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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28609: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 3135-3170

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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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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 Melecky 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 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

11297: Not All Shocks Are Shared Equally: Commodity Exporters and International Risk Sharing

Emiliano Luttini, Dawit Kelemework Mekonnen, Valerie Mercer-Blackman and Bent Sorensen

11296: How Much Do Commodity Exporters Share Risk ?

Emiliano Luttini, Dawit Kelemework Mekonnen, Valerie Mercer-Blackman and Bent Sorensen

11295: African Trade and Investment for Global Resilience: The Mattei Lecture at the World Bank’s 2025 Africa Growth and Opportunity—Research in Action (AGORA) Conference

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

11294: The Hidden Costs of Violence: How Crime Shapes Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Latin America

Jacobus Joost De Hoop, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Andrea Velásquez

11293: Who Benefits from Public Spending on Health Care ? Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia

Alemayehu Ambel and Getachew Yirga Belete

11292: CLARE: A Causal machine Learning Approach to Resilience Estimation

Talip Kilic, Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano and Federica Petruccelli

11291: Evaluating Paraguay’s Vulnerability to the EU Deforestation-Free Regulation

Nicolas Borchers Arriagada, Mariana Conte Grand, Daniel Reyes, Diego Rojas and Pui Shen Yoong

11290: Unreliable Electricity in Developing Countries: The Role of Weak Institutions

Andu Berha and Stuti Khemani

11289: Neither Too Little, nor Too Late: Restructuring as a Reflex for Outcomes

Lisandro Martin, Juan Jose Leguia Alegria and Ze Han

11288: “I Want to Break Free”: How Laws and Social Norms Open Doors for Women

Alev Gurbuz Cuneo, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe, Tea Trumbic and Caroline Perrin

11287: Firm Credit Constraints and Electronic Payments: A Global Analysis

Manuel Galilea, Subika Farazi and Davide Salvatore Mare

11286: Nudging at Scale: Evidence from a Government Text Messaging Campaign during School Shutdowns in Punjab, Pakistan

Koen Martijn Geven, Ayesha Tahir, Tazeen Fasih, Javaeria Qureshi, Amer Hasan, Sheena Fazili, Rabea Malik and Kevin Alan David Macdonald

11285: South Africa’s Fragmented Cities: The Unequal Burden of Labor Market Frictions

Javier Baez and Varun Sridhar Kshirsagar

11284: Heat, Informality, and Misallocation: Firm Adaptation in the Short and Long Run

Jonah Matthew Rexer and Siddharth Sharma

11283: Climate and Social Sustainability in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Contexts

Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva and Connor Huff

11282: Investment in Emerging and Developing Economies

Amat Adarov, Ayhan Kose and Dana Vorisek

11281: Closing the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Challenges in Law and Practice for Female Entrepreneurs

Daniela Monika Behr and Yue Xi

11280: Do Informal Businesses with More-Educated Owners Adopt Better Business Practices ? Evidence from the Central African Republic

Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Debasmita Padhi

11279: Institutional Capacity for Policy Implementation: An Analytical Framework

Galileu Kim, Tanu Kumar, Rita Ramalho and Stuart Ehrlich Russell