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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

wp-2022-31: Affirmative action with no major switching: Evidence from a top university in Brazil

Rodrigo Oliveira, Alei Santos and Edson Severnini

wp-2022-30: Two decades of Tanzanian health policy: Examining policy developments and opportunities through a gender lens

Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä

wp-2022-29: Monetary policy in South Africa, 2007-21

Patrick Honohan and Athanasios Orphanides

wp-2022-28: Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions and skills formation in secondary school

Martina Querejeta

wp-2022-27: The global inequality boomerang

Ravi Kanbur, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Andy Sumner

wp-2022-26: Taxless fiscal states: Lessons from 19th-century America and 21st-century China

Yuen Yuen Ang

wp-2022-25: Ethnic dominance and exclusion: Unpacking cross-national data

Andrea Vaccaro

wp-2022-24: Measuring illicit financial flows: A gravity model approach to estimate international trade misinvoicing

Lourenco Paz

wp-2022-23: Impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in a low-income country

Anna Holvio

wp-2022-22: Does aid to the productive sectors cause manufacturing sector growth in Africa?

Alain Ndikumana

wp-2022-21: Profit-shifting behaviour of emerging multinationals from India

Khanindra Ch. Das

wp-2022-20: Women's inheritance rights and time use: Evidence from Hindu Succession Act in India

Tanu Gupta

wp-2022-19: Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilization

Patricia Justino

wp-2022-18: Does the adoption of peer-to-government mobile payments improve tax revenue mobilization in developing countries?

Abdoul-Akim Wandaogo, Fayçal Sawadogo and Jesse Lastunen

wp-2022-17: The legacies of armed conflict: insights from stayees and returning forced migrants

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

wp-2022-16: Global oil theft: impact and policy responses

Etienne Romsom

wp-2022-15: Aid's impact on democracy

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Ana Horigoshi and Rachel M. Gisselquist

wp-2022-14: Incorporation of offshore shell companies as an indicator of corruption risk in the extractive industries

Giovanna Marcolongo and Diego Zambiasi

wp-2022-13: Recovery with distress: unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh

Hossain Zillur Rahman, Atiya Rahman, Md. Saiful Islam, Avinno Faruk, Imran Matin, Mohammad Abdul Wazed and Umama Zillur

wp-2022-12: Whose intergenerational mobility?: A new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation

Diding Sakri, Andy Sumner and Arief Anshory Yusuf

wp-2022-11: The social and political consequences of wartime sexual violence: New evidence from list experiments in three conflict-affected populations

Carlo Koos and Richard Traunmüller

wp-2022-10: Spillovers from extractive industries

Michael Kilumelume, Bruno Morando, Carol Newman and John Rand

wp-2022-9: Hide-seek-hide? The effects of financial secrecy on cross-border financial assets

Petr Janský, Tereza Palanská and Miroslav Palansky

wp-2022-8: An assessment of the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya's trade

Maureen Were and Kethi Ngoka

wp-2022-7: Diffusion of agricultural innovations in Guinea-Bissau: From learning to doing

Rute Martins Caeiro

wp-2022-6: Income distribution in Uganda based on tax registers: what do top incomes say?

Markus Jantti, Milly Isingoma Nalukwago and Ronald Waiswa

wp-2022-5: Inequality and growth: a review on a great open debate in economics

Enea Baselgia and Reto Foellmi

wp-2022-4: Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run

Antonio Savoia, Kunal Sen and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2022-3: Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence: South Africa (2007-2020)

Ricardo Hausmann, Federico Sturzenegger, Patricio Goldstein, Frank Muci and Douglas Barrios

wp-2022-2: Community organization and armed group behaviour: Evidence from Colombia

Margarita Gafaro, Ana Ibáñez and Patricia Justino

wp-2022-1: The dynamics of domestic revenue mobilization across four decades

Annalena Oppel, Kyle McNabb and Daniel Chachu

wp-2021-191: Legal opacity, narcotics laws, and drug seizures

Ninon Moreau-Kastler and Farid Toubal

wp-2021-190: Securitized reception: revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrants

Phi Hong Su and Hameed Hakimi

wp-2021-189: Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: Evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile

Sonia Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet and Francisco Pino

wp-2021-188: Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda

Merima Ali and Odd Fjeldstad

wp-2021-187: The tax-price elasticity of offshore tax avoidance: Evidence from Ecuadorian transaction data

Jakob Brounstein

wp-2021-186: Maternal employment and children's outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia

Ervin Dervisevic, Maria Lo Bue and Elizaveta Perova

wp-2021-185: Donors for tax morale: Evidence from 34 African countries

Alessandro Belmonte, Vincenzo Bove and Jessica Di Salvatore

wp-2021-184: Economic sanctions and trade flows in the neighbourhood

Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore and Roberto Nisticò

wp-2021-183: The gender productivity gap: Evidence from the Indian informal sector

Ira Gang, Rajesh Raj, Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun

wp-2021-182: Fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa: conceptualization and empirical trends

Ane Karoline Bak, Matilde Jeppesen and Anne Mette Kjær

wp-2021-181: Climate change and agricultural productivity in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

Henning Tarp Jensen, Marcus Keogh-Brown and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-180: Labour market projections and time allocation in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

Henning Tarp Jensen, Marcus Keogh-Brown and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-179: Taxation and income distribution in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

Henning Tarp Jensen, Marcus Keogh-Brown and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-178: Boosting mineral revenues in Zambia: Policy options for a sustainable fiscal regime

Andrew Mwaba and Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

wp-2021-177: No taxation without informational foundation: On the role of legibility in tax state development

Matthias vom Hau, José Peres-Cajías and Hillel David Soifer

wp-2021-176: Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states: the origins and expansion of income tax

Per F. Andersson

wp-2021-175: No taxation without property rights: Formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa

Marina Nistotskaya and Michelle D'Arcy

wp-2021-174: Tariffs, productivity, and resource misallocation

Michael Kilumelume, Bruno Morando, Carol Newman and John Rand

wp-2021-173: The guide to the CIT-IRP5 panel version 4.0

Amina Ebrahim, Carl Kreuser and Michael Kilumelume

wp-2021-172: Industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction?

Abdul Azeez Erumban and Gaaitzen de Vries

wp-2021-171: The gender employment gap: the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam

Tu Thi Ngoc Le and Ngoc Thi Bich Pham

wp-2021-170: Tax effort revisited: new estimates from the Government Revenue Dataset

Kyle McNabb, Michael Danquah and Abrams M.E. Tagem

wp-2021-169: How clientelism undermines state capacity: Evidence from Mexican municipalities

Ana L. De La O

wp-2021-168: Aid and social cohesion

Michael Danquah and Bazoumana Ouattara

wp-2021-167: The effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives: A microsimulation analysis on selected African countries

Adnan Shahir and Francesco Figari

wp-2021-166: COVID-19 in Central America: effects of firm resilience and policy responses on employment

Beatriz Calzada Olvera, Mario Gonzalez-Sauri, Federico Louvin and David-Alexander Harings Moya

wp-2021-165: Simulation of options to replace the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant and close the poverty gap at the food poverty line

Maya Goldman, Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Lindi Mzankomo, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2021-164: Towards greater poverty reduction in Zambia: Simulating potential Cash Plus reforms using MicroZAMOD

Katrin Gasior, David McLennan, Mbewe Kalikeka, Miselo Bwalya and Maria Jouste

wp-2021-163: An assessment of presumptive tax in Uganda: Evaluating the 2020 reform and four alternative reform scenarios using UGAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Uganda

Ronald Waiswa, Jesse Lastunen, Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, Joseph Okello Ayo, Milly Isingoma Nalukwago, Tina Kaidu Barugahara, Susan Kavuma, Isaac Arinaitwe, Martin Mwesigye, Wilson Asiimwe and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2021-162: The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003-19): A descriptive analysis

Sergio Firpo, Alysson Portella, Flavio Riva and Giovanna Úbida

wp-2021-161: What are the drivers of tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa?

Abrams M.E. Tagem and Oliver Morrissey

wp-2021-160: The informal sector and the safety of female traders in Tanzania: A reflection of practices, policies, and legislation

William Amos Pallangyo

wp-2021-159: An exploration of the association between fuel subsidies and fuel riots

Neil McCulloch, Davide Natalini, Naomi Hossain and Patricia Justino

wp-2021-158: The afterlife of industrial work: Urban-to-rural labour transitions from the factory to the informal economy

Alessandra Mezzadri and Kaustav Banerjee