World Development

Article	Citations
Verdant vitality: forests benefit child health in China	303
Gutenberg 2.0 − Academic publishing in the digital world	169
Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Informality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	118
Avocados: Mexico’s green gold, drug cartel violence and the U.S. opioid crisis	114
The winds of inequalities: How hurricanes affect inequalities at the macro level	102
Violent conflicts and learning outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	100
An institutional analysis of ‘power within’ local governance: A Bazaari tale from Pakistan	95
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	93
Cultivating inequality? Regional rubber dynamics and implications for voluntary sustainability programs in Lao PDR	89
Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal	85
Discrimination in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia	84
Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal	83
The role of the commodity price boom in shaping public social spending: Evidence from Latin America	79
The economic burden of non-communicable diseases on households and their coping mechanisms: Evidence from rural Vietnam	68
Seeing the broader picture: Stakeholder contributions to understanding infrastructure impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon	64
Long-term impacts of school nutrition: Evidence from China’s school meal reform	64
How epidemics affect marginalized communities in war-torn countries: Ebola, securitization, and public opinion about the security forces in Liberia	63
What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions	61
Infrastructure-driven land appropriation, institutional change and conflict in a communal conservancy in Kenya	60
Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods	58
Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns, determinants	58
The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement	57
Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics	55
Is the conventional wisdom on resource taxation correct? Mining evidence from African countries' tax legislations	53
Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?	52

A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India	51
Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali	48
'Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators': Reclaimers, S@S, and the five types of residents in Johannesburg, South Africa	47
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean	46
Urban social movements and local state capacity	46
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India: Surfacing intersections and tensions between religious and other inequalities	46
Blended Binds: How DFI's support programs stifle bank lending in Africa	46
Time use of youth during a pandemic: Evidence from Mexico	45
Expectations, authority and divergent market transitions	45
Historical bombings, urban community, and prosociality: Application of the First internet lab-in-the-field experiment	44
On the distributional effects of principal-agent problems: Evidence from China’s shell farmer cooperatives	44
Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue	43
Who communicates the information matters for technology adoption	43
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	43
Disaster mortalities and the Sendai Framework Target A: Insights from Zimbabwe	43
Armed conflict, institutions and deforestation: A dynamic spatiotemporal analysis of Colombia 2000–2018	43
Oil revenues and labor market reforms	43
Identity and conflict: Evidence from Tuareg rebellion in Mali	42
Representation matters? Female legislators and women’s health in Bangladesh	42
The fiscal cost of conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005–2017	42
Community and industrial forest concessions: Are they effective at reducing forest loss and does FSC certification play a role?	42
Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs	41
The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion	41
Scaling up and scaling out of darkness: Elucidating the influences of institutional dysfunction in scaling up solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa	41
Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal	40
Sanitation and work time: Evidence from the toilet revolution in rural China	38
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality: Evidence from the compulsory primary schooling law in Vietnam	38
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data	38
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War	38
Who are the “vanguard” women? Strategies for identifying women going against economic participation norms across 49 low- and middle-income countries	37
Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect	35
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
“I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution	35
The poverty effect of democratization	35
Electing governors: complexities of institutional design in Latin America’s unitary countries	35
Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing	35
“Dream brokers” and the moral economy of frontier investments	34
Child labor among farm households in Mozambique and the role of reciprocal adult labor	34
Mapping community development aid: Spatial analysis in Myanmar	33
Tracking Chinese aid through China Customs	33
Impact of official development assistance projects for renewable energy on electrification in sub-Saharan Africa	33
Criminal governance and public resources: The case of paramilitaries and health care provision in Colombia	33
Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts	33
Protein pluralism and food systems transition: A review of sustainable protein meta-narratives	32
The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development	32
The BRI: A new development cooperation paradigm in the making? Unpacking China’s infrastructure cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road	32
Deliberating towards development: A framework for co-constructing policies with people in poverty	31
The effects of resource-backed loans on deforestation: Evidence from developing countries	31
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city	31
Leaving the hearth you know: Internal migration and energy poverty	31

Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China	31
Evidence and determinants of rural crime victimization in Tanzania	31
The impact of firm downsizing on workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	31
Aid effectiveness: Human rights as a conditionality measure	31
Adaptation to expected and unexpected weather fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi smallholder farmers	31
Community mobilisation in the framework of supportive social environment to prevent family violence in Solomon Islands	31
Cash Transfers, Time Discounting, and Agricultural Inputs Utilization in Lesotho	31
Domestic violence and workfare: An evaluation of India’s MGNREGS	31
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global wheat market	31
Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania	30
Violent Conflicts and Education: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited	30
Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?	30
Strategizing actors and agents in the functioning of informal property Rights: The tragicomedy of the extralegal housing market in China	30
Gender and development in the agrarian south	30
Editorial Board	29
Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa	29
Is there a virtuous cycle between wages and productivity? Turkish experience after the transition to democracy	29
Customary courts, state institutions, or opting out: Patterns of forum pluralism in three African countries	28
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi	28
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania	28
The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda	28
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia	28
Security fosters generosity: Social security protection and charitable giving	27
Revisiting the role of secondary towns: How different types of urban growth relate to poverty in Indonesia	27
Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya	27
REDD+: The perfect marriage between conservation and development? A comparative study of the impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods and deforestation in Tanzania	27
How natural resource rents, exports, and government resource revenues determine Genuine Savings: Causal evidence from oil, gas, and coal	27
Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison	27
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya: From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund	27
Infrastructure Services and Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Water, Sanitation, and Garbage Collection	26
Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan	26
Temperature and risk of diarrhoea among children in Sub-Saharan Africa	26
Subway and entrepreneurship	26
Child poverty among refugees	26
Commodity price fluctuations and child malnutrition	26
Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid	25
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India	25
Natural disasters and labor migration: Evidence from Nepal’s earthquake	25
Life expectancy across countries: Convergence, divergence and fluctuations	24
Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?	24
Inclusive reforms as levers for social exclusion: The paradoxical consequences of quotas for women in rural India	24
Impacts of refugee influx on the local economy and environmental degradation in Bangladesh: A spatial multilevel autoregressive analysis	24
Gender differences in gross national happiness: Analysis of the first nationwide wellbeing survey in Bhutan	24
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	24
Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States	24
Contraception to women’s economic empowerment: A narrative review	24
Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: Evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana	24
Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand	24
Aid effectiveness and donor motives	24
Long-lasting consequences of being targeted	24
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India: Understanding the role of male backlash and household bargaining models	24
South-South cooperation and the re-politicization of development in health	23
Limiting aggressive policing can reduce police and civilian violence	23
Editorial Board	23
Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections	23
Going local without localization: Power and humanitarian response in the Syrian war	23
Love Thy Neighbour? Social Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities	23
Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls’ locus of control	23
Well-being costs of unpaid care: Gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India	23
Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique	23
Editorial Board	22
Foreign aid in a divided country: Subnational aid allocations in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	22
Coping (more or less) with health shocks: A longitudinal perspective on financial protection from Nepal	22
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of displacement induced by climate change	22
Inventory credit to enhance food security in Burkina Faso	22
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment	22
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness	22
Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund	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
Decarbonisation and specialisation downgrading: The double harm of GVC integration	21
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law	21
Adoption and intensity of agricultural mechanization and their impact on non-farm employment of rural women	21
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	21
Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide	21
The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique	21
Status inequality and public goods	21
Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests	20
Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh	20
Transnational partnerships, domestic institutions, and sustainable development. The case of Brazil and the Amazon Region Protected Areas program	20

The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador	20
Spatially heterogeneous effects of collective action on environmental dependence in Namibia’s Zambezi region	20
Immiserizing growth and the middle-income trap in rural South East Asia: Comparing exclusion and coping mechanisms among farming and fishing communities	20
Corrigendum to “The perversion of public land distribution by landed elites: Power, inequality and development in Colombia” [World Development 136 (2020) 105036]	20
Climate adaptation policies and rural income: Evidence from social technologies in Brazil	20
Gray skies and blue moms: The effect of air pollution on parental life satisfaction	20
Taking off or putting on shoes?: Barefoot doctors, mental-manual labor, and the health revolution in Mao’s China	20
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic	19
Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese overseas workers, and collective labor rights in Africa	19
Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China	19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries	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
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries	19
Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods	19
China’s BRI developmental agency in its own words: A content analysis of key policy documents	19
Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil	19
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes	19
Murder nature: Weather and violent crime in rural Brazil	19
The shadow of the epidemic: Long-term impacts of meningitis exposure on risk preference and behaviors	19
Taming systemic corruption: The American experience and its implications for contemporary debates	19
Beyond individualistic behaviour: Social norms and innovation adoption in rural Mozambique	19
Corrigendum to ‘‘Tracing China’s agrochemical complex” [World Dev. 181 (2024) 106675]	19
The political behavior of family firms: Evidence from Brazil	18
Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay	18
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector	18
Editorial Board	18
Does aid to migrants in “transit countries” affect their movement intentions? Evidence from Libya	18
Establishing the link between internal and international migration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	18
India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s	18
Spillover Effects and Diffusion of Savings Groups	18
Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America	18
Within the cracks of the cosmic race: Income inequalities by race and ethnicity in Latin America	18
The sand curse: sand mining, environmental degradation and social conflicts in The Gambia	18
Sobriety, social capital, and village network structures	18
Editorial Board	18
Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?	18
Public services as carriers of ideas that (de-) legitimise the state: The illustrative case of free education in Sri Lanka	17
Economic incentives and return migrant scholars: Evidence from a talent recruitment program in China	17
The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial panel data approach	17
Marginals within the marginalised: Exploring the changes in occupational pattern among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation in India	17
Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism	17
Estimating the potential of international carbon markets to increase global climate ambition	17
Reducing energy poverty by nearly universal pension coverage of rural China	17
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	17
Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries	16
Decentralization and local industrial policy in Mexico	16
Development of agroforestry food resources in Niger: Are farmers’ preferences context specific?	16
The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam	16
The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation	16
Editorial Board	16
A food insecurity Kuznets Curve?	16
Mosaic glimpses: Serious games, generous constraints, and sustainable futures in Kandal, Cambodia	16
Sustainable and just energy transition in the Global South	16
Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh	16
Editorial Board	16
Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses	16
Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, control, and violence in northern Kenya	16
The hidden cost of global economic integration: How foreign investment drives military expenditures	16
Revisit the one-time subsidies and long-run adoption of health products: Quasi-experimental evidence from providing free eyeglasses in rural China	15
Financial cooperatives and poverty mitigation during Brazil’s lost decade	15
Effective community mobilization: Evidence from Mali	15
Financial inclusion and roof quality: Satellite evidence from Chilean slums	15
Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement	15
El Niño and children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes	15
Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú	15
Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone	15
Local context and mobilization in poor communities: Lessons from Kenya, Malawi and Zambia	15
Child nutrition: The effect of micro and macro fertility levels at birth	15
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories	15
Editorial Board	15
Healthcare reform and gender specific infant mortality in rural Nepal	15
Reassessing transformation pathways: Global trends in rural household farm and non-farm livelihood strategies with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa	15
The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey	15
Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives	15
What procedures matter to social acceptance of mining? A conjoint experiment in Peru	15
Does Household Electrification Empower Rural Boys and Girls Alike? Evidence from Brazil	15
Who is asking and how? Effects of survey mode and enumerator gender on measuring women’s life experience	15
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]	15
Unpacking the penetration of agrochemicals in China: The commodification of agricultural inputs and the invisible dispossession of smallholders	15
Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019	15
The mixed impacts of peer punishments on common-pool resources: Multi-country experimental evidence	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
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal	15
The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya	15
From fees to free: User fee removal, maternal health care utilization and child health in Zambia	14
What is driving reliance on shared sanitation in urban informal settlements? Challenges and pathways for improvement	14
Unpaid care work for the elderly in Thailand: does the social gender norm on altruistic behavior matter?	14
Does accountability enhance service delivery? Assessment of a local scorecard initiative in Uganda	14
Bank deregulation and corporate environmental performance	14
Curtailing Covid-19 on a dollar-a-day in Malawi: Role of community leadership for shaping public health and economic responses to the pandemic	14
Global Distributions of Capital and Labor Incomes	14
The economic efficiency of aid targeting	14
Increasing engagement in price crowdsourcing initiatives: Using nudges in Nigeria	14
Legislative decentralization and regulatory dilution: Evidence from air pollution control in China	14
Impacts of negative shocks on wellbeing and aspirations – Evidence from an earthquake	14