Policy Research Working Paper Series

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202022: The Social Dimensions of Climate Change in India: From Adaptation to Mitigation

Soumya Kapoor Mehta and Neelanjana Gupta

192482: Policies for Aspirations and Opportunities

Noel Muller, Anna Fruttero, Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez and Jacobus Joost De Hoop

172983: Early Grade Reading in South Africa

Jesal Chandrakant Kika, Luis A. Crouch, Elizabeth Ninan Dulvy and Tshegofatso Desdemona Thulare

115004: Urbanization and housing investment

Basab Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall and Nancy Lozano Gracia

111218: Gender Gaps in the Performance of Small Firms: Evidence from Urban Peru

Bledi Celiku, Diego Ubfal and Martin Valdivia

84893: Where is the carbon tax after thirty years of research ?

Govinda Timilsina

75043: Integrated urban water management: lessons and recommendations from regional experiences in Latin America, Central Asia, and Africa

Alvar Closas, Matthijs Schuring and Diego Rodriguez

69437: Vietnam - Support to carrying out pilot strategic environmental assessment of socio-economic development master plan in Red River Delta area to 2020

Jiri Dusik

69436: Vietnam - Susatinable use of land and water resoruces in regional master socio-economic development planning for the Mekong Delta under the context of Vietnam integration into global economics

Nguyen Van Phuong, Nguyen Van Phuong and Hoang Sy Dong

69434: Vietnam - Analysis, assessment for potential development of the central regional clusters to prepare master planning of socio-economic development in the context of economic integration

Hoang Sy Dong, Nguyen Thi Thu Lan and Nguyen Quang Vinh

50975: Trade in financial services: mobile banking in Southern Africa

Robert Stone, Jerry Grossman, Philippe Breul, Abigail Carpio and Mateo Cabello

44126: Performance improvement planning: designing an effective leakage reduction and management program

Anonymous

44121: Economic impacts of sanitation in Southeast Asia: summary

Anonymous

44119: Performance improvement planning: developing effective billing and collection practices

Anonymous

44093: Change of water and sanitation services management model in small towns with a participatory approach: a summary of guidelines

Jorge Luis McGregor

39690: Health sector decentralization and Indonesia ' s nutrition programs: opportunities and challenges

Yoonjoung Choi, Fadia Saadah, Geoff Marks, Peter F. Heywood and Jed Friedman

32847: Abstracts: Policy Research working papers series - numbers 3540 - 3650

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32054: Abstracts: Policy Research working papers series - numbers 3469 - 3539

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31696: Abstracts: Policy Research working papers series - numbers 3399-3468

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28609: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 3135-3170

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27025: Abstracts: Policy research working paper series - numbers 3080-3134

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25258: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2883 - 2933

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24927: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2857 - 2882

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24502: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2803 - 2856

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23971: Microfinance for infrastructure: recent experiences

Sinha, Shalini [editor], Renana Jhabvala, Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Ela Bhatt, Jayashree Vyas, K. Rajeswara Rao, James P. Lynch, Meera Mehta and Smita Ghatate

23937: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2754 - 2802

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23611: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2680 - 2753

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21223: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2071-2132

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21222: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 1989-2015

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21221: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 1936-1988

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21220: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 1894-1935

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20012: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2197 - 2261

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19735: Making Time Count: A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Time Use in Low-Income Countries from Physical Activity Tracking Data

Joris Mulder, Seyit Hocuk, Talip Kilic, Alberto Zezza and Pradeep Kumar

17782: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 1871-1893

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14491: Policy research working papers: catalog of numbers 401 to 800

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14411: Policy research working papers: catalog of numbers 801-1200

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14311: PRE working papers: catalog of numbers 401 to 601

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14310: PRE working papers: catalog of numbers 1 to 400

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14309: PPR working papers: catalog of numbers 1 to 105

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13310: Policy, Research working paper series: numbers 1281-1302

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12427: Policy, Research working paper series: numbers 1163-1197

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11295: African Trade and Investment for Global Resilience: The Mattei Lecture at the World Bank’s 2025 Africa Growth and Opportunity—Research in Action (AGORA) Conference

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

11294: The Hidden Costs of Violence: How Crime Shapes Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Latin America

Jacobus Joost De Hoop, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Andrea Velásquez

11293: Who Benefits from Public Spending on Health Care ? Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia

Alemayehu A. Ambel and Getachew Yirga Belete

11292: CLARE: A Causal machine Learning Approach to Resilience Estimation

Talip Kilic, Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano and Federica Petruccelli

11291: Evaluating Paraguay’s Vulnerability to the EU Deforestation-Free Regulation

Nicolas Borchers Arriagada, Mariana Conte Grand, Daniel Reyes, Diego Rojas and Pui Shen Yoong

11290: Unreliable Electricity in Developing Countries: The Role of Weak Institutions

Andu Berha and Stuti Khemani

11289: Neither Too Little, nor Too Late: Restructuring as a Reflex for Outcomes

Lisandro Martin, Juan Jose Leguia Alegria and Ze Han

11288: “I Want to Break Free”: How Laws and Social Norms Open Doors for Women

Alev Gurbuz Cuneo, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe, Tea Trumbic and Caroline Perrin

11287: Firm Credit Constraints and Electronic Payments: A Global Analysis

Manuel Galilea, Subika Farazi and Davide Salvatore Mare

11286: Nudging at Scale: Evidence from a Government Text Messaging Campaign during School Shutdowns in Punjab, Pakistan

Koen Martijn Geven, Ayesha Tahir, Tazeen Fasih, Javaeria Qureshi, Amer Hasan, Sheena Fazili, Rabea Malik and Kevin Alan David Macdonald

11285: South Africa’s Fragmented Cities: The Unequal Burden of Labor Market Frictions

Javier Baez and Varun Sridhar Kshirsagar

11284: Heat, Informality, and Misallocation: Firm Adaptation in the Short and Long Run

Jonah Matthew Rexer and Siddharth Sharma

11283: Climate and Social Sustainability in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Contexts

Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva and Connor Huff

11282: Investment in Emerging and Developing Economies

Amat Adarov, Ayhan Kose and Dana Vorisek

11281: Closing the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Challenges in Law and Practice for Female Entrepreneurs

Daniela Monika Behr and Yue Xi

11280: Do Informal Businesses with More-Educated Owners Adopt Better Business Practices ? Evidence from the Central African Republic

Mohammad Amin, Asif Mohammed Islam and Debasmita Padhi

11279: Institutional Capacity for Policy Implementation: An Analytical Framework

Galileu Kim, Tanu Kumar, Rita Ramalho and Stuart Ehrlich Russell

11278: Group Consulting Continues to Benefit Firms after a Decade: Experimental Evidence from Colombian Auto Parts Firms

Leonardo Iacovone, David McKenzie and William F. Maloney

11277: Growth and Opportunity for Africa — The World Bank Africa Growth and Opportunity: Research in Action Conference

Florizelle Liser and Laird Treiber

11276: The Contribution of Human Capital to Current and Future Growth: An Extension of the World Bank’s Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM-HC)

Arthur Galego Mendes and Steven Michael Pennings

11275: Seeds of Change: The Effects of the Introduction of Bt Cotton in India

Yi Jie Gwee

11274: External Finance in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies: A Tale of Differences in Vulnerabilities*

Dohan Kim and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

11273: Mapping the Gender Dimension in Taxation and Budgeting: A Cross-Country Study of Laws, Policies and Practices

Hannelore Maria L. Niesten, Luiza Ferraz Di Ricco and Alena Sakhonchik

11272: Revisiting Public Capital Needs: An Analysis of Growth-Maximizing Investment with Efficiency and Congestion Effects

Santiago Herrera Aguilera, Christophe Hurlin and Hironobu Isaka

11271: Psychological Barriers to Participation in the Labor Market: Evidence from Rural Ghana

Leandro Carvalho, Damien de Walque, Crick Lund, Heather Schofield, Vincent Somville and Jingyao Wei

11270: Medium-Term Impacts of Integrated Social Safety Nets: Cash Transfers, Information Meetings, and Home Visits for Child Development

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga and Abigail Stocker

11269: Country-Level Pathways to 30x30 and Their Implications for Global Biodiversity Protection

Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor and David Wheeler

11268: How Laws Promote Economic Opportunities: A Review

Fabiola Saavedra Caballero, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Caroline Sabine Marie Perrin

11267: Rigging the Scores: Corruption through Scoring Rule Manipulation in Public Procurement Auctions

Qianmiao Chen

11266: Pollution Intensity of Consumption: Exploring the Environmental Engel Curve Based on Micro-Data from 109 Countries

Ebad Ebadi and Jun Rentschler

11265: Temptation, Self-Control, and the Design of Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Zoe Leiyu Xie and Pei Cheng Yu

11264: Investment Policy Reforms and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: A Case Study of Ethiopia

Sammy Oketch Fwaga, Deepa Chakrapani and Girum Abebe

11263: Labor Demand in the Age of Generative AI: Early Evidence from the U.S. Job Posting Data

Yan Liu, He Wang and Shu Yu

11262: Beyond Green Jobs: Advancing Metrics and Modeling Approaches for a Changing Labor Market

Penelope Ann Mealy, Joris Joseph Johannes Hendrik Bucker, Fernanda Senra de Moura and Camilla Knudsen

11261: The Economics of Water Scarcity

Jon Frost, Carlos Madeira and Serafin Martinez Jaramillo

11260: Gender and Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Analysis through the Life Cycle

Paola Buitrago Hernandez, Daniela Maquera Sardon, Hugo Rolando Nopo Aguilar and Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich

11259: Assessing the Macroeconomic Impacts of Stochastic Climate Shocks in Paraguay

Heather Ruberl, Pui Shen Yoong, Diego Castillo and Brent Boehlert

11258: The MANAGE-WB Applied General Equilibrium Model of the World Bank: Model Documentation and User Guide

Lulit Mitik Beyene, Wolfgang Karl Heinz Britz, Martin Christensen, Hasan Dudu and Ragchaasuren Galindev

11257: What Underlies the Poor Financial Performance of Electric Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa ?

Govinda R. Timilsina

11256: Women’s Mobility and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Robert Garlick, Erica Field and Kate Vyborny

11255: Direct and Indirect Impacts of Transport Mobility on Access to Jobs: Evidence from South Africa

Atsushi Iimi

11254: From Policy to Practice: Lessons from the Implementation of the Refugee Work Rights Policy in Ethiopia

Ana Maria Perez and Sandra Rozo

11253: The Distributional Impacts of Climatic Variability on Welfare in Thailand

Sailesh Tiwari, Emmanuel Skoufias and Varun Sridhar Kshirsagar

11252: The Evolution of Local Participatory Democracy in Nepal

Thaneshwar Bhusal, Michael G Breen and Vijayendra Rao

11251: The Impact of Technology on Migration to the United States from Central America and the Dominican Republic

Mariana Viollaz, Luis Laguinge and Harry Moroz

11250: An Exploration of Systemwide Flood Protection Standards for Coastal Polders in Bangladesh

Ruben Jongejan, Matheus Van Ledden, Kasper Lendering, Jasper Verschuur, Debashish Paul Shuvra, Bramka Arga Jafino and Swarna Kazi