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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis61
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism52
Improving Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Do Women Policymakers Matter?37
Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana33
Education Empowers Residential Energy Transition: Causal Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reform in China24
An Actor-Based Perspective On Informal Cross-Border Trading21
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime21
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?20
Ex-Post Evaluations of Aid Projects: A Cost-Effective Approach20
Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research16
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes: Gender-Differentiated Evidence from Cameroon16
Mental and Physical Health Effect of Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa: A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation Study16
Being Dead Otherwise16
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review15
Risk Aversion and Gender Gaps in Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia15
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Development: A Grid Cell Analysis15
To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide15
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway14
Left in the Dust: Infrastructural Violence of a Railway Project Through Pastoral Rangelands in Kenya14
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia14
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai14
Determinants of Sustainability of Informal Community-Based Financial Groups: Insights from a Survival Analysis Approach14
Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia14
Shortfall of Domestic Resources to Eradicate Extreme Poverty by 203013
Decentralization and Criminal Gangs in El Salvador: Impacts on Municipal Finances and Local Economic Development12
Free Education in Childhood and Health Benefits in Adulthood: Evidence from China12
Does Regional Favoritism Affect Public Investment Budget Allocation? Evidence from Cameroon in the Context of Decentralization12
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought12
Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India12
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry since 194712
Fiscal Reaction Functions Augmented with Bespoke Debt Indicators: Evidence from Small Island States11
Natural Disasters and Changing Risk Preferences: Long-Run Field Evidence from Indonesia11
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC11
Child Work in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Differences and Similarities Between Income-Generating and Care and Domestic Work11
Does Agricultural Commercialisation Increase Asset and Livestock Accumulation on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia?11
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century11
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia10
Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath10
Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition10
COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance10
Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico10
In Memoriam: Professor Michael Lipton10
Do School Feeding Programmes Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Liberia9
The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia9
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine9
Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Export Sophistication: Evidence from Chinese Domestic Manufacturing Firms9
Can Risk Perception Alter Son Preference? Evidence from Gender-Imbalanced Rural China8
Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality8
Imagining the Kenyan Commons: The Stakes of State Control Over Land in the Formulation of the Community Land Act (2011-2016)8
Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia8
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone8
Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability During a Growth Episode. Evidence from Bangladesh: 2000–20168
What We Can Learn When Impacts Fail to Replicate: Lessons From an Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Tanzania8
Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India8
Do Youth Work in Agriculture? Short-Term Dynamics of on-Farm Rural Youth Employment in Tanzania and Malawi8
Hydropower Hegemony: Examining Civil Society Opposition to Dams in Cambodia7
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan7
Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India7
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability7
Understanding Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Collaborative Governance Challenges in Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) Jurisdictional Approach7
Public Work and Private Violence7
Infrastructure-Driven Development: The Local Social Impact of a Large Hydropower Plant in the Amazon7
The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East By James Shires London : 7
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire7
Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh7
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development7
Trans-Sector Livelihood Resilience in an Urban Small-Scale Fishing Community7
In Good Times and in Bad, in Sickness and in Health: The Continuous Rise in Adoption of Labour-Saving Agricultural Technologies in Myanmar7
Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria7
Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda6
The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey6
Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development6
Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World6
Saving Transition in Asia6
Why Should we Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation6
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa6
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
Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities6
Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Kyrgyzstan6
The Economic Sociology of Development6
Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation6
Urban Agglomerations and Wage and Self-employment Jobs in Ethiopia6
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India6
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
MFIs and Financial Inclusion: The Role of Business Models5
The National Childcare Agenda in Cambodia: A Feminist Transformative Ethics of Care Perspective5
Starting a Non-Farm Enterprise to Escape Energy Poverty: Household Level Evidence from Rural West Africa5
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela5
Global Value Chains in Agriculture and the Middle-income Trap: A Framework for Analysis Applied to Peru’s Boom5
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
Identifying the Wage Differential in the Temporary Employment Services Sector: Evidence for South Africa using Administrative Tax Records5
Determinants of Private Tutoring Demand in Rural India5
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Effect of Urban-Rural Roads Construction in China5
How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War5
Shifting the Balance: Examining the Impact of Local Labor Market Opportunities on Female Household Bargaining Power in India5
The Role of Gender Inequality in the Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study from India5
Valuing Children: Parents’ Perceptions, Spending Priorities and Children’s Capabilities5
A Different Difference: Nationality, Class, and the Complexities of Localisation at an Indian NGO5
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire5
Reaching SDG 7: Shedding a Light on the Causal Effect of Mini-Grids on Rural Electrification5
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data5
Remittances and Intra-household Gender Disparity in Education Attainment: Evidence from Pakistan5
China, Africa, and the future of the Internet5
The Party-Police Nexus in Bangladesh4
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy4
Reforming of Women’s Litigant Rights and Child Wellbeing: Evidence from Nigeria4
The Patron and the Orchestrator: Imperfect Institutions and the Dual Influence of the State on Corporate R&D Investments4
Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus4
Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity4
How Vulnerable are the Self-Employed? Evidence from Ugandan Small-Scale Entrepreneurs4
Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi4
Impact of Weather Shocks on Food Security: How Effective are Forests as Natural Insurance?4
Re-Thinking Recipient Agency in South-South Cooperation: Strategies of Contestation, Strategies of Transformation and the South’s Own View of Development4
China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets4
Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–20174
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali4
How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond4
Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia4
Understanding Farmer Preferences to Guide Crop Improvement: The Case of Grasspea in Ethiopia4
The Impact of Input Trade Liberalization on the Entry of Foreign Firms: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China4
Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity4
Stimulating Innovations for Sustainable Agricultural Practices among Smallholder Farmers: Persistence of Intervention Matters4
The Impact of Social Insurance Reform on Skill Composition and Worker Turnover: Evidence from Ethiopia4
The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania . By Michael Degani, 4
Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India4
Enhancing Women’s Income and Household Nutrition Through Training in Small-Scale Fisheries Value Chains in Sub-Sahara Africa4
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance4
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty4
The Tax Elasticity of Formal Work in Sub-Saharan African Countries4
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders4
The Welfare Effects of Social Assistance Programs for Women in India4
Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts4
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
Chiefly Patronage and Schooling4
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana3
What Are the Economic and Poverty Implications for Sudan If the Conflict Continues Through 2025?3
Identifying the COVID-19 Transmission Channels on Poverty and Food Security in Refugee-Hosting Districts of Uganda3
Climate Finance Coordination From the Global to the Local: Norm Localization and the Politics of Climate Finance Coordination in Zambia3
Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform3
Civil Conflict and Firm Recovery: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire3
Large Grant-Funded Research Centres and Concept Generation in Development Research3
Children Are the Riches of the Poor: The Possibility of Transgenerational Impacts of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) Campaign3
Grandparenthood Penalty in Agriculture: Grandchild Caregiving and Farm Performance3
Bleeding at the Margins: Understanding Period Poverty among SC and ST Women Using Decomposition Analysis3
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique3
Changing Effects of Birth Order on Education Over Time: Evidence From Cambodia3
Be Happy, Be Loyal? Exploring Drivers for Renewal of Mobile-Delivered Index Insurance3
Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa3
COVID-19 and Sub-Saharan Africa Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies3
Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India3
Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India’s Informal Sector Firms3
Effects of Government Jobs on the Labour Market in Bangladesh3
African Military Politics in the Sahel: Regional Organizations and International Politics3
Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector3
Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries3
Targeting Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel3
The Violence of Law: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda3
Local Recruits in Development Finance Institutions: Relocating Global North-South Divides in the International Aid Industry3
Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics3
Death Is Our Business; Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare3
Premature Deindustrialisation and Income Inequality Dynamics: Evidence from Middle-Income Economies3
Fiscal Consolidation and Firm Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data3
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program3
Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico and its Regions: A Data-Driven Approach3
Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness3
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing3
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda3
Land Inequality and Workfare Policies3
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi3
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China3
The Short-Term Labour Market Impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru3
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?3
Reforming Gender Laws: The Economic Impact for Women in Saudi Arabia2
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use, and Learning Loss during COVID-192
The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization2
Financializing Drought Risk: Introducing Neoliberal Assumptions into Africa’s Drylands2
Visible Consumption, Income Inequality and Social Comparisons. Evidence from Four Latin American Countries2
Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector2
Missing Women in China and India over Seven Decades: An Analysis of Birth and Mortality Data from 1950 to 20202
Recovery for Development: A Multi-Dimensional, Practice-Oriented Framework for Transformative Change Post-Disaster2
The Myth and Reality of Teacher Shortage in India2
Habsburgs On the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire2
The Fight Against Malaria: A New Index for Quantifying and Assessing Policy Implementation Actions to Reduce Malaria Burden in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi2
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria2
Educational Inequality and the Poverty Trap in Teacher Recruitment2
Remaindered Life2
Power and Informality in Urban Africa, Ethnographic Perspectives2
Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America2
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence2
Son Targeting Fertility Behaviour in Albania2
At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia2
A United Family Prospers : Intrahousehold Economic Discord, Household Income and Child Growth in Burkina Faso2
Correction2
The Impact of Road Development on Household Welfare in Rural Papua New Guinea2
Women’s Greater Participation in Agriculture: Implications for Energy Expenditure, Time Use, and Nutrition from a Case Study in Telangana, India2
Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi2
Pronatal Property Rights over Land and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia2
Technology Heterogeneity and Poverty Traps: A Latent Class Approach to Technology Gap Drivers of Chronic Poverty2
Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique2
Using the Participation Cube to Conduct Participation Analysis of Development Projects in Zambia and Uganda2
To Reform and to Procure: An Analysis of the Role of the State and the Market in Indian Agriculture2
Building Resilience through Social Protection: Evidence from Malawi2
Livelihood Buffer Effect of Agriculture: Evidence from China’s Farm Household Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy2
Private Investment in Education: Household Response to a Policy Change in English as a Second Language2
Public–Private Development Cooperation: Interface and Conflicting Logics in the Formation of a Strategic Partnership2
Can Prosperity be Purchased? An Analysis of Local Development as a Dynamic Community-Based Process in Iran2
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India2
The Impact of Early Marriage on the Life Satisfaction, Education and Subjective Health of Young Women in India: A Longitudinal Analysis2
Beyond Reducing Deforestation: Impacts of a REDD+ Project on Household Livelihoods2
Beyond the Formal-Informal Dichotomy: Towards Accommodating Diverse Milk-Collection Practices in the Economic Middle of Kenya’s Dairy Sector2
Female Early Marriage and Son Preference in Pakistan2
Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist and Communal Violence since 19452
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty2
The Water Paradox: Overcoming the Global Crisis in Water Management2
Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance2
African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces By Emizet F. Kisangan2
From Cash to Care: Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health in India1
Property Institutions and State Capacity: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Agricultural Projects in Zambia1
Building Digital Technological Capabilities: A Global South Perspective1
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism1
The Phone Status Index: A Versatile Measure of Individual Socio-Economic Status in Developing Countries1
Do Large Estates Benefit Smallholder Neighbours? Evidence from Malawi1
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Canada’s Small INGOs: Growth Aspirations, Strategies, and Constraints1
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
Skills Training, Corruption and Organisational Capabilities: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry1
Climate Change and Disability-Inclusive Adaptation: Qualitative Evidence from Uzbekistan1
The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form and Scope1
Vulnerability to Climate Change and Communal Conflicts: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and South/South-East Asia1
Keeping the Enemies Closer? Exporting Behaviour of Firms Under Conflict1
Household Gender Roles and Slow-Onset Environmental Change in Morocco: A Barrier or Driver to Develop Migration Aspirations?1
Young Lives, Interrupted: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries1
Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond1
Evaluating the Gendered Credit Constraints and Uptake of an Insurance-Linked Credit Product Among Smallholder Farmers in Kenya1
Care Functions within the Kinship Network: Explaining Care Arrangements and Female Health Choices in Post-Disaster Nepal1
Social Violent Event in Childhood and Human Capital: The Long-Run Effect of Exposure to the Gwangju Uprising in Childhood in South Korea1
Addressing Non-response Bias in Surveys of Wealthy Households in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Strategies and Implementation1
Impacts of Financial Literacy Training on Refugee Youth Outcomes1
Quantifying Common Trend of Gender Agricultural Productivity Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisals1
Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi1
The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa1
Cash for Coolers or Sustainable Lighting? Assessing Different Components of a Large-Scale Energy Efficiency Program in Mexico1
African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture 1952–19661
Contending Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law1
The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms1
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