OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Development Economics 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	58
Rethinking Growth‐Environment Dynamics: A Review of Environmental Policy in Emerging Economies	49
Empowering women through microcredit in Djibouti	45
Social Capital, Social Protection, and Multi‐Dimensional Poverty: Evidence From Chinese Migrant Workers' Experience	35
The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion	35
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	35
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	33
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	30
Research collaboration in development economics	27
The effect of capital structure on the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions: A meta‐analysis	25
Why do some African firms export? The role of regional economic communities?	24
Teaching in the right context: Textbook supply program, language, and learning	24
COVID‐19 and the Unequal Distribution of Poverty Risks: Evidence From Urban India	23
Does Land Resource Misallocation Reduce Energy Efficiency? Empirical Evidence From 243 Prefecture Level Cities in China	22
Non‐Farm Entrepreneurship and Household Economic Precarity in Rural Ghana	21
Issue Information	20
Correction to “Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan”	19
Does Fiscal Efficiency Affect Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence Based on Spatial Panel Data Models	19
Climate threat and price stability: A case study of Belize	19
Does Monetary Policy Affect Urban Food Inflation? Some Evidence From India	18
Issue Information	18
From cultivation to culture: Wheat farming and sex selection in China	17
“Rising Women”: Evidence From China's Agricultural Mechanization	16
Inequality in Africa: Does injustice matter?	16

Crime, elections, and political competition	14
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	14
The impact of financial inclusion on rural–urban households welfare inequality in Ghana: A decomposition analysis	14
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	14
Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	14
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	13
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	13
Oil discovery, boom‐bust cycle and manufacturing slowdown: Evidence from a large industry level dataset	13
Does Mobile Payment Raise the Poverty‐Alleviation Resilience of Chinese Households?	12
Aspirations and Investments in Agricultural Risk Mitigation Strategies	12
Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective	12
Fruitless or Fruitful? Examining Ghana's Agricultural Inputs Subsidy and Household Welfare	12
Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?	12
Economic transition, dualism and informality inIndia: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions	11
Corruption, Land, and Housing: The Cleaning and Chilling Effects of China's Anti‐Corruption Campaign	11
The Impact of Income Inequality on Rural Household's Adoption of Climate‐Smart Agriculture Practices: Evidence From Yellow River Basin Region, China	10
Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in India	10
Beyond Competitiveness: Is Productivity Everything?	10
From non‐renewables to renewables and high‐tech production: The impact of natural wealth and technology on ecological load capacity in sub‐Saharan Africa	10
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Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	10
Household income mobility in India, 1993–2011	9
A Novel Decomposition Framework for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Global Supply Chain Perspective	9
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	9
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China	9
Equal opportunity and poverty reduction: How should aid be allocated?	9
Democracy and Aid‐Led Development: Analysis With Dispersion Measure of Democracy and Korea's Knowledge Sharing Project Outcome	9
Introduction to the Special Issue, Inequality in the 21st Century in the Developing World	9
The Impact of Digital Technology Use on Farmers' Quality of Life: Evidence From Rural China	9
Parental aspirations and child private‐school enrollment: Evidence from India	9
The Bias of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises’ Export: Profit Margin or Productivity?	9
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	9
One‐child policy and marriage market in China	9
Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms	8
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	8
Financial inclusion and education: An empirical study of financial inclusion in the face of the pandemic emergency due to Covid‐19 in Latin America and the Caribbean	8
Does democracy stimulate remittances?	8
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	8
How do small formal and informal firms in Egypt compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts	8
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	8
“Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice	8
Trade liberalization, wilful credit defaults and bank bribery in a credit‐constrained economy	8
(En‐)‘lightening’ children: Assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels	8
Do chairmen with China's Great Famine experience in early‐life affect firm tax avoidance activities?	8
Informality, foreign ownership and bribery in developing countries	8
Can world heritage sites boost sales in non‐tourism firms? The role of visibility	8
The Impact of Integrated Straw Utilization on Low‐Carbon Agricultural Development: Evidence From China	7
From Tech to Green: The Potential of Company Digitalization in Mitigating Urban Air Pollution	7
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	7
Government Digitalization: A Catalyst for Innovation Across Economies	7

Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	7
Unveiling complexities: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in China	7
Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method	7
Connecting the fields: How ICT improve agricultural productivity in sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Constructing Country‐Specific Debt Indices for Developing Countries	7
Does It Help or Hinder? The Impact of Population Aging on Industrial Structure Upgrading in Transition Economic Systems	6
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	6
Impacts of climate change on food utilization in Nepal	6
International or national implementers—Who is better? Evidence from a framing experiment	6
Do fertilizer and seed subsidies strengthen farmers' market participation? Evidence from Tanzania's subsidy program	6
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	6
Re‐evaluating Africa's growth, poverty and inequality nexus	6
Predicting FDI inflows: Exploring a nonlinear relationship between peace years, oil wealth, and the rule of law	6
Understanding the Inequality of Opportunity in Stunting Among Chinese Children and Adolescents: An Urban–Rural Comparison	6
Assessment of the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on differently poverty‐stricken households: A multi‐propensity score weighting model	6
Assessing the impacts of Brazil's expenditure ceiling with a multiple‐household CGE model	6
Finding the right products for export diversification	6
The impact of a disaster recovery policy on health status of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake victims: Evidence from a natural experiment	6
The effect of mini‐grid rural electrification on urbanization: Evidence from the pilot mini‐grid systems in Ghana	6
Navigating the Governance Gap: Is Africa's Informal Sector Holding Back Economic Transformation?	6
Bribery and firm survival in Vietnam: Moderating effects of market competition, credit, and institutional constraints	6
Monetary, fiscal, and structural drivers of inflation in Ethiopia: new empirical evidence from time series analysis	6
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China^†	6
Spatial tax regimes and location choices of manufacturing firms: Survey evidence in southern Tunisia	6
Pandemic‐induced job loss and mental health: Evidence from a moderated mediation model	6
Democracy and Human Capital in Africa	6
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Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	5
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	5
Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	5
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Comparative Analysis of SME Financing Impact on Economic Growth: Evidence From Developed and Developing Economies	5
The unintended energy efficiency gain from tax incentives for investment: Micro‐evidence from quasi‐natural experiments in China	5
The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama	5
The Extractive Resource Curse Revisited: Absolute Versus Relative De‐Industrialization in Africa	5
Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa	5
On the inclusiveness of rural road improvement: Evidence from Morocco	5
Revisiting the Schooling Inputs Debate: Experimental Evidence From an Early Grade Literacy Intervention in Lao PDR	5
Women, Violence and Work: Threat of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work	5
Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	5
Financial inclusion and healthcare in Africa: Examining the moderating role of education	5
Informal Firms' Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Under Uncertain Times: Evidence From Burkina Faso	5
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Unemployment only temporarily lowers happiness in an eastern society	5
Open‐access renewable resources and pollution: Trade and policy implications in a two‐country model	5
Debt, Dictatorship, and Decline: The Enduring Economic Impact of the Philippines' 1980s Crisis	5
Issue Information	4
Unveiling the Causes of Low Women's Political Participation: Novel Perspectives From China	4
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Immigration and the economic performance of countries	4
Female Labor Supply in Latin America and the Business Cycle: Instability and Asymmetry	4
Nutrition for all? Input subsidies and equitable diets	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Trade liberalization, domestic reforms, and income inequality: Evidence from Taiwan	4
Green technological progress, agricultural modernization, and wage inequality: Lessons from China	4
Income‐linked pathways towards sustainable development goals: Analyzing the interplay of green energy, financial inclusion, and militarization in shaping aggregated economic sustainability	4
Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re‐examination of the evidence	4
The Geopolitics of Foreign Aid	4
The effect of negative human recognition on farmland access and well‐being: Evidence from women farmers in Malawi	4
Does access to financial services improve nutritional intake among rural residents? Assessing potential action mechanism pathways	4
Global Value Chain Participation and Sustainable Development in Belt and Road Initiative Economies: A Blessing or a Curse?	4
Military spending and sustainable development	4
Macroeconomic volatility and anti‐refugee violence in developing countries: Evidence from commodity price shocks	4
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	4
Growth, Crises, and COVID‐19: Tracking Poverty Changes in Turkey From 2003 to 2021	4
Impact of information and communication technologies on fertilizer and pesticide use efficiency of China's grain production	4