OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of African Development Review-Revue Africaine de Developpement is 1. 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
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Do The WAEMU Member States Still Have Fiscal Space? Answering by Optimal Taxation Approach	53
Does infrastructural development foster export upgrading in Africa?	37
Ease of doing business and investment among West African countries	29
Post‐COVID‐19 recovery for African economies: Lessons for digital financial inclusion from Kenya and Uganda	29
Does Social Media Improve the Subjective Well‐Being of Older African Women?	28
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Financial openness, financial sector development, and income inequality: With an extensive set of pull and push factors	28
International remittances and labor supply in Nigeria: Do educational attainment and household income matter?	24
Investigating the link between exhaustion of natural resources and economic complexity in sub‐Saharan Africa	22
The story of dividend payment and corporate cash flow in Ghana	22
Long‐run impacts of the conflict in Ukraine on grain imports and prices in Africa	18
Estimating the effect of terrorism on agricultural production in Nigeria	17
Perception of Democracy and Women's Desire to Emigrate: Evidence From Sub‐Saharan Africa	17
Le développement financier affecte‐t‐il l'inégalité de revenus en Afrique subsaharienne?	15
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Why is sub‐Saharan Africa an attractive destination to foreign land grabbers? Evidence from country characteristics	14
Unveiling the drivers of Africa's digital financial inclusion journey	14
Does financial development really spur industrialization in sub‐Saharan African countries?	13
Effet du changement climatique sur la production vivriere au Togo	12
Assessing Ghana's bilateral exports potential and gap	12
Emergency food aid and household food security during COVID‐19: Evidence from a field survey in Senegal	12
Estimation of the public debt threshold effects on economic growth in sub‐Saharan African countries	11
Effect of bilateral and multilateral concessional debts on public investment in Africa: A contingency analysis	10
Issue Information ‐ Author Guidelines	10

Evaluating the belt and road initiative effects on trade and migration: Evidence from the East African community	10
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L'impact de la crise russo‐ukrainienne sur les marchés financiers africains	9
New evidence on sources of macroeconomic fluctuations in sub‐Saharan African countries	9
Access to paved roads, gender, and youth unemployment in rural areas: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa	9
Correction	9
Trade facilitation, institutions, and sustainable economic growth: Empirical evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa	9
Bigger or better? The effect of public spending on happiness in Africa	8
Investissement en santé et état de santé dans les pays de l'UEMOA: entre contribution publique et privée?	8
Issue Information	8
Effects of public infrastructural development and industrialization on economic complexity in Africa: Emerging insight from panel data analysis	8
Effet du mobile money sur la résilience des ménages exerçant des activités génératrices de revenus au Cameroun	8
From food inflation to cash transfers and food subsidies: Assessing impacts on households' consumption and welfare in Togo	8
Government expenditure, informality, and economic growth: Evidence from Eastern and Southern African countries	8
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Impact of access to electricity on internal conflicts in Africa: Does income inequality matter?	7
Appreciation to article reviewers	7
FinTech—A pathway to financial inclusion? Evidence from Southern African Development Community member states	7
Rent‐seeking and optimal fiscal‐monetary policy rules in Nigeria: A DSGE approach	7
What drives income inequality in sub‐Saharan Africa and its sub‐regions? An examination of long‐run and short‐run effects	7
Issue Information ‐ Author Guidelines	7
Educational assortative mating in the Cameroon marriage market: Role of marriage timing	7
Issue Information ‐ Author Guidelines	7
Appreciation to Article Reviewers	7
Effects of Fiscal Policy on Financial Bank Intermediation Quality in WAEMU Countries	7
Oil dependence and access to water and sanitation in African countries: Does the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative matter?	7
Credit constraints in higher education attendance: Longitudinal evidence from Ethiopia	6
Issue Information ‐ Author Guidelines	6
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Effet global du genre dans le développement des chaînes de valeur mondiales dans le contexte africain	6
Oil price dynamics and firms' stock returns in the Nigeria stock market	6
The vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Does industrial development matter?	6
Education and gender (in)equality in wage employment in sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Issue Information	5
Financial stability gap and private investment nexus: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa	5
Does aid matter for FDI in ECOWAS: Investigating the infrastructure channel	5
Gender heterogeneity and microfinance sustainability in Sub‐Saharan Africa	5
Responsabilité sociale, Performance financière et Durabilité environnementale: Étude de l'effet médiateur de l'innovation managériale et modérateur de la structure industrielle: cas des entreprises ma	4
Financial innovation and the stability of money demand in Nigeria	4
Appreciation to article reviewers	4
Impact assessment of job reallocation on unemployment in Morocco: An ARDL approach	4
Issue Information	4
Effects of economic freedom and ease of doing business on trade in global value chains: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa	4
Linear and non‐linear effects of infrastructures on inclusive human development in Africa	4
Labor differentiation and cotton productivity in Burkina Faso	4
Effect of environmental policies on exports from sub‐Saharan African countries	4
Multiple Memberships in Regional Trade Agreements and Intraregional Trade Dynamics in Sub‐Saharan Africa	4
Appreciation to Article Reviewers	4
Technological advancement and regulatory quality	4
Evaluating the significance of cash transfers on household consumption	4

Who supports the African Union? Understanding the determinants of citizens' opinion for African integration	4
COVID‐19 and perceived effects on agricultural financing in Africa: Evidence and policy implications	4
Does fiscal decentralization improve people's access to health and education services in Cameroon?	3
Appreciation to Article Reviewers	3
Financing Africa's post‐COVID‐19 development: An introduction	3
The impacts of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the Kenyan economy: Evidence from an economy‐wide model	3
Appreciation to Article Reviewers	3
Issue Information ‐ Author Guidelines	3
“Catch me if you can” on drivers of venture capital investment in Africa	3
Access to finance and rural youth entrepreneurship in Benin: Is there a gender gap?	3
Is the relationship between bank stability, competition, and intervention quality nonlinear? Evidence from North African countries	3
The micro determinants of financial inclusion and financial resilience in Africa	3
Issue Information ‐ Author Guidelines	3
Les déterminants d'accès à l'eau potable au Cameroun*	3
Issue Information	2
Household resilience to climate change in the “big three” African economies	2
Appreciation to Article Reviewers	2
Does institutional quality moderate the human capital–inequality dynamics? Comparative evidence from LAC and SSA countries	2
Issue Information	2
Digital Financial Inclusion: Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors of Access and Usage in Senegal	2
Macroeconomic implications of escalating stock of public debt: Evidence from sub‐Saharan African economies	2
Efficiency of local public spending in Cameroon: Does population size matter?	2
Productivity costs of the green energy transition in Africa	2
Towards shared prosperity in sub‐Saharan Africa: How does the effect of economic integration compare to social equity policies?	2
Income–environmental nexus in Africa: The integrating role of renewable energy transition and governance quality	2
Modelling Economic Policy Uncertainty—Examining the Effects of Oil Prices, Global and Domestic Economic Policy Uncertainty on Firm Stability in Nigeria	2
The fiscal effects of armed conflicts in Africa	2
Inclusion Financière Digitale et Croissance Economique dans L'espace UEMOA: Rôle de la Qualité des Institutions	2
Financial dualism: An analysis of the effects of informal finance on formal finance in West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries	2
Impact of exchange rate and exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment inflow for Mauritius: A dynamic time series approach	2
Contraintes Réglementaires Et Transmission De La Politique Monétaire Aux Prêts Bancaires Dans L'uemoa	2
Free Movement of Persons and Cross‐Border Trade in Southern African Development Community (SADC): The Zimbabwean Example	1
Issue Information	1
Taxation et croissance économique en Afrique: la qualité des institutions importe‐t‐elle?	1
On the measurement of corporate governance and its impact on bank profitability and credit risk: The case of Tunisian listed banks	1
Investigating the effects of globalization on economic sophistication in selected African countries	1
Issue Information ‐ Author Guidelines	1
Does financial development contribute to the achievement of the “Zero Hunger” goal in Africa?	1
Do social protection cash transfers reduce poverty in Rwanda? Evidence from an econometric analysis of Vision Umurenge Program Direct Support	1
Trust in Fiscal Institutions in Africa: Do Perceived Living Conditions Matter?	1
New wave of internal armed conflicts in developing countries: Does inequality of opportunity matter?	1
Fiscal policy in the face of the health crisis: A simulation using a hybrid DSGE‐SIR model	1
Appreciation to article reviewers	1
Appreciation to article reviewers	1
Foreign Inflows, Governance and Health Outcomes in Nigeria	1
Appreciation to Article Reviewers	1
Political Leadership and Economic Complexity in Africa	1
The revenue efficiency consequences of the announcement of a tax transition reform: The case of WAEMU countries	1
Macroprudential regulation, bank stability, and the credit market in Kenya	1
What Are the Drivers of Education Attainment in the MENA Region?	1
Dépenses militaires et croissance économique dans l'UEMOA: une analyse des effets de seuil et des canaux de transmission	1
Issue Information	1