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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

wp-2018-145: Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana

Martin Evans

wp-2018-144: Fuel subsidies and income redistribution in Ecuador

H. Xavier Jara, Po Chun Lee, Lourdes Montesdeoca and Marcelo Varela

wp-2018-143: The evolution of private returns to education during post-conflict transformation: Evidence from Mozambique

Sam Jones, Thomas Sohnesen and Neda Trifkovic

wp-2018-142: Crop prices and migration in Vietnam

Gaia Narciso

wp-2018-141: What might explain today's conflicting narratives on global inequality?

Martin Ravallion

wp-2018-140: Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gas

Alan R. Roe

wp-2018-139: A 2013 Social Accounting Matrix for Zimbabwe

Rob Davies, Marko Kwaramba and Dirk van Seventer

wp-2018-138: My journey through the history of development economics

Erik Thorbecke

wp-2018-137: Top incomes' impacts on inequality, growth, and social welfare: Combining surveys and income tax data in Brazil

Marcelo Neri and Marcos Hecksher

wp-2018-136: Fiscal redistribution in Brazil: Dynamic microsimulation, 2003-15

Marcelo Neri, Rozane Siqueira, Jose Nogueira and Manuel Osorio

wp-2018-135: Asian development after the Asian Drama

Richard Kozul-Wright and Daniel Poon

wp-2018-134: Ethnicity and risk sharing network formation: Evidence from rural Vietnam

Quynh Hoang, Laure Pasquier-Doumer and Camille Saint-Macary

wp-2018-133: Optimal local content for extractive industries: How can policies best create benefits for Tanzania?

Mia Ellis and Margaret McMillan

wp-2018-132: Institutions and Asia's development: The role of norms and organizational power

Mushtaq H. Khan

wp-2018-131: Role of the construction sector and key bottlenecks to supply response in Tanzania

Geraldine J. Kikwasi and Cecilia Escalante

wp-2018-130: The impact of commercialization of rice on household welfare in rural Vietnam

Chiara Cazzuffi, Andy McKay and Emilie Perge

wp-2018-129: Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in Brazil

Marcelo Neri and Tiago Bonomo

wp-2018-128: New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in Brazil

Marcos Hecksher, Marcelo Neri and Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva

wp-2018-127: Multidimensional poverty in Vietnam: Evidence from a rural household survey

Hoang Xuan Diem and Tran Van Hoang

wp-2018-126: Vietnam: The dragon that rose from the ashes

Finn Tarp

wp-2018-125: Unexpected effects of land fragmentation

Trung Hoang

wp-2018-124: A short history of India's economy: A chapter in the Asian drama

Kaushik Basu

wp-2018-123: Tax-motivated transfer mispricing in South Africa: Direct evidence using transaction data

Ludvig Wier

wp-2018-122: Risk and investment: Evidence from rural Vietnam

Carol Newman and Finn Tarp

wp-2018-121: Poverty and inequality in Asia: 1965-2014

Guanghua Wan and Chen Wang

wp-2018-120: Industrial development in Asia: Trends in industrialization and industrial policy experiences of developing Asia

Ha-Joon Chang and Kiryl Zach

wp-2018-119: The role of the construction sector in Ghana

Nkechi Owoo and Monica Lambon-Quayefio

wp-2018-118: Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development: Local content in Zambia—a faltering experience?

Wilfred C. Lombe

wp-2018-117: The construction sector in Mozambique: An overview

António S. Cruz, Francisco Fernandes, Fausto J. Mafambissa and Francisco Pereira

wp-2018-116: Puzzle me this?: The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

Thanos Mergoupis, Phan Van and John G. Sessions

wp-2018-115: Causal pluralism and mixed methods in the analysis of poverty dynamics

Paul Shaffer

wp-2018-114: Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Vietnam agriculture

Loren Brandt, Stephen Ayerst and Diego Restuccia

wp-2018-113: What are the prospects for Mozambique to diversify its economy on the back of 'local content'?

Evelyn Dietsche and Ana Maria Esteves

wp-2018-112: The state and development

Peter Evans and Patrick Heller

wp-2018-111: Big and 'unprofitable': How 10 per cent of multinational firms do 98 per cent of profit shifting

Ludvig Wier and Hayley Reynolds