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wp-2023-91: Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study

Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio and Robert Osei

wp-2023-90: An assessment of inequality estimates for the case of South Africa

Muna Shifa, Rejoice Mabhena, Vimal Ranchhod and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2023-89: Transforming rural economies through tertiary education: Evidence from India

Amparo Castello-Climent, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Ravinder

wp-2023-88: Financial reforms and income inequality: evidence from developing countries

Kwamivi Gomado

wp-2023-87: Drivers of services sector growth acceleration in developing countries

Gideon Ndubuisi, Solomon Owusu, Rex Asiama and Elvis Avenyo

wp-2023-86: Communication matters: sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels

Annalena Oppel

wp-2023-85: Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus: The role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy

Andrea Vaccaro

wp-2023-84: Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

wp-2023-83: Aid and fragile states

Anke Hoeffler and Patricia Justino

wp-2023-82: Making sense of multi-level and multi-actor governance of recovery in Ukraine

Oksana Udovyk, Ievgen Kylymnyk, Daniel Cuesta-Delgado and Guillermo Palau Salvador

wp-2023-81: Identity and multigenerational persistence

Chinmayi Srikanth and Shubhasis Dey

wp-2023-80: The uneven path to recovery: The sub-Saharan experience

Michael Danquah, Amina Ebrahim and Maureen Were

wp-2023-79: A deep learning approach to estimation of the Phillips curve in South Africa

Gideon du Rand, Hylton Hollander and Dawie van Lill

wp-2023-78: Conspicuous consumption for social parity

Chinmayi Srikanth and Shubhasis Dey

wp-2023-77: Implementation of local content regulation: The case study of a foreign-owned mining operation in Tanzania

Jambo Ramadhani and Emmanuel Maliti

wp-2023-76: Macro-financial implications of public debt in South Africa: The role of financial regimes

Theshne Kisten

wp-2023-75: What drives parental investments in early childhood?: Experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda

Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone, Pierfrancesco Rolla and Monique Abimpaye

wp-2023-74: Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco: Subnational insights

Al-mouksit Akim and Wissal Sahel

wp-2023-73: Evaluating the impact of the 2023-2024 personal income tax reform in Rwanda: An analysis using tax-benefit microsimulation modelling

Antoine de Mahieu, Jesse Lastunen, Jeannette Mukangango and Theogene Harerimana

wp-2023-72: Democracy clusters and patterns of inequality: A k-means approach

Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon

wp-2023-71: Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey

Ahmet Kaya and Cumhur Çiçekçi

wp-2023-70: Nation building in post-conflict settings: Evidence from South Africa

Thomas Gautier, Daniela Horta-Saenz and Gianluca Russo

wp-2023-69: Forced migration, aid effectiveness, and the humanitarian-development nexus: The case of Germany's P4P programme

Stefan Leiderer and Helge Roxin

wp-2023-68: Indicators of illicit activities in gold supply chains: Insights from Peru and Kenya

Nicole M. Smith, Kady Seguin, U. Mete Saka, Sebnem Duzgun, David Soud and Jenna White

wp-2023-67: Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India

Saloni Khurana, Kanika Mahajan and Kunal Sen

wp-2023-66: Taxpayer response to greater progressivity: Evidence from personal income tax reform in Uganda

Maria Jouste, Tina Kaidu Barugahara, Joseph Okello Ayo, Jukka Pirttilä and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2023-65: Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation: Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Karishma Banga, Pankhury Harbansh and Surendar Singh

wp-2023-64: Structural transformation and international trade: Evidence from the China shock

Clément Nedoncelle and Julien Wolfersberger

wp-2023-63: Gendered implications of the waves of COVID-19 and economic upgrading trajectories in digital value chains: Insights from Kenyan agricultural platforms

Aarti Krishnan, Monica Nganga and Tim Foster

wp-2023-62: Language and student learning: Evidence from an ethnographic study in Mozambique

Feliciano Chimbutane and Ritva Reinikka

wp-2023-61: Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation: Evidence from the United Kingdom's age of austerity

Patricia Justino, Bruno Martorano and Laura Metzger

wp-2023-60: Do the effectiveness principles matter for development?: Evidence from aid effectiveness data

Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino and Andrea Vaccaro

wp-2023-59: Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset

Rachel M. Gisselquist, Simone Schotte and Min Jung Kim

wp-2023-58: Armed group opportunism in the face of recent crises: COVID-19 and climate change

Siobhan O'Neil

wp-2023-57: More information, better knowledge? The effects of information campaigns on aid beneficiaries' knowledge of aid projects

Alexander De Juan, Paul Hofman and Carlo Koos

wp-2023-56: Employment transitions with high unemployment and a small informal sector: Examining worker flows during normal and recessionary periods in South Africa

Shakeba Foster

wp-2023-55: Sanction-busting through tax havens

Kerim Can Kavakli, Giovanna Marcolongo and Diego Zambiasi

wp-2023-54: Tax and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa: Beyond accountability and responsiveness

Alex Adegboye and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2023-53: International development assistance and the inclusivity paradox in fragile and conflict-affected states

Timothy Donais and Alistair Edgar

wp-2023-52: Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states

Matthew Kofi Ocran

wp-2023-51: Theorizing revolution in democracies: Evidence from the 2019 uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq

Chantal Berman, Killian Clarke and Rima Majed

wp-2023-50: The education backlash: How assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict

Tugba Bozcaga and Asli Cansunar

wp-2023-49: The impacts of studying abroad: Evidence from a government-sponsored scholarship program in Brazil

Otavio Conceiçaõ, Rodrigo Oliveira and André Souza

wp-2023-48: European aid to the MENA region after the Arab uprisings: A window of opportunity missed

Thilo Bodenstein and Mark Furness

wp-2023-47: India's economic development since independence: An interpretative survey

Kunal Sen

wp-2023-46: Fiscal dependence on extractive revenues: Measurement and concepts

Kyle McNabb

wp-2023-45: India's development cooperation in Africa: The case of 'Solar Mamas' who bring light

Veda Vaidyanathan

wp-2023-44: The political legacies of wartime resistance: How local communities in Italy keep anti-fascist sentiments alive

Simone Cremaschi and Juan Masullo J.

wp-2023-43: The South African personal income tax base, 2011-2018: Income and taxable income, adjusted for retirement fund and medical expense reporting changes

Andrew R. Donaldson

wp-2023-42: Frontier governmentality

Adeel Malik, Rinchan Ali Mirza and Faiz Ur Rehman

wp-2023-41: International migration and income inequality

Nicola Coniglio, Vito Peragine and Davide Vurchio

wp-2023-40: The institutions and policies of aid-recipient countries and aid effectiveness: The case of Afghanistan

Nematullah Bizhan

wp-2023-39: Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira and Guido Neidhöfer

wp-2023-38: Domestic savings in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana

Charles Godfred Ackah and Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio

wp-2023-37: Income inequality and household debt: Examining the impact of relative income on formal and informal debt in South Africa

Shakeba Foster

wp-2023-36: Aid reimagined: results from an elite survey on perceptions of progress, capacity, and development cooperation

Ana Horigoshi and Samantha Custer

wp-2023-35: Windows of peace: the effect of ceasefires on economic recovery

Alex Armand, Myriam Marending and Galina Vysotskaya

wp-2023-34: The violent legacy of fascism: Neofascist political violence in Italy, 1969-88

Stefano Costalli, Daniele Guariso, Patricia Justino and Andrea Ruggeri

wp-2023-33: Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development: Insights from development studies

Albert Sanghoon Park

wp-2023-32: Absolute or relative: perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique

Giulia Barletta, Ines A. Ferreira and Vincenzo Salvucci

wp-2023-31: Assessment of institutional set-up of results measurement and reporting systems for non-sovereign operations in development finance institutions

Patrick Mabuza, Francis H. Kemeze, Oluwatoba J. Omotilewa, Mamadou Bah and Btissam Benkerroum

wp-2023-30: Development aid in fragile states: Investigating the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hany Besada and Lukmon Akintola

wp-2023-29: Power, institutions, and state-building after war: A controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

wp-2023-28: Unpacking 'ownership' in development co-operation effectiveness: Perspectives of Southern recipients

Debapriya Bhattacharya, Towfiqul Islam Khan and Najeeba Mohammed Altaf

wp-2023-27: Differential health reporting error among older adults in India

Anna Choi, Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and T.V. Sekher

wp-2023-26: Revisiting community-driven reconstruction in fragile states

Cyrus Samii

wp-2023-25: Estimating tax gaps in Zambia: A bottom-up approach based on audit assessments

Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Aliisa Koivisto, Eliya Lungu, Evaristo Mwale, Jonathan Msoni and Kangwa Musole

wp-2023-24: Natural disasters and economic inequality: Insights from wildfires across the globe

Jayash Paudel

wp-2023-23: The family as a cultural nexus

Raquel Fernández

wp-2023-22: War violence, nationalism, and party support: Evidence from Italy

Giacomo Lemoli and Gloria Gennaro

wp-2023-21: Assessing the impact of an intervention to withhold value-added tax in Zambia

Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Aliisa Koivisto, Andreya Kumwenda, Gregory Chileshe, John Mulenga, Mutemwa Mebelo, Ian Mufana and Yenda Shamabobo

wp-2023-20: 'It's our turn (not) to learn': the pitfalls of education reform during post-war institutional transformation

Emily Dunlop, Yasmine Bekkouche and Philip Verwimp

wp-2023-19: Trade sanctions and informal employment

Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi and Roberto Nisticò

wp-2023-18: 'Ten pound touts': post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland

Kristin M. Bakke and Kit Rickard

wp-2023-17: Armed groups' modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability: Insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars

Marine Gassier

wp-2023-16: Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in Mozambique

Maimuna Ibraimo and Eva-Maria Egger

wp-2023-15: The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States: A systematic literature review

Simone Schotte, Tharcisio Leone and Rachel M. Gisselquist

wp-2023-14: Does affirmative action address ethnic inequality?: A systematic review of the literature

Simone Schotte, Rachel M. Gisselquist and Tharcisio Leone

wp-2023-13: Legacies of victimization: Evidence from forced resettlement in Zimbabwe

Shelley Liu

wp-2023-12: Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality: A worldwide perspective

Domenico Moramarco and Flaviana Palmisano

wp-2023-11: The end of Londongrad? The impact of beneficial ownership transparency on offshore investment in UK property

Matthew Collin, Florian M. Hollenbach and David Szakonyi

wp-2023-10: Connecting national ownership and local participation in aid recipient countries: The cases of Rwanda and Cambodia

Malin Hasselskog, Vedaste Ndizera and Joakim Öjendal

wp-2023-9: Inequality and productive structure: New evidence at the world level

Veronica Amarante, Bibiana Lanzilotta and Joaquín Torres

wp-2023-8: Aid effectiveness in fragile and conflict-affected contexts: Lessons from more than two decades of research

David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy

wp-2023-7: Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated?: The role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crime

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero and Nayely Iturbe

wp-2023-6: The role of social protection and tax policies in cushioning crisis impacts on income and poverty in low- and middle-income countries: A rapid scoping review

Rodrigo Oliveira, Jesse Lastunen, Pia Rattenhuber, Melissa Samarin and Adnan Shahir

wp-2023-5: Evaluating rural roads programmes: A general equilibrium analysis

Clive Bell

wp-2023-4: Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data

Olivier Bargain, Paul Carrillo-Maldonado and H. Xavier Jara

wp-2023-3: Enhancing the livelihoods of marginalized indigenous women through customary forests in Bali, Indonesia

Lukas R. Wibowo, Maharani Hapsari, Rini Astuti, Eusebius Pantja Pramudya, Digby Race, Dewi Ratna Kurniasari and Ismatul Hakim

wp-2023-2: Climate justice for persons with disability: Few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much

Gindo Tampubolon

wp-2023-1: The legacies of authoritarian repression on civil society

Laia Balcells and Francisco Villamil

wp-2022-175: The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

Yuri Barreto and Rodrigo Oliveira

wp-2022-174: The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis

Katrin Gasior, Iva Tasseva and Gemma Wright

wp-2022-173: The impact of COVID-19 on urban informal workers in Maputo

Nilifer Anaç, Eva-Maria Egger, Sam Jones, Ricardo Santos and Alex Warren-Rodriguez

wp-2022-172: Savings transition in Asia: Unity in diversity

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Wanissa Suanin

wp-2022-171: The state and the 'legalization' of illicit financial flows: Trading gold in Bolivia

Fritz Brugger, Joschka Proksik and Felicitas Fischer

wp-2022-170: Marine mining and its potential implications for low- and middle-income countries

Anton Löf, Magnus Ericsson and Olof Löf

wp-2022-169: Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in Mozambique

Margherita Squarcina and Eva-Maria Egger

wp-2022-168: Don't rock the boat? Fears of conflict and support for protest in Iraq and beyond

Daniel Silverman, Karl Kaltenthaler and Mujtaba Ali Isani

wp-2022-167: The making (and unmaking) of Uganda's ethnic-based decentralization programme

Adventino Banjwa