| The companion to development studies V Desai, RB Potter Routledge, 2013 | 554 | 2013 |
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| Community Participation and Slum Housing: A Study of Bombay V Desai New Delhi: Sage, 1995 | 145 | 1995 |
| The new managerialism in local governance: North-South dimensions V Desai, R Imrie Third World Quarterly 19 (4), 635-650, 1998 | 141 | 1998 |
| Speculating on slums: Infrastructural fixes in informal housing in the global South V Desai, A Loftus Antipode 45 (4), 789-808, 2013 | 90 | 2013 |
| NGOs, gender mainstreaming, and urban poor communities in Mumbai V Desai Gender & Development 13 (2), 90-98, 2005 | 83 | 2005 |
| Access to power and participation V Desai Third World Planning Review 18 (2), 217, 1996 | 79 | 1996 |
| 8 The role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) V Desai The companion to development studies, 590-594, 2014 | 74 | 2014 |
| Community Participation in Development V Desai Companion to Development Studies, 115-119, 2008 | 72 | 2008 |
| Anatomy of the Bombay NGO sector V Desai Environment and Urbanization 11 (1), 247-266, 1999 | 30 | 1999 |
| Accountability and Participation' V Desai, M Howes Non-Governmental Organisations. Performance and Accountability. Beyond the …, 1995 | 30 | 1995 |
| Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) student and staff in contemporary British Geography V Desai Area 49 (3), 320-323, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Informal politics, grassroots NGOS and women’s empowerment in the slums of Bombay V Desai Rethinking empowerment: gender and development in a global/local world, 218, 2002 | 27 | 2002 |
| Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia: Development of low-income urban housing in India V Desai Habitat International 12 (2), 67-74, 1988 | 18 | 1988 |
| The nature of development and development studies V Desai, RB Potter The companion to development studies, 1-2, 2002 | 17 | 2002 |
| Urbanisation and housing the poor: overview V Desai Elsevier, 2012 | 14 | 2012 |
| Critically understanding Asian perspectives on ageing V Desai, M Tye Third World Quarterly 30 (5), 1007-1025, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| Urban grassroots nongovernmental organizations in Bombay: A suggested typology V Desai, I Preston Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 18 (4), 453-468, 2000 | 13 | 2000 |