Policy Research Working Paper Series

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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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30106: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers3348-3398

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

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28610: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 3171-3236

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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

Anonymous

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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23611: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2680 - 2753

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22882: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2568-2618

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22879: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2619-2679

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21990: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2499-2567

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21522: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2458 - 2498

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21224: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2133-2196

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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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21028: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2300-2362

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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

Anonymous

14491: Policy research working papers: catalog of numbers 401 to 800

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14411: Policy research working papers: catalog of numbers 801-1200

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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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13970: Policy research working papers: catalog of numbers 1201-1400

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13310: Policy, Research working paper series: numbers 1281-1302

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13009: Policy, Research working paper series: numbers 1248-1280

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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

11125: From Chalkboards to Chatbots: Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on Learning Outcomes in Nigeria

Martin Elias De Simone, Federico Hernan Tiberti, Maria Rebeca Barron Rodriguez, Federico Alfredo Manolio, Wuraola Mosuro and Eliot Jolomi Dikoru

11124: Navigating the Competition-Stability Nexus in Financial Services: A Dynamic Extension of the Tinbergen Rule

Pietro Calice

11123: Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Populations

Sandra Rozo and Guy Grossman

11122: Breaking Invisible Barriers: Does Fast Internet Improve Access to Input Markets ?

Banu Demir, Beata Javorcik and Piyush Paritosh Panigrahi

11121: Access to Finance for MSMEs in Ecuador: A Firm-Level Impact Evaluation

Miriam Bruhn, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan, Nicolo Fraccaroli and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

11120: VAT Exemptions, Embedded Tax, and Unintended Consequences

William Chandler, Alastair Thomas and Frederic Tremblay

11119: Using Household Surveys and Specialized Enterprise Surveys to Measure Informal Enterprises

Akuffo Amankwah, Hibret Belete Maemir, Pauline Castaing, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Richmond Attah-Ankomah, Diego Zardetto and David C. Francis

11118: Chinese Imports and Industrialization in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

Marina Ngoma Mavungu

11117: Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia

Nadia Ali, Massimiliano Cali and Bob Rijkers

11116: Labor Market Scarring in a Developing Economy: Stigma versus Lost Human Capital from Plant Closings in Mexico

Francisco Javier Arias Vazquez and Daniel Lederman

11115: Building and Managing Local Databases from Google Earth Engine with the geeLite R Package

Marcell Tamas Kurbucz and Bo Pieter Johannes Andree

11114: Innovative Financial Instruments and Their Role in the Development of Jurisdictional REDD+

Alexander Alexandrovich Golub, Marek Hanusch, Diogo Bardal, Bruce Ian Keith, Daniel Navia Simon and Cornelius Fleischhaker

11113: A Quick-Fix for Perverse Incentives Inherent in Mainstream Multidimensional Poverty Measures

Benoit Marie A Decerf

11112: Cash Is Queen: Local Economy Effects of Cash Transfers to Women in West Africa

Sreelakshmi Papineni, Paula Lorena Gonzalez Martinez, Markus Goldstein and Jed Friedman

11111: Mitigating the Impact of Household Expropriation on Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Francisco Moraes Leitao Campos, Adriana Conconi, Elwyn Davies, Marine Gassier and Markus Goldstein

11110: When Aggregation Misleads: Bias in Unit-Level Small Area Estimates of Poverty with Aggregate Data

Paul Andres Corral Rodas

11109: Costs, Cost-Sharing, and Cost Drivers of a Home Visiting Program: The Case of PADIN in Brazil

Alaka Holla and Yilin Pan

11108: Host Environments and Welfare of In-Camp Refugees: Evidence from Ethiopia

Takaaki Masaki, Nitsuh Mengist Nega and Christina Wieser

11107: Non-Normal Empirical Bayes Prediction of Local Welfare

Chris Elbers and Roy van der Weide

11106: Massive Modular Ecosystems: A Framework for Understanding Complex Industries in the Digital Age

Eric Thun, Daria Taglioni, Timothy J. Sturgeon and Mark P. Dallas

11105: Participation in Pension Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

John T. Giles, Clement Joubert and Tomoaki Tanaka

11104: Bridging the Gap: Revenue Mobilization in South Asia

Hagen Kruse, Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge, Gabriel Zenon Tourek and Zoe Leiyu Xie

11103: Labor History and Contribution Density in the Pension System of the Dominican Republic

Ignacio Raul Apella and Gonzalo Zunino

11102: Certified to Stay ? Long-Run Experimental Evidence on Land Formalization and Widows’ Tenure Security in Benin

Ioana Alexandra Botea, Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Houngbedji, Florence Kondylis, Michael B. O'Sullivan and Harris Selod

11101: How Organized Is the Informal Sector ? The Role of Business Associations in Microenterprises in West Africa

Clement Joubert and Kathleen G. Beegle

11100: Capitalizing on Digital Transformation to Enhance the Effectiveness of Property Institutions: Conceptual Background and Evidence from 85 Countries

Klaus W. Deininger, Thea Hilhorst, Jaap Zevenbergen and Emmanuel Nkurunziza

11099: Dry Spells, Urban Swells: Analyzing the Drought-Induced Expansion of Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rafael Van der Borght, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Jean Thuret and Joaquin Ignacio Munoz Diaz

11098: Just Transition Risks in the Banking Sector

World Bank

11097: The Role of Market Frictions in Demand for Prepaid Electricity

Megan Elizabeth Lang

11096: Disentangling the Key Economic Channels through Which Infrastructure Affects Jobs

Maria Vagliasindi and Nisan Gorgulu

11095: Women and Climate Adaptation in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Constraints and Research Priorities

Clara Delavallade, Melanie Colette Jacqueline Gittard and Julia Vaillant

11094: Climate Policies are Path-Dependent: Implications for Policy Sequencing and Feasibility

Penelope Ann Mealy, Michael Ganslmeier and Stephane Hallegatte

11093: Global Inequality and Economic Growth: The Three Decades before Covid-19 and Three Decades After

Diana Carolina Garcia Rojas, Nishant Yonzan and Christoph Lakner

11092: Climate Risk and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

Chitra Balasubramanian, Sandra Baquie and Alan Fuchs

11091: Which Data Do Economists Use to Study Corruption ? A Cross-Section of Corruption Research

James Anderson and Akanksha Baidya

11090: Effective Tax Rates, Firm Size and the Global Minimum Tax

Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Roel Dom and Camille Marine Semelet

11089: Buffering Recessions: Labor Market Asymmetries and the Role of Self-Employment

Prakash Loungani, Emiliano Luttini and Hayley Pallan

11088: TV, TEDx, and Tweets: Measuring the Impacts of a Multi-Pronged Edutainment Program in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan

Ben Fowler, Christopher Joseph Heitzig, Marrium Khan, Renuka Pai and Sakshi Varma

11087: Ten Consequential and Actionable ‘Social’ Contributions to the Theory, Practice, and Evaluation of Development

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock

11086: Understanding Labor Market Demand in Real Time in Argentina and Uruguay

Evelyn Vezza, Gonzalo Zunino, Luis Laguinge, Harry Edmund Moroz, Ignacio Raul Apella and Marla Hillary Spivack

11085: Procuring Low Growth: The Impact of Political Favoritism on Public Procurement and Firm Performance in Bulgaria

Mihaly Fazekas, Viktoriia Poltoratskaya, Marc Tobias Schiffbauer and Bence Tóth

11084: Impacts and Spillovers of a Low-Cost Multifaceted Economic Inclusion Program in Chad

Patrick Premand and Pascale Schnitzer