World Development

Article	Citations
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	337
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	243
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	148
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	110
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	107
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	94
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	93
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	89
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	89
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	83
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	82
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	80
Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	77
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	74
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	73
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	73
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	68
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	65
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	63
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	59
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	57
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	57
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	56
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	55
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	54

Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	54
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	54
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	53
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	52
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	51
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	51
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	51
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	49
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	48
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	48
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies	47
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	46
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	45
Urban social movements and local state capacity	45
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	44
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	43
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	43
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	43
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	42
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	42
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	42
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	41
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	40
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	40
Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights	39
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	38
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	38
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	38
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	38
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	38
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	37
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	37
Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan	37
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	37
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	37
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	36
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	36
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	36
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
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing	35
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development	35
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China	35
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure	35
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries	35
The poverty effect of democratization	35
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia	35
Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands	34
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	34
Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa	34
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania	33

Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam	33
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor	33
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty	32
Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS	32
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers	31
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar	31
Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts	31
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives	31
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city	31
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market	30
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho	30
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability	30
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road	30
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan	29
Gender and development in the agrarian south	29
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda	29
Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan	29
Editorial Board	29
Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam	29
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya	29
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?	28
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa	28
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania	28
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia	28
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi	28
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy	28
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations	28
From targeted private benefits to public goods: Land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia	27
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal	27
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited	27
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition	27
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake	27
Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South	26
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	26
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania	26
Child poverty among refugees	26
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund	26
From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru	26
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid	26
Subway and entrepreneurship	26
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa	26
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection	26
Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand	25
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India	25
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison	25
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania	25
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?	25
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China	25
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India	25
Aid effectiveness and donor motives	25
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia	25
Editorial Board	24
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States	24
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence	23
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide	23
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana	23
Status inequality and public goods	23
South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health	23
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control	23
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund	22
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law	22
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis	22
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war	22
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	22
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness	22
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models	22
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique	22
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso	22
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities	22
Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of “last frontiers” in Brazil and Myanmar	22
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru	22
Decarbonisation and specialisation downgrading: The double harm of GVC integration	22
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India	21
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes	21
Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming	21
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment	21
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change	21
The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador	21
The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique	21
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa	21

Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?	21
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]	21
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program	21
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections	21
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women	21
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction	20
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil	20
Taking off or putting on shoes?: Barefoot doctors, mental-manual labor, and the health revolution in Mao’s China	20
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries	20
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China	20
Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa	20
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil	20
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries	20
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors	20
Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia	20
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique	20
Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods	20
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic	20
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh	20
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities	20
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil	20
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates	19
Editorial Board	19
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	19
Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya	19
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries	19
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region	19
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	19
Editorial Board	19
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	19
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	19
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests	19
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	19
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	19
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	19
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents	19
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	18
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	18
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	18
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	18
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	18
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador	18
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	18
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	18
India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s	18
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil	18
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	18
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	18
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	18
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?	18
Editorial Board	17
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru	17
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	17
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	17
Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade	17
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China	17
Enforcing government policies: The role of state-owned enterprise in China’s one child policy	17
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	17
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	17
Editorial Board	17
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia	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
Editorial Board	17
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal	17
Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya	16
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation	16
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	16
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures	16
El Niño and children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes	16
Sustainable and just energy transition in the Global South	16
Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement	16
Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses	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
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya	16
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil	16
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories	16
Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries	16
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives	16
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam	16
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums	16
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali	16
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú	16
Agricultural investment behaviour and contingency: Experimental evidence from Uganda	15
Does transparency pay? Natural resources, financial development and the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI)	15
Democracy, hybrid regimes, and inequality: The divergent effects of contestation and inclusiveness	15
Global Distributions of Capital and Labor Incomes	15
Nurse migration: Long-run determinants and dynamics of flows in response to health and economic shocks	15
Impacts of negative shocks on wellbeing and aspirations – Evidence from an earthquake	15
Air pollution and willingness to pay for health risk reductions in Egypt: A contingent valuation survey of Greater Cairo and Alexandria households	15
Convergence in resource productivity	15
The gender labor productivity gap across informal firms	15
The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on child food insecurity in Africa	15
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa	15