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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis28
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism26
Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana24
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime23
Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research22
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Development: A Grid Cell Analysis19
Being Dead Otherwise19
Improving Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Do Women Policymakers Matter?19
Education Empowers Residential Energy Transition: Causal Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reform in China17
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company17
An Actor-Based Perspective On Informal Cross-Border Trading17
The Paradox of Seclusion: Regional Differences in Female Employment and Wages in Urban India16
Ex-Post Evaluations of Aid Projects: A Cost-Effective Approach16
To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide15
Can Immigration Explain Why Ethnic Diversity is Negatively Associated with Common Property Management?15
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes: Gender-Differentiated Evidence from Cameroon15
Livestock as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review15
Determinants of Sustainability of Informal Community-Based Financial Groups: Insights from a Survival Analysis Approach14
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai14
Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India13
Fiscal Reaction Functions Augmented with Bespoke Debt Indicators: Evidence from Small Island States13
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway13
Does Regional Favoritism Affect Public Investment Budget Allocation? Evidence from Cameroon in the Context of Decentralization12
Decentralization and Criminal Gangs in El Salvador: Impacts on Municipal Finances and Local Economic Development12
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought12
Child Work in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Differences and Similarities Between Income-Generating and Care and Domestic Work11
Shortfall of Domestic Resources to Eradicate Extreme Poverty by 203011
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects: Case Studies from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia11
Free Education in Childhood and Health Benefits in Adulthood: Evidence from China11
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry since 194711
Renqing Consumption in the Digital Era: Evidence from China10
Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico10
Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition10
Global Value Chains and Local Inter-Industry Linkages: South Africa’s Participation in the Automotive GVC10
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century10
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia10
Left in the Dust: Infrastructural Violence of a Railway Project Through Pastoral Rangelands in Kenya10
Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia10
Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath10
Can Risk Perception Alter Son Preference? Evidence from Gender-Imbalanced Rural China9
Do School Feeding Programmes Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Liberia9
In Memoriam: Professor Michael Lipton9
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine9
The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia9
Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality9
Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Export Sophistication: Evidence from Chinese Domestic Manufacturing Firms8
Mobilizing Teachers: Education Politics and the New Labor Movement in Latin America8
COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance8
Trans-Sector Livelihood Resilience in an Urban Small-Scale Fishing Community8
Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability During a Growth Episode. Evidence from Bangladesh: 2000–20168
Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia8
Natural Disasters and Changing Risk Preferences: Long-Run Field Evidence from Indonesia8
What We Can Learn When Impacts Fail to Replicate: Lessons From an Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Tanzania8
Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria8
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability8
Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India8
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone8
Do Youth Work in Agriculture? Short-Term Dynamics of on-Farm Rural Youth Employment in Tanzania and Malawi8
The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East By James Shires London : 8
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire8
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan7
Understanding Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Collaborative Governance Challenges in Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) Jurisdictional Approach7
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development7
Hydropower Hegemony: Examining Civil Society Opposition to Dams in Cambodia7
Natural Disasters and Economic Resilience in Caribbean7
The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey7
Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh7
Infrastructure-Driven Development: The Local Social Impact of a Large Hydropower Plant in the Amazon7
One-Minute Earthquake, Years of Patience: Evidence from Mexico on the Effect of Earthquake Exposure on Time Preference7
Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda7
Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation7
Decentralisation in School Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from India7
Public Work and Private Violence7
Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Kyrgyzstan7
In Good Times and in Bad, in Sickness and in Health: The Continuous Rise in Adoption of Labour-Saving Agricultural Technologies in Myanmar7
The Economic Sociology of Development7
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
Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World6
Determinants of Private Tutoring Demand in Rural India6
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Effect of Urban-Rural Roads Construction in China6
Being Well-in with the Joneses? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Conspicuous Consumption among Rural Communities6
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India6
The Effect of Childbirth on Women’s Formal Labour Market Trajectories: Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data6
Externally Funded Civil Society in Nationally Owned Development. Rwandan and Cambodian CSO-Experiences Illustrating yet a Clash of Ideals6
Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development6
Reaching SDG 7: Shedding a Light on the Causal Effect of Mini-Grids on Rural Electrification6
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century6
Global Value Chains in Agriculture and the Middle-income Trap: A Framework for Analysis Applied to Peru’s Boom6
MFIs and Financial Inclusion: The Role of Business Models5
A Different Difference: Nationality, Class, and the Complexities of Localisation at an Indian NGO5
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa5
Defying the Odds: Remittances during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria5
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda5
Identifying the Wage Differential in the Temporary Employment Services Sector: Evidence for South Africa using Administrative Tax Records5
Valuing Children: Parents’ Perceptions, Spending Priorities and Children’s Capabilities5
The National Childcare Agenda in Cambodia: A Feminist Transformative Ethics of Care Perspective5
Saving Transition in Asia5
Starting a Non-Farm Enterprise to Escape Energy Poverty: Household Level Evidence from Rural West Africa5
A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela5
Free Senior High School Policy, Household Income, and Secondary School Enrollment in Ghana5
China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets5
The IMF, Structural Adjustment, and Poverty: A Cross-National Difference-in-Differences Analysis, 1980-20195
The Role of Gender Inequality in the Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study from India5
Shifting the Balance: Examining the Impact of Local Labor Market Opportunities on Female Household Bargaining Power in India5
Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities5
Why Should we Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation5
Remittances and Intra-household Gender Disparity in Education Attainment: Evidence from Pakistan5
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire5
Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts5
Climate-Induced Agricultural Productivity Shocks Undermine Child Nutritional Outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria5
Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity4
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance4
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy4
Understanding Farmer Preferences to Guide Crop Improvement: The Case of Grasspea in Ethiopia4
Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi4
The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania4
Scale and Sustainability: The Impact of a Women’s Self-Help Group Program on Household Economic Well-Being in India4
How Vulnerable are the Self-Employed? Evidence from Ugandan Small-Scale Entrepreneurs4
Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–20174
The Short-Term Labour Market Impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru4
Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia4
The Patron and the Orchestrator: Imperfect Institutions and the Dual Influence of the State on Corporate R&D Investments4
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders4
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
Impact of Weather Shocks on Food Security: How Effective are Forests as Natural Insurance?4
The Impact of Social Insurance Reform on Skill Composition and Worker Turnover: Evidence from Ethiopia4
The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resources: Evidence from Ghana4
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty4
Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics4
The Impact of Input Trade Liberalization on the Entry of Foreign Firms: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China4
Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus4
Grandparenthood Penalty in Agriculture: Grandchild Caregiving and Farm Performance4
Re-Thinking Recipient Agency in South-South Cooperation: Strategies of Contestation, Strategies of Transformation and the South’s Own View of Development4
Does Community-Based Adaptation Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from Senegal and Mali4
Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity4
Chiefly Patronage and Schooling4
Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness3
Identifying the COVID-19 Transmission Channels on Poverty and Food Security in Refugee-Hosting Districts of Uganda3
Building Resilience through Social Protection: Evidence from Malawi3
What Are the Economic and Poverty Implications for Sudan If the Conflict Continues Through 2025?3
Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa3
Premature Deindustrialisation and Income Inequality Dynamics: Evidence from Middle-Income Economies3
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing3
Red Tape Reduction, More New Firms? Saving Time and Money: Evidence from an Ecuadorian Reform3
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana3
Targeting Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel3
The Violence of Law: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda3
Children Are the Riches of the Poor: The Possibility of Transgenerational Impacts of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) Campaign3
Death Is Our Business; Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare3
African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces By Emizet F. Kisangan3
COVID-19 and Sub-Saharan Africa Firms: Impact and Coping Strategies3
Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India’s Informal Sector Firms3
African Military Politics in the Sahel: Regional Organizations and International Politics3
Bleeding at the Margins: Understanding Period Poverty among SC and ST Women Using Decomposition Analysis3
Occupational Preferences of Skilled Workers in the Presence of a Large Development Sector3
Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?3
Effects of Government Jobs on the Labour Market in Bangladesh3
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi3
Enhancing Women’s Income and Household Nutrition Through Training in Small-Scale Fisheries Value Chains in Sub-Sahara Africa3
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China3
Markets, States or Transnational Networks? Explaining Technology Leverage by Latecomer Firms in Industrializing Countries3
Fiscal Consolidation and Firm Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data3
Large Grant-Funded Research Centres and Concept Generation in Development Research3
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program3
Be Happy, Be Loyal? Exploring Drivers for Renewal of Mobile-Delivered Index Insurance3
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Shifts in Compliance Attitudes and Perceptions in Rwanda3
Changing Effects of Birth Order on Education Over Time: Evidence From Cambodia3
Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India3
Reforming of Women’s Litigant Rights and Child Wellbeing: Evidence from Nigeria3
Impacts of Climate Change on Loan Performance: Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies for Rural Households and Lenders3
Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Mozambique3
Local Recruits in Development Finance Institutions: Relocating Global North-South Divides in the International Aid Industry3
Civil Conflict and Firm Recovery: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire3
The Tax Elasticity of Formal Work in Sub-Saharan African Countries3
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