World Development

Papers
(The H4-Index of World Development is 45. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board421
Editorial Board275
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks246
Editorial Board211
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia155
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector152
Income inequality in Guyana: Class or ethnicity? New evidence from survey data106
Voluntary audits: Experimental evidence on a new approach to monitoring front-line bureaucrats106
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo100
Indian dairy cooperative development: A combination of scaling up and scaling out producing a center-periphery structure90
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America87
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR84
Risk and time preferences for participating in forest landscape restoration: The case of coffee farmers in Uganda82
Inherent Dilemma: Balancing conservation efficiency and social equity in natural resource governance74
Who Deserves Aid? Perceptions of Fairness in Contexts of Forced Displacement73
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries72
Linking innovations adoption with farm sustainability: Empirical evidence from rainwater harvesting and fertilizer micro-dosing in Tanzania72
Immigration and labour productivity: A comparative effect71
Do aid agencies comply with human rights requirements in Practice? Systematic evidence on the integration of human rights in German development cooperation69
Editorial Board69
Chronicle of a disaster foretold: The politics of restoring Lake Urmia (Iran)67
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India64
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement62
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America62
Navigating food price shocks in a pandemic: Food insecurity and coping mechanisms in Burkina Faso62
With and beyond sustainability certification: Exploring inclusive business and solidarity economy strategies in Peru and Switzerland61
It’s all about politics: Migration and resource conflicts in the global south59
Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare59
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS58
Why do aspirations matter for empowerment?: Discrepancies between the A-WEAI domains and aspirations of ethnic minority women in Vietnam56
Urbanising the Villages: Three modes of village incorporation and the implications for structural transition in India’s “Chinese-style” special economic zones (SEZs)55
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform55
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level54
Wages and the division between mental and manual labor in China54
Mobile phone adoption, deforestation, and agricultural land use in Uganda53
Editorial Board53
Ideology and Rifles: The Agrarian Origins of Civil Conflict in Colombia52
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan52
Troubling the idealised pageantry of extractive conflicts: Comparative insights on authority and claim-making from Papua New Guinea, Mongolia and El Salvador52
Editorial Board51
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures50
Beyond a generalized deagrarianization: Livelihood heterogeneity and its determinants in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico50
Can hypothetical measures of time preference predict actual and incentivised behaviour? Evidence from Senegal.48
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon47
When clients vote for brokers: How elections improve public goods provision in urban slums46
Governing the diverse forest: Polycentric climate governance in the Amazon45
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