OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development and Change is 5. 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
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	26
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	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
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	16
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	16
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	15
Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics	14
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	14
Issue Information	13
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	13
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
Issue Information	11
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
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	9
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	9
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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Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria	8
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	8
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
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
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
Issue Information	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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The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	6
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	6
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
Issue Information	5
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
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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