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wp-2017-118: Regional inequality of economic outcomes and opportunities in Ethiopia: A tale of two periods

Bethlehem A. Argaw

wp-2017-117: Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sector

Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo

wp-2017-116: Excess female mortality in Africa

Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray

wp-2017-114: The politics of scaling up social protection in Kenya

Fredrick O. Wanyama and Anna McCord

wp-2017-113: Downstream activities: The possibilities and the realities

Olle Östensson and Anton Löf

wp-2017-112: Shadow prices for a small open economy under uncertainty: Which expected values are valid

Clive Bell

wp-2017-111: Project appraisal: A revival is long overdue

Clive Bell

wp-2017-110: Forced migration and attitudes towards domestic violence: Evidence from Turkey

Selim Gulesci

wp-2017-109: Gender inequalities among adults and children in collective households

Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli

wp-2017-108: Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

Jean-Marie Baland and Roberta Ziparo

wp-2017-107: Defining high-growth firms in South Africa

Mulalo Mamburu

wp-2017-106: Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments: Evidence from rural Tanzania

Kacana Sipangule

wp-2017-105: Gender identity and female labour supply in Brazil

Karen Codazzi, Valéria Pero and André Albuquerque Sant'Anna

wp-2017-104: Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?

Kseniia Gatskova, Artjoms Ivlevs and Barbara Dietz

wp-2017-103: Integration along the Abuja road map: A progress report

Jaime de Melo, Mariem Nouar and Jean-Marc Solleder

wp-2017-102: How do we legislate for improved community development?

James M. Otto

wp-2017-101: Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling: The gender effect on microcredit renewal

Mathilde Bauwin and Walid Jbili

wp-2017-100: Options for suitable biofuel farming: Experience from Southern Africa

Graham von Maltitz

wp-2017-99: Social protection, electoral competition, and political branding in Malawi

Sam Hamer and Jeremy Seekings

wp-2017-98: Dependence on extractive industries in lower-income countries: The statistical tendencies

Alan R. Roe and Samantha Dodd

wp-2017-97: The Southern African poultry value chain: Regional development versus national imperatives

Phumzile Ncube, Simon Roberts and Tatenda Zengeni

wp-2017-96: Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructure

Olle Östensson

wp-2017-95: The effects of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Vietmam's micro, small, and medium enterprises

Phan Kim Dung

wp-2017-94: Cognitive, socioemotional, and behavioural returns to college quality

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2017-93: Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women?: Impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda

Margherita Calderone

wp-2017-92: The role of environmental regulations and innovation in TFP convergence: Evidence from manufacturing SMEs in Vietnam

Thanh Tam Nguyen-Huu, Minh Nguyen-Khac and Quoc Tran-Nam

wp-2017-91: Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala

Carla Canelas and Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2017-90: Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2017-89: Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Carlos Gradín

wp-2017-88: Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980-2016

Isaac Chinyoka

wp-2017-87: Biofuels technology: A look forward

William Stafford, Adrian Lotter, Alan Brent and Graham von Maltitz

wp-2017-86: Prospects for information and communications technology-enabled services in Kenya: The case of the mobile money transfer industry

Dianah Ngui and Peter Kimuyu

wp-2017-85: Land and agronomic potential for biofuel production in Southern Africa

Michael von Maltitz and Marna van der Merwe

wp-2017-84: Rwanda: From devastation to services-first transformation

Kasim Ggombe and Richard Newfarmer

wp-2017-83: Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana

Jeremy Seekings

wp-2017-82: Differentials in market constraints and value addition among micro, small, and medium enterprises in Vietnam

Christine Ngoc Ngo and Miao Chi

wp-2017-81: Doubling down: National oil companies as instruments of risk and reward

Patrick R.P. Heller

wp-2017-80: Approaches to supporting local and community development: Brazil and the Vale SA model of corporate interaction

Liesel Filgueiras, Andreia Rabetim and Isabel Aché

wp-2017-79: Framework: The channels for indirect impacts

Alan R. Roe and Jeffery I. Round

wp-2017-78: Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysis

Amanda Lenhardt, Ella Page, Moizza Binat Sarwar and Andrew Shepherd

wp-2017-77: The effects of Chinese import penetration on firm innovation: Evidence from the Vietnamese manufacturing sector

Anh Dang

wp-2017-76: A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa

Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt, M. Azhar Hussain and Finn Tarp

wp-2017-75: The taxation of extractive industries: Mining

James M. Otto

wp-2017-74: Female political representation in the aftermath of ethnic violence: A comparative analysis of Burundi and Rwanda

Andrea Guariso, Bert Ingelaere and Marijke Verpoorten

wp-2017-73: Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid

Carlos Gradín

wp-2017-72: The missing middle: Growing and strengthening Vietnam's micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises

Catherine Co, Thu Kim Nguyen, Tung Nhu Nguyen and Que Nguyet Tran

wp-2017-71: Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources: Evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

Olivier Bargain, Prudence Kwenda and Miracle Ntuli

wp-2017-70: Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance: A multilevel approach

Kyle McNabb

wp-2017-69: Social networks, geographic proximity, and firm performance in Vietnam

Emma Howard

wp-2017-68: Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: The role of management standards and innovation

Elisa Calza, Micheline Goedhuys and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2017-67: Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: The case of Vietnam

Tho Pham and Oleksandr Talavera

wp-2017-66: The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: A gender perspective

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

wp-2017-65: Impact of soil conservation adoption on intrahousehold allocations in Zambia

Conor Carney and Monica Carney

wp-2017-64: Migration and the autonomy of women left behind

Julia Matz and Linguere Mbaye

wp-2017-63: Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm: Evidence from three sub-Saharan African countries

Giulia La Mattina, Gabriel Picone, Alban Ahoure and Jose Carlos Kimou

wp-2017-62: Constraints to biofuel feedstock production expansion in Zambia

Paul C. Samboko, Mulako Kabisa and Giles Henley

wp-2017-61: Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices: Theorizing from Zambia

Alice Evans

wp-2017-60: Fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in developing nations

Syed Mansoob Murshed, Muhammad Badiuzzaman and Mohammad Habibullah Pulok

wp-2017-59: Analysis of the animal feed to poultry value chain in Zambia

Paul C. Samboko, Olipa Zulu-Mbata and Antony Chapoto

wp-2017-58: The expansion of regional supermarket chains: Implications for local suppliers in Zambia

Francis Ziba and Mwanda Phiri

wp-2017-57: Using legal empowerment for labour rights in India

Rina Agarwala

wp-2017-56: Energy futures modelling for African countries: LEAP model application

Nadia S. Ouedraogo

wp-2017-55: Global distribution of revenue loss from tax avoidance: Re-estimation and country results

Alex Cobham and Petr Janský

wp-2017-54: Institutional arrangements for biofuel feedstock production in Zambia

Paul C. Samboko and Cliff Dlamini

wp-2017-53: The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile: Scope and limits

Andrés Solimano and Diego Calderón Guajardo

wp-2017-52: The role of gender in the extractives industries

Catherine Macdonald

wp-2017-51: Capturing economic and social benefits at the community level: Opportunities and obstacles for civil society

Keith Slack

wp-2017-50: Legal empowerment and horizontal inequalities after conflict

Lars Waldorf

wp-2017-49: Towards the integration of markets: Competition in road transportation of perishable goods between Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Thando Vilakazi and Anthea Paelo

wp-2017-48: Biofuels in Southern Africa: Political economy, trade, and policy environment

Taku Fundira and Giles Henley

wp-2017-47: Potential biofuel feedstocks and production in Zambia

Paul C. Samboko, Mitelo Subakanya and Cliff Dlamini

wp-2017-46: Understanding intra-regional transport: Competition in road transportation between Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Thando Vilakazi and Anthea Paelo

wp-2017-45: Extractive revenues and government spending: Short- versus long-term considerations

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Anthony Venables

wp-2017-44: Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection

Sanjay Jain

wp-2017-43: 'Affordability' and the political economy of social protection in contemporary Africa

Jeremy Seekings

wp-2017-42: Review of social issues for large-scale land investment in Zambia

Giles Henley

wp-2017-41: Approaches to supporting local and community development: The view from Zambia

Angel Mondoloka

wp-2017-40: The development of a linked modelling framework for analysing the socioeconomic impacts of energy and climate policies in South Africa

Bruno Merven, Channing Arndt and Harald Winkler

wp-2017-39: Energy system and economy-wide implications of a rapid transition to decarbonized energy in South Africa

Tara Caetano and Bruno Merven

wp-2017-38: Effect of non-farm work on agricultural productivity: Empirical evidence from northern Ghana

Benjamin Tetteh Anang

wp-2017-37: Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform: Tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan Africa

Catherine Boone

wp-2017-36: Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segments

Heinrich C. Bofinger

wp-2017-35: An evaluation of interest deduction limitations to counter base erosion in South Africa

Pieter Van der Zwan, Danie Schutte, Waldo Kruggel, Joel Seshabela, Hayley Reynolds and Londiwe Khoza

wp-2017-34: Variation in structural change around the world, 1985-2015: Patterns, causes and implications

Adrian Wood

wp-2017-33: Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance: Lessons from Nigeria and Ghana

Joanna Buckley, Neil McCulloch and Nick Travis

wp-2017-31: Trade in services: Opening markets to create opportunities

Bernard Hoekman

wp-2017-30: Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countries

Marina Dodlova and Anna Gioblas

wp-2017-29: The expansion of economic protection for older adults in Latin America: Key design features of non-contributory pensions

Camila Arza

wp-2017-28: The role of participation in sustainable community development programmes in the extractives industries

Catherine Macdonald

wp-2017-27: Economy-wide implications of biofuel production in Zambia

Faaiqa Hartley, Dirk van Seventer, Paul C. Samboko and Channing Arndt

wp-2017-26: The expansion of regional supermarket chains: Implications on suppliers in Botswana and South Africa

Reena Das Nair and Shingie Chisoro-Dube

wp-2017-25: Firm-level determinants of earnings in the formal sector of the South African labour market

Haroon Bhorat, Morne Oosthuizen, Kezia Lilenstein and Francois Steenkamp

wp-2017-24: Political economy and governance

Evelyn Dietsche

wp-2017-23: Modeling sustainable long-term electricity supply-demand in Africa

Nadia S. Ouedraogo

wp-2017-22: Oil and gas companies and the management of social and environmental impacts and issues: The evolution of the industry's approach

Kathryn Tomlinson

wp-2017-21: The curse of the one-size-fits-all fix: Re-evaluating what we know about extractives and economic development

Glada Lahn and Paul Stevens

wp-2017-20: When do the poor vote for the right-wing and why: Status inequality and vote choice in the Indian states

Pavithra Suryanarayan

wp-2017-19: Towards contribution analysis

Anthony Hodge

wp-2017-18: Group-based inequalities: The case of Vietnam

Dang Thi Thu Hoai

wp-2017-17: Tourism global value chains and Africa

Jack Daly and Gary Gereffi