Policy Research Working Paper Series

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214887: Raising Revenue Right: A Roadmap for Domestic Resource Mobilization - Chapter 9: Policy Guidance

Pierre Bachas, Oyebola M. Okunogbe, Mahvish Ifrah Shaukat and Dario Tortarolo

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

111458: Structural Shift in Job Creation: Evidence from Bangladesh

Nazmus Sadat Khan

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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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

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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

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

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11498: Voices of the Coast: Spatial versus Household Heterogeneity in Adaptation Needs in Bangladesh

Tom Schwantje, Bramka Arga Jafino, Margaret Triyana and Swarna Kazi

11497: Population Thresholds and Classification Stability: Evidence from the World Bank’s Small States Classification Rule

Baran Han

11496: Scanning for Soil Health: Assessing the Accuracy and Scalability of Innovations for In-Situ Soil Measurement

Karan S. Shakya, Leah E. M. Bevis and Sydney Gourlay

11495: Impact of the Diaspora and Institutional Environment on FDI Inflows to the ECOWAS Region

Kouakou Constant Ouattara, Cécile Bastidon and Nadege Desiree Yameogo

11494: Doing Better at Doing Good: Lessons from a Bayesian Meta-Analysis After 20 Years of Poverty Graduation Programs

Samantha Carter, Edward Jee, Dean Karlan and Patrick Premand

11493: The Transparency Tax: Discouraging Firm Ownership via Tax Havens

Jakob Brounstein, Pierre Bachas and Alex Bajaña

11492: Financial Inclusion and Electricity Uptake: Global Evidence and District-Level Mechanisms

Megan Elizabeth Lang and Alpha Ly

11491: Education and Poverty Reduction

Amory Lionel Gethin

11490: Investor-State Arbitration and Foreign Investment: Evidence from ICSID Membership

Guillermo Falcone, Guido Porto, Bob Rijkers and Daria Taglioni

11489: Beyond the Headcount: The Changing Geography and Composition of Global Poverty, 2003–2024

Minh Cong Nguyen, Nishant Yonzan, Ben James Brunckhorst, Sotaire Kwizera, Christoph Lakner, Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Henry Stemmler

11488: A Global Profile of Work and Poverty: Two Decades of Evidence

Maurizio Bussolo, Christoph Lakner and Minh Cong Nguyen

11487: One Ladder Does Not Fit All: Jobs and Poverty Transitions Across the Globe

Maurizio Bussolo, Ivan Torre and Hernan Winkler

11486: Public Externalities of Universal Health Care Access: Covering the Excluded Saves the Lives of Those Already Insured

Tatiana Hiller, Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco and Sandra Rozo

11485: Partners on a Climb: Financial Sector Development and Tax Collections in Indonesia

Habib Nasser Rab, Muhammad Khudadad Chattha and Beyza Polat

11484: Job Characteristics That Matter for Women: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Pakistan

Norihiko Matsuda, Tazeen Fasih, Shinsaku Nomura and Emcet Oktay Tas

11483: From Announcement to Completion: Tracking Big FDI Projects in LICs

Dilek Aykut, Paolo Mauro, Nimarjit Singh and Alexei Volkov

11482: Distributional Effects of Market-Oriented Reforms in Uzbekistan: A Macro-Micro Simulation Approach

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Alhassane Camara, Ha Vu, Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez and Ikuko Uochi

11481: Breaking into Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence on Procurement Training for Women-Owned SMEs

Rachel Cassidy, David McKenzie and Kalyan N. Neelamraju

11480: Drivers and Trends in the Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities: A Panel Approach

Paola Ballon, Omar Alburqueque and Julia Constanze Braunmiller

11479: Returns to Private Debt in Emerging and Developing Economies

Shawn Cole, Cesaire Assah Meh, Fanele Mashwama and Florian Moelders

11478: The Rise of Viet Nam’s Solar Panel Industry: Inputs, FDI, and Spillovers

Meng Yu Ngov, Pierre-Louis Vézina, Trang Thu Tran and Gaurav Nayyar

11477: Quality Matters: Estimating Economic Impacts of Improving Education Quality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Harry Patrinos, Nayyaf Aljabri, Tomasz Gajderowicz, Maciej Jakubowski, Mahmoud Abduh Ali Elsayed and Mohammed Al-Qawba

11476: Not Faster, but Better: Generative AI and Teacher Skill in Peru

Carla Z. Glave, Carolina Lopez, Ezequiel Molina and Román Andrés Zárate

11475: Untying the Knot: Divorce Legalization and the Decline of Marriage

Sekyu Choi and Clement Joubert

11474: What Happens When Women Suddenly Stop Receiving Cash Transfers ?

Nasir Iqbal, Amen Jalal, Mahreen Mahmud and Kate Vyborny

11473: Global Working Hours

Amory Lionel Gethin and Emmanuel Saez

11472: Droughts and Firms in Tunisia

Leila Baghdadi, Roberta V. Gatti, Asif Islam, Jesica Torres Coronado and Esha Dilip Zaveri

11471: An Analysis of Ghana’s Good Export Market Access

Hiau Looi Kee and Ileana Cristina Constantinescu Neagu

11470: The China Syndrome 2.0: A Misdiagnosis ?

Alessandro Barattieri and Aaditya Mattoo

11469: “Many Chinas”: Provincial Foundations of Chinese Export Performance

Alessandro Barattieri, Jessica Chen, Bingjing Li and Aaditya Mattoo

11468: Can the Flying Geese Fly Again? Automation and the Pattern of Industrialization

Erhan Artuc, Alessandro Barattieri, Isambert Leunga Noukwe and Aaditya Mattoo

11467: Growing in China’s Shadow

Daisuke Fukuzawa, Ergys Islamaj, Duong Trung Le, Aaditya Mattoo and Agustin Samano Penaloza

11466: How Is Government Using Artificial Intelligence ?

Timothy Steven Lundy, Manuel Ramos Maqueda, Shyam Jayanti Patel, Daniel Rogger, Flavia Giannina Sacco Capurro and Josefina Silva Fuentealba

11465: Why Don’t Jobseekers Search More ? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform

Kate Vyborny, Robert Garlick, Nivedhitha Subramanian and Erica Field

11464: Developing a Measure of Women’s Agency in Tunisia: Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence Approaches

Caroline Krafft, Leila Baghdadi, Roberta V. Gatti, Asif Islam and Maia Sieverding

11463: Air Pollution and Student Learning in Pakistan

Saher Asad, A. Patrick Behrer, Martin Heger and Monica Yanez Pagans

11462: Sovereign Risk Repricing after Hidden-Debt Revelations

Reina Eskimez, Jiwon Lee and Franz Ulrich Ruch

11461: Food Accounting Salience and Dietary Diversity: A Randomized Impact Evaluation of an Intervention to Track and Improve Young Children’s Food Consumption in Bihar, India

Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Sayan Kundu and Ellen Moscoe

11460: Barriers to Market Access: Experimental Tests of Supply- and Demand-Side Strategies

Aidan Coville, Adam Osman and Caio Piza

11459: What Drives Child Penalties ? Evidence from a Global Organization

Jessica Bracco, Yves Froude, Maria Florencia Pinto, Bob Rijkers and Michele Valsecchi

11457: What Works for Public Sector Reform in Africa ? Preliminary Evidence on New Public Management Reforms in World Bank Projects

Diane Zovighian, Gael Raballand, Anne-Lise Cogoli-Bel and Hend Irhiam

11456: SMaRT: Online Reusable Resource Assignment and an Application to Mediation in the Kenyan Judiciary

Shafkat Farabi, Didac Marti Pinto, Wei Lu, Manuel Ramos Maqueda, Sanmay Das, Antoine Deeb and Anja Sautmann

11455: Convergence or Reversal ? The Evolution of the Gender Gap in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hardi Ahmed, Damien B. C. M. de Walque and Carolina Lopez

11454: Get Ready: What Lessons for Social Protection from the Recent Energy Crisis ?

Ugo Gentilini