OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development and Change is 4. 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
Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing	9
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
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
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
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
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