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wp-2016-103: Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countries

Lisa Chauvet and Marin Ferry

wp-2016-102: Structural transformation in the world economy: On the significance of developing countries

Deepak Nayyar

wp-2016-101: Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

wp-2016-100: Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa

Biniam Bedasso and Nonso Obikili

wp-2016-99: On the spread of social protection systems

Peter Egger, Doina Radulescu and Nora Strecker

wp-2016-98: Taxation and inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America

Bruno Martorano

wp-2016-97: A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton Woods

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2016-96: Resilience to crisis through social protection: Can we build the case?

Thomas Roca and Hélène Ferrer

wp-2016-95: Capital flight and development: An overview of concepts, methods, and data sources

Niels Johannesen and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2016-94: Global inequality: How large is the effect of top incomes?

Vanesa Jorda and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2016-93: Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme

Tom Lavers

wp-2016-92: Deflecting my burden, hindering redistribution: How elites influence tax legislation in Latin America

Juan A. Bogliaccini and Juan Pablo Luna

wp-2016-91: Institutionalizing segregation: Conditional cash transfers and employment choices

María Gabriela Palacio

wp-2016-90: Imports, supply chains, and firm productivity

Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-89: Financial systems in new middle-income African economies: The opportunities and the risks

Alan R. Roe

wp-2016-88: Anti-corruption policy-making, discretionary power, and institutional quality: An experimental analysis

Amadou Boly and Robert Gillanders

wp-2016-87: Ethnic and racial disparities in children's education: Comparative evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Mohamed Arouri, Adel Ben-Youssef and Cuong Viet Nguyen

wp-2016-86: Why does caste still influence access to agricultural credit?

Sunil Mitra Kumar

wp-2016-85: Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India

Hemanshu Kumar and Rohini Somanthan

wp-2016-84: Mining-related national systems of innovation in southern Africa: National trajectories and regional integration

Judith Fessehaie, Zavareh Rustomjee and Lauralyn Kaziboni

wp-2016-83: Can mining promote industrialization?: A comparative analysis of policy frameworks in three Southern African countries

Judith Fessehaie, Zavareh Rustomjee and Lauralyn Kaziboni

wp-2016-82: Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization

Muhammad Badiuzzaman and Syed Mansoob Murshed

wp-2016-81: The history and politics of energy transitions: Comparing contested views and finding common ground

Benjamin K. Sovacool

wp-2016-80: Do labour market conditions affect the extent of gender discrimination?

Eva Arceo-Gomez and Raymundo Campos-Vazquez

wp-2016-79: Tanzania: From mining to oil and gas

Alan R. Roe

wp-2016-78: Discriminatory attitudes and indigenous language promotion: Challenges and solutions

Rajesh Ramachandran and Christopher Rauh

wp-2016-77: Less restrictive birth control, less education?: Evidence from ethnic minorities in China

Yishen Liu and Yao Pan

wp-2016-76: Cooperation and leadership in a segregated community: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in a South African township

Daniela Grieco, Michela Braga and Francesco Bripi

wp-2016-75: Multidimensional assessment of child welfare for Tanzania

Channing Arndt, Vincent Leyaro, Kristi Mahrt and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-74: Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes

Victoire Girard

wp-2016-73: Microsimulation of impacts of tax and transfer in Vietnam: Feasibility study

Duong Anh Nguyen, Minh Binh Tran and Anh Mai Le

wp-2016-72: The political economy of energy transitions and thermal energy poverty: Comparing the residential LPG sectors in Indonesia and South Africa

Johannes Kruger, Louise Tait and Jiska de Groot

wp-2016-71: Double jeopardy?: Caste, affirmative action, and stigma

Ashwini Deshpande

wp-2016-70: Self-assessed versus statistical evidence of labour market discrimination: The case of indigenous Australians

Alan Duncan, Astghik Mavisakalyan and Yashar Tarverdi

wp-2016-69: Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India: An experimental investigation

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Prakarsh Singh

wp-2016-68: The transmission of socially responsible behaviour through international trade

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2016-67: Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam

Sutanuka Roy and Prakarsh Singh

wp-2016-66: Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap

Rulof Burger, Rachel Jafta and Dieter von Fintel

wp-2016-65: Protecting unsophisticated applicants in school choice through information disclosure

Christian Basteck and Marco Mantovani

wp-2016-64: The behavioural implications of women's empowerment programmes

Lata Gangadharan, Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joseph Vecci

wp-2016-63: Institutional differences across resource-based economies

Utku Teksoz and Katerina Kalcheva

wp-2016-62: The linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia: Challenges and opportunities for the Mekong region

Kim Hang Pham Do and Ariel Dinar

wp-2016-61: The power to choose: Gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India

Christophe Nordman and Smriti Sharma

wp-2016-60: Caste differences in behaviour and personality: Evidence from India

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2016-59: Is feed-in-tariff policy effective for increasing deployment of renewable energy in Indonesia?

Dewi Yuliani

wp-2016-58: Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa: An investigation of the role of natural resource endowment

Léonce Ndikumana and Mare Sarr

wp-2016-57: Oil discoveries and democracy

Tania Masi and Roberto Ricciuti

wp-2016-56: Employment status and educational attainment among disabled Ghanaians

Clifford Afoakwah and Fatima Dauda

wp-2016-55: For whom does the phone (not) ring?: Discrimination in the rental housing market in Delhi, India

Saugato Datta and Vikram Pathania

wp-2016-54: Affirmative action and effort choice: An experimental investigation

Juliana Silva-Goncalves, Uwe Dulleck, Anita Lee Hong, Markus Schaffner and Stephen Whyte

wp-2016-53: Racial bias and the validity of the Implicit Association Test

Daniel Lee

wp-2016-52: Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward

Elizabeth Kaletski and Nishith Prakash

wp-2016-51: The legal configuration of hydrocarbon infrastructure

Ross Astoria

wp-2016-50: The political economy of clean energy transitions at sub-national level: Understanding the role of international climate regimes in energy policy in two Brazilian states

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira and Celio Andrade

wp-2016-49: Global macroeconomic cooperation and the exchange rate system

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2016-48: Understanding indicator choice for the assessment of research, development, and demonstration financing of low-carbon energy technologies: Lessons from the Nordic countries

Jonas Sonnenschein

wp-2016-47: Eliciting risk preferences: Firefighting in the field

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2016-46: The inequality-resource curse of conflict: Heterogeneous effects of mineral deposit discoveries

Joeri Smits, Yibekal Tessema, Takuto Sakamoto and Richard Schodde

wp-2016-45: Evaluating monetary policy options for managing resource revenue shocks when fiscal policy is laissez-faire: Application to Nigeria

Chuku Chuku

wp-2016-44: Carbon pricing under binding political constraints

Jesse D. Jenkins and Valerie J. Karplus

wp-2016-43: Delayed marriage, contraceptive use, and breastfeeding: Fertility patterns over time and wealth quintiles in sub-Saharan Africa

Jocelyn E. Finlay, Iván Mejía-Guevara and Yoko Akachi

wp-2016-42: Introduction to the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel

Duncan Pieterse, Carl Kreuser and Elizabeth Gavin

wp-2016-41: Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms

Carl Kreuser and Carol Newman

wp-2016-40: Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors: An analysis with administrative data

Johannes Fedderke, Nonso Obikili and Nicola Viegi

wp-2016-39: Importing and firm performance: New evidence from South Africa

Lawrence Edwards, Marco Sanfilippo and Asha Sundaram

wp-2016-38: The South African manufacturing exporter story

Marianne Matthee, Neil Rankin, Tasha Naughtin and Carli Bezuidenhout

wp-2016-37: Job flows, worker flows, and churning in South Africa

Andrew Kerr

wp-2016-36: How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities?: Evidence from South African tax registers

Wian Boonzaaier, Jarkko Harju, Tuomas Matikka and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2016-35: A review of consumption poverty estimation for Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones, Kristi Mahrt, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-34: The world's two new middles: Growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case

Andy Sumner

wp-2016-33: Climate change policy and power sector reform in Mexico under the 'golden age of gas'

José María Valenzuela and Isabel Studer

wp-2016-32: Towards a political economy framework for wind power: Does China break the mould?

Michael R. Davidson, Fredrich Kahrl and Valerie J. Karplus

wp-2016-31: An inquiry into the political economy of the global clean energy transition policies and Nigeria's federal and state governments' fiscal policies

David Onyinyechi Agu and Evelyn Nwamaka Ogbeide-Osaretin

wp-2016-30: The effects of climate risk on hydropower P3 contract value: Preliminary study of the Inga 3 Dam

Richard Swanson and Vivek Sakhrani

wp-2016-29: Implementing EU renewable energy policy at the subnational level: Navigating between conflicting interests

Gilles Lepesant

wp-2016-28: Governing clean energy transitions in China and India: A comparative political economy analysis

Karoliina Isoaho, Alexandra Goritz and Nicolai Schulz

wp-2016-27: Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Mozambique: A feasibility study

Helen Barnes, Vanda Castelo, Finório Castigo, António S. Cruz, Michell Mpike, Michael Noble and Gemma Wright

wp-2016-26: A 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for South Africa

Dirk van Seventer, Faaiqa Hartley, Sherwin Gabriel and Rob Davies

wp-2016-25: Do political economy factors matter in explaining the increase in the production of bioenergy?

Eric Kere

wp-2016-24: Natural resource revenues and public investment in resource-rich economies in sub-Saharan Africa

Amin Karimu, George Adu, George Marbuah, Justice Tei Mensah and Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah

wp-2016-23: Integrating clean energy use in national poverty reduction strategies: Opportunities and challenges in Rwanda's Girinka programme

Chika Ezeanya and Abel Kennedy

wp-2016-22: Global trends in the political economy of smart grids: A tailored perspective on 'smart' for grids in transition

Cherrelle Eid, Rudi Hakvoort and Martin de Jong

wp-2016-21: European energy security: Challenges and green opportunities

Almas Heshmati and Shahrouz Abolhosseini

wp-2016-20: Border adjustment mechanisms: Elements for economic, legal, and political analysis

Julien Bueb, Lilian Richieri Hanania and Alice Le Clézio

wp-2016-19: The social shaping of nuclear energy technology in South Africa

Britta Rennkamp and Radhika Bhuyan

wp-2016-18: Varieties of clean energy transitions in Europe: Political-economic foundations of onshore and offshore wind development

Stefan Ćetković, Aron Buzogány and Miranda Schreurs

wp-2016-17: The political economy of energy innovation

Shouro Dasgupta, Enrica De Cian and Elena Verdolini

wp-2016-16: Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply: Evidence from Vietnam

Ulrik Beck, Saurabh Singhal and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-15: Post-apartheid electricity policy and the emergence of South Africa's renewable energy sector

Lucy Baker

wp-2016-14: Sell the oil deposits!: A financial proposal to keep the oil underground in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Santiago Bucaram, Mario Fernandez and Diego Grijalva

wp-2016-13: Falling oil prices and sustainable energy transition: Towards a multilateral agreement on fossil-fuel subsidies

Henok Birhanu Asmelash

wp-2016-12: Renewable energy in the Brazilian Amazon: The drivers of political economy and climate

Sabrina McCormick

wp-2016-11: Inter- and intra-farm land fragmentation in Vietnam

Thomas Markussen, Finn Tarp, Do Huy Thiep and Nguyen Do Anh Tuan

wp-2016-10: Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance?: Method and evidence from micro-data

Niels Johannesen, Thomas Tørsløv and Ludvig Wier

wp-2016-9: Political economy of Nigerian power sector reform

Eric Kehinde Ogunleye

wp-2016-8: Absolute poverty lines

Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt and Finn Tarp

wp-2016-7: Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environment

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2016-6: Support policies for renewables: Instrument choice and instrument change from a Public Choice perspective

Erik Gawel, Sebastian Strunz and Paul Lehmann

wp-2016-5: Industry in Tanzania: Performance, prospects, and public policy

John Page

wp-2016-4: Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Bethlehem A. Argaw