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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Wall Street Consensus	195
Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme	90
The Re‐making of the Turkish Crisis	45
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia's Apparel Sector	42
The Sino‐centric Capital Export Regime: State‐backed and Flexible Capital in the Philippines	35
Solar Power and its Discontents: Critiquing Off‐grid Infrastructures of Inclusion in East Africa	33
NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India	26
Regulating Over‐indebtedness: Local State Power in Cambodia's Microfinance Market	22
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses	22
Disaster Financialization: Earthquakes, Cashflows and Shifting Household Economies in Nepal	18
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	18
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	17
Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise	16
Diffuse Drivers of Modern Slavery: From Microfinance to Unfree Labour in Cambodia	16
Responding to the China Challenge in Techno‐nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States	15
Politics of Engagement: Gender Expertise and International Governance	15
Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction	14
Rethinking Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State‒Labour Relations and Intersectionality	14
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth	13
Bibliodiversity at the Centre: Decolonizing Open Access	13
Waste Political Settlements in Colombia and Chile: Power, Inequality and Informality in Recycling	13
From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture	12
From Global to Local Tea Markets: The Changing Political Economy of Tea Production within India's Domestic Value Chain	12
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing	12
Introduction: The Politics of Open Access — Decolonizing Research or Corporate Capture?	11

Derisking Developmentalism: A Tale of Green Hydrogen	10
Give James Ferguson a Fish	9
Betting on Potatoes: Accumulation in Times of Agrarian Crisis in Punjab, India	9
Situating Political Agronomy: The Knowledge Politics of Hybrid Rice in India and Uganda	9
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach	9
Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi	8
Open Access in Indonesia	8
What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries	7
Measuring Women's Empowerment: Gender and Time‐use Agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria	7
Remote Sensing, Land Quotas and Mass Relocation: China's Governance of Farmland	7
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?	7
COVID‐19 and the Unequalizing Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion in Tamil Nadu	7
Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India	6
The European Response to Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment: Introducing a Dynamic Analytical Framework	6
Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations	6
The High Priests of Global Development: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Sacrifice in a Celebrity‐led Water Charity	6
Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate	6
Capitalism without Surveillance?	6
Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing	6
COVID‐19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic	6
The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia	5
Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	5
Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa	5
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	5
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	5
Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries	5
Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field	5
The World Bank's ‘Assault on Poverty’ as a Political Question (1968–81)	5
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	5
‘Aerial Silk Roads’: Airport Infrastructures in China's Belt and Road Initiative	5
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	5
Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID‐19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy	4
Black Economic Empowerment and Quota Allocations in South Africa's Industrial Fisheries	4
The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour	4
Portfolios of Social Protection, Labour Mobility and the Rise of Life Insurance in Rural Central Vietnam	4
Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: When Is an Agreement More than a Contract?	4
The Evolution of India's Industrial Labour Share and its Correlates	4
Upgrading in the Automotive Periphery: Turkey's Battery Electric Vehicle Maker Togg	4
Compelled to Compete: Rendering Climate Change Vulnerability Investable	4
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	4
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	4
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	4
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	4
How Accessible are Journal Articles on Education Written by Sub‐Saharan Africa‐based Researchers?	4
Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour: The Challenge of Assessing Women's Empowerment	4
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance: Legitimacy, Order and Leadership in India	4
Conceptualizing, Financing and Infrastructuring: Perspectives on Open Access in and from Africa	4
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New ‘Civilizing’ Multilateralism?	4
Open Access, Plan S and ‘Radically Liberatory’ Forms of Academic Freedom	4
Global Value Chain Participation and the Labour Share: Industry‐level Evidence from Emerging Economies	3

Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	3
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	3
External Financial Liberalization and Macroeconomic Performance in Emerging Countries: An Empirical Evaluation of the Brazilian Case	3
Hidden in Plain Sight: Chinese Development Finance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Unravelling the ‘P’ Word in Environment and Development	3
The Common Framework and its Discontents	3
Revisiting the Natural Resource Curse: Backward Linkages for Export Diversification and Structural Economic Transformation	3
Financialization for Development? Asset Making on Indigenous Land in Remote Northern Australia	3
Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina	3
Continuities in Transition: Ethnicity, Language and Labour Market Inequalities in Kyrgyzstan	3
Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization	3
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	3
Unsettling the American Dream: Mobility, Migration and Precarity among Translocal Himalayan Communities during COVID‐19	3
The Rightful Share: Land and Effective Claim Making in Odisha, India	3
Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’	3
Security, Resilience and Participatory Urban Upgrading in Latin America and the Caribbean	3
Peasant Production in India: How the ‘Need Economy’ Facilitates Accumulation	3
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	3
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	3
One Door Opens: Another Door Shuts?	3
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	3
Taiwan's COVID‐19 Response: The Interdependence of State and Private Sector Institutions	2
The Wind from the East: China and European Economic Development	2
Rethinking the Affirmative Value, Politics and Materiality of Waste on the Urban Periphery	2
The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry	2
‘Fundermediaries’ in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain	2
Old Cycles and New Vulnerabilities: Financial Deregulation and the Argentine Crisis	2
Labour Formalization and Inequality: The Distributive Impact of Labour Formalization in Latin America since 2000	2
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	2
‘If You Fall, Stand Up Again’: The Moral Nature of Financial Literacy in the Global South	2
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India	2
Project Narratives: Investigating Participatory Conservation in the Peruvian Andes	2
The Virus, the Dollar, and the Global Order: The COVID‐19 Crisis in Comparative Perspective	2
Humanizing Security through Action‐oriented Research in Latin America	2
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	2
Improvising an E‐state: The Struggle for Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique	2
From Rebel to Humanitarian: Military Savoir Faire and Humanitarian Practice in Eastern DR Congo	2
Falling through the Cracks: Digital Infrastructures of Social Protection in Ecuador	2
‘Start from the Garden’: Distribution, Livelihood Diversification and Narratives of Agrarian Decline in Papua, Indonesia	2
New Multilateral Development Banks and Green Lending: Approaching Scalar Complexities in the Global South	2
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	2
Multistakeholder Partnerships for Development and the Financialization of Development Assistance	2
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities	2
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	2
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	2
Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme: Aspirations and Realities of Poverty Reduction and Intergenerational Change	2
Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	2
‘Risky Data’ for Inclusive Microinsurance Infrastructures	2
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	2
On Broker Exploitation and Violence: From Madalali to Cartel Bosses in the Food Aid Resale Economy of Tanzanian Refugee Camps	1
On the Character and Causes of Inequality in Latin America	1
Iran's Feminist School in the Diaspora: Dynamics of Decline and Demobilization	1
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A Gendered Counter‐archive: Mining and Resistance in Morocco	1
Open Access and Academic Freedom: Teasing Out Some Important Nuances	1
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	1
An Alternative View of Sri Lanka's Debt Crisis	1
Misaligned Social Policy? Explaining the Origins and Limitations of Cash Transfers in Sudan	1
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	1
Social Relations, Gender and Empowerment in Economic Development: Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur	1
John Loxley: Radical Academic Activist	1
Food Sovereignty and the Struggle for Socio‐economic Justice in North Africa	1
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park	1
Pandemic Effects: COVID‐19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East	1
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	1
Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts	1
Real‐estate Boom, Commodification and Crises of Social Reproductive Institutions in Rural China	1
China's Market Reform Debate	1
The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors	1
Issue Information	1
Formalization and its Discontents: Conceptual Fallacies and Ways Forward	1
Issue Information	1
Social Reproduction, Ecological Dispossession and Dependency: Life Beside the Río Santiago in Mexico	1
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Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	1
The Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: Towards a Local Eco‐developmental State	1
Erratum	1