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wp-2018-145: Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana

Martin Evans

wp-2018-144: Fuel subsidies and income redistribution in Ecuador

H. Xavier Jara, Po Chun Lee, Lourdes Montesdeoca and Marcelo Varela

wp-2018-143: The evolution of private returns to education during post-conflict transformation: Evidence from Mozambique

Sam Jones, Thomas Sohnesen and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2018-142: Crop prices and migration in Vietnam

Gaia Narciso

wp-2018-141: What might explain today's conflicting narratives on global inequality?

Martin Ravallion

wp-2018-140: Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gas

Alan R. Roe

wp-2018-139: A 2013 Social Accounting Matrix for Zimbabwe

Rob Davies, Marko Kwaramba and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2018-138: My journey through the history of development economics

Erik Thorbecke

wp-2018-137: Top incomes' impacts on inequality, growth, and social welfare: Combining surveys and income tax data in Brazil

Marcelo Neri and Marcos Hecksher

wp-2018-136: Fiscal redistribution in Brazil: Dynamic microsimulation, 2003-15

Marcelo Neri, Rozane Siqueira, Jose Nogueira and Manuel Osorio

wp-2018-135: Asian development after the Asian Drama

Richard Kozul-Wright and Daniel Poon

wp-2018-134: Ethnicity and risk sharing network formation: Evidence from rural Vietnam

Quynh Hoang, Laure Pasquier-Doumer and Camille Saint-Macary

wp-2018-133: Optimal local content for extractive industries: How can policies best create benefits for Tanzania?

Mia Ellis and Margaret McMillan

wp-2018-132: Institutions and Asia's development: The role of norms and organizational power

Mushtaq H. Khan

wp-2018-131: Role of the construction sector and key bottlenecks to supply response in Tanzania

Geraldine J. Kikwasi and Cecilia Escalante

wp-2018-130: The impact of commercialization of rice on household welfare in rural Vietnam

Chiara Cazzuffi, Andy McKay and Emilie Perge

wp-2018-129: Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in Brazil

Marcelo Neri and Tiago Bonomo

wp-2018-128: New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in Brazil

Marcos Hecksher, Marcelo Neri and Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva

wp-2018-127: Multidimensional poverty in Vietnam: Evidence from a rural household survey

Hoang Xuan Diem and Tran Van Hoang

wp-2018-126: Vietnam: The dragon that rose from the ashes

Finn Tarp

wp-2018-125: Unexpected effects of land fragmentation

Trung Hoang

wp-2018-124: A short history of India's economy: A chapter in the Asian drama

Kaushik Basu

wp-2018-123: Tax-motivated transfer mispricing in South Africa: Direct evidence using transaction data

Ludvig Wier

wp-2018-122: Risk and investment: Evidence from rural Vietnam

Carol Newman and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-121: Poverty and inequality in Asia: 1965-2014

Guanghua Wan and Chen Wang

wp-2018-120: Industrial development in Asia: Trends in industrialization and industrial policy experiences of developing Asia

Ha-Joon Chang and Kiryl Zach

wp-2018-119: The role of the construction sector in Ghana

Nkechi Owoo and Monica Lambon-Quayefio

wp-2018-118: Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development: Local content in Zambia—a faltering experience?

Wilfred C. Lombe

wp-2018-117: The construction sector in Mozambique: An overview

António S. Cruz, Francisco Fernandes, Fausto J. Mafambissa and Francisco Pereira

wp-2018-116: Puzzle me this?: The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

Thanos Mergoupis, Phan Van and John G. Sessions

wp-2018-115: Causal pluralism and mixed methods in the analysis of poverty dynamics

Paul Shaffer

wp-2018-114: Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Vietnam agriculture

Loren Brandt, Stephen Ayerst and Diego Restuccia

wp-2018-113: What are the prospects for Mozambique to diversify its economy on the back of 'local content'?

Evelyn Dietsche and Ana Maria Esteves

wp-2018-112: The state and development

Peter Evans and Patrick Heller

wp-2018-111: Big and 'unprofitable': How 10 per cent of multinational firms do 98 per cent of profit shifting

Ludvig Wier and Hayley Reynolds

wp-2018-110: Enhancing local content in Uganda's oil and gas industry

Ritwika Sen

wp-2018-109: Revisiting the methodology of Myrdal in Asian Drama 50 years on

Frances Stewart

wp-2018-108: Multidimensional poverty of children in Mozambique

Kristi Mahrt, Andrea Rossi, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-107: Employment and development in Asia

Rolph van der Hoeven

wp-2018-106: Earnings polarization, ethnicity, and regional perspective in Indonesia

Arip Muttaqien, Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

wp-2018-105: Socio-economic development in South Asia: The past 50 years

S. R. Osmani

wp-2018-104: Impacts of accessing extension on agricultural production profit: Empirical evidence from the Vietnam Access to Rural Households Survey

Do Huy Thiep and Nguyen Thi Cam Nhung

wp-2018-103: Pro-poor growth in Indonesia: Challenging the pessimism of Myrdal's Asian Drama

Charles Timmer

wp-2018-102: Gunnar Myrdal and Asian Drama in context

Ravi Kanbur

wp-2018-101: Escaping the periphery: The East Asian 'mystery' solved

Robert Wade

wp-2018-100: The gender gap in firm productivity in Rwanda: Evidence from establishment and household enterprise data

Ggombe Kasim Munyegera and Akampumuza Precious

wp-2018-99: Extractives for development: Ten main messages

Tony Addison and Alan R. Roe

wp-2018-98: How does joint evolution of social trust and land administration shape economic outcomes?: Evidence from Vietnam

Anh Dang, Kim Khoi Dang and Thi Lan Vu

wp-2018-97: Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare

Sudipto Mundle

wp-2018-96: Rental markets, gender, and land certificates: Evidence from Vietnam

Luciano Ayala Cantu and Bruno Morando

wp-2018-95: Nationalism and development in Asia

Prasenjit Duara

wp-2018-94: Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus three

Manuel F. Montes

wp-2018-93: Understanding farmers' valuation of agricultural insurance: Evidence from Vietnam

Michael King and Anuj Pratab Singh

wp-2018-92: China's growth miracle in the context of Asian transformation

Justin Lin

wp-2018-91: A macroeconomic perspective on Asian development

Amit Bhaduri

wp-2018-90: The effect of top incomes on inequality in South Africa

Janina Hundenborn, Ingrid Woolard and Jon Jellema

wp-2018-89: The boom, the bust, and the dynamics of oil resource management in Ghana

Ernest Aryeetey and Ishmael Ackah

wp-2018-88: Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Vietnam

Ryan Abman and Conor Carney

wp-2018-87: Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development

Robert Vos

wp-2018-86: Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households

Adelaide Baronchelli and Roberto Ricciuti

wp-2018-85: Asia and the world economy in historical perspective

Ronald Findlay

wp-2018-84: Climate change and the extractives sector

Tony Addison

wp-2018-83: The evolution and determination of earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa

Arden Finn and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2018-82: Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa: Assessment using administrative tax data

Stewart Ngandu and Carolyn Chisadza

wp-2018-81: Private beats public: A flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers

Kasper Brandt

wp-2018-80: Certification and business risk

Neda Trifkovic

wp-2018-79: Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South Africa

Mashekwa Maboshe and Ingrid Woolard

wp-2018-78: Slack resources and innovation in Vietnamese SMEs: A behavioural, stewardship, and institutional perspective

Tam Nguyen and Trinh Duc Chieu

wp-2018-77: Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh

Christophe Nordman, Leopold Sarr and Smriti Sharma

wp-2018-76: Tenurial security and agricultural investment: Evidence from Vietnam

Marc Bellemare, Kenn Chua, Julieth Santamaria and Khoa Vu

wp-2018-75: What does it mean to be poor?: Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique

Sam Jones and Inge Tvedten

wp-2018-74: On the persistence of growth for South African firms

Mulalo Mamburu

wp-2018-73: Rural roads and urban agglomeration economies: Benefits for town and country?

Clive Bell

wp-2018-72: Pecuniary returns to working conditions in Vietnam

Christophe Nordman and Smriti Sharma

wp-2018-71: Does union membership pay off?: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

Nina Torm

wp-2018-70: Horizontal inequality as a dependent variable

Carla Canelas and Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2018-69: How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?

Axel Demenet and Quynh Hoang

wp-2018-68: Rowing against the current: Diversification in Africa's resource-rich economies

John Page

wp-2018-67: Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growth in Vietnam

Christina Kinghan, Carol Newman and Conor O'Toole

wp-2018-66: The interaction of institutional quality and human capital in shaping the dynamics of capital structure in Vietnam

Enrico Santarelli and Hien Thu Tran

wp-2018-65: Early life shocks and mental health: The long-term effect of war in Vietnam

Saurabh Singhal

wp-2018-64: Why do household businesses in Vietnam stay informal?

Thi Bich Tran and Hai Anh La

wp-2018-63: The information content of the yield spread about future inflation in South Africa

Manqoba Ntshakala and Laurence Harris

wp-2018-62: We need land first: Identifying local needs for sustainable recovery after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

Lulu He

wp-2018-61: Simulating the effect on households' real consumption and poverty of the increase in prices that followed the 2015-16 economic crisis in Mozambique

Félix Mambo, Yonesse Paris, Vincenzo Salvucci and Ricardo Santos

wp-2018-60: Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: An application to Mozambique

Carlos Gradín

wp-2018-59: NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Faraz Usmani, Marc Jeuland and Subhrendu Pattanayak

wp-2018-58: Maternal mortality and women's political participation

Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Joseph Gomes and Atheendar Venkataramani

wp-2018-57: The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK

Catherine Gladwell, Jennie Thomas, Georgina Chetwynd, Saliha Majeed, Carolyn Burke, Victoria Stubbs and Seemin Zahid

wp-2018-56: Extractive industries and development: Lessons from international experience for Mozambique

Alan R. Roe

wp-2018-55: Horizontal inequality and data challenges

Carla Canelas and Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2018-54: Humanitarian economics

Gilles Carbonnier

wp-2018-53: Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa

Carlos Gradín

wp-2018-52: Do multinational companies shift profits out of developing countries?: How data availability may hide the evidence

Caroline Schimanski

wp-2018-51: Zambia's mining windfall tax

Olav Lundstøl and Jan Isaksen

wp-2018-50: Policy transparency in the public sector: The case of social benefits in Tanzania

Gemma Wright, Vincent Leyaro, Elineema Kisanga and Christine Byaruhanga

wp-2018-49: Economic integration of Afghan refugees in the US, 1980-2015

Carl Stempel and Qais Alemi

wp-2018-48: How large is the wage penalty in the labour broker sector?: Evidence for South Africa using administrative data

Aalia Cassim and Daniela Casale

wp-2018-47: Women legislators and economic performance

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia Bhalotra, Brian Min and Yogesh Uppal

wp-2018-46: Economic and non-economic returns to Communist Party membership in Vietnam

Thomas Markussen and Thanh Ngo