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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

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