| 1 | Social capital, civil society and development | Third World Quarterly | 2001 | 941 |
| 2 | The Local Turn in Peace Building: a critical agenda for peace | Third World Quarterly | 2013 | 521 |
| 3 | Participatory development and empowerment: The dangers of localism | Third World Quarterly | 2000 | 509 |
| 4 | Rising competitive authoritarianism in Turkey | Third World Quarterly | 2016 | 453 |
| 5 | What do buzzwords do for development policy? a critical look at ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘poverty reduction’ | Third World Quarterly | 2005 | 404 |
| 6 | Do workers benefit from ethical trade? Assessing codes of labour practice in global production systems | Third World Quarterly | 2007 | 363 |
| 7 | International migration, remittances and development: myths and facts | Third World Quarterly | 2005 | 322 |
| 8 | Governance, good governance and global governance: Conceptual and actual challenges | Third World Quarterly | 2000 | 305 |
| 9 | Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’ | Third World Quarterly | 2013 | 293 |
| 10 | From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice: reclaiming a transformative agenda for gender and development | Third World Quarterly | 2015 | 281 |
| 11 | Un-civil society: The politics of the 'informal people' | Third World Quarterly | 1997 | 268 |
| 12 | The Precariat: a view from the South | Third World Quarterly | 2013 | 263 |
| 13 | Beyond the Third World: imperial globality, global coloniality and anti-globalisation social movements | Third World Quarterly | 2004 | 253 |
| 14 | NGDOs as a moment in history: Beyond aid to social entrepreneurship or civic innovation? | Third World Quarterly | 2000 | 231 |
| 15 | Abject Cosmopolitanism: the politics of protection in the anti-deportation movement | Third World Quarterly | 2003 | 227 |
| 16 | Primitive Accumulation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Global Land Grab | Third World Quarterly | 2013 | 221 |
| 17 | China’s ‘New Silk Roads’: sub-national regions and networks of global political economy | Third World Quarterly | 2016 | 217 |
| 18 | Evaluating participatory development: tyranny, power and (re)politicisation | Third World Quarterly | 2004 | 209 |
| 19 | (Neo-)extractivism – a new challenge for development theory from Latin America | Third World Quarterly | 2014 | 208 |
| 20 | Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories | Third World Quarterly | 2013 | 205 |
| 21 | Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research | Third World Quarterly | 2015 | 200 |
| 22 | Indigenous knowledges and development: a postcolonial caution | Third World Quarterly | 2004 | 187 |
| 23 | Putting the ‘rights‐based approach’ to development into perspective | Third World Quarterly | 2004 | 181 |
| 24 | Pro-poor Tourism: a critique | Third World Quarterly | 2008 | 180 |
| 25 | Thinking past ‘Western’ IR? | Third World Quarterly | 2008 | 177 |
| 26 | The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding: a literature review of effective and emancipatory local peacebuilding | Third World Quarterly | 2015 | 177 |
| 27 | Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: beyond ‘grand strategy’ to a state transformation analysis | Third World Quarterly | 2019 | 176 |
| 28 | ‘Keeping Them in Their Place’: the ambivalent relationship between development and migration in Africa | Third World Quarterly | 2008 | 171 |
| 29 | Beyondcsr? Business, poverty and social justice: an introduction | Third World Quarterly | 2007 | 165 |
| 30 | Governance, democracy and development in the Third World | Third World Quarterly | 1993 | 163 |
| 31 | Hyper‐self‐reflexive development? Spivak on representing the Third World ‘Other’ | Third World Quarterly | 2004 | 160 |
| 32 | Disability and Poverty: the need for a more nuanced understanding of implications for development policy and practice | Third World Quarterly | 2011 | 160 |
| 33 | Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections | Third World Quarterly | 2008 | 159 |
| 34 | The Myth of Invasion: the inconvenient realities of African migration to Europe | Third World Quarterly | 2008 | 158 |
| 35 | After post-development | Third World Quarterly | 2000 | 151 |
| 36 | South–South cooperation and the rise of the Global South | Third World Quarterly | 2016 | 150 |
| 37 | Democracy, threats and political repression in developing countries: Are democracies internally less violent? | Third World Quarterly | 2002 | 147 |
| 38 | Where is the local? Critical localism and peacebuilding | Third World Quarterly | 2015 | 142 |
| 39 | A call for critical reflection on the localisation agenda in humanitarian action | Third World Quarterly | 2020 | 137 |
| 40 | Value-chain Agriculture and Debt Relations: contradictory outcomes | Third World Quarterly | 2013 | 131 |
| 41 | Mobile Phones and Financial Services in Developing Countries: a review of concepts, methods, issues, evidence and future research directions | Third World Quarterly | 2009 | 130 |
| 42 | White innocence in the Black Mediterranean: hospitality and the erasure of history | Third World Quarterly | 2017 | 129 |
| 43 | Click to Donate: visual images, constructing victims and imagining the female refugee | Third World Quarterly | 2011 | 126 |
| 44 | Will blockchain emerge as a tool to break the poverty chain in the Global South? | Third World Quarterly | 2017 | 124 |
| 45 | The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category | Third World Quarterly | 2021 | 122 |
| 46 | The devil's in the theory: A critical assessment of Robert Chambers' work on participatory development | Third World Quarterly | 2002 | 121 |
| 47 | The irrelevance of development studies | Third World Quarterly | 1989 | 119 |
| 48 | Why East Asia overtook Latin America: Agrarian reform, industrialisation and development | Third World Quarterly | 2002 | 119 |
| 49 | Buen Vivirvs Development: a paradigm shift in the Andes? | Third World Quarterly | 2013 | 119 |
| 50 | The cognitive empire, politics of knowledge and African intellectual productions: reflections on struggles for epistemic freedom and resurgence of decolonisation in the twenty-first century | Third World Quarterly | 2021 | 115 |
