World Development

Article	Citations
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	259
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	155
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	108
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	101
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	96
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	94
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	88
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	86
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	85
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	80
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	73
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	71
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	71
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	67
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	62
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	61
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	58
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	58
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	57
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	55
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	55
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	54
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	54
Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	53
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	50

Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	49
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	47
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	46
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	45
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	45
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	43
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	43
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	42
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	42
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	42
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	42
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	42
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	40
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	40
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	40
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	39
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	39
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	38
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	38
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	38
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	38
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	38
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	38
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	38
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	38
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	37
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	37
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	37
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	37
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	36
Urban social movements and local state capacity	36
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	36
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	35
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development	34
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	34
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho	33
Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS	33
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure	33
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	32
How are institutions included in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects? Developing and testing a diagnostic approach on the World Bank’s Forest and Community project in Salta, Argentina	32
Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands	32
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries	31
Tracking Chinese aid through China Customs	31
The poverty effect of democratization	31
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers	31
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor	31
“Dream brokers” and the moral economy of frontier investments	31
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia	31
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania	31
Deliberating towards development: A framework for co-constructing policies with people in poverty	31

Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing	30
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market	30
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road	30
Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam	30
Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts	30
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city	30
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China	29
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability	29
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty	29
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya	29
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar	29
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives	29
Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa	29
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China	28
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan	28
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited	28
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition	27
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa	27
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania	27
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations	27
Subway and entrepreneurship	26
Editorial Board	26
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa	26
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania	26
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?	26
Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam	26
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid	26
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy	26
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda	25
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania	25
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund	25
Child poverty among refugees	25
Customary courts, state institutions, or opting out: Patterns of forum pluralism in three African countries	24
Gender and development in the agrarian south	24
The impact of an improvement in the quality and reliability of rural residential electricity supply on clean cooking fuel adoption: Evidence from six energy poor Indian states	24
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi	24
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison	23
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?	23
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake	23
Aid effectiveness and donor motives	23
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection	23
Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand	23
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia	23
Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan	23
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States	23
Long-lasting consequences of being targeted	22
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections	22
Status inequality and public goods	22
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	22
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India	22
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana	22
Foreign aid in a divided country: Subnational aid allocations in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	22
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis	22
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru	22
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models	22
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal	22
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India	22
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law	22
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso	22
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence	22
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia	22
The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique	21
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change	21
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities	21
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund	21
South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health	21
Editorial Board	21
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment	21
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique	21
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness	20
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa	20
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide	20
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes	20
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?	20
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control	20
Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of “last frontiers” in Brazil and Myanmar	20
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women	20
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil	20
Decarbonisation and specialisation downgrading: The double harm of GVC integration	20
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war	20

Taking off or putting on shoes?: Barefoot doctors, mental-manual labor, and the health revolution in Mao’s China	20
Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods	20
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction	19
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests	19
The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador	19
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates	19
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic	19
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China	19
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities	19
Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia	19
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]	19
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries	19
Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa	19
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors	19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries	19
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh	19
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique	18
Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya	18
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	18
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador	18
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil	18
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	18
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	18
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	18
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil	18
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program	18
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region	18
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	18
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries	18
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	17
Editorial Board	17
India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s	17
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	17
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	17
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	17
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?	17
Editorial Board	17
The sand curse: sand mining, environmental degradation and social conflicts in The Gambia	17
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents	17
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	17
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	16
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	16
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	16
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	16
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal	16
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	16
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	16
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	16
Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries	16
Editorial Board	16
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories	16
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	16
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil	16
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China	16
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	16
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	16
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures	15
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam	15
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali	15
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums	15
Editorial Board	15
Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	15
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey	15
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru	15
Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade	15
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	15
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico	15
Who is asking and how? Effects of survey mode and enumerator gender on measuring women’s life experience	15
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil	15
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú	15
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	15
Corrigendum to “Climate change, collective shocks, and intra-community cooperation: Evidence from a public good experiment with farmers and pastoralists” [World Dev. 189 (2025) 106941]	15
Editorial Board	15
Local context and mobilization in poor communities: Lessons from Kenya, Malawi and Zambia	15
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya	15
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives	15
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia	14
Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya	14
Natives’ gender norms and the labor market integration of female immigrants	14
Does transparency pay? Natural resources, financial development and the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI)	14
Challenging conventional wisdom on illicit economies and rural development in Latin America	14
The empirics of and policies for sustainability in global value chains	14
The mixed impacts of peer punishments on common-pool resources: Multi-country experimental evidence	14
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation	14
El Niño and children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes	14
The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on child food insecurity in Africa	14
Air pollution and willingness to pay for health risk reductions in Egypt: A contingent valuation survey of Greater Cairo and Alexandria households	14
Bank deregulation and corporate environmental performance	14
Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses	14
Short- and long-term food insecurity and policy responses in pandemics: Panel data evidence from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries	14
Sustainable and just energy transition in the Global South	14
Legislative decentralization and regulatory dilution: Evidence from air pollution control in China	14
A socio-legal perspective on land market informality and accountability in urban land governance	14
Economics for an uncertain world	14
Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement	14