World Development

Papers
(The TQCC of World Development is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan437
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam254
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire223
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods160
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations115
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali110
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia93
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon92
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR88
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo84
Editorial Board80
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]75
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement72
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India72
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]72
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America69
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform64
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal64
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia64
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks63
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?61
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico60
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa59
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal58
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China57
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level56
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas55
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants55
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India53
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–201752
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue52
Switching it up: The effect of energy price reforms in Oman52
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption50
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean50
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War48
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs47
Urban social movements and local state capacity47
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali45
Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan45
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal44
Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights44
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect44
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–201843
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa42
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam41
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe41
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries40
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion39
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico39
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data39
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution38
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?38
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies38
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China38
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh37
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 Tanzania37
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives37
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing36
Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic: Rural livelihoods, social vulnerability, and local governance in India and Nepal36
Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS36
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability35
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar35
Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam35
The social contract as a tool of analysis: Introduction to the special issue on “Framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”34
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers34
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives34
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry34
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road33
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China33
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty33
Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts32
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania32
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor31
“Before cardamom, we used to face hardship”: Analyzing agricultural commercialization effects in Nepal through a local concept of the Good Life31
“If we move, it moves with us:” Physical distancing in Africa during COVID-1931
Unanticipated events, perceptions, and household labor allocation in Zimbabwe31
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, Argentina31
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries31
The poverty effect of democratization31
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia31
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho31
Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands31
Moving out of agriculture in Bangladesh: The role of farm, non-farm and mixed households30
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure30
Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa30
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?30
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market30
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development30
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city30
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison29
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection29
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited29
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan29
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition28
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid28
Editorial Board28
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China28
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia28
From targeted private benefits to public goods: Land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia28
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania28
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda27
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya27
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India27
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations27
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?27
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa27
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy27
From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru27
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania27
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia27
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States26
The impact of an extension of workers’ health insurance on formal employment: Evidence from Ecuador26
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund26
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania26
Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam26
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi26
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa26
Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South26
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India26
Child poverty among refugees26
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake26
Aid effectiveness and donor motives26
Drivers of collective action and role of conflict in Kenyan fisheries co-management25
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal25
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities24
Gender and development in the agrarian south24
Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand24
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique24
Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan24
Subway and entrepreneurship24
Editorial Board24
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 states24
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?24
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control23
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence23
Critical junctures, agrarian change, and the (re)production of vulnerability in a marginalised Indigenous society23
Status inequality and public goods23
Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand23
The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique23
Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming23
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law22
Water scarcity & procedural justice in Honduras: Community-based management meets market-based policy22
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models22
Reducing gender inequalities through land titling? The case of Gozamin Woreda22
South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health22
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis22
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund22
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana22
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change22
Governance and learning in global, regional, and local value chains: The IT enabled services industry in South Africa22
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide21
The impact of investing in social care on employment generation, time-, income-poverty by gender: A macro-micro policy simulation for Turkey21
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa21
Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding21
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war21
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India21
An empirical assessment of the effects of electricity access on food security21
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso21
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa21
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment21
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru20
Would community conservation initiatives benefit from external financial oversight? A framed field experiment in Namibia’s communal conservancies20
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?20
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women20
Fractal urbanism: City size and residential segregation in India20
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections20
Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of “last frontiers” in Brazil and Myanmar20
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]20
After the project is over: Measuring longer-term impacts of a food safety intervention in Senegal19
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes19
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries19
Local interest group activity and environmental degradation in authoritarian regimes19
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities19
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates19
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries19
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors19
Why are boys falling behind? Explaining gender gaps in school attainment in Sri Lanka19
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil19
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China19
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic19
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests18
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region18
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil18
Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa18
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents18
More logistics, less aid: Humanitarian-business partnerships and sustainability in the refugee camp18
Hiding behind the veil of ashes: Social capital in the wake of natural disasters18
The effectiveness of protected areas in the context of decentralization18
The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador18
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil18
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique18
South-South humanitarianism: The case of Covid-organics in Tanzania18
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction18
Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia18
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh18
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]17
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador17
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India17
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism17
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America17
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China17
The impact of decentralized decision-making on student outcomes and teacher quality: Evidence from Colombia17
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition17
The social costs of titling land: Evidence from Uganda17
Editorial Board17
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector17
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay17
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil17
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures17
Editorial Board17
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach16
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China16
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh16
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania16
Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter: Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia16
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey16
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America16
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa16
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka16
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures16
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal16
Editorial Board16
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups16
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS16
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries16
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation16
Editorial Board16
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?16
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam15
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia15
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives15
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 201915
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru15
Editorial Board15
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories15
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya15
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?15
El Niño and children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes15
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil15
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico15
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China15
The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu15
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums15
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?15
Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya15
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú15
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone15
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal15
Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement15
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