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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	125
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa	93
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	25
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	25
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	24
Social Policy and Polanyi's Double Movement across Time	24
Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’	24
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	20
Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice	20
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	19
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	19
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	18
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	17
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	15
Issue Information	15
Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity	15
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Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	14
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Checkpoint Taxation and Neo‐patrimonial Political Order in Afghanistan	13
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	13
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	13
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	12
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Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	12

Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	12
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	11
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	11
Unbundling the Grid: Renewable Capital and the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States	11
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs	11
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	10
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Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	10
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	10
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	10
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	10
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	10
‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran	9
Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	9
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Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	9
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	9
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	9
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	8
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Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India	8
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	7
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	7
Issue Information	7
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
The Enduring Problem of Statism: Social War, Total Liberation and Postdevelopment in the Decolonization Industry	7
Issue Information	7
Where Did Development Economics Come From?	6
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	6
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COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	6
Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld	6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	6
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	6
The Common Framework and its Discontents	6
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	6
Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery	5
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility	5
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization	5
Decarbonizing Agriculture and Beyond: What Is at Stake?	5
Issue Information	5
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Middle‐income Trap or Neoliberal Trap? Industrial Policy and Ideology in the World Development Report 2024	5
Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore	5
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	5
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?	5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis	5
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	4

Financialization of and by International Organizations: The United Nations and the Global Climate Finance Architecture	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
Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India	4
China's Market Reform Debate	4
Issue Information	4
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	4
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa	4
The Migration–Development Nexus Revisited: A Place‐based Mobility Perspective from the Borderlands	4
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Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	3
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Corrigendum	3
Issue Information	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
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia	3
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Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar	3
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire	3
The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency	3
State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?	3
The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation	3
Brokerage in Markets: The Role of Ambiguity in Distributing Value	3
Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico	3
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	3
Everyday Politics of Dadan Contracts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	2
The Politics of Detailed Urban Planning: Institutional Change and Urban Rentiership in Madagascar	2
Issue Information	2
Acknowledgement to Reviewers	2
Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations	2
How to Vaccinate a Fish: Merck, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Developing Surveillance Capitalism within the Blue Revolution	2
‘I Love Being My Own Boss (But the Work is Killing Me)’: Ride‐hail Drivers’ Contradictory Ideas about Work in African Cities	2
Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives	2
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A Conversation with Carlota Perez: A Life of Revolutions	2
Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America	2
Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?	2
Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	2
Issue Information	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
The Minerals–Energy Complex in South Africa: An Empirical Debunking	2
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Capitalist Development or Super‐exploitation? Exploring Divergent Patterns of Surplus Appropriation along Coffee Commodity Chains	1
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	1
Learning to Industrialize: Ideas, Institutions and Power in the Development of Industrial Parks in Ethiopia	1
From the Migration–Development Nexus to Mobility Justice: A Plea for Recognizing Double Embeddedness	1
Reviewer Acknowledgements November 2024–October 2025	1
Assembling Nutrition‐sensitive Agriculture: How Global Food Security Projects Are Sustained Despite Tensions, Contradictions and Failure	1
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	1
Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines	1
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition?	1
Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi	1
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Greening the Gulf? Renewables, Fossil Capitalism and the ‘East–East’ Axis of World Energy	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
Rereading Ujamaa, Rethinking Freedom	1
The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality	1
Socially Necessary Green Development in India	1
Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’	1
Governing Artisanal and Small‐scale Sand Mining in Bangladesh	1
Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy	1
Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?	1