OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Development Southern Africa 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of the informal economy in promoting urban sustainability: Evidence from a small Zimbabwean town.	40
Informal entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment: An asset-based perspective on the lived experiences of Swati women	29
The impact of COVID-19 in South Africa during the first year of the crisis: Evidence from the NIDS-CRAM survey	24
Treatment-seeking behaviour among persons with chronic diseases in Ghana: Does national health insurance status matter?	19
Prospects of successful blended pedagogies in South Africa: Planning, governance and infrastructure considerations	17
Examining time use patterns in South Africa, 2000–2010	17
Assessing how load-shedding affects the generation of household food waste in Merafong City Local Municipality, South Africa	16
Botswana’s response to the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19): Lessons for disaster preparedness and management introduction	14
Striking disparities in employment across South Africa: Evidence from a new spatial database	14
Antecedents and enablers of supply chain value creation: An analysis of trust and competences	13
Decomposition analysis of the Gini coefficient of consumer expenditures in Botswana	13
Addressing the infrastructure maintenance gap while creating employment and transferring skills: An innovative institutional model	11
Decomposing the impact of human capital on household income inequality in South Africa: Is education a useful measure?	11
Government transfers, municipal financial performance, and access to improved sanitation in urban South Africa	10
Co-production to reframe state practices in informal settlements: Lessons from Malawi Kamp and Klipheuwel in Cape Town, South Africa	10
‘Hampers’ as an effective strategy to shift towards sustainable diets in South African low-income communities	10
Technological innovation and economic growth in Southern Africa: Application of panel dynamic OLS regression	10
How globalisation impacted on small and informal businesses in Zimbabwe	9
Towards an integrated framework for sustainable sport tourism development in Central Africa	9
Industrialization, decarbonization, and sustainability: The role of development finance and implications for inequality	8
Policy on trial: Participatory vs neo-liberal development	8
From zero-base budgeting to spending review – achievements and challenges	8
Healthcare price changes and expenditures in South Africa: Some implications for economic policy	8
Trends in household formation and living alone in South Africa, 1995–2011	8
Identifying the prospects of decent job creation along the value chain of plastic recycling	7

The role of small-scale apparel manufacturing businesses in the provision of employment and income generation	7
Understanding the nexus between savings and economic growth: A South African context	7
A critical analysis of environmental taxes in Mauritius; A comparative study with South Africa	7
Role of economic development cooperatives in improving the livelihoods of women in Gauteng, South Africa	7
A generational catastrophe: COVID-19 and children’s access to education and food in South Africa	6
Counting the cost of COVID-19 on the global tourism industry	6
Petty corruption experiences and xenophobic violence in South Africa	6
Effectiveness in the small enterprise state grant-funded programme performance – a balanced scorecard application	6
Applying the participatory approach to assess the Water-Energy-Climate Change nexus in South Africa	6
Exploring Humanitarian response strategies in the aftermath of disasters induced by climate change in Zimbabwe	6
Household vulnerability to climate change in South Africa: A multilevel regression model	6
Socio-economic development impacts, attendant challenges and mitigation measures of infrastructure vandalism in Southern Africa	6
Input-output linkages and interdependence between countries in Southern Africa	5
Planning for safe neighbourhoods in Namibia: A comparative case study of two low-income neighbourhoods in the city of Windhoek	5
The impact of population growth on municipal revenue: Implications for South African municipalities	5
Tourism for poverty reduction in developing countries: Does it really hold for Tanzania?	5
Labour market trends in South Africa in 2009–19: A lost decade?	4
Examining the South African labour market during the COVID-19 lockdown period	4
Causes and consequences of critical healthcare skills shortage in the Southern Africa Development Community	4
Analysis of the labour market impacts of the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from Zambia	4
Does the choice of cooking fuel empower Ghanaian women? An empirical analysis	4
Water and welfare: Free basic water revisited	4
Botswana nature-based tourism and COVID-19: transformational implications for the future	4
Community-based natural resource management and social exclusion in Zimbabwe	4
What makes economic globalisation work for sub-Saharan Africa?	4
Health expenditure in Botswana: A luxury or a necessity?	4
Tourists’ perceptions of climate change awareness, impact, and response mechanisms in South African national parks	3
State response to homelessness in South Africa: A multi-agency housing focused intervention approach considered	3
Industrialisation for structural transformation: Economy-wide impacts of agro-processing development in Tanzania	3
From fossil-dependent energy to a clean, non-polluting energy: Wind farms in Maluti-A-Phofung municipality, South Africa	3
Assessing the socio-economic impact of the rural electrification programme on rural communities in Namibia: A case study in Tsumkwe area	3
Trade potential of Rwanda: Policy implications from taxonomic analysis of quality of institutions	3
Determinants and constraints of women’s sole-owned tourism micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Tanzania	3
The ambivalent link between globalisation and socio-economic rights in post-apartheid South Africa: Making a case for the right to adequate houses	3
Estimating the impact of large-scale mining on local communities in sub-Saharan Africa	3
An analysis of the coping strategies of small-scale female entrepreneurs in Harare, Zimbabwe	3
Price discrimination in merger review in South Africa: Implications of recent case precedent	3
Correction	3
Unintended consequences of climate change adaptation: African case studies and typologies on pitfalls and windfalls	3
On crossroads between the right to shelter and looming chances of displacement: Charting towards a resilient and sustainable framework for rural dwellers in flood-prone areas	3
Success indicators among black owned informal Small Micro and Medium Enterprises’ (SMMEs) in South Africa	3
Investigating volunteer activities in South Africa	3
The ambiguous conceptualisation of gender mainstreaming in the Southern African Development Community	3
Collaborative actions of MICE stakeholders toward sector recovery and resilience	3
Promise or precarity? South African attitudes towards the automation revolution	3
Exploring unemployment differentials between former and non-former homeland areas in South Africa: A decomposition approach	3
Employment uncertainty in the era of COVID-19: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM and the QLFS	2
COVID-19 and sexual reproductive health service utilisation among women of reproductive age in Zambia	2
Advancing a transformative human development approach to climate resilience through local innovation in South Africa	2
Patterns and trends in household food security in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa	2

Regulatory sandbox for FinTech regulation: Do the conditions for effective adoption exist in South Africa?	2
The (ir)relevance of hunting tourism to rural communities: A hunter perspective	2
The development of a spending review methodology in a developing country context	2
Waste pickers and the law: Contradictory and fragmented regulation in three metropolitan municipalities	2
Distributional impacts of taxing water pollution in the Olifants river basin of South Africa	2
Revisiting the COVID-19 vulnerability index in South Africa	2
The evolution of inequality in Mozambique 1996/97–2019/20	2
Estimating the economic multipliers for wildlife-based tourism in Zambia	2
Residents’ trust in government, tourism impacts, and quality of life: Testing a structural model	2
Are population movement restrictions containing the COVID-19 cases in Sub-Saharan Africa?	2
Sound and cohesively implemented rural development strategies: A missing link in Africa’s fight against poverty?	2
Analysis of depressive symptoms between formal and informal workers in South Africa during COVID-19 crisis	2
Sustainable urban tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Risk and resilience	2
‘It’s a disaster, nobody is coming’: International travel bans’ effect on Cape Town's informal traders	2
Family structure and household well-being: Evidence from South Africa	2
Community perceptions on the impacts of Solid Waste Management on Human Health and the Environment in Sub-Saharan African Cities: A study of Diepsloot, Johannesburg, South Africa	2
Wage subsidies and COVID-19: The distribution and dynamics of South Africa’s TERS policy	2
Assessing the variability of crypto collateral assets in secured lending on the blockchain	2
Has competition law enforcement been effective in South Africa?	2
Decent Rural Employment in a specialised and a diversified production system in Tanzania	2
Crisis-induced financial anxiety, social support, socio-psychological wellbeing, and commitment to work in the tourism sector	2
Policy uncertainty, mergers, and acquisitions in the South African business environment	1
Inclusion of Namibian rural communities in green energy access and use: Requirements elicitation or community-based-co-design?	1
COVID-19 disruptions and education in South Africa: Two years of evidence	1
The impacts of waste dumping in Lake Malawi	1
Linking microeconomic characteristics, entrepreneurship and community prosperity/poverty of South African towns	1
Voting and protest tendencies associated with changes in service delivery	1
Exploring production centred redistribution to addressing rising inequality	1
Household food security in Maputo: the role of Gendered Access to education and employment	1
Working in poverty: Informal employment of household gardeners in Eastern Cape towns, South Africa	1
Gender analysis of labour force outcomes: Evidence from Cameroon	1
Supermarket resilience in Zimbabwe’s volatile macroeconomic environment	1
Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania	1
Effectiveness of public health spending in Sub-Saharan Africa: The moderating role of health system efficiency	1
Analysing the contribution of urban agriculture towards urban household food security in informal settlement areas	1
Challenges in the ocean economy of South Africa	1
Microlevel analysis of how itinerant immigrant entrepreneurs underwrite local economic development in an African city	1
The gendered effects of the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM waves 1–5	1
Early childhood care and education access in South Africa during COVID-19: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM	1
Applying spending review theory to developing countries: The case of South Africa	1
Evaluating the demand, supply and impact of early childhood development programmes in South Africa	1
Innovative community ecotourism coping and recovery strategies to COVID-19 pandemic shocks: The case of Mahenye	1
Correction	1
Motivations and unique challenges of successful foreign-owned small and medium enterprises in South Africa	1
Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: The case of Eswatini	1
Community-based peer mentorship improves academic performance: Evidence from Makhanda, South Africa	1
Marginal communities and livelihoods: San communities’ failed transition to a modern economy in Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe	1
How food insecure are residents in Malawi’s major cities?	1
Measuring human capital in South Africa using a socioeconomic status human capital index approach	1
Economic impact of government intervention in response to covid-19 in selected sub-Saharan African countries	1
Assessing the relationship between digital divide and citizens’ political participation in Africa	1
Climate and competing priorities in South Africa: an analysis of the population’s attitudes and perceptions toward environmental issues	1
From recovery to resilience building in tourism	1
Characterisation, definition, and measurement issues of the middle class in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Lesotho migrant miners’ access to anti-retroviral therapy: Conversion factors during mobility	1
Critical factors for restructuring the education system during the era of the fourth industrial revolution in South Africa	1
Waste management practices amongst small businesses in the townships of Gauteng province in South Africa	1
The influence of certain factors on South African Small and medium-sized enterprises towards export propensity	1
Stimulating and developing sustainable urban local economies: The role of urban agriculture	1
The Care Dependency Grant for children with disabilities in South Africa: Perspectives from implementation officials	1
Generation of change? South African attitudes towards climate change in comparative perspective	1