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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Wall Street Consensus	238
The Re‐making of the Turkish Crisis	52
Solar Power and its Discontents: Critiquing Off‐grid Infrastructures of Inclusion in East Africa	44
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	32
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	28
Derisking Developmentalism: A Tale of Green Hydrogen	26
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	24
Rethinking Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State‒Labour Relations and Intersectionality	19
Diffuse Drivers of Modern Slavery: From Microfinance to Unfree Labour in Cambodia	18
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	18
From Global to Local Tea Markets: The Changing Political Economy of Tea Production within India's Domestic Value Chain	17
Bibliodiversity at the Centre: Decolonizing Open Access	17
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	17
Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction	16
From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	16
Introduction: The Politics of Open Access — Decolonizing Research or Corporate Capture?	15
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing	14
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach	12
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India	9
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	9
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	9
Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing	9
Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	8
The European Response to Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment: Introducing a Dynamic Analytical Framework	8
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?	8

Open Access in Indonesia	8
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: When Is an Agreement More than a Contract?	8
Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries	7
The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour	7
COVID‐19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic	7
What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries	7
The Common Framework and its Discontents	7
Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate	7
COVID‐19 and the Unequalizing Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion in Tamil Nadu	7
Measuring Women's Empowerment: Gender and Time‐use Agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria	7
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	7
Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	6
The High Priests of Global Development: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Sacrifice in a Celebrity‐led Water Charity	6
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	6
Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations	6
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	6
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	6
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	6
Compelled to Compete: Rendering Climate Change Vulnerability Investable	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 Return of Debt Crisis in Developing Countries: Shifting or Maintaining Dominant Development Paradigms?	6
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	6
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	5
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	5
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance: Legitimacy, Order and Leadership in India	5
Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change	5
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	5
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	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
Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID‐19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy	5
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	5
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	5
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	5
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	5
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	4
One Door Opens: Another Door Shuts?	4
The Wind from the East: China and European Economic Development	4
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	4
Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’	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
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	4
Conceptualizing, Financing and Infrastructuring: Perspectives on Open Access in and from Africa	4
Financialization for Development? Asset Making on Indigenous Land in Remote Northern Australia	4
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	4
Hidden in Plain Sight: Chinese Development Finance in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Unsettling the American Dream: Mobility, Migration and Precarity among Translocal Himalayan Communities during COVID‐19	4
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	4
Revisiting the Natural Resource Curse: Backward Linkages for Export Diversification and Structural Economic Transformation	4

Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	4
Old Cycles and New Vulnerabilities: Financial Deregulation and the Argentine Crisis	3
Peasant Production in India: How the ‘Need Economy’ Facilitates Accumulation	3
‘Risky Data’ for Inclusive Microinsurance Infrastructures	3
The Rightful Share: Land and Effective Claim Making in Odisha, India	3
The Virus, the Dollar, and the Global Order: The COVID‐19 Crisis in Comparative Perspective	3
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	3
‘Fundermediaries’ in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain	3
From Rebel to Humanitarian: Military Savoir Faire and Humanitarian Practice in Eastern DR Congo	3
The Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: Towards a Local Eco‐developmental State	3
‘Start from the Garden’: Distribution, Livelihood Diversification and Narratives of Agrarian Decline in Papua, Indonesia	3
New Multilateral Development Banks and Green Lending: Approaching Scalar Complexities in the Global South	3
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	3
Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina	3
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	3
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	3
Labour Formalization and Inequality: The Distributive Impact of Labour Formalization in Latin America since 2000	3
Adding Insult to Injury: The COVID‐19 Crisis Strikes Latin America	3
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	3
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	3
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	3
Improvising an E‐state: The Struggle for Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique	3
Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	2
Dollar Liquidity, Financial Vulnerability and Monetary Sovereignty	2
Implementing Health Policy in Nigeria: The Basic Health Care Provision Fund as a Catalyst for Achieving Universal Health Coverage?	2
Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	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
Social Relations, Gender and Empowerment in Economic Development: Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur	2
A Gendered Counter‐archive: Mining and Resistance in Morocco	2
The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	2
Falling through the Cracks: Digital Infrastructures of Social Protection in Ecuador	2
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India	2
On Broker Exploitation and Violence: FromMadalalito Cartel Bosses in the Food Aid Resale Economy of Tanzanian Refugee Camps	2
On the Character and Causes of Inequality in Latin America	2
Formalization and its Discontents: Conceptual Fallacies and Ways Forward	2
Open Access and Academic Freedom: Teasing Out Some Important Nuances	2
Chronicles of Debt Crises Foretold	2
Green Growth and the Balance‐of‐payments Constraint	2
The World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery in the Context of the International Debt Crisis	2
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	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
Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria	1
Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive	1
The Distinct Dispossessions of Indian Settler Colonialism in Kashmir: Land, Narrative and Indigeneity	1
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	1
Modern Legal Practice as the Engine of Inequality	1
Erratum	1
An Alternative View of Sri Lanka's Debt Crisis	1
Heterogeneity and Labour Agency in Artisanal and Small‐scale Gold Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo	1
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	1
John Loxley: Radical Academic Activist	1
Pakistan, China and the Structures of Debt Distress: Resisting Bretton Woods	1
Agrarian Questions: New Paradigms in a Changing World	1
The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality	1
Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?	1
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	1
Post‐pandemic Transformations and the Recasting of Development: A Comment and Further Reflections	1
Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy	1
Issue Information	1
Iran's Feminist School in the Diaspora: Dynamics of Decline and Demobilization	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
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	1
Misaligned Social Policy? Explaining the Origins and Limitations of Cash Transfers in Sudan	1
China's Market Reform Debate	1
Amplified State Capitalism in China: Overproduction, Industrial Policy and Statist Controversies	1