OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Development and Change is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	52
How to Create More Inclusive Economies: An Interview with Dani Rodrik	51
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In Cold Blood at Cambridge	30
Issue Information	20
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	19
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Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	18
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Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	17
From Multiple Deprivations to Exploitation: Politicizing the Multidimensional Poverty Index	15
Law and Famine: Learning from the Hunger Courts in South Sudan	13
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‘Fundermediaries’ in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain	11
From Rebel to Humanitarian: Military Savoir Faire and Humanitarian Practice in Eastern DR Congo	11
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	11
Dollar Liquidity, Financial Vulnerability and Monetary Sovereignty	10
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	10
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	9
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The Knife is Still in Our Backs: Reparations Washing and the Limits of Reparatory Justice Campaigns	9
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	9
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	8

Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate	8
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia	8
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	8
Rethinking International Relations and Development in Times of Uncertainty	7
COVID‐19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic	7
Chronicles of Debt Crises Foretold	7
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	7
Improvising an E‐state: The Struggle for Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique	7
Militarized Development in Post‐war Sri Lanka: Consolidating Control	7
The European Response to Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment: Introducing a Dynamic Analytical Framework	7
Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change	7
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	7
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	7
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	6
The Return of Debt Crisis in Developing Countries: Shifting or Maintaining Dominant Development Paradigms?	6
Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina	6
The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	6
Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines	6
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State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?	6
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	6
Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?	6
Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing	5
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	5
‘Plant, Sleep, Pick’: Ambivalent Smallholder Market Engagement and Inclusive Value Chains in Northwest Nepal	5
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Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi	5
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	5
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Agrarian Questions: New Paradigms in a Changing World	5
Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’	4
The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality	4
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	4
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	4
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	4
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	4
Solar Power and its Discontents: Critiquing Off‐grid Infrastructures of Inclusion in East Africa	4
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	4
The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania	4
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	4
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Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition?	4
Local Financial Institutions and Income Inequality: Evidence from Brazil's Credit Cooperative Movement	4
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	4
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	4
Financialization for Development? Asset Making on Indigenous Land in Remote Northern Australia	4
Issue Information	3
Measuring Women's Empowerment: Gender and Time‐use Agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria	3
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	3
The Rightful Share: Land and Effective Claim Making in Odisha, India	3

Bill Freund (6 July 1944 – 17 August 2020)	3
Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico	3
Formalization and its Discontents: Conceptual Fallacies and Ways Forward	3
Revisiting the Natural Resource Curse: Backward Linkages for Export Diversification and Structural Economic Transformation	3
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: When Is an Agreement More than a Contract?	3
Grievance Politics and Technocracy in a Developmental State: Healthcare Policy Reforms in Singapore	3
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Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	3
Pakistan, China and the Structures of Debt Distress: Resisting Bretton Woods	3
The Virus, the Dollar, and the Global Order: The COVID‐19 Crisis in Comparative Perspective	3
Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	3
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	3
Martin Khor: The Practice of Change	3
A Gendered Counter‐archive: Mining and Resistance in Morocco	3
From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	3
The High Priests of Global Development: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Sacrifice in a Celebrity‐led Water Charity	2
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Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	2
Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers’ Capacity to Act	2
The Myth of Counter‐modern Ontologies: Indigenous People and the Modern Politics of Extractivism in Ecuador	2
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	2
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The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency	2
The Wind from the East: China and European Economic Development	2
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	2
The Political Economy of Land Reparations in South Africa	2
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Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	2
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	2
Mobilized Resilience and Development under Sanctions in Iran	2
Rice Margins Under Climate Change: Labour and Knowledge in Mangrove Rice Networks in Guinea‐Bissau	2
Unsettling the American Dream: Mobility, Migration and Precarity among Translocal Himalayan Communities during COVID‐19	1
Issue Information	1
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	1
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	1
Multistakeholder Partnerships for Development and the Financialization of Development Assistance	1
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	1
Theorizing Power in Community Economies: A Women's Cooperative in Northern Kurdistan	1
NGOs and Civil Society at the End of a World	1
The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report	1
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	1
Municipal Councillors and the Everyday State: New Representations of Political Accountability in Ahmedabad, India	1
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	1
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	1
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The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India	1
A DC State of Mind? A Review of the World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives	1
The Distinct Dispossessions of Indian Settler Colonialism in Kashmir: Land, Narrative and Indigeneity	1
Heterogeneity and Labour Agency in Artisanal and Small‐scale Gold Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo	1
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