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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

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