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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

wp-2014-054: Capitalism and African Business Cultures

Scott D. Taylor

wp-2014-053: The Prospects for an Imminent Demographic Dividend in Africa: The Case for Cautious Optimism

Alaka M. Basu and Kaushik Basu

wp-2014-052: Informality, Growth, and Development in Africa

Nancy Benjamin and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

wp-2014-051: Changes in Land Tenure and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa

Keijiro Otsuka and Frank Place

wp-2014-050: Dimensions of African Inequality

Arne Bigsten

wp-2014-049: Can the Context Mediate Macro-Policy Outcomes?: Contextual Differences in the Returns to Bolsa Familia in Brazil

Nadia von Jacobi

wp-2014-048: Does Foreign Aid in Education Foster Gender Equality in Developing Countries?

Eugenie Maiga

wp-2014-047: The Economics of Malaria in Africa

Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Josselin Thuilliez

wp-2014-046: China-Africa Co-operation in Structural Transformation: Ideas, Opportunities, and Finances

Justin Lin and Yan Wang

wp-2014-045: The Colonial Legacy: Income Inequality in Former British African Colonies

Anthony Atkinson

wp-2014-044: Gender Difference in Support for Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do social institutions matter?

Maty Konte

wp-2014-043: Aid, Employment, and Poverty Reduction in Africa

John Page and Abebe Abebe

wp-2014-042: Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa's Missing Middle

Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer and Vijaya Ramachandran

wp-2014-041: The Structural Anatomy and Institutional Architecture of Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Erik Thorbecke

wp-2014-040: Targeting Social Transfer Programmes: Comparing Design and Implementation Errors Across Alternative Mechanisms

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Alex Hurrell and Stephen Devereux

wp-2014-039: The Risks to Education Systems from Design Mismatch and Global Isomorphism: Concepts, with Examples from India

Lant Pritchett

wp-2014-038: Modeling Fuel Choice Among Households in Northern Cameroon

Jean Hugues Nlom and Aziz A. Karimov

wp-2014-037: Regional Integration in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Jaime de Melo and Yvonne Tsikata

wp-2014-036: Putting It All Together: Aggregating Impacts of School-Feeding Programmes on Education, Health and Nutrition: Two Proposed Methodologies

Aulo Gelli, Francisco Espejo, Jing Shen and Elizabeth Kristjansson

wp-2014-035: Does Successful Governance Require Heroes? The Case of Sergio Fajardo and the City of Medellín: A Reform Case for Instruction

Alejandro Fajardo and Matt Andrews

wp-2014-034: Social Service Delivery and Access to Financial Innovation: The Impact of Oportunidades' Electronic Payment System in Mexico

Serena Masino and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2014-033: Modeling Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Agriculture Demand in the Volta Basin and Other Basin Systems in Ghana

Barnabas A. Amisigo, Alyssa McCluskey and Richard Swanson

wp-2014-032: The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Road Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa Countries: Evidence from Ghana

Daniel Twerefou, Kwame Adjei-Mantey and Niko L. Strzepek

wp-2014-031: 'Ground-Truthing' Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda

Edwin Muchapondwa, Daniel Nielson, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney

wp-2014-030: Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in Vietnam

Andy McKay and Finn Tarp

wp-2014-029: Transfers for Extreme Poverty Reduction: Implications for Patron-Client Relationships in the Context of Bangladesh's Agricultural Reformation

Lucy Scott

wp-2014-028: The Impact of Climate Change on Pastoral Production Systems: A Study of Climate Variability and Household Adaptation Strategies in Southern Ethiopian Rangelands

Wassie Berhanu and Fekadu Beyene

wp-2014-027: Climate Variability and Household Welfare in Northern Ghana

Paul Nkegbe and Naasegnibe Kuunibe

wp-2014-026: Evaluation of Non-Governmental Development Organizations

Chris Elbers and Jan Willem Gunning

wp-2014-025: First Order Dominance Analysis: Child Wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Malokele Nanivazo

wp-2014-024: Using Evidence and Operational Responses to Accelerate Gender Equality in Kenya

Åsa Torkelsson

wp-2014-023: Aid and Policy Preference in Oil-Rich Countries: Comparing Indonesia and Nigeria

Ahmad Helmy Fuady

wp-2014-022: How Do We Increase the Share of Aid to Agriculture in Africa?

Peter Quartey

wp-2014-021: The Evolution of Industry in Uganda

Marios Obwona, Isaac Shinyekwa, Julius Kiiza and Eria Hisali

wp-2014-020: Implications of Climate Change for Ghana's Economy

Channing Arndt, Felix Asante and James Thurlow