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- wp-2025-49: Son preference and multidimensional well-being

- Mehwish Ghulam Ali, Ashton De Silva, Sarah Sinclair and Ankita Mishra
- wp-2025-48: Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: an update

- François Steenkamp, Yanele Nyamela, Megan Bryer and Siyanda Jonas
- wp-2025-47: Politicians doing business: Evidence from Mozambique

- Sam Jones, Felix Schilling and Finn Tarp
- wp-2025-46: Kuznets at 70: the enduring significance of a curve and a hypothesis

- James K. Galbraith, Ravi Kanbur, Kunal Sen and Andy Sumner
- wp-2025-45: Informality and violence: Evidence from South Africa

- Leonard Le Roux
- wp-2025-44: Can social protection programmes promote livelihoods and climate resilience in conflict-affected settings?: Evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

- Jeremy Lind, Carolina Holland-Szyp, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Yihunbelay Teshome and Lars Otto Naess
- wp-2025-43: Building net-zero African cities: Decarbonization and structural transformation

- Bazoumana Ouattara
- wp-2025-42: Twenty-five years of inflation targeting in South Africa: Going from 6% to 3%

- Philippe Burger
- wp-2025-41: Global headwinds to Kuznets' low-inequality transformation?: Plutocrats, populism, and more

- Nancy Birdsall
- wp-2025-40: What shapes parents' attitudes towards bilingual education?: Evidence from Mozambique

- Sara Alhola, Feliciano Chimbutane and Ritva Reinikka
- wp-2025-39: Economic structure and top earnings inequality in South Africa: A firm-level and sectoral perspective

- Rafael de la Vega
- wp-2025-38: Corporate taxes and export competition

- Tobias Böhm, Antonia Hohmann, Roxanne Raabe and Nadine Riedel
- wp-2025-37: Rethinking development finance in Tajikistan: Toward more sustainable and inclusive fiscal pathways

- Jovid Ikromi
- wp-2025-36: Estimating the effects and seasonal dynamics of Malawi's 2015/16 drought and humanitarian transfers on household food insecurity and child malnutrition

- Edwin Kenamu and Liesbeth Colen
- wp-2025-35: Political life after ethnic war

- Sarah Z. Daly
- wp-2025-34: Trust in a changing world: Social cohesion and the social contract in uncertain times

- Patricia Justino and Melissa Samarin
- wp-2025-33: Carbon taxation and firm behaviour in emerging economies: Evidence from South Africa

- Johannes Gallé, Rodrigo Oliveira, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel and Edson Severnini
- wp-2025-32: Inequality, income, and democracy in perspective: Insights from novel data analysis

- Rute Martins Caeiro, Rachel M. Gisselquist and Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon
- wp-2025-31: Inequality and redistributive taxation in the Global South

- Andrea Vaccaro
- wp-2025-30: Surviving the storm: how climate-related disasters reshape tax morale in sub-Saharan Africa

- Enrico Nichelatti and Abrams M.E. Tagem
- wp-2025-29: Linkage development as industrial policy: The state and structural transformation in resource-rich countries

- Imaduddin Abdullah and Andy Sumner
- wp-2025-28: War, occupation, and the rule of law: Evidence from Ukraine's Donbas conflict

- Martin Ottmann and Patricia Justino
- wp-2025-27: Structural transformation under vertically divided authority in Harare

- Mfundo Mlilo and Godfrey Mahofa
- wp-2025-26: Towards a measure of local government performance in Ghana: Conceptual framework, data, and results

- Daniel Chachu, Michael Danquah and Rachel M. Gisselquist
- wp-2025-25: Economic development and inequality of opportunity: Kuznets meets the Great Gatsby?

- Francisco Ferreira, Domenico Moramarco and Vito Peragine
- wp-2025-24: Absolute versus relative inequality and social preferences: A comparative study between Mozambique and Viet Nam

- Ines A. Ferreira, Rachel M. Gisselquist and Finn Tarp
- wp-2025-23: Urbanization without structural transformation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

- Ally Abubakar Samiji and Darlene K. Mutalemwa
- wp-2025-22: Fiscal policy and commodity price shocks in South Africa

- Tumisang Loate and Vincent Dadam
- wp-2025-21: Shifting sweetness: impacts of South Africa's Health Promotion Levy on sugar-sweetened beverages

- Tim Cejka, Marlies Piek and Mazhar Waseem
- wp-2025-20: Structural change and income inequality: Evidence from Thailand

- Peter Warr and Arief Anshory Yusuf
- wp-2025-19: From drug trafficking to state capture: The dynamics of criminal governance, political violence, and crime diversification

- Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero
- wp-2025-18: Environmental Kuznets curve and green regulation

- Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Jonathan Ostry and Loredana Pisano
- wp-2025-17: On the redistributive impact of the personal income tax: Evidence from South Africa

- Nadine Riedel and Ida Zinke
- wp-2025-16: Kuznets at -7000: is there a really long-term relationship between growth and inequality?

- Timothy A. Kohler, Adam Green and Scott G. Ortman
- wp-2025-15: Inequality, urbanization, and the Kuznets process: Evidence from India's Annual Periodic Labour Force Surveys

- S Chandrasekhar, Karthikeya Naraparaju and Ajay Sharma
- wp-2025-14: The international financial architecture and sustainable prosperity

- Kevin P. Gallagher
- wp-2025-13: Kuznets in the twenty-first century: Mexico and United States compared

- Saumik Paul and Kunal Sen
- wp-2025-12: Social protection for Mozambique's elderly: History, structure, and potential effectiveness

- Sara Almeida, Hanna Berkel, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino and Telça Massingue
- wp-2025-11: Is inequality always unfair?: Experimental evidence on preferences for redistribution in Mozambique and Viet Nam

- Ines A. Ferreira, Rachel M. Gisselquist and Finn Tarp
- wp-2025-10: Minimum wages, de facto private standards, and trade diversion in horticulture

- Marlies Piek and Dieter von Fintel
- wp-2025-9: Social protection in times of conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia

- Rute Martins Caeiro, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Patricia Justino
- wp-2025-8: New models for South African consumption, house prices, and mortgage and non-mortgage debt: Insights for financial stability and monetary transmission

- Janine Aron and John Muellbauer
- wp-2025-7: How reliable are national accounts estimates of agricultural output?

- Sam Jones and Marcelo Mucocana
- wp-2025-6: Varieties of insecurity and rebel-civilian ties across time: Evidence from post-war Zimbabwe

- Shelley Liu
- wp-2025-5: Inequality and agricultural structural change: Evidence from macro and microdata, 1950-present

- Matthew Fisher-Post
- wp-2025-4: Social protection in humanitarian contexts: exploring stakeholder views from Tanzania

- Roosa Lambin, Winnie C. Muangi and Milla Nyyssölä
- wp-2025-3: Weathering challenges: Distributional impacts of climatic shocks on household consumption in Mozambique

- Patricia Justino, Gabriel Facundes Monteiro, Rodrigo Oliveira and Edson Severnini
- wp-2025-2: Distribution in late development: The political economy of the Kuznets curse in Brazil

- Marc Morgan and Pedro Souza
- wp-2025-1: Rule of law in Mozambique

- Margherita Bove and Patricia Justino
- wp-2024-92: Graduation from cash transfer programmes: Insights from Tanzania

- Winnie C. Muangi
- wp-2024-91: Social protection in humanitarian contexts: exploring stakeholder views from Zambia

- Liana Chikwekwe, Sydney Sihubwa, Muchimba Sarah Siamachoka, Roosa Lambin, Milla Nyyssölä and Rodrigo Oliveira
- wp-2024-90: Can social pensions for the elderly mitigate shocks?: Lessons from Mozambique

- Sara Almeida, Hanna Berkel, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino, Telça Massingue and Hilário Muchabel
- wp-2024-89: Jobs, investments, and exporting: the real effects of electricity crises in South Africa

- Gideon Ndubuisi and Elvis Korku Avenyo
- wp-2024-88: Raindrop in the drought? Vulnerability to climate shocks and the role of social protection in Zambia

- Katrin Gasior, Pia Rattenhuber, Adnan Shahir and Anna Zasova
- wp-2024-87: Dishonesty concessions in teams: Theory and experimental insights from local politicians in India

- Arnab K. Basu, Nancy Chau, Anustup Kundu and Kunal Sen
- wp-2024-86: The gendered effects of climate shocks on labour and welfare in Zambia

- Alessandra Hidalgo-Arestegui, Patricia Justino, Gabriel Facundes Monteiro, Rodrigo Oliveira and Bruce Sianyeuka
- wp-2024-85: Carbon pricing and taxation: A review of approaches and development implications

- Jodie Keane, Hazel Granger, Prachi Agarwal and Maximiliano Mendez-Parra
- wp-2024-84: Is a move up the job ladder an escape from poverty?

- Samuel Ampaw, Michael Danquah, Rajesh Raj Natarajan and Kunal Sen
- wp-2024-83: Work permits for refugees as social protection during polycrises: Evidence from refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

- Wolfgang Stojetz, Piero Ronzani, Sarah Fenzl, Ghassan Baliki and Tilman Brück
- wp-2024-82: Economic impacts of electricity supply shortages in South Africa

- Hiroaki Suenaga
- wp-2024-81: Distributional impacts of global food price shocks in South Africa: Case of Russian-Ukraine conflict

- Faaiqa Hartley and Sherwin Gabriel
- wp-2024-80: The firm-wage gender gap and formal sector churn over the life cycle

- Ihsaan Bassier and Leila Gautham
- wp-2024-79: The role of social assistance in African crises: a systematic literature review

- Kalle Hirvonen, Patricia Justino and Rodrigo Oliveira
- wp-2024-78: Can social assistance reduce violent conflict and civil unrest?: Evidence from a large-scale public works programme in Ethiopia

- Kalle Hirvonen, Elia Machado and Andrew Simons
- wp-2024-77: From the bottom 40 to inequality lines: Sharing prosperity globally and domestically

- Borja Lopez-Noval, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Laurence Roope and Finn Tarp
- wp-2024-76: Securing food, building livelihoods?: A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

- John Hoddinott, Guush Berhane, Daniel Gilligan, Kalle Hirvonen, Neha Kumar, Jeremy Lind, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Alemayehu Taffesse
- wp-2024-75: Gendered effects of climate and conflict shocks on food security in Sudan and the mitigating role of social protection

- Ayşegül Kayaoğlu, Ghassan Baliki and Tilman Brück
- wp-2024-74: Urbanization without structural transformation in Accra, Ghana

- Williams Ohemeng, Abdul Malik Iddrisu, George Domfe and Michael Danquah
- wp-2024-73: The long-term effects of crop diseases on education and earnings

- Yuri Barreto and Rodrigo Oliveira
- wp-2024-72: Donations and tax incentives: Evidence from South Africa

- Fadzayi Chingwere, Matthew Clance, Nicky Nicholls, Aimable Nsabimana and Eleni Yitbarek
- wp-2024-71: Climate shocks and economic resilience: Evidence from Zambia's formal sector

- Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Evaristo Mwale and Rodrigo Oliveira
- wp-2024-70: Intended and unintended consequences of anti-avoidance rules: Evidence from Uganda

- Muhammad Bashir, Usama Jamal, Kyle McNabb and Mazhar Waseem
- wp-2024-69: Urbanization without structural transformation in Lagos, Nigeria

- Abiodun O. Folawewo
- wp-2024-68: Spillover effects of the recent US monetary policy shocks on the South African economy: The role of monetary and fiscal policy coordination

- Guangling Liu and Marrium Mustapher
- wp-2024-67: Armed group taxation, municipal fishing, and environmental preservation in the Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines

- Ana Ibáñez, Maria Adelaida Ortega, Gauthier Marchais, Patricia Justino, Teresita Narvaez, Manuel de Vera, Ryan Tangalin, Benjamin Crost and Jorge Maldonado
- wp-2024-66: Estimating the value-added tax gap in Tanzania: A study of small, medium, and micro enterprises

- Amina Ebrahim, Sebastián Castillo Ramos, Vincent Leyaro, Ezekiel Swema, Oswald Haule, Massaga Fimbo and Ephraim Mdee
- wp-2024-65: Redefining tax progressivity in developing countries: The Progressive Vertical Index

- Ricardo Guerrero Fernandez
- wp-2024-64: What did they say? Respondent identity, question framing, and the measurement of employment

- Rosa Abraham, Nishat Anjum, Rahul Lahoti and Hema Swaminathan
- wp-2024-63: Spatial consumption inequality in Mozambique

- Carlos Gradín
- wp-2024-62: Concealed costs: illicit economies and the erosion of the local tax base in Colombia

- Patricia Justino, Santiago Tobon, Martin Vanegas-Arias and Juan Vargas
- wp-2024-61: Socioeconomic inequality in Viet Nam

- Cuong Nguyen and Finn Tarp
- wp-2024-60: Conflict, taxation, and development

- Anna D'Souza and Zachariah Mampilly
- wp-2024-59: The sustainability of South African fiscal policy

- Philippe Burger
- wp-2024-58: Wait no more: how the administration of VAT refunds impacts firm behaviour

- Giacomo Brusco, Marlies Piek and Tejaswi Velayudhan
- wp-2024-57: A cultural perspective on the cycle of violent conflicts in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria

- Jackson Tamunosaki Jack
- wp-2024-56: Tax financing options for new social protection instruments: The equity implications of taxing more to expand the South African social security system

- Maya Goldman and Ntuthuko Hlela
- wp-2024-55: Income inequality in South Africa: Evidence from individual-level administrative tax data

- Chandré Jacobs, Amina Ebrahim, Murray Leibbrandt, Jukka Pirttilä and Marlies Piek
- wp-2024-54: Legal identity and access to the state in South Africa

- Aimable Nsabimana, Michelle Pleace and Rachel M. Gisselquist
- wp-2024-53: The effects of armed conflicts on local economic dynamics in the Mopti and Ségou regions of Mali

- Mahamadou Bassirou Tangara
- wp-2024-52: Economic geography determinants of spatial wage disparities in South Africa: Evidence from a firm‐level panel

- Sanduku Mulumba, Lawrence Edwards and David Fadiran
- wp-2024-51: Plague, war, and exodus? The effects of desert locust swarms on migration intentions in Yemen

- Yashodhan Ghorpade
- wp-2024-50: The political economy of structural transformation in African cities: Insights from the Deals and Development framework

- Kunal Sen
- wp-2024-49: Statebuilding in fragile countries: What can we learn from past stateness?

- Andrea Vaccaro and Rachel M. Gisselquist
- wp-2024-48: Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset (update)

- Rachel M. Gisselquist, Min Jung Kim, Simone Schotte and Chinmayi Srikanth
- wp-2024-47: From empire to aid: Analysing persistence of colonial legacies in foreign aid to Africa

- Swetha Ramachandran
- wp-2024-46: New estimates of the cost of ending poverty and its global distribution

- Andy Sumner and Arief Anshory Yusuf
- wp-2024-45: Quid pro quo: how the wartime economy shapes the violent contestation of the state after war

- Laura Saavedra-Lux
- wp-2024-44: Surviving in the dark: the mortality effects of reducing rolling blackouts

- Joshua Budlender
- wp-2024-43: The experimented society: interventions, social science, and the failure of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan

- Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
- wp-2024-42: The determinants of domestic savings in Cameroon: what role for institutions?

- Abrams M.E. Tagem and Desiree Sama-Lang
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