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

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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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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

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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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11221: Using Remotely Sensed Data to Assess War-Induced Damage to Agricultural Cultivation: Evidence from Ukraine

Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Kussul Nataliia, Guido Lemoine, Andrii Shelestov and Leonid Shumilo

11220: Natural Disasters and Perceived Returns to Education

Macoura Doumbia and Damien de Walque

11219: Geopolitical Risks and Trade

Alen Mulabdic and Yoto V. Yotov

11217: The Impact of Atlantic Hurricanes on Business Activity

Sumit Agarwal, Smarajit Paul Choudhury, Mingxuan Fan and Leora Klapper

11216: Higher Education Expansion and Firm Organization

Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz and Antonio Soares Martins Neto

11215: Uneven Waters: Examining Poverty and Urban and Rural Households' Exposure to Flood Risk in Paraguay

Paul Ervin, Lyliana Gayoso and Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich

11214: Growth, Structural Transformation and Carbon Emissions

Alen Mulabdic, Gaurav Nayyar and Katherine Stapleton

11213: The Economic Value of Weather Forecasts: A Quantitative Systematic Literature Review

Hannah Farkas, Manuel Linsenmeier, Marta Talevi, Paolo Avner, Bramka Arga Jafino and Moussa Sidibe

11212: Rural Roads and Local Economic Development in China

Yajie Han, Nino Pkhikidze, Yu Qin and Yi Yang

11211: Women in Sciences and Engineering: Why Leveling Employment in Industrial Sectors Matters for Economic Diversification in Developing Countries

Yselle Flora Malah-Kuete, Désiré Avom and Luc Désiré Omgba

11210: Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Intertwined Crises, Multiple Vulnerabilities

Samuel Hill, Jeetendra Khadan and Peter Metin Selcuk

11209: The Central African Republic’s Forestry and Mining Revenue Potential

Yannick Bouterige, Baptiste Marquant and Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon

11208: An Apple a Day: The Impact of Healthier School Meals on Children in Jordan

Simone Lombardini, Florence Kondylis, Benedetta Lerva, Jonas Heirman, Roshni Khincha and Hannah Irmela Uckat

11207: Social Defaults and Plan Choice: The Case of Spousal Following

Tal Gross, Tim Layton, Daniel Prinz and Julia Yates

11206: Temperature Anomalies as an Obstacle to Women’s Rights and Economic Empowerment?

Daniela Monika Behr, Liang Shen, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Tea Trumbic

11205: Algorithms and Bureaucrats: Evidence from Tax Audit Selection in Senegal

Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Alipio Ferreira and Bassirou Sarr

11204: Beyond Camps and Communities: The Economics of Refugee Relocation in Bangladesh

Sandra Rozo, María José Urbina and Christina Wieser

11203: Children in Monetary Poor Households: Global, Regional, and Select National Trends in the Progress against Child Poverty

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Daylan Alberto Salmeron Gomez, Solrun Engilbertsdottir, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Enrique Delamonica and Jennifer Yablonski

11202: Nowcasting Disruptions to Human Capital Formation: Evidence from High-Frequency Household and Geospatial Data in Rural Malawi

Elizabeth J. Tennant, Aleksandr Michuda, Joanna B. Upton, Andres Chamorro, Ryan Engstrom, Michael L. Mann, David Newhouse, Michael Weber and Christopher B. Barrett

11201: Socioemotional Skills in Sub-Saharan Africa: Validating and Comparing Behavioral and Self-Reported Measures

Clara Anne Delavallade, Smita Das, Lea Marie Rouanet, Aidan Clerkin, Chris Gonzalez and Julian Jamison

11200: Command and Can’t Control: Assessing Centralized Accountability in the Public Sector

Saad Gulzar, Juan Felipe Ladino, Muhammad Zia Mehmood and Daniel Rogger

11199: Early Warnings Coverage, Determinants of Reception, and Benefits: What Surveys Can Tell Us

Chloé Beaudet, Louise Bernard, Bramka Arga Jafino and Paolo Avner

11198: International Activity and Female Labor Participation: New Evidence for Services Firms in Developing Countries

Luis Aguilar Luna and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

11197: Beyond Food Security: Optimizing Sustainable Healthy Diets in Ghana's Dietary Transition

Francis Addeah Darko and Edward Martey

11196: Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental Evidence from Ukraine

Lelys Dinarte, James Gresham, Renata Lemos, Harry Patrinos and Rony Rodriguez-Ramirez

11195: Protectionism, Evasion and Household Welfare: Evidence from Nigeria’s Import Bans

Erhan Artuc, Guillermo Enrique Falcone, Guido Porto and Bob Rijkers

11194: Field-Scale Rice Area and Yield Mapping in Sri Lanka with Optical Remote Sensing and Limited Training Data

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Eduardo Fraga, Devaki Ghose, Mutlu Özdogan, Gonzalo Varela and Sherrie Wang

11193: Fiscal Multipliers in Resource-Rich Economies: Evidence from the Gulf Countries

Muhammad Khudadad Chattha and Tobias Kawalec

11192: Stress Testing Survey to Survey Imputation: Understanding When Poverty Predictions Can Fail

Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Andrés Ham, Peter Lanjouw, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti and Henry Stemmler

11191: The Labor Market Effects of Droughts in MENA

Nelly Youssef Louis William Elmallakh, Diego Faures, Roberta V. Gatti and Asif Mohammed Islam

11190: Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Exposure to Droughts in MENA

Nelly Youssef Louis William Elmallakh, Roberta V. Gatti, Asif Mohammed Islam and Mennatallah Emam Mohamed Sayed Mousa

11189: Unequal Burdens, Uneven Benefits: Applying a Gender Lens to the Analysis of Peru’s Fiscal System

Paola Buitrago Hernandez, Luciana De la Flor Giuffra, Gonzalo Javier Rivera Gallegos and Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich

11188: Spatial Analysis of Coal Transition Vulnerability in Indonesia

Emcet Oktay Tas, Ezgi Canpolat, Megan Cole, Abidah Billah Setyowati and Jasminah Woodhouse

11187: The Impact of Knowledge and Deliberative Processes on Local Spending Preferences for Climate Action

James Thomas Erbaugh, Hannah Jane Duncan, Emcet Oktay Tas, Rodd Myers, Yustina Octifanny, Rahayu Harjanthi, Ellyn K. Damayanti and Arun Agrawal

11186: Job Accessibility, Commute Time, and Efficiency of Urban Transport: Evidence from Dar es Salaam

Atsushi Iimi

11185: The Lasting Effects of Working while in School: A Long-Term Follow-Up

Mery Ferrando, Noemi Katzkowicz, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Diego Javier Ubfal

11184: The Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI)

Penny Goldberg, Charles Gottlieb, Somik V. Lall, Meet Mehta, Michael Peters and Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan

11183: Decarbonizing Air Transport: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment

Megersa Abera Abate, Alessandro Barattieri, Alberto Brugnoli and Flavio Porta

11182: The Impact of Trade Promotion Organizations on Exports: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yewon Choi, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Arti Grover, Leonardo Iacovone and Marcelo Olarreaga

11181: Measuring Job Accessibility: Different Methods and New Data

Atsushi Iimi

11180: Climate Vulnerability and Job Accessibility: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi

11179: Central Bank Independence and Sovereign Borrowing

Angelos Athanasopoulos, Nicolo Fraccaroli, Andreas Kern and Davide Romelli

11178: Assessing Secondary Benefits of Urban Flood Protection Projects: The Case of Wroclaw, Poland

Winston Yu, Ran Goldblatt, Tesss Doeffinger, Ross Marc Eisenberg and Steven Louis Rubinyi

11177: Protecting Forests in the Congo Basin: An Empirical Basis for Performance-Linked Financing for the Republic of Congo

Dieter Wang, Philipp Kollenda, Veerle de Smit, Kanta Kumari Rigaud, Tsegaye Ginbo Gatiso and Alexander Golub

11176: Designing and Analyzing Powerful Experiments: Practical Tips for Applied Researchers

David McKenzie

11175: Mangroves for Coastal Resilience in Bangladesh: Identification of Potential Locations, Assessment of Triple Dividends, and Cost Estimation

Alejandra Gijón Mancheño, Luke McKinnon Brander, Bramka Arga Jafino, Ignacio Urrutia and Swarna Kazi