Most cited papers in Urban and Rural Development Challenges
What are the most cited papers in Urban and Rural Development Challenges?
The most cited paper in Urban and Rural Development Challenges is "The Microfinance Promise" (Jonathan Morduch, 1999), with 2,272 citations. Next come "The asset vulnerability framework: Reassessing urban poverty reduction strategies" (2,014) and "The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid" (1,925).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 432 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Microfinance Promise Jonathan Morduch · Journal of Economic Literature | Dec 1999 | 2,272 |
| 2 | The asset vulnerability framework: Reassessing urban poverty reduction strategies Caroline O. N. Moser · World Development | 1998 | 2,014 |
| 3 | The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid C. K. Prahalad, Stuart L. Hart · Revista Eletrônica de Estratégia & Negócios | 24 Aug 2010 | 1,925 |
| 4 | Urbanization in developing countries: Current trends, future projections, and key challenges for sustainability Barney Cohen · Technology in Society | 22 Dec 2005 | 1,908 |
| 5 | Solid waste management challenges for cities in developing countries Lilliana Abarca-Guerrero, Ger Maas, William Hogland · Waste Management | 23 Oct 2012 | 1,695 |
| 6 | Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization Ananya Roy · Planning Theory | 12 Jan 2009 | 1,433 |
| 7 | Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism Ananya Roy · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 11 Feb 2011 | 1,355 |
| 8 | Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets Joseph E. Stiglitz · The World Bank Economic Review | 1990 | 1,338 |
| 9 | World Development Report 2009: reshaping economic geography Allen John Scott · Journal of Economic Geography | 23 Apr 2009 | 1,322 |
| 10 | Microfinance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh Shahidur R. Khandker · The World Bank Economic Review | 31 Aug 2005 | 1,266 |
| 11 | Financial Inclusion and Development Mandira Sarma, Jesim Pais · Journal of International Development | 7 May 2010 | 1,219 |
| 12 | Excavating Lefebvre: The right to the city and its urban politics of the inhabitant Mark Purcell · GeoJournal | Oct 2002 | 1,101 |
| 13 | Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria Christopher Udry · The Review of Economic Studies | Jul 1994 | 1,059 |
| 14 | Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics Arjun Appadurai · Environment and Urbanization | Oct 2001 | 1,011 |
| 15 | Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe’s Central Urban Issues Vanessa Watson · Urban Studies | 15 Sep 2009 | 1,005 |
| 16 | Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps Abhijit G. Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman · American Economic Journal Applied Economics | 2015 | 993 |
| 17 | The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2013 | 944 |
| 18 | Urbanization and its implications for food and farming David Satterthwaite, Gordon McGranahan, Cecilia Tacoli · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 16 Aug 2010 | 938 |
| 19 | Who Takes the Credit?: Gender, Power, and Control Over Loan Use in Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh Anne Marie Goetz, Rina Sen Gupta · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) | 1994 | 937 |
| 20 | The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice Maitreesh Ghatak, Timothy W. Guinnane · Journal of Development Economics | Oct 1999 | 896 |
| 21 | Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South Faranak Miraftab · Planning Theory | 12 Jan 2009 | 889 |
| 22 | Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality Sebastián Galiani, Paul Gertler, Ernesto Schargrodsky · Journal of Political Economy | Feb 2005 | 888 |
| 23 | The Compact City: Just or Just Compact? A Preliminary Analysis Elizabeth J. Burton · Urban Studies | Oct 2000 | 870 |
| 24 | Micro-credit initiatives for equitable and sustainable development: Who pays? Aminur Rahman · World Development | 1999 | 865 |
| 25 | African urban fantasies: dreams or nightmares? Vanessa Watson · Environment and Urbanization | 6 Dec 2013 | 859 |
| 26 | Urban Growth in Developing Countries: A Review of Current Trends and a Caution Regarding Existing Forecasts Barney Cohen · World Development | 15 Nov 2003 | 847 |
| 27 | The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums Alex Ezeh, Oyinlola O Oyebode, David Satterthwaite et al. · The Lancet | 18 Oct 2016 | 807 |
| 28 | Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital Patricia Tweet · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Sep 2006 | 800 |
| 29 | The ‘Urban Age’ in Question Neil Brenner, Christian Schmid · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 4 Dec 2013 | 779 |
| 30 | Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South Jonathan D. Rigg · World Development | 5 Nov 2005 | 779 |
| 31 | Assessment on the urbanization strategy in China: Achievements, challenges and reflections Xingliang Guan, Wei Houkai, Shasha Lu et al. · Habitat International | 6 Dec 2017 | 760 |
| 32 | The City as Assemblage: Dwelling and Urban Space Colin McFarlane · Environment and Planning D Society and Space | 2011 | 742 |
| 33 | Empirical Regularities in the Poverty-Environment Relationship of Rural Households: Evidence from Zimbabwe William Cavendish · World Development | Nov 2000 | 734 |
| 34 | Group lending, local information and peer selection Maitreesh Ghatak · Journal of Development Economics | Oct 1999 | 732 |
| 35 | ‘The planned city sweeps the poor away…’: Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation Vanessa Watson · Progress in Planning | Oct 2009 | 727 |
| 36 | The Real Impact of Improved Access to Finance: Evidence from Mexico Miriam Bruhn, Inessa Love · The Journal of Finance | 12 Aug 2013 | 725 |
| 37 | Point of Use Household Drinking Water Filtration: A Practical, Effective Solution for Providing Sustained Access to Safe Drinking Water in the Developing World Mark D. Sobsey, Christine E. Stauber, Lisa M. Casanova et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 13 May 2008 | 717 |
| 38 | Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak · Econometrica | 2014 | 713 |
| 39 | Uncertainty in adaptive capacity William Neil Adger, Katharine Vincent · Comptes Rendus Géoscience | 24 Feb 2005 | 712 |
| 40 | Cross-country variation in household access to financial services Patrick Honohan · Journal of Banking & Finance | 4 Jun 2008 | 710 |
| 41 | Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty Matthew Desmond · American Journal of Sociology | Jul 2012 | 707 |
| 42 | Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis Md Abdullah Omar, Kazuo Inaba · Journal of Economic Structures | 28 Apr 2020 | 693 |
| 43 | (Re)theorizing Cities from the Global South: Looking Beyond Neoliberalism Susan M. Parnell, Jennifer Robinson · Urban Geography | May 2012 | 690 |
| 44 | Sustainable solid waste management: An integrated approach for Asian countries Ashok V. Shekdar · Waste Management | 10 Dec 2008 | 681 |
| 45 | Inequality and Social Conflict Over Land in Africa Pauline E. Peters · Journal of Agrarian Change | 3 Jun 2004 | 673 |
| 46 | The Economics of Roscas and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation Susan Anderson, Jean‐Marie Baland · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 2002 | 635 |
| 47 | Migration and Incomes in Source Communities: A New Economics of Migration Perspective from China J. Edward Taylor, Scott Rozelle, Alan de Brauw · Economic Development and Cultural Change | Oct 2003 | 625 |
| 48 | Lively Infrastructure Ash Amin · Theory Culture & Society | 6 Oct 2014 | 621 |
| 49 | Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City Michael R. Goldman · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | Dec 2010 | 621 |
| 50 | Self-organization in urban development: towards a new perspective on spatial planning Beitske Boonstra, Luuk Boelens · Urban Research & Practice | Jul 2011 | 608 |
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