Journal of Development Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Development Studies is 0. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis27
Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana23
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime22
Improving Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Do Women Policymakers Matter?20
Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research20
Being Dead Otherwise19
An Actor-Based Perspective On Informal Cross-Border Trading16
Education Empowers Residential Energy Transition: Causal Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reform in China16
Ex-Post Evaluations of Aid Projects: A Cost-Effective Approach16
The Paradox of Seclusion: Regional Differences in Female Employment and Wages in Urban India16
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company16
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Development: A Grid Cell Analysis15
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?15
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes: Gender-Differentiated Evidence from Cameroon15
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism14
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review14
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai13
To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide13
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway12
Determinants of Sustainability of Informal Community-Based Financial Groups: Insights from a Survival Analysis Approach12
Fiscal Reaction Functions Augmented with Bespoke Debt Indicators: Evidence from Small Island States12
From Temporary Migration to Urban Settlement: Children’s Co-Migration and Long-Term Residence in China11
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought11
Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia11
Does Regional Favoritism Affect Public Investment Budget Allocation? Evidence from Cameroon in the Context of Decentralization11
Child Work in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Differences and Similarities Between Income-Generating and Care and Domestic Work10
Left in the Dust: Infrastructural Violence of a Railway Project Through Pastoral Rangelands in Kenya10
Shortfall of Domestic Resources to Eradicate Extreme Poverty by 203010
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia10
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC10
Decentralization and Criminal Gangs in El Salvador: Impacts on Municipal Finances and Local Economic Development10
Renqing Consumption in the Digital Era: Evidence from China10
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry since 194710
Free Education in Childhood and Health Benefits in Adulthood: Evidence from China9
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia9
Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India9
Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath9
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century9
Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition9
Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico9
The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia8
In Memoriam: Professor Michael Lipton8
Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India8
Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability During a Growth Episode. Evidence from Bangladesh: 2000–20168
Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria8
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development8
Can Risk Perception Alter Son Preference? Evidence from Gender-Imbalanced Rural China8
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine8
Do Youth Work in Agriculture? Short-Term Dynamics of on-Farm Rural Youth Employment in Tanzania and Malawi8
COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance8
The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East By James Shires London : 8
Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Export Sophistication: Evidence from Chinese Domestic Manufacturing Firms8
Natural Disasters and Changing Risk Preferences: Long-Run Field Evidence from Indonesia8
Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia8
Mobilizing Teachers: Education Politics and the New Labor Movement in Latin America8
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone8
What We Can Learn When Impacts Fail to Replicate: Lessons From an Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Tanzania8
Trans-Sector Livelihood Resilience in an Urban Small-Scale Fishing Community7
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire7
Natural Disasters and Economic Resilience in Caribbean7
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability7
Infrastructure-Driven Development: The Local Social Impact of a Large Hydropower Plant in the Amazon7
One-Minute Earthquake, Years of Patience: Evidence from Mexico on the Effect of Earthquake Exposure on Time Preference7
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan7
Hydropower Hegemony: Examining Civil Society Opposition to Dams in Cambodia7
Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Kyrgyzstan7
In Good Times and in Bad, in Sickness and in Health: The Continuous Rise in Adoption of Labour-Saving Agricultural Technologies in Myanmar7
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India6
Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World6
Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh6
Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India6
Global Value Chains in Agriculture and the Middle-income Trap: A Framework for Analysis Applied to Peru’s Boom6
Saving Transition in Asia6
The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics By Min-Hua Ch6
Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda6
Externally Funded Civil Society in Nationally Owned Development. Rwandan and Cambodian CSO-Experiences Illustrating yet a Clash of Ideals6
Being Well-in with the Joneses? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Conspicuous Consumption among Rural Communities6
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Effect of Urban-Rural Roads Construction in China6
Understanding Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Collaborative Governance Challenges in Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) Jurisdictional Approach6
Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation6
Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development6
Free Senior High School Policy, Household Income, and Secondary School Enrollment in Ghana5
Identifying the Wage Differential in the Temporary Employment Services Sector: Evidence for South Africa using Administrative Tax Records5
Shifting the Balance: Examining the Impact of Local Labor Market Opportunities on Female Household Bargaining Power in India5
International Standards and Export Performance: Evidence from Pakistani Firms5
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century5
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa5
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria5
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda5
Climate-Induced Agricultural Productivity Shocks Undermine Child Nutritional Outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria5
Reaching SDG 7: Shedding a Light on the Causal Effect of Mini-Grids on Rural Electrification5
Starting a Non-Farm Enterprise to Escape Energy Poverty: Household Level Evidence from Rural West Africa5
Why Should we Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation5
Determinants of Private Tutoring Demand in Rural India5
Remittances and Intra-household Gender Disparity in Education Attainment: Evidence from Pakistan5
MFIs and Financial Inclusion: The Role of Business Models5
The Role of Gender Inequality in the Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study from India5
The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey5
Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities5
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data5
The Economic Sociology of Development5
Valuing Children: Parents’ Perceptions, Spending Priorities and Children’s Capabilities4
Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity4
Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts4
Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India4
The Surburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam4
Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi4
Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–20174
Chiefly Patronage and Schooling4
A Different Difference: Nationality, Class, and the Complexities of Localisation at an Indian NGO4
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire4
The IMF, Structural Adjustment, and Poverty: A Cross-National Difference-in-Differences Analysis, 1980-20194
The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania4
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali4
The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resources: Evidence from Ghana4
Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Long4
China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets4
A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela4
The National Childcare Agenda in Cambodia: A Feminist Transformative Ethics of Care Perspective4
The Impact of Social Insurance Reform on Skill Composition and Worker Turnover: Evidence from Ethiopia4
Impact of Weather Shocks on Food Security: How Effective are Forests as Natural Insurance?4
More Than Money: The Critical Role of Management in Educational Aid Effectiveness in Africa4
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy4
Re-Thinking Recipient Agency in South-South Cooperation: Strategies of Contestation, Strategies of Transformation and the South’s Own View of Development4
How Vulnerable are the Self-Employed? Evidence from Ugandan Small-Scale Entrepreneurs4
The Impact of COVID-19 Cash Transfer Program on Food Security in Cambodia4
Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia3
Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity3
Targeting Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel3
Local Recruits in Development Finance Institutions: Relocating Global North-South Divides in the International Aid Industry3
Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform3
Large Grant-Funded Research Centres and Concept Generation in Development Research3
Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa3
Effect of Gender Focused Program on the Educational Attainment of Adolescent Girls in India3
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi3
Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries3
Civil Conflict and Firm Recovery: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire3
Bleeding at the Margins: Understanding Period Poverty among SC and ST Women Using Decomposition Analysis3
Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics3
The Impact of Input Trade Liberalization on the Entry of Foreign Firms: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China3
Enhancing Women’s Income and Household Nutrition Through Training in Small-Scale Fisheries Value Chains in Sub-Sahara Africa3
Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus3
Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India3
Effects of Government Jobs on the Labour Market in Bangladesh3
Death Is Our Business; Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare3
Changing Effects of Birth Order on Education Over Time: Evidence From Cambodia3
The Patron and the Orchestrator: Imperfect Institutions and the Dual Influence of the State on Corporate R&D Investments3
The Violence of Law: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda3
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana3
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique3
The Tax Elasticity of Formal Work in Sub-Saharan African Countries3
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance3
Grandparenthood Penalty in Agriculture: Grandchild Caregiving and Farm Performance3
The Short-Term Labour Market Impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru3
Understanding Farmer Preferences to Guide Crop Improvement: The Case of Grasspea in Ethiopia3
Fiscal Consolidation and Firm Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data3
Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness3
Premature Deindustrialisation and Income Inequality Dynamics: Evidence from Middle-Income Economies3
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?3
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders3
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China3
Reforming of Women’s Litigant Rights and Child Wellbeing: Evidence from Nigeria3
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty3
Can Prosperity be Purchased? An Analysis of Local Development as a Dynamic Community-Based Process in Iran2
Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship2
Reforming Gender Laws: The Economic Impact for Women in Saudi Arabia2
Educational Inequality and the Poverty Trap in Teacher Recruitment2
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria2
Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist and Communal Violence since 19452
Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector2
Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance2
A United Family Prospers : Intrahousehold Economic Discord, Household Income and Child Growth in Burkina Faso2
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing2
Livelihood Buffer Effect of Agriculture: Evidence from China’s Farm Household Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program2
Infrastructure, Spatial Imaginaries and Dispossession: Narratives of Port-City Making2
African Military Politics in the Sahel: Regional Organizations and International Politics2
COVID-19 and Sub-Saharan Africa Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies2
Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America2
Private Investment in Education: Household Response to a Policy Change in English as a Second Language2
The Myth and Reality of Teacher Shortage in India2
Using the Participation Cube to Conduct Participation Analysis of Development Projects in Zambia and Uganda2
Beyond the Formal-Informal Dichotomy: Towards Accommodating Diverse Milk-Collection Practices in the Economic Middle of Kenya’s Dairy Sector2
Technology Heterogeneity and Poverty Traps: A Latent Class Approach to Technology Gap Drivers of Chronic Poverty2
The Impact of Early Marriage on the Life Satisfaction, Education and Subjective Health of Young Women in India: A Longitudinal Analysis2
The Fight Against Malaria: A New Index for Quantifying and Assessing Policy Implementation Actions to Reduce Malaria Burden in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence2
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty2
Power and Informality in Urban Africa, Ethnographic Perspectives2
Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector2
To Reform and to Procure: An Analysis of the Role of the State and the Market in Indian Agriculture2
What Are the Economic and Poverty Implications for Sudan If the Conflict Continues Through 2025?2
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use, and Learning Loss during COVID-192
Be Happy, Be Loyal? Exploring Drivers for Renewal of Mobile-Delivered Index Insurance2
Can Farmer Collectives Empower Women and Improve Their Welfare? Mixed Methods Evidence from India2
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy2
At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia2
Recovery for Development: A Multi-Dimensional, Practice-Oriented Framework for Transformative Change Post-Disaster2
Measuring Self-Employment Income in Household Surveys: Evidence From A Randomised Survey Experiment2
Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi2
Habsburgs On the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire2
The Impact of Road Development on Household Welfare in Rural Papua New Guinea2
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi2
Remaindered Life2
Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique2
Impacts of Climate Change on Loan Performance: Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies for Rural Households and Lenders2
Visible Consumption, Income Inequality and Social Comparisons. Evidence from Four Latin American Countries2
Children Are the Riches of the Poor: The Possibility of Transgenerational Impacts of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) Campaign2
Female Early Marriage and Son Preference in Pakistan2
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda2
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India2
Identifying the COVID-19 Transmission Channels on Poverty and Food Security in Refugee-Hosting Districts of Uganda2
African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces By Emizet F. Kisangan2
Beyond Reducing Deforestation: Impacts of a REDD+ Project on Household Livelihoods2
Public–Private Development Cooperation: Interface and Conflicting Logics in the Formation of a Strategic Partnership2
Givers of Great Dinners Know Few Enemies: The Impact of Food Sufficiency and Food Sharing on Low-intensity Household Conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo1
Household Gender Roles and Slow-Onset Environmental Change in Morocco: A Barrier or Driver to Develop Migration Aspirations?1
The Case for a New Bretton Woods The Case for a New Bretton Woods By Kevin P. Gallagher & Richard Kozul-Wright Cambridge : 1
State, Capitalism, and Finance in Emerging Markets1
The Role of Political Connections in COVID Policy Response: Effectiveness of Firm-Level Government Support in Egypt1
Vulnerability to Climate Change and Communal Conflicts: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and South/South-East Asia1
Land Tenure and Agricultural Investment: Do Ugandan Polygynous Households Comport with Theory?1
Include Chiefs, Increase Legitimacy? Local Perceptions of Conservation Management1
Canada’s Small INGOs: Growth Aspirations, Strategies, and Constraints1
Climate Change and Disability-Inclusive Adaptation: Qualitative Evidence from Uzbekistan1
Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State1
Natural Disasters and Child Marriage: Evidence from the 2007 Cyclone in Bangladesh1
Care Functions within the Kinship Network: Explaining Care Arrangements and Female Health Choices in Post-Disaster Nepal1
Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond1
Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African1
Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza1
Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana1
Teraanga Republic: Women’s Authority and Politics in Senegal1
The Impact of Public Price Information on Farm Incomes: Lessons from the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange1
Skills Training, Corruption and Organisational Capabilities: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry1
Resilience from Below: Rethinking Development in Northern Kenya’s Pastoral Drylands1
From Cash to Care: Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health in India1
The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms1
Contending Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law1
African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture 1952–19661
Property Institutions and State Capacity: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Agricultural Projects in Zambia1
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism1
Building Digital Technological Capabilities: A Global South Perspective1
Colonial Rule and the Power of Chiefs over Land Resources1
Low-Cost Low-Touch Information Provision, Parental Involvement, and Student Learning Outcomes: Evidence from a Government-Implemented Intervention in Indonesia Ψ1
Does the Minimum Wage Affect Wage Inequality? A Study for the Six Largest Latin American Economies1
Addressing Non-response Bias in Surveys of Wealthy Households in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Strategies and Implementation1
Compulsory Education and Gender Inequality in China’s Structural Transformation1
Keeping the Enemies Closer? Exporting Behaviour of Firms Under Conflict1
0.064819812774658