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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	260
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	52
How to Create More Inclusive Economies: An Interview with Dani Rodrik	44
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Issue Information	34
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	33
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Motherhood	19
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	18
Issue Information	18
Old Cycles and New Vulnerabilities: Financial Deregulation and the Argentine Crisis	17
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Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	16
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	14
From Multiple Deprivations to Exploitation: Politicizing the Multidimensional Poverty Index	13
Law and Famine: Learning from the Hunger Courts in South Sudan	11
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Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	10
‘Fundermediaries’ in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain	9
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	9
From Rebel to Humanitarian: Military Savoir Faire and Humanitarian Practice in Eastern DR Congo	9
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	8
Dollar Liquidity, Financial Vulnerability and Monetary Sovereignty	8
Issue Information	8
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	7

Improvising an E‐state: The Struggle for Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique	7
Militarized Development in Post‐war Sri Lanka: Consolidating Control	7
Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate	7
Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change	7
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	7
COVID‐19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic	7
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	7
Rethinking International Relations and Development in Times of Uncertainty	7
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia	6
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	6
The European Response to Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment: Introducing a Dynamic Analytical Framework	6
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	6
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Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina	6
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The Knife is Still in Our Backs: Reparations Washing and the Limits of Reparatory Justice Campaigns	6
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	6
Chronicles of Debt Crises Foretold	6
The Return of Debt Crisis in Developing Countries: Shifting or Maintaining Dominant Development Paradigms?	6
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The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	5
The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania	5
Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?	5
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	5
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	5
State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?	5
Solar Power and its Discontents: Critiquing Off‐grid Infrastructures of Inclusion in East Africa	5
Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi	5
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Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	4
Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’	4
Agrarian Questions: New Paradigms in a Changing World	4
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	4
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	4
‘Plant, Sleep, Pick’: Ambivalent Smallholder Market Engagement and Inclusive Value Chains in Northwest Nepal	4
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	4
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	4
Issue Information	4
Local Financial Institutions and Income Inequality: Evidence from Brazil's Credit Cooperative Movement	4
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	4
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	4
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition?	4