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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 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

wp-2024-41: Dancing on the grid: electricity crises, manufacturing energy vulnerability, and jobs in South Africa

Gideon Ndubuisi, Elvis Korku Avenyo and Rex Asiama

wp-2024-40: Addis deals: reckoning with the informal governance of urban structural transformation

Selam Robi

wp-2024-39: Institutional change and persistence: What does the long-run evidence tell us?

Antonio Savoia, Kunal Sen and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2024-38: Inequality and institutional outcomes in Viet Nam: A combined principal components and clustering analysis

Thu K. Hoang, Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon, Hoai Thi Thu Dang and Rachel M. Gisselquist

wp-2024-37: Taxing top incomes in the emerging world: Economic impact under the microscope

Christopher Axelson, Antonia Hohmann, Jukka Pirttilä, Roxanne Raabe and Nadine Riedel

wp-2024-36: Emerging public debt challenges in sub-Saharan Africa

Maureen Were

wp-2024-35: Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South: a comparative assessment

Jesse Lastunen, Antoine de Mahieu, Katrin Gasior, H. Xavier Jara and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2024-34: Extractive industries: transforming companies for better development outcomes

Tony Addison and Alan R. Roe

wp-2024-33: Extractive industries: transforming states and improving economic management

Tony Addison and Alan R. Roe

wp-2024-32: Extractive industries: addressing transparency, corruption, and theft

Tony Addison and Alan R. Roe

wp-2024-31: Market power and merger control in South Africa

C. Friedrich Kreuser, Michael Kilumelume and Rulof Burger

wp-2024-30: Faraway, so close: the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on political violence in Asian countries

Michele Di Maio, Patricia Justino, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza and Cecilia Nardi

wp-2024-29: Labour market inequality in two Asian giants: Indonesia and India compared

Kunal Sen

wp-2024-28: Extractive industries: enclaves or a means to transform economies?

Tony Addison and Alan R. Roe

wp-2024-27: Extractive industries: recognizing and managing the risks in resource-dependent economies

Tony Addison and Alan R. Roe

wp-2024-26: Extractive industries: imperatives, opportunities, and dilemmas in the net-zero transition

Tony Addison and Alan R. Roe

wp-2024-25: Urbanization, climate change, and structural transformation in Accra, Ghana

Michael Danquah, Bazoumana Ouattara, Williams Ohemeng and Alfred Barimah

wp-2024-24: Government size and risk premium

Abhishek Kumar and Sushanta Mallick

wp-2024-23: Falling tariffs: implications of globalization-induced tariff reductions on firms, workers, and tax revenues

Nora Strecker, Georg U. Thunecke and Benedikt Zoller-Rydzek

wp-2024-22: Analysis of household demand patterns using household data: Re-thinking the use of unit values or community prices

Aimable Nsabimana

wp-2024-21: The potential of universal basic income schemes to mitigate shocks: Comparing the performance of universal basic income in Uganda and Zambia during COVID-19

Enrico Nichelatti, Maria Jouste and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2024-20: Watts happening to work? The labour market effects of South Africa's electricity crisis

Haroon Bhorat and Timothy Köhler

wp-2024-19: What traders know: the (mis)perceptions of formal and informal cross-border traders

Paolo Falco and Eleanor Wiseman

wp-2024-18: Indirect rule: armed groups and customary chiefs in eastern DRC

Soeren J. Henn, Gauthier Marchais, Christian Mastaki Mugaruka and Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra

wp-2024-17: Importer price effects of tariffs in the context of preferential trade agreements: The case of poultry in South Africa

Jing-Woei Chien, Lawrence Edwards and Ayanda Hlatshwayo

wp-2024-16: Informed job entry: Does labour market information speed job-taking in Mozambique?

Ricardo Santos, Sam Jones and Gimelgo Xirinda

wp-2024-15: Offshore tax evasion in developing countries: Evidence and policy discussion

Niels Johannesen

wp-2024-14: Institutional trust in the time of corona: Evidence from countermeasures in Germany

Wolfgang Stojetz, Neil Ferguson, Ghassan Baliki, Sarah Fenzl, Patricia Justino and Tilman Brück

wp-2024-13: Tax revenue data in Africa: the Government Revenue Dataset and African Tax Outlook in comparison

Frankie Mbuyamba and Kyle McNabb

wp-2024-12: The legacy of coercive cotton cultivation in colonial Mozambique

Henrique Barros, Rute Martins Caeiro, Sam Jones and Patricia Justino

wp-2024-11: Decomposing budget credibility

Félix Mambo and Ricardo Santos

wp-2024-10: Minimum wage and tax kink effects in the formal and informal sector in Zambia

Samuel Bryson, Evaristo Mwale and Kwabena Adu-Ababio

wp-2024-9: Inequality and voting in fragile countries: Evidence from Mozambique

Margherita Bove, Eva-Maria Egger, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino and Ricardo Santos

wp-2024-8: Cultivating change: the long-term impact of forced labour in Mozambique

Margherita Bove, Rute Martins Caeiro, Rachel Coelho, Sam Jones and Patricia Justino

wp-2024-7: Smart classrooms and education outcomes: Evidence from Rwanda

Aimable Nsabimana, Muthoni Nganga and Christine Niyizamwiyitira

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 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