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145: Consumer Preferences for Water Supply? An Application of Choice Models to Urban India

P B Anand

145: Asset Portfolios in Africa: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Christian Rogg

145: Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Tanzania

Vincent Leyaro, Elineema Kisanga, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes and Michell Mpike

145: Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana

Evans Martin

145: Aid, political business cycles and growth in Africa

Blessing Chiripanhura and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

145: Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?

Jean-Philippe Platteau, Guilia Camilotti and Emmanuelle Auriol

145: Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana

Stephen Brown

144: Race, resources, and representation: Evidence from Brazilian politicians

Natália S. Bueno, Michael Noble and Thad Dunning

144: Role of economists in policy-making

Montek S. Ahluwalia

144: The fall of the elephant: Two decades of poverty increase in C.te d.Ivoire (1988-2008)

Denis Cogneau, Kenneth Houngbedji and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

144: Fuel subsidies and income redistribution in Ecuador

Jara Xavier, Varela Marcelo, Lee Po and Montesdeoca Lourdes

144: Aid to Africa: The Changing Context

Tony Addison, Saurabh Singhal and Finn Tarp

144: Global Mobility of Talent from a Perspective of New Industrial Policy: Open Migration Chains and Diaspora Networks

Yevgeny Kuznetsov and Charles Sabel

144: Household Welfare and Education in Urban Ethiopia

Karin Kronlid

143: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in ECOWAS Countries: a Simultaneous-Equation Model

Patricia A. Adamu

143: The evolution of private returns to education during post-conflict transformation: Evidence from Mozambique

Jones Sam, Trifkovi? Neda and Thomas Sohnesen

143: How Volatile and Unpredictable are Aid Flows, and What are the Policy Implications?

Ales Bulir and A. Javier Hamann

143: Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001.10

David Stifel, Tiaray Razafimanantena and Faly Rakotomanana

143: The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development Implications

Anthony P. D'Costa

143: Updating NAMOD: A Namibian tax-benefit microsimulation model

Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, David McLennan and Michell Mpike

143: Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria: First order dominance approach

Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Kristi Mahrt and Olufunke A. Alaba

142: Twin Peaks: Convergence Empirics of Economic Growth across Indian States

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

142: Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000.11

David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna

142: Changing the narratives for patient safety

Peter J. Pronovost, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Lopa Basu and Mary Dixon-Woods

142: International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of Entrepreneurship in the Periphery

AnnaLee Saxenian

142: Aid and the Environment: Uganda

Eseza Kateregga

142: Ideational and institutional drivers of social protection in Tanzania

Marianne S. Ulriksen

142: Supply-side constraints, capital goods imports, and the quality of Sub-Saharan African countries exports

Catherine Co

142: Crop prices and migration in Viet Nam

Narciso Gaia

141: South Sudan: The Road from the Paris Declaration to the Reality of Juba, 2005-11

Greg Larson

141: Mining and economic development: Did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development?

Tony Addison, Amadou Boly and Anthony Mveyange

141: Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Karmen Naidoo, Morne Oosthuizen and Kavisha Pillay

141: What might explain today’s conflicting narratives on global inequality?

Ravallion Martin

141: Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries

Michael Herrmann

141: The provision of global liquidity: The global reserve system

Jose Antonio Ocampo

141: Do Donors Matter for Institutional Reform in Africa?

Tony Addison

140: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Reference Dependent Utility

Isabel Günther and Johannes Maier

140: Understanding Ghana.s growth success story and job creation challenges

Ernest Aryeetey and William Baah-Boateng

140: Water 'Scarcity' in Chennai, India: Institutions, Entitlements and Aspects of Inequality in Access

P B Anand

140: Tenure insecurity, climate variability, and renting-out decisions among female small-holder farmers in Ethiopia

Wisdom Akpalu and Mintewab Bezabih

140: Redistribution, inequality and political participation: Evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis

Patricia Justino and Bruno Martorano

140: Entitlement Failure from a Food Quality Perspective: The Life and Death Role of Vitamins and Minerals in Humanitarian Crises

Patrick Webb and Thorne-Lyman, Andrew

140: Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gas

Roe Alan R.

139: Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Empirical evidence from within China

Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu and Zhao Chen

139: A 2013 Social Accounting Matrix for Zimbabwe

Davies Rob, Dirk van Seventer and Kwaramba Marko

139: Debt Dynamics and Contingency Financing: Theoretical Reappraisal of the HIPC Initiative

Machiko Nissanke and Benno Ferrarini

139: Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries

Raj Desai and Nita Rudra

139: Fast-food consumption and child body mass index in China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model

Wisdom Akpalu and Xu Zhang

139: Aid and Environment in Burkina Faso

Yiriyibin Bambio

139: Global economic governance and economic policy: A personal perspective

Kemal Dervis

138: Asian Donor Support for Gender Equality and Women?s Empowerment: Comparative Experience, Challenges, and Opportunities

Eugenia McGill

138: Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda: A broad perspective

Marijke Verpoorten

138: My journey through the history of development economics

Thorbecke Erik

138: Compilation of annual mini SAMs for South Africa 1993-2013 in current and constant prices

Dirk van Seventer

138: The HIPC Debt Relief Initiative: Uganda's Social Sector Reforms and Outcomes

Justine Nannyonjo

138: Access to what? Legal agency and access to justice for indigenous peoples in Latin America

Daniel M. Brinks

138: Marketable Wealth in a Poor African Country: Using an index of consumer durables to investigate wealth accumulation by households in Ghana

Ronelle Burger, Frikkie Booysen, Servaas van der Berg and Michael von Maltitz

137: Land Reform and Landholdings in Brazil

Juliano Assuncao

137: Education Is Good for the Poor: A Note on Dollar and Kraay (2001)

Erich Gundlach, Jose Navarro De Pablo and Natascha Weisert

137: The Ideal of Gender Justice and the UNSCR 1325: Two Case Studies: Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Sirkku K. Hellsten

137: Multidimensional welfare in districts of Zambia: A first order dominance approach

Gibson Masumbu and Kristi Mahrt

137: Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia

Kristi Mahrt and Gibson Masumbu

137: Top incomes’ impacts on inequality, growth, and social welfare: Combining surveys and income tax data in Brazil

Neri Marcelo and Hecksher Marcos

137: Deterrence, peer effect, and legitimacy in anti-corruption policy-making: An experimental analysis

Amadou Boly, Robert Gillanders and Topi Miettinen

136: Institutional Framework and Poverty: A Transition Economy Perspective

Syed Ahsan

136: Cash transfers in Latin America: Effects on poverty and redistribution

Veronica Amarante and Martí­n Brun

136: Fiscal redistribution in Brazil: Dynamic microsimulation, 2003–15

Neri Marcelo, Siqueira Rozane, Jose Nogueira and Osorio Manuel

136: Scoping paper on Kenyan manufacturing

Jacob Chege, Dianah Ngui and Peter Kimuyu

136: Poverty trends in Pakistan

Hina Nazli, Edward Whitney and Kristi Mahrt

136: The International Fiscal Implications of Global Poverty Reduction and Global Public Goods Provision

Valpy Fitzgerald

136: Gender Earnings Differentials and Regional Economic Development in Urban China, 1988-97

Ying Chu Ng

135: Aid, education policy, and development

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

135: The Urban-Rural Income Gap and Inequality in China

Terry Sicular, Ximing Yue, Bjorn Gustafsson and Shi Li

135: Asian development after the Asian Drama

Kozul-Wright Richard and Poon Daniel

135: An integrated approach to modelling energy policy in South Africa: Evaluating carbon taxes and electricity import restrictions

Channing Arndt, Rob Davies, Sherwin Gabriel, Konstantin Makrelov and Bruno Merven

135: Political agency and public healthcare: Evidence from India

Joan Costa-Font and Divya Parmar

135: The Development of Small Entrepreneurship in Russia

Vadim Radaev

135: REDD+ as Performance-Based Aid: General Lessons and Bilateral Agreements of Norway

Arild Angelsen

135: Quality of care: Measuring a neglected driver of improved health

Yoko Akachi and Margaret E. Kruk

134: Estimating Income Inequality in China Using Grouped Data and the Generalized Beta Distribution

Duangkamon Chotikapanich, D.S. Prasada Rao and Kam Ki Tang

134: The African Lions: Kenya country case study

Mwangi Kimenyi, Francis M. Mwega and Njuguna S.Ndung.u

134: Ethnicity and risk sharing network formation: Evidence from rural Viet Nam

Hoang Quynh, Pasquier-Doumer Laure and Saint-Macary Camille

134: Economic History of Industrialization in Cambodia

Sokty Chhair and Luyna Ung

134: Female say on income and child outcomes Evidence from Nigeria

Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke

134: Convergence Clubs in Cross-Country Life Expectancy Dynamics

David Mayer-Foulkes

134: The differential impact of economic crisis on men and women, and its connection to intrahousehold bargaining

Sarah Xue Dong

134: Is there a Brazilian model of development? Are there lessons for countries in Africa?

Armando Barrientos and Ed Amann

133: Measured as poor versus feeling poor: Comparing objective and subjective poverty rates in South Africa

Dorrit Posel and Michael Rogan

133: Keep it real: Measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries

Ulrik Beck

133: Reducing early pregnancy in low-income countries: A literature review and new evidence

Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Amina Mohamed Maalim, Vincent Somville and Bertil Tungodden

133: Optimal local content for extractive industries: How can policies best create benefits for Tanzania?

Ellis Mia and Margaret McMillan

133: China Urban Poverty and its Contributing Factors, 1986-2000

Xin Meng, Robert Gregory and Guanghua Wan

133: Aid and the Environment: the Case of Kenya

Wilfred Nyangena

133: Redistribution around the world Causes and consequences

Markus Jantti, Jukka Pirttilä and Risto Rönkkö

133: Reaching the Poor: Fine Tuning Poverty Targeting Using a 'Poverty Map'-The Case of Mozambique

Orlando San Martin

132: Enforcing the Right to Food in India: Bottlenecks in Delivering the Expected Outcome

George Cheriyan

132: Indices of social development and their application to Africa

Arjan de Haan and Roberto Foa

132: Are caste categories misleading? The relationship between gender and jati in three Indian states

Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao

132: Integrating market and bilateral power trading in the South African Power

Amy Rose, Robert Stoner and Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

132: Aid and Dutch Disease: Evidence from Moroccan and Tunisian Time-Series Data

Tony Addison and Mina Baliamoune

132: Institutions and Asia’s development: The role of norms and organizational power

Khan Mushtaq

132: Spatial and temporal multidimensional poverty in Nigeria

Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Kristi Mahrt and Olufunke A. Alaba

132: Are Inequality and Trade Liberalization Influences on Growth and Poverty?

Jennifer Mbabazi, Oliver Morrissey and Chris Milner