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

Armin von Schiller

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

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-2017-3: 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, Chris Rooney, Nomsa Kachingwe and Adrienne Lees

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

Kate Pruce and Sam Hickey