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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

wp-2013-063: A Capable State in Afghanistan: a Building Without a Foundation?

Frauke de Weijer

wp-2013-062: Global Poverty, Aid, and Middle-Income Countries: Are the Country Classifications Moribund or is Global Poverty in the Process of 'Nationalizing'?

Andy Sumner

wp-2013-061: International Co-Operation for Agricultural Development and Food and Nutrition Security: New Institutional Arrangements for Related Public Goods

Joachim von Braun

wp-2013-060: Prioritizing Rural Investments in Africa: a Hybrid Evaluation Approach Applied to Uganda

Karl Pauw and James Thurlow

wp-2013-059: The Global Partnership for Inclusive Growth

Yongfu Huang and M.G. Quibria

wp-2013-058: The Impacts of the Food, fuel and Financial Crises on Households in Nigeria: a Retrospective Approach for Research Enquiry

Blessing Chiripanhura and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2013-057: The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Yongfu Huang and M.G. Quibria

wp-2013-056: Green Growth: Theory and Evidence

Yongfu Huang and M.G. Quibria

wp-2013-055: The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid for Sustainable Energy

Hans-Holger Rogner

wp-2013-054: Leveraging Global Climate Finance for Sustainable Forests: Opportunities and Conditions for Successful Foreign Aid to the Forestry Sector

Unai Pascual, Eneko Garmendia, Jacob Phelps and Elena Ojea

wp-2013-053: Advancing Small Area Estimation

Channing Arndt, M. Azhar Hussain, Vincenzo Salvucci, Finn Tarp and Lars Peter Østerdal

wp-2013-052: Optimum Fisheries Management Under Climate Variability: Evidence from Artisanal Marine Fishing in Ghana

Wisdom Akpalu, Isaac Dasmani and Ametefee K. Normanyo

wp-2013-051: Foreign Aid, Urbanization and Green Cities

Jun Li

wp-2013-050: Political Economy Synthesis: the Food Policy Crisis

Derrill Watson

wp-2013-049: Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies?: Implementation of the New Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Health and Education in Zambia

Stefan Leiderer

wp-2013-048: Foreign Aid, Green Cities and Buildings

Akassi Kablan

wp-2013-047: Financing Sustainable Agriculture Under Climate Change with a Specific Focus on Foreign Aid

Jikun Huang

wp-2013-046: Foreign Aid for Climate Change Related Capacity Building

Zexian Chen and Jingjing He

wp-2013-045: Jobs and Welfare in Mozambique

Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

wp-2013-044: Foreign Aid and Decentralization: Policies for Autonomy and Programming for Responsiveness

Tyler Dickovick

wp-2013-043: The Challenge Fund Aid Modality: Assessing the Potential for Tackling Gender Challenges in Development

Nilima Gulrajani

wp-2013-042: Climate Uncertainty and Economic Development: Evaluating the Case of Mozambique to 2050

Channing Arndt and James Thurlow

wp-2013-041: Infrastructure and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley

Paul S. Chinowsky, Amy E. Schweikert, Niko Strzepek and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2013-040: Regional Climate Change of the Greater Zambezi River Basin: A Hybrid Assessment

Adam Schlosser and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2013-039: Impact of Climate Change on Crops, Irrigation and Hydropower in the Zambezi River Basin

Charles Fant, Yohannes Gebretsadik and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2013-038: The Political Economy of Food Pricing Policy in China

Jikun Huang, Jun Yang and Scott Rozelle

wp-2013-037: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: Country Case Study of Mozambique

Virgulino Nhate, Cláudio Massingarela and Vincenzo Salvucci

wp-2013-036: Assessing the Risk of Cyclone-Induced Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise in Mozambique

James E. Neumann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Sai Ravela, Lindsay C. Ludwig and Caroleen Verly

wp-2013-035: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: the Case of Rice Prices in Vietnam

Manh Hai Nguyen and Theodore Talbot

wp-2013-034: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: the Case Study of India

Kavery Ganguly and Ashok Gulati

wp-2013-033: US Policy Contributions to Agricultural Commodity Price Fluctuations, 2006-12

Gordon Rausser and Harry de Gorter

wp-2013-032: Food Price Volatility and EU Policies

Johan Swinnen, Louise Knops and Kristine van Herck

wp-2013-031: International to Domestic Price Transmission in Fourteen Developing Countries During the 2007-08 Food Crisis

Kenneth Baltzer

wp-2013-030: Dealing with the 2007/08 Global Food Price Crisis: the Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Malawi

Ephraim W. Chirwa and Blessings Chinsinga

wp-2013-029: A Cacophony of Policy Responses: Evidence from Fourteen Countries During the 2007/08 Food Price Crisis

Shane Bryan

wp-2013-028: Entrepreneurship and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries

Tilman Brück, Wim Naudé and Philip Verwimp

wp-2013-027: Achieving Development Success: Strategies and Lessons from the Developing World

Augustin Fosu

wp-2013-026: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: the Case of Kenya

Jonathan Makau Nzuma

wp-2013-025: Every Drop Counts: Assessing Aid for Water and Sanitation

Prathivadi Bhayankaram Anand

wp-2013-024: Ancillary Experiments: Opportunities and Challenges

Kate Baldwin and Rikhil Bhavnani

wp-2013-023: Measuring Government Performance in Public Opinion Surveys in Africa: Towards Experiments?

Michael Bratton

wp-2013-022: Africa-Brazil Co-Operation in Social Protection: Drivers, Lessons and Shifts in the Engagement of the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development

Iara Leite, Bianca Suyama and Melissa Pomeroy

wp-2013-021: Making Aid Work for Education in Developing Countries: an Analysis of Aid Effectiveness for Primary Education Coverage and Quality

Kassandra Birchler and Katharina Michaelowa

wp-2013-020: Aid and Poverty: Why Does Aid Not Address Poverty (Much)?

Andrew Shepherd and Sylvia Bishop

wp-2013-019: The European Investment Bank: Lessons for Developing Countries

Stephany Griffith-Jones and Judith Tyson

wp-2013-018: International Organizations and the Future of Education Assistance

Stephen P. Heyneman and Bommi Lee

wp-2013-017: Assessing the Effectiveness of World Bank Investments: the Gender Dimension

Claire Lauterbach and Elaine Zuckerman

wp-2013-016: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Nigeria

Aderibigbe S. Olomola

wp-2013-015: Personalistic Policy-Making in a Vibrant Democracy: Senegal's Fragmented Response to the 2007/08 Food price Crisis

Danielle Resnick

wp-2013-014: Aid for Agriculture and Rural Development: a Changing Landscape with New Players and Challenges

Admos Chimhowu

wp-2013-013: Policing Reforms and Economic Development in African States: Empowering Change

Otwin Marenin

wp-2013-012: Intra-Household Efficiency: an Experimental Study from Ethiopia

Bereket Kebede, Marcela Tarazona, Alistair Munro and Arjan Verschoor

wp-2013-011: The Porous Dialectic: Experimental and Non-Experimental Methods in Development Economics

Rajeev Dehejia

wp-2013-010: Taxation and Development: a Review of Donor Support to Strengthen Tax Systems in Developing Countries

Odd Fjeldstad

wp-2013-009: Evaluating Antipoverty Transfer Programmes in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: Better Policies? Better Politics?

Armando Barrientos and Juan Villa

wp-2013-008: Measuring Economic Insecurity

Walter Bossert and Conchita D'Ambrosio

wp-2013-007: Ties that Bind: the Kin System as a Mechanism of Income-Hiding Between Spouses in Rural Ghana

Carolina Castilla

wp-2013-006: Livelihood Decisions Under the Shadow of Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Muhammad Badiuzzaman, John Cameron and Mansoob Murshed

wp-2013-005: Growth of African Economies: Productivity, Policy Syndromes, and the Importance of Institutions

Augustin Fosu

wp-2013-004: Aid as a Catalyst for Pioneer Investment

Paul Collier

wp-2013-003: Who's the Alien?: Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Marguerite Duponchel

wp-2013-002: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: the Case of Bangladesh

Selim Raihan

wp-2013-001: The Political Economy of Food Price: the Case of Ethiopia

Assefa Admassie

wp-2012-111: Aid Distribution and Co-operation in Unequal Communities

Ben D'Exelle and Marrit van den Berg

wp-2012-110: Do People in Income Poverty Use Their Income Efficiently?: a Subjective Well-Being Approach

Mariano Rojas