| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The separation of ownership and control in East Asian Corporations | Journal of Financial Economics | 2000 | 4,270 |
| 2 | Aid, Policies, and Growth | American Economic Review | 2000 | 2,467 |
| 3 | What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival | Lancet, The | 2008 | 1,682 |
| 4 | Fiscal policy and economic growth | Journal of Monetary Economics | 1993 | 1,358 |
| 5 | Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis | Lancet, The | 2011 | 1,339 |
| 6 | Financial development and dynamic investment behavior: Evidence from panel VAR | Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance | 2006 | 1,267 |
| 7 | Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,230 |
| 8 | On exports and economic growth | Journal of Development Economics | 1983 | 1,116 |
| 9 | Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis | Lancet, The | 2004 | 1,086 |
| 10 | The new comparative economics | Journal of Comparative Economics | 2003 | 931 |
| 11 | The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013 | Injury Prevention | 2016 | 898 |
| 12 | Law and finance: why does legal origin matter? | Journal of Comparative Economics | 2003 | 873 |
| 13 | Bank activity and funding strategies: The impact on risk and returns☆ | Journal of Financial Economics | 2010 | 869 |
| 14 | Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world | Lancet, The | 2007 | 841 |
| 15 | Systems integration for global sustainability | Science | 2015 | 820 |
| 16 | US Spending on Personal Health Care and Public Health, 1996-2013 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2016 | 810 |
| 17 | Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages | World Development | 2001 | 791 |
| 18 | Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 786 |
| 19 | Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000–10): taking stock of maternal, newborn, and child survival | Lancet, The | 2010 | 600 |
| 20 | Good policy or good luck? | Journal of Monetary Economics | 1993 | 550 |
| 21 | Inequality, poverty and development | Journal of Development Economics | 1976 | 537 |
| 22 | The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C | Science | 2019 | 498 |
| 23 | The impact of public spending on health: does money matter? | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 493 |
| 24 | Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea: systematic review and meta-analysis | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2007 | 459 |
| 25 | Reciprocity without commitment | Journal of Development Economics | 1993 | 453 |
| 26 | ACCOUNTABILITY AND CORRUPTION: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS MATTER | Economics and Politics | 2005 | 448 |
| 27 | Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle | Science Advances | 2020 | 439 |
| 28 | Income Inequality and Health: What Does the Literature Tell Us? | Annual Review of Public Health | 2000 | 418 |
| 29 | Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks | Review of Economics and Statistics | 2010 | 418 |
| 30 | Estimates of maternal mortality worldwide between 1990 and 2005: an assessment of available data | Lancet, The | 2007 | 413 |
| 31 | The Causes of Deforestation in Developing Countries | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 1985 | 408 |
| 32 | Public spending and outcomes: Does governance matter? | Journal of Development Economics | 2008 | 408 |
| 33 | Weathering climate change: some simple rules to guide adaptation decisions | Ecological Economics | 1999 | 391 |
| 34 | Infrastructure for sustainable development | Nature Sustainability | 2019 | 371 |
| 35 | Education policies for raising student learning: the Finnish approach | Journal of Education Policy | 2007 | 364 |
| 36 | Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Guatemala | World Development | 2010 | 360 |
| 37 | Cities and greenhouse gas emissions: moving forward | Environment and Urbanization | 2011 | 351 |
| 38 | Geographic poverty traps? A micro model of consumption growth in rural China | Journal of Applied Econometrics | 2002 | 347 |
| 39 | Can the World Cut Poverty in Half? How Policy Reform and Effective Aid Can Meet International Development Goals | World Development | 2001 | 335 |
| 40 | The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? | Journal of Development Studies | 2010 | 322 |
| 41 | In Urban And Rural India, A Standardized Patient Study Showed Low Levels Of Provider Training And Huge Quality Gaps | Health Affairs | 2012 | 310 |
| 42 | Why Has Africa Grown Slowly? | Journal of Economic Perspectives | 1999 | 306 |
| 43 | The potential of land rental markets in the process of economic development: Evidence from China | Journal of Development Economics | 2005 | 301 |
| 44 | Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality | Lancet, The | 2020 | 296 |
| 45 | Remittances, Institutions, and Economic Growth | World Development | 2009 | 287 |
| 46 | The Increasing Selectivity of Foreign Aid, 1984–2003 | World Development | 2006 | 285 |
| 47 | Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence | Annual Review of Financial Economics | 2009 | 285 |
| 48 | Smallholder income and land distribution in Africa: implications for poverty reduction strategies | Food Policy | 2003 | 274 |
| 49 | Predictors of endoscopic colorectal cancer screening over time in 11 states | Cancer Causes and Control | 2010 | 265 |
| 50 | Advancement of global health: key messages from the Disease Control Priorities Project | Lancet, The | 2006 | 256 |
