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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

wp-2020-134: Rule of law and judicial independence

João Carlos Trindade

wp-2020-133: Economic development and institutions in Mozambique: Factors affecting public financial management

António S. Cruz and Fausto J. Mafambissa

wp-2020-132: Decentralization reforms in Mozambique: The role of institutions in the definition of results

Salvador Forquilha

wp-2020-131: Health, development, and institutional factors: The Mozambique case

Paulo Ivo Garrido

wp-2020-130: The education sector in Mozambique: From access to epistemic quality in primary education

Mouzinho Mário, Celso M. Monjane and Ricardo Santos

wp-2020-129: Putting the financial system to work for the poor and SMEs

Abdul Magid Osman and Djamila Pontes Osman

wp-2020-128: Influence of institutional factors on the performance of the agricultural sector in Mozambique

João Z. Carrilho and Rui N. Ribeiro

wp-2020-127: Inequality, institutions, and cooperation

Thomas Markussen, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal and Finn Tarp

wp-2020-126: Ethnic diversity and informal work in Ghana

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Michael Danquah

wp-2020-125: Taxing extractive resources in the transition to a low-carbon future

Evelyn Dietsche

wp-2020-124: The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Chaturica Athukorala

wp-2020-123: The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspective

Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-122: Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality: Diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination

Giorgio d'Agostino, Francesco Giuli, Marco Lorusso and Margherita Scarlato

wp-2020-121: Polarization in the South African labour market: Economy-wide scenarios

Rob Davies and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2020-120: Extractive dependency in lower-income countries: Evolving trends during the transition to a low carbon future

Magnus Ericsson and Olof Löf

wp-2020-119: Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana

Carlos Gradín and Simone Schotte

wp-2020-118: Roots of dissent: Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil

Francesco Iacoella, Patricia Justino and Bruno Martorano

wp-2020-117: Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited: Comment on 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence'

Markus Jantti, Jukka Pirttilä and Risto Rönkkö

wp-2020-116: Changes in inequality within countries after 1990

Carlos Gradín

wp-2020-115: Agro-industry, exports, and income distribution: A multiplier decomposition analysis for Myanmar

Dirk van Seventer and Finn Tarp

wp-2020-114: Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade

Arusha Cooray, Chandan Jha and Bibhudutta Panda

wp-2020-113: Impact of a Single Customs Territory in the East African Community on Tanzania's exports

Anne Kamau and Maureen Odongo

wp-2020-112: Public debt sustainability and debt dynamics: The case of Tanzania

Maureen Were and Lekinyi Mollel

wp-2020-111: Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility?: Evidence from Cameroon

Rose Fontep and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-110: Income diversification and household welfare in Tanzania 2008-2013

Rumman Khan and Oliver Morrissey

wp-2020-109: Data, global development, and COVID-19: Lessons and consequences

Wim Naudé and Ricardo Vinuesa

wp-2020-108: From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification: A developmental approach to managing resource revenues

Ha-Joon Chang and Amir Lebdioui

wp-2020-107: Subjective returns to education: Rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India

Pooja Balasubramanian

wp-2020-106: Duration of pre-university education and labour market outcomes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Ghana

Emmanuel Adu Boahen, Kwadwo Opoku and Simone Schotte

wp-2020-105: Closing the gap: Gender and innovation

Laura Barasa

wp-2020-104: Discerning trends in international metal prices in the presence of non-stationary volatility

Tony Addison and Atanu Ghoshray

wp-2020-103: State-market-society alliance: The evolving nature of the '21st century developmental state'

Pui Yi Wong

wp-2020-102: Partnership for inclusive growth: Can linkages with large firms spur the growth of SMEs in Tanzania?

Josaphat Kweka and Fadhili Sooi

wp-2020-101: Transitions between informal and formal jobs in India: Patterns, correlates, and consequences

Rajesh Raj, Simone Schotte and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-100: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

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

wp-2020-99: Industry classification in the South African tax microdata

Joshua Budlender and Amina Ebrahim

wp-2020-98: Character or context: What explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?

Ines A. Ferreira, Sam Jones and Jorge Mouco

wp-2020-97: Globalization and gender inequality: Evidence from South Africa

Caro Janse van Rensburg, Carli Bezuidenhout, Marianne Matthee and Victor Stolzenburg

wp-2020-96: Trade, technology, and absorptive capacity: Firm-level evidence across geographical clusters in the Tanzanian textiles and apparel sector

Amrita Saha, André Castro, Marco Carreras and Daniele Guariso

wp-2020-95: Fast tracking the SADC integration agenda to unlock regional collaboration gains along growth corridors in Southern Africa

Alexis Habiyaremye

wp-2020-94: Building malls or metros?: South Africa's exports of tradable urban services to the rest of Africa

Ivan Turok and Justin Visagie

wp-2020-93: Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectors

Julian Boys and Antonio Andreoni

wp-2020-92: A medium-sized, open-economy, fiscal DSGE model of South Africa

Johannes Kemp and Hylton Hollander

wp-2020-91: Empirical estimates of fiscal multipliers for South Africa

Johannes Kemp

wp-2020-90: Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India

Vidhya Unnikrishnan and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-89: Healthcare equity and COVID-19: Assessing the relative effectiveness of egalitarian governance and healthcare system capacity on the COVID-19 pandemic

Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, Arusha Cooray and Indra de Soysa

wp-2020-88: Competition and inclusive regional economic growth in food production: Barriers to entry and the role of African multinational corporations

Teboho Bosiu and Thando Vilakazi

wp-2020-87: The potential of extractive industries as anchor investments for broader regional development

Olle Östensson

wp-2020-86: Wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa

Serena Merrino

wp-2020-85: Investigating the fiscal resource curse: What's China got to do with it?

Daniel Chachu and Edward Nketiah-Amponsah

wp-2020-84: Comparative approaches to key issues in the economic regulation of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Anthea Paelo and Genna Robb

wp-2020-83: Competitive dynamics of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Genna Robb and Anthea Paelo

wp-2020-82: Trust in the time of corona

Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Patricia Justino and Wolfgang Stojetz

wp-2020-81: Exploring options for a universal old age pension in Tanzania Mainland

Twahir Khalfan, Elineema Kisanga, Vincent Leyaro, Faith Masekesa, Michael Noble and Gemma Wright

wp-2020-80: The energy transition in Asia: The role of liquefied natural gas and implications for East African producers

Etienne Romsom and Kathryn McPhail

wp-2020-79: The impact of employment protection on the temporary employment services sector: Evidence from South Africa using data from tax records

Aalia Cassim

wp-2020-78: Unequal expectations: Gender inequality in salary expectations of university students

Carlos Gradín, Félix Mambo, Yonesse Paris and Ricardo Santos

wp-2020-77: Precarity and the pandemic: COVID-19 and poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries

Andy Sumner, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Christopher Hoy

wp-2020-76: Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust

Eva-Maria Egger, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino, Ivan Manhique and Ricardo Santos

wp-2020-75: The global distribution of routine and non-routine work

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park and Simone Schotte

wp-2020-74: COVID-19: macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world

Tony Addison, Kunal Sen and Finn Tarp

wp-2020-73: COVID-19 and global poverty: Are LDCs being left behind?

Giovanni Valensisi

wp-2020-72: Improving parenting practices for early child development: Experimental evidence from Rwanda

Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone, Pierfrancesco Rolla, Monique Abimpaye, Caroline Dusabe, Diane Uwamahoro and Richard Germond

wp-2020-71: Structural features of the Myanmar economy through the lens of a 2017 Social Accounting Matrix

Dirk van Seventer, Finn Tarp, Khin Ohnmar Myint Thein, Soe Thie Nu Htwe and Nyaung Tai

wp-2020-70: An analysis of the distributional impact of excise duty in Uganda using a tax-benefit microsimulation model

Susan Namirembe Kavuma, Christine Byaruhanga, Nicholas Musoke, Patrick Loke, Michael Noble and Gemma Wright

wp-2020-69: Evolution of multidimensional poverty in crisis-ridden Mozambique

Eva-Maria Egger, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

wp-2020-68: Taxpayer responsiveness to taxation: Evidence from bunching at kink points of the South African income tax schedule

Neryvia Pillay

wp-2020-67: South African population projection and household survey sample weight recalibration

Takwanisa Machemedze, Andrew Kerr and Rob Dorrington

wp-2020-66: A 2017 Social Accounting Matrix for Myanmar

Dirk van Seventer, Finn Tarp, Nyo Nyo San, Soe Thie Nu Htwe and Thandar

wp-2020-65: Explaining income inequality trends: An integrated approach

Petra Sauer, Narasimha D. Rao and Shonali Pachauri

wp-2020-64: A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals: The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

Richard Adu-Gyamfi, Simplice Asongu, Tinaye Sonto Mmusi, Herbert Wamalwa and Madei Mangori

wp-2020-63: Resource sector concessions and spatial development in Southern Africa

Joan Halstein

wp-2020-62: Earnings in the South African Revenue Service IRP5 data

Andrew Kerr

wp-2020-61: Special economic zones in Southern Africa: Is success influenced by design attributes?

Cornelius Dube, Wellington Matsika and Gamuchirai Chiwunze

wp-2020-60: COVID-19: mortality, future years lost, and demographic structure: Italy and Kenya compared

Clive Bell

wp-2020-59: The effect of policy uncertainty on South Africa, SADC, and beyond

Mustapha Douch

wp-2020-58: Inclusive growth without structural transformation?: The case of Brazil

Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri and Rafaela Nogueira

wp-2020-57: Weather shocks and child nutrition: Evidence from Tanzania

Aimable Nsabimana and Justice Tei Mensah

wp-2020-56: The relationship between transport accessibility and employment duration

Jacomien van der Merwe and Stephan Krygsman

wp-2020-55: Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy: The case of South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Kezia Lilenstein, Morne Oosthuizen and Amy Thornton

wp-2020-54: Informal institutions, transaction risk, and firm productivity in Myanmar

Michael Danquah and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-53: Exclusive growth?: Rapidly increasing top incomes amidst low national growth in South Africa

Ihsaan Bassier and Ingrid Woolard

wp-2020-52: The impact of the Employment Equity Act on female inter-industry labour mobility and the gender wage gap in South Africa

Mattie Susan Landman and Neave O'Clery