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title: "World Development: 27 recent papers (last 30 days)"
description: "World Development published 27 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #30 of 239 journals."
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# World Development

- 6 papers in the last 7 days
- category: Economics
- publisher: Elsevier BV
- ISSN 0305-750X

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md

## Key findings

- World Development published 27 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #30 of 239 journals.
- Leading institutions: University of Göttingen (2), Beijing Institute of Technology (2) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2).
- Countries: United States (6), China (5) and Germany (4).
- From Apr 2024 to Sep 2026, World Development published 740 papers (25 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
- Its most frequent keywords over that period were “China” (42), “developing countries” (25) and “India” (24).
- Its most-cited paper of the period is “Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?” (2025-06-21), with 26 citations.

## The last 30 months

*Papers by publication date, Apr 2024 to Sep 2026*

| Apr 24–Sep 24 | Oct 24–Sep 25 | Oct 25–Sep 26 | 30 months |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 130 | 326 | 284 | 740 |

*Most frequent keywords, Apr 2024 to Sep 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 42 |
| 2 | developing countries | 25 |
| 3 | India | 24 |
| 4 | poverty reduction | 23 |
| 5 | Global South | 21 |
| 6 | sub-Saharan Africa | 21 |
| 7 | Africa | 20 |
| 8 | deforestation | 20 |
| 9 | income inequality | 20 |
| 10 | climate change adaptation | 18 |

*Most-cited papers published Apr 2024 to Sep 2026*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 1.6 | [Is the rising tide of specialty coffee lifting all boats?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107103) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2025-06-21 | Karl Wienhold, Peter W. Roberts |
| 2 | 26 | 2.4 | [Who on earth is using Generative AI?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107260) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2025-11-27 | Yan Liu, He Wang |
| 3 | 22 | 1.1 | [Greening agriculture for rural development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.106974) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2025-03-06 | Edward B. Barbier |
| 4 | 22 | 1.1 | [India’s premature deindustrialization and Falling investment rate in the 2010s](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.106954) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2025-03-17 | R. Nagaraj |
| 5 | 21 | 1.1 | [Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106906) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2025-03-03 | Nikita Sud |

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | [Is it abundance or scarcity? Reassessing freshwater resources and civil war onset (1960–2023)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107605) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Sanggyu Suh |  |
| 2026-10-22 | [Voluntary sustainability standards and economic and ecological outcomes: panel evidence from Rwanda’s coffee sector](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107602) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Marlene Yu Lilin Wätzold, Amanda Cooke, Carolina Ocampo‐Ariza et al. | University of Göttingen; Universidade de São Paulo; Technische Universität Darmstadt; … |
| 2026-10-21 | [Despite the odds: assessing Africa’s new social welfare landscape](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107600) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Yonatan L. Morse | University of Connecticut |
| 2026-10-21 | [“Made in heaven, matched by parents”: Can arranged marriage restrict labour market autonomy and participation of women?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107589) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Sugata Bag, Anirban Kar | University of Delhi; Centre for Development Economics |
| 2026-10-21 | [The impact of regional growth on internal migration: a district-level analysis for Malawi](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107601) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Mauro Lanati, Rainer Thiele |  |
| 2026-10-20 | [Invisible bridge: Digital infrastructure, energy transition, and energy poverty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107604) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Shunlin Jin, Shuai Shao, Weidong Wang et al. |  |
| 2026-10-15 | [Why identity matters for development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107599) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Ashwini Deshpande | Ashoka University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Extreme weather and human capital formation: evidence from Qing China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107587) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Weilong Li, Hua Liao, Meixuan Teng | Beijing Institute of Technology; China University of Petroleum, Beijing |
| 2026-10-10 | [When heat hits: Short-run saving and withdrawal behavior among microfinance clients in Benin](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107578) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Anna Mader, Oliver Mußhoff | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 2026-10-09 | [Political elites and access to economic opportunities in China’s rural market transition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107590) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Lin Xie, Mengting Liang, Q.F. Hou J.M. Han C.Y. Li et al. | South China Agricultural University; Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Zhejiang University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Drought, women’s time poverty, and the development costs of water collection in Sub-Saharan Africa](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107592) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Xueyang Wang, Wenling Liu | Beijing Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-09 | [The Olympic effect revisited: 1950–2019](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107569) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Renjing Chen, Meng Gao, Wenzheng Gao et al. | Wuhan University; Nankai University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Editorial Board](https://doi.org/10.1016/s0305-750x(26)00286-x) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) |  |  |
| 2026-10-07 | [Governing Indigenous territories: trust, moral economy, and the legitimation of Indigenous territorial authority in the Honduran Moskitia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107577) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Fernando Galeana | William & Mary |
| 2026-10-07 | [Dependent development at the energy transition: placing lithium imaginaries in Neoliberal and Contentious Peru](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107586) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | José Carlos Orihuela, Arturo Mendieta, Sergio Serrano | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| 2026-10-05 | [Mobile internet connectivity and climate change literacy in Africa](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107585) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Yacouba Kassouri | Prague University of Economics and Business |
| 2026-10-05 | [Deforestation in the Colombian amazon biome: socioeconomic and socio-environmental conflict drivers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107574) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Jorge Higinio Maldonado, Rocío Moreno-Sánchez, Jorge Montero-Mestre | Universidad de Los Andes |
| 2026-10-05 | [Early-life adversity and long-term outcomes: evidence from the cocoa swollen shoot virus outbreak in the Gold Coast](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107588) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Mohammed Iddrisu Kambala | University of South Carolina |
| 2026-10-05 | [Do workers value formal jobs? Evidence from Brazil](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107584) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Katharina Fietz | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| 2026-10-03 | [Foreign aid and power play: Political cycles in world bank’s procurement allocation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107582) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Antoine Boucher, Lisa Chauvet, Marin Ferry | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Aix-Marseille Université; Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques; … |
| 2026-10-02 | [The politics of environmental peacebuilding: global agendas, advocacy networks, and domestic policy arenas](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107580) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Jacobo Grajales, Meryam El Bouhati, Benjamin Lévy et al. | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Université de Lille |
| 2026-10-02 | [Income inequality as a barrier to the CO2-reducing potential of public investment: evidence from Latin America](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107583) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Tainari Taioka, Marina da Silva Sanches, Gilberto Tadeu Lima |  |
| 2026-10-01 | [Protected areas: questioning the development-conservation system. A socio-political-economic and ecological framework for a bottom-up approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107579) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud, Florent Bédécarrats et al. | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Université Paris Dauphine-PSL; … |
| 2026-09-29 | [Measuring global exploitation, 1990–2023: does globalization equalize exploitation rates?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107581) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Tomás Nielsen Rotta | University of London; Goldsmiths University of London |
| 2026-09-29 | [Economic abuse and food insecurity among women living with HIV in Ghana](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107576) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Gervin Ane Apatinga, Eric Yeboah Tenkorang | University of Calgary; Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| 2026-09-28 | [Can strong donor governance rescue projects in weak-governance recipient countries? Evidence from the World Bank](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107573) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | Mengqi Wang, Yongkui Li, Shenyang Jiang | Tongji University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 2026-09-28 | [Water expenditure, service quality and distributional outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107548) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | María Pérez Urdiales, Carolina Tojal Ramos dos Santos | Inter-American Development Bank |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). World Development. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development

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