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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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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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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11344: Do State SME Programs Work ? Evidence from Loan Subsidies and Credit Guarantees in Kazakhstan

Martin Melecky, Claudia Ruiz Ortega, Asset Bizhan and Ganbaatar Jambal

11343: Moving beyond Time Poverty: Measuring Women’s and Men’s Time-Use Agency

Thomas Daum, Talip Kilic, Gayatri Koolwal, Greg Seymour and Wilbert Drazi Vundru

11342: Shaken, but Not Deterred: Acute Stressors and the Formation of Hope and Aspirations among Tertiary-Educated Youth in Myanmar in the Aftermath of the 2025 Earthquake

Jeffrey R. Bloem, Yashodhan Ghorpade and Muhammad Saad Imtiaz

11341: Where Are Pakistan’s Out-of-School Children ? Mapping Accessibility of Schooling Using Satellite Data and Machine Learning Methods with an Application to the 2022 Floods

Umar Saif, Amer Hasan, Ayesha Tahir, Koen Martijn Geven, Mohsen Ali, Aliza Masood, Muhammad Abdul Rahman and Sheena Fazili

11340: Policy Lessons from International Commodity Agreements: Failure of Non-Oil Pacts and the Endurance of OPEC

John Baffes, Peter Nagle and Shane S. Streifel

11339: Electrifying Africa’s Economic Transformation: What Reforms Should Governments Pursue?

Andrew L. Dabalen, Stuti Khemani, Megan Elizabeth Lang and Govinda R. Timilsina

11338: Willingness-to-Pay for Emerging Technologies: A Study of Hydrogen Demand in the Ammonia Industry

Svetlana Ikonnikova and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

11337: Is Place-Based Green Industrial Policy Effective ? Evidence from the Inflation Reduction Act

Joep Keuzenkamp, Jacopo Mazza, Bob Rijkers and Katherine Stapleton

11336: Women’s Political Empowerment and Public Spending Efficiency in Developing Countries

Yacouba Coulibaly and Aissata Coulibaly

11335: Conflicts and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from the West Bank and Gaza over the Last Decade (2016–25)

Jingyuan Deng and Gianluca Mele

11334: Coverage or Intensity of Support ? Adaptive Social Protection to Reduce Disaster-Related Poverty

Robin Middelanis, Bramka Arga Jafino and Yasuhiro Kawasoe

11333: Beyond Wages: What Matters Most in Job Choice for Women in El Salvador

Ivette Contreras, Lelys Dinarte, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Valentina Costa and Steffanny Romero

11332: Digital Technology, Gender, and Structural Transformation: Evidence from the Mashreq

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Adeel Tariq

11331: Local Visibility vs. Global Integrity: Evidence from Corporate Carbon Offsetting

Alvaro Pedraza, Tomas Williams and Federica Zeni

11330: Global Fertility Responses to Climate-Related Hazards Depend on Population Disruption, Lethality, and Hazard Type

Leonardo Bonilla Mejía, Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Stefany Lopez Vera

11329: Industrial Policy and Economic Growth: Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Dilan Yang and Muhammad Khudadad Chattha

11328: Disruption without Dividend ? How the Digital Divide and Task Differences Split GenAI’s Global Impact

Pawel Gmyrek, Mariana Viollaz and Hernan Winkler

11327: From Disparity to Equality: Strategic Targeting to Close Gender Gaps in Business Upgrading Programs

Stephen J. Anderson, Arti Grover, Shreya Kankanhalli and Nandini Ramani

11326: To Have It All ? Career and Family of College-Educated Women in an Emerging Economy

Elghafiky Bimardhika and Daniel Zefanya Halim

11325: Turning Inward and/or Outward: Which Socioemotional Skills Pay for Agribusiness Entrepreneurs in Nigeria ?

Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Ayodele Emmanuel Fashogbon and Sreelakshmi Papineni

11324: Toward a Standard for Landslide Data: Bridging Gaps in Landslide Susceptibility Modeling and Early Warning Systems

Priscilla Niyokwiringirwa, Tjark Gall and Abhas K. Jha

11323: Emerging Successes in Accelerating Agricultural Productivity Growth in West Africa

Andrew L. Dabalen, Keith Fuglie and Aparajita Goyal

11322: Formalizing Savings

Martin Melecký and Dorothe Singer

11321: Urban Expansion and Protection Gaps amid Evolving Flood Exposure

Jun Rentschler, Christoph Klaiber, Mengjue Zhu and Mattia Marconcini

11320: Does Message Framing Matter for Tax Compliance ? Evidence from a WhatsApp Field Experiment

Paulo Antonacci, Muhammad Khudadad Chattha, Naranggi Pramudya Soko and Prabaning Tyas

11319: Why Do Some Countries Build Safer ? Economic Constraints, Disaster Learning, and the Two-Stage Housing Quality Ladder

Yasuhiro Kawasoe

11318: The Effects of Regulatory Information Systems on Credit Allocation: Evidence from Brazil’s Rural Credit Bureau

Silvio Arduini, Faruk Miguel Liriano, Claudio Moreira, Alvaro Pedraza, Claudia Ruiz Ortega, Paulo Sampaio and Lucas Dos Santos

11317: Wage Subsidies to Promote Female Hiring: Evidence from Pakistan

Maurizio Bussolo, Jean Nahrae Lee, Mahreen Mahmud, Nayantara Sarma and Anaise Williams

11315: Demand Shocks in Equity Markets and Firm Responses

Fernando Broner, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Sergio Schmukler and Tomas Williams

11314: Do Investments in Digital Infrastructure Improve Employment Outcomes ? Evidence from Türkiye

Banu Demir and Arti Grover

11313: Click, Code, Earn: The Returns to Digital Skills

Antonio Soares Martins Neto, Yan Liu, Saloni Khunara and Juan Manuel Porras Lopez

11312: From Training to Earning: The 7-Year Impact of Dual Apprenticeships on Youth Employment

Bruno Crépon, Eva Lestant and Patrick Premand

11311: The Role of Credible Mitigation Measures in Building Citizen Trust for Subsidy Reforms: Lessons from Angola’s Public Opinion Survey

Valentina Martinez Pabon, Nelson Tisso Miezi Eduardo, Boban Varghese Paul and Liliana D. Sousa

11310: Productivity Gap between Women- and Men-Run Private Hotels in Georgia: A Data Envelopment Analysis–Based Meta Frontier Analysis

Mohammad Amin and Nesma Ali

11309: Unveiling Hidden Hardships: Leveraging Alternative Data to Map Multidimensional Vulnerability in the Central African Republic

Vincent Remi Nossek, Walker Kosmidou-Bradley, Frédéric Mortier, Bastien Chevillé and Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon

11308: The Effects of Digital Literacy on Wages in Europe and Central Asia

Metin Nebiler and Kyunglin Park

11307: Small Emerging Markets: A New Asset Class

Alvaro Pedraza and Dilip Ratha

11306: Deep and Shallow Decarbonization in Supply Chains

Anne Helene Beck and Alvaro Pedraza

11305: How Do Organizations Learn ? The Diffusion of Scientific Evidence on Generative AI

Mahvish Ifrah Shaukat, Andreas Stegmann and Mattie Toma

11304: The Cycle of Hate, and What We Can Do About It

Victoria Esses, Allison Harell, Matt Lowe, Hazel Rose Markus, Aaron Mills, Manasi Rao, Vijayendra Rao, Stephen Reicher and Prerna Singh

11303: Demographic Transition and Education Expenditure in South Asia: Opportunities and Challenges

Mariana Marchionni, Namrata Raman Tognatta, Emmanuel Vazquez and Monica Yanez Pagans

11302: The Effect of Survey Mode on Data Quality: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria

Yannick Markhof, Philip Randolph Wollburg, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Pauline Castaing, Akiko Sagesaka and Ivette Contreras

11301: Striving for Economic Security: Emerging Middle Class in the East Asia and Pacific Region

Kwabena Krah, Veronica Sonia Montalva Talledo and Sailesh Tiwari

11300: The Rise and Regulation of Digital Credit: Lessons from Indonesia

Salman Alibhai, Emily Breza, Martin Kanz and Francesco Strobbe

11299: Individual Demand for Building State Effectiveness

Harry J. Dienes, Daniel Rogger, Yetsedaw Emagne and Giulio Schinaia

11298: Does LLM Assistance Improve Healthcare Delivery ? An Evaluation Using On-Site Physicians and Laboratory Tests

Jason Abaluck, Robert Pless, Nirmal Ravi, Anja Sautmann and Aaron Schwartz