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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

wp-2020-51: Separating employment effects into job destruction and job creation: Evidence from a large minimum wage increase in the agricultural sector using administrative tax data

Marlies Piek, Dieter von Fintel and Johann Kirsten

wp-2020-50: Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Kezia Lilenstein, Morne Oosthuizen and Amy Thornton

wp-2020-49: Depreciation allowances in South Africa

Estian Calitz, Eva Muwanga-Zake, Alexius Sithole and Wynnona Steyn

wp-2020-48: The energy transition in Asia: Country priorities, fuel types, and energy decisions

Etienne Romsom and Kathryn McPhail

wp-2020-47: Misinformed, mismatched, or misled?: Explaining the gap between expected and realized graduate earnings in Mozambique

Sam Jones, Ricardo Santos and Gimelgo Xirinda

wp-2020-46: Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand

Peter Warr and Waleerat Suphannachart

wp-2020-45: Estimating the distribution of household wealth in South Africa

Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin

wp-2020-44: Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in Bangladesh

Selim Raihan and Sunera Saba Khan

wp-2020-43: Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty

Andy Sumner, Christopher Hoy and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

wp-2020-42: Riots and social capital in urban India

Alia Aghajanian, Patricia Justino and Jean-Pierre Tranchant

wp-2020-41: Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare: An investigation of India's employment guarantee programme

Parantap Basu, Rajesh Raj and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-40: The corporate income tax gap in South Africa: A top-down approach

Ada Jansen, Winile Ngobeni, Alexius Sithole and Wynnona Steyn

wp-2020-39: Product market competition and the labour market: Evidence from South Africa

Francesco Amodio, Michele Di Maio, Yifan Li and Patrizio Piraino

wp-2020-38: Making agricultural value chains more inclusive through technology and innovation

Reena Das Nair and Namhla Landani

wp-2020-37: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Ghana

Robert Osei, Richmond Atta-Ankomah and Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio

wp-2020-36: Agro-processing, value chains, and regional integration in Southern Africa

Anthony Black, Lawrence Edwards, Ruth Gorven and Willard Mapulanga

wp-2020-35: The developer's dilemma: A survey of structural transformation and inequality dynamics

Armida Alisjahbana, Kyunghoon Kim, Kunal Sen, Andy Sumner and Arief Yusuf

wp-2020-34: Hidden from the data: Landholding patterns and women's low work participation rates in West Bengal, India

Deepita Chakravarty

wp-2020-33: Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China

Yanan Li and Chunbing Xing

wp-2020-32: Measuring labour earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa

Serena Merrino

wp-2020-31: Structural transformation and inclusive growth: Kuznets' 'developer's dilemma' in Indonesia

Kyunghoon Kim, Arriya Mungsunti, Andy Sumner and Arief Yusuf

wp-2020-30: Shifting from deductions to credits: Unpacking the distributional effects of medical expenditure considerations in South Africa

Senia Nhamo and Edinah Mudimu

wp-2020-29: The elasticity of taxable income: New data and estimates for South Africa

Johannes Kemp

wp-2020-28: Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

Gregory Clark

wp-2020-27: Job spells in an emerging market: Evidence from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa

Robert Hill, Kezia Lilenstein and Amy Thornton

wp-2020-26: Moral reputation and political selection in a decentralized democracy: Theory and evidence from India

Prasenjit Banerjee, Vegard Iversen, Sandip Mitra, Antonio Nicolo' and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-25: Leapfrogging into the unknown: The future of structural change in the developing world

Lukas Schlogl

wp-2020-24: Kuznets' tension in India: Two episodes

Saon Ray and Sabyasachi Kar

wp-2020-23: Initial considerations for the creation of an inter-regional industrial hemp value chain between Malawi and South Africa

Sandy Lowitt

wp-2020-22: Revenue forecasting in the mining industries: A data-driven approach

Benjamin Jones

wp-2020-21: Winners and losers in industrial policy 2.0

Mohamed Marouani and Michelle Marshalian

wp-2020-20: The impact of impact evaluation: Are impact evaluation and impact evaluation synthesis contributing to evidence generation and use in low- and middle-income countries?

Richard Manning, Ian Goldman and Gonzalo Hernández Licona

wp-2020-19: Measuring multidimensional inequality of opportunity

Martyna Kobus, Marek Kapera and Vito Peragine

wp-2020-18: Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half-century analysis

Gunes Asik, Ulas Karakoc, Mohamed Marouani and Michelle Marshalian

wp-2020-17: Labour market polarization in South Africa: A decomposition analysis

Rob Davies and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2020-16: What's behind pro-poor growth?: The role of shocks and measurement error

Stephan Klasen, Maria Lo Bue and Vincenzo Prete

wp-2020-15: Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Zanzibar: A feasibility study

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

wp-2020-14: The ethnographic approach to social mobility

Divya Vaid

wp-2020-13: Can 'good' social mobility news be 'bad' and vice versa?: Measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls

Vegard Iversen

wp-2020-12: Social mobility and inequality between groups

Patricia Funjika and Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2020-11: Are routine jobs moving south?: Evidence from changes in the occupational structure of employment in the USA and Mexico

Guido Matias Cortes and Diego Morris

wp-2020-10: Is there a fiscal resource curse?: Resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies

Tania Masi, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

wp-2020-9: Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling: New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Abdul Malik Iddrisu, Michael Danquah, Alfred Barimah and Williams Ohemeng

wp-2020-8: The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market: Evidence from a public federal university in Brazil

Henrique Z. Motte and Rodrigo Oliveira

wp-2020-7: Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidence

Himanshu Himanshu and Peter Lanjouw

wp-2020-6: Drivers of mobility

Patrizio Piraino

wp-2020-5: Returns to education in self-employment in India: A comparison across different selection models

Indrajit Bairagya

wp-2020-4: Social mobility in China: A case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South

Yaojun Li

wp-2020-3: Turnin' it up a notch: how spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa's exports

Bjørn Bo Sørensen

wp-2020-2: Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysis

Michael Danquah, Abdul Malik Iddrisu, Williams Ohemeng and Alfred Barimah

wp-2020-1: Exchange rates and firm export performance in South Africa

Lawrence Edwards and Ayanda Hlatshwayo

wp-2019-121: China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

Roy van der Weide and Ambar Narayan