climate Change Vulnerability Investable	4
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	4
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	4
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: When Is an Agreement More than a Contract?	4
The Evolution of India's Industrial Labour Share and its Correlates	4
Black Economic Empowerment and Quota Allocations in South Africa's Industrial Fisheries	4
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	4
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	4
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	4
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	3
The Common Framework and its Discontents	3
Revisiting the Natural Resource Curse: Backward Linkages for Export Diversification and Structural Economic Transformation	3
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	3
Security, Resilience and Participatory Urban Upgrading in Latin America and the Caribbean	3
Peasant Production in India: How the ‘Need Economy’ Facilitates Accumulation	3
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	3

Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	3
Unsettling the American Dream: Mobility, Migration and Precarity among Translocal Himalayan Communities during COVID‐19	3
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance: Legitimacy, Order and Leadership in India	3
Portfolios of Social Protection, Labour Mobility and the Rise of Life Insurance in Rural Central Vietnam	3
Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’	3
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	3
External Financial Liberalization and Macroeconomic Performance in Emerging Countries: An Empirical Evaluation of the Brazilian Case	3
Continuities in Transition: Ethnicity, Language and Labour Market Inequalities in Kyrgyzstan	3
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	3
One Door Opens: Another Door Shuts?	3
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	3
The Rightful Share: Land and Effective Claim Making in Odisha, India	3
Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina	3
‘In This Profession We Eat Dust’: Informal and Formal Solidarity among Women Urban Transportation Workers in Nepal	3
Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID‐19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy	3
How Accessible are Journal Articles on Education Written by Sub‐Saharan Africa‐based Researchers?	3
Hidden in Plain Sight: Chinese Development Finance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	2
Unravelling the ‘P’ Word in Environment and Development	2
The Virus, the Dollar, and the Global Order: The COVID‐19 Crisis in Comparative Perspective	2
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	2
Rethinking the Affirmative Value, Politics and Materiality of Waste on the Urban Periphery	2
From Rebel to Humanitarian: Military Savoir Faire and Humanitarian Practice in Eastern DR Congo	2
Falling through the Cracks: Digital Infrastructures of Social Protection in Ecuador	2
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	2
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	2
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	2
Project Narratives: Investigating Participatory Conservation in the Peruvian Andes	2
Financialization for Development? Asset Making on Indigenous Land in Remote Northern Australia	2
Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	2
The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	2
Old Cycles and New Vulnerabilities: Financial Deregulation and the Argentine Crisis	2
‘Risky Data’ for Inclusive Microinsurance Infrastructures	2
‘Start from the Garden’: Distribution, Livelihood Diversification and Narratives of Agrarian Decline in Papua, Indonesia	2
‘If You Fall, Stand Up Again’: The Moral Nature of Financial Literacy in the Global South	2
Taiwan's COVID‐19 Response: The Interdependence of State and Private Sector Institutions	2
The Wind from the East: China and European Economic Development	2
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	2
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	2
Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change	2
Labour Formalization and Inequality: The Distributive Impact of Labour Formalization in Latin America since 2000	2
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	2
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India	2
Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	1
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	1
Iran's Feminist School in the Diaspora: Dynamics of Decline and Demobilization	1
Social Relations, Gender and Empowerment in Economic Development: Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur	1
Multistakeholder Partnerships for Development and the Financialization of Development Assistance	1
Social Reproduction, Ecological Dispossession and Dependency: Life Beside the Río Santiago in Mexico	1
Improvising an E‐state: The Struggle for Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique	1
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	1
Misaligned Social Policy? Explaining the Origins and Limitations of Cash Transfers in Sudan	1
On Broker Exploitation and Violence: From Madalali to Cartel Bosses in the Food Aid Resale Economy of Tanzanian Refugee Camps	1
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	1
The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour	1
John Loxley: Radical Academic Activist	1
Food Sovereignty and the Struggle for Socio‐economic Justice in North Africa	1
Open Access and Academic Freedom: Teasing Out Some Important Nuances	1
‘Fundermediaries’ in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain	1
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Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	1
Erratum	1
New Multilateral Development Banks and Green Lending: Approaching Scalar Complexities in the Global South	1
On the Character and Causes of Inequality in Latin America	1
Issue Information	1
A Gendered Counter‐archive: Mining and Resistance in Morocco	1
Issue Information	1
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	1
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	1
The Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: Towards a Local Eco‐developmental State	1