World Development

Article	Citations
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	394
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	189
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	156
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	130
Introductory essay for special issue: future of work and welfare in India’s halting structural transition	116
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	115
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	110
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	108
Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests	104
Gendering the safety net: Social protection policy and the limits to Decent Work in Cambodia’s garment sector	100
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	94
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	87
A behavioral approach to social security compliance targeting self-employed workers in Brazil	80
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	79
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	75
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	71
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	71
Climate change vulnerability and the resilience of energy consumption	71
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	66
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	64
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	63
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	62
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	60
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	60
Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	60

Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	59
Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the World Inequality Database	58
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	56
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	56
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	55
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	52
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	50
Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment	50
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	50
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	49
Urban social movements and local state capacity	49
Kinship, dadon and patronage politics: The role of informal institutions in climate adaptation	48
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	46
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	44
Trade agreements and sustainable fisheries	43
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	43
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	43
“I have already died in this PLACE:” livelihood impact pathways of conservation and land use change among highland Indigenous groups in northern Thailand	42
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	42
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	42
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	42
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	42
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	41
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	40
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	40
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	40
Does institutional design matter? Constitutional regime types and party system closure in Asia	39
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	39
Policies for aspirations. And opportunities	39
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	39
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	38
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	38
Expectations, authority and divergent market transitions	37
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	37
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	36
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	36
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	36
Studying economic black holes: Lessons from North Korea	35
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	35
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia	35
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	35
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development	34
Climate stressors and rural incomes: multi-country evidence on wealth, gender, and age disparities	34
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries	33
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania	33
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives	33
Government data accessibility and firm dynamics: Encouraging entrepreneurship or accelerating exit?	33
The poverty effect of democratization	33
Electing governors: complexities of institutional design in Latin America’s unitary countries	32
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho	32

Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts	32
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market	32
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar	31
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China	31
Fabricated justice: How due process reform enables evidence manipulation	31
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers	31
Editorial Board	31
Gendered laws and Women’s financial inclusion	31
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing	31
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty	31
“Dream brokers” and the moral economy of frontier investments	31
Tracking Chinese aid through China Customs	30
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road	30
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor	30
Deliberating towards development: A framework for co-constructing policies with people in poverty	30
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	30
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya	30
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure	30
Estimating dynamic macroeconomic effects of exogenous remittances	29
Armed conflict, community-based cash transfers, and social cohesion: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Ethiopia	29
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia	29
Editorial Board	29
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?	28
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania	28
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection	28
Subway and entrepreneurship	28
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy	28
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan	28
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison	27
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States	27
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia	27
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda	26
Introduction to special issue: The policy consequences of social movements	26
Decentralization and the persistence of centralized power in Liberia	26
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal	25
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa	25
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi	25
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania	25
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?	25
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China	24
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations	24
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited	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
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition	24
Gender and development in the agrarian south	24
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid	24
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania	24
Child poverty among refugees	24
Customary courts, state institutions, or opting out: Patterns of forum pluralism in three African countries	24
Official vigilantism	23
Aid effectiveness and donor motives	23
Security fosters generosity: Social security protection and charitable giving	23
Editorial Board	23
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control	23
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa	23
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis	23
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund	23
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India	23
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment	22
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana	22
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso	22
Status inequality and public goods	22
Foreign aid in a divided country: Subnational aid allocations in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	22
Editorial Board	22
Inclusive reforms as levers for social exclusion: The paradoxical consequences of quotas for women in rural India	21
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities	21
Decarbonisation and specialisation downgrading: The double harm of GVC integration	21
Long-lasting consequences of being targeted	21
Coping (more or less) with health shocks: A longitudinal perspective on financial protection from Nepal	21
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa	21
Contraception to women’s economic empowerment: A narrative review	21
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?	21
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique	21
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law	21
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war	20
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India	20
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction	20
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]	20
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models	20
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness	20

Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide	20
Trapped institutional change: the quest for regulating fishing activities in protected areas	20
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women	20
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence	20
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections	20
Taking off or putting on shoes?: Barefoot doctors, mental-manual labor, and the health revolution in Mao’s China	20
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries	20
Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods	19
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program	19
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors	19
Bringing contact interventions to the lab: Effects of brief bilateral discussions on interethnic trust in Senegal	19
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique	19
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil	19
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates	19
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests	19
Dutch disease and the resource curse: the progression of views from exchange rates to women’s agency and well-being	19
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic	19
What will it mean to end poverty?	19
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region	19
The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador	19
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China	18
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil	18
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	18
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	18
Editorial Board	18
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes	18
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities	18
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	18
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	18
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	18
Labor law and workplace injuries	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
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil	18
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh	18
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	18
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	18
Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India	18
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	17
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	17
Editorial Board	17
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	17
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	17
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	17
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	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
Can cash improve diet quality in old age? evidence from a large-scale unconditional transfer	17
The sand curse: sand mining, environmental degradation and social conflicts in The Gambia	17
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	17
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	17
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	17
Editorial Board	17
India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s	17
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	17
Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya	17
On Violent Conflict, Land Scarcity, and Power in an urban Frontier in Congo	16
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	16
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru	16
Who is asking and how? Effects of survey mode and enumerator gender on measuring women’s life experience	16
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China	16
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú	16
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	16
Child nutrition: The effect of micro and macro fertility levels at birth	16
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	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
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico	16
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali	16
Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade	16
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories	16
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya	16
Contested forests: how transnational networks mitigate and reproduce conflict	16
Restricting mothers’ international migration and human capital investment	16
Editorial Board	16
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	16
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil	16
Local context and mobilization in poor communities: Lessons from Kenya, Malawi and Zambia	16
Unpacking the penetration of agrochemicals in China: The commodification of agricultural inputs and the invisible dispossession of smallholders	16
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	15
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey	15
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures	15
Does transparency pay? Natural resources, financial development and the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI)	15
Challenging conventional wisdom on illicit economies and rural development in Latin America	15
An intervention-focused review of modern slave labor in Brazil’s mining sector	15
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal	15
Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries	15
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives	15
Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	15
The empirics of and policies for sustainability in global value chains	15
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa	15
Editorial Board	15
Clientelist politics in Nigeria: Core voters, control and compliance	15
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums	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
Nurse migration: Long-run determinants and dynamics of flows in response to health and economic shocks	15
Oil palm cultivation improves living standards and human capital formation in smallholder farm households	15