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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

wp-2018-45: Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspective

Marie Albertine Djuikom

wp-2018-44: A meta-analysis of aid effectiveness: Revisiting the evidence

Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-43: Identifying monetary policy rules in South Africa with inflation expectations and unemployment

Shannon Bold and Laurence Harris

wp-2018-42: Innovation activity in South Africa: Measuring the returns to R&D

Andre Steenkamp, Mark Schaffer, Wayde Flowerday and John Gabriel Goddard

wp-2018-41: Settling in motion: Nyasa clandestine migration through Southern Rhodesia into the Union of South Africa, 1920s - 1950s

Anusa Daimon

wp-2018-40: The impact of remittances on household food security: A micro perspective from Tigray, Ethiopia

Nigussie Abadi, Ataklti Techane, Girmay Tesfay, Daniel Maxwell and Bapu Vaitla

wp-2018-39: Legal empowerment and group-based inequality

Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2018-38: How unpopular policies are made: Examples from South Africa, Singapore, and Bangladesh

Ingrid Palmary, Thea De Gruchy, Ali Ashraf, Koh Chiu Yee, Kellynn Wee, Charmian Goh and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

wp-2018-37: Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia: The role of decentralization

Virgi Sari

wp-2018-36: Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto

Carla Canelas and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2018-35: Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA: Evidence from labour market panel surveys

Vladimir Hlasny and Shireen AlAzzawi

wp-2018-34: The negotiated politics of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa

Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Jeremy Seekings

wp-2018-33: Household tipping points in the face of rising electricity tariffs in South Africa

Angelika Goliger and Aalia Cassim

wp-2018-32: The tipping point: The impact of rising electricity tariffs on large firms in South Africa

Angelika Goliger and Landon McMillan

wp-2018-31: Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tactical political maneuverings: Evidence from Ghana's District Assemblies Common Fund

Abel Fumey

wp-2018-30: The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes: Evidence from rural Pakistan

Xavier Gine, Salma Khalid and Ghazala Mansuri

wp-2018-29: An empirical analysis of state fragility and growth: The impact of state ineffectiveness and political violence

Ines A. Ferreira

wp-2018-28: The effect of Hukou registration policy on rural-to-urban migrants' health

Marta Bengoa and Christopher Rick

wp-2018-27: Campaign externalities, programmatic spending, and voting preferences in rural Mexico: The case of Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programme

Dragan Filipovich, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Alma Santillán Hernández

wp-2018-26: Contract farming in Mozambique: Implications on gender inequalities within and across rural households

Cecilia Navarra

wp-2018-25: Diaspora externalities: A view from the South

Hillel Rapoport

wp-2018-24: Explaining cross-state earnings inequality differentials in India: An RIF decomposition approach

Carlos Gradín

wp-2018-23: A role for universal pension?: Simulating universal pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa

Pia Rattenhuber and Maria Jouste

wp-2018-22: Following in their footsteps: An analysis of the impact of successive migration on rural household welfare in Ghana

Eva-Maria Egger and Julie Litchfield

wp-2018-21: Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investment

Petr Janský and Miroslav Palansky

wp-2018-20: A 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Mozambique

António S. Cruz, Fausto J. Mafambissa, Mónica Magáua, Vincenzo Salvucci and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2018-19: Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

wp-2018-18: Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp?: Evidence from host communities in Rwanda

Ozge Bilgili, Sonja Fransen, Craig Loschmann and Melissa Siegel

wp-2018-17: Does managerial personality matter?: Evidence from firms in Vietnam

Smriti Sharma and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-16: South-South labour migration and the impact of the informal China-Ghana gold rush 2008-13

Gabriel Botchwey, Gordon Crawford, Nicholas Loubere and Jixia Lu

wp-2018-15: Invisible, successful, and divided: Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s

Frank Bösch and Phi Hong Su

wp-2018-14: Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States

Carl L. Bankston and Min Zhou

wp-2018-13: What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

Roberto Ricciuti, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

wp-2018-12: On asymmetric information and tax morale in developing countries

Ahmed Salim Nuhu and John M. Musah

wp-2018-11: How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour?: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania

Ivar Kolstad and Arne Wiig