Journal of Development Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Development Studies is 2. 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
Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research20
Improving Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Do Women Policymakers Matter?20
Being Dead Otherwise19
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company16
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
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes: Gender-Differentiated Evidence from Cameroon15
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
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review14
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism14
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai13
To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide13
Fiscal Reaction Functions Augmented with Bespoke Debt Indicators: Evidence from Small Island States12
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
Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia11
Does Regional Favoritism Affect Public Investment Budget Allocation? Evidence from Cameroon in the Context of Decentralization11
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
Renqing Consumption in the Digital Era: Evidence from China10
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry since 194710
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
Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition9
Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
MFIs and Financial Inclusion: The Role of Business Models5
Determinants of Private Tutoring Demand in Rural India5
The Role of Gender Inequality in the Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study from India5
Remittances and Intra-household Gender Disparity in Education Attainment: Evidence from Pakistan5
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
Identifying the Wage Differential in the Temporary Employment Services Sector: Evidence for South Africa using Administrative Tax Records5
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data5
Shifting the Balance: Examining the Impact of Local Labor Market Opportunities on Female Household Bargaining Power in India5
The Economic Sociology of Development5
International Standards and Export Performance: Evidence from Pakistani Firms5
Free Senior High School Policy, Household Income, and Secondary School Enrollment in Ghana5
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century5
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa5
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda5
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
Climate-Induced Agricultural Productivity Shocks Undermine Child Nutritional Outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria5
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria5
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
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
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 Violence of Law: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda3
The Patron and the Orchestrator: Imperfect Institutions and the Dual Influence of the State on Corporate R&D Investments3
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique3
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana3
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
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China3
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders3
Reforming of Women’s Litigant Rights and Child Wellbeing: Evidence from Nigeria3
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty3
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
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi3
Effect of Gender Focused Program on the Educational Attainment of Adolescent Girls in India3
Civil Conflict and Firm Recovery: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire3
Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries3
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
At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia2
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence2
Measuring Self-Employment Income in Household Surveys: Evidence From A Randomised Survey Experiment2
Recovery for Development: A Multi-Dimensional, Practice-Oriented Framework for Transformative Change Post-Disaster2
Power and Informality in Urban Africa, Ethnographic Perspectives2
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
To Reform and to Procure: An Analysis of the Role of the State and the Market in Indian Agriculture2
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi2
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use, and Learning Loss during COVID-192
The Impact of Road Development on Household Welfare in Rural Papua New Guinea2
Remaindered Life2
Impacts of Climate Change on Loan Performance: Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies for Rural Households and Lenders2
Children Are the Riches of the Poor: The Possibility of Transgenerational Impacts of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) Campaign2
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda2
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
Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique2
Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship2
Can Prosperity be Purchased? An Analysis of Local Development as a Dynamic Community-Based Process in Iran2
Visible Consumption, Income Inequality and Social Comparisons. Evidence from Four Latin American Countries2
Reforming Gender Laws: The Economic Impact for Women in Saudi Arabia2
Educational Inequality and the Poverty Trap in Teacher Recruitment2
Female Early Marriage and Son Preference in Pakistan2
Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist and Communal Violence since 19452
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India2
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria2
Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance2
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing2
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program2
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
Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector2
The Myth and Reality of Teacher Shortage in India2
A United Family Prospers : Intrahousehold Economic Discord, Household Income and Child Growth in Burkina Faso2
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
Livelihood Buffer Effect of Agriculture: Evidence from China’s Farm Household Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
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
Infrastructure, Spatial Imaginaries and Dispossession: Narratives of Port-City Making2
The Fight Against Malaria: A New Index for Quantifying and Assessing Policy Implementation Actions to Reduce Malaria Burden in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty2
Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector2
What Are the Economic and Poverty Implications for Sudan If the Conflict Continues Through 2025?2
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
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