World Development

Papers
(The TQCC of World Development is 15. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment370
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?355
Sustainability and development after COVID-19263
Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Income, expenditure, savings, and job loss249
Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development242
COVID-19 and the rise of intimate partner violence186
COVID-19 and the case for global development178
Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions177
Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature164
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?164
Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India153
The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance146
Household response to an extreme shock: Evidence on the immediate impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on economic outcomes and well-being in rural Uganda133
Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine133
Remittances and economic growth: A meta-analysis127
Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development117
The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: A viewpoint on India116
The local governance of COVID-19: Disease prevention and social security in rural India114
Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China113
Inequality of opportunity, inequality of income and economic growth107
COVID-19 and small enterprises in the food supply chain: Early impacts and implications for longer-term food system resilience in low- and middle-income countries99
Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-1995
The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data94
A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century94
Lessons for climate policy from behavioral biases towards COVID-19 and climate change risks93
Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways93
Examining the economic impact of COVID-19 in India through daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity90
The pandemic of poverty, vulnerability, and COVID-19: Evidence from a fuzzy multidimensional analysis of deprivations in Brazil83
Livelihoods in COVID times: Gendered perils and new pathways in India80
Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis79
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 on households in developing countries: An overview based on a harmonized dataset of high-frequency surveys79
COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust77
Why is the number of COVID-19 cases lower than expected in Sub-Saharan Africa? A cross-sectional analysis of the role of demographic and geographic factors76
Food politics and development75
All things equal? Heterogeneity in policy effectiveness against COVID-19 spread in chile74
Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains74
Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea71
Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America71
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg70
Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence70
COVID-19′s impacts on migrant workers from Bangladesh: In search of policy intervention69
Disability-inclusive responses to COVID-19: Lessons learnt from research on social protection in low- and middle-income countries67
Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba65
Life under lockdown: Illustrating tradeoffs in South Africa’s response to COVID-1964
The power of the collective empowers women: Evidence from self-help groups in India63
Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era63
Humanising agricultural extension: A review61
Systematic prioritisation of SDGs: Machine learning approach60
When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics: The sustainable development goals and agri-food governance in South America59
Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America59
Does environmental regulation increase domestic value-added in exports? An empirical study of cleaner production standards in China58
Fighting COVID-19 in Hong Kong: The effects of community and social mobilization58
Grassroots waste picker organizations addressing the UN sustainable development goals57
Taking power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa56
Can e-government limit the scope of the informal economy?56
The Kerala model in the time of COVID19: Rethinking state, society and democracy55
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”55
“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains55
Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries55
Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability54
Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China54
China’s green transformation through eco-industrial parks53
Whatever it takes? The global financial safety net, Covid-19, and developing countries53
Latecomer development in a “greening” world: Introduction to the Special Issue53
Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic53
Impacts of cooperative membership on rice productivity: Evidence from China53
COVID-19 and International Food Assistance: Policy proposals to keep food flowing50
Land rental market and agricultural labor productivity in rural China: A mediation analysis50
How health inequality affect responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa50
COVID-19 in South Korea: Lessons for developing countries50
Targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic-based intervention: Rhetoric and reality in Qinghai, China49
An empirical assessment of the effects of electricity access on food security48
COVID-19 and armed conflict48
Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria48
Weather shocks, climate change and human health48
Sensemaking and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A complex adaptive systems perspective on policy decision-making48
Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects46
Psychological stress responses to COVID-19 and adaptive strategies in China45
COVID-19 and conflict45
Compounding crises of social reproduction: Microfinance, over-indebtedness and the COVID-19 pandemic45
COVID-19, poverty and inclusive development44
Empowerment in water, sanitation and hygiene index44
SDG interlinkage networks: Analysis, robustness, sensitivities, and hierarchies44
When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory: A critical frame for thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals initiative44
Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding43
Digital platforms and institutional voids in developing countries: The case of ride-hailing markets43
Changing livelihoods at India’s rural–urban transition43
On the susceptibility and vulnerability of agricultural value chains to COVID-1943
How does Covid-19 affect urban slums? Evidence from settlement leaders in India43
COVID-19 response needs to broaden financial inclusion to curb the rise in poverty43
Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Insights and oversights of the headcount ratio42
Artisanal and small-scale mining, and COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A preliminary analysis42
Infrastructure and household poverty in Brazil: A regional approach using multilevel models42
A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence41
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China41
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified resource conflicts and indigenous resistance in Brazil40
Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women’s respiratory health and household labour productivity40
Adaptive governance along Chinese-financed BRI railroad megaprojects in East Africa40
Improving smallholder farmers’ gross margins and labor-use efficiency across a range of cropping systems in the Eastern Gangetic Plains39
Why is it so hard to push Chinese railway projects in Southeast Asia? The role of domestic politics in Malaysia and Indonesia39
Intrastate environmental peacebuilding: A review of the literature39
Public support for development aid during the COVID-19 pandemic39
Climate change and within-country inequality: New evidence from a global perspective38
COVID-19 in unequally ageing European regions38
The welfare effects of crop biodiversity as an adaptation to climate shocks in Kenya38
Fossil fuels, stranded assets and COVID-19: Imagining an inclusive & transformative recovery38
Women’s political empowerment and economic growth37
India’s rural transformation and rising obesity burden37
Does value chain participation facilitate the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in developing countries?37
Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change36
Will COVID-19 be one shock too many for smallholder coffee livelihoods?36
Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis36
Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts36
Short-run environmental effects of COVID-19: Evidence from forest fires36
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS36
Using Google data to measure the role of Big Food and fast food in South Africa’s obesity epidemic35
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability35
Are smart cities green? The role of environmental and digital policies for Eco-innovation in China34
China’s investments in renewable energy in Africa: Creating co-benefits or just cashing-in?34
Effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts in the African small farm sector: Insights from oil palm production in Ghana34
Irrigation infrastructure and farm productivity in the Philippines: A stochastic Meta-Frontier analysis33
Self-help groups as platforms for development: The role of social capital33
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India33
Lack of access to clean fuel and piped water and children’s educational outcomes in rural India33
The role of institutional entrepreneurs and informal land transactions in Mexico City’s urban expansion33
Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen33
Demographic, health, and economic transitions and the future care burden32
Contract farming as partial insurance32
“We live and we do this work”: Women waste pickers’ experiences of wellbeing in Ahmedabad, India32
Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic: Rural livelihoods, social vulnerability, and local governance in India and Nepal32
The development of the international center model for agricultural research: A prehistory of the CGIAR32
Epidemics, pandemics, and social conflict: Lessons from the past and possible scenarios for COVID-1932
Challenging dominant sustainability worldviews on the energy transition: Lessons from Indigenous communities in Mexico and a plea for pluriversal technologies31
Productive knowledge, economic sophistication, and labor share31
The impact of remittances on food insecurity: Evidence from Mexico31
Who can work and study from home in Pakistan: Evidence from a 2018–19 nationwide household survey31
Understanding inclusive innovation processes in agricultural systems: A middle-range conceptual model31
Poverty reduction through land transfers? The World Bank’s titling reforms and the making of “subsistence” agriculture31
The ABCs of Covid-19 prevention in Malawi: Authority, benefits, and costs of compliance31
The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia31
Who benefits from climate-friendly agriculture? The marginal returns to a rainfed system of rice intensification in Tanzania30
Shaping alternatives to development: Solidarity and reciprocity in the Andes during COVID-1930
Managing the Belt and Road: Agency and development in Cambodia and Myanmar30
Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy30
Impact of energy poverty on public health: A non-linear study from an international perspective30
Mobile money and healthcare use: Evidence from East Africa30
Realising poverty in all its dimensions: A six-country participatory study30
Covid-19 outbreak and the need for rice self-sufficiency in West Africa30
Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges30
The benefits and limitations of agricultural input cooperatives in Zambia30
Does the old-age pension scheme improve household welfare? Evidence from India30
Estimating the nutritional loss and the feeding potential derived from food losses worldwide29
Bright as night: Illuminating the antinomies of ‘gender positive’ solar development29
Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh?29
More logistics, less aid: Humanitarian-business partnerships and sustainability in the refugee camp29
The economic impact of weather anomalies29
Plantations, women, and food security in Africa: Interrogating the investment pathway towards zero hunger in Cameroon and Ghana28
Coping with climate shocks: The complex role of livestock portfolios28
Challenges faced by smallholders in achieving sustainable palm oil certification in Indonesia28
Linking human capabilities with livelihood strategies to speed poverty reduction: Evidence from Rwanda28
Localising Public Health: Refugee-led organisations as first and last responders in COVID-1928
Transparency and Trust in Government. Evidence from a Survey Experiment28
Making meat and milk from plants: A review of plant-based food for human and planetary health28
Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia28
From paper institutions to bureaucratic autonomy: Institutional change as a resource curse remedy27
Planning for a world beyond COVID-19: Five pillars for post-neoliberal development27
Encouraging technology adoption using ICTs and farm trials in Senegal: Lessons for gender equity and scaled impact27
What happens when the money runs out? Forest outcomes and equity concerns following Ecuador’s suspension of conservation payments27
Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming27
Inequality, persistence of the informal economy, and club convergence27
Implications of poverty traps across levels27
Evaluating risk allocation and project impacts of sustainability-oriented water public–private partnerships in Southern California: A comparative case analysis27
A revisit of farm size and productivity: Empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria27
Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers26
Too little but not too late: nowcasting poverty and cash transfers’ incidence during COVID-19’s crisis26
Who pays for water? Comparing life cycle costs of water services among several low, medium and high-income utilities26
The double bottom line of microfinance: A global comparison between conventional and Islamic microfinance25
Leveraging private investment to expand renewable power generation: Evidence on financial additionality and productivity gains from Uganda25
Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative in Burkina Faso25
Gender, time-use, and energy expenditures in rural communities in India and Nepal25
Does experience sharing affect farmers’ pro-environmental behavior? A randomized controlled trial in Vietnam25
Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century25
Impact of agricultural extension services on the adoption of improved wheat variety in Ethiopia: A cluster randomized controlled trial25
‘To prevent this disease, we have to stay at home, but if we stay at home, we die of hunger’ – Livelihoods, vulnerability and coping with Covid-19 in rural Mozambique25
In-utero Exposure to Rainfall Variability and Early Childhood Health25
Boosting rural labor off-farm employment through urban expansion in China24
Migration, labor and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh24
Food insecurity and compound environmental shocks in Nepal: Implications for a changing climate24
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach24
Corruption, institutional trust and political engagement in Peru24
Spatial inequality, geography and economic activity24
Measuring empowerment: Choices, values and norms24
Women farm what they can manage: How time constraints affect the quantity and quality of labor for married women’s agricultural production in southwestern Nigeria24
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake24
Energy access for marginalized communities: Evidence from rural North India, 2015–201824
Rethinking social contracts in the MENA region: Economic governance, contingent citizenship, and state-society relations after the Arab uprisings23
Sustaining escapes from poverty23
Effects of input vouchers and rainfall insurance on agricultural production and household welfare: Experimental evidence from northern Ethiopia23
The mutual constraints of states and global value chains during COVID-19: The case of personal protective equipment23
Supermarket procurement and farmgate prices in India23
Covid-19 vs. Ebola: Impact on households and small businesses in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo23
Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project in Bangladesh23
Stigma, Trust, and procedural integrity: Covid-19 testing in Malawi23
Long-term impacts of tropical cyclones and fluvial floods on economic growth – Empirical evidence on transmission channels at different levels of development23
Do financial crises increase income inequality?23
Narco-degradation: Cocaine trafficking’s environmental impacts in Central America’s protected areas22
Women’s reproductive health and economic activity: A narrative review22
CSR and local conflicts in African mining communities22
Bank deregulation and corporate environmental performance22
Viewpoint – Handwashing and COVID-19: Simple, right there…?22
A multidimensional perspective on child labor in the value chain: The case of the cocoa value chain in West Africa22
Local corruption, total factor productivity and firm heterogeneity: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms22
The redistributive effects of pandemics: Evidence on the Spanish flu22
Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake22
Collaborative survival and the politics of livability: Towards adaptation otherwise22
The ‘Sustainable Public Health Index’: What if public health and sustainable development are compatible?22
Household welfare in the digital age: Assessing the effect of mobile money on household consumption volatility in developing countries21
The role of agriculture in poverty escapes in Kenya – Developing a capabilities approach in the context of climate change21
Alternative routes to the institutionalisation of social transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: Political survival strategies and transnational policy coalitions21
The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle-income countries21
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania21
Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran21
Impact of natural disasters on the income distribution21
The micro-politics of corporate responsibility: How companies shape protest in communities affected by mining21
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal21
Understanding China’s wildlife markets: Trade and tradition in an age of pandemic21
Vietnam’s forest cover changes 2005–2016: Veering from transition to (yet more) transaction?21
The hierarchy of needs empirical examination of Maslow’s theory and lessons for development21
Measuring willingness to pay for reliable electricity: Evidence from Senegal21
Nitrogen efficiency by soil quality and management regimes on Malawi farms: Can fertilizer use remain profitable?21
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants21
Degradation and disease: Ecologically unequal exchanges cultivate emerging pandemics20
Urban informalities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A solution for or barrier against sustainable city development20
Moving up or going under? Differential livelihood trajectories in coastal communities in Vietnam20
Electrification and cooking fuel choice in rural India20
The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-1920
The impact of domestic and foreign R&D on TFP in developing countries20
Oil palm cultivation improves living standards and human capital formation in smallholder farm households20
COVID-19 vaccines: Getting Anti-vaxxers involved in the discussion20
COVID-19 palaver: Ending rights violations of vulnerable groups in Africa20
Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado20
A multidimensional framework for disaster recovery: Longitudinal qualitative evidence from Puerto Rican households20
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru20
Integration of a local fish market in Namibia with the global seafood trade: Implications for fish traders and sustainability20
Moving out of agriculture in Bangladesh: The role of farm, non-farm and mixed households20
Redistributing resilience? Deliberate transformation and political capabilities in post-Haiyan Tacloban20
The dynamics of income inequality in Africa: An empirical investigation on the role of macroeconomic and institutional forces20
The impact of investing in social care on employment generation, time-, income-poverty by gender: A macro-micro policy simulation for Turkey20
Is Chinese aid different?20
Can the minimum wage reduce poverty and inequality in the developing world? Evidence from Brazil20
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