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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

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