OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Development Economics 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital inclusive finance and urban innovation: Evidence from China	61
Natural resources, technological progress, and economic modernization	40
Does women’s participation in agricultural technology adoption decisions affect the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture? Insights from Indo‐Gangetic Plains of India	30
Casting a shadow: Productivity of formal firms and informality	29
Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities	27
Do personal remittances influence economic growth in South Asia? A panel analysis	23
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	22
The effect of export composition on energy demand: A fresh evidence in the context of economic complexity	18
Has the information and communication technology sector become the engine of China’s economic growth?	17
Disparities in regional productivity, capital accumulation, and efficiency across Indonesia: A club convergence approach	17
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	16
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China^†	15
Adoption of agricultural technologies among rice farmers in Benin	14
Financial inclusion and education: An empirical study of financial inclusion in the face of the pandemic emergency due to Covid‐19 in Latin America and the Caribbean	14
Understanding poverty dynamics and vulnerability in Tanzania: 2012–2018	14
Income inequality and economic growth: A re‐examination of theory and evidence	12
Impact of remittances on household health care expenditure: Evidence from the Nepal Living Standards Survey	12
Aggregate and heterogeneous sectoral growth effects of foreign direct investment in Egypt	12
Impact of remittances on male and female labor force participation patterns in Africa: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Ghana	12
Poverty in India in the face of Covid‐19: Diagnosis and prospects*	11
On the financial literacy, indebtedness, and wealth of Colombian households	11
Evaluating universal primary education in Uganda: School fee abolition and educational outcomes	11
Government consumption, government debt and economic growth	11
The effects of international remittances on expenditure patterns of the left‐behind households in Sub‐Saharan Africa	11
Corruption and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean	10

Smallholder farmers’ perception of climate change and drivers of adaptation in agriculture: A case study in Guinea	10
Gender gap and access to finance: A cross‐country analysis	10
Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	10
Poverty and vulnerability in Mozambique: An analysis of dynamics and correlates in light of the Covid‐19 crisis using synthetic panels	10
Technology adoption and the middle‐income trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia	9
Impacts of management training on workers: Evidence from Central America and the Caribbean region	9
Productivity determinants in the construction sector in emerging country: New evidence from Ecuadorian firms	9
What explains trade costs? Institutional quality and other determinants	9
Urban segregation and consumption inequality: Does hukou conversion matter in China?	9
How climate change leads to emigration: Conditional and long‐run effects	9
Innovation‐adjusted economic complexity and growth: Do patent flows reveal enhanced economic capabilities?	9
Investigating the well‐being implications of mobile money access and usage from a multidimensional perspective	9
Do interest rate controls work? Evidence from Kenya	8
Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain	8
Profit sharing, industrial upgrading, and global supply chains: Theory and evidence	8
Is the devil in the shadow? The effect of institutional quality on income	8
Is the demographic dividend diminishing in China? Evidence from population aging and economic growth during 1990–2015	8
Are developing countries accumulating sufficient total factor productivity to sustain their economic growth and job creation? Empirical evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region	8
The impacts of farmland expropriation on Vietnam’s rural households	8
Reducing farmers' poverty vulnerability in China: The role of digital financial inclusion	7
Policy impact assessment in developing countries using Social Accounting Matrices: The Kenya SAM 2014	7
Political instability and youths unemployment in sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	7
Aid for Trade, export product diversification, and foreign direct investment	7
Does manager education play a role in the productivity of informal firms in developing economies? Evidence from firm‐level surveys	7
Constructing synthetic panels for the purpose of studying poverty dynamics: A primer	7
Internet use and agricultural productivity in rural Vietnam	7
Smartphone use, off‐farm employment, and women's decision‐making power: Evidence from rural China	7
Distortions to agricultural incentives: Evidence from Nigerian value chains	7
Market access and regional dispersion of human capital accumulation in Turkey	7
Does agricultural trade liberalization increase obesity in developing countries?	7
Son‐biased fertility stopping, birth spacing, and child nutritional status in Pakistan	6
The role of resource reallocation in promoting total factor productivity growth: Insights from China’s agricultural sector	6
Within‐family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India	6
Growing up in the Iran–Iraq war and preferences for strong defense	6
Can microcredit reduce vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from rural Vietnam	6
Heterogeneity in entrepreneurship in developing countries: Risk, credit, and migration and the entrepreneurial propensity of youth and women	6
Foreign direct investment, informality and technology transfer	6
Severity of the COVID‐19 pandemic in India	6
Risk preference and child labor: Econometric evidence	6
The economic cost of conflict: Evidence from South Sudan	6
Redistribution and efficiency: An empirical analysis of the relevant trade‐offs of welfare state fiscal policies	6
Inflation targeting in low‐income countries: Does IT work?	6
The distributional effects of government spending shocks in developing economies	6
Is maternal employment detrimental to children’s nutritional status? Evidence from Bangladesh	6
Working conditions and factory survival: Evidence from better factories Cambodia	6
Gender inequality, corruption, and economic development	6
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	5
Analyzing vulnerability to poverty and assessing the role of universal public works and food security programs to reduce it: Evidence from an eastern Indian state	5
Wagner’s Law and Fiscal Illusion: An analysis of state government finances in Brazil	5

Earnings gap between men and women in the informal labor market in Cameroon	5
Economic growth takeoffs and the extensive and intensive margins of trade	5
Remittances and rural credit markets: Evidence from Senegal	5
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	5
Is specialization a strategy to improve farm efficiency in northwest China?	5
Environmental regulation and foreign direct investment attractiveness: Evidence from China provinces	5
The gender wage gap among China’s rural–urban migrants	5
What effect does development aid have on productivity in recipient countries?	5
Farmer organizations and maize productivity in rural Burkina Faso: The effects of the diversion strategy on cotton input loans	5
Internal migration and youth entrepreneurship in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	5
“Opt out” or kept out? The effect of stigma, structure, selection, and sector on the labor force participation of married women in India	5
The impact of conflict on the exchange rate of developing economies	5
Business operations, contestability, bureaucratic holdup, and bribe solicitations	5
Gendered effects of sanctions on manufacturing employment: Evidence from Iran	5
Economic openness, government efficiency, and urbanization	5
Hand pollination, mass spraying, and hybrid seedlings: Do these technologies affect the welfare of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana?	4
Microfinance and poverty reduction: Evidence from Djibouti	4
Overcoming digital poverty traps in rural Asia	4
Cash transfers and the supply of labor by poor households: Evidence from the livelihood empowerment against poverty program in Ghana	4
An empirical analysis of Colombia's trade liberalization process and its effect on the equilibrium of its structural trade deficit	4
Understanding poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: Implications for the likely impact of COVID‐19	4
Age at marriage, social norms, and female education in Nepal	4
Military spending and sustainable development	4
Agricultural productivity‐environmental sustainability nexus through the lens of digitalization and energy intensity in BRICS countries	4
The persistence of inequality across Indian states: A time series approach	4
Pollution permits, green taxes, and the environmental poverty trap	4
Outsmarting your parents: Being a first‐generation learner in developing countries	4
Welfare impact of asymmetric price transmission on rice consumers in Bangladesh	4
Beyond technical skills training: The impact of credit counseling on the entrepreneurial behavior of Ugandan youth	4
Does combining traditional and information and communications technology–based extension methods improve agricultural outcomes? Evidence from field experiments in Mali	4
Drought and social conflict in rural Zimbabwe: Does the burden fall on women and girls?	4
An introduction to rural and agricultural development in the digital age	4
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	4
Social networks and internal migration in China: A spatial autoregressive model	4
Long‐run effects of teachers in developing countries	4
Modern sector development: The role of exports and institutions in developing countries	4
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	4
Contract farming, community effect, and farmer valuation of biofortified crop varieties in China: The case of high‐zinc wheat	4
The impact of rent seeking on social infrastructure and productivity	4
Can proactive fiscal policy achieve the goal of “Beyond Keynesianism”?	4
Measuring inclusive growth experiences: Five criteria for productive employment	4
Climate change and spatial agricultural development in Turkey	4
Race‐based affirmative action for higher education in Brazil: Impact assessment on performance, time, and delay in completion*	4