Journal of Development Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Development Studies is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis54
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism43
Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana31
Education Empowers Residential Energy Transition: Causal Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reform in China31
Improving Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Do Women Policymakers Matter?30
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime28
Mental and Physical Health Effect of Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa: A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation Study27
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Development: A Grid Cell Analysis22
Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research21
Ex-Post Evaluations of Aid Projects: A Cost-Effective Approach19
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes: Gender-Differentiated Evidence from Cameroon18
Being Dead Otherwise18
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review17
Risk Aversion and Gender Gaps in Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia16
Does Regional Favoritism Affect Public Investment Budget Allocation? Evidence from Cameroon in the Context of Decentralization16
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway16
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?16
Child Work in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Differences and Similarities Between Income-Generating and Care and Domestic Work15
Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia15
Decentralization and Criminal Gangs in El Salvador: Impacts on Municipal Finances and Local Economic Development15
Fiscal Reaction Functions Augmented with Bespoke Debt Indicators: Evidence from Small Island States14
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia14
Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India14
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry since 194714
To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide14
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought14
Left in the Dust: Infrastructural Violence of a Railway Project Through Pastoral Rangelands in Kenya13
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai13
Shortfall of Domestic Resources to Eradicate Extreme Poverty by 203013
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC12
Free Education in Childhood and Health Benefits in Adulthood: Evidence from China12
Determinants of Sustainability of Informal Community-Based Financial Groups: Insights from a Survival Analysis Approach12
Exports and New Products in China – A Generalised Propensity Score Approach with Firm-to-Firm Spillovers12
Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability During a Growth Episode. Evidence from Bangladesh: 2000–201611
COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance11
Do Youth Work in Agriculture? Short-Term Dynamics of on-Farm Rural Youth Employment in Tanzania and Malawi11
Natural Disasters and Changing Risk Preferences: Long-Run Field Evidence from Indonesia11
Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality11
Does Agricultural Commercialisation Increase Asset and Livestock Accumulation on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia?11
What We Can Learn When Impacts Fail to Replicate: Lessons From an Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Tanzania10
Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India10
Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition10
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century10
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone10
Imagining the Kenyan Commons: The Stakes of State Control Over Land in the Formulation of the Community Land Act (2011-2016)9
In Memoriam: Professor Michael Lipton9
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia9
Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath9
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine9
In Good Times and in Bad, in Sickness and in Health: The Continuous Rise in Adoption of Labour-Saving Agricultural Technologies in Myanmar8
Neoliberal Resilience. Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe8
Can Risk Perception Alter Son Preference? Evidence from Gender-Imbalanced Rural China8
Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico8
Trans-Sector Livelihood Resilience in an Urban Small-Scale Fishing Community8
Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Export Sophistication: Evidence from Chinese Domestic Manufacturing Firms8
Agricultural Production Diversity and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Myanmar8
Understanding Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Collaborative Governance Challenges in Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) Jurisdictional Approach8
Do School Feeding Programmes Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Liberia8
The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia8
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development7
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan7
Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India7
Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria7
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work7
Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Kyrgyzstan7
Infrastructure-Driven Development: The Local Social Impact of a Large Hydropower Plant in the Amazon7
Public Work and Private Violence7
The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East By James Shires London : 7
The Long Run Impact of a Macroeconomic Crisis on Schooling Outcomes7
The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey6
Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh6
Hydropower Hegemony: Examining Civil Society Opposition to Dams in Cambodia6
The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics By Min-Hua Ch6
Saving Transition in Asia6
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa6
Global Value Chains in Agriculture and the Middle-income Trap: A Framework for Analysis Applied to Peru’s Boom6
The Economic Sociology of Development6
Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda6
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Effect of Urban-Rural Roads Construction in China6
Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation6
Why Should we Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation5
Being Well-in with the Joneses? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Conspicuous Consumption among Rural Communities5
Contract Farming as a Last-resort Option to Finance Rice Cultivation in Senegal5
A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela5
MFIs and Financial Inclusion: The Role of Business Models5
The Role of Gender Inequality in the Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study from India5
Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts5
Urban Agglomerations and Wage and Self-employment Jobs in Ethiopia5
Reaching SDG 7: Shedding a Light on the Causal Effect of Mini-Grids on Rural Electrification5
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data5
Women’s Inheritance Rights and Child Health Outcomes in India5
Shifting the Balance: Examining the Impact of Local Labor Market Opportunities on Female Household Bargaining Power in India5
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire5
Identifying the Wage Differential in the Temporary Employment Services Sector: Evidence for South Africa using Administrative Tax Records5
The National Childcare Agenda in Cambodia: A Feminist Transformative Ethics of Care Perspective5
Foreign Direct Investment & Petty Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis at the Local Level5
Externally Funded Civil Society in Nationally Owned Development. Rwandan and Cambodian CSO-Experiences Illustrating yet a Clash of Ideals5
Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World5
Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development5
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War5
Valuing Children: Parents’ Perceptions, Spending Priorities and Children’s Capabilities5
Remittances and Intra-household Gender Disparity in Education Attainment: Evidence from Pakistan5
Determinants of Private Tutoring Demand in Rural India5
Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities5
Re-Thinking Recipient Agency in South-South Cooperation: Strategies of Contestation, Strategies of Transformation and the South’s Own View of Development4
China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets4
Stimulating Innovations for Sustainable Agricultural Practices among Smallholder Farmers: Persistence of Intervention Matters4
The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania . By Michael Degani, 4
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance4
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China4
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?4
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique4
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy4
The Impact of Social Insurance Reform on Skill Composition and Worker Turnover: Evidence from Ethiopia4
Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania Prosperity in Rural Africa: Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Long4
The Party-Police Nexus in Bangladesh4
China, Africa, and the future of the Internet4
How Vulnerable are the Self-Employed? Evidence from Ugandan Small-Scale Entrepreneurs4
Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–20174
The Welfare Effects of Social Assistance Programs for Women in India4
Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia4
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi4
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders4
How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond4
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali4
Chiefly Patronage and Schooling4
Impact of Weather Shocks on Food Security: How Effective are Forests as Natural Insurance?4
Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi4
Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity4
Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity4
Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics4
Reforming of Women’s Litigant Rights and Child Wellbeing: Evidence from Nigeria4
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty4
Civil Conflict and Firm Recovery: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire4
Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India4
Bleeding at the Margins: Understanding Period Poverty among SC and ST Women Using Decomposition Analysis3
Servicification of Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Upgrading of Local Suppliers of Embedded Services in the South African Market for Wind Turbines3
Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa3
Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector3
Death Is Our Business; Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare3
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda3
Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform3
Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness3
Children Are the Riches of the Poor: The Possibility of Transgenerational Impacts of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) Campaign3
What Are the Economic and Poverty Implications for Sudan If the Conflict Continues Through 2025?3
The Impact of Input Trade Liberalization on the Entry of Foreign Firms: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China3
Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus3
Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries3
Does Export Experience Improve Firms’ Productivity? Evidence from Indonesia3
Understanding Farmer Preferences to Guide Crop Improvement: The Case of Grasspea in Ethiopia3
Political Violence and Oil in Africa: The Case of Nigeria3
Large Grant-Funded Research Centres and Concept Generation in Development Research3
Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan’s Transition3
Climate Finance Coordination From the Global to the Local: Norm Localization and the Politics of Climate Finance Coordination in Zambia3
Enhancing Women’s Income and Household Nutrition Through Training in Small-Scale Fisheries Value Chains in Sub-Sahara Africa3
Fiscal Consolidation and Firm Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data3
Targeting Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel3
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana3
Elite Status, Market Linkages, and Contributions to Collective Goods: Evidence from a Survey and Public Goods Experiments3
The Tax Elasticity of Formal Work in Sub-Saharan African Countries3
Microfinance and Small Business Development in a Transitional Economy: Insights from Borrowers’ Relations with Microfinance Organisations in Kazakhstan3
Local Recruits in Development Finance Institutions: Relocating Global North-South Divides in the International Aid Industry3
Changing Effects of Birth Order on Education Over Time: Evidence From Cambodia3
Land Inequality and Workfare Policies3
Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico and its Regions: A Data-Driven Approach3
The Making of Land and the Making of India3
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program3
African Military Politics in the Sahel: Regional Organizations and International Politics3
COVID-19 and Sub-Saharan Africa Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies3
Be Happy, Be Loyal? Exploring Drivers for Renewal of Mobile-Delivered Index Insurance3
Effects of Government Jobs on the Labour Market in Bangladesh3
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing3
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