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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

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

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

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

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10479: Analysis of Teacher Stock versus Flow in Primary Education in East Asia and the PacificMiddle-Income Countries: A Simple Model and Results from Simulation between 2020 and 2030

Nobuyuki Tanaka and Lars M. Sondergaard

10478: Early Impacts of Indonesia’s Investment Reforms: A Preliminary Analysis

Angella Faith Lapukeni Montfaucon, Victor Kidake Senelwa and Aufa Doarest

10477: Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes

Sabien Dobbelaere, Grace McCormack, Daniel Prinz and Sándor Sóvágó

10476: Distributional Effects of Carbon Tax in Ethiopia: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Govinda R. Timilsina and Samuel Sebsibie

10475: External Debt, Fiscal Consolidation, and Government Expenditure on Education

Elise Wendlassida Miningou

10474: Learning during the Pandemic: Evidence from Uzbekistan

Syedah Aroob Iqbal and Harry Anthony Patrinos

10473: Economics of Political Clientelism and Corruption — A Theoretical Pathway

Rasit Pertev

10472: The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ School Attendance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anna B Kis, Claire Elise Boxho, Isis Gaddis, Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube and Lea Marie Rouanet

10471: Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts ? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs

Aanchal Bagga, Marcus Erik Holmlund, Nausheen Khan, Mani Subha, Eric Mvukiyehe and Patrick Premand

10470: A New Distribution Sensitive Index for Measuring Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality

Aart C. Kraay, Christoph Lakner, Berk Ozler, Benoit Marie A Decerf, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Olivier Christian Brigitte Sterck and Nishant Yonzan

10469: Cholera Risk in Lusaka: A Geospatial Analysis to Inform Improved Water and Sanitation Provision

Peter William Gething, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling, Josses Mugabi, Odete Duarte Muximpua, George Joseph and Solomon Sitinadziwe Kagulura

10468: Trade Credit: Theory and Evidence for Emerging Economies and Developing Countries

Robert J. Cull, Chorching Goh and L. Colin Xu

10467: Examining Business Reform Committees: Findings from a New Global Dataset

Dorina Peteva Georgieva, Varun Eknath and Michael Woolcock

10466: Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty and Inequality ? Global Evidence from SubnationalData Analysis

Hai-Anh Dang, Minh Cong Nguyen and Trong-Anh Trinh

10465: Trade and Civil Conflicts

Hoda Assem Mohammed G Hassan Ahmed

10464: Impact of the Russian Invasion on Ukrainian Farmers’ Productivity, Rural Welfare, and Food Security

Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Ming Fang

10463: Export Diversification from an Activity Perspective: An Exploration Using Occupation Data

Hagen Kruse, Marcel Peter Timmer, Gaaitzen Johannes De Vries and Xianjia Ye

10462: Are Carbon Taxes Good for South Asia?

Valerie Anne Mercer-Blackman, Lazar Milivojevic and Victor Mylonas

10461: Protecting Who ? Optimal Social Protection Responses to Shocks with Limited Information

Carlos Gustavo Ospino Hernandez, Iamele P. Rigolini, Sarah Coll-Black and Ana Maria Oviedo Silva

10460: Measuring Tax Progressivity in Low-Income Countries

Alastair Geoffrey Arthur Thomas

10459: The Power of Religion: Islamic Investing in the Lab

Sheheryar Banuri, Lucia Milena Murgia and Imtiaz Ul Haq

10458: Bank Ownership and Firm Innovation

Francesca de Nicola, Martin Melecký and Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias

10457: Struggling with the Rain: Weather Variability and Food Insecurity Forecasting in Mauritania

Paul Blanchard, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Thibaut Humbert and Rafael Van Der Borght

10456: Using Paradata to Assess Respondent Burden and Interviewer Effects in HouseholdSurveys: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Ardina Roosiany Hasanbasri, Talip Kilic, Gayatri B. Koolwal and Heather G. Moylan

10455: An Empirical Analysis of the Social Contract in the Middle East and North Africa: Regionand the Role of Digitalization in Its Transformation

Farid Gasmi, Dorgyles Christ Maurel Kouakou, Paul Noumba Um and Pedro Rojas Milla

10454: Exporting and Technology Adoption in Brazil

Xavier Cirera, Diego Adolfo Comin, Marcio Cruz, Kyung Min Lee and Antonio Soares Martins Neto

10453: Droughts and Deficits: The Global Impact of Droughts on Economic Growth

Esha Dilip Zaveri, Richard Damania and Nathan Lee Engle

10452: Children and the Fiscal Space in Ethiopia

Alemayehu Ambel, Getachew Yirga Belete and Oliver Fiala

10451: Measuring Globalization When It Is Needed the Most: A Long-Run Analysis

Sebastian Franco Bedoya

10450: Towards a More Nuanced Approach to Measuring Housing Affordability: Evidence from Pakistan

Catherine Lynch, Ashna Singh and Yan F. Zhang

10449: Weighting Justice Reform Costs and Benefits Using Machine Learning and Modern Data Science

Christopher Brian Mahony, Matthew Manning and Gabriel Wong

10448: Adjusting to Transitory Shocks: Worker Impact, Firm Channels, and (Lack of) Income Support

Ana Margarida Fernandes and Joana C. G. Silva

10447: A Methodology for Updating International Middle-Class Lines for the Latin American andCaribbean Region

Jaime Estuardo Fernandez Romero, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Diana Marcela Sanchez Castro

10446: Sectoral Productivity Shock, Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages, andStructural Transformation in Ghana

Saumik Paul and Dhushyanth Raju

10445: Measuring Global Economic Activity Using Air Pollution

Irene Anne Sophie Ezran, Stephen David Morris, Martin Rama and Daniel Riera-Crichton

10444: Corruption Risks and State Capture in Bulgarian Public Procurement

Mihaly Fazekas, Viktoriia Poltoratskaia and Bence Tóth

10443: Are Vaccination Campaigns Misinformed ? Experimental Evidence from COVID-19 in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Yannick Valentin Markhof, Philip Randolph Wollburg and Alberto Zezza

10442: Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Weather Shocks

Anna Fruttero, Daniel Zefanya Halim, Chiara Broccolini, Bernardo Dantas Pereira Coelho, Horace Mahugnon Akim Gninafon and Noel Muller

10441: The Effects of Communal Violence on Women’s Marital Outcomes

Devaki Ghose and Divya Pandey

10440: The Role of Cash Transfers in Smoothing the Income Shock of COVID-19 in the Arab Republicof Egypt

Romeo Jacky Gansey, Maria Eugenia Genoni and Imane Abdelfattah Ahmed Refaat Helmy

10438: A Review of Human Development and Environmental Outcomes

Diego Ambasz, Anshuman Kamal Gupta and Harry Patrinos

10437: Implications of Using Nonstandard Poverty Lines: An Illustration Using the Case of the ArabRepublic of Egypt

Benoit Marie A Decerf, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Imane Abdelfattah Ahmed Refaat Helmy and Guillermo Federico Sanz

10436: The Effects of Energy Prices on Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from Chile

Juergen Amann and Arti Goswami Grover

10435: The Impact of Tax Blacklisting

Matthew Edward Collin

10434: Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions

Mauricio Ulate, Jose P. Vasquez and Roman David Zarate Vasquez

10433: The Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality

Piotr Lewandowski, Karol Madoń and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

10432: Biodiversity and Finance: A Preliminary Assessment of Physical Risks for the BankingSector in Emerging Markets

Pietro Calice, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan, Nepomuk Max Ferdinand Dunz and Faruk Miguel Liriano

10431: More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Ana Ibáñez, Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga and Salvador Traettino

10430: The People’s Voice and Access to Sanitation

John Nana Darko Francois, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Johnson Kakeu and Christelle Signo Kouame

10429: Poverty Mapping in the Age of Machine Learning

Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Heath Linn Henderson and Sandra Carolina Segovia Juarez