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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan293
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations198
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]137
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]104
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India101
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal90
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo86
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants84
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level84
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India78
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia74
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia72
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks69
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire68
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement68
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis68
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?66
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics66
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa61
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR61
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America61
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal60
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods58
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon58
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico55
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform55
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali51
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas51
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam49
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China49
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue49
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali48
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies48
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities48
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 Tanzania47
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal47
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion46
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries45
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam45
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico44
Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan43
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa43
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–201842
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs42
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution42
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe42
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean41
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–201740
Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights40
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data40
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War39
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption39
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh38
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect38
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry36
Urban social movements and local state capacity36
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa36
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives36
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?36
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China36
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure35
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing35
The poverty effect of democratization35
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability34
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China34
Moving out of agriculture in Bangladesh: The role of farm, non-farm and mixed households34
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road34
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives34
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia34
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries33
Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands33
Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa33
Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam33
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, Argentina33
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development32
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor32
Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts32
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho32
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty32
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar32
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania32
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city31
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan31
Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS31
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market31
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”31
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers31
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya30
Editorial Board30
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy30
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison30
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?30
Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South29
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia29
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania29
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited28
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake28
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 states28
Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam28
From targeted private benefits to public goods: Land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia28
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi28
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund27
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda27
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition27
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania26
From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru26
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal26
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection26
Child poverty among refugees26
Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan26
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations26
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States25
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia25
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India25
Subway and entrepreneurship25
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania25
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China25
Aid effectiveness and donor motives25
Gender and development in the agrarian south25
Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand24
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India24
The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique24
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa24
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?24
Critical junctures, agrarian change, and the (re)production of vulnerability in a marginalised Indigenous society24
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid24
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa24
Editorial Board24
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru23
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women23
South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health23
Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand23
Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding23
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law23
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?23
Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of “last frontiers” in Brazil and Myanmar23
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana23
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment23
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change23
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness23
Status inequality and public goods22
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa22
Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming22
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India22
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis22
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities22
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war22
The impact of investing in social care on employment generation, time-, income-poverty by gender: A macro-micro policy simulation for Turkey22
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund22
Reducing gender inequalities through land titling? The case of Gozamin Woreda22
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique21
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models21
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa21
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide21
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso21
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil20
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh20
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control20
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence20
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique20
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region20
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests20
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections20
Hiding behind the veil of ashes: Social capital in the wake of natural disasters20
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes20
Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods20
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities20
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic20
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]20
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries20
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates20
Editorial Board19
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China19
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents19
Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia19
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil19
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program19
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures19
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India19
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector19
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction19
Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa19
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China19
Editorial Board19
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]19
The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries19
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors19
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil19
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups18
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America18
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania18
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition18
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach18
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka18
India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s18
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism18
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil18
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries18
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?18
Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya18
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay18
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America18
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador18
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh18
Short- and long-term food insecurity and policy responses in pandemics: Panel data evidence from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries17
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru17
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS17
Editorial Board17
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?17
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 201917
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa17
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil17
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia17
Enforcing government policies: The role of state-owned enterprise in China’s one child policy17
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China17
Editorial Board17
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Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone16
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]16
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal16
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico16
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China16
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures16
Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade16
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives16
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal16
Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement16
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali16
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?16
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories16
Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya16
Are Chinese cities getting smarter in terms of knowledge and technology they produce?15
Editorial Board15
Perceptions of injustices in the struggle for scarce critical lands: Farmer-herder conflict and violence escalation in the Benue-Nasarawa borderland15
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú15
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam15
In-utero Exposure to Rainfall Variability and Early Childhood Health15
From fees to free: User fee removal, maternal health care utilization and child health in Zambia15
Increasing engagement in price crowdsourcing initiatives: Using nudges in Nigeria15
The empirics of and policies for sustainability in global value chains15
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums15
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey15
Natives’ gender norms and the labor market integration of female immigrants15
Agricultural investment behaviour and contingency: Experimental evidence from Uganda15
The mixed impacts of peer punishments on common-pool resources: Multi-country experimental evidence15
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa15
Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses15
Sustainable and just energy transition in the Global South15
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya15
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