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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing	107
Social Enterprise Under Moral Hazard: Who Gets State Subsidies and Active Financing?	47
The Challenge of Productivity-Based Development: Innovation Gaps and Economic Structure in Latin America	45
Educational Segregation and Household Occupation: Role of School Education in Reproduction of Social Hierarchy in India	27
The Development of Green Bond in Developing Countries: Insights from Southeast Asia Market Participants	24
Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in India: The Role of Gender and the Extended Family	24
What Drives Africa’s Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa’s Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures	23
Defining and Measuring Human Development: A Genealogical Analysis of the UNDP’s Human Development Reports	23
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments: Approach Paper	22
Impact of Credit Constraints on Financial Performance of Small and Medium Size Enterprises	21
What Enables Financial Resilience: Insights from a Participatory Research and Design Process with VSLA Members in Nigeria	16
Cocoa: Origin Differentials and the Living Income Differential	16
The Politics of Who Gets What and Why: Learning from the Targeting of Social Cash Transfers in Zambia	15
Intra-Africa Agricultural Trade, Governance Quality and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Panel Vector Autoregressive Model	15
Household Income, Migration Networks, and Migration Decisions	12
Valuing the 'neighbourhood': Responding to Racialised Post-War Development in Slave Island, Colombo	12
Correction: Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	12
Thanks to Reviewers	11
Impact of Terms of Trade on GDP in the Context of Prebisch–Singer Theorem: Evidence from Egypt and Guinea	10
White Savior Narratives in International Development: A Discourse Analysis of the Kony2012 Campaign by Invisible Children	10
Rural Youth Aspirations in the Face of Environmental, Economic and Social Pressures: Transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	10
Correction to: Does Local Elite Capture Vary by Levels of Political Connections? Evidence from an Indian Public Housing Program	10
Working in the Informal Sector in Togo: Choice or Constraint?	9
A Socio−economic Impact Analysis of the Political Crisis in Burundi with a Focus on Children: A Macro–Micro Framework	9
What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? Colonial Genealogies and Responses	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	8
Customary Land Certification, Governance and Natural Resource Use in Zambia: A Social Learning Approach	8
The Decolonization of Development Studies and International Relations in Central and Eastern Europe: A Polish Perspective of Living Between the Core and Periphery	7
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 in Mozambique in 2020	7
Correction to: An Ethnographic-Discourse Analysis of the Socio-political Effects of Interaction Between Cash Transfer Programme Authorities, Caregivers and Non-beneficiaries	7
“Not All Income is Equal”: Rural Livelihood Diversification and Diet Quality in South–Western Kenya	7
Correction to: ‘People Consider Us Devils’: Exploring Patterns of Exclusion facing Adolescents with Disabilities in Ethiopia	7
Repercussions the Covid-19 Pandemic on the SDGs Achievement: Is it a New Era for the Development?	7
Impact Weaving: An Approach to Strengthening the Plausibility of Anticipated AR4D Impact Pathways	7
Academic Debate and Self-Criticism: Embracing Diversity at the Core of Development Studies	7
Targeted Poverty Alleviation for the Livelihood Improvement of Poverty-Stricken Households: A Case Study of Wuxi County, China	7
Chinese Aid Projects and Local Tax Attitudes: Evidence from Africa	7
Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis	7
Can Burkina Faso’s Agricultural Mechanization Program Reduce Poverty in the Country	6
The Dynamics and Role of Gender in High-Value Avocado Farming in Kenya	6
Nourishing the Nexus: A Feminist Analysis of Gender, Nutrition and Agri-food Development Policies and Practices	6
Determinants of Exports in a Small and Vulnerable Economy: Fiji Islands—A Disaggregated Analysis	6
Correction to: The Association Between Women's Education and Employment and Household Food Security in Afghanistan	6
How Do Foreign Aid Agencies Learn? A Comparative Analysis of Organisational Learning Determinants in National Donor Bureaucracies	6
Are Developing Countries Using Climate Funds for Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	6
Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	6
Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry	6
Correction to: ‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	6
Trade Agreements, Technical Regulations, and Standards: Competitiveness Implications for Kenyan Exporters to European Union	6
Diversifying Away from Extractives: The Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese Capital and Industrialisation in the Kyrgyz Republic	5
Can the Dragon Make the Lion Breathe Fire? The Links of Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Addis Ababa Economy	5
A Development Lens to Frugal Innovation: Bringing Back Production and Technological Capabilities into the Discourse	5
Fuelling Entrepreneurial Orientation in Enhancing Business Performance: Women Entrepreneurs’ Contribution to Family Livelihood in a Constrained Context, Bangladesh	5
Evaluating the Contribution of Complex International Research-for-Development Programmes to the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Financing Constraints and Firm’s Productivity Under the COVID-19 Epidemic Shock: Evidence of A-Shared Chinese Companies	5
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
Climate Change, Malaria Prevalence and Cereal Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Colonial Legacies, Ethnicity and Fertility Decline in Kenya: What has Financial Inclusion Got to Do with It?	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 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
Correction to: To Give or Not To Give? How Do Other Donors React to European Food Aid Allocation?	4
Assessing the Impact of Lending Through Kisan Credit Cards in Rural India: Evidence from Eastern India	4
Effects of Mobile Money Education on Mobile Money Usage: Evidence from Ghana	4
COVID-19 Effects on Public Finance and SDG Priorities in Developing Countries: Comparative Evidence from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka	4
Delving into the Determinants of Default Risk in Savings Groups: Empirical Evidence from Ecuador	4
Duple Cacao-Chocolate and the Materiality of the Political Economy of Pleasure	4
Decolonizing Development Studies: Rejecting or Repurposing the Master’s Tools?	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
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to War on Domestic Violence	4
Public Works Programmes and Cooperation for the Common Good: Evidence from Malawi	4
University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action	4

Laying the Foundations for Impact: Lessons from the GCRF Evaluation	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
Correction: Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	4