World Development

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	373
Spousal concordance in joint and separate households: Survey evidence from Nepal	262
Editorial Board	254
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	210
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	194
The politics of labour relations in global production networks: Collective action, industrial parks, and local conflict in the Ethiopian apparel sector	188
Editorial Board	139
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	133
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	120
Do conditional cash transfers create resilience against poverty? Long-run evidence from Jamaica	119
Reverse entrepreneurial migration in China and India: The role of the state	100
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	95
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	94
Voluntary audits: Experimental evidence on a new approach to monitoring front-line bureaucrats	88
Income inequality in Guyana: Class or ethnicity? New evidence from survey data	85
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	81
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	80
Indian dairy cooperative development: A combination of scaling up and scaling out producing a center-periphery structure	80
Trust in peacebuilding organizations: A survey experiment in Haiti	79
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	79
Risk and time preferences for participating in forest landscape restoration: The case of coffee farmers in Uganda	75
Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers	71
Inherent Dilemma: Balancing conservation efficiency and social equity in natural resource governance	70
Mobile phone adoption, deforestation, and agricultural land use in Uganda	69
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How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	63
Who Benefits from Free Trade?	62
Who Deserves Aid? Perceptions of Fairness in Contexts of Forced Displacement	61
Linking innovations adoption with farm sustainability: Empirical evidence from rainwater harvesting and fertilizer micro-dosing in Tanzania	61
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?	59
Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi	57
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	56
Editorial Board	56
Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries	55
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	54
Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean	53
Lack of access to clean fuel and piped water and children’s educational outcomes in rural India	53
Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria	53
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	51
Governing the knowledge commons: Hybrid relational–contractual governance in china’s mining industry	51
Winds of fire and smoke: Air pollution and health in the Brazilian Amazon	49
Why do aspirations matter for empowerment?: Discrepancies between the A-WEAI domains and aspirations of ethnic minority women in Vietnam	48
A revisit of farm size and productivity: Empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria	48
Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic	48
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	47
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	47
Beyond Ostrom: Randomized experiment of the impact of individualized tree rights on forest management in Ethiopia	47
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	46
A place at the table is not enough: Accountability for Indigenous Peoples and local communities in multi-stakeholder platforms	46
Allocation of humanitarian aid after a weather disaster	45
The power paradigm in practice: A critical review of developments in the Zambian electricity sector	44
Can decentralization lower poverty? Cambodia’s Commune and Sangkat Fund	44
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	43
Chronicle of a disaster foretold: The politics of restoring Lake Urmia (Iran)	43
Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado	43
Trade liberalization and the health of working-age adults: Evidence from China	43
Navigating food price shocks in a pandemic: Food insecurity and coping mechanisms in Burkina Faso	42
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	40
Editorial Board	40
Determinants of success of community forestry: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia	40
Is there political elite capture in access to energy sources? Evidence from Indian households	40
Kenya’s ‘Universal’ social pension: The politics of registration in Marsabit County	39
Beyond a generalized deagrarianization: Livelihood heterogeneity and its determinants in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico	39
With and beyond sustainability certification: Exploring inclusive business and solidarity economy strategies in Peru and Switzerland	39
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	39
Can hypothetical measures of time preference predict actual and incentivised behaviour? Evidence from Senegal.	38
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	38
Regimes and industrialization	37
Examining norms and social expectations surrounding exclusive breastfeeding: Evidence from Mali	37
When clients vote for brokers: How elections improve public goods provision in urban slums	36
The effect of Universal Salt Iodization on cognitive test scores in rural India	36
Designing development interventions: The application of service design and discrete choice experiments in complex settings	36
Can communal systems work? The effects of communal water provision on child health in Peru	36
Governing the diverse forest: Polycentric climate governance in the Amazon	36
Analysing the economies of transactional sex amongst young people: Case study of Madagascar	36

Revisiting the Income Inequality-Crime Puzzle	35
Mixed records, complexity, and ethnic voting in African elections	35
Editorial Board	34
Institutional benefit pathways in development	34
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Donors want it faster, humanitarian organizations get it cheaper	33
Pay for performance for prenatal care and newborn health: Evidence from a developing country	33
Chinese sisal estates and smallholder land uses and livelihoods, Kilosa, Central Tanzania	33
Editorial Board	32
Dispossessions in Bolsonaro’s Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic	32
Impact of family law reform on adolescent reproductive health in Ethiopia: A quasi-experimental study	32
“We fight to the end”: On the violence against social leaders and territorial defenders during the post-peace agreement period and its political ecological implications in the Putumayo, Colombia	32
Decentralization, historical state capacity and public goods provision in Post-Soviet Russia	31
Caught between winning repeat business and learning: Reactivity to output indicators in international development	31
Substitution versus wealth: Dual effects of non-pastoral income on livestock herd size	31
Cooperation and coercion: The quest for quasi-voluntary compliance in the governance of African commons	31
Editorial Board	30
Unconditional cash transfers and safe transitions to adulthood in Malawi	30
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	30
On the malleability of gender attitudes: Evidence from implicit and explicit measures in Tunisia	30
Forest income and livelihoods on Pemba: A quantitative ethnography	30
Farmers’ perspectives and context are key for the success and sustainability of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in northeastern Ghana	30
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil	30
Brand Aid and coffee value chain development interventions: Is Starbucks working aid out of business?	29
Aid or exploitation?: Food-for-work, cash-for-work, and the production of “beneficiary-workers” in Ethiopia and Haiti	29
The impact of remittances on food insecurity: Evidence from Mexico	29
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	29
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	29
Relationship between water and sanitation and maternal health: Evidence from Indonesia	29
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents	28
Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on India’s rural youth: Evidence from a panel survey and an experiment	28
Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China	28
Keeping communal peace in the shadow of civil war: A natural experiment from Côte d’Ivoire	28
Trade-offs or synergies? Hybridity and sustainable performance of dairy cooperatives in India	28
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS	28
Agricultural commercialization and nutrition; evidence from smallholder coffee farmers	28
Land tenure and economic development: Evidence from Vietnam	28
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	27
Livelihoods in COVID times: Gendered perils and new pathways in India	27
Ideology and Rifles: The Agrarian Origins of Civil Conflict in Colombia	27
Revisiting China’s supermarket revolution: Complementarity and co-evolution between traditional and modern food outlets	27
Troubling the idealised pageantry of extractive conflicts: Comparative insights on authority and claim-making from Papua New Guinea, Mongolia and El Salvador	27
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador	27
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as an instrument for Chinese influence? Supplementary versus remedial multilateralism	27
Migrants and access to health care in Costa Rica	27
Blessed are the peacemakers: The future burden of intrastate conflict on poverty	27
Mobile phone ownership and welfare: Evidence from South Africa’s household survey	27
Orchestrating self-empowerment in tribal India: Debt bondage, land rights, and the strategic uses of spirituality	26
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	26
The social costs of titling land: Evidence from Uganda	26
It’s all about politics: Migration and resource conflicts in the global south	25
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	25
Statebuilding and indigenous rights implementation: Political incentives, social movement pressure, and autonomy policy in Central America	25
Fatalism or vigilance? Exposure to infant and maternal deaths and subsequent use of maternal health services in Malawi	25
Multichain strategies and economic upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from Kenyan horticulture	25
Temporary labor mobility to various geographical and sectoral destinations improves rural incomes − Insights from Peru	25
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	25
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	25
Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries	25
Institutional coalescence and illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana	25
Minimum wage compliance and household welfare: An analysis of over 1500 minimum wages in India	24
Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question survey module for women’s agency	24
Finance, informal competition, and expectations: A firm-level analysis	24
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	24
COVID-19 and armed conflict	24
Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data	24
Covid-19 vs. Ebola: Impact on households and small businesses in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo	24
Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda	23
Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare	23
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	23
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	23
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	23
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	23
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	23
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	23
Sanctions effectiveness, development and regime type. Are aid suspensions and economic sanctions alike?	22
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	22
Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years	22
China’s investments in renewable energy in Africa: Creating co-benefits or just cashing-in?	22
Is economic growth less welfare enhancing in Africa? Evidence from the last forty years	22

The impact of decentralized decision-making on student outcomes and teacher quality: Evidence from Colombia	22
Crops in crises: Shocks shape smallholders' diversification in rural Ethiopia	22
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	22
Domestic policy consequences of international mega-events: Evidence from China	22
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	21
Using Google data to measure the role of Big Food and fast food in South Africa’s obesity epidemic	21
Women’s political empowerment and economic growth	21
Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba	21
The role of gender in agent banking: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo	21
How does governance mediate links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation? Results from a systematic mapping and thematic synthesis of literature	21
SMEs, violence and crisis: Stylized facts from a survey in Latin America	21
Encouraging technology adoption using ICTs and farm trials in Senegal: Lessons for gender equity and scaled impact	21
Private sustainability governance, the Global South and COVID-19: Are changes to audit policies in light of the pandemic exacerbating existing inequalities?	21
Moving with risk: Forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia	20
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	20
Does a joint United Nations microfinance ‘plus’ program empower female farmers in rural Ethiopia? Evidence using the pro-WEAI	20
Of cooks, crooks and slum-dwellers: Exploring the lived experience of energy and mobility poverty in Mexico's informal settlements	20
Institutional pluralism and water user behavior in rural Africa	20
How village leaders in rural Amazonia create bonding, bridging, and linking social capital configurations to achieve development goals, and why they are so difficult to maintain over time	20
The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica	20
Chinese aid and health at the country and local level	20
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	20
Agricultural land acquisitions unlikely to address the food security needs of African countries	20
Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia	20
Do financial crises increase income inequality?	20
There’s Technology Improvement, but is there Economy-wide Energy Leapfrogging? A Country Panel Analysis	20
Gender and LPG use after government intervention in rural north India	20
Leaving no one behind: Urban poverty traps in Sub-Saharan Africa	20
Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects	20
Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries	20
Corrigendum to “Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and public-private partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea” [World Development 137 (2021) 105198]	19
Ideology at the Water’s Edge: Explaining Variation in Public Support for Foreign Aid	19
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	19
Motivating for environmental protection: Evidence from county officials in China	19
Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities: An exploratory observational longitudinal study (2002–2010) of micro-level trends among Tsimane’, a small-scale rural society of Indigenous Peopl	19
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	19
Do aid agencies comply with human rights requirements in Practice? Systematic evidence on the integration of human rights in German development cooperation	18
Minority groups, Indigenousness and Indigeneity, and place in social perceptions of future climate interventions	18
Political liberalization and human development: Dynamic effects of political regime change on infant mortality across three centuries (1800-2015)	18
Patterns of temporary rural migration: A study in northern Bangladesh	18
Indigenous forest destroyers or guardians? The indigenous Batwa and their ancestral forests in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC	18
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	18
Legacies of Islamic Rule in Africa: Colonial Responses and Contemporary Development	18
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam	18
Self-help groups as platforms for development: The role of social capital	18
A novel measure of developing countries' agricultural and food policy readiness	18
Urban wage premium for women: evidence across the wage distribution	18
Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency	18
Macroeconomic exposure of developing economies to low-carbon transition	17
A simplified measure of nutritional empowerment: Using machine learning to abbreviate the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI)	17
Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda	17
Higher economic growth in poor countries, lower migration flows to the OECD – Revisiting the migration hump with panel data	17
Increasing utilization of public health insurance programs: Evidence from an experiment in India	17
Production fragmentation and upgrading opportunities for exporters: An empirical assessment of the case of Brazil	17
Does environmental regulation spur innovation? Quasi-natural experiment in China	17
Mental and physical health impacts of water/sanitation infrastructure in First Nations communities in Canada: An analysis of the Regional Health Survey	17
From absences to emergences: Foregrounding traditional and Indigenous climate change adaptation knowledges and practices from Fiji, Vietnam and the Philippines	17
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	17
Can transparency and accountability programs improve health? Experimental evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania	17
Is the agricultural sector cursed too? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	17
Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts	17
Childhood vaccinations and the demand for children: Long-term evidence from India	17
The impact of spousal and own retirement on health: Evidence from urban China	17
Fighting against hunger: A country-wide intervention and its impact on birth outcomes	16
Shocks, agricultural productivity, and natural resource extraction in rural Southeast Asia	16
Life between the city and the village: Scaling analysis of service access in Indian urban slums	16
Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter: Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia	16
Valuing soil erosion control investments in Nigerian agricultural lands: A hedonic pricing model	16
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	16
Which dimensions of religiosity matter for trust? New insights from the MENA region	16
Scaling-up sustainable commodity governance through jurisdictional initiatives: Political pathways to sector transformation in the Indonesian palm oil sector?	16
Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar	16
Gender composition of management groups in a conservation agreement framework: Experimental evidence for mangrove use in the Colombian Pacific	16
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	16
How clientelism undermines state capacity: Evidence from Mexican municipalities	16
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	16
Editorial Board	16
The role of trainings in improving supplier sustainability performance	16
NGO-state relations in the monitoring of illegal forest logging and wildlife trafficking in Central Africa	16
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	16
Switching it up: The effect of energy price reforms in Oman	16
Improving the measurement of rural women's employment: Global momentum and survey priorities	16
Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger	16
No man is an Island: A spatially explicit approach to measure development resilience	16
Editorial Board	16
Political violence and endogenous growth	15
Innovation through iteration: Policy feedback loops in China’s economic reform	15
Rebuilding public authority in Uganda dualist theory, hybrid social orders and democratic statehood	15
Coping with shocks: How Self-Help Groups impact food security and seasonal migration	15
Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South Africa	15
Undernutrition inequality between Dalits and non-Dalits in Nepal – A decomposition analysis	15
Editorial Board	15
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation	15
What do we know about rural and informal non-farming labour? Evidence from a mixed methods study of artisanal and small-scale mining in Northwest Tanzania	15
The long-term effects of early European settlement on local development: Evidence from Indonesia	15