OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development Policy Review 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
China’s rapidly evolving practice of poverty resettlement: Moving millions to eliminate poverty	53
COVID‐19’s impacts on global value chains, as seen in the apparel industry	31
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?	27
Africa’s “youth employment” crisis is actually a “missing jobs” crisis	26
The changing face of agriculture in Tanzania: Indicators of transformation	25
Confronting the scarcity of digital skills among the poor in developing countries	21
Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Tanzania	21
Regulating agricultural intensification: Lessons from West Africa’s rapidly growing pesticide markets	19
More evidence on the impact of government social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe	18
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey	16
The power of narratives: Explaining inaction on gender mainstreaming in Uganda’s climate change policy	16
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the internationalization of production: A review of the literature	14
The rise and fall of budget support: Ownership, bargaining and donor commitment problems in foreign aid	12
Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies	11
Embrapa and the construction of scientific heritage in Brazilian agriculture: Sowing memory	11
Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap	11
Human development and advocacy journalism: Analysis of low editorial coverage in Pakistan	11
Graduation after 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving but still not thriving	11
Promoting ownership in a “post‐aid effectiveness” world: Evidence from Rwanda and Liberia	10
Community‐led reconstruction, social inclusion and participation in post‐earthquake Nepal	10
Government and civil society organizations: Close but comfortable? Lessons from creating the Dutch “Strategic Partnerships for Lobby and Advocacy”	10
The politics of promoting social cash transfers in Uganda: The potential and pitfalls of “thinking and working politically”	9
Special issue introduction Ownership in a post‐aid effectiveness era: Comparative perspectives	9
Inequalities in higher education in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A scoping review of the literature	9
Quantifying the coherence of development policy priorities	8

Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system	8
The effects of financial crisis on income inequality	8
Politics of success stories in the path towards Universal Health Coverage: The case of Turkey	8
How earmarking has become self‐perpetuating in United Nations development co‐operation	8
Addressing educational attainment inequities in rural Ethiopia: Leave no adolescent behind	8
Scaling up sustainable investment through blockchain‐based project bonds	8
Industrial policy and structural transformation: Insights from Ethiopian manufacturing	8
Foreign aid, the mining sector and democratic ownership: The case of Canadian assistance to Peru	8
Policy coherence across Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Finland	7
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings	7
How culture may nurture institutional trust: Insights from Bangladesh and Nepal	7
A green skills framework for climate action, gender empowerment, and climate justice	7
Partnering capacities for inclusive development in food provisioning	7
Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia	7
Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria	6
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability	6
Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Linking sanitation policy to service delivery in Rwanda and Uganda: From words to action	6
A critical assessment of anti‐corruption strategies for economic development in sub‐Saharan Africa	6
The open‐and‐shut case against inequality	6
Development co‐operation and the partnership–ownership nexus: Lessons from the Canada–Ghana experience	6
Disaggregated determinants of aid: Development aid projects in the Philippines	5
What does resilience imply for development practice? Tools for more coherent programming and evaluation of resilience	5
China–Japan development finance competition and the revival of mercantilism	5
“The SDGs are not God”: Policy‐makers and the queering of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa	5
Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies	5
Normative coherence for development: What relevance for responsive regionalism?	5
State‐oriented service‐delivery partnership with civil society organizations in the context of counter‐terrorism in Nigeria	5
Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?	5
Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?	5
Large dams, norms and Indigenous Peoples	5
Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India	5
Translating climate strategies into action: An analysis of the sustainable, green, and resilient city action plans of the multilateral development banks	5
The contestation of ideas behind Indonesia's rural electrification policies: The influence of global and national institutional dynamics	4
Labour productivity in African manufacturing: Does the level of skills development matter?	4
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation	4
In the interest of saving: Refugee‐led microfinance in Kampala, Uganda	4
Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone	4
Are market‐based solutions a viable strategy for addressing micronutrient deficiency? Lessons from case studies in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia	4
The rise and fall of government support for small‐scale voluntary development organizations—and their remarkable resilience	4
The Samagra anti‐poverty programme in Madhya Pradesh: Integrating household data, overcoming silo‐problems and leaving nobody behind	4
What happens to local participation when national ownership gets stronger? Initiating an exploration in Rwanda and Cambodia	4
Urban social assistance: Evidence, challenges and the way forward, with application to Ghana	4
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions	4
Understanding resilience: Lessons from lived experiences of extreme poverty in Bangladesh	4
Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences	4
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia	4
Development evaluation in authoritarian states: A case from Kazakhstan	3
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal	3
To make growth reduce poverty, industrialize: Using manufacturing to mediate the effect of growth on poverty	3

The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic	3
“Securitized” UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan	3
Does affirmative action undermine meritocracy? “Meritocratic inclusion” of the marginalized in Nepal’s bureaucracy	3
Do conditional cash transfers (CCTs) raise educational attainment? An impact evaluation of Juntos in Peru	3
Is the influence of neoliberalism on development norms waning? Evidence from the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	3
A comparative analysis of EU and US trade policies towards least developed countries and the African Growth and Opportunity Act beneficiaries	3
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan	3
Challenges and opportunities of trilateral co‐operation: Collaboration by the USA, Brazil and Mozambique on horticultural research, 2011–2015	3
Do people displaced by development need more than financial compensation? Evidence from Bangladesh	3
Putting power and politics central in Nepal’s water governance	3
Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty	3
Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan	3
Exploring the complexity of partnerships in development policy and practice: Upstairs and downstairs	3
The effects of development aid on irregular migration to Europe: Deterrence or attraction?	3
The adoption of global water norms in Central America: What separates normative coherence from normative hegemony?	3
EdTechfor Ugandan girls: Affordances of different technologies for girls' secondary education during the Covid‐19 pandemic	3
Protectors or enablers? Untangling the roles of traditional authorities and local elites in foreign land grabs in Cameroon	3
Industrial policy: Clarifying options through taxonomy and decision trees	3
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset	3
Risk navigation for Thinking and Working Politically: The work and disappearance of Sombath Somphone	3
COVID‐19 vaccination: Willingness and practice in Bangladesh	3
Helping when it matters: Optimal time for supporting women’s self‐employment in India	3
Information, accountability and perceptions of public sector programme success: A conjoint experiment among bureaucrats in Africa	3
Education, anthropogenic environmental change, and sustainable development: A rudimentary framework and reflections on proposed causal pathways for positive change in low‐ and lower‐middle income coun	3
Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan	3
Datafication, value and power in developing countries: Big data in two Indian public service organizations	3
Fires in the Amazon Region: Quick Policy Review	3
Lessons from reducing bribery in Uganda’s health services	3
Enhancing export competitiveness by deeper integration: The case of the East African Community	3