OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development and Change is 5. 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
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
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	13
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	12
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Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	12
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	11
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

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
Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive	10
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	9
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	9
Issue Information	9
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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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
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
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
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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
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
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
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	5
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