OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Development Review-Revue Africaine de Developpement 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Testing the nexus between renewable energy consumption and environmental quality in Nigeria: The role of broad‐based financial development	88
COVID‐19 and food prices in sub‐Saharan Africa	59
Linear and non‐linear effects of infrastructures on inclusive human development in Africa	55
Trade openness, FDI, and income inequality: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa	54
Gender disparities in financial inclusion: Insights from Tanzania	38
Impact of international trade, energy consumption and income on environmental degradation in Africa's OPEC member countries	36
Household food security and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Nigeria	36
The impact of COVID‐19 on African economies: An introduction	34
Social networks, rice value chain participation and market performance of smallholder farmers in Ghana	32
Drivers of income inequality in Africa: Does institutional quality matter?	30
Online and face‐to‐face learning: Evidence from students’ performance during the Covid‐19 pandemic	30
Ghana's national health insurance, free maternal healthcare and facility‐based delivery services	29
Does financial development reduce the size of the informal economy in sub‐Saharan African countries?	29
Rethinking the impact of GDP on financial development: Evidence from heterogeneous panels	25
The nexus between tourism, financial development, and economic growth: Evidence from African countries	24
Testing the impact of financial inclusion on income convergence: Empirical evidence from Nigeria	23
Economic growth dynamics between resource‐rich and resource‐poor countries in sub‐Saharan Africa: The role of politics and institutions	23
Health care expenditure and health outcomes in sub‐Saharan African countries	21
Breaking the carbon curse: The role of financial development in facilitating low‐carbon and sustainable development in Algeria	21
Estimation of the East African Community's trade benefits from promoting intra‐regional trade	20
The short‐term economywide impacts of COVID‐19 in Africa: Insights from Ethiopia	19
Women's empowerment and child health outcomes in Ghana	18
What drive gender gap in financial inclusion? Evidence from Cameroon	17
Effects of farm credit access on agricultural commercialization in Ghana: Empirical evidence from the northern Savannah ecological zone	16
Towards shared prosperity in sub‐Saharan Africa: How does the effect of economic integration compare to social equity policies?	16

Household cooking fuel choice: Evidence from the Republic of Benin	15
The long‐run relationship between ODA, growth and governance: An application of FMOLS and DOLS approaches	15
The impact of terrorism on public debt in African countries	15
International migrant remittances and labour force participation in Nigeria	14
The adverse impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on the labor market in Cameroon	14
The effects of foreign aid, foreign direct investment and domestic investment on economic growth in African countries: Nonlinearities and complementarities	14
Strengthening women's participation in the traditional enterprises of sub‐saharan Africa: The role of corporate social responsibility initiatives in Niger delta, Nigeria	14
Financial inclusion and entrepreneurship willingness of youth: Evidence from Mali	13
The micro determinants of financial inclusion and financial resilience in Africa	13
Effects of financial reform on business entry in sub‐Saharan African countries: Do resource dependence and institutional quality matter?	13
Trade facilitation, institutions, and sustainable economic growth: Empirical evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa	13
Investigating the effects of globalization on economic sophistication in selected African countries	12
Access to finance and rural youth entrepreneurship in Benin: Is there a gender gap?	12
What drives income inequality in sub‐Saharan Africa and its sub‐regions? An examination of long‐run and short‐run effects	12
Is there a nexus between China outward foreign direct investment and welfare in Côte dʼIvoire? Empirical evidence from the Toda–Yamamoto procedure	11
Gender earnings gap among the youth in Malawi	11
The impact of technological innovations on financial deepening: Implications for SME financing in Africa	11
Africa as headwaiter at the dining table of global value chains: Do institutions matter for her participation?	10
Revisiting the nexus between domestic investment, foreign direct investment and external debt in SSA countries: PMG‐ARDL approach	10
Adoption et usage du mobile money au cameroun: Analyse comparative des determinants entre les villes de Douala et de Yaounde	10
Effect of environmental policies on exports from sub‐Saharan African countries	10
Can Africa raise export competitiveness through economic complexity? Evidence from (non)‐parametric panel techniques	10
Testing the triple deficit hypothesis for sub‐Saharan Africa: Implications for the African Continental Free Trade Area	10
The impact of terrorism on agriculture in African countries	9
‘Not a good time’: Assessing the economic impact of COVID‐19 in Africa using a macro‐micro simulation approach	9
Technology, poverty and income distribution nexus: The case of fertilizer adoption in Ethiopia	9
Does infrastructural development foster export upgrading in Africa?	9
Does board gender diversity matter in the banking sector? Evidence from Tunisia	9
Do remittances moderate financial development–informality nexus in North Africa?	9
Household‐level poverty, consumption poverty thresholds, income inequality and quality of lives in sub‐Saharan Africa	8
Spillover effects in public healthcare expenditure in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A spatial panel analysis	8
Potentials of the African Continental Free Trade Area: A combined partial and general equilibrium modeling assessment for Central Africa	8
Governance, health expenditure and infant mortality in sub‐Saharan Africa	8
Sub‐Saharan Africa's debt‐financed growth: How sustainable and inclusive?	8
Effects of good governance, sustainable development and aid on quality of life: Evidence from sub‐saharan Africa	8
Impact of bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment in Africa	8
Fiscal sustainability in Africa: Accelerating the post‐COVID‐19 recovery through improved public finances	8
Effect of agglomeration on technical efficiency of small and medium‐sized garment firms in Egypt	8
Does trade in services improve African participation in global value chains?	8
COVID‐19 policy responses, inflation and spillover effects in the West African Economic and Monetary Union	7
The impacts of the Covid‐19 pandemic on employment in Cameroon: A general equilibrium analysis	7
Oil dependence and access to water and sanitation in African countries: Does the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative matter?	7
La diffusion des TIC ameliore‐t‐elle qualitativement les institutions politiques en Afrique?	7
Does government education expenditure affect educational outcomes? New evidence from sub‐Saharan African countries	7
Access to savings and household welfare evidence from a household survey in The Gambia	7
Investigating the factors affecting nonperforming loans in commercial banks: The case of African lower middle‐income countries	7
Youth agripreneurship in the horticultural value‐chain: The case of small‐scale mango farmers in Southern Ghana	7
Determinants of labor productivity among SMEs and large‐sized private service firms in Kenya	6
Infrastructures physiques et croissance économique en Afrique de l'Ouest: Le rôle des institutions	6
Does ICT diffusion contribute to women's political empowerment in Africa?	6

Effets de la COVID‐19 sur la variation du revenu et la sécurité alimentaire des ménages au Togo	6
Macroeconomic policies and sustainable employment yields in sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana	6
COVID‐19 impact on SADC labour markets: Evidence from high‐frequency data and other sources	6
Impact of foreign direct investment on the agricultural sector in Nigeria (1981–2017)	6
Effects of health expenditures on infant and child mortality rates: A dynamic panel data analysis of 37 African countries	6
Foreign direct investment and economic growth. Analysis of sectoral foreign direct investment in Tanzania	6
Empirical analysis of urban youth unemployment in Ethiopia	6
Ending youth unemployment in sub‐saharan Africa: Does ICT development have any role?	6