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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

wp-2012-109: Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Markus Jäntti, Ravi Kanbur, Milla Nyyssölä and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2012-108: Economic Governance: Improving the Economic and Regulatory Environment for Supporting Private Sector Activity

Colin Kirkpatrick

wp-2012-107: Development Aid and Employment

Rolph van der Hoeven

wp-2012-106: Predicting Violence within Genocides: Meso-level Evidence from Rwanda

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

wp-2012-105: Infrastructure and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptations for South Africa

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

wp-2012-104: It's All about MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ('e') to Crawl the Design Space

Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer

wp-2012-103: International Organizations in Development and Global Inequality: the Example of the World Bank's Pension Policy

Martin Koch

wp-2012-102: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in South Africa

Johann Kirsten

wp-2012-101: How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree?: Some Evidence on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility from India

Sripad Motiram and Ashish Singh

wp-2012-100: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: the Case of Zambia

Antony Chapoto

wp-2012-099: The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development

Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka

wp-2012-098: Stability and Vulnerability of the Latin American Middle Class

Florencia Torche and Luis Lopez-Calva

wp-2012-097: Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India

Dilip Mookherjee and Pranab Bardhan

wp-2012-096: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Egypt

Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim

wp-2012-095: The Impact Of The 2007-08 Food Price Crisis In A Major Commodity Exporter: Food Prices, Inflation, And Inclusion In Brazil

Bernardo Mueller and Charles C. Mueller

wp-2012-094: Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in Africa

John Page and Mans Soderbom

wp-2012-093: Aid and Investment in Statistics for Africa

Jeffery I. Round

wp-2012-092: Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa

Winnie V. Mitullah

wp-2012-091: Gender Mainstreaming in Nordic Development Agencies: Seventeen Years After the Beijing Conference

Malokele Nanivazo and Lucy Scott

wp-2012-090: Civil Service Reform: a Review

Sarah Repucci

wp-2012-089: Effects of Food Price Shocks on Child Malnutrition

Channing Arndt, M. Azhar Hussain and Lars Peter Østerdal

wp-2012-088: Helping Poor Farmers to Help Themselves: Evidence from a Group-Based Aid Project in Mozambique

Milla Nyyssölä, Jukka Pirttilä and Susanna Sandström

wp-2012-087: Vertical Decentralization and Urban Service Delivery in South Africa: Does Politics Matter?

Robert Cameron

wp-2012-086: Aid, Growth, and Jobs

Gary Fields

wp-2012-085: Enterprise Agglomeration, Output Prices, and Physical Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Ethiopia

Eyerusalem Siba, Mans Soderbom, Arne Bigsten and Mulu Gebreeyesus

wp-2012-084: Measuring Industry Agglomeration and Identifying the Driving Forces

Emma Howard, Carol Newman and Finn Tarp

wp-2012-083: The (Declining) Role of Households in Sustaining China's Economy: Structural Path Analysis for 1997-2007

Ling Yang, James Thurlow and Michael Lahr

wp-2012-082: The Economic Costs of Climate Change: a Multi-Sector Impact Assessment for Vietnam

Channing Arndt, Finn Tarp and James Thurlow

wp-2012-081: Risks of Coastal Storm Surge and the Effect of Sea Level Rise in the Red River Delta, Vietnam

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

wp-2012-080: Road Infrastructure and Climate Change in Vietnam

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

wp-2012-079: Impact of Climate Change on Irrigation, Crops and Hydropower in Vietnam

Yohannes Gebretsadik, Charles Fant and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2012-078: Microcredit and Poverty Alleviation: Can Microcredit Close the Deal?

M.G. Quibria

wp-2012-077: Aid, Fiscal Policy, Climate Change, and Growth

David Bevan

wp-2012-076: EU Aid: What Works and Why

Poul Nielson

wp-2012-075: The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid to Education: What Can Be Learned?

Abby Rubin Riddell