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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

wp-2014-119: The Rise of a Middle Class in East and Southern Africa: Implications for Food System Transformation

David Tschirley, Thomas Reardon, Michael Dolislager and Jason Snyder

wp-2014-118: Impact of Income and Non-Income Shocks on Child Labour: Evidence from a Panel Survey of Tanzania

Amarakoon Bandara, Rajeev Dehejia and Shaheen Lavie Rouse

wp-2014-117: Industrial Policy in Practice: Africa's Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils

John Page

wp-2014-116: The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes on Household Work Decisions in Ghana

Eric Ekobor-Ackah Mochiah, Robert Osei and Isaac Osei Akoto

wp-2014-115: South African Labour Market Transitions During the Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Micro-Level Evidence

Dennis Essers

wp-2014-114: African Growth Miracle or Statistical Tragedy?: Interpreting Trends in the Data Over the Past Two Decades

Morten Jerven

wp-2014-113: Poverty and Ethnicity Among Black South Africans

Carlos Gradín

wp-2014-112: A Hybrid Approach to Incorporating Climate Change and Variability into Climate Scenario for Impact Assessments

Yohannes Gebretsadik, Kenneth Strzepek and Adam Schlosser

wp-2014-111: Changes in Climatic Factors and Malaria in Uganda

Bruno Lule Yawe

wp-2014-110: The Multilateral Aid System: An Assessment Following the Major Replenishments of 2013

Richard Manning

wp-2014-109: Poverty Dynamics and Programme Graduation from Social Protection: A Transitional Model for Mexico's Oportunidades Programme

Juan Villa and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2014-108: The Happy Farmer: Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being in Rural Vietnam

Thomas Markussen, Maria Fibæk, Finn Tarp and Do Anh Tuan Nguyen

wp-2014-107: Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Uganda: Are there Gender Differences Across Households?

Madina Guloba

wp-2014-106: An Integrated Analysis of Economywide Effects of Climate Change

Hasan Dudu and Erol Cakmak

wp-2014-105: Learning to Export and Learning by Exporting: The Case of Ethiopian Manufacturing

Eyerusalem Siba and Mulu Gebreeyesus

wp-2014-104: Women's Empowerment: What Works and Why?

Andrea Cornwall

wp-2014-103: Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy

Saugato Datta and Sendhil Mullainathan

wp-2014-102: Aid and Environment in Mozambique

Alda Tomo and Nícia Givá

wp-2014-101: Varieties of Capitalists?: The Middle Class, Private Sector and Economic Outcomes in Africa

Antoinette Handley

wp-2014-100: Could Free Trade Alleviate Effects of Climate Change?: A Worldwide Analysis with Emphasis on Morocco and Turkey

Ismail Ouraich, Hasan Dudu, Wallace Tyner and Erol Cakmak

wp-2014-099: The Economywide Impacts and Risks of Malawi's Farm Input Subsidy Programme

Channing Arndt, Karl Pauw and James Thurlow

wp-2014-098: From Productivity to Exporting or Vice Versa?: Evidence from the Tunisian Manufacturing Sector

Mohamed Ayadi and Wided Mattoussi

wp-2014-097: Engaging with Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: An Alternative Approach to Theory, Measurement and Practice

Michael Woolcock

wp-2014-096: Does the African Middle Class Defend Democracy?: Evidence from Kenya

Nic Cheeseman

wp-2014-095: Prospects for Grid-Connected Solar Photovoltaic in Kenya: A Systems Approach

Amy Rose, Robert J. Stoner and Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

wp-2014-094: Can One Retell a Mozambican Reform Story Through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation?

Matt Andrews

wp-2014-093: The Idea of Economic Development: Views from Africa

Hippolyte Fofack

wp-2014-092: Regulatory Reform for Closing Africa's Competitiveness Gap

Ioannis Kessides

wp-2014-091: Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment Through Productive Employment and Social Protection

Naoko Otobe

wp-2014-090: Social Transfers and Growth: The Missing Evidence from Luminosity Data

Juan Villa

wp-2014-089: What is the Aggregate Economic Rate of Return to Foreign Aid?

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

wp-2014-088: Morocco's Unique Situation in the Climate Change Arena: An Analysis of Climate Forecasts and their Link to Agriculture

Ismail Ouraich and Wallace Tyner

wp-2014-087: Understanding Chinese and Western Development Finance in Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Edwin Muchapondwa and Samson Mukanjari

wp-2014-086: Cambodia's Land Management and Administration Project

Robin Biddulph

wp-2014-085: The Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in Tanzania: Challenges and the Way Forward

Samuel Wangwe, Donald Mmari, Jehovanes Aikaeli, Neema Rutatina, Thadeus Mboghoina and Abel Kinyondo

wp-2014-084: How Many Manufacturing Firms are there in Mozambique?

Søren Schou and José Cardoso

wp-2014-083: Climate Change Impacts on Moroccan Agriculture and the Whole Economy: An Analysis of the Impacts of the Plan Maroc Vert in Morocco

Ismail Ouraich and Wallace Tyner

wp-2014-082: Social Spending and Aggregate Welfare in Developing and Transition Economies

Fiseha Gebregziabher and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2014-081: Success When Stars Align: Public Financial Management Reforms in Sierra Leone

Heidi Tavakoli, Ismaila Cessay and Winston Cole

wp-2014-080: Young People, Agriculture, and Employment in Rural Africa

James Sumberg, Nana Akua Anyidoho, Michael Chasukwa, Blessings Chinsinga, Jennifer Leavy, Getnet Tadele, Stephen Whitfield and Joseph Yaro

wp-2014-079: Exporting and Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers: Cambodia's Experience

Sokty Chhair and Luyna Ung

wp-2014-078: Savings By and For the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda

Dean Karlan, Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan and Jonathan Zinman

wp-2014-077: Aid and Environment in Africa: The Case of Tanzania

Godius Kahyarara

wp-2014-076: The Evolution of Vietnamese Industry

Nguyen Thi Tue Anh, Luu Minh Duc and Trinh Duc Chieu

wp-2014-075: Scoping Study on the Evolution of Industry in Ghana

Charles Godfred Ackah, Charles Adjasi and Festus Turkson

wp-2014-074: Scoping of the Tunisian Economy

Mohamed Ayadi and Wided Mattoussi

wp-2014-073: Education, Skill, and Earnings: Further Evidence from Ghana

Charles Godfred Ackah, Charles Adjasi, Festus Turkson and Adjoa Acquah

wp-2014-072: Disentangling the Pattern of Geographic Concentration in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Mohamed Ayadi and Wided Mattoussi

wp-2014-071: Productivity-Enhancing Manufacturing Clusters: Evidence from Vietnam

Emma Howard, Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp

wp-2014-070: Exporting and Productivity: The Role of Ownership and Innovation in the Case of Vietnam

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Thi Tue Anh Nguyen

wp-2014-069: Education Policy, Vocational Training, and the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moses Oketch

wp-2014-068: The Success of Learnerships?: Lessons from South Africa's Training and Education Programme

Neil Rankin, Gareth Roberts and Volker Schöer

wp-2014-067: The Economics of Marriage in North Africa

Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft

wp-2014-066: Learning by Exporting: The Case of Mozambican Manufacturing

António S. Cruz, Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp

wp-2014-065: Clustering, Competition, and Spillover Effects: Evidence from Cambodia

Sokty Chhair and Carol Newman

wp-2014-064: Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?

Sam Wong

wp-2014-063: Aid and the Environment in Africa: A Synthesis of Eight Case Studies

Edwin Muchapondwa

wp-2014-062: Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Development in Africa

Keun Lee, Calestous Juma and John Mathews

wp-2014-061: The Theory and Practice of Agriculture, Growth, and Development in Africa

Ousmane Badiane and Tsitsi Makombe

wp-2014-060: The Economics of Happiness and Anger in North Africa

Nadereh Chamlou

wp-2014-059: Mozambique's Industrialization

António S. Cruz, Dina Guambe, Constantino Pedro Marrengula and Amosse Francisco Ubisse

wp-2014-058: Capacity Development for the Transformation of Africa

Frannie A. Léautier

wp-2014-057: The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1982-2012

Takaaki Masaki and Nicolas van de Walle

wp-2014-056: Gendered Perspectives on Economic Growth and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephanie Seguino and Maureen Were

wp-2014-055: Trade Unions in an Emerging Economy: The Case of South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Karmen Naidoo and Derek Yu