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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID‐19’s impacts on global value chains, as seen in the apparel industry	41
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?	33
Africa’s “youth employment” crisis is actually a “missing jobs” crisis	33
Confronting the scarcity of digital skills among the poor in developing countries	24
Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Tanzania	24
Regulating agricultural intensification: Lessons from West Africa’s rapidly growing pesticide markets	23
More evidence on the impact of government social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe	21
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	16
Kenya’s informal milk markets and the regulation–reality gap	15
Community‐led reconstruction, social inclusion and participation in post‐earthquake Nepal	14
Embrapa and the construction of scientific heritage in Brazilian agriculture: Sowing memory	13
Female participation and financial performance of microfinance institutions: Evidence from transition economies	13
Graduation after 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving but still not thriving	13
Policy coherence across Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Finland	12
Inequalities in higher education in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A scoping review of the literature	11
Disrupted education trajectories: Exploring the effects of Covid‐19 on adolescent learning and priorities for “building back better” education systems in Ethiopia	11
Government and civil society organizations: Close but comfortable? Lessons from creating the Dutch “Strategic Partnerships for Lobby and Advocacy”	10
Politics of success stories in the path towards Universal Health Coverage: The case of Turkey	10
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
Quantifying the coherence of development policy priorities	9
Tax obsessions: Taxpayer registration and the “informal sector” in sub‐Saharan Africa	9
Scaling up sustainable investment through blockchain‐based project bonds	9
Industrial policy and structural transformation: Insights from Ethiopian manufacturing	8

Partnering capacities for inclusive development in food provisioning	8
Addressing educational attainment inequities in rural Ethiopia: Leave no adolescent behind	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
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions	7
A green skills framework for climate action, gender empowerment, and climate justice	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
User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation	7
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings	7
What does resilience imply for development practice? Tools for more coherent programming and evaluation of resilience	6
Understanding resilience: Lessons from lived experiences of extreme poverty in Bangladesh	6
Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?	6
Understanding the multifaceted impact ofCOVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India	6
The open‐and‐shut case against inequality	6
Why are aid projects less effective in the Pacific?	6
Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria	6
China–Japan development finance competition and the revival of mercantilism	6
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability	6
Disaggregated determinants of aid: Development aid projects in the Philippines	6
State‐oriented service‐delivery partnership with civil society organizations in the context of counter‐terrorism in Nigeria	5
Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences	5
Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone	5
The contestation of ideas behind Indonesia's rural electrification policies: The influence of global and national institutional dynamics	5
Translating climate strategies into action: An analysis of the sustainable, green, and resilient city action plans of the multilateral development banks	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
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan	5
To make growth reduce poverty, industrialize: Using manufacturing to mediate the effect of growth on poverty	5
In the interest of saving: Refugee‐led microfinance in Kampala, Uganda	4
Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty	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
Development evaluation in authoritarian states: A case from Kazakhstan	4
Putting power and politics central in Nepal’s water governance	4
The Samagra anti‐poverty programme in Madhya Pradesh: Integrating household data, overcoming silo‐problems and leaving nobody behind	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
A comparative analysis of EU and US trade policies towards least developed countries and the African Growth and Opportunity Act beneficiaries	4
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal	4
Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia	4
How can aid be decolonized and localized in the Pacific? Yielding and wielding power	4
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	4
Industrial policy: Clarifying options through taxonomy and decision trees	4
Do zombie firms crowd out healthy firms and slow their growth? Evidence from China	4
Protectors or enablers? Untangling the roles of traditional authorities and local elites in foreign land grabs in Cameroon	3
A normative power or fortress Europe? Normative policy coherence between the European Unionʼs development, migration, and foreign policies	3
Can civil society organizations and faith‐based organizations in Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands access climate finance?	3
Development co‐operation by European regions: Introducing the subnational donor governance dataset	3

The governance shock doctrine: Civic space in the pandemic	3
FADM: A Feasible Approach to Disaster Management	3
Chinese Development Finance and its determinants: Does global governance matter?	3
Helping when it matters: Optimal time for supporting women’s self‐employment in India	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
The adoption of global water norms in Central America: What separates normative coherence from normative hegemony?	3
Enhancing export competitiveness by deeper integration: The case of the East African Community	3
Eviction is not a disaster	3
Do people displaced by development need more than financial compensation? Evidence from Bangladesh	3
Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan	3
Can agricultural subsidies reduce gendered productivity gaps? Panel data evidence from Zambia	3
Normative coherence through social entrepreneurship: Fostering women’s empowerment in Myanmar	3
The Water–Employment–Migration nexus: Buzzword or useful framework?	3
The effects of development aid on irregular migration to Europe: Deterrence or attraction?	3
Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption	3
Lessons from reducing bribery in Uganda’s health services	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
Linking business strategies with upgrading pathways in global value chains: Insights from the Kenyan solar market	3
Risk navigation for Thinking and Working Politically: The work and disappearance of Sombath Somphone	3
Aid instability, aid effectiveness and economic growth	3
COVID‐19 vaccination: Willingness and practice in Bangladesh	3
“Securitized” UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan	3
Women's political agency in difficult settings: Analysis of evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan	3
Promoting Rwanda’s business environment: Impact of reforms and drivers of change	3