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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	87
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa	74
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	38
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	29
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	24
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	20
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	20
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	18
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	17
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	17
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	16
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	16
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	14
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	13
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	13
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	12
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	12
Issue Information	12
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	11
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	11
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	11
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	10
Issue Information	10
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	10
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	10

Unbundling the Grid: Renewable Capital and the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States	9
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	9
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	9
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs	9
Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria	9
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	8
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	8
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	8
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State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	8
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	8
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	7
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	7
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Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	7
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	7
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	7
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	7
Issue Information	7
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Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	6
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	6
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Everyday Politics of Global China: Looking to, Reflecting on, and Enacting Authority in Rural Tajikistan	6
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	6
Issue Information	6
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	6
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	6
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	5
The Common Framework and its Discontents	5
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	5
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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
Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery	5
Issue Information	5
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	5
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa	5
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	5
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis	5
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization	5