OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Development Research is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing	102
Social Enterprise Under Moral Hazard: Who Gets State Subsidies and Active Financing?	45
The Challenge of Productivity-Based Development: Innovation Gaps and Economic Structure in Latin America	44
Educational Segregation and Household Occupation: Role of School Education in Reproduction of Social Hierarchy in India	33
‘I Dream of Going Home’: Gendered Experiences of Adolescent Syrian Refugees in Jordan’s Azraq Camp	27
Defining and Measuring Human Development: A Genealogical Analysis of the UNDP’s Human Development Reports	24
What Drives Africa’s Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa’s Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures	23
The Development of Green Bond in Developing Countries: Insights from Southeast Asia Market Participants	23
Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in India: The Role of Gender and the Extended Family	22
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments: Approach Paper	21
Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Occupation and Under-Five Mortality: Empirical Evidence from 26 Developing Countries	20
Impact of Credit Constraints on Financial Performance of Small and Medium Size Enterprises	20
Intra-Africa Agricultural Trade, Governance Quality and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Panel Vector Autoregressive Model	15
Cocoa: Origin Differentials and the Living Income Differential	15
The Politics of Who Gets What and Why: Learning from the Targeting of Social Cash Transfers in Zambia	14
What Enables Financial Resilience: Insights from a Participatory Research and Design Process with VSLA Members in Nigeria	14
Household Income, Migration Networks, and Migration Decisions	13
Correction: Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	13
Valuing the 'neighbourhood': Responding to Racialised Post-War Development in Slave Island, Colombo	13
White Savior Narratives in International Development: A Discourse Analysis of the Kony2012 Campaign by Invisible Children	12
Thanks to Reviewers	12
Correction to: Does Local Elite Capture Vary by Levels of Political Connections? Evidence from an Indian Public Housing Program	12
Working in the Informal Sector in Togo: Choice or Constraint?	11
An Impact Assessment of Farmer Participation on Food Security in Northwestern Ghana	11
Customary Land Certification, Governance and Natural Resource Use in Zambia: A Social Learning Approach	11

Rural Youth Aspirations in the Face of Environmental, Economic and Social Pressures: Transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	10
Public Versus Private Health Financing Transition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Exploring the Crowding-Out Effects	10
Impact of Terms of Trade on GDP in the Context of Prebisch–Singer Theorem: Evidence from Egypt and Guinea	10
What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? Colonial Genealogies and Responses	10
A Socio−economic Impact Analysis of the Political Crisis in Burundi with a Focus on Children: A Macro–Micro Framework	9
Chinese Aid Projects and Local Tax Attitudes: Evidence from Africa	9
Differential Bunching Impacts Across the Income Distribution: Evidence from Tax Administrative Data	9
Repercussions the Covid-19 Pandemic on the SDGs Achievement: Is it a New Era for the Development?	9
Correction to: An Ethnographic-Discourse Analysis of the Socio-political Effects of Interaction Between Cash Transfer Programme Authorities, Caregivers and Non-beneficiaries	9
COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of State and Central Responses on Mobility	8
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 in Mozambique in 2020	8
Targeted Poverty Alleviation for the Livelihood Improvement of Poverty-Stricken Households: A Case Study of Wuxi County, China	8
Impact Weaving: An Approach to Strengthening the Plausibility of Anticipated AR4D Impact Pathways	8
Can Burkina Faso’s Agricultural Mechanization Program Reduce Poverty in the Country	7
Academic Debate and Self-Criticism: Embracing Diversity at the Core of Development Studies	7
“Not All Income is Equal”: Rural Livelihood Diversification and Diet Quality in South–Western Kenya	7
Does Local Elite Capture Vary by Levels of Political Connections? Evidence from an Indian Public Housing Program	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
Correction to: The Association Between Women's Education and Employment and Household Food Security in Afghanistan	7
Correction to: ‘People Consider Us Devils’: Exploring Patterns of Exclusion facing Adolescents with Disabilities in Ethiopia	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	6
The Dynamics and Role of Gender in High-Value Avocado Farming in Kenya	6
Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry	6
How Do Foreign Aid Agencies Learn? A Comparative Analysis of Organisational Learning Determinants in National Donor Bureaucracies	6
Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	6
Are Developing Countries Using Climate Funds for Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Nourishing the Nexus: A Feminist Analysis of Gender, Nutrition and Agri-food Development Policies and Practices	6
Correction to: ‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	6
Determinants of Exports in a Small and Vulnerable Economy: Fiji Islands—A Disaggregated Analysis	5
Fuelling Entrepreneurial Orientation in Enhancing Business Performance: Women Entrepreneurs’ Contribution to Family Livelihood in a Constrained Context, Bangladesh	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
Delving into the Determinants of Default Risk in Savings Groups: Empirical Evidence from Ecuador	5
Can the Dragon Make the Lion Breathe Fire? The Links of Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Addis Ababa Economy	5
Financing Constraints and Firm’s Productivity Under the COVID-19 Epidemic Shock: Evidence of A-Shared Chinese Companies	5
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
A Development Lens to Frugal Innovation: Bringing Back Production and Technological Capabilities into the Discourse	5
Trade Agreements, Technical Regulations, and Standards: Competitiveness Implications for Kenyan Exporters to European Union	5
Evaluating the Contribution of Complex International Research-for-Development Programmes to the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Public Works Programmes and Cooperation for the Common Good: Evidence from Malawi	5
Climate Change, Malaria Prevalence and Cereal Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
Examination of Structural Shift in Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India	4
‘Do Poor People’s Dreams Ever Come True?’ Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh	4
Effects of Mobile Money Education on Mobile Money Usage: Evidence from Ghana	4
Assessing the Impact of Lending Through Kisan Credit Cards in Rural India: Evidence from Eastern India	4
Research-Practice-Collaborations Addressing One Health and Urban Transformation. A Case Study	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
How to Assess the Child Poverty and Distributional Impact of COVID-19 Using Household Budget Surveys: An Application Using Turkish Data	4

Financing the SDGs: How Bangladesh May Reshape Its Strategies in the Post-COVID Era?	4
An Ethnography of Endogenous Institutional Change in Community-Driven Development	4
Duple Cacao-Chocolate and the Materiality of the Political Economy of Pleasure	4
Correction to: To Give or Not To Give? How Do Other Donors React to European Food Aid Allocation?	4
University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action	4
Using Outcome Trajectory Evaluation to Assess HarvestPlus’ Contribution to the Development of National Biofortification Breeding Programs	4
Correction: Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	4
Integrating Environmental Justice into Child-Sensitive Social Protection: The Environmental Roots of Intergenerational Poverty in Amazonia	4
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to War on Domestic Violence	4
Correction to: Fiscal Policy, Multidimensional Poverty, and Equity in Uganda: A Child-Lens Analysis	4
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Financial Markets: Evidence from Qualitative Research for Developed and Developing Economies	4
How Farm Household Spends Their Non-farm Incomes in Rural India? Evidence from Longitudinal Data	4
Decolonizing Development Studies: Rejecting or Repurposing the Master’s Tools?	4
Dismantling Development: Towards an Abolitionist Theory of Development	4
The Legitimacy of Sustainability Initiatives in Tanzania	3
A Typology of Young Cocoa Farmers: Attitudes, Motivations and Aspirations	3
Development Studies in the Mid-2020s: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future	3
Covid-19-induced Shocks, Access to Basic Needs and Coping Strategies	3
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers' Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions	3
Domestic Risk Factors, Violence and Marital Dissolution: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey of India	3
How are Research for Development Programmes Implementing and Evaluating Equitable Partnerships to Address Power Asymmetries?	3
How Inclusive are the Local Economic Impacts of Social Protection in Uganda?	3
Theorizing Postdevelopment	3
An Ethnographic-Discourse Analysis of the Socio-political Effects of Interaction Between Cash Transfer Programme Authorities, Caregivers and Non-beneficiaries	3
Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil	3
Arab-German Trade and Institutions: The Effect of Good Governance on Arab Exports to Germany	3
Why Target Communities Remain Subjects Rather than Partners of Development Agencies in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects in Latin America	3
‘Mind the Gaps’: Exploring Regional and Gender Patterns in Threats to Ethiopian Adolescents’ Bodily Integrity	3
Two Cheers for Decentralisation: Unpacking Mechanisms, Politics and Accountability in the ICDS, Central India	3
How COVID-19 Pandemic Worsens the Economic Situation of Women in South Africa	3
Citizens Committees and Local Elites: Elite Capture, Captured Elites, and Absent Elites in Health Facility Committees	3
Correction to: Chicken or Egg? A Bi-directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti	3
Changing Patterns of Commercial Sex Work Amongst Adolescent Girls in Nepal: The Role of Technology	3
Fiscal Policy and Child Poverty in Belarus	3
The Fear of Critical Race Methodologies	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 Effect of Trauma Counseling Support and Social Protection on Enhancing Social Economic Resilience in Vulnerable Communities: A Natural Experiment in Northern Uganda	2
Correction to: ‘Do Poor People’s Dreams Ever Come True?’ Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh	2
Correction to: Changing Patterns of Commercial Sex Work Amongst Adolescent Girls in Nepal: The Role of Technology	2
Does Evidence Matter? The Impact of Evidence Regarding Aid Effectiveness on Attitudes Towards Aid	2
Municípios in the Time of Covid-19 in Brazil: Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities, Transmission Factors and Public Policies	2
Intersectionality as a Framework for Understanding Adolescent Vulnerabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries: Expanding Our Commitment to Leave No One Behind	2
The Impact of Long-Term Finance on Job Quality, Investments and Firm Performance: Cross-Country Evidence	2
The Effect of Religious Constraints on Individual Labor Supply	2
Public Expenditure’s Role in Reducing Poverty and Improving Food and Nutrition Security: Cross-Country Evidence from SPEED Data	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
Growth and Fiscal Effects of Insecurity on the Nigerian Economy	2
Multinationals, Capital Export, and the Inclusive Development Debate in Developing Countries: The Nigerian Insight	2
No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation	2
‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	2
Navigating South Korea’s Development Studies: A Compressed Transformation	2
A Climate-Relevant Development or Development-Relevant Climate Agenda?	2
Can Banks Sustain the Growth in Renewable Energy Supply? An International Evidence	2
Reproductive Governance in a Fragile and Population-Dense Context: Family Planning Policies, Discourses, and Practices in Burundi	2
Temporary Migration and Savings Rates: Evidence from China	2
‘I Wish Someone Would Ask Me Questions’: The Unheard Voices of Adolescents with Disabilities in Jordan	2
Grower Power for Value Creation in High-Value Horticulture? The Case of Citrus in South Africa	2
A Demographic Case for a Global South Focus in Development Studies	2
Resilience Pathways of Informal Settlements in Nairobi: Stasis, Decline, Adaptation, and Transformation	2
Do Perceptions of Rent-seeking Affect Farmers’ Attitude to Participating in Agricultural Input Support Programmes?	2
The Effect of Renting in Cropland on Livelihood Choices and Agricultural Commercialization: A Case Study from Rural Vietnam	2
Improving Women’s Position in the Household: Evidence from a Maternity Cash Transfer Programme in India	2
Food Safety and Incipient Modern Value Chains: Evidence from Milk in Ethiopia	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