| Introduction J HEYER, P ROBERTS, G WILLIAMS Rural Development, 1981 | 4540* | 1981 |
| State and society in Nigeria G Williams African Books Collective, 2019 | 256 | 2019 |
| Rural development J Heyer, P Roberts, G Williams University of the Witwatersrand, African Studies Seminar, 1980 | 232* | 1980 |
| Becoming a development category N Shrestha Power of development, 259-270, 2005 | 230 | 2005 |
| Rural Development in Tropical Africa J Heyer, P Roberts, G Williams Macmillan, 1981 | 204 | 1981 |
| Taking the part of peasants G Williams Rural Development, 381-398, 2023 | 171 | 2023 |
| Nigeria: economy and society G Williams (No Title), 1976 | 151 | 1976 |
| The World Bank and the peasant problem G Williams Rural development in tropical Africa, 16-51, 1981 | 139 | 1981 |
| Sociology and development Routledge, 2001 | 131* | 2001 |
| Setting the agenda: a critique of the World Bank's rural restructuring programme for South Africa G Williams Journal of Southern African Studies 22 (1), 139-166, 1996 | 109 | 1996 |
| Why structural adjustment is necessary and why it doesn't work G Williams Taylor & Francis Group 21 (60), 214-225, 1994 | 92 | 1994 |
| Modernizing Malthus G Williams, J Crush Power of development, 158-175, 1995 | 86 | 1995 |
| Marketing without and with marketing boards: the origins of state marketing boards in Nigeria G Williams Review of African Political Economy 12 (34), 4-15, 1985 | 83 | 1985 |
| Black economic empowerment in the South African wine industry G Williams Journal of agrarian change 5 (4), 476-504, 2005 | 73 | 2005 |
| Primitive Accumulation: the way to progress? G Williams Development and Change 18 (4), 637-659, 1987 | 65 | 1987 |
| Political Consciousness among the Ibadan Poor G Williams Sociology and Development, 109, 1974 | 62* | 1974 |
| Liberalizing markets and reforming land in South Africa G Williams, J Ewert, J Hamann, N Vink Journal of Contemporary African Studies 16 (1), 65-94, 1998 | 60 | 1998 |
| The politics of the Ibadan peasantry G Beer, CEF* & Williams African Review 5 (3), 235-256, 1975 | 57 | 1975 |
| Land and freedom in South Africa C Murray, G Williams Review of African Political Economy 21 (61), 315-324, 1994 | 55 | 1994 |
| Studying development and explaining policies G Williams Oxford development studies 31 (1), 37-58, 2003 | 53 | 2003 |
