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 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
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	17
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
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
Issue Information	14
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	13
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	13
Issue Information	12
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
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	10

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
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	9
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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
Issue Information	8
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Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	8
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
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
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
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
Issue Information	5
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
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