OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne d'Etudes du D is 1. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Secession and separatist conflicts in postcolonial Africa	27
Effet de l’inclusion financière sur la croissance économique en Afrique subsaharienne : une analyse comparative suivant certains facteurs socioculturels	18
Doing Businessguidance, legal origins theory, and the politics of governance by knowledge	16
Wealth inequality: the Indian case	14
Dilemmes agricoles et alimentaires en temps de crise	9
Populism, extractivism, and the social transformation of Brazil	8
Normalizing Canada−China relations through development diplomacy: a case study of Canadian legacies from the first IFAD-funded international development-aid project in China, 1981–1988	7
I will live for both of us: a history of colonialism, uranium mining and Inuit resistance I will live for both of us: a history of colonialism, uranium mining and Inuit resistance	7
‘We are religious, patriotic and self-sacrificial’: Baniya power, cohesion and wealth anxieties in India	6
Urban sustainability transition in Turkey: drivers and barriers	5
Agricultural workers and trade unions in the neoliberal food regime: capital–labour relations, conflicts over labour and the agroindustrial transformation of the sugarcane sector in São Paulo	5
Unions against neoliberal reform: Argentina's first attempt under democracy	5
Do information and communication technologies (ICTs) make Africans happy?	5
“It never really has a face that is fully ours”: perspectives on ownership, antiracism and the decolonization of development	5
Yumi stanap strong: La localisation de l’aide en contexte de COVID-19 au Vanuatu	5
Development, desire, and beyond desire: a response to Ilan Kapoor and Gavin Fridell	4
Crises and policy change: examining the trajectory of Mozambique’s cash transfer program	4
Heterogeneous pathways of technological change in marginalised rural areas: the case for fuller accounts of adoption	4
Teach for Arabia: American universities, liberalism, and transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia: American universities, liberalism, and transnational Qatar , edited by Neh	4
Empowerment versus (re)distribution in South Africa: the political economy of assets in elite transitions	3
The unions are the mines’ biggest partners, but they do not act like it: union ‘corruption’ and shareholder-primacy on Zambia’s copperbelt	3
A co-created model for self-determined development objectives in Indigenous communities	3
Being vulnerable in a vulnerable activity: women market gardeners of Kinshasa	3
Coloniality of power and progressive politics in Latin America	3
La localisation de l’aide humanitaire : un chantier de recherche en pleine émergence*	3

Entre « universalisme » et « localisme », les degrés de percolation des standards SPHÈRE	3
Assessment of livelihood sustainability during Urban Development-Induced Rural Displacement and Resettlement (UDIRDR): a literature review	3
While development goes down the drain, capitalism profits from “helping”: a response to Ilan Kapoor and Gavin Fridell	3
The social economy in Europe as an alternative development model	2
‘We endure because we need money’: everyday violence, COVID-19 and domestic workers in South Africa	2
Policy-making for Indigenous entrepreneurship: towards an inclusive approach	2
Barriers to women’s financial inclusion in Burkina Faso	2
Preserving interventionism: how professionalisation secures the survival of electoral assistance	2
Tackling wealth accumulation in a context of social upheaval: the property tax in Chile	2
Who bears the tax burden? The withholding tax policy and persistent informality in artisanal small-scale mining in Ghana	2
Stratégies d’adaptation des populations à la précarité hydrique dans la ville de Zinder, Niger	2
Does economic complexity enhance governance quality in Africa?	2
The patriarchy of accumulation: homework, fieldwork and the production-reproduction nexus in rural Indonesia	2
Determinants of poverty reduction for smallholder farmers in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia	2
Gender analysis of access to formal credit and rice productivity: evidence from Togo	2
Transforming a praetorian polity: the political economy of democratization in Pakistan	2
The colour of wealth concentration: the defence of economic privilege and multicultural ideology in postcolonial Mauritius	2
Is Tunisia’s democracy on its deathbed? Social capital, economic insecurity and attitudes toward democracy	2
Mind the gap: response to our critics	2
Étude de cas sur le volontourisme : des expériences guatémaltèques chargées de sens	2
Donors and international aid in neoliberal Africa: taking stock of the 2010s	1
Food as right, food as bribe: the politicization of food distribution in rural Egypt	1
UK aid to Africa: ‘nationalisation’ and neoliberalism	1
Labour unions under neoliberal authoritarianism in the Global South: the cases of Turkey and Egypt	1
Can commercialisation address consumer debt in local government? A case study of South African metropolitan municipalities	1
Land acquisition and development? Aspirations and economic mobility in Singrauli	1
Disrupted development in the Congo: the fragile foundations of the African mining consensus	1
(Re)making the social contract: the World Bank, governance and politics in the 2010s	1
Réduire les inégalités de carrière dans les organisations de coopération internationale canadiennes: vers une approche collective pour des pratiques équitables et inclusives	1
Are cash-for-work programmes good for local economic growth? The case of donor-funded public works for refugees and nationals in Jordan	1
Africapitalist foundations: the political economy of philanthropy of the super-rich in neoliberal Africa	1
A radical turn in International Law and Development? Corporations, capitalist states and imperial governance	1
Did the COVID-19 pandemic accelerate localisation?	1
“They are my people, add them!” The politicisation of poverty reduction programmes in the Global South: Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty cash transfer programme in focus	1
Global human development and human rights: the sustainable development goals and beyond	1
Extraversion versus développement agricole autocentré: Le cas des pays du Maghreb	1
The problem of doing more: success and paradoxes in scaling up informal initiatives for disaster risk reduction and climate action	1
The Routledge handbook of poverty in the Global South	1
Bottom-up development as framed freedom: developmentality and donor power	1
Do state-subsidized contractual arrangements improve farmers’ income? Empirical evidence from Algeria	1
Decent jobs in Accra’s malls? The role of flexibilisation and informalisation in shaping workers’ employment outcomes	1
Les types de violences faites aux femmes et aux filles au Burkina Faso : vers des interventions sociojudiciaires prônant l’autonomisation individuelle et collective	1
Can cash transfers promote women’s flourishing? An assessment of Nigeria’s Household Uplifting Program	1
Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria	1
The Green Revolution and transversal countermovements: recovering alternative agronomic imaginaries in Tunisia and India	1