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wp-2019-55: Counting-based multidimensional poverty identification: From deprivation weights to bundles

Sam Jones

wp-2019-54: Income and consumption inequality in China: A comparative approach with India

Carlos Gradín and Binbin Wu

wp-2019-53: Linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya

Felix Adamu Nandonde, Richard Adu-Gyamfi, TinayeSonto Mmusi, Herbert Wamalwa, Simplice Asongu, Johannes Pieter Opperman and Jeremia Makindara

wp-2019-52: Moving up the copper value chain in Southern Africa

Neva Makgetla, Saul Levin and Sithembiso Mtanga

wp-2019-51: Vulnerability to natural shocks: Assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

Vincenzo Salvucci and Ricardo Santos

wp-2019-50: Subsidized labour and firms: Investment, profitability, and leverage

Isaac Marcelin, Daniel Brink, David Fadiran and Hammed Adedeji Amusa

wp-2019-49: An analysis of school dropout in Mozambique, 2014-15

Félix Mambo, Maren Basso, Vincenzo Salvucci and Ricardo Santos

wp-2019-48: Spreading the gains?: Prospects and policies for the development of regional value chains in Southern Africa

Anthony Black, Lawrence Edwards, Faizel Ismail, Brian Makundi and Mike Morris

wp-2019-47: Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa

Andrew Kerr and Martin Wittenberg

wp-2019-46: Resource misallocation and total factor productivity: Manufacturing firms in South Africa

Carol Newman, John Rand and Mpho Tsebe

wp-2019-45: Measuring wealth inequality in South Africa: An agenda

Aroop Chatterjee

wp-2019-44: How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?

Nicholas Apergis and Arusha Cooray

wp-2019-43: Digital technologies and 'value' capture in global value chains: Empirical evidence from Indian manufacturing firms

Karishma Banga

wp-2019-42: Inequality in India: A review of levels and trends

Himanshu Himanshu

wp-2019-41: The individual poverty incidence of growth

Maria Lo Bue and Flaviana Palmisano

wp-2019-40: Beyond access to basic services: Perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique

Alba Llop-Gironés and Sam Jones

wp-2019-39: The effect of foreign competition on family and network labour allocation

Margaryta Klymak

wp-2019-38: Motorcycle parts and aftermarket industry regional value chain in Southern Africa

Sithembiso Mtanga and Richard McCamel

wp-2019-37: The contribution of services to trade and development in Southern Africa

Justin Visagie and Ivan Turok

wp-2019-36: Evaluating the impact of global oil prices on the SADC and the potential for increased trade in biofuels and natural gas within the region

Alfred Moyo

wp-2019-35: The impact of a higher leverage ratio on the South African economy

Rob Davies, Laurence Harris and Konstantin Makrelov

wp-2019-34: The wage-setting power of firms: Rent-sharing and monopsony in South Africa

Ihsaan Bassier

wp-2019-33: The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India: Model-based simulation and case-study evidence

Chris Elbers and Peter Lanjouw

wp-2019-32: The size distribution of monetary policy effects among South African manufacturing firms: Firm-level evidence from administrative tax data

Keagile Lesame

wp-2019-31: Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax data

Amina Ebrahim and Kezia Lilenstein

wp-2019-30: Trade liberalization and South African manufacturing: Looking back with data

Ciaran Driver

wp-2019-29: The effect of real exchange rate volatility on income distribution in South Africa

Goodness C. Aye and Laurence Harris

wp-2019-28: Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment?: Evidence from South Africa

Amina Ebrahim and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2019-27: The creation of an individual panel using administrative tax microdata in South Africa

Amina Ebrahim and Christopher Axelson

wp-2019-26: Black cat, white cat: Lessons to be learned from ASEAN

Sandy Lowitt

wp-2019-25: Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008-2017

Rocco Zizzamia, Simone Schotte and Murray Leibbrandt

wp-2019-24: Inequality and the generational economy: Race-disaggregated National Transfer Accounts for South Africa, 2015

Morne Oosthuizen

wp-2019-23: Self-selection of Mexican migrants in the presence of random shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907

David Escamilla-Guerrero and Moramay Lopez-Alonso

wp-2019-22: Institutional bypass and aid effectiveness in Africa

Michael Chasukwa and Dan Banik

wp-2019-21: A Pre-Prototype 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Myanmar

Dirk van Seventer, Finn Tarp, Nyo Nyo San and Khin Ohnmar Myint Thein

wp-2019-20: Managerial attributes and enterprise access to formal credit in Myanmar

Henrik Hansen, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2019-19: Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up: A tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMOD

Remmy Kampamba, Luca Pellerano, Charles Banda and Obbie Musama

wp-2019-18: Promoting education under distortionary taxation: Equality of opportunity versus welfarism

Pertti Haaparanta, Ravi Kanbur, Tuuli Paukkeri, Jukka Pirttilä and Matti Tuomala

wp-2019-17: Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market

Jacqueline Mosomi

wp-2019-16: Microsimulation analysis of the impact of indirect tax benefits on income distribution and poverty alleviation in Tanzania: An application of TAZMOD

Asiya Maskaeva, Zanda Bochkaeva, Joel Mmasa, Mgeni Msafiri and Eric Iramba

wp-2019-15: Foreign aid and climate change policy: What can('t) the data tell us?

Daniel Y. Kono and Gabriella R. Montinola

wp-2019-14: Financial disincentives to formal work: Evidence from Ecuador and Colombia

H. Xavier Jara and David Rodríguez

wp-2019-13: Modelling value-added tax (VAT) in South Africa: Assessing the distributional impact of the recent increase in the VAT rate and options for redress through the benefits system

Rebone Gcabo, Boitumelo Moche, Wynnona Steyn, Boikhutso Moahlodi, Jukka Pirttilä, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes and Faith Masekesa

wp-2019-12: What does the evidence tell us about 'thinking and working politically' in development assistance?

Niheer Dasandi, Edward Laws, Heather Marquette and Mark Robinson

wp-2019-11: The impact of foreign aid on maternal mortality

Emmanuel Banchani and Liam Swiss

wp-2019-10: Combatting debt bias in South African firms: The case for an allowance for corporate equity

Seppo Kari, Londiwe Khoza, Nangamso Manjezi and Kyle McNabb

wp-2019-9: Tax research in South Africa

Amina Ebrahim, Rebone Gcabo, Lilian Khumalo and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2019-8: Aid targeting to fragile and conflict-affected states and implications for aid effectiveness

David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy

wp-2019-7: Innovation efforts in developing countries: The case of Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises

Son Thi Kim Le

wp-2019-6: Too many cooks in the kitchen?: The division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance

Matthew S. Winters

wp-2019-5: Effects of foreign aid on income through international trade

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso

wp-2019-4: Do countries use foreign aid to buy geopolitical influence?: Evidence from donor campaigns for temporary UN Security Council seats

Bernhard Reinsberg

wp-2019-3: Industrial agglomeration in Myanmar

John Rand, Finn Tarp, Neda Trifkovic and Helge Zille

wp-2019-2: Learning from the ʻbestʼ: The impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

Olivier Bargain, H. Xavier Jara, Prudence Kwenda and Miracle Ntuli

wp-2019-1: Income redistribution in Latin America: A microsimulation approach

Cristina Arancibia, Mariana Dondo, H. Xavier Jara, David Macas, Nicolás Oliva, Rebeca Riella, David Rodríguez and Joana Urraburu

wp-2018-190: What is the state of the manufacturing sector in Mozambique?

Peter Fisker and Søren Schou

wp-2018-189: Inequality trends and dynamics in India: The bird's-eye and the granular perspectives

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

wp-2018-188: Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989-2014

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Nora Lustig and John Scott

wp-2018-187: Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India

Roy van der Weide and Melinda Vigh

wp-2018-186: What are the main drivers of Brazilian income distribution changes in the new millennium?

Marcelo Neri

wp-2018-185: Information, identification, or neither?: Experimental evidence on role models in Vietnam

Gaia Narciso, Carol Newman and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-184: Taking stock of South African income inequality

Murray Leibbrandt, Vimal Ranchhod and Pippa Green

wp-2018-183: Top incomes in China: Data collection and the impact on income inequality

Qinghai Li, Shi Li and Haiyuan Wan

wp-2018-182: The dynamics of spatial and local inequalities in India

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and David Garcés Urzainqui

wp-2018-181: A new inequality estimate for urban India?: Using house prices to estimate inequality in Mumbai

Gerton Rongen

wp-2018-180: Construction and public procurement in Uganda

Emanuele Colonnelli and Nicole Ntungire

wp-2018-179: Uganda's oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed?

Sebastian Wolf and Vishal Aditya Potluri

wp-2018-178: Understanding the boom: A framing paper

Mark Henstridge

wp-2018-177: Understanding the boom: Country study—Tanzania

Mark Henstridge

wp-2018-176: From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy: Explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it

Joseph Stiglitz

wp-2018-175: Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century: Poverty, vulnerability, and mobility, 1987-2012

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

wp-2018-174: Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policy

Shi Li, Terry Sicular and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-173: Assessing the quality of the income data used in SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model

Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes, Michael Noble, David McLennan and Faith Masekesa

wp-2018-172: The role of the construction sector in influencing natural resource use, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia

Caesar Cheelo and Robert Liebenthal

wp-2018-171: Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from an experimental study

Cuong Nguyen and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-170: Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world

Andrew Clark and Conchita D'Ambrosio

wp-2018-169: Welfare dynamics in rural Vietnam: Learning from regular, high-quality panel data

Andy McKay, Saurabh Singhal and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-168: Tax-benefit microsimulation model in developing countries: A feasibility study for an extension of SOUTHMOD in Indonesia

Arip Muttaqien, Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

wp-2018-167: Social capital and household vulnerability: New evidence from rural Vienam

Thang Vo

wp-2018-166: Understanding the implications of the boom-bust cycle of global copper prices for natural resources, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia

Robert Liebenthal and Caesar Cheelo

wp-2018-165: Top income adjustments and tax reforms in Ecuador

H. Xavier Jara and Nicolás Oliva

wp-2018-164: The welfare impact of Vietnam's national target programme 'building a new countryside': A quasi-experimental evaluation

Philip Verwimp and Sisi Zhang

wp-2018-163: Wage growth and inequality in urban China: 1988-2013

Björn Gustafsson and Haiyuan Wan

wp-2018-162: Drivers of inequality in South Africa

Janina Hundenborn, Murray Leibbrandt and Ingrid Woolard

wp-2018-161: Linked in by foreign direct investment: The role of firm-level relationships in knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia

Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand, Abebe Abebe, Mans Soderbom and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-160: Comparing global inequality of income and wealth

James Davies and Anthony F. Shorrocks

wp-2018-159: The costs and benefits of formalization for firms: A mixed-methods study on Mozambique

Hanna Berkel

wp-2018-158: Land tenure security and internal migration in Tanzania

Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha, Wilhelm Ngasamiaku, Remidius D. Ruhinduka and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-157: Earnings inequality in the Brazilian formal sector: The role of firms, education, and top incomes 1994-2015

Marcelo Neri, Cecilia Machado and Valdemar Pinho Neto

wp-2018-156: The gender gap, education, and the life cycle profile in the Brazilian formal labour market

Cecilia Machado, Marcelo Neri and Valdemar Pinho Neto

wp-2018-155: The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in six African countries

Katrin Gasior, Chrysa Leventi, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright and Helen Barnes

wp-2018-154: Individual-level employment transitions in rural Vietnam

Thanh Ngo

wp-2018-153: The long-term evolution of income inequality and poverty in China

Luo Chuliang, Shi Li and Terry Sicular

wp-2018-152: Local content law and practice: The case of the oil and gas industry in Ghana

Charles Godfred Ackah and Asaah S. Mohammed

wp-2018-151: Unemployment insurance and income protection in Ecuador

H. Xavier Jara

wp-2018-150: Rethinking Asian Drama

Deepak Nayyar

wp-2018-149: Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS database

Daniele Checchi, Andrej Cupak, Teresa Munzi and Janet Gornick

wp-2018-148: Income under-reporting and tax evasion: How they impact inequality in Vietnam

Hai Anh La and Anh Dang

wp-2018-147: Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality: A microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in Ghana

Kwabena Adu-Ababio and Robert Osei

wp-2018-146: The role of the construction sector

Martina Kirchberger