World Development

Papers
(The H4-Index of World Development is 44. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks216
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Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia188
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector151
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal120
Voluntary audits: Experimental evidence on a new approach to monitoring front-line bureaucrats104
Income inequality in Guyana: Class or ethnicity? New evidence from survey data94
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo90
Indian dairy cooperative development: A combination of scaling up and scaling out producing a center-periphery structure88
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America84
Trust in peacebuilding organizations: A survey experiment in Haiti80
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR79
Risk and time preferences for participating in forest landscape restoration: The case of coffee farmers in Uganda71
Inherent Dilemma: Balancing conservation efficiency and social equity in natural resource governance70
Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers70
Who Deserves Aid? Perceptions of Fairness in Contexts of Forced Displacement69
Linking innovations adoption with farm sustainability: Empirical evidence from rainwater harvesting and fertilizer micro-dosing in Tanzania69
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?68
Editorial Board67
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants65
Winds of fire and smoke: Air pollution and health in the Brazilian Amazon64
Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean64
Why do aspirations matter for empowerment?: Discrepancies between the A-WEAI domains and aspirations of ethnic minority women in Vietnam62
Mobile phone adoption, deforestation, and agricultural land use in Uganda60
Editorial Board59
Blessed are the peacemakers: The future burden of intrastate conflict on poverty59
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan59
Ideology and Rifles: The Agrarian Origins of Civil Conflict in Colombia57
Troubling the idealised pageantry of extractive conflicts: Comparative insights on authority and claim-making from Papua New Guinea, Mongolia and El Salvador53
A place at the table is not enough: Accountability for Indigenous Peoples and local communities in multi-stakeholder platforms52
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform52
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Beyond a generalized deagrarianization: Livelihood heterogeneity and its determinants in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico49
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures49
Examining norms and social expectations surrounding exclusive breastfeeding: Evidence from Mali48
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon48
When clients vote for brokers: How elections improve public goods provision in urban slums48
Can hypothetical measures of time preference predict actual and incentivised behaviour? Evidence from Senegal.48
Mixed records, complexity, and ethnic voting in African elections47
Governing the diverse forest: Polycentric climate governance in the Amazon47
Editorial Board46
Revisiting the Income Inequality-Crime Puzzle46
Chinese sisal estates and smallholder land uses and livelihoods, Kilosa, Central Tanzania44
Pay for performance for prenatal care and newborn health: Evidence from a developing country44
Donors want it faster, humanitarian organizations get it cheaper44
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