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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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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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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11412: Learning at Scale: Infrastructure, Aid Effectiveness, and World Bank Performance

Somik V. Lall, Xinyi Su and Maria Vagliasindi

11411: Federal Research Funding and STEM Education

Emily E. Cook, Devaki Ghose and Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya

11410: Transportation Infrastructure and Total Factor Productivity: Development Heterogeneity and Resilience under Adverse Shocks

Hyunseok Kim

11409: Do Information-Based Interventions Influence Tax Compliance Differently across Men and Women ? Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Alemayehu A. Ambel and Firew Bekele Woldeyes

11408: The Impact of School Grants on Disadvantaged Students: Experimental Evidence from Romania

Rafael de Hoyos, Andrei Munteanu and Cristian Pop-Eleches

11407: Assessing The Real-World Economic Value of Weather Forecasts under Compounding Extremes: A Decision-Specific Framework

Leonardo Olivetti, Gabriele Messori, Paolo Avner and Stephane Hallegatte

11406: Firm’s Preferences for Emissions Reducing Measures and Willingness to Pay for a Carbon Tax in Viet Nam

Govinda R. Timilsina, Chau Tran and Hochman.Gal

11405: The (Fiscal) Dividend of Infrastructure: Roads and Revenues in Rwanda

Abdou Musonera, Aimable Nsabimana and Daniel Overbeck

11404: Trade Finance Use by Heterogeneous Firms

Francesca de Nicola, Alexandros Ragoussis, Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr and Trang Thu Tran

11403: A Theory of “Political Will” for Reforms

Laura Karpuska and Stuti Khemani

11402: The Impact of Conflict on Foreign Investments: Evidence from Project-Level Data

Arti Grover and Pierre-Louis Vézina

11401: Measuring Agency Through Psychological Constructs in Lower-Income Settings

Clare Clingain, Aletheia Amalia Donald and Maria Hernandez-de-Benito

11400: Worldwide Job Losses Due to Natural Hazards

Abdulrasheed Abdulkarim Isah, Jun Rentschler, Robin Middelanis, Paolo Avner and Stephane Hallegatte

11399: Gender and Goals Matter for Youth Employment: Returns to Socio-Emotional Skills Training in Tanzania

Rachel Cassidy, Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Elijah Kipchumba and Munshi Sulaiman

11398: Who Gains from Cybersecurity Preparedness ? Evidence from Sectoral Growth

Estefania Belen Vergara Cobos, Selcen Cakir and Hagai Mei Zahav

11397: Motherhood and Labor Market Trajectories in Türkiye

Javier E. Baez, Santiago Garriga, Elizaveta Perova and Meliz Tyurkileri

11396: Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Small Area Estimation of Poverty with Survey and Census Data

Hai-Anh Dang, Minh Do, Partha Lahiri, Melany Gualavisi, David Newhouse, Talip Kilic, Peter Lanjouw and Roy Van der Weide

11395: Inequality of Opportunity in South Asia: The Puzzle of Educational Gains Without Consumption Gains

Maurizio Bussolo, Vito Peragine and Fabian Reutzel

11394: Bridging the Gap: Infrastructure, Services, and Labor Market Integration

Devaki Ghose, Patrik Karpaty, Bengt Söderlund and Yingyan Zhao

11393: Comparing the Effectiveness of Low-Carbon Policies: A Technology Diffusion Approach

Unnada Chewpreecha, Francesca de Nicola, Aaditya Mattoo, Hector Pollitt and Trang Thu Tran

11392: Innovation Patterns in the World Bank Group Portfolio: A Pilot Analysis of IEG Evaluations for Lending Operations

Natalia Agapitova, Anastasia Nedayvoda, Stephen Joseph Winkler, Amschel Nathaniel De Rothschild, Ergun Ertekin and Sarah Lenoble

11391: The Economics of Cloud Infrastructure: Cost, Risk, and Comparative Advantage in a Commoditized Data Market

Luciano Charlita De Freitas, Michel Kerf, Priscila Honório Evangelista, Julian Najles, Luiz Alberto Esteves and Luis Alberto Andres

11390: Closing the Doors: Sexual Harassment and the Survival Rates of Women-owned Firms

Solène Delecourt, Sreelakshmi Papineni, Niklas Buehren and Salman Alibhai

11389: Are the Poor More Exposed to Climate Hazards in Latin America?

Ben James Brunckhorst, Miki Khanh Doan, Alejandro De la Fuente, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Catalina García and Minh Cong Nguyen

11388: In Sickness and In Health: Motivating Improved Healthcare Using Holistic Patient Contracts

Kevin Croke, Benjamin Daniels, Robert Lipinski and Daniel Rogger

11387: Nudging Parents out the Door: The Impacts of Parental Encouragement on School Choice and Test Scores

Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Michael Kremer, Joost de Laat, Oluchi Mbonu and Cole Scanlon

11386: Converging Paths: Intergenerational Educational Mobility and the Decline of Gender and Geographic Gaps in Bangladesh

Sergio Olivieri, Giovanni Razzu and Ayago Esmubancha Wambile

11385: Tax Evasion and the Contribution-Benefit Link: The Case of Parental Benefits in Hungary and Latvia

Anikó Bíró, Péter Elek, Vitalijs Jascisens, Daniel Prinz, László Sándor and Anna Zasova

11384: Do Socio-Emotional Skills Pay Off and Can They Be Developed Through Training ? A Meta-Analysis

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Maurice Kugler, Narae Lee, Angelo Santos and Olzhas Zhorayev

11383: Public-Private Dialogue and Growth

Yi Jie Gwee and Tristan Reed

11382: Using Survey Data to Understand the Health Needs of Difficult to Reach Populations: Evidence from a Community Survey Regarding the Individual and Contextual Correlates of Sex Life Happiness Among European Men Who Have Sex With Men

Alexander Hamilton, Ford Hickson and Axel J Schmidt

11381: International Trade Finance and Learning Dynamics

David Kohn, Emiliano Evaristo Luttini, Michal Szkup and Shengxing Zhang

11380: One-Fifth of the World’s Population Is at High Risk of Climate-Related Hazards

Ruth Hill, Nisan Gorgulu, Ben James Brunckhorst, Minh Cong Nguyen, Stephane Hallegatte and Esther G. Naikal

11379: The Missing Half of Capital: Unlocking Finance for Women-Led Firms in Europe and Central Asia

Daksh Baheti, Lucero Burga, Anna Fruttero and Lucia Luzi

11378: Does Social Assistance Reach the Most Vulnerable in Settings with Forced Displacement ? Evidence from the Central African Republic

Jonathan William Lain and Johannes G. Hoogeveen

11377: Closing Data Gaps in Fertilizer Subsidy Analysis in Bangladesh: A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach

Fnu Jonaed, Ivan Francisco Gachet Otanez and Leopoldo Tornarolli

11376: Can a Digital Job Search Coach Reduce Unemployment ? Experimental Evidence from France

Aïcha Ben Dhia, Bruno Crépon, Esther Mbih, Louise Rita Paul-Delvaux, Bertille Picard and Vincent Pons

11375: Rising Heat in the Labor Market: The Impact of Rising Temperatures on Firms and Jobs in Europe

Luca Bettarelli, Thomas Farole, Michael Ganslmeir, Indhira Vanessa Santos and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

11374: Using Price Incentives to Bound Welfare from Pay-as-You-Go Solar Electricity

Megan Elizabeth Lang

11373: Occupational Mobility and Green Transition: A Stylized Estimation of Skill Investment Needs in South Asia

Andrés Ham, Emmanuel Vazquez, Monica Yanez Pagans, Camilla Knudsen and Saher Asad

11372: Female Labor Force Participation and Gender Norms: A Machine Learning Analysis of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Natalia Pecorari and Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva

11371: How Effective Are Emission Trading Systems in Reducing Emissions ? Empirical Evidence from the EU, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea

Ze Song, Gal Hochman and Govinda R. Timilsina

11370: At the Edge of Risk: Assessing Mongolia’s “Plausible Worst-Case” Scenario

Migle Petrauskaite, Hector Pollitt and Xinru Lin

11369: Management of Health Care Facilities and Patient Attendance during Major Disruptions: Evidence from Kenya

Kathryn Gilman Andrews, Fabiano Dal Ri, Roberta V. Gatti, Renata Freitas Lemos, Mario Macis and Lydia Nakhone

11368: Uganda's Pioneer Refugee Model: Advances in Inclusion, Self-Reliance, and Pathways Forward

Susan Awor and Sandra Rozo

11367: Horizontal Equity of Taxation: Citizen Beliefs and Policy Preferences

Pierre Bachas, Christopher Alexander Hoy, Anders Jensen and Mahvish Ifrah Shaukat