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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	53
Rethinking Growth‐Environment Dynamics: A Review of Environmental Policy in Emerging Economies	48
The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion	38
Social Capital, Social Protection, and Multi‐Dimensional Poverty: Evidence From Chinese Migrant Workers' Experience	36
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	36
Empowering women through microcredit in Djibouti	34
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	31
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	28
Research collaboration in development economics	27
Why do some African firms export? The role of regional economic communities?	25
Does Land Resource Misallocation Reduce Energy Efficiency? Empirical Evidence From 243 Prefecture Level Cities in China	24
Teaching in the right context: Textbook supply program, language, and learning	24
Non‐Farm Entrepreneurship and Household Economic Precarity in Rural Ghana	22
Correction to “Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan”	22
The effect of capital structure on the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions: A meta‐analysis	22
Path Dependence: The “Curse” of Natural Resources on Urban Entrepreneurship	21
Climate threat and price stability: A case study of Belize	20
Does Fiscal Efficiency Affect Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence Based on Spatial Panel Data Models	19
Does Monetary Policy Affect Urban Food Inflation? Some Evidence From India	19
COVID ‐19 and the Unequal Distribution of Poverty Risks: Evidence From Urban India	18
Issue Information	17
Inequality in Africa: Does injustice matter?	17
“Rising Women”: Evidence From China's Agricultural Mechanization	16
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	15

Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	14
Crime, elections, and political competition	14
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	14
The impact of financial inclusion on rural–urban households welfare inequality in Ghana: A decomposition analysis	14
From cultivation to culture: Wheat farming and sex selection in China	14
Aspirations and Investments in Agricultural Risk Mitigation Strategies	13
Economic transition, dualism and informality inIndia: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions	13
Oil discovery, boom‐bust cycle and manufacturing slowdown: Evidence from a large industry level dataset	13
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	13
The Impact of Income Inequality on Rural Household's Adoption of Climate‐Smart Agriculture Practices: Evidence From Yellow River Basin Region, China	12
Does Mobile Payment Raise the Poverty‐Alleviation Resilience of Chinese Households?	12
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Fruitless or Fruitful? Examining Ghana's Agricultural Inputs Subsidy and Household Welfare	11
Beyond Competitiveness: Is Productivity Everything?	11
Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	10
Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in India	10
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China	10
Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective	10
Corruption, Land, and Housing: The Cleaning and Chilling Effects of China's Anti‐Corruption Campaign	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	9
One‐child policy and marriage market in China	9
Introduction to the Special Issue, Inequality in the 21st Century in the Developing World	9
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	9
Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?	9
The Impact of Digital Technology Use on Farmers' Quality of Life: Evidence From Rural China	9
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	9
Equal opportunity and poverty reduction: How should aid be allocated?	9
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	9
Democracy and Aid‐Led Development: Analysis With Dispersion Measure of Democracy and Korea's Knowledge Sharing Project Outcome	9
Do chairmen with China's Great Famine experience in early‐life affect firm tax avoidance activities?	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
A Novel Decomposition Framework for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Global Supply Chain Perspective	8
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	8
Parental aspirations and child private‐school enrollment: Evidence from India	8
Household income mobility in India, 1993–2011	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
“Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice	8
Trade liberalization, wilful credit defaults and bank bribery in a credit‐constrained economy	8
Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms	8
(En‐)‘lightening’ children: Assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels	8
Can world heritage sites boost sales in non‐tourism firms? The role of visibility	8
Informality, foreign ownership and bribery in developing countries	8
The Bias of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises’ Export: Profit Margin or Productivity?	8
Unveiling complexities: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in China	7
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	7
From Tech to Green: The Potential of Company Digitalization in Mitigating Urban Air Pollution	7
The Impact of Integrated Straw Utilization on Low‐Carbon Agricultural Development: Evidence From China	7
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	7
The impact of a disaster recovery policy on health status of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake victims: Evidence from a natural experiment	7

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