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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

wp-2014-019: Industrial Development and Growth in Nigeria: Lessons and Challenges

Louis N. Chete, John Olatunji Adeoti, Foluso M. Adeyinka and Olorunfemi O. Ogundele

wp-2014-018: Producing Biofuels in Low-Income Countries: An Integrated Environmental and Economic Assessment for Tanzania

Giacomo Branca, Erika Felix, Irini Maltsoglou, Luis E. Rincon and James Thurlow

wp-2014-017: The Effect of Climate Change on Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Imhotep Alagidede, George Adu and Prince Frimpong

wp-2014-016: Effectiveness of International Aid for Diarrheal Disease Control and Potential for Future Impact

Richard A. Cash and James R. Potter

wp-2014-015: Foreign Aid Effectiveness in African Economies: Evidence from a Panel Threshold Framework

Didier Alia and Romuald E. Kouadio Anago

wp-2014-014: Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment in Africa

Stephen Golub and Faraz Hayat

wp-2014-013: Climate Change and Economic Growth Prospects for Malawi: An Uncertainty Approach

Channing Arndt, Adam Schlosser, Kenneth Strzepek and James Thurlow

wp-2014-012: Transition Regimes and Security Sector Reforms in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Ato Kwamena Onoma

wp-2014-011: Global Collective Action in Health: The WDR+20 Landscape of Core and Supportive Functions

Nathan Blanchet, Milan Thomas, Rifat Atun, Dean Jamison, Felicia Knaul and Robert Hecht

wp-2014-010: Gender Inequality, Female Leadership, and Aid Allocation: A Panel Analysis of Aid for Education

Linda Kleemann, Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele

wp-2014-009: Unpacking Women's Health in Public-Private Partnerships: A Return to Instrumentalism in Development Policy and Practice?

Jasmine Gideon and Fenella Porter

wp-2014-008: Youth in Tanzania's Urbanizing Mining Settlements: Prospecting a Mineralized Future

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

wp-2014-007: Aid and the Environment: The Case of Botswana

James S. Juana

wp-2014-006: Minimum Wage and Informality in Ecuador

Carla Canelas

wp-2014-005: Aid, Environment, and Climate Change in Africa: The Case of Senegal

Tidiane Ngaido

wp-2014-004: Global Interpersonal Inequality: Trends and Measurement

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Laurence Roope and Finn Tarp

wp-2014-003: Health Shocks and Coping Strategies: State Health Insurance Scheme of Andhra Pradesh, India

Sowmya Dhanaraj

wp-2014-002: Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States: The Case of Somali-Inhabited Eastern Horn of Africa

Ken Menkhaus

wp-2014-001: Cities of Youth: Post-Millennial Cases of Mobility and Sociality

Karen Tranberg Hansen

wp-2013-144: Aid to Africa: the Changing Context

Tony Addison, Saurabh Singhal and Finn Tarp

wp-2013-143: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in ECOWAS Countries: a Simultaneous-Equation Model

Patricia A. Adamu

wp-2013-142: Aid and the Environment: Uganda

Eseza Kateregga

wp-2013-141: South Sudan: The Road from the Paris Declaration to the Reality of Juba, 2005-11

Greg Larson

wp-2013-140: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Reference Dependent Utility

Isabel Günther and Johannes Maier

wp-2013-139: Aid and Environment in Burkina Faso

Yiriyibin Bambio

wp-2013-138: Asian Donor Support for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Comparative Experience, Challenges, and Opportunities

Eugenia McGill

wp-2013-137: The Ideal of Gender Justice and the UNSCR 1325: Two Case Studies: Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Sirkku K. Hellsten

wp-2013-136: The International Fiscal Implications of Global Poverty Reduction and Global Public Goods Provision

Valpy Fitzgerald

wp-2013-135: REDD+ as Performance-Based Aid: General Lessons and Bilateral Agreements of Norway

Arild Angelsen

wp-2013-134: Economic History of Industrialization in Cambodia

Sokty Chhair and Luyna Ung

wp-2013-133: Aid and the Environment: the Case of Kenya

Wilfred Nyangena

wp-2013-132: Aid and Dutch Disease: Evidence from Moroccan and Tunisian Time-Series Data

Tony Addison and Mina Baliamoune

wp-2013-131: The Care Connection: The World Bank and Women's Unpaid Care Work in Select Sub-Saharan African Countries

Sarah Bibler and Elaine Zuckerman

wp-2013-130: Is Kazakhstan Vulnerable to Natural Resource Curse?

Yessengali Oskenbayev and Aziz Karimov

wp-2013-129: Innovation at the World Bank: Selective Perspectives Over Three Decades 1975-2005

Roger Grawe

wp-2013-128: Environmental and Climate Finance in a New World: How Past Environmental Aid Allocation Impacts Future Climate Aid

Christopher Marcoux, Bradley C. Parks, Christian M. Peratsakis, Timmons Roberts and Michael J. Tierney

wp-2013-127: Education from the Bottom Up: UNICEF's Education Programme in Somalia

James Williams and William C. Cummings

wp-2013-126: State-Building Through Neotrusteeship: Kosovo and East Timor in Comparative Perspective

Lise Morjé Howard

wp-2013-125: Industrial Policy and Development in Ethiopia: Evolution and Present Experimentation

Mulu Gebreeyesus

wp-2013-124: Foreign Capital Inflow and Economic Growth in Cameroon

Samuel Fambon

wp-2013-123: Aid and Environment in Ghana

Daniel Twerefou

wp-2013-122: Aid and Governance in Vulnerable States: Bangladesh and Pakistan Since 1971

Mushtaq H. Khan

wp-2013-121: Aid and State Transition in Ghana and South Korea

Jiyoung Kim

wp-2013-120: South Sudan's Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation

Greg Larson, Peter Biar Ajak and Lant Pritchett

wp-2013-119: Another Look at Foreign Aid

Gustav Ranis

wp-2013-118: Determinants of Foreign Aid in Family Planning: How Relevant is the Mexico City Policy?

Elizabeth Asiedu, Malokele Nanivazo and Mwanza Nkusu

wp-2013-117: Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in Development

Matt Andrews

wp-2013-116: International Aid to Southern Europe in the Early Post-War Period: the Cases of Greece and Italy

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

wp-2013-115: Social Transfer Programmes and School Enrolment in Malawi: a Micro-Simulation

Malokele Nanivazo

wp-2013-114: Liberia's Gender-Sensitive Police Reform: Starting from Scratch? Improving Representation and Responsiveness

Laura M. Bacon

wp-2013-113: Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in Nicaragua

Maurits Barendrecht, Margot Kokke, Martin Gramatikov, Robert Porter, Morly Frishman and Andrea Morales

wp-2013-112: The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in Afghanistan

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov

wp-2013-111: Overcoming the Limits of Institutional Reform in Uganda

Matt Andrews and Lawrence Bategeka

wp-2013-110: Trends and Patterns of Land Use Change and International Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ephraim Nkonya, Jawoo Koo, Edward Kato and Zhe Guo

wp-2013-109: Foreign Aid and Sustainable Forestry

Pekka E. Kauppi

wp-2013-108: Intervention, Aid, and Institution-Building in Iraq and Afghanistan: a Review and Critique of Comparative Lessons

Jonathan Monten

wp-2013-107: Land, Environment and Climate: Contributing to the Global Public Good

Thomas Hertel

wp-2013-106: The Political Economy Dimensions of Macroeconomic Management of Aid in Ghana

Robert Osei, Freda Asem and George Domfe

wp-2013-105: Multiple Pathways to Gender-Sensitive Budget Support in the Education Sector: Analysing the Effectiveness of Sex-Disaggregated Indicators in Performance Assessment Frameworks and Gender Working Groups in (Education) Budget Support to Sub-Saharan Africa Countries

Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg

wp-2013-104: Foreign Aid and the Failure of State Building in Haiti Under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval, and Martelly

Terry F. Buss

wp-2013-103: Foreign Aid and Mobilization of Growth Factors in Sub-Saharan Africa

Douzounet Mallaye and Thierry Yogo

wp-2013-102: Foreign Aid, Resource Rents and Institution-Building in Mozambique and Angola

Helena Pérez Niño and Philippe Le Billon

wp-2013-101: A Timeseries Analysis of the Impact of Foreign Aid on Central Government's Fiscal Budget in Uganda

Thomas Bwire, Oliver Morrissey and Tim Lloyd

wp-2013-100: Foreign Aid and Sustainable Fisheries Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wisdom Akpalu

wp-2013-099: A Review of External Assistance and Aid Effectiveness for Maternal and Child Health: Challenges and Opportunities

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Samia Aleem