OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Development Research is 6. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Intersecting Vulnerabilities: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Psycho-emotional Lives of Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	61
COVID-19 and Global Poverty: Are LDCs Being Left Behind?	59
The Economic Costs of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a Simulation Exercise for Ghana	53
How Does Firm ESG Performance Impact Financial Constraints? An Experimental Exploration of the COVID-19 Pandemic	53
The emergence of Urban Community Resilience Initiatives During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Exploratory Study	45
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	36
Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations	34
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Financial Markets: Evidence from Qualitative Research for Developed and Developing Economies	34
The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia	29
Destinations Matter: Social Policy and Migrant Workers in the Times of Covid	28
Factors Influencing Smallholder Rice Farmers’ Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability in the Mekong Delta Region of Vietnam	28
The Impact of Tourism Development on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa	27
Unprecedented but not Unpredictable: Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Commodity-Dependent Countries	27
Digital Technologies and Product Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Empirical Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms	26
Emerging Medium-Scale Tenant Farming, Gig Economies, and the COVID-19 Disruption: The Case of Commercial Vegetable Clusters in Ethiopia	25
Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya	24
How COVID-19 Pandemic Worsens the Economic Situation of Women in South Africa	23
Sustainable Development and SDG-7 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Balancing Energy Access, Economic Growth, and Carbon Emissions	22
Malawi at the Crossroads: Does the Fear of Contracting COVID-19 Affect the Propensity to Vote?	22
Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries	22
Determinants of Small-Scale Farmers’ Intention to Use Smartphones for Generating Agricultural Knowledge in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural India	21
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
The Role of ICT for Sustainable Development: A Cross-Country Analysis	18

Bringing Production Back into Development: An introduction	18
Farming, Gender and Aspirations Across Young People’s Life Course: Attempting to Keep Things Open While Becoming a Farmer	17
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy, and Industrial Upgrading: Automotive Sectors in Malaysia, Thailand, and China in Comparison with Korea	16
The Development of Green Bond in Developing Countries: Insights from Southeast Asia Market Participants	16
Special Economic Zones and Sourcing Linkages with the Local Economy: Reality or Pipedream?	15
Financial Inclusion and Household Welfare: An Entropy-Based Consumption Diversification Approach	15
Roads to Change: Livelihoods, Land Disputes, and Anticipation of Future Developments in Rural Kenya	15
Megaprojects—mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya	15
Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations: Development, Middle Classes and Everyday Food Practices in Vietnam	15
Gender Gaps in Market Participation Among Individual and Joint Decision-Making Farm Households: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia	14
Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe	14
Human Capital Theory and the Defectology of Aspirations in Policy Research on Rural Youth	14
Aspiration Formation and Ecological Shocks in Rural Kenya	13
Not All About Farming: Understanding Aspirations Can Challenge Assumptions About Rural Development	13
Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion: Introduction to the Special Issue	12
COVID-19 Lockdown and Exposure of Households to Food Insecurity in Uganda: Insights from a National High Frequency Phone Survey	12
Who Called Team Europe? The European Union’s Development Policy Response During the First Wave of COVID-19	12
Do Tar Roads Bring Tourism? Growth Corridor Policy and Tourism Development in the Zambezi region, Namibia	12
Potential for Upgrading in Financialised Agri-food Chains: The Case of Ghanaian Cocoa	11
Intersectionality as a Framework for Understanding Adolescent Vulnerabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries: Expanding Our Commitment to Leave No One Behind	11
Can Empowerment be Enhanced by Putting Cash in the Hands of Poor Women? Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program	11
Technical Efficiency of Teff Production Among Smallholder Farmers: Beta Regression Approach	11
Women’s Changing Opportunities and Aspirations Amid Male Outmigration: Insights from Makueni County, Kenya	11
Understanding the Aspirations of Farming Communities in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature	10
The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive	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
Municípios in the Time of Covid-19 in Brazil: Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities, Transmission Factors and Public Policies	10
‘People Consider Us Devils’: Exploring Patterns of Exclusion Facing Adolescents with Disabilities in Ethiopia	10
COVID-19 and the Performance of Exporting Companies in Benin	9
“We Have Many Options, But They are All Bad Options!”: Aspirations Among Internal Migrant Youths in Shanghai, China	9
Financing for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond	9
A New Normal or Business-as-Usual? Lessons for COVID-19 from Financial Crises in East and Southeast Asia	9
Is Economic Empowerment a Protective Factor Against Intimate Partner Violence? Evidence from Turkey	9
An Ethnographic Examination of People’s Reactions to State-Led COVID-19 Measures in Sierra Leone	9
The Development Impacts of COVID-19 at Home and Abroad: Politics and Implications of Government Action	9
Diaspora and Economic Development: A Systemic View	9
Strengthening the Resilience of Vulnerable Communities: Results from a Quasi-experimental Impact Evaluation in Coastal Bangladesh	9
Rural Aspirations: Reflections for Development Planning, Design and Localized Effects	9
Unpacking The Nexus Between Broiler Contract Farming and Its Impact in Ghana	9
Growth and Fiscal Effects of Insecurity on the Nigerian Economy	8
Financing Constraints and Firm’s Productivity Under the COVID-19 Epidemic Shock: Evidence of A-Shared Chinese Companies	8
Rising Income Inequality in OECD Countries: Does Fiscal Policy Sacrifice Economic Growth in Achieving Equity?	8
Inclusive, Cross-Sectoral and Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Resilience Planning and Decision-Making in a Devolved Context	8
The Luxury of Lockdown	8
What’s the Story on Agriculture? Using Narratives to Understand Farming Households’ Aspirations in Meru, Kenya	8
Does the Complexity of GVC Participation Matter for Productivity and Output Growth?	7
Hierarchical Modelling of COVID-19 Death Risk in India in the Early Phase of the Pandemic	7
Irrigated Agriculture and Welfare: Panel Data Evidence from Southern Ghana	7

On the Nexus Between Institutions and Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis for Sub-Saharan African Countries	7
The Price of Aspirations: Education Migrants’ Pursuit of Higher Education in Hubei Province, China	7
Do more Vibrant Rural Areas have Lower Rates of Youth Out-Migration? Evidence from Zambia	7
The Role of Automatic Stabilizers and Emergency Tax–Benefit Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Ecuador	7
Agroforestry, Indigenous Tree Cover and Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study of Mount Elgon in Uganda	7
‘If She’s Pregnant, then that Means that Her Dreams Fade Away’: Exploring Experiences of Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood in Rwanda	7
Are Developing Countries Using Climate Funds for Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	7
‘I Wish Someone Would Ask Me Questions’: The Unheard Voices of Adolescents with Disabilities in Jordan	7
Friend or Patron? Social Relations Across the National NGO–Donor Divide in Ghana	7
The Impact of Agricultural Input Subsidy on Productivity: The Case of Ghana	7
Can Integrated Social Protection Programmes Affect Social Cohesion? Mixed-Methods Evidence from Malawi	7
Beyond Participation: The Effect of Fertilizer Subsidy on the Adoption of Certified Seeds Among Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana	7
Modeling a Pandemic (COVID-19) Management Strategy for Urban Slums Using Social Geometry Framework	7
Price-Setting Power in Global Value Chains: The Cases of Price Stabilisation in the Cocoa Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana	6
‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	6
Livelihood Vulnerabilities Among Women in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana	6
The European Union as an International Donor: Perceptions from Latin America and the Caribbean	6
“Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London	6
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?	6
More than the Sum of Its Parts: Donor-Sponsored Cash-for-Work Programmes and Social Cohesion in Jordanian Communities Hosting Syrian Refugees	6
Conceptualising Digital Platforms in Developing Countries as Socio-Technical Transitions: A Multi-level Perspective Analysis of EasyTaxi in Colombia	6