OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Development Research is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Enterprise Under Moral Hazard: Who Gets State Subsidies and Active Financing?	111
The Challenge of Productivity-Based Development: Innovation Gaps and Economic Structure in Latin America	46
Educational Segregation and Household Occupation: Role of School Education in Reproduction of Social Hierarchy in India	45
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing	28
Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in India: The Role of Gender and the Extended Family	27
What Drives Africa’s Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa’s Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures	25
The Development of Green Bond in Developing Countries: Insights from Southeast Asia Market Participants	24
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments: Approach Paper	24
Defining and Measuring Human Development: A Genealogical Analysis of the UNDP’s Human Development Reports	23
Cocoa: Origin Differentials and the Living Income Differential	21
Impact of Credit Constraints on Financial Performance of Small and Medium Size Enterprises	18
The Politics of Who Gets What and Why: Learning from the Targeting of Social Cash Transfers in Zambia	18
What Enables Financial Resilience: Insights from a Participatory Research and Design Process with VSLA Members in Nigeria	17
Intra-Africa Agricultural Trade, Governance Quality and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Panel Vector Autoregressive Model	16
Valuing the 'neighbourhood': Responding to Racialised Post-War Development in Slave Island, Colombo	15
Correction: Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	12
White Savior Narratives in International Development: A Discourse Analysis of the Kony2012 Campaign by Invisible Children	12
Household Income, Migration Networks, and Migration Decisions	12
Thanks to Reviewers	11
Correction to: Does Local Elite Capture Vary by Levels of Political Connections? Evidence from an Indian Public Housing Program	11
What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? Colonial Genealogies and Responses	10
Customary Land Certification, Governance and Natural Resource Use in Zambia: A Social Learning Approach	10
Working in the Informal Sector in Togo: Choice or Constraint?	10
A Socio−economic Impact Analysis of the Political Crisis in Burundi with a Focus on Children: A Macro–Micro Framework	10
Public Versus Private Health Financing Transition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Exploring the Crowding-Out Effects	9

Impact of Terms of Trade on GDP in the Context of Prebisch–Singer Theorem: Evidence from Egypt and Guinea	9
Repercussions the Covid-19 Pandemic on the SDGs Achievement: Is it a New Era for the Development?	9
Rural Youth Aspirations in the Face of Environmental, Economic and Social Pressures: Transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	9
Differential Bunching Impacts Across the Income Distribution: Evidence from Tax Administrative Data	9
Chinese Aid Projects and Local Tax Attitudes: Evidence from Africa	8
Can Burkina Faso’s Agricultural Mechanization Program Reduce Poverty in the Country	8
Correction to: An Ethnographic-Discourse Analysis of the Socio-political Effects of Interaction Between Cash Transfer Programme Authorities, Caregivers and Non-beneficiaries	8
Academic Debate and Self-Criticism: Embracing Diversity at the Core of Development Studies	7
Impact Weaving: An Approach to Strengthening the Plausibility of Anticipated AR4D Impact Pathways	7
Correction to: The Association Between Women's Education and Employment and Household Food Security in Afghanistan	7
Targeted Poverty Alleviation for the Livelihood Improvement of Poverty-Stricken Households: A Case Study of Wuxi County, China	7
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 in Mozambique in 2020	7
Correction to: ‘People Consider Us Devils’: Exploring Patterns of Exclusion facing Adolescents with Disabilities in Ethiopia	7
The Decolonization of Development Studies and International Relations in Central and Eastern Europe: A Polish Perspective of Living Between the Core and Periphery	7
Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	7
“Not All Income is Equal”: Rural Livelihood Diversification and Diet Quality in South–Western Kenya	7
Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis	7
Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	7
Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry	7
Trade Agreements, Technical Regulations, and Standards: Competitiveness Implications for Kenyan Exporters to European Union	6
Financing Constraints and Firm’s Productivity Under the COVID-19 Epidemic Shock: Evidence of A-Shared Chinese Companies	6
Can the Dragon Make the Lion Breathe Fire? The Links of Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Addis Ababa Economy	6
The Dynamics and Role of Gender in High-Value Avocado Farming in Kenya	6
Determinants of Exports in a Small and Vulnerable Economy: Fiji Islands—A Disaggregated Analysis	6
Fuelling Entrepreneurial Orientation in Enhancing Business Performance: Women Entrepreneurs’ Contribution to Family Livelihood in a Constrained Context, Bangladesh	6
How Do Foreign Aid Agencies Learn? A Comparative Analysis of Organisational Learning Determinants in National Donor Bureaucracies	6
Nourishing the Nexus: A Feminist Analysis of Gender, Nutrition and Agri-food Development Policies and Practices	6
Evaluating the Contribution of Complex International Research-for-Development Programmes to the Sustainable Development Goals	6
Are Developing Countries Using Climate Funds for Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Diversifying Away from Extractives: The Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese Capital and Industrialisation in the Kyrgyz Republic	5
Laying the Foundations for Impact: Lessons from the GCRF Evaluation	5
Delving into the Determinants of Default Risk in Savings Groups: Empirical Evidence from Ecuador	5
Public Works Programmes and Cooperation for the Common Good: Evidence from Malawi	5
A Development Lens to Frugal Innovation: Bringing Back Production and Technological Capabilities into the Discourse	5
COVID-19 Effects on Public Finance and SDG Priorities in Developing Countries: Comparative Evidence from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka	5
Colonial Legacies, Ethnicity and Fertility Decline in Kenya: What has Financial Inclusion Got to Do with It?	5
Effects of Mobile Money Education on Mobile Money Usage: Evidence from Ghana	5
Duple Cacao-Chocolate and the Materiality of the Political Economy of Pleasure	4
Correction to: More than the Sum of Its Parts: Donor-Sponsored Cash-for-Work Programmes and Social Cohesion in Jordanian Communities Hosting Syrian Refugees	4
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Financial Markets: Evidence from Qualitative Research for Developed and Developing Economies	4
The ‘Great Game’ Redux? China and Development Heterodoxy in a Multi-polar World 2013–2023	4
On the Road to a Better Life? Rural Road and Economic Development in Albania	4
Dismantling Development: Towards an Abolitionist Theory of Development	4
The Political Economy of Building Up a Domestic Agricultural Value Chain: Exploring Success and Failure in Coffee Farming and Coffee-Processing in Post-2000 Rwanda	4
University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action	4
Research-Practice-Collaborations Addressing One Health and Urban Transformation. A Case Study	4
Decolonizing Development Studies: Rejecting or Repurposing the Master’s Tools?	4
An Ethnography of Endogenous Institutional Change in Community-Driven Development	4
Financing the SDGs: How Bangladesh May Reshape Its Strategies in the Post-COVID Era?	4
Assessing the Impact of Lending Through Kisan Credit Cards in Rural India: Evidence from Eastern India	4

Climate Change, Malaria Prevalence and Cereal Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Are Aspirations of Rural Households Aligned with National Rural Development Policies? Understanding Aspirations of Small-Scale Farming Households in the Former Homelands of South Africa	4
Correction to: To Give or Not To Give? How Do Other Donors React to European Food Aid Allocation?	4
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to War on Domestic Violence	4
Correction: Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	4
Using Outcome Trajectory Evaluation to Assess HarvestPlus’ Contribution to the Development of National Biofortification Breeding Programs	4
Domestic Risk Factors, Violence and Marital Dissolution: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey of India	3
Theorizing Postdevelopment	3
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments: Evidence Gap Map and Intervention Heat Map	3
Development Studies in the Mid-2020s: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future	3
A Typology of Young Cocoa Farmers: Attitudes, Motivations and Aspirations	3
Covid-19-induced Shocks, Access to Basic Needs and Coping Strategies	3
Coastal and Terrestrial Water-Sector Interventions in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review Focused on Climate Change	3
A Demographic Case for a Global South Focus in Development Studies	3
Two Cheers for Decentralisation: Unpacking Mechanisms, Politics and Accountability in the ICDS, Central India	3
Integrating Environmental Justice into Child-Sensitive Social Protection: The Environmental Roots of Intergenerational Poverty in Amazonia	3
An Ethnographic-Discourse Analysis of the Socio-political Effects of Interaction Between Cash Transfer Programme Authorities, Caregivers and Non-beneficiaries	3
How Inclusive are the Local Economic Impacts of Social Protection in Uganda?	3
How are Research for Development Programmes Implementing and Evaluating Equitable Partnerships to Address Power Asymmetries?	3
Correction to: Chicken or Egg? A Bi-directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti	3
No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation	3
Examination of Structural Shift in Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India	3
‘Mind the Gaps’: Exploring Regional and Gender Patterns in Threats to Ethiopian Adolescents’ Bodily Integrity	3
The Legitimacy of Sustainability Initiatives in Tanzania	3
The Fear of Critical Race Methodologies	3
Fiscal Policy and Child Poverty in Belarus	3
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers' Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions	3
A Protocol for the Review of Examples of Transformational Change in the Energy and Public Health Sectors to Inform Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Interventions	2
The Impact of Long-Term Finance on Job Quality, Investments and Firm Performance: Cross-Country Evidence	2
Reproductive Governance in a Fragile and Population-Dense Context: Family Planning Policies, Discourses, and Practices in Burundi	2
Municípios in the Time of Covid-19 in Brazil: Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities, Transmission Factors and Public Policies	2
Growth and Fiscal Effects of Insecurity on the Nigerian Economy	2
The Effect of Trauma Counseling Support and Social Protection on Enhancing Social Economic Resilience in Vulnerable Communities: A Natural Experiment in Northern Uganda	2
Does Evidence Matter? The Impact of Evidence Regarding Aid Effectiveness on Attitudes Towards Aid	2
Resilience Pathways of Informal Settlements in Nairobi: Stasis, Decline, Adaptation, and Transformation	2
The Historical Origins of Communal Violence in Africa: Common Pool Resources-Driven Trust and Its Contrasting Effects on Violence	2
Why Formality Does Not Always Benefit Firms. Learning from Mozambique	2
Navigating South Korea’s Development Studies: A Compressed Transformation	2
Why Target Communities Remain Subjects Rather than Partners of Development Agencies in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects in Latin America	2
One Step Away from 2030: An Assessment of the Progress of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the European Union	2
Towards a Development and Development Studies of Liberation	2
Do Perceptions of Rent-seeking Affect Farmers’ Attitude to Participating in Agricultural Input Support Programmes?	2
Food Safety and Incipient Modern Value Chains: Evidence from Milk in Ethiopia	2
Public Expenditure’s Role in Reducing Poverty and Improving Food and Nutrition Security: Cross-Country Evidence from SPEED Data	2
Multinationals, Capital Export, and the Inclusive Development Debate in Developing Countries: The Nigerian Insight	2
Grower Power for Value Creation in High-Value Horticulture? The Case of Citrus in South Africa	2
Correction to: The Dynamics and Role of Gender in High-Value Avocado Farming in Kenya	1
Research–Practice–Collaborations in Engineering	1
A Climate-Relevant Development or Development-Relevant Climate Agenda?	1
Impact of Irrigation on Food and Nutrition Security Among Rice Farmers in Benin	1
The Future of Sustainable Development Goals and Culture: Addressing Missing Dimensions from Four Cosmovisions African Ubuntu, Latin-American Buen Vivir, Buddhist Happiness and Nordic Sami Arbediehtu	1
Correction to: One Step Away from 2030: An Assessment of the Progress of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the European Union	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Is There A Development Economics Anymore?	1
Technology Transfer on the Belt and Road: Pathways for Structural Transformation in Ethiopia’s Standard Gauge Railways	1
Improving Women’s Position in the Household: Evidence from a Maternity Cash Transfer Programme in India	1
Temporary Migration and Savings Rates: Evidence from China	1
The Effect of Religious Constraints on Individual Labor Supply	1
Can Banks Sustain the Growth in Renewable Energy Supply? An International Evidence	1
Decentering Coloniality: Epistemic Justice, Development Studies and Structural Transformation	1
Metaphor in Conflict Transformation: Using Arts to Shift Perspectives and Build Empathy	1
The Indonesian (Modern/Colonial) Dream of Development	1
Theory of Change in Complex Research for Development Programmes: Challenges and Solutions from the Global Challenges Research Fund	1
Correction to: Malawi at the Crossroads: Does the Fear of Contracting COVID-19 Affect the Propensity to Vote?	1
Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in MENA in the Time of COVID-19	1
Gender Inclusivity of India’s Digital Financial Revolution for Attainment of SDGs: Macro Achievements and the Micro Experiences of Targeted Initiatives	1
The Effect of Renting in Cropland on Livelihood Choices and Agricultural Commercialization: A Case Study from Rural Vietnam	1
Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) or the Highway? An Alternative Road to Investigating the Value for Money of International Development Research	1
Impact of Public Agricultural Investment on Crops Production, Households’ Welfare, and Employment Generation Opportunities in Togo, West Africa	1
Understanding the Firm in the Informal Economy: A Research Agenda	1
Correction to: What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? Colonial Genealogies and Responses	1
The Effects of Local-Level Economic Inequality on Social Capital: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India	1
Bottom-Up Approaches and Decentralized Extension Structures for Improving Access to and Quality of Extension Services and Technology Adoption: Multi-level Analysis from Malawi	1
Is the Study of Development Humiliating or Emancipatory? The Case Against Universalising ‘Development’	1