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wp-2017-16: Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania's service sector

Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan and Jed Silver

wp-2017-15: Industrial clusters: The case for Special Economic Zones in Africa

Carol Newman and John Page

wp-2017-14: Industries without smokestacks: Implications for Ethiopia's industrialization

Mulu Gebreeyesus

wp-2017-13: The impact of mining on spatial inequality: Recent evidence from Africa

Tony Addison, Amadou Boly and Anthony Mveyange

wp-2017-12: Industries without smokestacks in Uganda and Rwanda

John Spray and Sebastian Wolf

wp-2017-11: Labour demand and the distribution of wages in South African manufacturing exporters

Marianne Matthee, Neil Rankin and Carli Bezuidenhout

wp-2017-10: Natural resources' impact on government revenues

Justine Knebelmann

wp-2017-9: The agro-processing industry and its potential for structural transformation of the Ghanaian economy

Nkechi Owoo and Monica Lambon-Quayefio

wp-2017-8: How does petty corruption affect tax morale in sub-Saharan Africa

Björn Jahnke

wp-2017-7: Does the political resource curse affect public finance?: The vulnerability of tax revenue in resource-rich countries

Christian von Haldenwang and Maksym Ivanyna

wp-2017-6: Industries without smokestacks: Telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Cláudio R. Frischtak

wp-2017-5: The effects of the Employment Tax Incentive on South African employment

Amina Ebrahim, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod

wp-2017-4: Identifying growth opportunities in the Southern African Development Community through regional value chains: The case of the animal feed to poultry value chain

Phumzile Ncube, Simon Roberts, Tatenda Zengeni and Paul C. Samboko

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

Adrian Wood

wp-2017-182: Impact of school feeding programmes on educational outcomes: Evidence from dry cereals in schools in Burkina Faso

Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema

wp-2017-157: Policy diffusion within international organizations: A bottom-up analysis of International Monetary Fund tax work in Panama, Seychelles, and the Netherlands

Matti Ylönen

wp-2017-132: Are caste categories misleading?: The relationship between gender and jati in three Indian states

Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao

wp-2017-129: How status inequality between ethnic groups affects public goods provision: Experimental evidence on caste and tolerance for teacher absenteeism in India

Prerna Singh and Dean Spears

wp-2017-115: The global politics of social protection

Sam Hickey and Jeremy Seekings

wp-2017-32: Party system institutionalization and reliance on personal income tax: Exploring the relationship using new data

Armin von Schiller

wp-2017-3: The role of public health insurance in protecting against the costs of ill health: Evidence from Mexico

Belén Sáenz de Miera Juárez

wp-2017-2: National Care System in Uruguay: Who benefits and who pays?

Veronica Amarante, Maire Colacce and Victoria Tenenbaum

wp-2017-1: Externalities and foreign capital in aquaculture production in developing countries

Wisdom Akpalu and Worku T. Bitew

wp-2016-180: Tax revenues in transition countries: Structural changes and their policy implications

Ismoil Khujamkulov

wp-2016-179: Optimal transfers with distribution regressions: An application to Egypt at the dawn of the XXIst century

Christophe Muller

wp-2016-178: A review of social issues for biofuels investment in Mozambique

Emílio Tostão, Giles Henley, Joel Tembe and Aristides Baloi

wp-2016-177: Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in Mozambique

Faaiqa Hartley, Dirk van Seventer, Emílio Tostão and Channing Arndt

wp-2016-176: Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique

João Morgado and Vincenzo Salvucci

wp-2016-175: The role of oil and gas in the development of the global economy

Paul Stevens

wp-2016-174: Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

Emiko Fukase and Will Martin

wp-2016-173: Tax revenue implications of trade liberalization in low-income countries

Lovisa Moller

wp-2016-172: Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy

Petr Janský and Miroslav Palansky

wp-2016-171: Are taxes good for your health?

Patrick Carter and Alex Cobham

wp-2016-170: Ethnic inequality and community activities in Indonesia

Christophe Muller

wp-2016-169: The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers: A comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Reena Das Nair and Shingie Chisoro-Dube

wp-2016-168: Constitutional social and environmental human rights and child health outcomes in Latin American countries

Hiroaki Matsuura

wp-2016-167: Horizontal inequality, status optimization, and interethnic marriage in a conflict-affected society

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

wp-2016-166: Mapping deprivation in Mozambique: An analysis of census data (1997-2007)

José Cardoso, João Morgado and Vincenzo Salvucci

wp-2016-165: Government intervention need for social security improvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A theoretical analysis using the principal-agent model

Didier Mumpambala Luzolo

wp-2016-164: Fiscal policy, inequality, and the poor in the developing world

Nora Lustig

wp-2016-163: Private standards and labour productivity in the food sector in Vietnam

Neda Trifkovic

wp-2016-162: Can integrated infrastructure investment plans contribute to more effective public spending?: The case of Mozambique

Mike Muller and Horacio Zandamela

wp-2016-161: Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria

Belinda Archibong

wp-2016-160: Regional opportunities in East Africa

Stephen Karingi, Ottavia Pesce and Lily Sommer

wp-2016-159: Where is commercial farming expanding in Mozambique?: Evidence from agricultural surveys

Steven Glover, Vincenzo Salvucci and Sam Jones

wp-2016-158: Industries without smokestacks: Mozambique country case study

António S. Cruz and Fausto J. Mafambissa

wp-2016-157: Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: An overview

Haroon Bhorat, Francois Steenkamp, Christopher Rooney, Nomsa Kachingwe and Adrienne Lees

wp-2016-156: The politics of promoting social protection in Zambia

Kate Pruce and Sam Hickey

wp-2016-155: Tax revenue mobilization in conflict-affected developing countries

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard, Nikola Milicic and Matthew Benson

wp-2016-154: On the mobilization of domestic resources in oil countries: The role of historical factors

Luc Omgba

wp-2016-153: Business rights and ethnic exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa: Addressing group-based inequality through business rights reform

Scott D. Taylor

wp-2016-152: How trucking services have improved and may contribute to economic development: The case of East Africa

Charles Kunaka, Gaël Raballand and Mike Fitzmaurice

wp-2016-151: Group inequality and regional development: Evidence from Pakistan

Hadia Majid and Rashid Memon

wp-2016-150: Senegal: A service economy in need of an export boost

Philip English

wp-2016-149: Gender matters: Private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs

Benedikte Bjerge, Nina Torm and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2016-148: Tax structures and economic growth: New evidence from the Government Revenue Dataset

Kyle McNabb

wp-2016-147: Characteristics and determinants of child malnutrition in Mozambique, 2003-11

José Cardoso, Lindsey Allwright and Vincenzo Salvucci

wp-2016-146: Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012

Maria Granvik

wp-2016-145: Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana

Stephen Brown

wp-2016-144: Race, resources, and representation: Evidence from Brazilian politicians

Natália S. Bueno and Thad Dunning

wp-2016-143: Updating NAMOD: A Namibian tax-benefit microsimulation model

Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, Helen Barnes, David McLennan and Michell Mpike

wp-2016-142: Ideational and institutional drivers of social protection in Tanzania

Marianne S. Ulriksen

wp-2016-141: Mining and economic development: Did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development?

Tony Addison, Amadou Boly and Anthony Mveyange

wp-2016-140: Redistribution, inequality and political participation: Evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis

Patricia Justino and Bruno Martorano

wp-2016-139: Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries

Raj M. Desai and Nita Rudra

wp-2016-138: Access to what?: Legal agency and access to justice for indigenous peoples in Latin America

Daniel M. Brinks

wp-2016-137: Deterrence, peer effect, and legitimacy in anti-corruption policy-making: An experimental analysis

Amadou Boly, Robert Gillanders and Topi Miettinen

wp-2016-136: Cash transfers in Latin America: Effects on poverty and redistribution

Veronica Amarante and Martín Brun

wp-2016-135: Political agency and public healthcare: Evidence from India

Joan Costa-Font and Divya Parmar

wp-2016-134: Female say on income and child outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria

Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke

wp-2016-133: Redistribution around the world: Causes and consequences

Markus Jäntti, Jukka Pirttilä and Risto Rönkkö

wp-2016-132: Integrating market and bilateral power trading in the Southern African Power Pool

Amy Rose, Robert Stoner and Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

wp-2016-131: The political economy of 'linked' progressive taxation in Africa and Latin America

Paul Mosley and Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai

wp-2016-130: Social protection in an aspiring 'developmental state': The political drivers of Ethiopia's PSNP

Tom Lavers

wp-2016-129: Crosscutting cleavages and ethno-communal violence: Evidence from Indonesia in the post-Suharto era

Joshua R. Gubler, Joel S. Selway and Ashutosh Varshney

wp-2016-128: Estimating profit shifting in South Africa using firm-level tax returns

Hayley Reynolds and Ludvig Wier

wp-2016-127: Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in Brazil

Pedro H. Leivas and Anderson M. A. dos Santos

wp-2016-126: Technical note: Proposed model for regional power sector integration in Africa

Amy Rose and Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

wp-2016-125: Wind turbine and photovoltaic generating efficiency in Africa

Charles Fant

wp-2016-124: Unintended consequences of economic sanctions for human rights: Conflict minerals and infant mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dominic Parker, Jeremy Foltz and David Elsea

wp-2016-123: Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in India

Gunja Baranwal

wp-2016-122: The role and effectiveness of Special Economic Zones in Tanzania

Abel Kinyondo, Carol Newman and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-121: Gold mining pollution and the cost of private healthcare: The case of Ghana

Wisdom Akpalu and Ametefee K. Normanyo

wp-2016-120: Can commercial farming promote rural dynamism in sub-Saharan Africa?: Evidence from Mozambique

Steven Glover and Sam Jones

wp-2016-119: Horizontal inequalities and affirmative action: An analysis of attitudes towards redistribution across groups in Africa

Arnim Langer, Frances Stewart and Maarten Schroyens

wp-2016-118: The politics of promoting social cash transfers in Uganda

Sam Hickey and Badru Bukenya

wp-2016-117: Iran's multi-ethnic mosaic: A 23-year perspective

Sanaz Fesharaki and Mahdi Majbouri

wp-2016-116: Political competition and tax revenues in developing countries

Thierry Yogo and Martine M. Ngo Njib

wp-2016-115: SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model: Recent developments

Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, Helen Barnes, David McLennan and Michell Mpike

wp-2016-114: Horizontal inequality in education and wealth in Tanzania: A 20-year perspective

Emmanuel Maliti

wp-2016-113: The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Africa: Evidence from Tanzania

Takaaki Masaki

wp-2016-112: Formalizing safety nets and the requirements to obtain them: An increased role for identity documents in the Global South

Wendy Hunter

wp-2016-111: Linking taxation and social protection: Evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in Ethiopia

Kalle Hirvonen, Giulia Mascagni and Keetie Roelen

wp-2016-110: Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth: Evidence from Bangladesh

Yeasmin Sayeed

wp-2016-109: Is multi-party coalition government better for the protection of socially backward classes in India?

Kaushik Basu, Sattwick Dey Biswas, Pratik Harish, Sasi Dhar and Mounik Lahiri

wp-2016-108: Growth and structural transformation in Vietnam during the 2000s

Dang Thi Thu Hoai, Finn Tarp, Dirk van Seventer and Ho Cong Hoa

wp-2016-107: Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme

Ashwini Sebastian, Ana Paula de la O Campos, Silvio Daidone, Benjamin Davis, Ousmane Niang and Luca Pellerano

wp-2016-106: Vertical and horizontal inequality in Ecuador: The lack of sustainability

Ivan Gachet, Diego Grijalva, Paúl Ponce and Damián Rodríguez

wp-2016-105: Ethnic fragmentation, public good provision, and inequality in India, 1988-2012

Nishant Chadha and Bharti Nandwani

wp-2016-104: Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa?: How economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz