OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Development 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	46
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Human Capital and Export Performance in East Asia: Focusing on Gender Inequality	34
Local economic development in Thailand	30
Driving Triple‐Bottom‐Line Value: Networks and Impacts in South Africa's Emerging Game Meat Industry	28
Heterogeneous effects of violence on student achievement: Evidence from Colombia	25
An evaluation of Egyptian microfinance laws and regulations preventing overindebtedness of women	23
Globalization and the “zero hunger” goal in Africa: Starving in an open world?	21
The role of climate finance beyond renewables: Behavioural insights	21
China's strategy of free trade area and economic regionalism	18
The effect of environmental centralisation on productivity: Evidence from an administrative reform in China	17
Choosing between energy and ecologies of health: Understanding developmentalism, state formation and local life worlds	17
Labour migration and food security in rural Mozambique: Do agricultural investment, asset building and local employment matter?	17
Social and emotional well‐being and economic insecurity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: A multidimensional approach	16
The dynamics of overlapping borrowing in the microcredit sector of Bangladesh	16
The operational tensions in using compensation to resolve wartime mass property claims	16
Are natural resources also bad for infrastructure quality?	15
Higher education and employability in Tanzania: Students' account	15
Funding schemes for infrastructure investment and poverty alleviation in Africa: Evidence from Guinea‐Bissau	15
Multinational enterprises' sustainability practices and focus on developing countries: Contributions and unexpected results of SDG implementation	15
China–Africa skills transfer through overseas economic and trade cooperation zones	14
Varieties of development: On the plurality of political economies and how to harness it	14
Negotiating marginality: Towards an understanding of diverse development pathways of ethnic minorities in Vietnam	14
Social and Financial Barriers to Safe (Drinking) Water and Sanitation: The Role of Development Agents in Ethiopia	14

Globalization‐induced social changes and their environmental impacts: Assessing the role of information and communication technology in sub‐Saharan Africa	14
Trends, patterns and socioeconomic determinants of child and adolescent labour in India: Empirical analysis using national sample survey data	14
Proliferation of Corruption in Africa: The Ineluctable Role of Inequality of Opportunity	14
Community Banking and Microfinance in the Global South	13
China's Science Museum Gift to Ethiopia: Rethinking Shared Agency in Industrialization‐Driven Development Aid	12
Global value chains participation and environmental pollution in developing countries: Does digitalization matter?	11
Impact of Sanctions Policy Shifts: A Case Study of the United States and Cuba, 1994–2020	11
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Expansion, cohesion and diversity: The network advantages of microfinance groups in Indian villages	11
Issue Information	11
Fiscal stimulus packages to COVID‐19: The role of informality	11
Estimating the Evolving Trade Effect of Foreign Aid in the Context of Aid Competition: Evidence From European Countries	11
Climbing the Coffee Global Value Chain—Three Decades of Trade and Upgrading	11
City connectivity via global intra‐firm linkages: An analysis of Indian cities	10
The impact of Chinese aid on political trust	10
Nutrition, multidimensional poverty and income: The case of Nepal	10
Issue Information	10
Mapping emerging trends and South–South cooperation in regional knowledge networks: A bibliometric analysis of avian influenza research in Southeast Asia	10
The impact of financial inclusion initiatives: Evidence from meta‐analysis	10
Is the value added tax reform a source of food insecurity and food poverty? The Burkina Faso case	9
Five decades of neoliberal developmentalism in “Least Developed Countries”: A decolonial critique	9
Global challenges and developing economies: Strategies for inclusive and sustainable growth	9
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Bank lending behaviour and systemic banking crisis in Africa: The role of regulatory framework	9
The Poverty Reduction Capacity of Nature‐Based Tourism in Lao PDR—A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Study	9
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Issue Information	9
Chinese Development Finance and African Policy Space: Towards Productive Incoherence?	9
Institutions and venture capital market development in sub‐Saharan Africa	8
Bypassing Bribes: Mobile Money and Corruption in Africa	8
Does economic freedom foster education in Sub‐Saharan Africa?	8
Local‐level exposure to conflicts and child health: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire	8
Attention Versus Handshakes: Pathways of Influence in China's Foreign Aid and Loans	8
Rethinking social assistance amid the COVID‐19 pandemic: Guaranteeing the right to income security in Ecuador	8
No Time to Waste: A Synthesis of Evidence on Time Reallocation Following Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions	8
Limits of energy access research on unreliability	8
Social sustainability, poverty and income: An empirical exploration	8
Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust	8
Climbing the economic ladder: The role of microfinance institutions in promoting entrepreneurship in Pakistan	7
Building resilience in the chars of Bangladesh: An impact assessment	7
The Diversity of the Circular Economy in the City of Tashkent, Uzbekistan	7
The potential for scaling up container‐based sanitation in informal settlements in Kenya	7
Social capital effects on resilience to food insecurity: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan	7
Conflict's impacts on food systems: Mapping available evidence of interactions	7
Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two‐wheel tractor‐based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe	7
The Drug War and Regional Social Capital in Mexico	7
Technological intensity and local socio‐economic development	7
Digital divides among microenterprises: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa	7
The Political Economy of Mining Rent Sharing: Is Government Effectiveness Really Costly?	7
Does global value chain participation boost high technology exports?	7

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Recessions and recoveries in Central African countries: Lessons from the past	7
Exploring why religious faith may distinguish faith‐based from non‐faith‐based NGOs: Theoretical insights from Cambodia	7
Chinese aid and crime: Evidence from Africa	7
Does Credit From Various Sources Improve MSME Performance? An Empirical Analysis for a Large Transitioning Developing Economy of India	7
Between Tradition and Transformation: Community Voices on the Dipo Womanhood Rites in Yilo‐Krobo, Ghana	7
Titling and the value of land in Tanzania	6
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Spillovers from gender equality onto economic equality: Evidence from 162 nations	6
Nazareno Strampelli and the first Green Revolution	6
An empirical study on underemployment in China: Determinants and effects on wages	6
A Typology of Malian Farming Households	6
Status and Determinants of Female‐Headed Households' Food Security: The Case of Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia	6
What explains collective action: The impact of social capital, incentive structures and economic benefits	6
A multidimensional approach to measuring vulnerability to poverty among refugee populations	5
Farmers' awareness of digital credit: Does financial literacy matter?	5
Aid to Educate? The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local School Enrolment in Nigeria	5
Household Livelihood Strategies and Outcomes in Conflict‐Affected Areas of Northeastern Ethiopia	5
Decoupling of functional and household income distribution by economic growth: new findings from analysing the three‐way growth‐equity nexus	5
Issue Information	5
Economic Drivers of China's Declining Fertility: The Role of Digital Inclusive Finance and Household Debt	5
Poverty, wealth inequality and financial inclusion among castes in Hindu and Muslim communities in Uttar Pradesh, India	5
Translocal Livelihoods, Socio‐Economic Differentiation and Lower Level Urbanisation in Uganda	5
Industrial Robots and Environmental Pollution: Evidence From Chinese Cities	5
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Derivatives use and the risk‐taking behaviour of African banks	5
Impact of Self Help Group membership on the adoption of child nutritional practices: Evidence from JEEViKA's health and nutrition strategy programme in Bihar, India	5
Challenges of cooperation for development: A case‐study analysis of Cuban health solidarity programmes in Nigeria	5
Issue Information	5
Locating Africa in China's community of shared future for mankind: A relational approach	5
Effects of Theft on Investment Decisions of Agricultural Enterprises in Cameroon	5
Pandemic‐induced income shocks and dietary diversity in India	5
North–South development competition and the quality and sustainability of Chinese and Japanese trans‐national infrastructure initiatives	5
Chinese and Indian economic relations and development assistance to Zimbabwe: Rationale, controversies and significance	5
Cultivation and competition in Colombia: Disentangling the effects of coca price changes on violence	5
Transplanting China's ecological civilization to the Belt and Road Initiative: What will it take?	5
Convergence analysis of artificial intelligence research capacity: Are the less developed catching up with the developed ones?	4
How can we create a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace in society without the voice of disability? Lessons from Ghana	4
Chinese aid and corruption in African local governments	4
The role of financial constraints in firm transition—Evidence from Indian manufacturing	4
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Issue Information	4
Economic transformation in Africa: What is the role of Chinese firms?	4
Working with legal small‐scale miners: Implications for development	4
Heterogeneity and Drivers of Chinese Manufacturing FDI in Africa: Evidence From Angola and Ethiopia	4
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Governing the artisanal gold mining sector in the Mano River Union: A comparative study of Liberia and Sierra Leone	4
Impacts of migration on time allocation of those who remain at home in rural Nepal	4
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Trade‐offs between labour migration and agricultural productivity: Evidence from smallholder wheat systems in Nepal	4
Impact of microfinance on income generation: Evidence from a rural community‐driven development programme in Myanmar	4
Labour force participation of immigrant women in Canada: With a special focus on female immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa	4
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Poverty at a distance: Supply and demand side factors and the formation of civil society organizations in Iraq	4
Conceptualising inclusive development by identifying universality, plurality, sociality, and relationality	4
The Provision of Information on Mobile Banking by Local Ambassadors: Experimental Evidence From Peru	4
Laughing from the Outside‐In: Considering ‘What's Up Africa’ as an(other) humorous humanitarian digilantism	4
The importance of human development in combating energy poverty	4
Inequality and the middle‐income trap	4
A Systematic Review of the Role of Networks in Information Dissemination and Resource Pooling Among Farmers in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Impact on Farm Improvements, Empowerment and Behaviour Change	4
Impact of climate change training intervention in savings groups	4
From poppy to pill: A comprehensive strategy to combat illicit synthetic drug production in Southeast Asia	4
Shifting paradigm of urban sustainability: Major sustainable city development trends in the East Asian context	4
Digital technology adoption among smallholder farmers in Vietnam: Implications for digital agricultural extension strategies	4
Gender Gaps in Wages and Fringe Benefits: Insights From a Ghanaian Perspective	4
Harsh Winter Shocks and Distress Sales: Consumption and Asset Smoothing Among Livestock Farmers in Kyrgyzstan	4
Gender Differences in Multidimensional Poverty in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	4
Subjective expectations and schooling choices in Latin America and the Caribbean	4