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8696: Institutional Fragmentation and Metropolitan Coordination in Latin American Cities: What Consequences for Productivity and Growth ?

Juan Carlos Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge E. Patino and Paula Restrepo Cadavid

8695: Understanding the Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies on Shipping: What Is the State of the Art of Current Modeling Approaches ?

Ronald Apriliyanto Halim, Tristan Smith and Dominik Paul Englert

8694: Trade Effects of the New Silk Road: A Gravity Analysis

Suprabha Baniya, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta

8693: Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations

Grant James Cameron, Hai-Anh Dang, Mustafa Dinc, James Stephen Foster and Michael Lokshin

8692: Poverty Measurement in the Era of Food Away from Home: Testing Alternative Approaches in Vietnam

Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Julie Ting Ting Perng and Renos Vakis

8691: The Short-Term Impact of Inter-Community Volunteering Activities and Soft Skills Training on Self-Reported Social Cohesion Values: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Lebanon

Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Rene Antonio Leon Solano, Carlos Asenjo, Marwan Alawiye and El-Kik,Marwa

8690: Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico

Santiago Levy and Lopez-Calva,Luis-Felipe

8689: The Use of Data Analytics Techniques to Assess the Functioning of a Government's Financial Management Information System: An Application to Pakistan and Cambodia

Ali Hashim, Moritz Otto Maria Alfons Piattifuenfkirchen, Winston Percy Onipede Cole, Ammar Naqvi, Akmal Minallah, Maun Prathna and Sokbunthoeun So

8688: Understanding the Geographical Distribution of Stunting in Tanzania: A Geospatial Analysis of the 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey

George Joseph, Peter William Gething, Samir Bhatt and Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling

8687: Financial Outreach and Working Poverty in Developing Countries: New Evidence from Bank Penetration

Aissata-000536535 Coulibaly and Urbain Thierry Yogo

8686: Beyond Capital: Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises

Iza Lejárraga and Alexandros Ragoussis

8685: The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic Activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria

Julian C Jamison, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Gbemisola Oseni, Julie Ting Ting Perng, Ryoko Sato, Tomomi - GPV07 Tanaka and Renos Vakis

8684: Shifting Social Norms to Reduce Open Defecation in Rural India

Varun Gauri, Tasmia Rahman and Iman Kalyan Sen

8683: International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia

TM Tonmoy Islam, David Newhouse and Monica Yanez Pagans

8682: Intervening at Home and Then at School: A Randomized Evaluation of Two Approaches to Improve Early Educational Outcomes in Tonga

Kevin Macdonald, Sally Anne Brinkman, Wendy Jarvie, Machuca-Sierra,Myrna, Kristen Andrew Mcdonall, Messaoud-Galusi,Souhila, Siosiana Tapueluelu and Binh Thanh Vu

8681: Minimum Wages and Labor Supply in an Emerging Market: The Case of Mauritius

Zaakhir Asmal, Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Marco Ranzani and Pierella Paci

8680: Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change: A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa

Dalal Aassouli, Mehmet Asutay, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Tochukwu Chiara Nwokike

8679: The Economic Case for Education in Vietnam

Harry Patrinos, Pham Vu Thang and Nguyen Duc Thanh

8678: Measuring Urban Economic Density

J. Vernon Henderson, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina and Sebastian Constantine Gilmour Kriticos

8677: How Much Would Bangladesh Gain from the Removal of Subsidies on Electricity and Natural Gas ?

Govinda R. Timilsina, Sheoli Pargal, Marinos E. Tsigas and Sebnem Sahin

8676: Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Zovanga Louis Kone, Aaditya Mattoo and Caglar Ozden

8675: Explaining the WAEMU Growth Spurt -- The Role of Financial Deepening and Macro Policy

Fiseha Haile Gebregziabher and Lars Moller

8674: Robots, Tasks and Trade

Erhan Artuc, Paulo S. R. Bastos and Bob Rijkers

8673: Political Selection and Bureaucratic Productivity

James Paul Habyarimana, Stuti Khemani and Thiago Scot

8672: Survey of the Nepal Private Equity and Venture Capital Environment

Shanthi Divakaran, Gianni Lorenzato, Anup Raj Upreti and Pratikshya Dahal

8671: Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect

Michele Di Maio and Nathan Fiala

8670: Promoting Early Childhood Development through Combining Cash Transfers and Parenting Programs

Ana-Maria Arriagada, Jonathan Perry, Laura B. Rawlings, Julieta M. Trias and Melissa Zumaeta Aurazo

8669: Comprehensive Private School Model for Low-Income Urban Children in Mexico

Lucrecia Santibanez, Juan E. Saavedra, Raja Bentaouet Kattan and Harry Patrinos

8668: Non-Linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output: The Role of the Initial Level of Taxation

Samara Gunter, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Alberto Vegh Gramont and Guillermo Javier Vuletin

8667: Extreme Weather and Poverty Risk: Evidence from Multiple Shocks in Mozambique

Javier Baez, German Daniel Caruso and Chiyu Niu

8666: Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ?

Sheheryar Banuri, Damien de Walque, Philip Keefer and Paul Jacob Robyn

8665: Re-Kindling Learning: eReaders in Lagos

James Paul Habyarimana and Shwetlena Sabarwal

8664: Malnutrition Gap as a New Measure of Child Malnutrition: A Global Application

Juan Feng, Shamma Adeeb Alam and Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou

8663: Potential Growth: Outlook and Options for the Russian Federation

Yoki Okawa and Apurva Sanghi

8662: On the Asymmetry of Global Spillovers: Emerging Markets Versus Advanced Economies

Rabah Arezki and Yang Liu

8661: Gender Gaps in the Labor Market and Economic Growth

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Karakurum-Ozdemir,Kamer and Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

8660: States Diverge, Cities Converge: Drivers of Local Growth Catch-up in India

Yue Li, Martin Rama and Qinghua Zhao

8659: Developing Countries and Services in the New Industrial Paradigm

Gaurav Nayyar and Marcio Cruz

8658: Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue and Guochang Zhao

8657: Vertical and Horizontal Redistribution: The Cases of Western and Eastern Europe

Maurizio Bussolo, Carla Krolage, Mattia Makovec, Andreas Peichl, Marc Stockli, Ivan Torre and Christian Wittneben

8656: Evidence-Based Teaching: Effective Teaching Practices in Primary School Classrooms

Ezequiel Molina, Adelle Pushparatnam, Rimm-Kaufman,Sara Elisabeth and Keri Ka-Yee Wong

8655: Feeding of Infants and Young Children in South Asia

Harriet Torlesse and Dhushyanth Raju

8654: Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya

Shohei Nakamura and Paolo Avner

8653: Measuring Teaching Practices at Scale: Results from the Development and Validation of the Teach Classroom Observation Tool

Ezequiel Molina, Syeda Farwa Fatima, Andrew Dean Y C Ho, Carolina Eugenia Melo Hurtado, Tracy Wilichowksi and Adelle Pushparatnam

8652: Does Job Polarization Explain the Rise in Earnings Inequality ? Evidence from Europe

Maurizio Bussolo, Ivan Torre and Hernan Jorge Winkler

8651: Catastrophic Medical Expenditures: Reflections on Three Issues

Adam Wagstaff

8650: Human Capital and Macro-Economic Development: A Review of the Evidence

Federico Rossi

8649: Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices

Samuel Paul Fraiberger, Do Q Lee, Damien Puy and Romain Rancier

8648: Forest Carbon Supply in Nepal: Evidence from a Choice Experiment

Sahan Dissanayake, Randall A. Bluffstone, E. Somanathan, Harisharan Luintel, N. S. Paudel and Michael Toman

8647: Three Macroeconomic Trends Around the Onset of Armed Conflict in Developing Economies

Daniel Lederman and Claudio Rojas Guzmán

8646: GVC Participation and Deep Integration in Brazil

Claire Honore Hollweg and Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri

8645: Is It the Journey That Matters ? A Fresh Look at the Impact of World Bank Policy Lending

Peter G. Moll and Lodewijk Smets

8644: Hierarchy and Information

Daniel Oliver Rogger and Ravi Somani

8643: Servicification of Manufacturing and Boosting Productivity through Services Sector Reform in Turkey

Thomas Edward Haven and Erik Leendert Van Der Marel

8642: High-Growth Firms: Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Francesca de Nicola, Balazs Murakozy and Shawn Tan

8641: Definition Matters: Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country

Maarten Bosker, Jane Park and Mark Roberts

8640: Traders'Dilemma: Developing Countries'Response to Trade Disputes

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Csilla Lakatos, Sherman Robinson and Karen E. Thierfelder

8639: Mongolia: Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers

Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel and Judy Yang

8638: Poverty, Inequality, and Agriculture in the EU

João Pedro Azevedo, Rogier J. E. Van Den Brink, Paul Corral Rodas, Montserrat Avila, Hongxi Zhao and Mohammad-Hadi Mostafavi

8637: The Drivers and Impacts of Water Infrastructure Reliability: A Global Analysis of Manufacturing Firms

Asif Islam and Marie Caitriona Hyland

8636: Backyarding: Theory and Evidence for South Africa

Jan K. Brueckner, Claus Rabe and Harris Selod

8635: Preventing More"Missing Girls": A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference

Sneha Kumar and Nistha Sinha

8634: On the Allocation of Resources in Developing East Asia and Pacific

Francesca de Nicola, Vera Vencheva Kehayova and Ha Minh Nguyen

8633: The Limits of Commitment: Who Benefits from Illiquid Savings Products?

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Leora Klapper, Koroknay-Palicz,Tricia and Simone Gabrielle Schaner

8632: Busting the Myth: The Impact of Increasing the Minimum Wage: The Experience of Romania

Frank Heemskerk, Liviu Voinea and Alexandra Cojocaru

8631: Contractual Frictions and the Margins of Trade

Theophile Thomas Azomahou, Hibret Maemir and Hassen Wako

8630: sae: A Stata Package for Unit Level Small Area Estimation

Minh Cong Nguyen, Paul Corral Rodas, João Pedro Azevedo and Qinghua Zhao

8629: Inequality and Welfare Dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015

Hai-Anh Dang, Michael Lokshin, Ksenia Abanokova and Maurizio Bussolo

8628: Identifying Urban Areas by Combining Data from the Ground and from Outer Space: An Application to India

Virgilio Galdo, Yue Li and Martin Rama

8627: Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

Ruth Hill, Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina and Kathryn Vasilaky

8626: Tobacco Taxation Incidence: Evidence from the Russian Federation

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Mikhail Matytsin and Olga Obukhova

8625: The Intensive Margin in Trade

Ana Fernandes, Pete Klenow, Sergii Meleshchuk, Martha Denisse Pierola and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

8624: How Do Countries Use an Asset and Liability Management Approach ? A Survey on Sovereign Balance Sheet Management

Mehmet Coskun Cangoz, Sebastien-000379895 Boitreaud and Christopher Benjamin Dychala

8623: The Cost and Benefits of Tax Treaties with Investment Hubs: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sebastian Beer and Jan Loeprick

8622: Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones

8621: Are Banks Engines of Export ? Financial Structures and Export Dynamics

Raoul Minetti, Alen Mulabdic, Michele Ruta and Susan Chun Zhu

8620: Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition: The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion

Lixin Xu and Li Yang

8619: The Causal Mechanism of Financial Education: Evidence from Mediation Analysis

Fenella Carpena and Bilal Zia

8618: Root for the Tubers: Extended-Harvest Crop Production and Productivity Measurement in Surveys

Talip Kilic, Heather G. Moylan, John Ilukor, Clement Mtengula and Pangapanga-Phiri,Innocent

8617: Ghana Private Equity and Venture Capital Ecosystem Study

Shanthi Divakaran, Sam Schneider and Patrick J. Mcginnis

8616: How Does Poverty Differ Among Refugees ? Taking a Gender Lens to the Data on Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Lucia C. Hanmer, Diana Jimena Arango, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, Julieth Santamaria and Mariana Viollaz

8615: Concentration in the Banking Sector and Financial Stability: New Evidence

Pietro Calice and Leone Leonida

8614: How Much Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reduce Trade Costs ?

Francois Michel Marie Raphael De Soyres, Alen Mulabdic, Siobhan Murray, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta

8613: FDI and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Emerging Economies

Marcio Cruz, Gaurav Nayyar, Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vézina

8612: Who Wins and Who Loses from Staple Food Price Spikes ? Welfare Implications for Mozambique

Javier Baez, German Daniel Caruso and Hemant Kumar Pullabhotla

8611: Courts and Business Registration: Evidence from Serbia

Miriam Bruhn, Caleb Sungwoo Cho, Andreja Marusic, Ha Minh Nguyen, José-Daniel Reyes and Trang Thu Tran

8610: Living Life: Assessing Bureaucratic Complexity in Citizen-Government Interactions

Valeria Perotti, Marina Kayumova and Natalia Mazoni Silva Martins

8609: Are the Poor Getting Globalized?

Adelina Mendoza, Gaurav Nayyar and Roberta Piermartini

8608: Taking Management Digital: Lessons from the Development of an Innovative Management Information System for Small Businesses in Ethiopia

Aly Salman Alibhai, Francesco Strobbe and Espen Villanger

8607: Foreign Investment across the Belt and Road: Patterns, Determinants, and Effects

Maggie Xiaoyang Chen and Chuanhao Lin

8606: Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration?: Evidence from Nigeria

Oyebola Motunrayo Okunogbe

8605: A Proxy Means Test for Sri Lanka

Ashwini Sebastian, Shivapragasam Shivakumaran, Ani Silwal, David Newhouse, Thomas Walker and Nobuo Yoshida

8604: Assessing the Effect of Public Capital on Growth: An Extension of the World Bank Long-Term Growth Model

Sharmila Devadas and Steven Michael Pennings

8603: Exporting Firms and the Demand for Skilled Tasks

Irene Brambilla, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

8602: Prioritizing Infrastructure Investments: A Comparative Review of Applications in Chile

Darwin Marcelo Gordillo, Schuyler House and Aditi Raina

8601: How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System ? Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Francisco Campos, Markus Goldstein and David McKenzie

8600: Trade Liberalization and Integration of Domestic Output Markets in Brazil

Jose Guilherme Reis, Mariana Iootty, Jose E. Signoret, Tanja K. Goodwin, Martha Martinez Licetti, Alice Duhaut and Somik V. Lall

8599: India's Growth Story

Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Florian Michael Blum, Poonam Gupta and Dhruv Jain

8598: Survey of the Kenyan Private Equity and Venture Capital Landscape

Shanthi Divakaran, Patrick J. Mcginnis and Sam Schneider

8597: Remittances and Labor Supply in the Northern Triangle

Liliana Sousa and Andres Felipe Garcia Suaza