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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 R. 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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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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8749: Do Firms Exit the Formal Economy after a Minimum Wage Hike ? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Turkey

Aysenur Acar, Laurent Loic Yves Bossavie and Mattia Makovec

8743: Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment

Pedro Manuel Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso, Italo Xavier Lopez Garcia, Paula Bedregal and Miguel Cordero

8742: Measuring Human Capital

Noam Angrist, Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Harry Anthony Patrinos

8741: Does Automation in Rich Countries Hurt Developing Ones? Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico

Erhan Artuc, Luc Christiaensen and Hernan Jorge Winkler

8740: Pollution and City Competitiveness: a Descriptive Analysis

Nancy Lozano Gracia and Maria Edisa Soppelsa

8739: Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness ?

Matthew Edwin Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Maria Edisa Soppelsa

8738: Inflation: Concepts, Evolution, and Correlates

Jongrim Ha, Anna Ivanova, Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge and Derya Filiz Unsal Portillo Ocando

8737: Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia

Moussa Pouguinimpo Blimpo, Pedro Manuel Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro, Pamela Jervis and Todd Pugatch

8736: Does Culture Matter or Firm ? Demand for Female Labor in Three Indian Cities

Maitreyi B Das, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, Ieva Zumbyte, Sanjeev Sasmal and Sangeeta Goyal

8735: Estimation of Poverty in Somalia Using Innovative Methodologies

Utz Johann Pape and Philip Randolph Wollburg

8734: What Is State Capacity ?

Stuti Khemani

8733: Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya

Heather Ashley Knauer, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Frances E Aboud and Lia C.H. Fernald

8732: Sex, Lies, and Surveys: The Role of Interviewer Characteristics

Koroknay-Palicz,Tricia and Joao Montalvao

8731: The Textile-Clothing Value Chain in India and Bangladesh: How Appropriate Policies Can Promote (or Inhibit) Trade and Investment

Mahfuz Kabir, Surendar Singh and Michael Joseph Ferrantino

8730: Hitting the Trillion Mark -- A Look at How Much Countries Are Spending on Infrastructure

Marianne Fay, Sungmin Han, Hyoung Il Lee, Massimo Mastruzzi and Moonkyoung Cho

8729: Why Do So Many Water Points Fail in Tanzania ? An Empirical Analysis of Contributing Factors

George Joseph, Luis Alberto Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Jonathan Grabinsky Zabludovsky, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling and Yi Rong Hoo

8728: A Joint Foreign Currency Risk Management Approach for Sovereign Assets and Liabilities

Mehmet Coskun Cangoz, Olga Sulla, ChunLan Wang and Christopher Benjamin Dychala

8727: The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities: A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics

Paolo Verme and Kirsten Schuettler

8726: Pension Funds with Automatic Enrollment Schemes: Lessons for Emerging Economies

Heinz P. Rudolph

8725: Inequality of Access to Opportunities and Socioeconomic Mobility: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey

Alexandru Cojocaru

8724: Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies

David Laborde, Csilla Lakatos and William J. Martin

8723: Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines: Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses

Brian James Walsh and Stephane Hallegatte

8722: Estimating Poverty in a Fragile Context -- The High Frequency Survey in South Sudan

Utz Pape and Luca Parisotto

8721: Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences: The Case of the Philippines

Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez

8720: Policy Implications of Non-linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output

Samara Gunter, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Alberto Vegh Gramont and Guillermo Javier Vuletin

8719: Discriminatory Laws Against Women: A Survey of the Literature

Sanchari Roy

8718: Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure

Elizabeth Claire Losos, Alexander Pfaff, Lydia Pauline Olander, Sara Mason and Seth Morgan

8717: Measuring Farm Labor: Survey Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu, Palacios-Lopez,Amparo and Janneke Pieters

8716: Investing in Human Capital: What Can We Learn from the World Bank's Portfolio Data ?

Roberta V. Gatti and Aakash Mohpal

8715: Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

8714: Enforcing Competition and Firm Productivity: Evidence from 1,800 Peruvian Municipalities

Marc Tobias Schiffbauer and James Sampi

8713: Interest Rate Pass-Through: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature

Jiri Gregora, Ales Melecky and Martin Melecký

8712: When the Cycle Becomes the Trend: The Emerging Market Experience with Fiscal Policy during the Last Commodity Super Cycle

Rashaad Amra, Marek Hanusch and Charl Jooste

8711: Can Regulation Promote Financial Inclusion ?

Rong - DECID Chen and Raian Divanbeigi

8710: Highway Politics in a Divided Government: Evidence from Mexico

Harris Selod and Souleymane Soumahoro

8709: A New Tail-Based Correlation Measure and Its Application in Global Equity Markets

Jinjing Liu

8708: Using Referenda to Improve Targeting and Decrease Costs of Conditional Cash Transfers

Alix-Garcia,Jennifer M., Katharine R. Emans Sims and Daniel J. Phaneuf

8707: Can Environmental Cash Transfers Reduce Deforestation and Improve Social Outcomes ? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Mexico?s National Program (2011-2014)

Alix-Garcia,Jennifer M., Katharine R. Emans Sims, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera, Laura Elena Costica, Fernandez Medina.Jorge David, Romo-Monroy,Sofia and Stefano P. Pagiola

8706: Assessing Innovation Patterns and Constraints in Developing East Asia: An Introductory Analysis

Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias

8705: Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings

Caroline T. Witte, Martijn J. Burger and Elena Ianchovichina

8704: Natural Resources and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Testing A New Methodology

Kirk E. Hamilton, Esther G. Naikal and Glenn-Marie Lange

8703: Managing South Africa's Exposure to Eskom: How to Evaluate the Credit Risk from the Sovereign Guarantees?

Fritz Florian Bachmair, Cigdem Aslan and Mkhulu Maseko

8702: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Growth in Latin American Cities: An Analysis Using Nighttime Lights Imagery

Juan Carlos Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge E. Patino, Paula Restrepo Cadavid and Wilson A. Velasquez

8701: The Medium-Term Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from University Graduates in Tunisia

Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Koettl-Brodmann,Stefanie and Patrick Premand

8700: Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

8699: Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective

Michael Geiger, Jan Trenczek and Konstantin Wacker

8698: Impact of Drought on Poverty in Somalia

Utz Pape and Philip Randolph Wollburg

8697: Urban Form and Productivity: What Is the Shape of Latin American Cities ?

Juan Carlos Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge E. Patino and Paula Restrepo Cadavid