OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Development Review-Revue Africaine de Developpement 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
Testing the nexus between renewable energy consumption and environmental quality in Nigeria: The role of broad‐based financial development	93
Linear and non‐linear effects of infrastructures on inclusive human development in Africa	61
COVID‐19 and food prices in sub‐Saharan Africa	61
Trade openness, FDI, and income inequality: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa	61
Household food security and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Nigeria	41
Gender disparities in financial inclusion: Insights from Tanzania	40
Impact of international trade, energy consumption and income on environmental degradation in Africa's OPEC member countries	38
The impact of COVID‐19 on African economies: An introduction	37
Online and face‐to‐face learning: Evidence from students’ performance during the Covid‐19 pandemic	34
Drivers of income inequality in Africa: Does institutional quality matter?	34
Social networks, rice value chain participation and market performance of smallholder farmers in Ghana	33
Does financial development reduce the size of the informal economy in sub‐Saharan African countries?	29
The nexus between tourism, financial development, and economic growth: Evidence from African countries	25
Rethinking the impact of GDP on financial development: Evidence from heterogeneous panels	25
Health care expenditure and health outcomes in sub‐Saharan African countries	25
Economic growth dynamics between resource‐rich and resource‐poor countries in sub‐Saharan Africa: The role of politics and institutions	24
Breaking the carbon curse: The role of financial development in facilitating low‐carbon and sustainable development in Algeria	24
The short‐term economywide impacts of COVID‐19 in Africa: Insights from Ethiopia	21
Household cooking fuel choice: Evidence from the Republic of Benin	19
The long‐run relationship between ODA, growth and governance: An application of FMOLS and DOLS approaches	19
Women's empowerment and child health outcomes in Ghana	18
What drive gender gap in financial inclusion? Evidence from Cameroon	17
Towards shared prosperity in sub‐Saharan Africa: How does the effect of economic integration compare to social equity policies?	17
Effects of farm credit access on agricultural commercialization in Ghana: Empirical evidence from the northern Savannah ecological zone	17
The effects of foreign aid, foreign direct investment and domestic investment on economic growth in African countries: Nonlinearities and complementarities	16

Strengthening women's participation in the traditional enterprises of sub‐saharan Africa: The role of corporate social responsibility initiatives in Niger delta, Nigeria	15
The adverse impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on the labor market in Cameroon	15
International migrant remittances and labour force participation in Nigeria	14
The micro determinants of financial inclusion and financial resilience in Africa	14
Investigating the effects of globalization on economic sophistication in selected African countries	14
Access to finance and rural youth entrepreneurship in Benin: Is there a gender gap?	14
Financial inclusion and entrepreneurship willingness of youth: Evidence from Mali	13
What drives income inequality in sub‐Saharan Africa and its sub‐regions? An examination of long‐run and short‐run effects	13
Effects of financial reform on business entry in sub‐Saharan African countries: Do resource dependence and institutional quality matter?	13
Trade facilitation, institutions, and sustainable economic growth: Empirical evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa	13
The impact of technological innovations on financial deepening: Implications for SME financing in Africa	12
Revisiting the nexus between domestic investment, foreign direct investment and external debt in SSA countries: PMG‐ARDL approach	11
Is there a nexus between China outward foreign direct investment and welfare in Côte dʼIvoire? Empirical evidence from the Toda–Yamamoto procedure	11
Effect of environmental policies on exports from sub‐Saharan African countries	11
Can Africa raise export competitiveness through economic complexity? Evidence from (non)‐parametric panel techniques	11
Gender earnings gap among the youth in Malawi	11
Governance, health expenditure and infant mortality in sub‐Saharan Africa	11
Testing the triple deficit hypothesis for sub‐Saharan Africa: Implications for the African Continental Free Trade Area	10
Does infrastructural development foster export upgrading in Africa?	10
Adoption et usage du mobile money au cameroun: Analyse comparative des determinants entre les villes de Douala et de Yaounde	10
The impact of terrorism on agriculture in African countries	10
Africa as headwaiter at the dining table of global value chains: Do institutions matter for her participation?	10
Effects of good governance, sustainable development and aid on quality of life: Evidence from sub‐saharan Africa	9
Does board gender diversity matter in the banking sector? Evidence from Tunisia	9
Technology, poverty and income distribution nexus: The case of fertilizer adoption in Ethiopia	9
Does trade in services improve African participation in global value chains?	9
Do remittances moderate financial development–informality nexus in North Africa?	9
Youth agripreneurship in the horticultural value‐chain: The case of small‐scale mango farmers in Southern Ghana	9
‘Not a good time’: Assessing the economic impact of COVID‐19 in Africa using a macro‐micro simulation approach	9
Spillover effects in public healthcare expenditure in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A spatial panel analysis	8
Oil dependence and access to water and sanitation in African countries: Does the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative matter?	8
Access to savings and household welfare evidence from a household survey in The Gambia	8
Impact of bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment in Africa	8
Fiscal sustainability in Africa: Accelerating the post‐COVID‐19 recovery through improved public finances	8
Potentials of the African Continental Free Trade Area: A combined partial and general equilibrium modeling assessment for Central Africa	8
Household‐level poverty, consumption poverty thresholds, income inequality and quality of lives in sub‐Saharan Africa	8
Sub‐Saharan Africa's debt‐financed growth: How sustainable and inclusive?	8
Effects of health expenditures on infant and child mortality rates: A dynamic panel data analysis of 37 African countries	8
COVID‐19 policy responses, inflation and spillover effects in the West African Economic and Monetary Union	7
Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana	7
Impact of foreign direct investment on the agricultural sector in Nigeria (1981–2017)	7
La diffusion des TIC ameliore‐t‐elle qualitativement les institutions politiques en Afrique?	7
Does government education expenditure affect educational outcomes? New evidence from sub‐Saharan African countries	7
Investigating the factors affecting nonperforming loans in commercial banks: The case of African lower middle‐income countries	7
The impacts of the Covid‐19 pandemic on employment in Cameroon: A general equilibrium analysis	7
Ending youth unemployment in sub‐saharan Africa: Does ICT development have any role?	6
Foreign direct investment and economic growth. Analysis of sectoral foreign direct investment in Tanzania	6
Empirical analysis of urban youth unemployment in Ethiopia	6
COVID‐19 impact on SADC labour markets: Evidence from high‐frequency data and other sources	6
Effets de la COVID‐19 sur la variation du revenu et la sécurité alimentaire des ménages au Togo	6

Fiscal rules, fiscal performance and economic growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Impact of development aid on infant mortality: Micro‐level evidence from Côte d'Ivoire	6
Macroeconomic policies and sustainable employment yields in sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Determinants of labor productivity among SMEs and large‐sized private service firms in Kenya	6
Infrastructures physiques et croissance économique en Afrique de l'Ouest: Le rôle des institutions	6
Situating Africa in the exports patterns of China's Belt and Road Initiative: A network analysis	6
Does ICT diffusion contribute to women's political empowerment in Africa?	6