OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Development and Change 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	62
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	55
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	55
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	40
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	32
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	26
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	26
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	25
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	23
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	22
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	18
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	18
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	16
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	16
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	15
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	14
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	14
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	13
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From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	12
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	12
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	12
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	12
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Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive	11

Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	11
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress	10
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs	10
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	10
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	9
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	9
Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria	8
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	8
John Loxley: Radical Academic Activist	8
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	8
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	8
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	8
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Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	7
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	7
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	7
Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction	7
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India	7
Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	7
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	7
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	6
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	6
Labour Formalization and Inequality: The Distributive Impact of Labour Formalization in Latin America since 2000	6
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	6
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	6
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Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	6
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	6
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	6
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Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	5
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	5
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	5
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	5
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	5
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The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	5
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	5
The Common Framework and its Discontents	5
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	5
‘Risky Data’ for Inclusive Microinsurance Infrastructures	5
Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India	4
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility	4
China's Market Reform Debate	4
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Improvising an E‐state: The Struggle for Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique	4
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?	4

The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	4
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	4
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	4
Falling through the Cracks: Digital Infrastructures of Social Protection in Ecuador	4
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia	4
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The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization	4
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis	4
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa	4
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	4
From Global to Local Tea Markets: The Changing Political Economy of Tea Production within India's Domestic Value Chain	4
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	4
Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore	4
Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico	3
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State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?	3
Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	3
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Brokerage in Markets: The Role of Ambiguity in Distributing Value	3
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Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	3
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The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency	3
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Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	3
The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	3
The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania	3
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers	2
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	2
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	2
Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines	2
Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America	2
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Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	2
Pushcarts and Fountains: Masculinity, Agency and Labour Culture among Water Workers of N'Djamena, Chad	2
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	2
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire	2
Municipal Councillors and the Everyday State: New Representations of Political Accountability in Ahmedabad, India	2
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Everyday Politics of Dadan Contracts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	2
Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?	2
Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	2
The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report	2
Corrigendum	2
Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations	2
Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?	2
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Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	2
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