World Development

Article	Citations
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	167
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	150
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	133
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	126
Introductory essay for special issue: future of work and welfare in India’s halting structural transition	124
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	111
Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests	110
Gendering the safety net: Social protection policy and the limits to Decent Work in Cambodia’s garment sector	109
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	101
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	98
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	89
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	85
A behavioral approach to social security compliance targeting self-employed workers in Brazil	84
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	83
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	79
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	73
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	71
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	70
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	69
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	69
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	68
Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the World Inequality Database	67
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	67
Climate change vulnerability and the resilience of energy consumption	65
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	64

Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	63
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	62
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	60
Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment	57
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	56
Urban social movements and local state capacity	54
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	52
Kinship, dadon and patronage politics: The role of informal institutions in climate adaptation	52
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	52
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	51
Trade agreements and sustainable fisheries	49
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	47
“I have already died in this PLACE:” livelihood impact pathways of conservation and land use change among highland Indigenous groups in northern Thailand	47
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	46
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	46
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	46
Policies for aspirations. And opportunities	45
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	45
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	44
Does institutional design matter? Constitutional regime types and party system closure in Asia	44
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	44
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	43
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	43
Expectations, authority and divergent market transitions	43
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	42
Rebuilding after disaster in Haiti: effects of expecting external, diaspora, and local support	41
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	41
Electoral cycles in female sterilization	41
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	40
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	40
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	40
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	39
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	39
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	39
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	38
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	38
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia	37
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	37
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries	37
Studying economic black holes: Lessons from North Korea	36
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	36
Climate stressors and rural incomes: multi-country evidence on wealth, gender, and age disparities	36
Electing governors: complexities of institutional design in Latin America’s unitary countries	35
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania	35
Tracking Chinese aid through China Customs	35
The poverty effect of democratization	35
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar	35
Gendered laws and Women’s financial inclusion	35
Editorial Board	35
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho	35

Fabricated justice: How due process reform enables evidence manipulation	35
“Dream brokers” and the moral economy of frontier investments	35
Development as life-making	34
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor	34
Government data accessibility and firm dynamics: Encouraging entrepreneurship or accelerating exit?	34
Biodiversity conservation and contestations over land: Jihadist expansion in West Africa	34
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure	33
Deliberating towards development: A framework for co-constructing policies with people in poverty	33
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing	32
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty	32
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China	32
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives	32
Editorial Board	31
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers	31
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	31
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya	31
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development	31
Good for business, not so much for the environment? Entry into importing and the energy intensity of Indian plants	31
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market	31
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road	31
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan	30
Armed conflict, community-based cash transfers, and social cohesion: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Ethiopia	30
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania	30
Estimating dynamic macroeconomic effects of exogenous remittances	30
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison	29
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?	29
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia	29
Decentralization and the persistence of centralized power in Liberia	28
Introduction to special issue: The policy consequences of social movements	28
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia	27
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa	27
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi	27
Gender and development in the agrarian south	27
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited	27
Customary courts, state institutions, or opting out: Patterns of forum pluralism in three African countries	27
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?	27
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid	27
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection	26
Aid effectiveness and donor motives	26
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	26
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India	26
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda	26
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition	26
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania	26
Subway and entrepreneurship	26
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal	26
Security fosters generosity: Social security protection and charitable giving	26
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania	25
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China	25
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations	25
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa	25
Child poverty among refugees	25
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique	24
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana	24
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy	24
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States	24
Institutional quality and risk depletion of natural resources: Evidence from explainable artificial intelligence modelling	24
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control	24
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness	24
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models	23
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso	23
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment	23
Editorial Board	23
Foreign aid in a divided country: Subnational aid allocations in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	23
Official vigilantism	23
Editorial Board	23
Coping (more or less) with health shocks: A longitudinal perspective on financial protection from Nepal	22
Inclusive reforms as levers for social exclusion: The paradoxical consequences of quotas for women in rural India	22
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India	22
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence	22
Contraception to women’s economic empowerment: A narrative review	22
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women	22
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law	22
Long-lasting consequences of being targeted	22
Status inequality and public goods	22
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities	22
Decarbonisation and specialisation downgrading: The double harm of GVC integration	21
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war	21
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis	21
Dutch disease and the resource curse: the progression of views from exchange rates to women’s agency and well-being	21

The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador	21
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide	21
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?	21
Bringing contact interventions to the lab: Effects of brief bilateral discussions on interethnic trust in Senegal	21
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction	21
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections	21
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa	21
Taking off or putting on shoes?: Barefoot doctors, mental-manual labor, and the health revolution in Mao’s China	21
What will it mean to end poverty?	21
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests	21
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region	20
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities	20
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries	20
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors	20
Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods	20
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil	20
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil	20
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic	20
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique	19
Labor law and workplace injuries	19
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh	19
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes	19
Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India	19
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil	19
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program	19
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	19
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	19
Trapped institutional change: the quest for regulating fishing activities in protected areas	19
The contentious history of Mao-era policies requiring cadres to participate in labor and workers to participate in management	18
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	18
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	18
Can cash improve diet quality in old age? evidence from a large-scale unconditional transfer	18
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	18
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	18
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	18
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	18
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	18
Editorial Board	18
Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence from Peru	18
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	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
Can dollarization mitigate the macroeconomic cost of populism? Lessons from Latin America	18
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	18
Teetering on the brink of debt and hunger: Empirical examination of the linkages between external debt and food security in Africa	18
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	18
The sand curse: sand mining, environmental degradation and social conflicts in The Gambia	18
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	18
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	18
Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya	18
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	18
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	18
Child nutrition: The effect of micro and macro fertility levels at birth	18
India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s	18
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	18
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	18
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal	17
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	17
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures	17
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]	17
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali	17
Editorial Board	17
Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade	17
On Violent Conflict, Land Scarcity, and Power in an urban Frontier in Congo	17
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil	17
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives	17
Clientelist politics in Nigeria: Core voters, control and compliance	17
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	17
Unpacking the penetration of agrochemicals in China: The commodification of agricultural inputs and the invisible dispossession of smallholders	17
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China	17
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico	16
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru	16
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya	16
Digital financial inclusion and transitory consumption: Household-level evidence from India	16
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	16
Restricting mothers’ international migration and human capital investment	16
Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Contested forests: how transnational networks mitigate and reproduce conflict	16
Who is asking and how? Effects of survey mode and enumerator gender on measuring women’s life experience	16
Short- and long-term food insecurity and policy responses in pandemics: Panel data evidence from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries	16
Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries	16
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa	15
The mixed impacts of peer punishments on common-pool resources: Multi-country experimental evidence	15
Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses	15
Agricultural investment behaviour and contingency: Experimental evidence from Uganda	15
Crush and Burn: How the destruction of ivory fails to save elephants	15
Educate the girls: Long run effects of secondary schooling for girls in Pakistan	15
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú	15
The empirics of and policies for sustainability in global value chains	15
Challenging conventional wisdom on illicit economies and rural development in Latin America	15
Against the Odds: Community forestry in the San Lucas Mountains, Colombia	15
Editorial Board	15
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	15
Does transparency pay? Natural resources, financial development and the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI)	15