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wp-2022-131: Looking ahead to COP27—from climate pledges to action: The Global Methane Pledge—opportunities and risks

Etienne Romsom and Kathryn McPhail

wp-2022-130: Rebel governance during COVID-19: Describing and explaining armed groups' response to the pandemic in the Middle East

Marta Furlan

wp-2022-129: The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa

Idrissa Ouedraogo, Issa Dianda, Pegdwende Patrik Ouedraogo, Rodrigue Tiraogo Ouedraogo and Bassirou Konfe

wp-2022-128: Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children: Lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte d'Ivoire

Arnab Basu, Ralitza Dimova, Monnet Gbakou and Romane Viennet

wp-2022-127: Social protection floor gaps and pandemic relief measures: a case for universalism?: Exploring scalability through targeted versus universalist approaches

Annalena Oppel

wp-2022-126: Mothers at peace: post-conflict fertility and United Nations peacekeeping

Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore, Leandro Elia and Roberto Nisticò

wp-2022-125: The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic

David Rodríguez, H. Xavier Jara, Mariana Dondo, Cristina Arancibia, David Macas, Rebeca Riella, Joana Urraburu, Linda Llamas, Luis Huesca, Javier Torres and Rodrigo Chang

wp-2022-124: A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa: Individual impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive

Amina Ebrahim and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2022-123: Understanding Somalia's social contract and state-building efforts: Consequences for donor interventions

Mathieu Cloutier, Hodan Hassan, Deborah Isser and Gaël Raballand

wp-2022-122: Can fungibility of development aid lead to more effective achievement of the SDGs?: An analysis of the aggregate welfare effect of aid fungibility

Zunera Rana and Dirk-Jan Koch

wp-2022-121: Global profit shifting, 1975-2019

Ludvig Wier and Gabriel Zucman

wp-2022-120: Domestic revenue mobilization and informality: Challenges and opportunities for sub-Saharan Africa

Abel Gwaindepi

wp-2022-119: Other Backward Classes and the politics of reservations in India: Past and present

Zoya Hasan

wp-2022-118: Law enforcement and illegal markets: Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil

André Mancha

wp-2022-117: Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in Africa

Abdul Malik Iddrisu, Alhassan Karakara and Evans S. Osabuohien

wp-2022-116: So close and yet so far: the ability of mandatory disclosure rules to crack down on offshore tax evasion

Elisa Casi, Mohammed Mardan and Rohit Reddy Muddasani

wp-2022-115: Unravelling Africa's raw material footprints and their drivers

Albert Kwame Osei-Owusu, Michael Danquah and Edgar Towa

wp-2022-114: The effect of wage subsidies on job retention: Evidence from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Timothy Köhler, Robert Hill and Haroon Bhorat

wp-2022-113: Ethnic inequality, the federal character principle, and the reform of Nigeria's presidential federalism

Rotimi T. Suberu

wp-2022-112: Capital markets in sub-Saharan Africa

Githinji Njenga, Josphat Machagua and Samwel Gachanja

wp-2022-111: Impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and aid packages: Evidence from Viet Nam

Cuong Nguyen

wp-2022-110: Growth and inequality convergence: the role of environmentally related impacts on human capital

Angela Cindy Emefa Mensah and Edward Barbier

wp-2022-109: The COVID-19 pandemic and poor women's agency: A case of domestic workers in Delhi

Deepita Chakravarty and Nandini Nayak

wp-2022-108: Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers: Evidence from COVID-19

Sam Jones and Ivan Manhique

wp-2022-107: Aid, taxes, and government spending: A heterogeneous co-integrated panel analysis

Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2022-106: The social consequences of organized crime in Italy

Pierfrancesco Rolla and Patricia Justino

wp-2022-105: Who was impacted and how? COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in India

Mrinalini Jha and Rahul Lahoti

wp-2022-104: The politics of affirmative action: ethnicity, equity, and state-business relations in Malaysia

Edmund Terence Gomez

wp-2022-103: Revealing 21 per cent of GDP in hidden assets: Evidence from Argentina's tax amnesties

Juliana Londoño-Vélez and Dario Tortarolo

wp-2022-102: A model to explain the impact of government revenue on the quality of governance and the SDGs

Stephen Hall and Bernadette O'Hare

wp-2022-101: Fintech in sub-Saharan Africa

Njuguna Ndung'u

wp-2022-100: Employer power and employment in developing countries

Nancy Chau, Ravi Kanbur and Vidhya Soundararajan

wp-2022-99: Does aid fragmentation affect tax revenue dynamics in developing countries?: Observations with new tax data

Ali Compaoré and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2022-98: Rebel governance and political participation

Abbey Steele and Michael Weintraub

wp-2022-97: Fiscal consequences of corporate tax avoidance

Katarzyna Bilicka, Evgeniya Dubinina and Petr Janský

wp-2022-96: Inequality and human development: The role of different parts of the income distribution

David Castells-Quintana, Carlos Gradín and Vicente Royuela

wp-2022-95: Pension funds in sub-Saharan Africa

Owen Nyang'oro and Githinji Njenga

wp-2022-94: Social protection expansions during crisis and fiscal space: From ad hoc to durable solutions?

Annalena Oppel

wp-2022-93: Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia

Gashaw Abate, Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen and Abdulazize Wolle

wp-2022-92: Productivity growth effects of structural reforms: Evidence from developing countries

Kwamivi Gomado

wp-2022-91: Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities: Evidence from India

Vinitha Varghese

wp-2022-90: Physical proximity and occupational employment change by gender during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jacqueline Mosomi and Amy Thornton

wp-2022-89: The pandemic and the state: Interrogating capacity and response to COVID-19 in West Bengal

Zaad Mahmood and Achin Chakraborty

wp-2022-88: Gender preference at birth: A new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions

Mehwish Ghulam Ali, Ashton de Silva, Sarah Sinclair and Ankita Mishra

wp-2022-87: Reigniting labour productivity growth in developing countries: Do structural reforms matter?

Kwamivi Gomado

wp-2022-86: Standardization and ethnocracy in Sri Lanka

Neil DeVotta

wp-2022-85: Determinants of corporate cash holdings in South Africa

Ewa Karwowski, Hanna Szymborska, Keagile Lesame and Tlhologelo Thoka

wp-2022-84: Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in Tanzania

Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä

wp-2022-83: Can domestic institutions affect exports and innovation?: Mediation effects of institutional quality on manufacturing sector exports and innovation in developing countries

Achinthya Koswatta

wp-2022-82: Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future paths

Roosa Lambin, Milla Nyyssölä and Alexis Bernigaud

wp-2022-81: Peruvian response to COVID-19 pandemic: The role of evidence-based governance and structural violence

Camila Gianella

wp-2022-80: Social distress and (some) relief: Estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa

Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender and Maya Goldman

wp-2022-79: Financial liberalization and its implications for private savings in sub-Saharan Africa

Elizabeth Asiedu, Fafanyo Asiseh, Theresa Mannah-Blankson and Jones Arkoh Paintsil

wp-2022-78: PROCEDE: a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in Mexico

Ana de Ita

wp-2022-77: Inclusion amid ethnic inequality: Insights from Brazil's social protection system

Natasha Borges Sugiyama

wp-2022-76: Illicit financial flows and country-by-country reporting in extractive industries

Saila Stausholm, Petr Janský and Marek Šedivý

wp-2022-75: Return migration and entrepreneurship in Cameroon

Sévérin Tamwo, Ghislain Stéphane Gandjon Fankem and Dieudonné Taka

wp-2022-74: The legal basis for affirmative action in India

Kiruba Munusamy

wp-2022-73: How have formal firms recovered from the pandemic?: Insights from survey and tax administrative data in Zambia

Christopher Hoy, Laban Simbeye, Muhammad Abdullah Ali Malik, Aliisa Koivisto and Mashekwa Maboshe

wp-2022-72: Tax-benefit microsimulation model in Rwanda: A feasibility study

Naphtal Hakizimana, John Karangwa, Jesse Lastunen, Aimable Nsabimana, Innocente Murasi, Lucie Niyigena, Michael Noble and Gemma Wright

wp-2022-71: Microsimulation approaches to studying shocks and social protection in selected developing economies

Kwabena Adu-Ababio

wp-2022-70: What drove the profitability of colonial firms?: Labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920-74)

Sam Jones and Peter Gibbon

wp-2022-69: Labour market effects of digital matching platforms: Experimental evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Sam Jones and Kunal Sen

wp-2022-68: Is economic development affected by the leaders' education levels?: Evidence from India

Chandan Jain, Shagun Kashyap, Rahul Lahoti and Soham Sahoo

wp-2022-67: Employment policy in Mainland Tanzania: what's in it for women?

Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä

wp-2022-66: Are the effects of terrorism short-lived?

Vincenzo Bove, Georgios Efthyvoulou and Harry Pickard

wp-2022-65: On data and trends in horizontal inequality

Carla Canelas

wp-2022-64: Elementary education in India versus China: Guidelines for NEP implementation

Naveen Kumar and Vinitha Varghese

wp-2022-63: Duterte's pandemic populism: Strongman leadership, weak state capacity, and the politics of deployment in the Philippines

Julio C. Teehankee

wp-2022-62: Does an effective government lower COVID-19's health impact?: Evidence from Viet Nam

Anh Dang and Ngoc Anh Tran

wp-2022-61: The social foundations of (in)effective states: Uttar Pradesh's response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Indrajit Roy

wp-2022-60: Management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala through the lens of state capacity and clientelism

Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph

wp-2022-59: Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam

Tung Phung and Thanh Minh Pham

wp-2022-58: 'Delangokubona' and the distribution of rents and opportunity: An exploration of tensions over race-based policies of redress and redistribution in South Africa

Ayabonga Cawe

wp-2022-57: Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa

Aimable Nsabimana

wp-2022-56: The political economy of women's empowerment policies in India: Understanding it through the beginning and end of the Mahila Samakhya programme

Jyotsna Jha, Niveditha Menon and Neha Ghatak

wp-2022-55: Identity and support for policies towards Indigenous people: Evidence from Australia

Astghik Mavisakalyan and Yashar Tarverdi

wp-2022-54: Determinants of clove exports in Zanzibar: Implications for policy

Samwel J. Kabote and Jires Tunguhole

wp-2022-53: Governance and COVID-19 in Bolivia

Calla Hummel, Ximena Velasco Guachalla, Jami Nelson-Nuñez and Carew Boulding

wp-2022-52: Fiscal policy in times of fiscal stress: Or what to do when r > g

Roy Havemann and Hylton Hollander

wp-2022-51: The COVID-19 pandemic and the state in Bihar

Avinash Kumar and Manish Kumar

wp-2022-50: Health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique with special reference to leprosy

Isabel Maria Casimiro and Júlio Machele

wp-2022-49: A new social contract inclusive of informal workers

Martha Chen, Sophie Plagerson and Laura Alfers

wp-2022-48: Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies

Patricia Justino

wp-2022-47: Female labour supply and informal employment in Ecuador

H. Xavier Jara and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2022-46: Pandemic precarity and the complicated case of Maharashtra: Interrogating state capacity and its fault lines

Manish K Jha

wp-2022-45: COVID-19 and informal work: Degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the world

Martha Chen, Erofili Grapsa, Ghida Ismail, Sarah Orleans Reed, Michael Rogan and Marcela Valdivia

wp-2022-44: Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in Ghana

Kofi Takyi Asante

wp-2022-43: Poverty, inequality, and growth: trends, policies, and controversies

Ines A. Ferreira, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

wp-2022-42: Anticompetitive practices on public procurement: Evidence from Brazilian electronic biddings

Adilson Sampaio, Paulo Figueiredo and Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon

wp-2022-41: COVID-19 and the state: Nicaragua case study

Mateo C. Jarquín

wp-2022-40: The COVID-19 crisis and the South African informal economy: A stalled recovery

Michael Rogan and Caroline Skinner

wp-2022-39: Profit shifting by multinational corporations in Kenya: The role of internal debt

Roseline Misati, Kethi Ngoka, Anne Kamau and Maureen Odongo

wp-2022-38: Exploring social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania: Driving for gender-inclusive development?

Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä

wp-2022-37: Corruption and crisis: do institutions matter?

Shrabani Saha and Kunal Sen

wp-2022-36: Profit shifting by multinational corporations: Evidence from transaction-level data in Nigeria

Bathusi Gabanatlhong, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Paulinus Iyika and Miroslav Palansky

wp-2022-35: Countering global oil theft: responses and solutions

Etienne Romsom

wp-2022-34: The Tanzanian state response to COVID-19: Why low capacity, discursive legitimacy, and twilight authority matter

Amy S. Patterson

wp-2022-33: The indirect costs of corporate tax avoidance exacerbate cross-country inequality

Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Daniel Haberly, Petr Janský, Miroslav Palansky and Valeria Secchini

wp-2022-32: Affirmative action: meaning, intentions, and impacts in the big picture

Satu Kuitunen