World Development

Article	Citations
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	275
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	183
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	128
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	99
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	99
Erratum to “Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan” [World Dev. 146 (2021) 105477]	93
Erratum to “The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu” [World Dev. 142 (2021) 105363]	90
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	81
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	79
Missing women in India: Gender-specific effects of early-life rainfall shocks	78
Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico	76
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	71
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	71
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	67
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	66
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	66
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	65
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	63
Can fruit and vegetable aggregation systems better balance improved producer livelihoods with more equitable distribution?	63
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	60
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	58
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	58
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	58
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	56
Grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s urban Amazon: Global investments, persistent floods, and local resistance across political and legal arenas	55

Across the stolen Ponds: The political geography of social welfare in rural eastern India	55
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	54
Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China	48
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	48
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	48
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	47
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	47
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	47
Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies	47
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	46
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	46
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	46
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	44
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	43
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	41
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	41
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	41
Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan	40
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	40
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	40
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	39
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	39
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	39
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	38
Urban social movements and local state capacity	38
Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights	38
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	38
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	37
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	37
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	36
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	36
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	35
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	35
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	34
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city	34
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure	34
Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS	34
Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China	33
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing	33
The poverty effect of democratization	33
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia	33
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	33
Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts	33
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor	32
Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam	32
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development	32
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho	32
Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands	32
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries	32
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania	32

Moving out of agriculture in Bangladesh: The role of farm, non-farm and mixed households	31
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers	31
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives	31
Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa	31
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road	31
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
Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability	31
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market	31
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison	30
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty	30
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan	30
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid	30
Editorial Board	30
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar	30
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya	29
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China	29
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy	29
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi	29
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?	29
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania	28
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa	28
Child poverty among refugees	28
From targeted private benefits to public goods: Land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia	28
Subway and entrepreneurship	28
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal	27
Preferences of vulnerable social groups for ecosystem-based adaptation to flood risk in Central Vietnam	27
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	27
Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India	27
Aid effectiveness and donor motives	26
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa	26
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?	26
From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru	26
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited	26
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection	26
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations	26
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India	26
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania	25
Gender and development in the agrarian south	25
Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan	25
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States	25
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia	25
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake	25
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania	25
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda	24
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia	24
Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand	24
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition	24
Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South	24
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund	24
The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique	23
South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health	23
Reducing gender inequalities through land titling? The case of Gozamin Woreda	23
Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand	23
Critical junctures, agrarian change, and the (re)production of vulnerability in a marginalised Indigenous society	23
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models	23
Editorial Board	23
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana	23
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change	23
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund	22
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide	22
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections	22
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India	22
Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of “last frontiers” in Brazil and Myanmar	22
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control	22
Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa	22
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	22
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment	22
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war	22
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women	22
The impact of investing in social care on employment generation, time-, income-poverty by gender: A macro-micro policy simulation for Turkey	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
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence	22
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities	22
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness	22
Status inequality and public goods	21
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis	21
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law	21
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru	21
Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming	20

The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors	20
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries	20
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program	20
Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding	20
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes	20
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic	20
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction	20
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?	20
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]	20
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil	20
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil	20
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique	20
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh	19
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities	19
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	19
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China	19
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates	19
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil	19
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests	19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries	19
The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador	19
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region	19
Hiding behind the veil of ashes: Social capital in the wake of natural disasters	19
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	19
Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia	19
Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa	19
Editorial Board	18
Editorial Board	18
India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s	18
Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador	18
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	18
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	18
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?	18
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	18
Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya	18
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	18
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	18
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents	18
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	18
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	18
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation	17
Editorial Board	17
When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries	17
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	17
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	17
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	17
Editorial Board	17
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	17
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	17
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	17
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	17
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	17
Editorial Board	17
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil	17
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil	17
Variety of national innovation systems (NIS) and alternative pathways to growth beyond the middle-income stage: Balanced, imbalanced, catching-up, and trapped NIS	17
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	17
El Niño and children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes	16
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China	16
Enforcing government policies: The role of state-owned enterprise in China’s one child policy	16
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	16
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú	16
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives	16
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia	16
Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement	16
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	16
Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade	16
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali	16
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
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	16
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	16
In-utero Exposure to Rainfall Variability and Early Childhood Health	16
Perceptions of injustices in the struggle for scarce critical lands: Farmer-herder conflict and violence escalation in the Benue-Nasarawa borderland	15
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa	15
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums	15
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey	15
Short- and long-term food insecurity and policy responses in pandemics: Panel data evidence from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries	15
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya	15
The empirics of and policies for sustainability in global value chains	15
The mixed impacts of peer punishments on common-pool resources: Multi-country experimental evidence	15
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru	15
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories	15
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam	15
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal	15
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures	15
Natives’ gender norms and the labor market integration of female immigrants	15
Does accountability enhance service delivery? Assessment of a local scorecard initiative in Uganda	15
Sustainable and just energy transition in the Global South	15
Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya	15
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico	15
Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses	15
Legislative decentralization and regulatory dilution: Evidence from air pollution control in China	14
The economic efficiency of aid targeting	14
Automated Deindustrialization: How Global Robotization Affects Emerging Economies—Evidence from Brazil	14