OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Development Research is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Intersecting Vulnerabilities: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Psycho-emotional Lives of Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	57
COVID-19 and Global Poverty: Are LDCs Being Left Behind?	57
The Economic Costs of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a Simulation Exercise for Ghana	50
How Does Firm ESG Performance Impact Financial Constraints? An Experimental Exploration of the COVID-19 Pandemic	47
Could Covid-19 Worsen Food Insecurity in Burkina Faso?	43
The emergence of Urban Community Resilience Initiatives During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Exploratory Study	41
COVID-19 in LMICs: The Need to Place Stigma Front and Centre to Its Response	35
Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations	33
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Financial Markets: Evidence from Qualitative Research for Developed and Developing Economies	31
The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia	27
Unprecedented but not Unpredictable: Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Commodity-Dependent Countries	26
Destinations Matter: Social Policy and Migrant Workers in the Times of Covid	26
Digital Technologies and Product Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Empirical Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms	26
Promoting Meaningful and Equitable Relationships? Exploring the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Funding Criteria from the Perspectives of African Partners	25
Emerging Medium-Scale Tenant Farming, Gig Economies, and the COVID-19 Disruption: The Case of Commercial Vegetable Clusters in Ethiopia	24
How COVID-19 Pandemic Worsens the Economic Situation of Women in South Africa	23
Factors Influencing Smallholder Rice Farmers’ Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability in the Mekong Delta Region of Vietnam	23
Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya	23
Malawi at the Crossroads: Does the Fear of Contracting COVID-19 Affect the Propensity to Vote?	22
The Impact of Tourism Development on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa	22
Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries	21
Determinants of Small-Scale Farmers’ Intention to Use Smartphones for Generating Agricultural Knowledge in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural India	20
Sustainable Development and SDG-7 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Balancing Energy Access, Economic Growth, and Carbon Emissions	20
The Role of ICT for Sustainable Development: A Cross-Country Analysis	18
Three Dimensions of Green Industrial Policy in the Context of Climate Change and Sustainable Development	18

Can Banks Sustain the Growth in Renewable Energy Supply? An International Evidence	17
Farming, Gender and Aspirations Across Young People’s Life Course: Attempting to Keep Things Open While Becoming a Farmer	17
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy, and Industrial Upgrading: Automotive Sectors in Malaysia, Thailand, and China in Comparison with Korea	16
Bringing Production Back into Development: An introduction	16
Special Economic Zones and Sourcing Linkages with the Local Economy: Reality or Pipedream?	15
Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe	14
Roads to Change: Livelihoods, Land Disputes, and Anticipation of Future Developments in Rural Kenya	14
Human Capital Theory and the Defectology of Aspirations in Policy Research on Rural Youth	14
Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations: Development, Middle Classes and Everyday Food Practices in Vietnam	14
Aspiration Formation and Ecological Shocks in Rural Kenya	13
Not All About Farming: Understanding Aspirations Can Challenge Assumptions About Rural Development	13
The Hybridity of Inclusive Innovation Narratives Between Theory and Practice: A Framing Analysis	13
Gender Gaps in Market Participation Among Individual and Joint Decision-Making Farm Households: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia	13
Financial Inclusion and Household Welfare: An Entropy-Based Consumption Diversification Approach	13
Megaprojects—mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya	12
Who Called Team Europe? The European Union’s Development Policy Response During the First Wave of COVID-19	12
COVID-19 Lockdown and Exposure of Households to Food Insecurity in Uganda: Insights from a National High Frequency Phone Survey	12
Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion: Introduction to the Special Issue	12
Do Tar Roads Bring Tourism? Growth Corridor Policy and Tourism Development in the Zambezi region, Namibia	11
Technical Efficiency of Teff Production Among Smallholder Farmers: Beta Regression Approach	11
Women’s Changing Opportunities and Aspirations Amid Male Outmigration: Insights from Makueni County, Kenya	10
Understanding the Aspirations of Farming Communities in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature	10
The Impact of China–Africa Trade on the Productivity of African Firms: Evidence from Ghana	10
Municípios in the Time of Covid-19 in Brazil: Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities, Transmission Factors and Public Policies	10
‘People Consider Us Devils’: Exploring Patterns of Exclusion Facing Adolescents with Disabilities in Ethiopia	10
The Development of Green Bond in Developing Countries: Insights from Southeast Asia Market Participants	10
Education, Aspiration and aage badhna: The Role of Schooling in Facilitating ‘Forward Movement’ in Rural Chhattisgarh, India	10
Work and Rural Livelihoods: The Micro Dynamics of Africa’s ‘Youth Employment Crisis’	10
(Un)packing Baggage: A Reflection on the ‘Battle Over Ideas’ and Labour Hierarchies in Collaborative North–South Research	10
Diaspora and Economic Development: A Systemic View	9
The Development Impacts of COVID-19 at Home and Abroad: Politics and Implications of Government Action	9
A Space for Unlearning? A Relational Perspective on North–South Development Research	9
The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive	9
Intersectionality as a Framework for Understanding Adolescent Vulnerabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries: Expanding Our Commitment to Leave No One Behind	9
Disrupting habits of North–South research collaboration: Learning in co-authoring	9
Can Empowerment be Enhanced by Putting Cash in the Hands of Poor Women? Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program	9
Potential for Upgrading in Financialised Agri-food Chains: The Case of Ghanaian Cocoa	9
A New Normal or Business-as-Usual? Lessons for COVID-19 from Financial Crises in East and Southeast Asia	9
COVID-19 and the Performance of Exporting Companies in Benin	9
“We Have Many Options, But They are All Bad Options!”: Aspirations Among Internal Migrant Youths in Shanghai, China	9
From Working in the Fields to Taking Control. Towards a Typology of Women's Decision-Making in Wheat in India	9
Unpacking The Nexus Between Broiler Contract Farming and Its Impact in Ghana	9
Strengthening the Resilience of Vulnerable Communities: Results from a Quasi-experimental Impact Evaluation in Coastal Bangladesh	8
Financing for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond	8
The Luxury of Lockdown	8
An Ethnographic Examination of People’s Reactions to State-Led COVID-19 Measures in Sierra Leone	8
What’s the Story on Agriculture? Using Narratives to Understand Farming Households’ Aspirations in Meru, Kenya	8
Knowledge Matters: The Potential Contribution of the Coproduction of Research	8
Growth and Fiscal Effects of Insecurity on the Nigerian Economy	8
Inclusive, Cross-Sectoral and Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Resilience Planning and Decision-Making in a Devolved Context	8

Is Economic Empowerment a Protective Factor Against Intimate Partner Violence? Evidence from Turkey	7
Modeling a Pandemic (COVID-19) Management Strategy for Urban Slums Using Social Geometry Framework	7
Hierarchical Modelling of COVID-19 Death Risk in India in the Early Phase of the Pandemic	7
Financing Constraints and Firm’s Productivity Under the COVID-19 Epidemic Shock: Evidence of A-Shared Chinese Companies	7
‘If She’s Pregnant, then that Means that Her Dreams Fade Away’: Exploring Experiences of Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood in Rwanda	7
The Price of Aspirations: Education Migrants’ Pursuit of Higher Education in Hubei Province, China	7
Rural Aspirations: Reflections for Development Planning, Design and Localized Effects	7
Agroforestry, Indigenous Tree Cover and Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study of Mount Elgon in Uganda	7
Can Integrated Social Protection Programmes Affect Social Cohesion? Mixed-Methods Evidence from Malawi	7
Do more Vibrant Rural Areas have Lower Rates of Youth Out-Migration? Evidence from Zambia	7
Rising Income Inequality in OECD Countries: Does Fiscal Policy Sacrifice Economic Growth in Achieving Equity?	7
Development and Participation: Whose Participation? A Critical Analysis of the UNDP’s Participatory Research Methods	7
Price-Setting Power in Global Value Chains: The Cases of Price Stabilisation in the Cocoa Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana	6
Irrigated Agriculture and Welfare: Panel Data Evidence from Southern Ghana	6
Beyond Participation: The Effect of Fertilizer Subsidy on the Adoption of Certified Seeds Among Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana	6
The Role of the Local Innovation System for Inclusive Upgrading in the Global Value Chain: The Case of KenyaGAP in the Kenyan Horticultural Sector	6
“Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London	6
The Impact of Agricultural Input Subsidy on Productivity: The Case of Ghana	6
On the Nexus Between Institutions and Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis for Sub-Saharan African Countries	6
‘I Just Keep Quiet’: Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and Creating Opportunities for Change	6
Friend or Patron? Social Relations Across the National NGO–Donor Divide in Ghana	6
Does the Complexity of GVC Participation Matter for Productivity and Output Growth?	6
Livelihood Vulnerabilities Among Women in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana	6
The European Union as an International Donor: Perceptions from Latin America and the Caribbean	6
‘I Wish Someone Would Ask Me Questions’: The Unheard Voices of Adolescents with Disabilities in Jordan	6
Conceptualising Digital Platforms in Developing Countries as Socio-Technical Transitions: A Multi-level Perspective Analysis of EasyTaxi in Colombia	6
The Role of Automatic Stabilizers and Emergency Tax–Benefit Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Ecuador	6