World Development

Papers
(The H4-Index of World Development is 43. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan437
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam254
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire223
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods160
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations115
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali110
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia93
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon92
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR88
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo84
Editorial Board80
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]75
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement72
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India72
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]72
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America69
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform64
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal64
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia64
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks63
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?61
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico60
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa59
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal58
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China57
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level56
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas55
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants55
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India53
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–201752
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue52
Switching it up: The effect of energy price reforms in Oman52
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption50
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean50
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War48
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs47
Urban social movements and local state capacity47
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali45
Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan45
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal44
Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights44
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect44
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–201843
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