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

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

Anonymous

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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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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21142: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2363 - 2457

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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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11172: Exports, Labor Markets, and the Environment: Evidence from Brazil

Carlos Andre Bezerra De Goes, Otavio Canozzi Conceicao, Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

11171: Impact of Heat Waves on Learning Outcomes and the Role of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Peru

Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Cesar Contreras

11170: The Asymmetric Bank Distress Amplifier of Recessions

Dohan Kim

11169: From Tailwinds to Headwinds: Emerging and Developing Economies in the Twenty-First Century

Mirco Balatti Mozzanica, Ayhan Kose, Kate Frances Mckinnon, Edoardo Palombo, Naotaka Sugawara, Guillermo Verduzco Bustos and Dana Vorisek

11168: Exploring Household Recovery after a Disaster in a Conflict Setting: The Case of the June-November 2022 Nigerian Floods

Karima Ben Bih, Bramka Arga Jafino, Chloe Genevieve Helene Desjonqueres and Mikhail Sirenko

11167: Unpacking the Disaster-FCV Nexus: Household Economic Impacts of Conflict and Floods in Nigeria

Karima Ben Bih, Bramka Arga Jafino, Chloe Genevieve Helene Desjonqueres and Solene Masson

11166: Intergenerational Income Mobility around the World: A New Database

Ercio Munoz and Roy Van der Weide

11165: A “Big Push” Through the Finish Line: Evidence from a Composite Scholarship for Ugandan Students

Benedetta Lerva, Denise Ferris and Margherita Fornasari

11164: Trade's Emissions Paradox: Cutting Greenhouse Gases, Raising Air Pollution

Ebad Ebadi and Enrique Aldaz-Carroll

11163: Inequality, Education, and Occupational Change in the Philippines

Nadia Belhaj Hassine Belghith, Francine Claire Chang Fernandez and Benjamin Aaron Lavin

11162: The Impact of Credential Recognition: Evidence from Venezuelan Health Professionals in Peru

Javier Torres, Pablo Ariel Acosta and Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza

11161: Environmental Stringency and Firms’ Participation in Global Value Chains: Evidence for MENA Countries

Nada Hazem and Chahir Zaki

11160: Climate Change Negotiations under the Shadow of History

Sheheryar Banuri, Ha M. Nguyen and Ernest John Sergenti

11159: Soaring Food Prices Threaten Recent Economic Gains in the EU

Monica Robayo, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti, Lukas Delgado-Prieto and Reena Badiani-Magnusson

11158: Modeling Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Urban Heat in Bangkok

Juan A. Acero, Vivek K. Sinh and Steven Louis Rubinyi

11157: Economics of Household Cooking Using Electricity in Nepal

Sunil Malla, Govinda R. Timilsina and Martin Heger

11156: Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation Under Sovereign Risk

Carlos Esquivel and Agustin Samano

11155: Antitrust Enforcement and Firm Performance: Evidence from Colombia’s Sugar Market

James Sampi and Ekaterina Vostroknutova

11154: Global Stock-Take of Fuel Subsidies and Pricing Policies

Elcin Akcura

11153: A Global Assessment of Domestic Petroleum Fuel Prices

Elcin Akcura

11152: Gender Discrimination in Entrepreneurial Finance: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Niklas Buehren and Sreelakshmi Papineni

11151: Conscious Coupling: Impact of a Skills Intervention to Address Intrahousehold Constraints for Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia

Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Adiam Hagos Hailemicheal, Dumebi Uzoabaka Ochem and Sreelakshmi Papineni

11150: Double Burden, Unequal Ground: Childcare Challenges and Work-Family Conflict for Low-Income Mothers in Urban Burkina Faso

Fiona Gedeon Achi, Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Rachael Susan Pierotti, Nathalie Ouangraoua and Alis Bambara

11149: Geopolitical Fragmentation and Friendshoring: Evidence from Project-Level Foreign Investment Data

Arti Grover and Pierre-Louis Vézina

11148: Contraceptive Concordance

Sarah Vincent, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, S Anukriti and Mahesh Karra

11147: Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection

Girija Borker, Jan Eeckhout, Nancy Luke, Shantidani Minz, Kaivan Munshi and Soumya Swaminathan

11146: Accelerating Learning in Ecuador's Technical Institutes: The Impact of Using Mixed Reality to Teach Auto-Mechanics

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Marjorie H Chinen

11145: Crowding Out and Banking Crises

Pablo Daniel Hernando Kaminsky

11144: Effects of COVID-19 on Student Learning: Assessing Learning Losses Using Adaptive Technology

Juan Baron, José Mola, Astrid Camille Pineda and Paola Patricia Polanco Santos

11143: Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes

Christian Posso, Jorge Tamayo, Arlen Yahir Guarin Galeano and Estefania Saravia

11142: Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan

Elisabetta Gentile, Nikita Kohli, Nivedhitha Subramanian, Zunia Tirmazee and Kate Vyborny

11141: Where and How is Money Spent on International Migration and Refugees by World Bank Operational Projects ?

David McKenzie, Charlotte Müller and Pablo Ariel Acosta

11140: Do Formal Loans Boost SME Performance ? Key Takeaways from a Meta-Analysis

Miriam Bruhn, Johan Andrey Ortega Hernandez and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

11139: Territorial Inequalities: A Note on State Discontinuity

Lidia Ceriani, Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva and Samuel David Restrepo Oyola

11138: The Earlier the Better? Cash Transfers for Drought Response in Niger

Ashley Charlotte Pople, Patrick Premand, Stefan Dercon, Margaux Vinez and Stephanie Brunelin

11137: Global Poverty Revisited Using 2021 PPPs and New Data on Consumption

Elizabeth Mary Foster, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Christoph Lakner and Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah

11136: Industrial Policy under Constraints: Evidence from Pakistan’s Export Subsidy Schemes

Stefania Lovo and Gonzalo Varela

11135: From Patriarchy to Policy: Norms, Votes, and Gender Equal Laws

Maurizio Bussolo, Jonah Matthew Rexer and Lynn Hu

11134: Yield Gains from Balancing Fertilizer Use: Evidence from Eastern India

Julian Arteaga and Klaus W. Deininger

11133: The Macroeconomic Implications of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Options: A Modeling Approach

Kodzovi Abalo, Brent Boehlert, Thanh Bui, Andrew Burns, Diego Castillo, Unnada Chewpreecha, Alexander Haider, Stephane Hallegatte, Charl Jooste, Florent McIsaac, Heather Jane Ruberl, Kim Smet and Ken Strzepek

11132: Forecast Sensitivity to Global Risks: A BVAR Analysis

Heather Jane Ruberl, Remzi Baris Tercioglu and Adam Elderfield

11131: Rethinking Fiscal Policies: Tackling Inequality and Poverty in the Middle East and Noth Africa Region

Alan Fuchs, Beenish Amjad and Mario Julian Loayza Grisi

11130: Tradeoffs over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation and the Price Level

Kristin Forbes, Jongrim Ha and Ayhan Kose

11129: Global Socio-economic Resilience to Natural Disasters

Robin Middelanis, Bramka Arga Jafino, Ruth Hill, Minh Cong Nguyen and Stephane Hallegatte

11128: Assessing Workplace Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills in Africa: The ESTEEM Framework

Vic Marsh, Clara Delavallade, Smita Das, Lea Marie Rouanet, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz and Dawn McDaniel

11127: Beyond Aggregates: A Sector-Specific Framework for Long-Term Growth Modeling

Charl Jooste and Remzi Baris Tercioglu

11126: Where You Are Born Matters: Inequality of Opportunities and Intergenerational Mobility across Colombia’s Territory

Maria Davalos and Juan Manuel Monroy Barragan