Development and Change

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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In Cold Blood at Cambridge87
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa74
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice38
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?29
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution24
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies20
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?20
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field18
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’17
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis17
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia16
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World16
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South14
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water13
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon13
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism12
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam12
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Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India11
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case11
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–202111
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India10
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States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa10
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time10
Unbundling the Grid: Renewable Capital and the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States9
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic9
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes9
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs9
Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria9
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress8
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change8
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State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India8
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation8
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China8
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa7
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Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being7
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward7
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question7
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice7
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Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries7
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability6
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector6
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Everyday Politics of Global China: Looking to, Reflecting on, and Enacting Authority in Rural Tajikistan6
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making6
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Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination6
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America6
The Common Framework and its Discontents5
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies5
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Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore5
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth5
Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery5
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The Social Contract and India's Right to Education5
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa5
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap5
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis5
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization5
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis5
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?4
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today4
China's Market Reform Debate4
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility4
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts4
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Middle‐income Trap or Neoliberal Trap? Industrial Policy and Ideology in the World Development Report 20244
Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India4
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The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors3
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire3
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Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies3
The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation3
Brokerage in Markets: The Role of Ambiguity in Distributing Value3
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Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico3
The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry3
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Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia3
The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency3
Municipal Councillors and the Everyday State: New Representations of Political Accountability in Ahmedabad, India3
The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report3
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State‐owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De‐risking at the Limit?3
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East3
The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania3
Acknowledgement to Reviewers2
Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations2
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Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg2
Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China2
Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa2
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization2
Pushcarts and Fountains: Masculinity, Agency and Labour Culture among Water Workers of N'Djamena, Chad2
‘I Love Being My Own Boss (But the Work is Killing Me)’: Ride‐hail Drivers’ Contradictory Ideas about Work in African Cities2
Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America2
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A Conversation with Carlota Perez: A Life of Revolutions2
Everyday Politics of Dadan Contracts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh2
Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?2
Taiwan's COVID‐19 Response: The Interdependence of State and Private Sector Institutions1
Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’1
Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't?1
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Rereading Ujamaa, Rethinking Freedom1
How the Institutional Context Creates a Neoliberal Politics of Aid: An Italian Case Study1
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Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park1
Assembling Nutrition‐sensitive Agriculture: How Global Food Security Projects Are Sustained Despite Tensions, Contradictions and Failure1
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia1
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Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities1
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Greening the Gulf? Renewables, Fossil Capitalism and the ‘East–East’ Axis of World Energy1
Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy1
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing1
The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality1
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition?1
Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines1
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Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi1
Governing Artisanal and Small‐scale Sand Mining in Bangladesh1
Iran's Feminist School in the Diaspora: Dynamics of Decline and Demobilization1
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