| Trade policy and industrial pollution in Latin America: where are the pollution havens? N Birdsall, D Wheeler The Journal of Environment & Development 2 (1), 137-149, 1993 | 1168 | 1993 |
| Inequality and growth reconsidered: lessons from East Asia N Birdsall, D Ross, R Sabot The World Bank Economic Review 9 (3), 477-508, 1995 | 1065 | 1995 |
| The quality of schooling: Quantity alone is misleading JR Behrman, N Birdsall The American Economic Review 73 (5), 928-946, 1983 | 987 | 1983 |
| Asset inequality matters: an assessment of the World Bank's approach to poverty reduction N Birdsall, JL Londoño The American Economic Review 87 (2), 32-37, 1997 | 952 | 1997 |
| Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: Overview JD Sachs, A Binagwaho, N Birdsall, J Broekmans, M Chowdhury, P Garau, ... Routledge, 2019 | 748 | 2019 |
| Population matters: demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world N Birdsall, AC Kelley, S Sinding OUP Oxford, 2001 | 652 | 2001 |
| Financing health services in developing countries: an agenda for reform JS Akin, N Birdsall, DM De Ferranti World Bank Publications, 1987 | 603 | 1987 |
| Intergenerational mobility in Latin America [with comments] JR Behrman, A Gaviria, M Székely, N Birdsall, S Galiani Economia 2 (1), 1-44, 2001 | 547 | 2001 |
| Winners and losers: assessing the distributional impact of privatization N Birdsall, J Nellis World development 31 (10), 1617-1633, 2003 | 537 | 2003 |
| Stuck in tunnel: Is globalization muddling the middle? N Birdsall, C Graham, S Pettinato Brookings Institution Center Working Paper, 2000 | 482 | 2000 |
| Economic approaches to population growth N Birdsall Handbook of development economics 1, 477-542, 1988 | 409 | 1988 |
| Does the invisible hand need a transparent glove? A Florini World Bank, 2000 | 408 | 2000 |
| Towards universal primary education: investments, incentives, and institutions N Birdsall, R Levine, A Ibrahim European Journal of Education 40 (3), 337-349, 2005 | 377 | 2005 |
| The post-Washington consensus: Development after the crisis N Birdsall, F Fukuyama Foreign Affairs, 45-53, 2011 | 338 | 2011 |
| The (indispensable) middle class in developing countries; or, the rich and the rest, not the poor and the rest N Birdsall EQUITY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD, Ravi Kanbur and Michael Spence, eds., World …, 2010 | 318 | 2010 |
| Public spending on higher education in developing countries: too much or too little? N Birdsall Economics of Education Review 15 (4), 407-419, 1996 | 312 | 1996 |
| Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings N Birdsall Reform and Growth: Evaluating the World Bank Experience, 181, 2008 | 301 | 2008 |
| Natural resources, human capital, and growth N Birdsall, TC Pinckney, RH Sabot Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000 | 296 | 2000 |
| How to help poor countries N Birdsall, D Rodrik, A Subramanian Foreign affairs, 136-152, 2005 | 287 | 2005 |
| Economic reform and wage differentials in Latin America J Behrman, N Birdsall, M Szekely IADB Research Working Paper, 2000 | 279 | 2000 |
