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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

wp-2022-166: Determinants of domestic savings in Tanzania: Empirical evidence

Maureen Were and Cornel Joseph

wp-2022-165: Structural features of the Mozambique economy through the lens of a 2019 social accounting matrix

Sam Jones, Enilde Sarmento, Dirk van Seventer and Finn Tarp

wp-2022-164: Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban Mozambique

Jana Bischler, Eva-Maria Egger, Paul Jasper and Ivan Manhique

wp-2022-163: The loser's long curse: electoral consequences of a class conflict

Jaakko Meriläinen and Matti Mitrunen

wp-2022-162: Herding, rent-seeking taxpayers, and endemic corruption

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

wp-2022-161: Tax-benefit responses in Uruguay during the COVID-19 pandemic

Veronica Amarante and Federico Scalese

wp-2022-160: Evidence on aid (in)effectiveness in highly fragile states: A synthesis of three systematic reviews of aid to Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan, 2008-21

Christoph Zürcher

wp-2022-159: Public savings in Africa: Do sovereign wealth funds serve development?

Tony Addison and Amir Lebdioui

wp-2022-158: Inequality configurations

Letícia Barbabela, Miquel Pellicer and Eva Wegner

wp-2022-157: The legacy of church-state conflict: Evidence from Nazi repression of Catholic priests

Leonid Peisakhin and Didac Queralt

wp-2022-156: A look offshore: unpacking the routes of misinvoicing in international trade

Catalin Dragomirescu-Gaina and Leandro Elia

wp-2022-155: The link between public debt and public investment in Tanzania

Maureen Were and Lorah Madete

wp-2022-154: States of disorder: An ecosystems approach to state-building in conflict-affected countries

Adam Day

wp-2022-153: Climate vulnerability and government resource mobilization in developing countries

Pierre Christian Tsopmo, Suzie Imelda Foudjo and Michelle Josée Ekila Elanga

wp-2022-152: Trust the hand that protects you—Does UN peacekeeping harm post-conflict governments' legitimacy?

Jessica Di Salvatore

wp-2022-151: The evolution of inequality in Mozambique: 1996/97-2019/20

Giulia Barletta, Maimuna Ibraimo, Vincenzo Salvucci, Enilde Sarmento and Finn Tarp

wp-2022-150: Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement: Evidence from India

Vinitha Varghese

wp-2022-149: Development narratives in a post-aid era: Reflections on implications for the global effectiveness agenda

Nilima Gulrajani

wp-2022-148: Elite murder and popular resistance: Evidence from post-World War II Poland

Krzysztof Krakowski and Max Schaub

wp-2022-147: Hidden hostility: donor attention and political violence

Siwan Anderson, Patrick Francois, Dominic Rohner and Rogerio Santarrosa

wp-2022-146: Humanity over economy: biopolitical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana

James McKeown

wp-2022-145: Civil wars and stumbling of patriarchal societies: The reconstruction of gender relations in post-conflict Liberia

Augustine T. Larmin and Daniel K. Banini

wp-2022-144: A fiscal approach to the social contract in sub-Saharan African countries: Looking for opportunities to strengthen trust in government and tax compliance by analysing citizens' perception of governance

Enrico Nichelatti and Heikki Hiilamo

wp-2022-143: Distributional impacts of agricultural policies in Zambia: A microsimulation approach

Katrin Gasior, Silvia Navarro, Jukka Pirttilä and Mari Kangasniemi

wp-2022-142: Political representation in the wake of ethnic violence and post-conflict institutional reform: Comparing views from Rwandan and Burundian citizens

Bert Ingelaere, Réginas Ndayiragije and Marijke Verpoorten

wp-2022-141: Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes?: Evidence from household panel data in Uganda

Lynda Pickbourn, Raymond Caraher and Léonce Ndikumana

wp-2022-140: Good for now but not forever: officials' perspectives on the relevance of the effectiveness agenda and the need for change

Rachael Calleja and Beata Cichocka

wp-2022-139: Foreign aid and intergenerational mobility in Africa

Ali Compaoré, Roukiatou Nikièma and Rasmané Ouédraogo

wp-2022-138: Elite incomes around the world: Command over tradables, non-tradables, and people

Paul Segal and Michail Moatsos

wp-2022-137: Between victory and statehood: Armed violence in post-war Abkhazia

Anastasia Shesterinina

wp-2022-136: The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru

Guillermo Kreiman

wp-2022-135: Trust as state capacity: The political economy of compliance

Timothy Besley and Sacha Dray

wp-2022-134: Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India

Shreyasee Das and Shatanjaya Dasgupta

wp-2022-133: Tax provisioning by extractive industry multinational subsidiaries

Khanindra Ch. Das

wp-2022-132: The determinants of domestic saving in Kenya

Rodgers Musamali, Cecilia Mutia and Rose W. Ngugi