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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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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11274: External Finance in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies: A Tale of Differences in Vulnerabilities*

Dohan Kim and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

11273: Mapping the Gender Dimension in Taxation and Budgeting: A Cross-Country Study of Laws, Policies and Practices

Hannelore Maria L. Niesten, Luiza Ferraz Di Ricco and Alena Sakhonchik

11272: Revisiting Public Capital Needs: An Analysis of Growth-Maximizing Investment with Efficiency and Congestion Effects

Santiago Herrera Aguilera, Christophe Hurlin and Hironobu Isaka

11271: Psychological Barriers to Participation in the Labor Market: Evidence from Rural Ghana

Leandro Carvalho, Damien de Walque, Crick Lund, Heather Schofield, Vincent Somville and Jingyao Wei

11270: Medium-Term Impacts of Integrated Social Safety Nets: Cash Transfers, Information Meetings, and Home Visits for Child Development

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga and Abigail Stocker

11269: Country-Level Pathways to 30x30 and Their Implications for Global Biodiversity Protection

Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor and David Wheeler

11268: How Laws Promote Economic Opportunities: A Review

Fabiola Saavedra Caballero, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Caroline Sabine Marie Perrin

11267: Rigging the Scores: Corruption through Scoring Rule Manipulation in Public Procurement Auctions

Qianmiao Chen

11266: Pollution Intensity of Consumption: Exploring the Environmental Engel Curve Based on Micro-Data from 109 Countries

Ebad Ebadi and Jun Rentschler

11265: Temptation, Self-Control, and the Design of Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Zoe Leiyu Xie and Pei Cheng Yu

11264: Investment Policy Reforms and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: A Case Study of Ethiopia

Sammy Oketch Fwaga, Deepa Chakrapani and Girum Abebe Tefera

11263: Labor Demand in the Age of Generative AI: Early Evidence from the U.S. Job Posting Data

Yan Liu, He Wang and Shu Yu

11262: Beyond Green Jobs: Advancing Metrics and Modeling Approaches for a Changing Labor Market

Penelope Ann Mealy, Joris Joseph Johannes Hendrik Bucker, Fernanda Senra de Moura and Camilla Knudsen

11261: The Economics of Water Scarcity

Jon Frost, Carlos Madeira and Serafin Martinez Jaramillo

11260: Gender and Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Analysis through the Life Cycle

Paola Buitrago Hernandez, Daniela Maquera Sardon, Hugo Rolando Nopo Aguilar and Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich

11259: Assessing the Macroeconomic Impacts of Stochastic Climate Shocks in Paraguay

Heather Ruberl, Pui Shen Yoong, Diego Castillo and Brent Boehlert

11258: The MANAGE-WB Applied General Equilibrium Model of the World Bank: Model Documentation and User Guide

Lulit Mitik Beyene, Wolfgang Karl Heinz Britz, Martin Aaroee Christensen, Hasan Dudu and Ragchaasuren Galindev

11257: What Underlies the Poor Financial Performance of Electric Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa ?

Govinda R. Timilsina

11256: Women’s Mobility and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Robert Garlick, Erica Field and Kate Vyborny

11255: Direct and Indirect Impacts of Transport Mobility on Access to Jobs: Evidence from South Africa

Atsushi Iimi

11254: From Policy to Practice: Lessons from the Implementation of the Refugee Work Rights Policy in Ethiopia

Ana Maria Perez and Sandra Rozo

11253: The Distributional Impacts of Climatic Variability on Welfare in Thailand

Sailesh Tiwari, Emmanuel Skoufias and Varun Sridhar Kshirsagar

11252: The Evolution of Local Participatory Democracy in Nepal

Thaneshwar Bhusal, Michael G Breen and Vijayendra Rao

11251: The Impact of Technology on Migration to the United States from Central America and the Dominican Republic

Mariana Viollaz, Luis Laguinge and Harry Moroz

11250: An Exploration of Systemwide Flood Protection Standards for Coastal Polders in Bangladesh

Ruben Jongejan, Matheus Van Ledden, Kasper Lendering, Jasper Verschuur, Debashish Paul Shuvra, Bramka Arga Jafino and Swarna Kazi

11249: Nickel, Steel and Cars: Export Ban and Domestic Value-Added in Indonesia

Hiau Looi Kee and Enze Xie

11248: Monitoring Global Aid Flows: A Novel Approach Using Large Language Models

Xubei Luo, Arvind Balaji Rajasekaran and Andrew Conner Scruggs

11247: When Does a Village Become a Town ? Revisiting Pakistan’s Urbanization Using Satellite Data

Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas, Marziya Farooq, Moritz Meyer and Christina Wieser

11246: Advancing the Jobs Agenda: Toward Self-Reliance in Refugee Situations

Zara Inga Sarzin

11245: From Awareness to Action ? Experimental Evidence on Challenges in Reducing School-Related Gender-Based Violence Through a Multi-Component Program in Zambia

Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Wei Chang, Menaal Fatima Ebrahim, Anu Jose, Tara Bedi, Michael King, Musama Obbie, Kahilu Samuyachi, Carla Z Glave Barrantes and Yenny Chavarria Garcia

11244: Fast Action for Floods: RCT Evidence on Forecast-based Cash Transfers from Bangladesh and Nepal

Nidhila Adusumalli, Odbayar Batmunkh, Paul J. Christian, Felipe Dunsch, Jonas Heirman, Erin Kelley, Florence Kondylis, Gregory Lane, Kriti Malhotra and Jennifer Waidler

11243: Measuring Exposure and Vulnerability to International Trade Shocks

Jean-Francois Arvis, Akanksha Burman, Alvaro Raul Espitia Rueda, Jean-Christophe Maur, Nadia Rocha and Daria Ulybina

11242: The State of Global Services Trade Policies: Evidence from Recent Data

Laura Baiker, Ingo Borchert, Roberto Echandi, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Ishrat Hans, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Juan A. Marchetti and Ester Rubio Colomer

11241: Joint Land Titles and Women's Status in Uganda

Michelle Poulin and Rachael Susan Pierotti

11240: Green Product Exports, Domestic Value Added and Trade Policies: Firm-Level Evidence from China

Hiau Looi Kee, Daria Taglioni and Enze Xie

11239: Promoting Women’s Leadership: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Missing

Francesca Bramucci, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Mariana Viollaz

11238: Biodiversity Guidance for Road Corridor Investments: Mobilizing New Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor and David Wheeler

11237: Satellite-Based Measures for Tracking Atmospheric CO₂ and CH₄ at National, Subnational, and Urban Scales

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler

11236: It’s Not (Just) the Tariffs: Rethinking Non-Tariff Measures in a Fragmented Global Economy

Daria Taglioni and Hiau Looi Kee

11235: What Do Small and Informal Household Enterprises Want ?

Nicolas Cerkez, Wendy Cunningham, Sarika Gupta and Felix Lung

11234: Process Legitimacy and Development: Analytical Framings, Implications, and Applications

Patrick John Barron, Marine Gassier, Meltem Ikindji and Michael Woolcock

11233: Public Preferences for Economic Reforms Are Shaped More by Design Than Cost

Christopher Alexander Hoy, Yeon Soo Kim, Saad Imtiaz, Ana Maria Rojas Mendez, Moritz Meyer, Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza, Lydia Kim, William Hutchins Seitz, Imane Helmy, Ikuko Uochi, Sering Touray, Juni Singh, Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir, Utz Johann Pape, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Trang Van Nguyen, Defne Gencer, Min A Lee, Akiko Sagesaka and Ivette Contreras

11232: Access to Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship

Girum Abebe, Rachel Cassidy and Toni Johannes Weis

11231: Who on Earth Is Using Generative AI ? Global Trends and Shifts in 2025

Yan Liu, Jingyun Huang and He Wang

11230: The Marshall Plan: Then and Now

Davis Kedrosky and Joel Mokyr

11229: Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos

Daniel Björkegren, Alice Duhaut, Geetika Nagpal and Nick Tsivanidis