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wp-2015-055: A New Institutionalist Analysis on Emerging Donorship: Explaining the Rise of the Knowledge Dimension in the South Korean Aid Regime

Jisun Yi

wp-2015-054: Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction

Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Matti Tuomala and Tuuli Paukkeri

wp-2015-053: The Return to Foreign Aid

Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Henrik Hansen

wp-2015-052: Ghana: Poverty Reduction Over Thirty Years

Andy McKay, Jukka Pirttilä and Finn Tarp

wp-2015-051: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania

Channing Arndt, Lionel Demery, Andy McKay and Finn Tarp

wp-2015-050: Schooling Inequality, Returns to Schooling, and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Brazil and South Africa

David Lam, Arden Finn and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2015-049: A Quest for Institutional Foundations Towards Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Machiko Nissanke

wp-2015-048: Capital Account Liberalization and Management

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2015-047: Spillover Effects of International Standards: Work Conditions in Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises

Neda Trifkovic

wp-2015-046: The Governance of the International Monetary System

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2015-045: An Uncertainty Approach to Modelling Climate Change Risk in South Africa

James Cullis, Theresa Alton, Channing Arndt, Anton Cartwright, Alice Chang, Sherwin Gabriel, Yohannes Gebretsadik, Faaiqa Hartley, Gerald de Jager, Konstantin Makrelov, Gordon Robertson, Adam Schlosser, Kenneth Strzepek and James Thurlow

wp-2015-044: Mozambique: Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined?

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

wp-2015-043: Inequality of Opportunity in Educational Achievements: Cross-country and Intertemporal Comparisons

Patrizia Luongo

wp-2015-042: On the Effects of Formalization on Taxes and Wages: Panel Evidence from Vietnam

Amadou Boly

wp-2015-041: Measuring the Labour Income Share of Developing Countries: Learning from Social Accounting Matrices

Katharina Trapp

wp-2015-040: Income Mobility in Ecuador: New Evidence from Individual Income Tax Returns

Liliana Cano

wp-2015-039: Inequality of Opportunity During the Great Recession in Uganda

Paolo Brunori, Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine

wp-2015-038: On the Benefits of Formalization: Panel Evidence from Vietnam

Amadou Boly

wp-2015-037: 'Embedded' Assistance: Finn Church Aid's Secondment in Somalia

Rauli S. Lepistö, Rachel Gisselquist and Jussi Ojala

wp-2015-036: Reversal of the Kuznets Curve: Study on the Inequality-Development Relation Using Top Income Shares Data

Elina Tuominen

wp-2015-035: State Capability and Prospects for Close Co-ordination: Considerations for Industrial Policy in Africa

Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2015-034: Poverty and Happiness: An Examination of the Factors Influencing Happiness among the Extreme Poor in Rural Ghana

Hayford M. Ayerakwa, Robert Osei and Isaac Osei Akoto

wp-2015-033: What Works to Improve the Quality of Student Learning in Developing Countries?

Serena Masino and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2015-032: When do Relative Prices Matter for Measuring Income Inequality?: The Case of Food Prices in Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Vincenzo Salvucci

wp-2015-031: Connections and the Allocation of Public Benefits

Carol Newman and Mengyang Zhang

wp-2015-030: Does Food Insecurity Impact Subjective Evaluation of Well-being?: Evidence From a Developing Country

Wisdom Akpalu, Aaron K. Christian and Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe

wp-2015-029: Development Assistance and Climate Finance

Channing Arndt

wp-2015-028: Changing Income Inequality and Structural Transformation: The Case of Botswana 1921-2010

Ellen Hillbom and Jutta Bolt

wp-2015-027: Poor Health Reporting: Do Poor South Africans Underestimate Their Health Needs?

Laura Rossouw

wp-2015-026: Analysing Income Distribution Changes: Anonymous Versus Panel Income Approaches

Robert Duval-Hernandez, Gary Fields and George H. Jakubson

wp-2015-025: Growth and Inequality in the Distribution of India's Consumption Expenditure: 1983 to 2009-10

Sreenivasan Subramanian and D. Jayaraj

wp-2015-024: Public and Private Expenditures on Human Capital Accumulation in India

Chetan Ghate, Gerhard Glomm and John T. Stone

wp-2015-023: Rethinking the Measurement of the Middle Class: Evidence from Egypt

Khalid Abu-Ismail and Niranjan Sarang

wp-2015-022: The Conceptualization and Measurement of Ethnic and Religious Divisions: Categorical, Temporal, and Spatial Dimensions with Evidence from Mindanao, the Philippines

Rachel Gisselquist and Omar Shahabudin McDoom

wp-2015-021: Private Returns to Education for Wage-employees and the Self-employed in Uganda

Susan Namirembe Kavuma, Oliver Morrissey and Richard Upward

wp-2015-020: Income Inequality in Latin America: Recent Decline and Prospects for Its Further Reduction

Giovanni Cornia

wp-2015-019: The UTIP Global Inequality Datasets: 1963-2008

James K. Galbraith, Beatrice Halbach, Aleksandra Malinowska, Amin Shams and Wenjie Zhang

wp-2015-018: Reflections on the Ethics of Social Experimentation

Macartan Humphreys

wp-2015-017: A Unified Structural Equation Modelling Approach for the Decomposition of Rank-Dependent Indicators of Socioeconomic Inequality of Health

Roselinde Kessels and Guido Erreygers

wp-2015-016: On the Dynamics of Multidimensional Chronic Poverty

Rocio Garcia-Diaz and Daniel Prudencio

wp-2015-015: The Inequality We Want: How Much is too Much?

Alice Krozer

wp-2015-014: Impact of Education on Inequality Across the Wage Distribution Profile in Cameroon, 2005-10

Francis Menjo Baye

wp-2015-013: The Impact of Food Price Volatility on Consumer Welfare in Cameroon

Gilles Quentin Kane, Gwladys Laure Mabah Tene, Jean Joël Ambagna, Isabelle Piot-Lepetit and Fondo Sikod

wp-2015-012: Intra-Household Inequalities in Child Rights and Well-Being: A Barrier to Progress?

Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi

wp-2015-011: Resolution of balance of payments crises: Emergency financing and debt workouts

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2015-010: The impact of aid on total government expenditures: New evidence on fungibility

Łukasz Marć

wp-2015-009: Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship

Vincent Leyaro

wp-2015-008: Home-grown and grassroots-based strategies for determining inequality towards policy action: Rwanda's Ubudehe approach in perspective

Chika Ezeanya

wp-2015-007: Liberalized trade policy and inequality: Evidence from Post-Multi-Fibre Arrangement India and some theoretical issues

Mausumi Kar and Saibal Kar

wp-2015-006: New patterns of structural change and effects on inclusive development: A case study of South Africa and Brazil

Joshua Greenstein

wp-2015-005: Rural household income mobility in transitional China: Evidence from China household income project

Sui Yang

wp-2015-004: Health shocks and the intergenerational transmission of inequality: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Sowmya Dhanaraj

wp-2015-003: The global consumption and income project: An introduction and preliminary findings

Rahul Lahoti, Arjun Jayadev and Sanjay G. Reddy

wp-2015-002: Reference groups and the poverty line: An axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration

Satya Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Zoya Nissanov and Jacques Silber

wp-2015-001: Social capital, political connections, and household Enterprises: Evidence from Vietnam

Christina Kinghan and Carol Newman

wp-2014-164: The Role of Issue Linkage in Managing the Mekong

Kim Hang Pham Do

wp-2014-163: A Natural Experiment of Industrial Policy: Floriculture and the Metal and Engineering Industries in Ethiopia

Mulu Gebreeyesus

wp-2014-162: Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in Zambia: Further Evidence of a Subnational 'Diversity Dividend'

Rachel Gisselquist, Stefan Leiderer and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2014-161: Optimized Reservoir Operation Model of Regional Wind and Hydro Power Integration: Case Study: Zambezi Basin and South Africa

Yohannes Gebretsadik, Chas Fant and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2014-160: Assessing the Impact of Social Grants on Inequality: A South African Case Study

Reinhard Schiel, Murray Leibbrandt and David Lam

wp-2014-159: The Main Obstacles to Firms' Growth in Senegal: Implications for the Long Run

Mathilde Maurel and Majda Seghir

wp-2014-158: The Political Economy of Industrial Development in Vietnam: Impact of State-Business Relationship on Industrial Performance, 1986-2012

Tu-Anh Vu-Thanh

wp-2014-157: Scoping Paper on Industry in Senegal

Fatou Cissé, Ji Eun Choi and Mathilde Maurel

wp-2014-156: The Practice of Industrial Policy - Lessons for Africa: Co-ordination Through an Asian Lens

Justin Lin and Khuong Vu

wp-2014-155: Policy Co-ordination and Growth Traps in a Middle-income Country Setting: The Case of South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Aalia Cassim and Alan Hirsch

wp-2014-154: Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: The Case Study of Cameroon

Samuel Fambon, Andy McKay, Joseph-Pierre Timnou, Olive Stéphanie Kouakep, Anaclet Dzossa and Romain Tchakoute

wp-2014-153: The Practice of Industrial Policy - Lessons for Africa: Case Studies of Decentralized Co-ordination in China

Hinh Dinh

wp-2014-152: It Worked in China, so Why not in Africa?: The Political Economy Challenge of Special Economic Zones

Thomas Farole and Lotta Moberg

wp-2014-151: Monetary Inequality Among Households in Togo: An Illustration Based on the Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient Using the Shapley Value Approach

Yawo Noglo

wp-2014-150: Consumption Bundle Aggregation in Poverty Measurement: Implications for Poverty and its Dynamics in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Haruna Sekabira and Dede H. Aduayom

wp-2014-149: The Centre Cannot Hold: Patterns of Polarization in Nigeria

Fabio Clementi, Andrew L. Dabalen, Vasco Molini and Francesco Schettino

wp-2014-148: Cost and Impact Analysis of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Vietnam

Paul S. Chinowsky, Amy E. Schweikert and Niko L. Strzepek

wp-2014-147: South Africa's Emerging Black Middle Class: A Harbinger of Political Change?

Robert Mattes

wp-2014-146: Multi-dimensional Poverty Analysis for Tanzania: First Order Dominance Approach with Discrete Indicators

Channing Arndt, Vincent Leyaro and Kristi Mahrt

wp-2014-145: Aid, Political Business Cycles and Growth in Africa

Blessing Chiripanhura and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2014-144: The Fall of the Elephant: Two Decades of Poverty Increase in Côte d'Ivoire (1988-2008)

Denis Cogneau, Kenneth Houngbedji and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

wp-2014-143: Multidimensional Poverty in Nigeria: First Order Dominance Approach

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

wp-2014-142: Supply-Side Constraints, Capital Goods Imports, and the Quality of Sub-Saharan African Countries' Exports

Catherine Co

wp-2014-141: The Provision of Global Liquidity: The Global Reserve System

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2014-140: Tenure Insecurity, Climate Variability, and Renting-Out Decisions Among Female Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia

Wisdom Akpalu and Mintewab Bezabih

wp-2014-139: Fast-Food Consumption and Child Body Mass Index in China: Application of an Endogenous Switching Regression Model

Wisdom Akpalu and Xu Zhang

wp-2014-138: Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Rwanda: A Broad Perspective

Marijke Verpoorten

wp-2014-137: Multidimensional Welfare in Districts of Zambia: A First Order Dominance Approach

Gibson Masumbu and Kristi Mahrt

wp-2014-136: Scoping Paper on Kenyan Manufacturing

Jacob Chege, Dianah Ngui and Peter Kimuyu

wp-2014-135: An Integrated Approach to Modelling Energy Policy in South Africa: Evaluating Carbon Taxes and Electricity Import Restrictions

Channing Arndt, Rob Davies, Sherwin Gabriel, Konstantin Makrelov, Bruno Merven, Faaiqa Salie and James Thurlow

wp-2014-134: Is There a Brazilian Model of Development?: Are There Lessons for Countries in Africa?

Edmund Amann and Armando Barrientos

wp-2014-133: Measured as Poor Versus Feeling Poor: Comparing Objective and Subjective Poverty Rates in South Africa

Dorrit Posel and Michael Rogan

wp-2014-132: Indices of Social Development and their Application to Africa

Arjan de Haan and Roberto Foa

wp-2014-131: Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube and Zorobabel Bicaba

wp-2014-130: Skills-Biased Labour Demand and the Pursuit of Inclusive Growth in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Sumayya Goga and Benjamin Stanwix

wp-2014-129: When do Relative Prices Matter for Measuring Income Inequality?: The Case of Food Prices in Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Vincenzo Salvucci

wp-2014-128: Local Agency, Development Assistance and the Legacies of Rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda

Devon E. A. Curtis

wp-2014-127: Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Arden Finn, Murray Leibbrandt and Morne Oosthuizen

wp-2014-126: Incomes, Inequality, and Poverty in Kenya: A Long-Term Perspective

Arne Bigsten, Damiano Kulundu Manda, Germano Mwabu and Anthony Wambugu

wp-2014-125: Utility-Consistent Poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11: Welfare Improvements in a Changing Economic Landscape

David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna

wp-2014-124: Burkina Faso: Shipping Around the Malthusian Trap

Michael Grimm, Claude Wetta and Aude Nikiema

wp-2014-123: Did Rapid Smallholder-Led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty?: Making Sense of Malawi's Poverty Puzzle

Karl Pauw, Ulrik Beck and Richard Mussa

wp-2014-122: Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10: Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide Shocks

David Stifel, Tiaray Razafimanantena and Faly Rakotomanana

wp-2014-121: Planning for Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power in South Africa: Identifying Cost-Effective Deployment Strategies Through Spatiotemporal Modelling

Kevin Ummel and Charles Fant

wp-2014-120: Assessing the Inclusiveness of Growth in Africa: Evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania

Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Arthur Bauer, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Clara Champagne, Tite Yokossi, Nathalie Ferriere, Hédi Brahimi and Jeanne Avril