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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	100
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa	85
Social Policy and Polanyi's Double Movement across Time	39
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	31
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	24
Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’	22
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	21
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	20
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	19
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	17
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	17
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	17
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	15
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	14
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	14
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Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	13
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	13
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Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	12
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	12
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	12
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs	11
Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria	11
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	10

Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	10
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	10
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	10
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	10
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	10
Unbundling the Grid: Renewable Capital and the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States	9
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	9
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	9
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Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	8
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Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	8
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	8
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	8
Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	8
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Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	8
The Enduring Problem of Statism: Social War, Total Liberation and Postdevelopment in the Decolonization Industry	7
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	7
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Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	7
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Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	7
Everyday Politics of Global China: Looking to, Reflecting on, and Enacting Authority in Rural Tajikistan	7
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	7
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	7
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	6
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	6
The Common Framework and its Discontents	6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	6
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	6
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	6
Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery	5
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?	5
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa	5
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility	5
Middle‐income Trap or Neoliberal Trap? Industrial Policy and Ideology in the World Development Report 2024	5
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization	5
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis	5
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Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India	5
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Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	5
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Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore	5
Decarbonizing Agriculture and Beyond: What Is at Stake?	5
Financialization of and by International Organizations: The United Nations and the Global Climate Finance Architecture	4
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	4

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China's Market Reform Debate	4
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia	4
The Migration–Development Nexus Revisited: A Place‐based Mobility Perspective from the Borderlands	4
Coastal Erosion, Enclosure and Displacement: The Impact of the Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala	4
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	4
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Brokerage in Markets: The Role of Ambiguity in Distributing Value	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
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The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania	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
State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?	3
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Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico	2
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire	2
Acknowledgement to Reviewers	2
Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations	2
A Conversation with Carlota Perez: A Life of Revolutions	2
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Issue Information	2
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	2
The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency	2
The Minerals–Energy Complex in South Africa: An Empirical Debunking	2
How to Vaccinate a Fish: Merck, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Developing Surveillance Capitalism within the Blue Revolution	2
Corrigendum	2
The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report	2
Municipal Councillors and the Everyday State: New Representations of Political Accountability in Ahmedabad, India	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
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	2
Capitalist Development or Super‐exploitation? Exploring Divergent Patterns of Surplus Appropriation along Coffee Commodity Chains	1
Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?	1
‘I Love Being My Own Boss (But the Work is Killing Me)’: Ride‐hail Drivers’ Contradictory Ideas about Work in African Cities	1
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Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’	1
Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi	1
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition?	1
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Everyday Politics of Dadan Contracts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	1
Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	1
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Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?	1
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	1
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	1
Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines	1
The Politics of Detailed Urban Planning: Institutional Change and Urban Rentiership in Madagascar	1
Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	1
Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America	1
Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives	1
Rereading Ujamaa, Rethinking Freedom	1
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	1
Socially Necessary Green Development in India	1