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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

wp-2013-098: Agricultural Commodity Price Shocks and Their Effect on Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tony Addison and Atanu Ghoshray

wp-2013-097: Ordinal Multidimensional Inequality

Christoffer Sonne-Schmidt, Finn Tarp and Lars Peter Østerdal

wp-2013-096: Using Case Studies to Explore the External Validity of 'Complex' Development Interventions

Michael Woolcock

wp-2013-095: The World Bank's Health Projects in Timor-Leste: the Political Economy of Effective Aid

Andrew Rosser and Sharna Bremner

wp-2013-094: Foreign Aid, Public Sector and Private Consumption: a Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive Approach

Thomas Bwire, Oliver Morrissey and Tim Lloyd

wp-2013-093: Foreign Aid and Sustainable Energy

Luis Gómez-Echeverri

wp-2013-092: Who Really Leads Development?

Matt Andrews

wp-2013-091: How Do Governments Become Great?: Ten Cases, Two Competing Explanations, One Large Research Agenda

Matt Andrews

wp-2013-090: The Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Aid and Macroeconomic Transmission Mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana

Katarina Juselius, Abdulaziz Reshid and Finn Tarp

wp-2013-089: Consociational Settlements and Reconstruction: Bosnia in Comparative Perspective, 1995-Present

Sherrill Stroschein

wp-2013-088: Universal Access to Drinking Water: the Role of Aid

Robert Bain, Rolf Luyendijk and Jamie Bartram

wp-2013-087: What Do We Know About Non-Clinical Interventions for Preventable and Treatable Childhood Diseases in Developing Countries?

Maureen Seguin and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2013-086: Children's Endowment, Schooling, and Work in Ethiopia

Seife Dendir

wp-2013-085: Aid and Development in Taiwan, South Korea, and South Vietnam

Kevin Gray

wp-2013-084: Foreign Aid for Capacity-Building to Address Climate Change: Insights and Applications

David Victor

wp-2013-083: Aid, Accountability, and Institution-Building in Ethiopia: a Comparative Analysis of Donor Practice

Berhanu Abegaz

wp-2013-082: A Graphical Approximation to Generalization: Definitions and Diagrams

Fernando Martel García and Leonard Wantchekon

wp-2013-081: Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa

Siddig Umbadda and Ismail Elgizouli

wp-2013-080: Delivering Good Aid in Hard Places: the Yemen Social Fund for Development Approach

Lamis Al-Iryani, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

wp-2013-079: Gesture Politics or Real Commitment?: Gender Inequality and the Allocation of Aid

Axel Dreher, Kai Gehring and Stephan Klasen

wp-2013-078: The Rise and Fall of Decentralization in Contemporary Uganda

Elliott Green

wp-2013-077: What Can Experiments Tell Us About How to Improve Governance?

Rachel Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2013-076: Non-Traditional Aid and Gender Equity: Evidence from Million Dollar Donations

Una Okonkwo Osili

wp-2013-075: The Progressivity and Regressivity of Aid to the Social Sectors

Bob Baulch and Le Vi An Tam

wp-2013-074: The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid to Women's Equality Organizations in the MENA: Does Aid Promote Women's Political Participation?

Mina Baliamoune

wp-2013-073: The Hard Challenge of Aid Co-Ordination

François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau

wp-2013-072: Assessing Foreign Aid's Long-Run Contribution to Growth in Development

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

wp-2013-071: The Impact of Climate Change on Wind and Solar Resources in Southern Africa

Charles Fant and Adam Schlosser

wp-2013-070: Policy Process and Food Price Crisis: a Framework for Analysis and Lessons from Country Studies

Suresh Chandra Babu

wp-2013-069: Aid and Income: Another Time-Series Perspective

Matthijs Lof, Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha and Finn Tarp

wp-2013-068: Evaluating Governance Indexes: Critical and Less Critical Questions

Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2013-067: Characterizing Wind Power Resource Reliability in Southern Africa

Charles Fant and Udaya Bhaskar Gunturu

wp-2013-066: Impact of Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Aid on Gender equity and Human Development

Lynda Pickbourn and Léonce Ndikumana

wp-2013-065: Class Size Versus Class Composition: What Matters for Learning in East Africa?

Sam Jones

wp-2013-064: The Impact of Adult Civic Education Programmes in Developing Democracies

Steven E. Finkel