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

111458: Structural Shift in Job Creation: Evidence from Bangladesh

Nazmus Sadat Khan

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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29645: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 3237-3347

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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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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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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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11466: How Is Government Using Artificial Intelligence ?

Timothy Steven Lundy, Manuel Ramos Maqueda, Shyam Jayanti Patel, Daniel Rogger, Flavia Giannina Sacco Capurro and Josefina Silva Fuentealba

11465: Why Don't Jobseekers Search More ? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job

Kate Vyborny, Robert Garlick, Nivedhitha Subramanian and Erica Field

11464: Developing a Measure of Women’s Agency in Tunisia: Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence Approaches

Caroline Krafft, Leila Baghdadi, Roberta V. Gatti, Asif M. Islam and Maia Sieverding

11463: Air Pollution and Student Learning in Pakistan

Saher Asad, A. Patrick Behrer, Martin Heger and Monica Yanez Pagans

11462: Sovereign Risk Repricing after Hidden-Debt Revelations

Reina Eskimez, Jiwon Lee and Franz Ulrich Ruch

11461: Food Accounting Salience and Dietary Diversity: A Randomized Impact Evaluation of an Intervention to Track and Improve Young Children’s Food Consumption in Bihar, India

Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Sayan Kundu and Ellen Moscoe

11460: Barriers to Market Access: Experimental Tests of Supply- and Demand-Side Strategies

Aidan Coville, Adam Osman and Caio Piza

11459: What Drives Child Penalties ? Evidence from a Global Organization

Jessica Bracco, Yves Froude, María Florencia Pinto, Bob Rijkers and Michele Valsecchi

11457: What Works for Public Sector Reform in Africa ? Preliminary Evidence on New Public Management Reforms in World Bank Projects

Diane Zovighian, Gael Raballand, Anne-Lise Cogoli-Bel and Hend Irhiam

11456: SMaRT: Online Reusable Resource Assignment and an Application to Mediation in the Kenyan Judiciary

Shafkat Farabi, Didac Marti Pinto, Wei Lu, Manuel Ramos Maqueda, Sanmay Das, Antoine Deeb and Anja Sautmann

11455: Convergence or Reversal ? The Evolution of the Gender Gap in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hardi Ahmed, Damien B. C. M. de Walque and Carolina Lopez

11454: Get Ready: What Lessons for Social Protection from the Recent Energy Crisis ?

Ugo Gentilini

11453: Who Benefits from Food Tax Exemptions in Lower-Income Settings ? Evidence on Pass-Through and Incidence

Christopher Alexander Hoy, Matias Strehl-Pessina, Ruggero Doino, Darian Naidoo, Kingtau Mambon and Bobby Kunda

11452: The Scars of Global Growth Shocks: Evidence of Uneven Recovery in FDI Announcements

Bram Gootjes and Hayley Marie Pallan

11451: Housing Requirements, Hazard Exposure, and Resilience Costs: A Global Outlook to 2100

Yasuhiro Kawasoe

11450: Eliciting Probabilities in the Field: Beads versus Sliders

Lorenzo Estepa Mohedano, Diego Jorrat, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera and Ericka Rascon Ramirez

11449: Beneath the Surface: Deep Trade Agreements and the Potential of a Deeper AfCFTA

Lionel Fontagné, Anthonin Levelu, Jean-Christophe Maur, Nadia Rocha and Gianluca Santoni

11448: Tracking Air Pollution from Space: High-Resolution Daily Estimates for PM2.5, O3, NO2, and CO

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler

11447: Innovation Is Not Enough: Complementary Capabilities and Export Upgrading — Global Product-Level Evidence with an Application to Thailand

Gianluca Santoni, Daria Taglioni, Fabio Artuso and Julian Clarke

11446: Labor Demand for Digital Skills in Post-2022 Ukraine: Evidence from Online Job Vacancy Data

Yurii Kleban and Britta Laurin Rude

11445: Safe Spaces to Digital Spaces: Short-Term Impacts of Life Skills and Digital Literacy Training for Adolescent Girls in Nigeria

Wei Chang, Menaal Fatima Ebrahim, Selim Gulesci, Adiam Hagos Hailemicheal, Fatima Adenike Jagun and Lea Marie Rouanet

11444: Evaluating Spatial Underperformance: A Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Model Applied to Ho Chi Minh City

Julia Bird, Anthony Venables, Henry Dehe, Steven Louis Rubinyi, Putu Sanjiwacika Wibisana and Quang Anh Phan Bui

11443: Minimum Wage Reform in a Wartime Economy: Simulating Impacts from Ukraine’s Proposed Reform

Gordon Betcherman, Maddalena Honorati and Martin Moessinger

11442: Childcare for Informal-Sector Workers: Delivery Models, Access, and Welfare

Jacklyn Makaaru Arinaitwe, George Bogere, Anna Fiore, Sylvan Rene Herskowitz, Megan Elizabeth Lang, Francis Mwesigye and Tracy Nsobya Nalumansi

11441: Predicting Debt Distress in Low-Income Countries

Clemens Graf von Luckner, Sebastian Horn, Aart C. Kraay and Rita Ramalho

11440: Openness and Productivity Reform: Lessons for Middle-Income Economies from Thailand and other ASEAN

Erhan Artuc, Ileana Cristina Constantinescu Neagu and Daria Taglioni

11439: Not Too Much, Not Too Little: A Goldilocks Approach to Sustainable, Universal Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa

Santos J. Díaz-Pastor, Yang Liu and Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga

11438: What Does Venture Capital Actually Finance ? Scale and Structure around the World

Santiago Reyes Ortega, Kianna Rachael Freeman, Pablo Daniel Hernando Kaminsky, Jeremias Luca Huber and Paolo Mauro

11437: Understanding the Impact of Multi-Nodal Urban Systems on Thailand's Urban Economies: Insights from a Dynamic Recursive Spatial General Equilibrium Model

Putu Sanjiwacika Wibisana and Steven Louis Rubinyi

11436: Gender Gaps in Pay and Advancement within Firms: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Financial Sector

Ketki Sheth, Toni Johannes Weis and Saba Yifredew Getnet

11435: Six Years of High-Frequency Phone Surveys: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sydney Gourlay, Alemayehu Ambel, Philip Randolph Wollburg, Ismael Yacoubou Djima, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Talip Kilic and Kevin Mcgee

11434: How Public Financial Management Shapes Education and Health Outcomes: A Configurational Perspective

Kaushiki Singh and Richard Anthony Sutherland

11433: How to Build a Reader: Evidence from a Scalable Literacy Intervention in Ghana

Erik Andersen, Simon Graffy, Jason Kerwin and Monica Lambon-Quayefio

11432: Selection or More Capital ? Experimental Evidence on High-Growth Entrepreneurs in Kenya

Francisco Campos, Abla Safir, Celine Koffka, David McKenzie and Bilal Zia

11431: Labor Market Effects of Public Employment Guarantee

Yasmine Elkhateeb, Nelly Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi, Roberta V. Gatti and Mohamed Saleh

11430: The Long-Run Impacts of Protected Areas on Income, Birds, and Tourism in South Africa

Dennis Engist, Gabriel Englander, Alan Lee and Frederik Noack

11429: Consequences of Growing Up Displaced: Evidence from Displaced Children in Colombia

Tatiana Hiller, Andres Moya and Sandra Rozo

11428: Stanley Fischer Memorial Lecture: Public Debt and Central Banks — The World Bank Group ABCDE Conference

David R. Malpass

11427: Regularization and the Formation of Social Capital: Evidence from Forced Migrants in Colombia

Sandra Rozo

11426: Cheap Energy Might Not Be Enough: A Trade Model of AI Compute Services

Michael Lokshin

11425: Human Capital Expenditure and Its Effectiveness on Multi-Program Coverage: A Policy Prioritization Investigation

Omar A. Guerrero, Daniele Guariso, Gonzalo Castañeda and Michael Weber

11424: Fusing Data Sources to Measure Multidimensional Poverty

Ben James Brunckhorst, Minh Cong Nguyen, Nishant Yonzan, Hai-Anh Dang and Christoph Lakner

11423: When Digital Nudges Nag: Evidence on Program Take-up from a WhatsApp Intervention

Maria Jose Urbina Florez, Andres Moya and Sandra Rozo

11422: Assessing the Impact of Renewable versus Fossil Fuels Energy on Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis of the Elasticity across Development Stages

Nisan Gorgulu and Maria Vagliasindi

11421: Property Rights, Agricultural Technology Adoption, and Investment: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Claire Elise Boxho, Joao H. C. Montalvao Machado, Michael O'Sullivan and Matheus Proenca