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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing	103
The Challenge of Productivity-Based Development: Innovation Gaps and Economic Structure in Latin America	45
Social Enterprise Under Moral Hazard: Who Gets State Subsidies and Active Financing?	45
Educational Segregation and Household Occupation: Role of School Education in Reproduction of Social Hierarchy in India	27
Defining and Measuring Human Development: A Genealogical Analysis of the UNDP’s Human Development Reports	25
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments: Approach Paper	24
Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in India: The Role of Gender and the Extended Family	23
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	22
Intra-Africa Agricultural Trade, Governance Quality and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Panel Vector Autoregressive Model	21
Cocoa: Origin Differentials and the Living Income Differential	21
What Enables Financial Resilience: Insights from a Participatory Research and Design Process with VSLA Members in Nigeria	16
Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Occupation and Under-Five Mortality: Empirical Evidence from 26 Developing Countries	15
The Politics of Who Gets What and Why: Learning from the Targeting of Social Cash Transfers in Zambia	15
Impact of Credit Constraints on Financial Performance of Small and Medium Size Enterprises	14
Household Income, Migration Networks, and Migration Decisions	13
Correction: Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	13
Thanks to Reviewers	12
Valuing the 'neighbourhood': Responding to Racialised Post-War Development in Slave Island, Colombo	12
White Savior Narratives in International Development: A Discourse Analysis of the Kony2012 Campaign by Invisible Children	11
Impact of Terms of Trade on GDP in the Context of Prebisch–Singer Theorem: Evidence from Egypt and Guinea	10
Customary Land Certification, Governance and Natural Resource Use in Zambia: A Social Learning Approach	10
A Socio−economic Impact Analysis of the Political Crisis in Burundi with a Focus on Children: A Macro–Micro Framework	10
Correction to: Does Local Elite Capture Vary by Levels of Political Connections? Evidence from an Indian Public Housing Program	10
What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? Colonial Genealogies and Responses	9

Working in the Informal Sector in Togo: Choice or Constraint?	9
Public Versus Private Health Financing Transition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Exploring the Crowding-Out Effects	9
Differential Bunching Impacts Across the Income Distribution: Evidence from Tax Administrative Data	9
Rural Youth Aspirations in the Face of Environmental, Economic and Social Pressures: Transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	9
Correction to: An Ethnographic-Discourse Analysis of the Socio-political Effects of Interaction Between Cash Transfer Programme Authorities, Caregivers and Non-beneficiaries	8
Chinese Aid Projects and Local Tax Attitudes: Evidence from Africa	8
Repercussions the Covid-19 Pandemic on the SDGs Achievement: Is it a New Era for the Development?	8
Impact Weaving: An Approach to Strengthening the Plausibility of Anticipated AR4D Impact Pathways	7
Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis	7
COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of State and Central Responses on Mobility	7
“Not All Income is Equal”: Rural Livelihood Diversification and Diet Quality in South–Western Kenya	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
Are Developing Countries Using Climate Funds for Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	6
Nourishing the Nexus: A Feminist Analysis of Gender, Nutrition and Agri-food Development Policies and Practices	6
The Decolonization of Development Studies and International Relations in Central and Eastern Europe: A Polish Perspective of Living Between the Core and Periphery	6
Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	6
How Do Foreign Aid Agencies Learn? A Comparative Analysis of Organisational Learning Determinants in National Donor Bureaucracies	6
Correction to: ‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	6
Can Burkina Faso’s Agricultural Mechanization Program Reduce Poverty in the Country	6
Correction to: The Association Between Women's Education and Employment and Household Food Security in Afghanistan	6
Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry	6
The Dynamics and Role of Gender in High-Value Avocado Farming in Kenya	6
Academic Debate and Self-Criticism: Embracing Diversity at the Core of Development Studies	6
Fuelling Entrepreneurial Orientation in Enhancing Business Performance: Women Entrepreneurs’ Contribution to Family Livelihood in a Constrained Context, Bangladesh	5
A Development Lens to Frugal Innovation: Bringing Back Production and Technological Capabilities into the Discourse	5
Colonial Legacies, Ethnicity and Fertility Decline in Kenya: What has Financial Inclusion Got to Do with It?	5
Diversifying Away from Extractives: The Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese Capital and Industrialisation in the Kyrgyz Republic	5
Determinants of Exports in a Small and Vulnerable Economy: Fiji Islands—A Disaggregated Analysis	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
Laying the Foundations for Impact: Lessons from the GCRF Evaluation	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
Delving into the Determinants of Default Risk in Savings Groups: Empirical Evidence from Ecuador	5
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
Climate Change, Malaria Prevalence and Cereal Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Assessing the Impact of Lending Through Kisan Credit Cards in Rural India: Evidence from Eastern India	4
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to War on Domestic Violence	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
COVID-19 Effects on Public Finance and SDG Priorities in Developing Countries: Comparative Evidence from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka	4
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Financial Markets: Evidence from Qualitative Research for Developed and Developing Economies	4
Correction to: Fiscal Policy, Multidimensional Poverty, and Equity in Uganda: A Child-Lens Analysis	4
Decolonizing Development Studies: Rejecting or Repurposing the Master’s Tools?	4
Duple Cacao-Chocolate and the Materiality of the Political Economy of Pleasure	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

Effects of Mobile Money Education on Mobile Money Usage: Evidence from Ghana	4
Correction to: To Give or Not To Give? How Do Other Donors React to European Food Aid Allocation?	4
Using Outcome Trajectory Evaluation to Assess HarvestPlus’ Contribution to the Development of National Biofortification Breeding Programs	4
Research-Practice-Collaborations Addressing One Health and Urban Transformation. A Case Study	4
An Ethnography of Endogenous Institutional Change in Community-Driven Development	3
Financing the SDGs: How Bangladesh May Reshape Its Strategies in the Post-COVID Era?	3
Examination of Structural Shift in Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India	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
Arab-German Trade and Institutions: The Effect of Good Governance on Arab Exports to Germany	3
The Fear of Critical Race Methodologies	3
Correction: Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	3
Dismantling Development: Towards an Abolitionist Theory of Development	3
Two Cheers for Decentralisation: Unpacking Mechanisms, Politics and Accountability in the ICDS, Central India	3
How Inclusive are the Local Economic Impacts of Social Protection in Uganda?	3
Correction to: Chicken or Egg? A Bi-directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti	3
A Typology of Young Cocoa Farmers: Attitudes, Motivations and Aspirations	3
‘Mind the Gaps’: Exploring Regional and Gender Patterns in Threats to Ethiopian Adolescents’ Bodily Integrity	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 are Research for Development Programmes Implementing and Evaluating Equitable Partnerships to Address Power Asymmetries?	3
Theorizing Postdevelopment	3
Fiscal Policy and Child Poverty in Belarus	3
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers' Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions	3
The Legitimacy of Sustainability Initiatives in Tanzania	3
Towards a Development and Development Studies of Liberation	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: 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
Growth and Fiscal Effects of Insecurity on the Nigerian Economy	2
Public Expenditure’s Role in Reducing Poverty and Improving Food and Nutrition Security: Cross-Country Evidence from SPEED Data	2
Why Formality Does Not Always Benefit Firms. Learning from Mozambique	2
The Effect of Religious Constraints on Individual Labor Supply	2
The Impact of Long-Term Finance on Job Quality, Investments and Firm Performance: Cross-Country Evidence	2
Grower Power for Value Creation in High-Value Horticulture? The Case of Citrus in South Africa	2
Correction to: ‘Do Poor People’s Dreams Ever Come True?’ Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh	2
No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation	2
Why Target Communities Remain Subjects Rather than Partners of Development Agencies in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects in Latin America	2
Resilience Pathways of Informal Settlements in Nairobi: Stasis, Decline, Adaptation, and Transformation	2
Reproductive Governance in a Fragile and Population-Dense Context: Family Planning Policies, Discourses, and Practices in Burundi	2
Do Perceptions of Rent-seeking Affect Farmers’ Attitude to Participating in Agricultural Input Support Programmes?	2
The Historical Origins of Communal Violence in Africa: Common Pool Resources-Driven Trust and Its Contrasting Effects on Violence	2
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
One Step Away from 2030: An Assessment of the Progress of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the European Union	2
Multinationals, Capital Export, and the Inclusive Development Debate in Developing Countries: The Nigerian Insight	2
A Demographic Case for a Global South Focus in Development Studies	2
Domestic Risk Factors, Violence and Marital Dissolution: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey of India	2
‘I Wish Someone Would Ask Me Questions’: The Unheard Voices of Adolescents with Disabilities in Jordan	2
Navigating South Korea’s Development Studies: A Compressed Transformation	2
Municípios in the Time of Covid-19 in Brazil: Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities, Transmission Factors and Public Policies	2
Temporary Migration and Savings Rates: Evidence from China	2
Correction to: ‘Do Poor People’s Dreams Ever Come True?’ Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh	1
Correction to: Malawi at the Crossroads: Does the Fear of Contracting COVID-19 Affect the Propensity to Vote?	1
Technology Transfer on the Belt and Road: Pathways for Structural Transformation in Ethiopia’s Standard Gauge Railways	1
Impact of Irrigation on Food and Nutrition Security Among Rice Farmers in Benin	1
Can Banks Sustain the Growth in Renewable Energy Supply? An International Evidence	1
Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) or the Highway? An Alternative Road to Investigating the Value for Money of International Development Research	1
Theory of Change in Complex Research for Development Programmes: Challenges and Solutions from the Global Challenges Research Fund	1
Correction to: One Step Away from 2030: An Assessment of the Progress of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the European Union	1
Metaphor in Conflict Transformation: Using Arts to Shift Perspectives and Build Empathy	1
The Indonesian (Modern/Colonial) Dream of Development	1
Is There A Development Economics Anymore?	1
Is the Study of Development Humiliating or Emancipatory? The Case Against Universalising ‘Development’	1
Correction to: The Dynamics and Role of Gender in High-Value Avocado Farming in Kenya	1
Improving Women’s Position in the Household: Evidence from a Maternity Cash Transfer Programme in India	1
A Climate-Relevant Development or Development-Relevant Climate Agenda?	1
Gender Inclusivity of India’s Digital Financial Revolution for Attainment of SDGs: Macro Achievements and the Micro Experiences of Targeted Initiatives	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
The Effects of Local-Level Economic Inequality on Social Capital: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India	1
Decentering Coloniality: Epistemic Justice, Development Studies and Structural Transformation	1
Community Participation in Disaster Recovery Programs: A Study of a Coastal Area in Bangladesh	1
Impact of Public Agricultural Investment on Crops Production, Households’ Welfare, and Employment Generation Opportunities in Togo, West Africa	1
Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in MENA in the Time of COVID-19	1
Research–Practice–Collaborations in Engineering	1
Intersectionality as a Framework for Understanding Adolescent Vulnerabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries: Expanding Our Commitment to Leave No One Behind	1
Food Safety and Incipient Modern Value Chains: Evidence from Milk in Ethiopia	1
The Effect of Renting in Cropland on Livelihood Choices and Agricultural Commercialization: A Case Study from Rural Vietnam	1
Correction to: Financial Inclusion and Household Welfare: An Entropy-Based Consumption Diversifcation Approach	1
Correction to: What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? Colonial Genealogies and Responses	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