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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing	90
Social Enterprise Under Moral Hazard: Who Gets State Subsidies and Active Financing?	44
Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages, Cooking-Time, Intrahousehold Equality Among Women and Children: Evidence from Tajikistan	38
The Challenge of Productivity-Based Development: Innovation Gaps and Economic Structure in Latin America	31
Educational Segregation and Household Occupation: Role of School Education in Reproduction of Social Hierarchy in India	24
‘I Dream of Going Home’: Gendered Experiences of Adolescent Syrian Refugees in Jordan’s Azraq Camp	21
What Drives Africa’s Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa’s Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures	21
The Development of Green Bond in Developing Countries: Insights from Southeast Asia Market Participants	21
Defining and Measuring Human Development: A Genealogical Analysis of the UNDP’s Human Development Reports	21
Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Occupation and Under-Five Mortality: Empirical Evidence from 26 Developing Countries	20
Intra-Africa Agricultural Trade, Governance Quality and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Panel Vector Autoregressive Model	19
Cocoa: Origin Differentials and the Living Income Differential	19
The Politics of Who Gets What and Why: Learning from the Targeting of Social Cash Transfers in Zambia	19
What Enables Financial Resilience: Insights from a Participatory Research and Design Process with VSLA Members in Nigeria	17
Financial Inclusion and Household Welfare: An Entropy-Based Consumption Diversification Approach	17
Impact of Credit Constraints on Financial Performance of Small and Medium Size Enterprises	17
Correction: Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	16
Household Income, Migration Networks, and Migration Decisions	15
Valuing the 'neighbourhood': Responding to Racialised Post-War Development in Slave Island, Colombo	15
Correction to: Does Local Elite Capture Vary by Levels of Political Connections? Evidence from an Indian Public Housing Program	13
Thanks to Reviewers	13
Public Versus Private Health Financing Transition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Exploring the Crowding-Out Effects	12
Conceptualising Digital Platforms in Developing Countries as Socio-Technical Transitions: A Multi-level Perspective Analysis of EasyTaxi in Colombia	12
A Socio−economic Impact Analysis of the Political Crisis in Burundi with a Focus on Children: A Macro–Micro Framework	12
The Effects of Microfinance Programs on Recipients’ Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh	12

What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? Colonial Genealogies and Responses	11
An Impact Assessment of Farmer Participation on Food Security in Northwestern Ghana	11
Working in the Informal Sector in Togo: Choice or Constraint?	11
Rural Youth Aspirations in the Face of Environmental, Economic and Social Pressures: Transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	11
“Not All Income is Equal”: Rural Livelihood Diversification and Diet Quality in South–Western Kenya	10
Impact of Terms of Trade on GDP in the Context of Prebisch–Singer Theorem: Evidence from Egypt and Guinea	10
Differential Bunching Impacts Across the Income Distribution: Evidence from Tax Administrative Data	10
Academic Debate and Self-Criticism: Embracing Diversity at the Core of Development Studies	10
The Decolonization of Development Studies and International Relations in Central and Eastern Europe: A Polish Perspective of Living Between the Core and Periphery	10
Customary Land Certification, Governance and Natural Resource Use in Zambia: A Social Learning Approach	10
Correction to: An Ethnographic-Discourse Analysis of the Socio-political Effects of Interaction Between Cash Transfer Programme Authorities, Caregivers and Non-beneficiaries	9
Targeted Poverty Alleviation for the Livelihood Improvement of Poverty-Stricken Households: A Case Study of Wuxi County, China	9
Repercussions the Covid-19 Pandemic on the SDGs Achievement: Is it a New Era for the Development?	9
COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of State and Central Responses on Mobility	9
Chinese Aid Projects and Local Tax Attitudes: Evidence from Africa	9
Impact Weaving: An Approach to Strengthening the Plausibility of Anticipated AR4D Impact Pathways	9
Correction to: ‘People Consider Us Devils’: Exploring Patterns of Exclusion facing Adolescents with Disabilities in Ethiopia	8
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 in Mozambique in 2020	8
Correction to: The Association Between Women's Education and Employment and Household Food Security in Afghanistan	8
Does Local Elite Capture Vary by Levels of Political Connections? Evidence from an Indian Public Housing Program	8
Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis	8
Can Burkina Faso’s Agricultural Mechanization Program Reduce Poverty in the Country	8
Are Developing Countries Using Climate Funds for Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	7
Nourishing the Nexus: A Feminist Analysis of Gender, Nutrition and Agri-food Development Policies and Practices	7
Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	7
Implications of Cross-disciplinarity: Estimating the “Paper Drain” in Development Studies	7
The Dynamics and Role of Gender in High-Value Avocado Farming in Kenya	7
Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry	7
Correction to: ‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	7
Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind	7
Determinants of Exports in a Small and Vulnerable Economy: Fiji Islands—A Disaggregated Analysis	6
Trade Agreements, Technical Regulations, and Standards: Competitiveness Implications for Kenyan Exporters to European Union	6
Fuelling Entrepreneurial Orientation in Enhancing Business Performance: Women Entrepreneurs’ Contribution to Family Livelihood in a Constrained Context, Bangladesh	6
Can the Dragon Make the Lion Breathe Fire? The Links of Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Addis Ababa Economy	6
Evaluating the Contribution of Complex International Research-for-Development Programmes to the Sustainable Development Goals	6
Financing Constraints and Firm’s Productivity Under the COVID-19 Epidemic Shock: Evidence of A-Shared Chinese Companies	6
University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action	6
Delving into the Determinants of Default Risk in Savings Groups: Empirical Evidence from Ecuador	5
Climate Change, Malaria Prevalence and Cereal Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
A Development Lens to Frugal Innovation: Bringing Back Production and Technological Capabilities into the Discourse	5
Laying the Foundations for Impact: Lessons from the GCRF Evaluation	5
Public Works Programmes and Cooperation for the Common Good: Evidence from Malawi	5
COVID-19 Effects on Public Finance and SDG Priorities in Developing Countries: Comparative Evidence from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka	5
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
Effects of Mobile Money Education on Mobile Money Usage: Evidence from Ghana	5
Correction to: To Give or Not To Give? How Do Other Donors React to European Food Aid Allocation?	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
Financing the SDGs: How Bangladesh May Reshape Its Strategies in the Post-COVID Era?	4
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to War on Domestic Violence	4

Duple Cacao-Chocolate and the Materiality of the Political Economy of Pleasure	4
How Farm Household Spends Their Non-farm Incomes in Rural India? Evidence from Longitudinal Data	4
Assessing the Impact of Lending Through Kisan Credit Cards in Rural India: Evidence from Eastern India	4
How to Assess the Child Poverty and Distributional Impact of COVID-19 Using Household Budget Surveys: An Application Using Turkish Data	4
Rural Aspirations: Reflections for Development Planning, Design and Localized Effects	4
Dismantling Development: Towards an Abolitionist Theory of Development	4
Decolonizing Development Studies: Rejecting or Repurposing the Master’s Tools?	4
Correction to: Fiscal Policy, Multidimensional Poverty, and Equity in Uganda: A Child-Lens Analysis	4
‘Do Poor People’s Dreams Ever Come True?’ Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh	4
Research-Practice-Collaborations Addressing One Health and Urban Transformation. A Case Study	4
The Impact of Agricultural Input Subsidy on Productivity: The Case of Ghana	4
Integrating Environmental Justice into Child-Sensitive Social Protection: The Environmental Roots of Intergenerational Poverty in Amazonia	4
Using Outcome Trajectory Evaluation to Assess HarvestPlus’ Contribution to the Development of National Biofortification Breeding Programs	4
Correction: Including Men in a Female Financial Model: An Analysis of Informal Grassroots Financial Associations	4
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Financial Markets: Evidence from Qualitative Research for Developed and Developing Economies	4