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wp-2024-6: Mining spillovers and the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and services

Saumik Paul and Dhushyanth Raju

wp-2024-5: Sheepskin effects and heterogenous wage-setting behaviour: Evidence from Mozambique

David Jaeger and Sam Jones

wp-2024-4: Behind the numbers: exploring caste inequities in entrepreneurial success

Rajesh Raj and Kunal Sen

wp-2024-3: Institutions and governance in Mozambique: A bird's eye view based on existing databases

Ines A. Ferreira

wp-2024-2: What explains the disaster preparedness of micro-enterprises?: Examining socio-psychological characteristics and information provision

Hanna Berkel and Finn Tarp

wp-2024-1: Does it matter who you ask for time-use data?

Deepti Sharma, Hema Swaminathan and Rahul Lahoti

wp-2023-150: The dynamics of formal employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda

Kyle McNabb, Tina Kaidu Barugahara and Susan Kavuma

wp-2023-149: How should an optimal tax system react to a crisis?: Simulation results for Zambia

Dingquan Miao, Ravi Kanbur and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2023-148: Job accessibility and spatial equity: A City of Cape Town case study

Jacomien van der Merwe and Tom de Jong

wp-2023-147: Exploring options to deepen and broaden the personal income tax base in South Africa

Gemma Wright, Katrin Gasior, Joonas Ollonqvist, Wynnona Steyn, Winile Ngobeni, Helen Barnes, Michael Noble, David McLennan, Jukka Pirttilä and Ada Jansen

wp-2023-146: Global income polarization: Relative and absolute perspectives

Vanesa Jorda, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Laurence Roope and Finn Tarp

wp-2023-145: Mobile Internet and income improvement: Evidence from Viet Nam

Trang Thi Pham

wp-2023-144: Polling during war: Challenges and lessons from Ukraine

Kit Rickard, Gerard Toal, Kristin M. Bakke and John O'Loughlin

wp-2023-143: Trust a few: natural disasters and the formation of trust in Africa

Robert Mackay, Astghik Mavisakalyan and Yashar Tarverdi

wp-2023-142: Differential bunching impacts across the income distribution: Evidence from Zambian tax administrative data

Samuel Bryson, Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Evaristo Mwale and John Rand

wp-2023-141: Financial inclusion and nutrition among rural households in Rwanda

Ranjula Bali Swain and Aimable Nsabimana

wp-2023-140: Degrees of disadvantage

Chinmayi Srikanth

wp-2023-139: A reform option for pension fund contribution as tax expenditure in South Africa: A microsimulation model approach using tax administrative data

Ada Jansen, Winile Ngobeni and Wynnona Steyn

wp-2023-138: Sectoral shifts and labour market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

Amie M. Jobe and Roberto Ricciuti

wp-2023-137: Global minimum corporate income tax: Challenges and prospects for Uganda

Corti Paul Lakuma and Rehema Kahunde

wp-2023-136: The political economy of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador: Temporary bandages to permanent wounds?

Tobias Boos and Juan Grigera

wp-2023-135: Construction productivity and global inequality

Saumik Paul and Kunal Sen

wp-2023-134: Compliance rates with local and national business taxes: Evidence from Kampala, Uganda

Rose Vincent, Stephan Dietrich and Kyle McNabb

wp-2023-133: Did Uganda's corporate tax incentives benefit the Ugandan economy or only the firms?

Nicholas Musoke, Tereza Palanská and Caroline Schimanski

wp-2023-132: Rent sharing, wage floors, and development

Joshua Budlender and Ihsaan Bassier

wp-2023-131: Wage inequality, firm characteristics, and firm wage premia in South Africa

Shakeba Foster

wp-2023-130: Performance of tax-benefit systems amid COVID-19 crises in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative perspective

Jesse Lastunen, Adnan Shahir, Pia Rattenhuber, Kwabena Adu-Ababio and Rodrigo Oliveira

wp-2023-129: The economic context of realizing socioeconomic rights in South Africa

Philippe Burger

wp-2023-128: Frontier rule and conflict

Adeel Malik, Rinchan Ali Mirza and Faiz Ur Rehman

wp-2023-127: Double-edged sword: understanding the localized effect of foreign direct investment inflow in conflict settings

Lorenzo Crippa and Laura Saavedra-Lux

wp-2023-126: Using remote tracking technologies to audit and understand medicine theft

Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim, Mariana Carvalho Barbosa and Clark Gibson

wp-2023-125: Double taxation treaties and resource revenue mobilization in developing countries: A neural network approach

Harouna Kinda and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2023-124: Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India

Vegard Iversen, Anustup Kundu, Rahul Lahoti and Kunal Sen

wp-2023-123: Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty?: New projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Arief Anshory Yusuf, Zuzy Anna, Ahmad Komarulzaman and Andy Sumner

wp-2023-122: Rationality, emotions, and ethnicity: Explaining elite political alignments in a deeply divided society

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

wp-2023-121: An open database on inequality and polarization in length of life (1950-2021)

Vanesa Jorda, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Mercedes Tejería

wp-2023-120: Addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam during the COVID-19 pandemic: An examination of the alleviating impact of tax and benefit measures

Antoine de Mahieu and Jesse Lastunen

wp-2023-119: Ethnic diversity and financial inclusion in post-apartheid South Africa

Isaac Koomson, Michael Danquah and Edward Martey

wp-2023-118: Aid and violence reduction

Anke Hoeffler

wp-2023-117: A (time) series of unfortunate events: structural change, globalization, and the rise of occupational injuries

A.V. Chari

wp-2023-116: Exploring the network of individuals that influence the media's inflation message in South Africa

Katrien Smuts

wp-2023-115: Taxation and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

Roel Dom, Oliver Morrissey and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2023-114: The effect of wage subsidies on job retention in a developing country: Evidence from South Africa

Timothy Köhler, Haroon Bhorat and Robert Hill

wp-2023-113: Structural change in the Mozambique economy between 2007 and 2019: A social accounting matrix approach

Dirk van Seventer and Finn Tarp

wp-2023-112: Returns to education and wage inequality in Namibia: A gendered analysis

Obrein Muine Samahiya and Ebenezer Lemven Wirba

wp-2023-111: Ask not what your country can do for you': Legacies of the Great Recession and the consequences of the 'trust crisis

Alia Aghajanian, Rute Martins Caeiro, Eva-Maria Egger, Patricia Justino and Maria Lo Bue

wp-2023-110: Aid's impact on social protection in low- and middle-income countries

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Alma Santillán Hernández

wp-2023-109: Understanding inequality and its evolution in Kenya: The contribution of the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database initiative

Damiano Kulundu Manda, Germano Mwabu, Martine Oleche and Moses Kinyanjui Muriithi

wp-2023-108: Framing the change: analysing employment change, (in)adequacy, and (de)feminization in Cameroon's tertiary firms

Yselle Malah Kuete

wp-2023-107: Empowering youth: the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador

Kamila Aguirre and Vanessa D. Carrión-Yaguana

wp-2023-106: Time-varying fiscal multipliers for South Africa: A large time-varying parameter vector autoregression approach

Gideon du Rand, Hylton Hollander and Dawie van Lill

wp-2023-105: Unravelling aid funding: Linking funding allocation patterns and localization in Sierra Leone

Swetha Ramachandran

wp-2023-104: Impact of trade and structural change on the sub-Saharan African economies

Paul Ko, Ryo Makioka and Karim Nchare

wp-2023-103: Aiding education? The effect of international aid on local educational enrolment in Nigeria

Roos Haer and Gudrun Østby

wp-2023-102: Investigating inequality trends in Africa: ACEIR research and the WIID

Martin Wittenberg and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2023-101: Youth, violence, and sustaining peace

Patricia Justino

wp-2023-100: Comparing the poverty-reduction efficiency of targeted versus universal benefits amid crises

Adnan Shahir, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2023-99: Mobile technologies and firm formalization: Evidence from Uganda

Marina Dodlova, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Anna Kochanova and Olivia Wirth

wp-2023-98: Fiscal anchors and sustainable fiscal policy

Krige Siebrits and Estian Calitz

wp-2023-97: IMF conditionality and structural reforms: Evidence from developing countries

Ablam Estel Apeti and Kwamivi Gomado

wp-2023-96: The legacy of Mexico's Drug War on youth political attitudes

Omar García-Ponce and Isabel Laterzo

wp-2023-95: Temperature, climate change, and household financial behaviour: Evidence from Viet Nam

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Trong-Anh Trinh and Michael Danquah

wp-2023-94: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment: Findings from national labour surveys in five Latin American countries

Martha Alter Chen and Joann Vanek

wp-2023-93: Social protection, the COVID-19 crisis, and the informal economy: Lessons from relief for comprehensive social protection

Laura Alfers and Florian Juergens-Grant

wp-2023-92: Informal employment: what is missing from national economic recovery plans?

Siviwe Mhlana, Rachel Moussié, Sally Roever and Michael Rogan

wp-2023-91: Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study

Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio and Robert Osei

wp-2023-90: An assessment of inequality estimates for the case of South Africa

Muna Shifa, Rejoice Mabhena, Vimal Ranchhod and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2023-89: Transforming rural economies through tertiary education: Evidence from India

Amparo Castello-Climent, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Ravinder

wp-2023-88: Financial reforms and income inequality: evidence from developing countries

Kwamivi Gomado

wp-2023-87: Drivers of services sector growth acceleration in developing countries

Gideon Ndubuisi, Solomon Owusu, Rex Asiama and Elvis Avenyo

wp-2023-86: Communication matters: sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels

Annalena Oppel

wp-2023-85: Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus: The role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy

Andrea Vaccaro

wp-2023-84: Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

wp-2023-83: Aid and fragile states

Anke Hoeffler and Patricia Justino

wp-2023-82: Making sense of multi-level and multi-actor governance of recovery in Ukraine

Oksana Udovyk, Ievgen Kylymnyk, Daniel Cuesta-Delgado and Guillermo Palau Salvador

wp-2023-81: Identity and multigenerational persistence

Chinmayi Srikanth and Shubhasis Dey

wp-2023-80: The uneven path to recovery: The sub-Saharan experience

Michael Danquah, Amina Ebrahim and Maureen Were

wp-2023-79: A deep learning approach to estimation of the Phillips curve in South Africa

Gideon du Rand, Hylton Hollander and Dawie van Lill

wp-2023-78: Conspicuous consumption for social parity

Chinmayi Srikanth and Shubhasis Dey

wp-2023-77: Implementation of local content regulation: The case study of a foreign-owned mining operation in Tanzania

Jambo Ramadhani and Emmanuel Maliti

wp-2023-76: Macro-financial implications of public debt in South Africa: The role of financial regimes

Theshne Kisten

wp-2023-75: What drives parental investments in early childhood?: Experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda

Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone, Pierfrancesco Rolla and Monique Abimpaye

wp-2023-74: Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco: Subnational insights

Al-mouksit Akim and Wissal Sahel

wp-2023-73: Evaluating the impact of the 2023-2024 personal income tax reform in Rwanda: An analysis using tax-benefit microsimulation modelling

Antoine de Mahieu, Jesse Lastunen, Jeannette Mukangango and Theogene Harerimana

wp-2023-72: Democracy clusters and patterns of inequality: A k-means approach

Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon

wp-2023-71: Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey

Ahmet Kaya and Cumhur Çiçekçi

wp-2023-70: Nation building in post-conflict settings: Evidence from South Africa

Thomas Gautier, Daniela Horta-Saenz and Gianluca Russo

wp-2023-69: Forced migration, aid effectiveness, and the humanitarian-development nexus: The case of Germany's P4P programme

Stefan Leiderer and Helge Roxin

wp-2023-68: Indicators of illicit activities in gold supply chains: Insights from Peru and Kenya

Nicole M. Smith, Kady Seguin, U. Mete Saka, Sebnem Duzgun, David Soud and Jenna White

wp-2023-67: Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India

Saloni Khurana, Kanika Mahajan and Kunal Sen

wp-2023-66: Taxpayer response to greater progressivity: Evidence from personal income tax reform in Uganda

Maria Jouste, Tina Kaidu Barugahara, Joseph Okello Ayo, Jukka Pirttilä and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2023-65: Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation: Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Karishma Banga, Pankhury Harbansh and Surendar Singh

wp-2023-64: Structural transformation and international trade: Evidence from the China shock

Clément Nedoncelle and Julien Wolfersberger

wp-2023-63: Gendered implications of the waves of COVID-19 and economic upgrading trajectories in digital value chains: Insights from Kenyan agricultural platforms

Aarti Krishnan, Monica Nganga and Tim Foster

wp-2023-62: Language and student learning: Evidence from an ethnographic study in Mozambique

Feliciano Chimbutane and Ritva Reinikka

wp-2023-61: Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation: Evidence from the United Kingdom's age of austerity

Patricia Justino, Bruno Martorano and Laura Metzger

wp-2023-60: Do the effectiveness principles matter for development?: Evidence from aid effectiveness data

Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino and Andrea Vaccaro

wp-2023-59: Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset

Rachel M. Gisselquist, Simone Schotte and Min Jung Kim

wp-2023-58: Armed group opportunism in the face of recent crises: COVID-19 and climate change

Siobhan O'Neil

wp-2023-57: More information, better knowledge? The effects of information campaigns on aid beneficiaries' knowledge of aid projects

Alexander De Juan, Paul Hofman and Carlo Koos