OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Development Research is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Covid-19-induced Shocks, Access to Basic Needs and Coping Strategies	69
Are Female Rice Farmers Less Productive than Male Farmers? Micro-evidence from Ghana	41
Financing Constraints and Firm’s Productivity Under the COVID-19 Epidemic Shock: Evidence of A-Shared Chinese Companies	33
The Unending Development Question of Nigeria	26
Insights into smallholder capacity for agricultural commercialisation: Evidence from four African contexts	26
Fiscal Policy and Child Poverty in Belarus	26
Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil	24
The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation	20
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing	19
Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) or the Highway? An Alternative Road to Investigating the Value for Money of International Development Research	19
Chinese State Capital as a Partner for Resource-Based Structural Transformation? The Belt and Road Initiative and Downstream Linkages in Bolivia and Kazakhstan	17
Trade Agreements, Technical Regulations, and Standards: Competitiveness Implications for Kenyan Exporters to European Union	17
Social Ties Development as Competitive Strategies in Vegetables Marketing: Evidence from Small-Scale Farmers in Benin	17
Research–Practice–Collaborations in Engineering	17
Generational Norms of Reporting Violence in Nyarugusu Refugees Camp	16
Fuelling Entrepreneurial Orientation in Enhancing Business Performance: Women Entrepreneurs’ Contribution to Family Livelihood in a Constrained Context, Bangladesh	16
Implications of Cross-disciplinarity: Estimating the “Paper Drain” in Development Studies	16
Determinants of Exports in a Small and Vulnerable Economy: Fiji Islands—A Disaggregated Analysis	16
Why is Labor in the SSA LDCs Moving from One Low Productivity Sector to Another?	16
Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages, Cooking-Time, Intrahousehold Equality Among Women and Children: Evidence from Tajikistan	15
Revisiting High Development Theory to Explain Upgrading Prospects in Business Services Global Value Chains	15
The Impact of China–Africa Trade on the Productivity of African Firms: Evidence from Ghana	15
The Impact of the Disability Allowance on Financial Well-Being in the Maldives: Quasi-experimental Study	15
Triangular Cooperation: Change or Continuity?	14
Can the Dragon Make the Lion Breathe Fire? The Links of Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Addis Ababa Economy	14

Unity in Diversity? Reflections on Development Studies in the Mid-2020s	13
Is the Study of Development Humiliating or Emancipatory? The Case Against Universalising ‘Development’	13
Technology Transfer on the Belt and Road: Pathways for Structural Transformation in Ethiopia’s Standard Gauge Railways	11
Fostering Innovation Activities with the Support of a Development Bank: Evidence from Brazil 2003–2011	11
Gender Inclusivity of India’s Digital Financial Revolution for Attainment of SDGs: Macro Achievements and the Micro Experiences of Targeted Initiatives	11
Impact of Irrigation on Food and Nutrition Security Among Rice Farmers in Benin	10
Improving Women’s Position in the Household: Evidence from a Maternity Cash Transfer Programme in India	10
Inclusive, Cross-Sectoral and Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Resilience Planning and Decision-Making in a Devolved Context	10
The Challenge of Productivity-Based Development: Innovation Gaps and Economic Structure in Latin America	10
Bringing Production Back into Development: An introduction	10
Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries	10
The Development of Green Bond in Developing Countries: Insights from Southeast Asia Market Participants	9
Plural Futures of/for Development? The Case for Global and International Development, and Against All Inequalities Everywhere	9
Correction to: ‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	9
Correction to: ‘I Dream of Going Home’: Gendered Experiences of Adolescent Syrian Refugees in Jordan’s Azraq Camp	9
What Drives Africa’s Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa’s Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures	9
Defining and Measuring Human Development: A Genealogical Analysis of the UNDP’s Human Development Reports	9
Correction to: Beyond the Annual and Aggregate Measurement of Household Inequality: The Case Study of Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya	9
The Role of Land Inheritance in Youth Migration and Employment Choices: Evidence from Rural Nigeria	9
Investigating Financial Development and Its Direct and Indirect Environmental Effects in South Africa: Fresh Policy Insights	9
Correction: The Spending Challenge for Reaching the SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Governance of Eswatini Apparel Regional Value Chains and the Implications of Covid-19	8
How Does Firm ESG Performance Impact Financial Constraints? An Experimental Exploration of the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Correction: Gender and Disability: The Experiences of Microaggressions Against Women with Disabilities in the Philippines	8
Citizens Committees and Local Elites: Elite Capture, Captured Elites, and Absent Elites in Health Facility Committees	8
Correction to: The Dynamics and Role of Gender in High-Value Avocado Farming in Kenya	8
Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in MENA in the Time of COVID-19	8
‘I Dream of Going Home’: Gendered Experiences of Adolescent Syrian Refugees in Jordan’s Azraq Camp	8
Correction to: Malawi at the Crossroads: Does the Fear of Contracting COVID-19 Affect the Propensity to Vote?	8
The Politics of Who Gets What and Why: Learning from the Targeting of Social Cash Transfers in Zambia	7
Educational Segregation and Household Occupation: Role of School Education in Reproduction of Social Hierarchy in India	7
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers' Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions	7
The Poverty Reduction Effect of Social Protection: The Pros and Cons of a Multidisciplinary Approach	7
Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Occupation and Under-Five Mortality: Empirical Evidence from 26 Developing Countries	7
Social Enterprise Under Moral Hazard: Who Gets State Subsidies and Active Financing?	7
Geography of Income and Education Inequalities in Mexico: Evidence from Small Area Estimation and Exploratory Spatial Analysis	7
Production of Indigenous Food Crops: Implications for Children’s Nutritional Status of Farm Households in Northern Ghana	7
Public Works Programmes and Cooperation for the Common Good: Evidence from Malawi	7
What’s the Story on Agriculture? Using Narratives to Understand Farming Households’ Aspirations in Meru, Kenya	7
Laying the Foundations for Impact: Lessons from the GCRF Evaluation	7
Thanks to Reviewers	7
Unpacking The Nexus Between Broiler Contract Farming and Its Impact in Ghana	6
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Financial Markets: Evidence from Qualitative Research for Developed and Developing Economies	6
Colonial Legacies, Ethnicity and Fertility Decline in Kenya: What has Financial Inclusion Got to Do with It?	6
Theory of Change in Complex Research for Development Programmes: Challenges and Solutions from the Global Challenges Research Fund	5
Potential for Upgrading in Financialised Agri-food Chains: The Case of Ghanaian Cocoa	5
Agroforestry, Indigenous Tree Cover and Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study of Mount Elgon in Uganda	5
Delving into the Determinants of Default Risk in Savings Groups: Empirical Evidence from Ecuador	5
Arab-German Trade and Institutions: The Effect of Good Governance on Arab Exports to Germany	5
Role of Education, Age, and Family Size on Food Insecurity in Pakistan: A Quantile Regression Analysis	5

Evaluating the Contribution of Complex International Research-for-Development Programmes to the Sustainable Development Goals	5
A Development Lens to Frugal Innovation: Bringing Back Production and Technological Capabilities into the Discourse	5
Does Rural Credit Mediate Vulnerability Under Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks? Empirical Evidence from Vietnam Using a Multilevel Model	5
Diversifying Away from Extractives: The Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese Capital and Industrialisation in the Kyrgyz Republic	5
Exploring the Effects of Weak Institutions on Economic Insecurity in Kosovo	5
Effects of Mobile Money Education on Mobile Money Usage: Evidence from Ghana	5
Impact of Credit Constraints on Financial Performance of Small and Medium Size Enterprises	5
University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action	4
Not All About Farming: Understanding Aspirations Can Challenge Assumptions About Rural Development	4
Do Tar Roads Bring Tourism? Growth Corridor Policy and Tourism Development in the Zambezi region, Namibia	4
Correction to: Chicken or Egg? A Bi-directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti	4
Intra-Africa Agricultural Trade, Governance Quality and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Panel Vector Autoregressive Model	4
COVID-19 Effects on Public Finance and SDG Priorities in Developing Countries: Comparative Evidence from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka	4
Do Productive Capabilities Affect Export Performance? Evidence from African Firms	4
‘People Consider Us Devils’: Exploring Patterns of Exclusion Facing Adolescents with Disabilities in Ethiopia	4
Impact of Public Agricultural Investment on Crops Production, Households’ Welfare, and Employment Generation Opportunities in Togo, West Africa	4
Influencing Aid Policy: Perceptions of How Member States Shape EU Development Cooperation	4
Competition, Productive Capabilities and Structural Transformation in South Africa	4
Cocoa: Origin Differentials and the Living Income Differential	4
Domestic Risk Factors, Violence and Marital Dissolution: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey of India	4
Centring Race: Unpacking Informality Through the Lens of Black Tax	4
The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive	4
Correction to: On the Link Between Managerial Attributes and Firm Access to Formal Credit in Myanmar	4
Capabilities and Communities: A Perspective from Institutional Economics	4
Climate Change, Malaria Prevalence and Cereal Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa	4