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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
In Cold Blood at Cambridge	71
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies	65
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa: History Repeating Itself?	41
Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution	33
Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice	27
Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field	27
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’	24
Sustainable Development Frontiers: Is ‘Sustainable’ Cocoa Delivering Development and Reducing Deforestation?	18
A Postcolonial Card Cartel: How European Companies Sold Biometric Voting in Africa	17
Why Is the Drug Trade Not Violent? Cocaine Production and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia	16
The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon	16
Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis	16
Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World	15
The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism	14
Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South	14
Expanding Water Privatization in Mozambique: Producing Success, Reproducing Neoliberal Water	13
Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations: The German‐Namibian Case	13
Issue Information	13
Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980–2021	13
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialization: Reflections from Bygone Mill‐scapes of Bangalore, India	12
Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam	12
Issue Information	11
Victoria Chick's Keynes in Time	11
Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive	11
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China	10

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
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh: Dharma, Gender and Social Change	9
State Life: Land, Welfare and Management of the Landless in Kerala, India	9
Grounding ActionAid's Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria	9
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Geographies of Monetary Exclusion in Kenyan Slums: Financial Inclusion in Question	8
States, Money and the Persistence of Colonial Financial Hierarchies in British West Africa	8
Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes	8
The Legacy of Maria Mies to the Feminist Movement and the Struggle for Human Liberation	8
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic	8
Financial Globalization, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle‐income Countries	8
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Ranajit Guha: A Thinker of Revolutionary Being	7
Issue Information	7
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Global Reparations Agenda for Afrodescendants: An Overview of Recent Developments and the Way Forward	7
Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice	7
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey	6
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America	6
COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis	6
Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination	6
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector	6
Issue Information	6
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Double Movements and Disembedded Economies: A Response to Richard Sandbrook	6
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID‐19 and Digital Techno‐opportunism across Africa	6
Indigenes, Settlers and Citizens: Multiple and Conflicting Subjectivities in Nation State Making	6
Pre‐reparations Preparation: Fixing the Plumbing before Turning on the Tap	6
Framing the Blue Economy: Placelessness, Development and Sustainability	6
Turkey in Turbulence: Heterodoxy or a New Chapter in Neoliberal Peripheral Development?	5
Issue Information	5
Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore	5
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?	5
Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India	5
The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth	5
China and European Innovation: Corporate Takeovers and their Consequences	5
The Social Contract and India's Right to Education	5
Rice Self‐sufficiency Initiatives in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Senegal: A Comparative Analysis	5
Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks	5
The Common Framework and its Discontents	5
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro‐pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies	5
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa	5
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today	5
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The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization	5