OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Development is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Human Capital and Export Performance in East Asia: Focusing on Gender Inequality	37
China's strategy of free trade area and economic regionalism	32
Driving Triple‐Bottom‐Line Value: Networks and Impacts in South Africa's Emerging Game Meat Industry	30
The Impact of Vision Problems on Households' Incomes: Evidence From the 2019 and 2022 Rounds of the Turkey Health Survey	24
Heterogeneous effects of violence on student achievement: Evidence from Colombia	23
Tax Relations in Contexts of Fragility: A Case Study of Somalia	22
Participation in ROSCAs as a Driver of the Household Energy Transition in Cameroon	20
Local economic development in Thailand	19
Labour migration and food security in rural Mozambique: Do agricultural investment, asset building and local employment matter?	18
Globalization and the “zero hunger” goal in Africa: Starving in an open world?	18
Higher education and employability in Tanzania: Students' account	18
Social and emotional well‐being and economic insecurity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: A multidimensional approach	17
Are natural resources also bad for infrastructure quality?	17
The dynamics of overlapping borrowing in the microcredit sector of Bangladesh	16
The effect of environmental centralisation on productivity: Evidence from an administrative reform in China	16
Multinational enterprises' sustainability practices and focus on developing countries: Contributions and unexpected results of SDG implementation	15
Choosing between energy and ecologies of health: Understanding developmentalism, state formation and local life worlds	15
Globalization‐induced social changes and their environmental impacts: Assessing the role of information and communication technology in sub‐Saharan Africa	14
Funding schemes for infrastructure investment and poverty alleviation in Africa: Evidence from Guinea‐Bissau	14
Social and Financial Barriers to Safe (Drinking) Water and Sanitation: The Role of Development Agents in Ethiopia	14
China–Africa skills transfer through overseas economic and trade cooperation zones	14
Voices From the RMG Factories: Assessing Female Labourers' Perception Regarding Social Protection in the Ready‐Made Garments Industry of Bangladesh	13
Community Banking and Microfinance in the Global South	13

Varieties of development: On the plurality of political economies and how to harness it	13
Climbing the Coffee Global Value Chain—Three Decades of Trade and Upgrading	13
Proliferation of Corruption in Africa: The Ineluctable Role of Inequality of Opportunity	13
Global value chains participation and environmental pollution in developing countries: Does digitalization matter?	13
China's Science Museum Gift to Ethiopia: Rethinking Shared Agency in Industrialization‐Driven Development Aid	13
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Estimating the Evolving Trade Effect of Foreign Aid in the Context of Aid Competition: Evidence From European Countries	12
Trends, patterns and socioeconomic determinants of child and adolescent labour in India: Empirical analysis using national sample survey data	12
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Mapping emerging trends and South–South cooperation in regional knowledge networks: A bibliometric analysis of avian influenza research in Southeast Asia	11
City connectivity via global intra‐firm linkages: An analysis of Indian cities	11
Impact of Sanctions Policy Shifts: A Case Study of the United States and Cuba, 1994–2020	11
The impact of financial inclusion initiatives: Evidence from meta‐analysis	10
The impact of Chinese aid on political trust	10
Nutrition, multidimensional poverty and income: The case of Nepal	10
Expansion, cohesion and diversity: The network advantages of microfinance groups in Indian villages	10
Machine Learning Approach for Decoding the Efficiency of the World's Largest Welfare Scheme ‘MGNREGA’: A Deep Dive Into Welfare State Dynamics and Local Heterogeneity	10
Five decades of neoliberal developmentalism in “Least Developed Countries”: A decolonial critique	9
Attention Versus Handshakes: Pathways of Influence in China's Foreign Aid and Loans	9
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No Time to Waste: A Synthesis of Evidence on Time Reallocation Following Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions	9
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Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust	9
Bypassing Bribes: Mobile Money and Corruption in Africa	9
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Bank lending behaviour and systemic banking crisis in Africa: The role of regulatory framework	8
The Poverty Reduction Capacity of Nature‐Based Tourism in Lao PDR—A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Study	8
The Political Economy of Mining Rent Sharing: Is Government Effectiveness Really Costly?	8
Chinese aid and crime: Evidence from Africa	8
Local‐level exposure to conflicts and child health: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire	8
Global challenges and developing economies: Strategies for inclusive and sustainable growth	8
Conflict's impacts on food systems: Mapping available evidence of interactions	8
Rethinking social assistance amid the COVID‐19 pandemic: Guaranteeing the right to income security in Ecuador	8
Does economic freedom foster education in Sub‐Saharan Africa?	8
Social sustainability, poverty and income: An empirical exploration	8
Social capital effects on resilience to food insecurity: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan	8
Limits of energy access research on unreliability	7
Exploring why religious faith may distinguish faith‐based from non‐faith‐based NGOs: Theoretical insights from Cambodia	7
The Diversity of the Circular Economy in the City of Tashkent, Uzbekistan	7
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Recessions and recoveries in Central African countries: Lessons from the past	7
Institutions and venture capital market development in sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Does Credit From Various Sources Improve MSME Performance? An Empirical Analysis for a Large Transitioning Developing Economy of India	7
Digital divides among microenterprises: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Spillovers from gender equality onto economic equality: Evidence from 162 nations	7
Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two‐wheel tractor‐based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe	7
Between Tradition and Transformation: Community Voices on the Dipo Womanhood Rites in Yilo‐Krobo, Ghana	7
Chinese Development Finance and African Policy Space: Towards Productive Incoherence?	7
Does global value chain participation boost high technology exports?	7

Technological intensity and local socio‐economic development	7
The Drug War and Regional Social Capital in Mexico	7
A multidimensional approach to measuring vulnerability to poverty among refugee populations	6
Aid to Educate? The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local School Enrolment in Nigeria	6
A Typology of Malian Farming Households	6
Climbing the economic ladder: The role of microfinance institutions in promoting entrepreneurship in Pakistan	6
Effects of Theft on Investment Decisions of Agricultural Enterprises in Cameroon	6
Cultivation and competition in Colombia: Disentangling the effects of coca price changes on violence	6
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Industrial Robots and Environmental Pollution: Evidence From Chinese Cities	6
Pandemic‐induced income shocks and dietary diversity in India	6
Nazareno Strampelli and the first Green Revolution	6
Analysing the ASEAN–China Free Trade Agreement Effect on China's Environmental Sustainability Using Synthetic Control Method (SCM)	6
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Status and Determinants of Female‐Headed Households' Food Security: The Case of Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia	6
Household Livelihood Strategies and Outcomes in Conflict‐Affected Areas of Northeastern Ethiopia	6
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Farmers' awareness of digital credit: Does financial literacy matter?	6
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What explains collective action: The impact of social capital, incentive structures and economic benefits	6
Translocal Livelihoods, Socio‐Economic Differentiation and Lower Level Urbanisation in Uganda	6
Locating Africa in China's community of shared future for mankind: A relational approach	6
Digital technology adoption among smallholder farmers in Vietnam: Implications for digital agricultural extension strategies	6
Impact of Self Help Group membership on the adoption of child nutritional practices: Evidence from JEEViKA's health and nutrition strategy programme in Bihar, India	6
Poverty at a distance: Supply and demand side factors and the formation of civil society organizations in Iraq	5
Convergence analysis of artificial intelligence research capacity: Are the less developed catching up with the developed ones?	5
How can we create a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace in society without the voice of disability? Lessons from Ghana	5
Labour force participation of immigrant women in Canada: With a special focus on female immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa	5
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Challenges of cooperation for development: A case‐study analysis of Cuban health solidarity programmes in Nigeria	5
Chinese aid and corruption in African local governments	5
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From poppy to pill: A comprehensive strategy to combat illicit synthetic drug production in Southeast Asia	5
Harsh Winter Shocks and Distress Sales: Consumption and Asset Smoothing Among Livestock Farmers in Kyrgyzstan	5
Working with legal small‐scale miners: Implications for development	5
Derivatives use and the risk‐taking behaviour of African banks	5
Economic Drivers of China's Declining Fertility: The Role of Digital Inclusive Finance and Household Debt	5
North–South development competition and the quality and sustainability of Chinese and Japanese trans‐national infrastructure initiatives	5
Chinese and Indian economic relations and development assistance to Zimbabwe: Rationale, controversies and significance	5
The role of financial constraints in firm transition—Evidence from Indian manufacturing	5
Inequality and the middle‐income trap	5
Impacts of migration on time allocation of those who remain at home in rural Nepal	5
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Decoupling of functional and household income distribution by economic growth: new findings from analysing the three‐way growth‐equity nexus	5
Transplanting China's ecological civilization to the Belt and Road Initiative: What will it take?	5