2026 Bina Agarwal: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	54	1103	979	122	109	124	20715

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
2017 - International Balzan Prize
2010 - Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute

Overview

Bina Agarwal is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans social sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, focusing extensively on issues related to gender, labor, land rights, and rural development. The main fields of study include social sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, with subfields in gender studies, sociology and political science, general agricultural and biological sciences, economics and econometrics, and soil science.

The primary topics covered in their work encompass gender, labor, and family dynamics; social and economic development in India; land rights and reforms; agriculture, land use, and rural development; impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; income, poverty, and inequality; and employment and welfare studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include World Development, The Journal of Development Studies, Economia Politica, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Sustainability.

World Development
The Journal of Development Studies
Economia Politica
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Nature Sustainability

Among the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Agarwal are:

COVID-19 and the case for global development (2020) published in World Development
Livelihoods in COVID times: Gendered perils and new pathways in India (2021) published in World Development
How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and Intra-gender Gaps (2021) published in The Journal of Development Studies
A tale of two experiments: institutional innovations in women's group farming in India (2020) published in Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement
Reflections on the Less Visible and Less Measured: Gender and COVID-19 in India (2021) published in Gender & Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Agarwal include Johan A. Oldekop, Rory Horner, David Hulme, Roshan Adhikari, and Matthew Alford.

Johan A. Oldekop
Rory Horner
David Hulme
Roshan Adhikari
Matthew Alford

The scientist has received several awards recognizing their contributions, including the International Balzan Prize in 2017, the Fellow distinction of The World Academy of Sciences in 2018, and the Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute in 2010.

Best Publications

''Bargaining'' and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household

Bina Agarwal

2643
Citations
Participatory exclusions, community forestry, and gender: An analysis for South Asia and a conceptual framework

Bina Agarwal

1943
Citations
A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia.

John Harriss;Bina Agarwal

1759
Citations
The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India

Bina Agarwal

1560
Citations
Marital Violence, Human Development and Women's Property Status in India

Pradeep Panda;Bina Agarwal

850
Citations
Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospects via the State, Family and Market

Bina Agarwal

759
Citations
Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions

R. Muradian;M. Arsel;L. Pellegrini;F. Adaman

669
Citations
Conceptualising environmental collective action: Why gender matters

Bina Agarwal

640
Citations
Gender and command over property: A critical gap in economic analysis and policy in South Asia

Bina Agarwal

611
Citations
Gender and forest conservation: The impact of women's participation in community forest governance

Bina Agarwal

599
Citations
Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women's Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry

Bina Agarwal

479
Citations
Environmental Action, Gender Equity and Women's Participation

Bina Agarwal

475
Citations
Food sovereignty, food security and democratic choice: critical contradictions, difficult conciliations

Bina Agarwal

470
Citations
Does Women's Proportional Strength Affect their Participation? Governing Local Forests in South Asia

Bina Agarwal

330
Citations
Women, poverty and agricultural growth in India

Bina Agarwal

324
Citations
Social security and the family: Coping with seasonality and calamity in rural India

Bina Agarwal

320
Citations
Gender equality, food security and the sustainable development goals

Bina Agarwal;Bina Agarwal

294
Citations
COVID-19 and the case for global development

Johan A. Oldekop;Rory Horner;David Hulme;Roshan Adhikari

288
Citations
Gender and green governance

Bina Agarwal.

241
Citations
Toward Freedom from Domestic Violence: The Neglected Obvious

Bina Agarwal;Pradeep Panda

216
Citations
A field of one's own

Bina Agarwal

159
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Neufeldt Technical University of Denmark

Amartya Sen Harvard University

Martin Neil Baily Brookings Institution

Robert M. Solow MIT

Anthony Bebbington Clark University

Dilys Roe International Institute for Environment and Development

Erik Gómez-Baggethun Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Richard B. Norgaard University of California, Berkeley

Albert V. Norström Stockholm Resilience Centre

Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

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