Policy Research Working Paper Series

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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

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

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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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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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11104: Bridging the Gap: Revenue Mobilization in South Asia

Hagen Kruse, Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge, Gabriel Zenon Tourek and Zoe Leiyu Xie

11102: Certified to Stay ? Long-Run Experimental Evidence on Land Formalization and Widows’ Tenure Security in Benin

Ioana Alexandra Botea, Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Houngbedji, Florence Kondylis, Michael B. O'Sullivan and Harris Selod

11101: How Organized Is the Informal Sector ? The Role of Business Associations in Microenterprises in West Africa

Clement Joubert and Kathleen G. Beegle

11100: Capitalizing on Digital Transformation to Enhance the Effectiveness of Property Institutions: Conceptual Background and Evidence from 85 Countries

Klaus W. Deininger, Thea Hilhorst, Jaap Zevenbergen and Emmanuel Nkurunziza

11099: Dry Spells, Urban Swells: Analyzing the Drought-Induced Expansion of Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rafael Van der Borght, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Jean Thuret and Joaquin Ignacio Munoz Diaz

11098: Just Transition Risks in the Banking Sector

World Bank

11097: The Role of Market Frictions in Demand for Prepaid Electricity

Megan Elizabeth Lang

11096: Disentangling the Key Economic Channels through Which Infrastructure Affects Jobs

Maria Vagliasindi and Nisan Gorgulu

11095: Women and Climate Adaptation in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Constraints and Research Priorities

Clara Delavallade, Melanie Colette Jacqueline Gittard and Julia Vaillant

11094: Climate Policies are Path-Dependent: Implications for Policy Sequencing and Feasibility

Penelope Ann Mealy, Michael Ganslmeier and Stephane Hallegatte

11093: Global Inequality and Economic Growth: The Three Decades before Covid-19 and Three Decades After

Diana Carolina Garcia Rojas, Nishant Yonzan and Christoph Lakner

11092: Climate Risk and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

Chitra Balasubramanian, Sandra Baquie and Alan Fuchs

11091: Which Data Do Economists Use to Study Corruption ? A Cross-Section of Corruption Research

James Anderson and Akanksha Baidya

11090: Effective Tax Rates, Firm Size and the Global Minimum Tax

Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Roel Dom and Camille Marine Semelet

11089: Buffering Recessions: Labor Market Asymmetries and the Role of Self-Employment

Prakash Loungani, Emiliano Luttini and Hayley Pallan

11088: TV, TEDx, and Tweets: Measuring the Impacts of a Multi-Pronged Edutainment Program in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan

Ben Fowler, Christopher Joseph Heitzig, Marrium Khan, Renuka Pai and Sakshi Varma

11087: Ten Consequential and Actionable ‘Social’ Contributions to the Theory, Practice, and Evaluation of Development

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock

11086: Understanding Labor Market Demand in Real Time in Argentina and Uruguay

Evelyn Vezza, Gonzalo Zunino, Luis Laguinge, Harry Edmund Moroz, Ignacio Raul Apella and Marla Hillary Spivack

11085: Procuring Low Growth: The Impact of Political Favoritism on Public Procurement and Firm Performance in Bulgaria

Mihaly Fazekas, Viktoriia Poltoratskaya, Marc Tobias Schiffbauer and Bence Tóth

11084: Impacts and Spillovers of a Low-Cost Multifaceted Economic Inclusion Program in Chad

Patrick Premand and Pascale Schnitzer

11083: Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation, and Economic Development

Gaurav Chiplunkar and Tatjana Kleineberg

11082: Businesses of the State in Brazil: The Impact on Employment and Business Dynamism

Sara Brolhato, Xavier Cirera and Antonio Soares Martins Neto

11081: Firm-Level Climate Change Adaptation: Micro Evidence from 134 Nations

Claudia N. Berg, Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, Arti Grover, Megan Elizabeth Lang and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

11080: Rural Non-Farm Employment in Rajasthan: Determinants, Welfare Effects, and Enterprise Performance

Francis Addeah Darko, Akankshita Dey and S. K. Ritadhi

11079: Weather Shocks and Rural Economic Linkages: Evidence from Rajasthan’s Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Sectors

Francis Addeah Darko, Akankshita Dey and S. K. Ritadhi

11078: Seeds of Change: The Impact of Ethiopia’s Direct Seed Marketing Approach on Smallholders’ Seed Purchases and Productivity

Dawit Kelemework Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David Spielman and Frank Place

11077: Collecting Accurate Data on Intimate Partner Violence: Learnings from Pakistan

Nasir Iqbal, Amen Jalal, Mahreen Mahmud and Kate Vyborny

11076: Bridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protection: The Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Data

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler

11075: From Conflict to Compromise: Experimental Evidence on Occupational Downgrading in Migration from Myanmar

Yashodhan Ghorpade and Muhammad Saad Imtiaz

11074: Community Health Workers as Key Providers of Easy-to-Use Contraceptive Injectables: Experimental Evidence from Rural Burundi

Michele Andreottola, Olivier Basenya, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera, Arndt Reichert and Paula Spinola

11073: Beyond the AI Divide: A Simple Approach to Identifying Global and Local Overperformers in AI Preparedness

Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon

11072: Revisiting the Gains from Trade in EMDEs: The Case of Selected East Asian and East African Economies

Enkhmaa Battogtvor, Socrates Kraido Majune and Angella Montfaucon

11071: Road Investment and Violence in DRC: Perishable Peace Dividends

Mathilde Lebrand, Hannes Mueller, Peer Schouten and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

11070: Effects of a Community-Driven Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Intervention on Diarrhea, Child Growth, and Local Institutions: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Democratic Republic of Congo

John P Quattrochi, Kevin Croke, Caleb Jeremie Dohou, Luca Stanus Ghib, Yannick Bokasola Lokaya, Aidan Coville and Eric Mvukiyehe

11069: Energy Prices, Energy Intensity, and Firm Performance

Reyes Aterido, Mariana Iootty and Martin Melecký

11068: Technology and Corporate Ethical Standards

Marika Carboni, Degl’Innocenti,Marta, Franco Fiordelisi and Davide Salvatore Mare

11067: Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Viet Nam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development ?

Hai-Anh Dang, Shatakshee Dhongde, Minh Do, Cuong Viet Nguyen and Obert Pimhidzai

11066: Dynamic Effects of Fiscal Rules: Do Initial Conditions Matter ?

Antonio Fatas, Bram Gootjes and Joseph Mawejje

11065: Deciding Not to Decide: When Is There Power in Not Deciding ?

Marya Hillesland, Cheryl R. Doss, Serena Masino, Martina Querejeta, Aletheia Amalia Donald, Greg Seymour and Clare Clingain

11064: Decarbonization in MENA Countries: An Empirical Analysis of Policy Impacts

Zeljko Bogetic and Hamid Mohtadi

11063: Does Free Sound Too Cheap ? The Adverse Effect of a Randomized Text Message Campaign on Program Take-up

Jeannie Annan, Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube, Josephine Tassy, Léa Rouanet, Clara Delavallade and David Evans

11062: Lying to the Taxman or Accepting a Helping Hand ? Evidence from a Novel Experiment on SMEs in Tanzania

Revocatus Washington Paul, Ephraim Mdee, Massaga Fimbo, Jonathan George Karver, Zain Chaudhry and Christopher Alexander Hoy

11061: The Elusive Impact of Corporate Tax Incentives

Massimiliano Calì, Giorgio Presidente and Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda

11060: Exploring the Gender Divide in Real Estate Ownership and Property Tax Compliance

Tatiana Flores, Guillermo Cruces, Jose Carlo Bermúdez, Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, Juan Luis Schiavoni and Dario Tortarolo

11059: Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance

Guillermo Cruces, Dario Tortarolo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare

11058: Dynamic, High-Resolution Wealth Measurement in Data-Scarce Environments

Zhuo Zheng, Timothy Wu, Richard Lee, David Newhouse, Talip Kilic, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon and David B. Lobell

11057: The Exposure of Workers to Artificial Intelligence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Gabriel Demombynes, Jorg Gero Langbein and Michael Weber

11056: Does Social Mobility Affect Economic Development ? Cross-Country Analysis Using Different Mobility Measures

Ivan Torre, Michael Lokshin and James Foster