WIDER Working Paper Series
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- 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 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
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