Development and Change

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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In Cold Blood at Cambridge125
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa93
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field25
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution25
Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’24
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?24
Social Policy and Polanyi's Double Movement across Time24
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies20
Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice20
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?19
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis19
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon18
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World17
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Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South15
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Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity15
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water14
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–202113
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism13
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Checkpoint Taxation and Neo‐patrimonial Political Order in Afghanistan13
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case12
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India12
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam12
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Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes11
Unbundling the Grid: Renewable Capital and the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States11
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya: Turning Community Health Workers into Entrepreneurs11
The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India11
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time10
Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress10
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation10
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China10
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India10
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Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic10
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa10
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice9
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries9
‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran9
Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being9
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Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question9
Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India8
Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward8
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Everyday Politics of Global China: Looking to, Reflecting on, and Enacting Authority in Rural Tajikistan7
The Enduring Problem of Statism: Social War, Total Liberation and Postdevelopment in the Decolonization Industry7
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Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa7
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector7
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Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination7
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis6
Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America6
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?6
The Common Framework and its Discontents6
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making6
Where Did Development Economics Come From?6
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap6
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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
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis5
Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery5
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility5
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization5
Decarbonizing Agriculture and Beyond: What Is at Stake?5
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Middle‐income Trap or Neoliberal Trap? Industrial Policy and Ideology in the World Development Report 20245
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