OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Development Research is 7. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
How Does Firm ESG Performance Impact Financial Constraints? An Experimental Exploration of the COVID-19 Pandemic	65
Intersecting Vulnerabilities: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Psycho-emotional Lives of Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	63
COVID-19 and Global Poverty: Are LDCs Being Left Behind?	60
The Economic Costs of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a Simulation Exercise for Ghana	55
The emergence of Urban Community Resilience Initiatives During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Exploratory Study	49
Could Covid-19 Worsen Food Insecurity in Burkina Faso?	44
COVID-19 in LMICs: The Need to Place Stigma Front and Centre to Its Response	38
Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations	37
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Financial Markets: Evidence from Qualitative Research for Developed and Developing Economies	37
Factors Influencing Smallholder Rice Farmers’ Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability in the Mekong Delta Region of Vietnam	31
Destinations Matter: Social Policy and Migrant Workers in the Times of Covid	30
The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia	29
Digital Technologies and Product Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Empirical Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms	29
The Impact of Tourism Development on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa	28
Unprecedented but not Unpredictable: Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Commodity-Dependent Countries	27
Emerging Medium-Scale Tenant Farming, Gig Economies, and the COVID-19 Disruption: The Case of Commercial Vegetable Clusters in Ethiopia	26
Sustainable Development and SDG-7 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Balancing Energy Access, Economic Growth, and Carbon Emissions	26
Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries	25
How COVID-19 Pandemic Worsens the Economic Situation of Women in South Africa	25
Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya	25
Malawi at the Crossroads: Does the Fear of Contracting COVID-19 Affect the Propensity to Vote?	22
The Role of ICT for Sustainable Development: A Cross-Country Analysis	21
Bringing Production Back into Development: An introduction	20
Can Banks Sustain the Growth in Renewable Energy Supply? An International Evidence	19
Three Dimensions of Green Industrial Policy in the Context of Climate Change and Sustainable Development	19

Farming, Gender and Aspirations Across Young People’s Life Course: Attempting to Keep Things Open While Becoming a Farmer	19
Megaprojects—mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya	17
Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations: Development, Middle Classes and Everyday Food Practices in Vietnam	17
Roads to Change: Livelihoods, Land Disputes, and Anticipation of Future Developments in Rural Kenya	17
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy, and Industrial Upgrading: Automotive Sectors in Malaysia, Thailand, and China in Comparison with Korea	16
Financial Inclusion and Household Welfare: An Entropy-Based Consumption Diversification Approach	16
Special Economic Zones and Sourcing Linkages with the Local Economy: Reality or Pipedream?	16
The Development of Green Bond in Developing Countries: Insights from Southeast Asia Market Participants	16
Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe	15
Needs and Satisfiers: A Tool for Dealing with Perspectivity in Policy Analysis	15
Do Tar Roads Bring Tourism? Growth Corridor Policy and Tourism Development in the Zambezi region, Namibia	15
COVID-19 Lockdown and Exposure of Households to Food Insecurity in Uganda: Insights from a National High Frequency Phone Survey	15
Human Capital Theory and the Defectology of Aspirations in Policy Research on Rural Youth	14
Aspiration Formation and Ecological Shocks in Rural Kenya	14
Who Called Team Europe? The European Union’s Development Policy Response During the First Wave of COVID-19	14
Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion: Introduction to the Special Issue	14
Understanding the Aspirations of Farming Communities in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature	13
Intersectionality as a Framework for Understanding Adolescent Vulnerabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries: Expanding Our Commitment to Leave No One Behind	13
Financing for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond	13
Technical Efficiency of Teff Production Among Smallholder Farmers: Beta Regression Approach	13
Not All About Farming: Understanding Aspirations Can Challenge Assumptions About Rural Development	13
Can Empowerment be Enhanced by Putting Cash in the Hands of Poor Women? Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program	12
Women’s Changing Opportunities and Aspirations Amid Male Outmigration: Insights from Makueni County, Kenya	11
Municípios in the Time of Covid-19 in Brazil: Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities, Transmission Factors and Public Policies	11
Potential for Upgrading in Financialised Agri-food Chains: The Case of Ghanaian Cocoa	11
The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive	10
Growth and Fiscal Effects of Insecurity on the Nigerian Economy	10
‘People Consider Us Devils’: Exploring Patterns of Exclusion Facing Adolescents with Disabilities in Ethiopia	10
Education, Aspiration and aage badhna: The Role of Schooling in Facilitating ‘Forward Movement’ in Rural Chhattisgarh, India	10
Work and Rural Livelihoods: The Micro Dynamics of Africa’s ‘Youth Employment Crisis’	10
The Impact of China–Africa Trade on the Productivity of African Firms: Evidence from Ghana	10
COVID-19 and the Performance of Exporting Companies in Benin	10
Diaspora and Economic Development: A Systemic View	9
Is Economic Empowerment a Protective Factor Against Intimate Partner Violence? Evidence from Turkey	9
Rising Income Inequality in OECD Countries: Does Fiscal Policy Sacrifice Economic Growth in Achieving Equity?	9
What’s the Story on Agriculture? Using Narratives to Understand Farming Households’ Aspirations in Meru, Kenya	9
Financing Constraints and Firm’s Productivity Under the COVID-19 Epidemic Shock: Evidence of A-Shared Chinese Companies	9
The Effects of Social Protection and Social Cohesion on the Acceptability of Climate Change Mitigation Policies: What Do We (Not) Know in the Context of Low- and Middle-Income Countries?	9
Do more Vibrant Rural Areas have Lower Rates of Youth Out-Migration? Evidence from Zambia	9
Rural Aspirations: Reflections for Development Planning, Design and Localized Effects	9
The Impact of Agricultural Input Subsidy on Productivity: The Case of Ghana	9
Unpacking The Nexus Between Broiler Contract Farming and Its Impact in Ghana	9
The Luxury of Lockdown	9
Strengthening the Resilience of Vulnerable Communities: Results from a Quasi-experimental Impact Evaluation in Coastal Bangladesh	9
“We Have Many Options, But They are All Bad Options!”: Aspirations Among Internal Migrant Youths in Shanghai, China	9
The Development Impacts of COVID-19 at Home and Abroad: Politics and Implications of Government Action	9
A New Normal or Business-as-Usual? Lessons for COVID-19 from Financial Crises in East and Southeast Asia	9
‘If She’s Pregnant, then that Means that Her Dreams Fade Away’: Exploring Experiences of Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood in Rwanda	8
An Ethnographic Examination of People’s Reactions to State-Led COVID-19 Measures in Sierra Leone	8
Inclusive, Cross-Sectoral and Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Resilience Planning and Decision-Making in a Devolved Context	8

Are Developing Countries Using Climate Funds for Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	8
The Role of Automatic Stabilizers and Emergency Tax–Benefit Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Ecuador	8
‘I Wish Someone Would Ask Me Questions’: The Unheard Voices of Adolescents with Disabilities in Jordan	8
Does the Complexity of GVC Participation Matter for Productivity and Output Growth?	8
‘The School Was Closed, So When They Brought Me A Husband I Couldn’t Say No’: Exploring the Gendered Experiences of Child Marriage Amongst Adolescent Girls and Boys in Ethiopia	7
Livelihood Vulnerabilities Among Women in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana	7
On the Nexus Between Institutions and Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis for Sub-Saharan African Countries	7
Irrigated Agriculture and Welfare: Panel Data Evidence from Southern Ghana	7
Modeling a Pandemic (COVID-19) Management Strategy for Urban Slums Using Social Geometry Framework	7
Conceptualising Digital Platforms in Developing Countries as Socio-Technical Transitions: A Multi-level Perspective Analysis of EasyTaxi in Colombia	7
Hierarchical Modelling of COVID-19 Death Risk in India in the Early Phase of the Pandemic	7
Livestock Diversification for Improved Resilience and Welfare Outcomes Under Climate Risks in Kenya	7
Absenteeism, Dropout, and On-Time School Completion of Vulnerable Primary School Students in Ethiopia: Exploring the Role of Adolescent Decision-Making Power in the Household, Exposure to Violence, an	7
Price-Setting Power in Global Value Chains: The Cases of Price Stabilisation in the Cocoa Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana	7
‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	7
Friend or Patron? Social Relations Across the National NGO–Donor Divide in Ghana	7
Agroforestry, Indigenous Tree Cover and Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study of Mount Elgon in Uganda	7
‘I Dream of Going Home’: Gendered Experiences of Adolescent Syrian Refugees in Jordan’s Azraq Camp	7
More than the Sum of Its Parts: Donor-Sponsored Cash-for-Work Programmes and Social Cohesion in Jordanian Communities Hosting Syrian Refugees	7
Can Integrated Social Protection Programmes Affect Social Cohesion? Mixed-Methods Evidence from Malawi	7
The Price of Aspirations: Education Migrants’ Pursuit of Higher Education in Hubei Province, China	7
Is the Success of Rural Cooperatives Conditioned by the Group Characteristics and Their Value Chain? Evidence from New Farmer Groups in Georgia	7