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wp-2016-3: Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000-14

James Davies, Rodrigo Lluberas and Anthony F. Shorrocks

wp-2016-2: Development of the animal feed to poultry value chain across Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Phumzile Ncube, Simon Roberts and Tatenda Zengeni

wp-2016-1: The state, the market, and development

Joseph Stiglitz

wp-2015-154: Ethiopia - an agrarian economy in transition

Yared Seid, Alemayehu Taffesse and Seid Nuru Ali

wp-2015-153: Smoothing food price trends in Nigeria: Political economy issues and policy vistas

Aderibigbe S. Olomola

wp-2015-152: Assessing the likelihood of regional climate change over the Nile River basin and northern Africa: A hybrid assessment

Adam Schlosser and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2015-151: Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor: An ordinal approach

Sabina Alkire and Suman Seth

wp-2015-150: Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Raymond Elikplim Kofinti and Samuel Kobina Annim

wp-2015-149: Industrial policy, learning, and development

Joseph Stiglitz

wp-2015-148: Modelling growth scenarios for biofuels in South Africa's transport sector

Adrian Stone, Giles Henley and Tiisetso Maseela

wp-2015-147: Lofty pine and clinging vine: The educational 'Great Gatsby Curve' and the role of house prices

Jing You, Xinxin Ding, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Sangui Wang

wp-2015-146: Reforming the global monetary non-system

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2015-145: Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Tanzania: A feasibility study

Vincent Leyaro, Elineema Kisanga, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes and Michell Mpike

wp-2015-144: Role of economists in policy-making

Montek S. Ahluwalia

wp-2015-143: Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10

David Stifel, Tiaray Razafimanantena and Faly Rakotomanana

wp-2015-142: Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11

David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna

wp-2015-141: Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Karmen Naidoo, Morne Oosthuizen and Kavisha Pillay

wp-2015-140: Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges

Ernest Aryeetey and William Baah-Boateng

wp-2015-139: Global economic governance and economic policy: A personal perspective

Kemal Dervis

wp-2015-138: Compilation of annual mini SAMs for South Africa 1993-2013 in current and constant prices

Dirk van Seventer

wp-2015-137: Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia

Kristi Mahrt and Gibson Masumbu

wp-2015-136: Poverty trends in Pakistan

Hina Nazli, Edward Whitney and Kristi Mahrt

wp-2015-135: Aid, education policy, and development

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2015-134: The African Lions: Kenya country case study

Mwangi Kimenyi, Francis M. Mwega and Njuguna Ndung'u

wp-2015-133: Keep it real: Measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries

Ulrik Beck

wp-2015-132: Spatial and temporal multidimensional poverty in Nigeria

Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Kristi Mahrt and Olufunke Alaba

wp-2015-131: Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007 through 2013

Kristi Mahrt and Malokele Nanivazo

wp-2015-130: China's international development finance: Past, present, and future

Jiajun Xu and Richard Carey

wp-2015-129: Uganda - A new set of utility consistent poverty lines

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Haruna Sekabira and Fiona Nattembo

wp-2015-128: Tax-benefit microsimulation in Ecuador: A feasibility study

H. Xavier Jara

wp-2015-127: Institutional and policy adjustments to implement Free Trade Agreements with the European Union: A developing country perspective

Kenneth Baltzer

wp-2015-126: Methods matter: The sensitivity of Malawian poverty estimates to definitions, data, and assumptions

Ulrik Beck, Karl Pauw and Richard Mussa

wp-2015-125: The recent evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda

Andy McKay

wp-2015-124: Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria

Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, David Nabena and Olufunke Alaba

wp-2015-123: The industrial policy experience of the electronics industry in Malaysia

Rajah Rasiah

wp-2015-121: Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Zambia: A feasibility study

Mari Kangasniemi, Helen Barnes, Gemma Wright and Michell Mpike

wp-2015-120: India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007-08: Learning some lessons

Ashok Gulati and Shweta Saini

wp-2015-119: Thirty years in Africa's development: From structural adjustment to structural transformation?

Tony Addison

wp-2015-118: The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth: A spatial panel approach

Túlio Cravo and Guilherme Resende

wp-2015-117: The political economy of food price policy: A synthesis

Derrill Watson

wp-2015-116: Climate change and developing country interests: Cases from the Zambezi River Basin

Channing Arndt, Paul S. Chinowsky, Charles Fant, Yohannes Gebretsadik, James E. Neumann, Sergey Paltsev, Adam Schlosser, Kenneth Strzepek, Finn Tarp and James Thurlow

wp-2015-115: Tax-benefit microsimulation in Ethiopia: A feasibility study

Andualem T. Mengistu, Kiflu G. Molla and Firew B. Woldeyes

wp-2015-114: The expansion of regional supermarket chains: Changing models of retailing and the implications for local supplier capabilities in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Reena Das Nair and Shingie Chisoro-Dube

wp-2015-113: School, market work, and household chores: A day of Guatemalan children

Carla Canelas

wp-2015-112: Poverty and informality in Ecuador

Carla Canelas

wp-2015-111: The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality

Kaisa Alavuotunki and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2015-110: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Cross-country analysis

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-109: Understanding Mozambique's growth experience through an employment lens

Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

wp-2015-108: General budget support, health expenditures, and neonatal mortality rate: A synthetic control approach

Kaisa Alavuotunki

wp-2015-107: Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Sandrine A. Koissy-Kpein

wp-2015-106: Alternatives to local content

Ivar Kolstad and Abel Kinyondo

wp-2015-105: Poverty mapping based on first order dominance with an example from Mozambique

Channing Arndt, M. Azhar Hussain, Vincenzo Salvucci, Finn Tarp and Lars Peter Østerdal

wp-2015-103: Korea's evolving business-government relationship

Eun Mee Kim

wp-2015-102: Poverty decomposition by regression: An application to Tanzania

Tomoki Fujii

wp-2015-101: The elasticity of substitution and labour-displacing technical change in post-apartheid South Africa

Carl Kreuser, Rulof Burger and Neil Rankin

wp-2015-100: Income and price elasticities of demand in South Africa: An application of the linear expenditure system

Rulof Burger, Lodewicus Coetzee, Carl Kreuser and Neil Rankin

wp-2015-099: Ghana's experiments with business-government co-ordination

Ernest Aryeetey and Nkechi Owoo

wp-2015-098: State-business relations as drivers of economic performance

Alberto Lemma and Dirk Willem te Velde

wp-2015-097: Ethnic disadvantage in Vietnam: Evidence using panel data

Saurabh Singhal and Ulrik Beck

wp-2015-096: Commercialization in agriculture in rural Vietnam, 2006-14

Andy McKay, Chiara Cazzuffi and Emilie Perge

wp-2015-095: Labour and migration in rural Vietnam

Gaia Narciso

wp-2015-094: Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

wp-2015-093: Inferring the economic standard of living and health from cohort height: Evidence from modern populations in developing countries

Yoko Akachi and David Canning

wp-2015-092: Income and malaria: Evidence from an agricultural intervention in Uganda

Yao Pan and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2015-091: Comparing the development of agricultural technology and information technology in rural Vietnam

Heidi Kaila

wp-2015-090: Children and the youth in rural Vietnam

Gaia Narciso and Carol Newman

wp-2015-089: On the fertility transition in Africa: Income, child mortality, or education?

Anthony Mveyange

wp-2015-088: Land issues in Vietnam 2006-14: Markets, property rights, and investment

Thomas Markussen

wp-2015-087: Social and political capital in rural Vietnam

Thomas Markussen

wp-2015-086: Does HIV/AIDS matter for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa?

Anthony Mveyange, Christian Skovsgaard and Tine Lesner

wp-2015-085: Night lights and regional income inequality in Africa

Anthony Mveyange

wp-2015-084: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Venezuela country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-083: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Uruguay country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-082: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Peru country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-081: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Paraguay country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-080: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Panama country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-079: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Mexico country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-078: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Honduras country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-077: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: El Salvador country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-076: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Ecuador country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-075: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Dominican Republic country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-074: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Costa Rica country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-073: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Colombia country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-072: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Chile country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-71: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Brazil country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-070: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Bolivia country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-069: The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Argentina country study

Guillermo Cruces, Gary Fields, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz

wp-2015-068: Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change, and Employment in Vietnam

Philip Abbott, Finn Tarp and Ce Wu

wp-2015-067: Disadvantage and Discrimination in Self-employment: Caste Gaps in Earnings in Indian Small Businesses

Ashwini Deshpande and Smriti Sharma

wp-2015-066: Gender Inequality and the Empowerment of Women in Rural Vietnam

Carol Newman

wp-2015-065: Local Transformation in Rural Vietnam: A Commune Level Analysis

Ulrik Beck

wp-2015-064: Economic Transformation and the Diversification of Livelihoods in Rural Vietnam

Carol Newman and Christina Kinghan

wp-2015-063: Needs versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development in Post-conflict Countries

Tony Addison, Rachel Gisselquist, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Saurabh Singhal

wp-2015-062: Gender and Distributional Preferences: Experimental Evidence from India

Smriti Sharma

wp-2015-061: Aid, Social Policy, and Development

Tony Addison, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Finn Tarp

wp-2015-060: Public disclosure for pollution abatement: African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experiment

Wisdom Akpalu, Babatunde Abidoye, Edwin Muchapondwa and Witness Simbanegavi

wp-2015-059: Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Women's Wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Malokele Nanivazo and Kristi Mahrt

wp-2015-058: Lessons for Japanese Foreign Aid from Research on Aid's Impact

Tony Addison and Finn Tarp

wp-2015-057: Do Firms Learn by Exporting or Learn to Export?: Evidence from Senegalese Manufacturing Plant

Fatou Cissé and Ji Eun Choi

wp-2015-056: National policies and regional integration in the South African Development Community

Trudy Hartzenberg and Paul Kalenga