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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
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