OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Development is 42. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	293
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	198
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	137
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	104
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	101
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	90
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	86
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	84
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	84
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	78
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	74
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	72
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	69
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	68
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	68
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	68
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	66
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	66
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	61
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	61
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	61
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	60
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	58
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	58
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	55

Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	55
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	51
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	51
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	49
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	49
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	49
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	48
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies	48
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	48
What do we know about rural and informal non-farming labour? Evidence from a mixed methods study of artisanal and small-scale mining in Northwest Tanzania	47
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	47
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	46
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	45
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	45
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	44
Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan	43
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	43
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	42
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	42
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	42
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	42