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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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

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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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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

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

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

11366: Even the Announcement Matters ? The Effect of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on Exporter Behavior

Ugur Aytun, Gunhild Berg, Seyit Mümin Cilasun and Etkin Ozen

11365: Family Matters: Social Networks and Women’s Economic Empowerment

Nono Akpedje Ayivi Guedehoussou, Abhilasha Sahay, Maria Emilia Cucagna and Mansi Sharma

11364: Weather Shocks and Unintended Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Musa Hasen Ahmed, Halefom Yigzaw Nigus, Hiwot Mekonnen Mesfin and Gebrelibanos Gebremariam

11363: In Tablets We Trust ? Validation of the Use of Tablet-Based Tools for Land Area Measurement in Household Surveys

Federica Petruccelli, Sydney Gourlay, Adriana Paolantonio, Emanuele Clemente and John Ilukor

11362: Are Robots Shifting Foreign Direct Investments ?

Francesca de Nicola, Shawn W. Tan and Aaron Tang

11361: Does Automatic Loan Approval Reduce Gender Bias in SME Lending ?

Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

11360: Fine-Scale Spatial Disaggregation of Statistical Data via Graph Neural Networks

Kamwoo Lee, Brian Blankespoor and David Newhouse

11359: Survey-to-Survey Poverty Monitoring under Economic Shocks: The Role of Proxies and Flexible Nonlinear Learners

Nobuo Yoshida, Yusaku Kawashima and Shinya Takamatsu

11358: Project-Level Learning Lowers the Conflict Cost Premium of Energy Access

Ali Ahmad

11357: Completing the AfCFTA Mosaic: Liberalization of Trade in Services

Karlygash Serikovna Dairabayeva, Carmen Estrades Pineyrua and Maryla Maliszewska

11356: Counteracting the Impact of Societal Aging on Income Inequality: A Case Study of Malaysia

Gerton Rongen, Matthew Dornan, Philip O'Keefe and Peter Lanjouw

11355: Testing for Market Power in Agricultural Land Markets: Evidence from Ukraine

Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

11354: Foreign Tariffs as Catalysts for Reform ? The Potential Development Dividend

Alessandro Barattieri, Aaditya Mattoo and Jose E. Signoret

11353: Policy Pulse: Sensing the Sentiment toward Climate Policies in the Public Sphere

Nisan Gorgulu and Penelope Ann Mealy

11352: Foreign Demand Shocks and Domestic Value Added: Firm-Level Evidence from Viet Nam

Anmol Agarwal, Alessandro Barattieri and Aaditya Mattoo

11351: Raising Children Alone in Latin America and the Caribbean: Strong Mothers and Weak Social Assistance

Laura Cuesta, Jacobus Joost De Hoop and Hugo Rolando Nopo Aguilar

11350: The World Is Developing at Its Slowest Pace in 75 Years

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Umar Serajuddin, Divyanshi Wadhwa and Nishant Yonzan

11349: Bottom-Coding for the Measurement of Global Poverty and Inequality

Nishant Yonzan, Minh Cong Nguyen, Christoph Lakner, Aart C. Kraay, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Haoyu Wu and Gabriel Lara Ibarra

11348: Multidimensional Poverty: Why Not Make Up the Missing Joint Distribution Data ?

Benoit Decerf, Mery Ferrando and Balint Menyhert

11347: International Trade Policy and Quantitative Models: A Practitioner’s Guide

Erhan Artuc and Johan Andrey Ortega Hernandez

11346: Urban Heat, Mortality, and Economic Costs: Evidence from Bangkok, Thailand

Jane Park and Steven Louis Rubinyi

11345: Who Smooths the Shock ? Government and Private Saving in International Risk Sharing

Giorgi Bokhua and Ergys Islamaj

11344: Do State SME Programs Work ? Evidence from Loan Subsidies and Credit Guarantees in Kazakhstan

Martin Melecký, Claudia Ruiz Ortega, Asset Bizhan and Ganbaatar Jambal

11343: Moving beyond Time Poverty: Measuring Women’s and Men’s Time-Use Agency

Thomas Daum, Talip Kilic, Gayatri Koolwal, Greg Seymour and Wilbert Drazi Vundru

11342: Shaken, but Not Deterred: Acute Stressors and the Formation of Hope and Aspirations among Tertiary-Educated Youth in Myanmar in the Aftermath of the 2025 Earthquake

Jeffrey R. Bloem, Yashodhan Ghorpade and Muhammad Saad Imtiaz

11341: Where Are Pakistan’s Out-of-School Children ? Mapping Accessibility of Schooling Using Satellite Data and Machine Learning Methods with an Application to the 2022 Floods

Umar Saif, Amer Hasan, Ayesha Tahir, Koen Martijn Geven, Mohsen Ali, Aliza Masood, Muhammad Abdul Rahman and Sheena Fazili

11340: Policy Lessons from International Commodity Agreements: Failure of Non-Oil Pacts and the Endurance of OPEC

John Baffes, Peter Nagle and Shane S. Streifel

11339: Electrifying Africa’s Economic Transformation: What Reforms Should Governments Pursue?

Andrew L. Dabalen, Stuti Khemani, Megan Elizabeth Lang and Govinda R. Timilsina

11338: Willingness-to-Pay for Emerging Technologies: A Study of Hydrogen Demand in the Ammonia Industry

Svetlana Ikonnikova and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

11337: Is Place-Based Green Industrial Policy Effective ? Evidence from the Inflation Reduction Act

Joep Keuzenkamp, Jacopo Mazza, Bob Rijkers and Katherine Stapleton

11336: Women’s Political Empowerment and Public Spending Efficiency in Developing Countries

Yacouba Coulibaly and Aissata Coulibaly

11335: Conflicts and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from the West Bank and Gaza over the Last Decade (2016–25)

Jingyuan Deng and Gianluca Mele

11334: Coverage or Intensity of Support ? Adaptive Social Protection to Reduce Disaster-Related Poverty

Robin Middelanis, Bramka Arga Jafino and Yasuhiro Kawasoe

11333: Beyond Wages: What Matters Most in Job Choice for Women in El Salvador

Ivette Contreras, Lelys Dinarte, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Valentina Costa and Steffanny Romero

11332: Digital Technology, Gender, and Structural Transformation: Evidence from the Mashreq

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Adeel Tariq

11331: Local Visibility vs. Global Integrity: Evidence from Corporate Carbon Offsetting

Alvaro Pedraza, Tomas Williams and Federica Zeni

11330: Global Fertility Responses to Climate-Related Hazards Depend on Population Disruption, Lethality, and Hazard Type

Leonardo Bonilla Mejía, Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Stefany Lopez Vera

11329: Industrial Policy and Economic Growth: Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Dilan Yang and Muhammad Khudadad Chattha

11328: Disruption without Dividend ? How the Digital Divide and Task Differences Split GenAI’s Global Impact

Pawel Gmyrek, Mariana Viollaz and Hernan Winkler

11327: From Disparity to Equality: Strategic Targeting to Close Gender Gaps in Business Upgrading Programs

Stephen J. Anderson, Arti Grover, Shreya Kankanhalli and Nandini Ramani

11326: To Have It All ? Career and Family of College-Educated Women in an Emerging Economy

Elghafiky Bimardhika and Daniel Zefanya Halim

11325: Turning Inward and/or Outward: Which Socioemotional Skills Pay for Agribusiness Entrepreneurs in Nigeria ?

Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Ayodele Emmanuel Fashogbon and Sreelakshmi Papineni

11324: Toward a Standard for Landslide Data: Bridging Gaps in Landslide Susceptibility Modeling and Early Warning Systems

Priscilla Niyokwiringirwa, Tjark Gall and Abhas K. Jha

11323: Emerging Successes in Accelerating Agricultural Productivity Growth in West Africa

Andrew L. Dabalen, Keith Fuglie and Aparajita Goyal