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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

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