| Governance, the World Bank and liberal theory D Williams, T Young Political studies 42 (1), 84-100, 1994 | 598 | 1994 |
| What do we know about economic growth? Or, why don't we know very much? C Kenny, D Williams World development 29 (1), 1-22, 2001 | 416 | 2001 |
| The World Bank and social transformation in international politics: liberalism, governance and sovereignty D Williams Routledge, 2012 | 155 | 2012 |
| Constructing the economic space: the World Bank and the making of homo oeconomicus D Williams Millennium 28 (1), 79-99, 1999 | 147 | 1999 |
| Aid and sovereignty: quasi-states and the international financial institutions D Williams Review of International studies 26 (4), 557-573, 2000 | 124 | 2000 |
| International development and global politics: history, theory and practice D Williams Routledge, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
| International development in transition S Harman, D Williams International Affairs 90 (4), 925-941, 2014 | 73 | 2014 |
| Governing the world S Harman, D Williams Cases in, 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| Governance and the Discipline of Development DG Williams The European Journal of Development Research 8, 157-177, 1996 | 62 | 1996 |
| Civil society and the liberal project in Ghana and Sierra Leone D Williams, T Young Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 6 (1), 7-22, 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
| Development, intervention, and international order D Williams Review of International Studies 39 (5), 1213-1231, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Making a liberal state:‘good governance’in Ghana D Williams Review of African Political Economy 37 (126), 403-419, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| From downturn to recovery: Cambodia's garment sector in transition S Dasgupta, T Poutiainen, D Williams ILO, 2018 | 27 | 2018 |
| Adam Smith and colonialism D Williams Journal of international political theory 10 (3), 283-301, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| Liberalism and ‘development discourse’ D Williams Africa 63 (3), 419-429, 1993 | 22 | 1993 |
| Aid as autobiography D Williams Africa 72 (1), 150-163, 2002 | 20 | 2002 |
| State agency and state formation in Africa D Williams African agency in international politics, 129-142, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| The international politics of social transformation: trusteeship and intervention in historical perspective D Williams, T Young Empire, development and colonialism: The past in the present. London …, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| The world Bank and the liberal project D Williams, T Young The World Bank: Development, Poverty, Hegemony, 203-225, 2007 | 17 | 2007 |
| Managing sovereignty: the World Bank and development in sub-Saharan Africa D Williams Mondes en développement 123 (3), 5-21, 2003 | 16 | 2003 |
