OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development and Change is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	140
Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice	100
Social Policy and Polanyi's Double Movement across Time	31
Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’	30
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa	28
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	27
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	23
Opium Pathways: Mountains, Mules and Resource Extraction in Shan State, Myanmar	22
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	21
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	21
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Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	20
Issue Information	19
Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity	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	18
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	17
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	16
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	16
Issue Information	14
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	14
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	14
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	14
Checkpoint Taxation and Neo‐patrimonial Political Order in Afghanistan	13
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	13

Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	13
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Issue Information	13
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	12
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	12
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	12
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	12
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs	11
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	11
Unbundling the Grid: Renewable Capital and the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States	11
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	11
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	11
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	11
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	11
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	10
Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	10
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Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	9
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	9
‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran	8
Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India	8
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Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	8
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	8
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	7
The Enduring Problem of Statism: Social War, Total Liberation and Postdevelopment in the Decolonization Industry	7
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Everyday Politics of Global China: Looking to, Reflecting on, and Enacting Authority in Rural Tajikistan	7
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	7
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	7
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	7
Where Did Development Economics Come From?	6
Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions	6
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	6
Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery	6
The Common Framework and its Discontents	6
Isbaaro : Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia	6
Developmental States in a Hobbesian World	6
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The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	6
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	6
Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld	6
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	6
Issue Information	6