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wp-2021-122: The dynamics of state-business relations between the Ethiopian state and Chinese private firms: A case study of the Eastern Industry Park

Weiwei Chen

wp-2021-121: Who benefits from job training programmes?: Evidence from a high-dosage programme in Brazil

Daniel Da Mata, Rodrigo Oliveira and Diana Silva

wp-2021-120: Simulating personal income tax in South Africa using administrative data and survey data: A comparison of PITMOD and SAMOD for tax year 2018

Wynnona Steyn, Alexius Sithole, Winile Ngobeni, Eva Muwanga-Zake, Helen Barnes, Michael Noble, David McLennan, Gemma Wright and Katrin Gasior

wp-2021-119: Promoting environmental sustainability in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Tanzania

Abel Kinyondo and Chris Huggins

wp-2021-118: Estimating employment responses to South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive

Joshua Budlender and Amina Ebrahim

wp-2021-117: Re-examining the Brazilian South-Northeast labour income gap: A decomposition approach

Rodrigo Oliveira and Raul Silveira Neto

wp-2021-116: Clientelism and governance

Pranab Bardhan

wp-2021-115: Female education and marriage in Pakistan: The role of financial shocks and marital customs

Sarah Khan

wp-2021-114: Digital technology and productivity of informal enterprises: Empirical evidence from Nigeria

Michael Danquah and Solomon Owusu

wp-2021-113: The COVID-19 pandemic and the economy in Southern Africa

Neva Makgetla

wp-2021-112: Pulling up or binding down: a review of upgrading trajectories in apparel and agro-processing global value chains for developing countries

Giovanni Pasquali, Aarti Krishnan and Jakob Engel

wp-2021-111: Effectiveness of strategic environmental assessment in promoting sustainable development in Tanzania

Emanoel Alfred and Joseph Qamara

wp-2021-110: Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia: The case of Renta Dignida

Carla Canelas and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

wp-2021-109: What explains the gender gap in top incomes in developing countries?: Evidence from Ecuador

Nicolás Oliva, H. Xavier Jara and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2021-108: The socioeconomic impact of coal mining in Mozambique

Eva-Maria Egger, Michael Keller and Jorge Mouco

wp-2021-107: Firm and product survival analysis: Evidence from South African tax administrative and products data

Syden Mishi, Weliswa Matekenya, Leward Jeke, Ronney M. Ncwadi and Roseline T. Karambakuwa

wp-2021-106: Horizontal and intersecting inequalities in Mozambique: 1997-2017

Ricardo Santos, Eva-Maria Egger and Vincenzo Salvucci

wp-2021-105: The changing nature of work and earnings inequality in China

Chunbing Xing

wp-2021-104: The legacy of conflict: aggregate evidence from Sierra Leone

Tillman Hönig

wp-2021-103: The role of trust and of poverty in compliance with social distancing measures in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Edson Mazive, Gerson Baza, Gimelgo Xirinda, Ivan Manhique, Jorge Mouco and Silvestre Matola

wp-2021-102: Exploring economic support networks amidst racial inequality in Namibia

Annalena Oppel

wp-2021-101: How far does the apple really fall from the tree?: Practical guidance on measuring intergenerational mobility from a simulation framework

Marcelo Cardona and Sam Jones

wp-2021-100: The minimum wage and firm networks: Evidence from South Africa

Brandon Tan

wp-2021-99: Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania

Kwadwo Opoku, Francisco M.P. Mugizi and Emmanuel Adu Boahen

wp-2021-98: Clientelism, public goods provision, and governance

Maria Lo Bue, Kunal Sen and Staffan I. Lindberg

wp-2021-97: Gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania

Maureen Were, Maureen Odongo and Caroline Israel

wp-2021-96: Young women's transitions from education to the labour market in Ethiopia: A gendered life-course perspective

Yeshwas Admasu, Gina Crivello and Catherine Porter

wp-2021-95: Informal freelancers in the time of COVID-19: Insights from a digital matching platform in Mozambique

Sam Jones and Ivan Manhique

wp-2021-94: The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in Mozambique

Giulia Barletta, Finório Castigo, Eva-Maria Egger, Michael Keller, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-93: The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique: A social accounting matrix approach

Rosário Betho, Márcia C. Chelengo, Sam Jones, Michael Keller, Ibraimo Mussagy, Dirk van Seventer and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-92: Female managers and firm performance: Evidence from the Caribbean countries

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Maria Lo Bue

wp-2021-91: Clientelism and development: is there a poverty trap?

Susan Stokes

wp-2021-90: How good are manufacturing jobs in Myanmar?: Evidence from matched employer-employee data

Paolo Falco, Francesca Gioia and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2021-89: Remote sensing of urban cyclone impact and resilience: Evidence from Idai

Peter Fisker, David Malmgren-Hansen and Thomas Sohnesen

wp-2021-88: Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana

Isaac Otoo and Michael Danquah

wp-2021-87: Cash grants to manufacturers after Cyclone Idai: RCT evidence from Mozambique

Hanna Berkel, Peter Fisker and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-86: A macro-micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America

Diksha Arora, Elissa Braunstein and Stephanie Seguino

wp-2021-85: Cyclone impacts on manufacturing firms in Mozambique

Hanna Berkel, Peter Fisker and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-84: Forecasting recovery from COVID-19 using financial data: An application to Viet Nam

Jesse Lastunen and Matteo Richiardi

wp-2021-83: The determinants of occupational sorting: Evidence from Mozambique

Ines A. Ferreira, Sam Jones, Jorge Mouco and Ricardo Santos

wp-2021-82: Measuring earnings inequality in South Africa using household survey and administrative tax microdata

Andrew Kerr

wp-2021-81: Inequality and structural transformation in the changing nature of work: The case of Indonesia

Arief Yusuf and Putri Riswani Halim

wp-2021-80: COVID-19 and the state

Rachel M. Gisselquist and Andrea Vaccaro

wp-2021-79: The economic gains of closing the employment gender gap: Evidence from Morocco

Olivier Bargain and Maria Lo Bue

wp-2021-78: Firms' resilience to financial constraints: The role of trade credit

Isaac Marcelin, Daniel Brink and Wei Sun

wp-2021-77: State-dependent fiscal multipliers and financial dynamics: An impulse response analysis by local projections for South Africa

Serena Merrino

wp-2021-76: Consolidating behavioural economics and rational choice theory: Insights from inequality research

Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon and Rachel M. Gisselquist

wp-2021-75: Good institutions and tax revenue outcomes in resource-rich countries: When 'good' is not enough

Daniel Chachu

wp-2021-74: The financial inclusion agenda: Examining the role of conventional banks in deepening access to formal credit

Abdul Malik Iddrisu and Michael Danquah

wp-2021-73: Ethnic disparity in altruism towards reforestation: A social preference experiment in Mindoro, Philippines

Imelda Revilla Molina, Katelyn Castillo and Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon

wp-2021-72: The impacts of public expenditure innovations on real exchange rate volatility in South Africa

Naser Yenus Nuru and Hayelom Yrgaw Gereziher

wp-2021-71: What sustains informality?: A study of the interactions between formal- and informal-sector firms

Ajit Mishra

wp-2021-70: Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from Indonesia

Olivier Bargain, Maria Lo Bue and Flaviana Palmisano

wp-2021-69: Material barriers, cultural boundaries: A mixed-methods analysis of gender and labour market segmentation in Bangladesh

Naila Kabeer, Lopita Huq and Muhammad Mahabub Rahaman

wp-2021-68: Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID-19 and state-led remedial measures in South Africa

Helen Barnes, Gabriel Espi-Sanchis, Murray Leibbrandt, David McLennan, Michael Noble, Jukka Pirttilä, Wynnona Steyn, Brenton van Vrede and Gemma Wright

wp-2021-67: COVID-19 and trade facilitation in Southern Africa: Implications for the AfCFTA

Kudzai Mataba and Faizel Ismail

wp-2021-66: Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices: Are there gender differences in Ghana?

Priscilla Baffour, Festus Turkson, Ibrahim Mohammed and Wassiuw Abdul Rahaman

wp-2021-65: The gendered crisis: livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Sanchari Roy

wp-2021-64: Employment effects of joining global production networks: Does domestic value added matter?

Wannaphong Durongkaveroj

wp-2021-63: Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South Africa

John Porten, Inbok Rhee and Clark Gibson

wp-2021-62: An economy-wide perspective on aspects of electricity supply in Myanmar

Dirk van Seventer

wp-2021-61: Trends in global inequality using a new integrated dataset

Carlos Gradín

wp-2021-60: Female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysis

Andreas Backhaus and Elke Loichinger

wp-2021-59: Trade liberalization, employment, and gender in Ethiopia

Giorgia Giovannetti, Marco Sanfilippo and Arianna Vivoli

wp-2021-58: Crowding out effects of financial knowledge and attitude on risk preferences: Evidence from a least developed African country

Ruth Cadaoas Tacneng, Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon and Thierno Barry

wp-2021-57: Do pandemics lead to rebellion? Policy responses to COVID-19, inequality, and protests in the USA

Francesco Iacoella, Patricia Justino and Bruno Martorano

wp-2021-56: The livelihood impacts of COVID-19 in urban South Africa: A view from below

Simone Schotte and Rocco Zizzamia

wp-2021-55: Trade effects of the East Africa Customs Union in Tanzania: Application of a structural gravity model

Vincent Leyaro

wp-2021-54: Assessing pension-related tax expenditures in South Africa: Evidence from the 2016 retirement reform

Agustin Redonda and Christopher Axelson

wp-2021-53: Towards sustainable livelihood in the Tanzanian informal economy: Facilitating inclusion, organization, and rights for street vendors

Ilona Steiler and Chediel Nyirenda

wp-2021-52: The asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty on firm-level investment in South Africa: Firm-level evidence from administrative tax data

Keagile Lesame

wp-2021-51: The case of taxing multinational corporations in Uganda: Do multinational corporations face lower effective tax rates and is there evidence for profit shifting?

Aliisa Koivisto, Nicholas Musoke, Dorothy Nakyambadde and Caroline Schimanski

wp-2021-50: Heterogeneous informality in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Enrique Alaniz, T.H. Gindling, Catherine Mata and Diego Rojas

wp-2021-49: Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labour market outcomes in an emerging economy: Evidence from Indonesia

Niken Kusumawardhani, Rezanti Pramana, Nurmala Saputri and Daniel Suryadarma

wp-2021-48: The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile

Gabriela Zapata-Román

wp-2021-47: Precarization or protection? The impact of trade and labour policies on informality

Rita Almeida, Lourenco Paz and Jennifer Poole

wp-2021-46: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries

Risto Rönkkö, Stuart Rutherford and Kunal Sen

wp-2021-45: Good business practices improve productivity in Myanmar's manufacturing sector: Evidence from two matched employer-employee surveys

Paolo Falco, Henrik Hansen, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2021-44: Ban on female migrant workers: Skills-differentiated evidence from Sri Lanka

Bilesha Weeraratne

wp-2021-43: The social psychology of economic inequality

Matthew J. Easterbrook

wp-2021-42: Intergroup contact and its effects on discriminatory attitudes: Evidence from India

Shreya Bhattacharya

wp-2021-41: Traditional and modern employee benefits in Myanmar's manufacturing sector

Henrik Hansen, John Rand and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2021-40: Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare?: Evidence from Ghana

Michael Danquah, Abdul Malik Iddrisu, Ernest Owusu Boakye and Solomon Owusu

wp-2021-39: Resource rents in the diamond industry 2014-19: Rents, issues, methods, and data availability

Anton Löf, Olof Löf and Magnus Ericsson

wp-2021-38: Assessing the distributional impact of lowering the value-added tax rate for standard-rated items in Tanzania and options for recouping revenue losses

Elineema Kisanga, Vincent Leyaro, Wahabi Matengo, Michael Noble, Helen Barnes and Gemma Wright

wp-2021-37: Local crime and early marriage: Evidence from India

Sudipa Sarkar

wp-2021-36: Labour turnover and workers' well-being in the Ethiopian manufacturing industry

Sandra Kristine Halvorsen

wp-2021-35: Constraints on the performance and competitiveness of Tanzania's manufacturing exports

Roseline Misati and Kethi Ngoka

wp-2021-34: On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance

Ines A. Ferreira, Rachel M. Gisselquist and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-33: Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries

Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata, María Edo and Mariana Marchionni

wp-2021-32: Multigenerational mobility in India

Anustup Kundu and Kunal Sen

wp-2021-31: Sources of output growth in the countries of the Common Monetary Area and provinces of South Africa

Dukhabandhu Sahoo, Auro Sahoo, Jayanti Behera, Diptimayee Mishra and Phendulwa Zikhona Makunga

wp-2021-30: Access to microfinance and female labour force participation

M Asadullah, Nudrat Faria Shreya and Zaki Wahhaj

wp-2021-29: The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa: A gender comparison

Priyanka Harrichurran, Claire Vermaak and Colette Muller

wp-2021-28: A manufacturing renaissance? Industrialization trends in the developing world

Hagen Kruse, Emmanuel Mensah, Kunal Sen and Gaaitzen de Vries

wp-2021-27: The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana

Simone Schotte, Michael Danquah, Robert Osei and Kunal Sen

wp-2021-26: Estimating poverty transitions in Mozambique using synthetic panels: A validation exercise and an application to cross-sectional survey data

Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

wp-2021-25: Welfare and the depth of informality: Evidence from five African countries

Eva-Maria Egger, Cecilia Poggi and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

wp-2021-24: Gender priming in solidarity games: The Philippine context

Ruth Cadaoas Tacneng and Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon

wp-2021-23: Job quality and labour market transitions: Evidence from Mexican informal and formal workers

Emily Conover, Melanie Khamis and Sarah Pearlman