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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

wp-2021-22: Socioeconomic and cultural drivers of women's formal work in rural Ghana

Elena Gross and Raymond Frempong

wp-2021-21: Can information campaigns reduce last mile payment delays in public works programme?: Evidence from a field experiment in India

Upasak Das, Amartya Paul and Mohit Sharma

wp-2021-20: Youth unemployment hysteresis in South Africa: Macro-micro analysis

Asiya Maskaeva and Mgeni Msafiri

wp-2021-19: Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America

Roxana Maurizio and Ana Paula Monsalvo

wp-2021-18: Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly?: A reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate change

Amir Lebdioui

wp-2021-17: Do tax administrative interventions targeted at small businesses improve tax compliance and revenue collection?: Evidence from Ugandan administrative tax data

Maria Jouste, Milly Isingoma Nalukwago and Ronald Waiswa

wp-2021-16: The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico: Supply vs demand factors

Sonia Bhalotra and Manuel Fernandez Sierra

wp-2021-15: Changes in occupations and their task content: Implications for employment and inequality in Argentina, 2003-19

Roxana Maurizio and Ana Paula Monsalvo

wp-2021-14: Does aid support democracy?: A systematic review of the literature

Rachel M. Gisselquist, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Melissa Samarin

wp-2021-13: Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon: An unconditional quantile regression analysis

Ebenezer Lemven Wirba, Fiennasah Annif' Akem and Francis Menjo Baye

wp-2021-12: Structural estimates of the South African sacrifice ratio

Hayelom Yrgaw Gereziher and Naser Yenus Nuru

wp-2021-11: The effects of personal income tax reform on employees' taxable income in Uganda

Maria Jouste, Tina Kaidu Barugahara, Joseph Okello Ayo, Jukka Pirttilä and Pia Rattenhuber

wp-2021-10: Gender wage gaps in Ghana: A comparison across different selection models

Emmanuel Adu Boahen and Kwadwo Opoku

wp-2021-9: Long-run rural livelihood diversification in Kagera, Tanzania

Ralitza Dimova, Sandra Kristine Halvorsen, Milla Nyyssölä and Kunal Sen

wp-2021-8: Premature deindustrialization and income inequality in middle-income countries

Rekha Ravindran and Suresh Babu M

wp-2021-7: Earnings inequality and the changing nature of work: Evidence from Labour Force Survey data of Bangladesh

Sayema Bidisha, Tanveer Mahmood and Mahir A. Rahman

wp-2021-6: Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: solutions and actions

Etienne Romsom and Kathryn McPhail

wp-2021-5: Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: evaluation of the issues

Etienne Romsom and Kathryn McPhail

wp-2021-4: The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax-benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador

H. Xavier Jara, Lourdes Montesdeoca and Iva Tasseva

wp-2021-3: Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment?: Evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries

Eva-Maria Egger, Aslihan Arslan and Emanuele Zucchini

wp-2021-2: Secession and social polarization: Evidence from Catalonia

Laia Balcells, José Fernández-Albertos and Alexander Kuo

wp-2021-1: Estimates of multidimensional poverty for India using NSSO-71 and -75

Venugopal Mothkoor and Nina Badgaiyan

wp-2020-177: Size matters: measuring the effects of inequality and growth shocks

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Rui Sun

wp-2020-176: Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern Africa

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

wp-2020-175: Uganda's nascent oil sector: Revenue generation, investor-stakeholder alignment, and public policy

Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

wp-2020-174: Monetary policy and wealth inequality in South Africa: Evidence from tax administrative data

Goodness C. Aye, Laurence Harris and Junior T. Chiweza

wp-2020-173: Informality and firm performance in Myanmar

Hanna Berkel and Finn Tarp

wp-2020-172: Transparency in extractive industry commodities trading

Olle Östensson

wp-2020-171: Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution: The Tunisian perspective

Mohamed Marouani, Minh-Phuong Le and Michelle Marshalian

wp-2020-170: Special economic zones and transnational zones as tools for Southern Africa's growth: Lessons from international best practices

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

wp-2020-169: Illicit financial flows and the Global South: A review of methods and evidence

Kasper Brandt

wp-2020-168: Inequality and the changing nature of work in Peru

Paola Ballon and Jorge Davalos

wp-2020-167: Evolution of wage inequality in India (1983-2017): The role of occupational task content

Saloni Khurana and Kanika Mahajan

wp-2020-166: Vulnerable employment of Egyptian, Jordanian, and Tunisian youth: Trends and determinants

Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny

wp-2020-165: Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics?: An empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the world

Arusha Cooray, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati and Indra de Soysa

wp-2020-164: Formalization and productivity: Firm-level evidence from Viet Nam

Jann Lay and Tevin Tafese

wp-2020-163: Do fiscal regimes matter for fiscal sustainability in South Africa?: A Markov-switching approach

Gabriel Temesgen Woldu

wp-2020-162: Identifying structural changes in the exchange rates of South Africa as a regime-switching process

Katleho Makatjane and Roscoe van Wyk

wp-2020-161: Wealth inequality and CO2 emissions in emerging economies: The case of BRICS

Goodness C. Aye

wp-2020-160: Special economic zones in Southern Africa: white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment?: The case of Zambia and South Africa

Mwanda Phiri and Shimukunku Manchishi

wp-2020-159: Informality and work status

Gary S. Fields

wp-2020-158: The electric vehicle revolution: Economic and policy implications for natural resource exporters in developing countries

Benjamin Jones

wp-2020-157: Pandemics and their impact on oil and metal prices

Tony Addison and Atanu Ghoshray

wp-2020-156: Horizontal inequality, COVID-19, and lockdown readiness: Evidence from India

Rachel M. Gisselquist and Anustup Kundu

wp-2020-155: Effects of productivity growth on domestic savings across countries: Disentangling the roles of trend and cycle

Abhishek Kumar, Sushanta Mallick and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-154: Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans

Grace Bridgman

wp-2020-153: The impact on the South African economy of alternative regulatory arrangements in the petroleum sector

Heinrich Bohlmann and Rod Crompton

wp-2020-152: What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality?: A systematic review

Vanesa Jorda and Jose M. Alonso

wp-2020-151: By choice or by force?: Uncovering the nature of informal employment in urban Mexico

Robert Duval-Hernandez

wp-2020-150: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in China

Carl Lin, Linxiang Ye and Wei Zhang

wp-2020-149: Agricultural input subsidy and farmers outcomes in Tanzania

Bethuel Kinyanjui Kinuthia

wp-2020-148: Future-proofing the plastics value chain in Southern Africa

Liako Mofo

wp-2020-147: Political connections and firm's formalization: Evidence from Viet Nam

Anh Dang and Hai Anh La

wp-2020-146: Informal-formal workers' transition in Nigeria: A livelihood analysis

Abiodun O. Folawewo and Olusegun A. Orija

wp-2020-145: Exporters and global value chain participation: Firm-level evidence from South Africa

Caio Torres Mazzi, Gideon Ndubuisi and Elvis Avenyo

wp-2020-144: Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India's informal sector firms

Ira Gang, Rajesh Raj and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-143: Progress and stagnation in the livelihood of informal workers in an emerging economy: Long-term evidence from Indonesia

Mayang Rizky, Daniel Suryadarma and Asep Suryahadi

wp-2020-142: Dynamics of off-farm self-employment in West African Sahel

Sènakpon Fidèle A. Dedehouanou and Didier Alia

wp-2020-141: Economic complexity and structural transformation: the case of Mozambique

Bjørn Bo Sørensen, Christian Estmann, Enilde Sarmento and John Rand

wp-2020-140: Petrol price regulation in South Africa: Is it meeting its intended objectives?

Rod Crompton, Midesh Sing, Vernon Filter and Nonhlanhla Msimango

wp-2020-139: Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19

Nathan Barker, Austin Davis, Paula López-Peña, Harrison Mitchell, Ahmed Mobarak, Karim Naguib, Maira Reimão, Ashish Shenoy and Corey Vernot

wp-2020-138: Updating great expectations: The effect of peer salary information on own-earnings forecasts

Sam Jones and Ricardo Santos

wp-2020-137: The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy: Do urban agglomeration economies matter?

Clive Bell

wp-2020-136: Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in Mozambique

Jose Jaime Macuane and Carlos Muianga

wp-2020-135: Donor relations and sovereignty

Johnny Flentø and Leonardo Santos Simao