| Economic policy and power relations in South Africa's transition to democracy A Habib, V Padayachee World development 28 (2), 245-263, 2000 | 342 | 2000 |
| The RDP White Paper: Reconstruction of a development vision A Adelzadeh, V Padayachee Transformation 25 (5), 1-18, 1994 | 158 | 1994 |
| Three years after apartheid: growth, employment and redistribution? J Michie, V Padayachee Cambridge Journal of Economics 22 (5), 623-636, 1998 | 151 | 1998 |
| The Political Economy of South Africa's Transition: policy perspectives in the late 1990s J Michie, V Padayachee Cengage Learning, 1997 | 146 | 1997 |
| (D) urban vortex: South African city in transition B Freund, V Padayachee (No Title), 2002 | 120 | 2002 |
| Indian merchants and dukawallahs in the Natal economy, c1875–1914 V Padayachee, R Morrell Journal of Southern African Studies 17 (1), 71-102, 1991 | 103 | 1991 |
| A history of South African capitalism in national and global perspective K Hart, V Padayachee Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 81 (1), 55-85, 2013 | 98 | 2013 |
| Shadow of Liberation: contestation and compromise in the economic and social policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996 V Padayachee, R Van Niekerk Wits University Press, 2019 | 91 | 2019 |
| The political economy of Africa V Padayachee routledge, 2010 | 80 | 2010 |
| State reform policy in South Africa M Morris, V Padayachee Transformation 7, 1-26, 1988 | 73 | 1988 |
| Blacks in whites: a century of cricket struggles in KwaZulu-Natal A Desai University of Kwazulu Natal Press, 2002 | 72 | 2002 |
| Progressive academic economists & the Challenge of development in South Africa's decade of liberation V Padayachee Review of African Political Economy 25 (77), 431-450, 1998 | 72 | 1998 |
| The development decade?: Economic and social change in South Africa, 1994-2004 V Padayachee Hsrc Press, 2006 | 70 | 2006 |
| Lessons for PRSP from poverty reduction strategies in South Africa N Hunter, J May, V Padayachee University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Social and Development Studies, 2003 | 64 | 2003 |
| Indian business in South Africa after apartheid: new and old trajectories K Hart, V Padayachee Comparative Studies in Society and History 42 (4), 683-712, 2000 | 62 | 2000 |
| The south African economy, 1994–2004 V Padayachee Social Research: An International Quarterly 72 (3), 549-580, 2005 | 60 | 2005 |
| Global economic recession: effects and implications for South Africa at a time of political challenges V Padayachee Claves de la Economia Mundial 2 (4), 3-9, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| The poverty of ideas: South African democracy and the retreat of intellectuals WM Gumede, L Dikeni | 48 | 2009 |
| Debt, development and democracy: the IMF in post‐apartheid South Africa V Padayachee Review of African Political Economy 21 (62), 585-597, 1994 | 47 | 1994 |
| The Economics of the “Third Way” P Arestis, M Sawyer Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 21 (4), 673-689, 2001 | 46 | 2001 |
