OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Development 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 crisis and risk spillovers to developing economies: Evidence from Africa	36
Integrated model for women empowerment in rural India	35
The impact of environmental technology innovation and energy credit rebate on carbon emissions: A comparative analysis	33
Impact of improved rice varieties on household food security in Northern Ghana: A doubly robust analysis	31
The impact of foreign aid on economic development: A systematic literature review and content analysis of the top 50 most influential papers	29
Financing the economy: The multidimensional influences of financial development on economic complexity	28
Defining and measuring financial inclusion: A systematic review and confirmatory factor analysis	21
Non‐farm employment and poverty reduction in Mauritania	16
Analysis of Gender Roles in Philippine Fishing Communities	15
A green revolution in sub‐Saharan Africa? The transformation of Ethiopia's agricultural sector	14
The role of financial inclusion in improving household well‐being	13
Poverty, wealth inequality and financial inclusion among castes in Hindu and Muslim communities in Uttar Pradesh, India	13
Domestic revenue mobilisation in developing countries: An exploratory analysis of sub‐Saharan Africa and Latin America	13
Achieving disability inclusive employment – Are the current approaches deep enough?	12
Economic transformation in Africa: What is the role of Chinese firms?	12
The impact of COVID‐19 on consumption poverty in Mozambique	12
The macroeconomic impact of COVID‐19 in Mozambique: A social accounting matrix approach	11
Improving the resilience of SMEs in times of crisis: The impact of mobile money amid Covid‐19 in Zambia	11
Fiscal stimulus packages to COVID‐19: The role of informality	11
Digital credit and the gender gap in financial inclusion: Empirical evidence from Kenya	11
Explaining inter‐ethnic marriage in Sub‐Saharan Africa	10
Financial constraints and the impact of corruption on employment growth	10
Aid for health, economic growth, and the emigration of medical workers	10
Foreign direct investment, anti‐money laundering regulations and economic growth	10
Multinational enterprises' sustainability practices and focus on developing countries: Contributions and unexpected results of SDG implementation	10

A review of machine learning and satellite imagery for poverty prediction: Implications for development research and applications	10
Short‐term effects of COVID‐19 lockdown on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Ecuadorian firms	10
Measuring women's empowerment in developing countries: A systematic review	9
Impact of Covid‐19 on Maternal Health Seeking in Ghana	9
Local brokerage and international leverage: NGOs and land conflicts in Indonesia	9
Information technology adoption and integration into global value chains: Evidence from small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in Vietnam	9
A new era of microfinance: The digital microcredit and its impact on poverty	9
Unemployment in women with psychosocial disabilities during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons from Tana River County, Kenya	9
How do migration and remittances affect inequality? A case study of Mexico	9
Titling and the value of land in Tanzania	9
Changing patterns of son preference and fertility in Pakistan	8
Mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection: The issues yet to be addressed	8
Barriers to employment for people with intellectual disabilities in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Self‐advocate and family perspectives	8
Gender and Covid‐19: Are women bearing the brunt? A case study for Bolivia	8
An empirical analysis of the effect of tobacco taxation on economic growth in 38 African countries	8
The impact of COVID‐19 government responses on remittances in Latin American countries	8
Are natural resources also bad for infrastructure quality?	7
Does workfare work? India's employment guarantee during COVID‐19	7
Do rural clan‐based networks reduce the risk of a return to poverty? Evidence from China	7
Fiscal decentralization, democracy and government size: Disentangling the complexities	7
Global value chains participation and environmental pollution in developing countries: Does digitalization matter?	7
Socio‐economic impact of China's infrastructure‐led growth model in Africa: A case study of the Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway	7
Capability‐sensitive principles for assistive technology to support young graduates with disabilities in Bangladesh and Kenya into employment	6
Promoting ICT adoption in rural entrepreneurship: more neighbourhood effect or more institutional incentives?—Empirical evidence from China	6
The microcredit continuum: From ‘smart economics’ to holistic programming	6
Does food security matter to subjective well‐being? Evidence from a cross‐country panel	6
Farm mechanisation in Nepal's Terai Region: Policy context, drivers and options	6
Unintended consequences of microfinance: Effects on credit access for small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises	6
Linking the quality of life index and the typology of European administrative units	6
The impact of Chinese aid on political trust	6
The social contract in Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia: What do the people want?	6
The impact of health sector‐wide approaches on aid effectiveness and infant mortality	5
The potential for scaling up container‐based sanitation in informal settlements in Kenya	5
Africa beyond ‘South‐South cooperation’: A frame with limited resonance	5
Brokerage, power and gender equity: How empowerment‐focused civil society organisations bolster women's influence in rural Indonesia	5
The role of administrative data in gender statistics: Supporting inclusive development for women and girls	5
Mapping emerging trends and South–South cooperation in regional knowledge networks: A bibliometric analysis of avian influenza research in Southeast Asia	5
Farmers' awareness of digital credit: Does financial literacy matter?	5
Climbing the economic ladder: The role of microfinance institutions in promoting entrepreneurship in Pakistan	5
Does global value chain participation boost high technology exports?	5
Examining the relationship between farmers' perceived trust and investment preferences	5
A vital technology: Review of the literature on mobile phone use among pastoralists	5
Socio‐economic determinants of financial inclusion: An evaluation with a microdata multidimensional index	5
Assets, cash transfers and urban livelihoods in South Africa	5
Does green foreign investment contribute to air pollution abatement? Evidence from China	4
Financial inclusion of individuals who arrived as refugees to the United States	4
Female labour force participation and dowries in Pakistan	4
(Re)making the margins: Frontier assemblages and brokerage in Hambantota, Sri Lanka	4
Educational expansion and shifting private returns to education: Evidence from Mozambique	4
Institutional development and the dowry death curve across states in India	4

Gender equity and land: The role of corporate social responsibility in Niger Delta, Nigeria	4
Brokers betrayed: The afterlife of Afghan interpreters employed by western armies	4
More remittances, fewer kids—Impact of remittances on fertility in Morocco	4
How can we create a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace in society without the voice of disability? Lessons from Ghana	4
Locating Africa in China's community of shared future for mankind: A relational approach	4
Why is financial inclusion so popular? An analysis of development buzzwords	4
Assessing the impacts of climate change on women's poverty: A Bolivian case study	4
Is this time different? Social capability and catch‐up growth in Ethiopia, 1950–2020	4
The New Economic Geography and labour emigration: Analysing Venezuela's hyperinflation episode	4
The impact of tropical storms on tax revenue	4
Chinese aid and crime: Evidence from Africa	4
Disability inclusive employment in urban Malawi: A multi‐perspective interview study	4
COVID‐19's impacts on business activities and female workers: Empirical evidence from global developing economies	4
Funding schemes for infrastructure investment and poverty alleviation in Africa: Evidence from Guinea‐Bissau	4
The paradox of co‐producing governance with traditional institutions: Diaspora chiefs and minority empowerment in Nigeria	4
Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two‐wheel tractor‐based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe	4
Why foreign agricultural investment fails? Five lessons from Ethiopia	4
Tax and governance in rural areas: The implications of inefficient tax collection	4
Do social comparisons and negative shocks affect the subjective well‐being of the poor? Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon	4
Inside Zambia's ‘new normal:’ COVID‐19 policy responses and implications for peri‐urban food security and livelihoods	4
Input subsidy versus output subsidy for green R&D in a supply chain	3
Foreign aid as a catalyst for improving productive capabilities in recipients	3
Women's participation in decision‐making: Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data 2017–2018	3
An evaluation of Egyptian microfinance laws and regulations preventing overindebtedness of women	3
Remittances and households' livelihood in the context of Covid‐19: Evidence from Burkina Faso	3
Rural employment guarantee programme in India and its impact on household educational decisions: A focus on private coaching	3
Output convergence at sector level across Indian states: Evidence from weak sigma and club convergence analysis	3
Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust	3
Inequality and the middle‐income trap	3
The density of microfinance institutions and multiple borrowing in Ghana: Are rural borrowers vulnerable?	3
The impact of development strategy choice on capital mobility and economic growth	3
Descriptive social norms and herders' social insurance participation in Mongolia: A survey experiment	3
Risk preferences and management strategies of farmers in Ghana: Does the type of crop grown matter?	3
Power and supply chain development in the South African and Thai automotive industries: What lessons can be learnt?	3
Role of governance in the nexus between financial development and sustainable development	3
Entrepreneur characteristics and financing patterns in SMES of MENA countries: Overcoming the burdens of liability of newness	3
Militias going rogue: Social dilemmas and coercive brokerage in Rio de Janeiro's urban frontier	3
Shadow economy threshold effect in the relationship finance–growth in Tunisia: A nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag approach	3
Governing the artisanal gold mining sector in the Mano River Union: A comparative study of Liberia and Sierra Leone	3
Indigenous farmers' perception of climate change and the use of local knowledge to adapt to climate variability: A case study of Vietnam	3
From the top to the bottom: The global environment and microfinance institution (MFI) performance in the West African Economic and Monetary Union countries	3
Varieties of development: On the plurality of political economies and how to harness it	3
African trading brokers in China: The internet, Covid‐19 and the transformation of low‐end globalization	3
Hedgehog or fox? Theories of change for dryland cereals in Eastern Africa	3
Local economic development in Thailand	3
Evaluating the economic effects of the Ebola virus disease in Liberia: A synthetic control approach	3
Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity‐development project	3
Gender‐focused or gender mainstreaming programmes? The gender dimension of international aid	3
South–South Cooperation and global development in a multipolar world: China and India in Africa	3
The voluntary sustainability standards and their contribution towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals: A systematic review on the coffee sector	3
Conceptualising inclusive development by identifying universality, plurality, sociality, and relationality	3
Working with legal small‐scale miners: Implications for development	3