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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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

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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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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

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 Jose 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

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

Ugur Aytun, Gunhild Berg, Seyit 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 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