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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID‐19’s impacts on global value chains, as seen in the apparel industry	45
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?	36
Africa’s “youth employment” crisis is actually a “missing jobs” crisis	34
Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Tanzania	30
Regulating agricultural intensification: Lessons from West Africa’s rapidly growing pesticide markets	24
More evidence on the impact of government social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe	23
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey	19
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the internationalization of production: A review of the literature	17
Policy coherence across Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Finland	16
Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap	15
Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies	15
Community‐led reconstruction, social inclusion and participation in post‐earthquake Nepal	15
Graduation after 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving but still not thriving	14
Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system	13
Embrapa and the construction of scientific heritage in Brazilian agriculture: Sowing memory	13
Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia	12
Inequalities in higher education in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A scoping review of the literature	11
Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa	11
Politics of success stories in the path towards Universal Health Coverage: The case of Turkey	10
Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria	9
Scaling up sustainable investment through blockchain‐based project bonds	9
How culture may nurture institutional trust: Insights from Bangladesh and Nepal	9
How earmarking has become self‐perpetuating in United Nations development co‐operation	9
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions	9
A green skills framework for climate action, gender empowerment, and climate justice	8

Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone	8
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability	8
The effects of financial crisis on income inequality	8
Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India	8
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation	8
Addressing educational attainment inequities in rural Ethiopia: Leave no adolescent behind	8
“The SDGs are not God”: Policy‐makers and the queering of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa	7
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings	7
Are market‐based solutions a viable strategy for addressing micronutrient deficiency? Lessons from case studies in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia	7
Urban social assistance: Evidence, challenges and the way forward, with application to Ghana	7
The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?	7
Understanding resilience: Lessons from lived experiences of extreme poverty in Bangladesh	7
Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?	7
What does resilience imply for development practice? Tools for more coherent programming and evaluation of resilience	6
Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?	6
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan	6
The contestation of ideas behind Indonesia's rural electrification policies: The influence of global and national institutional dynamics	6
China–Japan development finance competition and the revival of mercantilism	6
State‐oriented service‐delivery partnership with civil society organizations in the context of counter‐terrorism in Nigeria	5
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal	5
To make growth reduce poverty, industrialize: Using manufacturing to mediate the effect of growth on poverty	5
Normative coherence for development: What relevance for responsive regionalism?	5
Industrial policy: Clarifying options through taxonomy and decision trees	5
Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences	5
Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia: Complementarities between social protection and health policies	5
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	5
Translating climate strategies into action: An analysis of the sustainable, green, and resilient city action plans of the multilateral development banks	5
Fires in the Amazon Region: Quick Policy Review	5
COVID‐19 vaccination: Willingness and practice in Bangladesh	5
Does affirmative action undermine meritocracy? “Meritocratic inclusion” of the marginalized in Nepal’s bureaucracy	5
The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic	4
EdTechfor Ugandan girls: Affordances of different technologies for girls' secondary education during the Covid‐19 pandemic	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
Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty	4
How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power	4
Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption	4
Do zombie firms crowd out healthy firms and slow their growth? Evidence from China	4
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia	4
Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market	4
Agricultural development promises more growth and less poverty in Africa: Modelling the potential impact of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme in six countries	4
Participatory local governance in rural Nepal: The primacy of informality	4
Putting power and politics central in Nepal’s water governance	4
In the interest of saving: Refugee‐led microfinance in Kampala, Uganda	4
A normative power or fortress Europe? Normative policy coherence between the European Unionʼs development, migration, and foreign policies	3
FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management	3
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset	3
Aid is not development: The true character of Pacific aid	3
Workplace sexual harassment as a feature of precarious work in Uganda's agro‐processing factories: “Mince your words and watch yourself”	3
Skills formation and (un)employment in Latin America: Evidence from Chile	3

Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity: Radical implications for Haiti	3
Chinese Development Finance and its determinants: Does global governance matter?	3
Normative coherence through social entrepreneurship: Fostering women’s empowerment in Myanmar	3
Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan	3
Lessons from reducing bribery in Uganda’s health services	3
The adoption of global water norms in Central America: What separates normative coherence from normative hegemony?	3
Teaching and learning for life skills development: Insights from Rwanda’s 12+ programme for adolescent girls	3
Risk navigation for Thinking and Working Politically: The work and disappearance of Sombath Somphone	3
North–South research collaborations: An empirical evaluation against principles of transboundary research	3
Helping when it matters: Optimal time for supporting women’s self‐employment in India	3
Challenges and opportunities with social inclusion and community‐based water management in Solomon Islands	3
Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan	3
The effects of development aid on irregular migration to Europe: Deterrence or attraction?	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
“Want to help someone? Shut up and listen”: Foreign aid, maladaptation, and community development practices in the Pacific	3
Protectors or enablers? Untangling the roles of traditional authorities and local elites in foreign land grabs in Cameroon	3
Can civil society organizations and faith‐based organizations in Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands access climate finance?	3
Do people displaced by development need more than financial compensation? Evidence from Bangladesh	3
Normative coherence for development and regionalism: Gender equality in ASEAN's migration policies	3
Aid instability, aid effectiveness and economic growth	3
Preventing and protesting workplace sexual harassment: Women agro‐processing workers in Bangladesh	3
“Securitized” UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan	3
Promoting Rwanda’s business environment: Impact of reforms and drivers of change	3