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The World Bank Economic Review Template

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About the The World Bank Economic Review format

The World Bank Economic Review is a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, covering Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Global trade and economics, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare. Over its lifetime it has published 1,647 papers, which have received 121,788 citations.

PublisherOxford University Press
Reference styleAuthor–year (OUP)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The World Bank Economic Review, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inFiscal Policy and Economic Growth Global trade and economics Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Global Financial Crisis and Policies Income, Poverty, and Inequality
ISSN0258-6770
Citation impact (2-yr)2.59
h-index166
i10-index892
Article processing charge$3,650
Top institutions publishing hereWorld Bank
Journal websiteacademic.oup.com
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Papers published in The World Bank Economic Review per year

30
2014
79
2015
86
2016
33
2017
32
2018
51
2019
25
2020
28
2021
25
2022
47
2023
61
2024
46
2025

Citation impact of The World Bank Economic Review by publication year

1K
2014
3K
2015
1.7K
2016
1.7K
2017
754
2018
1.6K
2019
397
2020
689
2021
417
2022
310
2023
259
2024
51
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The World Bank Economic Review

A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality

Klaus Deininger, Lyn Squire · 1 Sep 1996

This article presents a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income. The authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares. Comparison of the new data set with existing compilations reveals that the data assembled here represent an improvement in quality and…

3,052 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage, Transport Costs, and Trade

Nuno Limão · 1 Oct 2001

The authors use different data sets to investigate the dependence of transport costs on geography and infrastructure. Infrastructure is an important determinant of transport costs, especially for landlocked countries. Analysis of bilateral trade data confirms the importance of infrastructure and gives an estimate of the elasticity of trade flows with respect to the trade cost…

1,887 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Determinants of Commercial Bank Interest Margins and Profitability: Some International Evidence

Asli Demirgüç‐Kunt, Harry Huizinga · 1 May 1999

Using bank-level data for 80 countries in the years 1988–95, this article shows that differences in interest margins and bank profitability reflect a variety of determinants: bank characteristics, macroeconomic conditions, explicit and implicit bank taxation, deposit insurance regulation, overall financial structure, and underlying legal and institutional indicators. A larger ratio of bank assets to gross…

1,847 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
How Important to India's Poor Is the Sectoral Composition of Economic Growth?

Martin Ravallion, Gaurav Datt · 1 Jan 1996

Using a new series of consistent, consumption-based poverty measures spanning forty years, we assess how much India's poor shared in the country's economic growth, taking into account its urban-rural and output composition. Rural consumption growth reduced poverty in both rural and urban areas. Urban growth brought some benefits to the urban poor, but had no…

1,815 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

The World Bank Economic Review template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does The World Bank Economic Review use?
The World Bank Economic Review uses Author–year (OUP) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The World Bank Economic Review, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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