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

Article	Citations
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing	103
Social Enterprise Under Moral Hazard: Who Gets State Subsidies and Active Financing?	45
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
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
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
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
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
Correction to: An Ethnographic-Discourse Analysis of the Socio-political Effects of Interaction Between Cash Transfer Programme Authorities, Caregivers and Non-beneficiaries	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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