OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development Southern Africa is 3. 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
Decomposing the impact of human capital on household income inequality in South Africa: Is education a useful measure?	11
Addressing the infrastructure maintenance gap while creating employment and transferring skills: An innovative institutional model	11
Technological innovation and economic growth in Southern Africa: Application of panel dynamic OLS regression	10
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
Towards an integrated framework for sustainable sport tourism development in Central Africa	9
How globalisation impacted on small and informal businesses in Zimbabwe	9
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
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
Role of economic development cooperatives in improving the livelihoods of women in Gauteng, South Africa	7

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
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
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
Tourism for poverty reduction in developing countries: Does it really hold for Tanzania?	5
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
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
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
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
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