Development and Change

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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In Cold Blood at Cambridge125
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa93
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution25
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field25
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?24
Social Policy and Polanyi's Double Movement across Time24
Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’24
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies20
Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice20
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis19
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?19
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon18
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World17
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South15
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Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity15
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Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water14
Checkpoint Taxation and Neo‐patrimonial Political Order in Afghanistan13
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–202113
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism13
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Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam12
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Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case12
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India12
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India11
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes11
Unbundling the Grid: Renewable Capital and the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States11
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs11
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China10
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India10
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Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic10
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa10
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time10
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress10
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation10
‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran9
Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being9
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Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question9
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice9
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries9
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward8
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Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India8
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Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination7
Everyday Politics of Global China: Looking to, Reflecting on, and Enacting Authority in Rural Tajikistan7
The Enduring Problem of Statism: Social War, Total Liberation and Postdevelopment in the Decolonization Industry7
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Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa7
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector7
Where Did Development Economics Come From?6
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap6
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COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis6
Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America6
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?6
The Common Framework and its Discontents6
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making6
Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery5
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility5
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization5
Decarbonizing Agriculture and Beyond: What Is at Stake?5
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Middle‐income Trap or Neoliberal Trap? Industrial Policy and Ideology in the World Development Report 20245
Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore5
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth5
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis5
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