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10144: Delivery Challenges and Development Effectiveness: Assessing the Determinants of World Bank Project Success

Daniel Ortega Nieto, Ariya Hagh and Vivek Agarwal

10143: Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis

Ivette Maria Contreras Gonzalez, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Janneke Pieters and Michael Weber

10142: Social Norms and Gender Equality: A Descriptive Analysis for South Asia

Maurizio Bussolo, Jessy Amarachi Ezebuihe, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Stavros Poupakis, Tasmia Rahman and Nayantara Sarma

10141: Should the Food Insecurity Experience Scale Crowd Out Other Food Access Measures ? Evidence from Nigeria

Jonathan William Lain, Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath

10140: Measuring Land Tenure at the Individual Level: Lessons from Methodological Research in Armenia

Sydney Gourlay, Giuseppe Maggio, Anahit Safyan and Alberto Zezza

10139: How Have Formal Firms Recovered from the Pandemic ? Insights from Survey and Tax Administrative Data in Zambia

Christopher Hoy, Laban Simbeye, Muhammad Abdullah Ali Malik, Aliisa Koivisto and Mashekwa Maboshe

10138: The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Reshmaan Nahar Hussam, Erin Munro Kelley, Gregory Lane and Fatima Zahra

10137: PPP Distress and Fiscal Contingent Liabilities in South Asia

Matias Herrera Dappe, Martin Melecký and Burak Turkgulu

10136: Intra-Household Dynamics and Attitudes toward Vaccines: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Zambia

Christopher Hoy, Rajee Kanagavel and Corey Morales Cameron

10135: Conflict and Girl Child Marriage: Global Evidence

Caroline Krafft, Diana Jimena Arango, Amalia Hadas Rubin and Kelly Jocelyn

10134: Global Job Quality: Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries

Shoghik Hovhannisyan, Veronica Sonia Montalva Talledo, Tyler Remick, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan and Kersten Kevin Stamm

10133: Integrating Mortality into Poverty Measurement through the Poverty Adjusted Life Expectancy Index

Jean-Marie Baland, Guilhem Cassan and Benoît Decerf

10132: With or Without Him ? Experimental Evidence on Gender-Sensitive Cash Grants and Trainings in Tunisia

Jules Gazeaud, Nausheen Khan, Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier Sterck

10131: The Long-Term Impact of High School Financial Education: Evidence from Brazil

Miriam Bruhn, Gabriel Garber, Sergio Koyama and Bilal Husnain Zia

10130: A Gendered Fiscal Incidence Analysis for Ethiopia: Evidence from Individual-Level Data

Alemayehu Ambel, Wondimagegn Mesfin Tesfaye and Manex Bule Yonis

10129: Labor Informality and Market Segmentation in Senegal

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan and Emmanuel Vazquez

10128: Fears and Tears: Should More People Be Moving within and from Developing Countries, and What Stops This Movement ?

David McKenzie

10127: Putting a Price on Safety — A Hedonic Price Approach to Flood Risk in African Cities

Alvina Elisabeth Erman and Ingrid Dallmann

10126: Labor Market Transitions in Egypt Post-Arab Spring

Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Youssef Louis William Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti

10125: Will the Developing World’s Growing Middle Class Support Low-Carbon Policies ?

Matthew Kahn and Somik V. Lall

10124: Private but Misunderstood ? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi

David Sungho Park, Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson and Alan Spearot

10123: Quantifying War-Induced Crop Losses in Ukraine in Near Real Time to Strengthen Local and Global Food Security

Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Nataliia Kussul, Andrii Yu Shelestov, Guido Lemoine and Hanna Yailimova

10122: Conditional Cash Transfers and Gender-Based Violence—Does the Type of Violence Matter ?

Ervin Dervisevic, Elizaveta Perova and Abhilasha Sahay

10121: Life Cycle Savings in a High-Informality Setting—Evidence from Pakistan

Clement Jean Edouard Joubert and Devarakonda Priyanka Kanth

10120: The Dog that Didn’t Bark: The Missed Opportunity of Africa’s Resource Boom

James Cust, Alexis Rivera Ballesteros and Albert G. Zeufack

10119: Beyond Political Connections: A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-level Political Influence in 41 Economies

David C. Francis and Robert Kubinec

10118: Transactional Governance Structures: New Cross-Country Data and an Application to the Effect of Uncertainty

David C. Francis, Nona Karalashvili and Peter Murrell

10117: Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família

Katy Bergstrom, William Dodds and Juan Carlos Robles Rios

10116: The Impact of COVID-19 on Electricity Generation: An Empirical Investigation

Chang Shen, Anna Alberini and Govinda R. Timilsina

10115: Fooled by the Cycle: Permanent versus Cyclical Improvements in Social Indicators

Jose Andree Camarena Fonseca, Luciana Maria Galeano, Luis Morano, Jorge Puig, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Vegh, Lucila Venturi and Guillermo Vuletin

10114: Labor Market Rigidity at Home and Multinational Corporations’ Flexible Task Reallocation Abroad

JaeBin Ahn, Jaerim Choi and Sunghoon Chung

10113: Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence

S Anukriti, Bilge Erten and Priya Mukherjee

10112: Trade Fraud and Non-Tariff Measures

Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita

10111: Informal Microenterprises in Senegal: Performance Outcomes and Possible Avenues to Boost Productivity and Jobs

İzak Atiyas and Mark Andrew Dutz

10110: The Distributional Impact of Serbia’s Taxes and Social Spending

Trang Van Nguyen, Jelena Žarković, Marko Vladisavljevic and Saša Ranđelović

10109: Estimating Local Agricultural GDP across the World

Brian Blankespoor, Yating Ru, Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Timothy Thomas, Liangzhi You and Erwin Kalvelagen

10108: Is Dirt Cheap ? The Economic Costs of Failing to Meet Soil Health Requirements on Smallholder Farms

Sydney Gourlay and Talip Kilic

10107: Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women’s Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India

S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Mahesh Venkat Karra

10106: Indirect Effects of COVID-19 Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on Vaccine Acceptance

Maurizio Bussolo, Nayantara Sarma and Ivan Torre

10105: Consumption Cities versus Production Cities: New Considerations and Evidence

Remi Jedwab, Elena Ianchovichina and Federico Haslop

10104: Why Student Aid Matters ? Roadblocks to the Transition into Higher Education for Forced Migrants in Chile

Christian Blanco, Francisco Jalles Meneses and Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro

10103: Distributional Policies and Social Cohesion in a High-Unemployment Setting

Jorge Agüero and Eniola Fasola

10102: What it Takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People

Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore and Leandro Elia

10101: Building Stability Between Host and Refugee Communities: Evidence from a TVET Program in Jordan and Lebanon

Neil Ferguson, Rebecca J. Wolfe, Laila Amine, Eric Ramadi and Lina Shahin

10100: Refugee Return and Social Cohesion

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Ivan Vargas Silva

10099: Hosting New Neighbors: Perspectives of Host Communities on Social Cohesion in Eastern DRC

World Bank, Phuong Pham, O’Mealia,Thomas, Carol Wei, Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, Anupah Makoond and Patrick Thierry Vinck

10098: Adaptive Experiments for Policy Choice: Phone Calls for Home Reading in Kenya

Bruno Esposito and Anja Sautmann

10097: Social Exclusion: Concepts, Measurement, and a Global Estimate

Jose Cuesta, Borja López-Nova and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

10096: Green Innovation and Economic Growth in a North-South Model

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks and Carolyn Fischer

10095: How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection ? Evidence from Iraq

Chinedu Temple Obi, Lokendra Phadera, Matthew Grant Wai-Poi, Virginia Leape and Gabrielle Fox

10094: India's Services Sector Growth: The Impact of Services Trade on Non-tradable Services

Besart Avdiu, Karan Singh Bagavathinathan, Ritam Chaurey and Gaurav Nayyar

10093: Bridging the Targeting Gap: Assessing Humanitarian Beneficiaries’ Likely Eligibility for Social Protection in Iraq

Lokendra Phadera, Dhiraj Sharma, Matthew Grant Wai-Poi, Lotti Douglas, Vladimir Jovanovic, Oliver Westerman and Safwan Aziz Khan

10092: Non-Labor Input Quality and Small Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

Hope Michelson, Sydney Gourlay and Philip Randolph Wollburg

10091: Discrimination Toward Migrants During Crises

Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc and Sandra Rozo

10090: From #Hashtags to Legislation: Engagement and Support for Economic Reforms in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Rabah Arezki, Oussama Belmejdoub, Bilal Diab, Samira Kalla, Ha Nguyen, Abdulla Fahed Abdulla Ali Saif and Ivan Yotzov

10089: Household Use of Bottled Gas for Cooking: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Masami Kojima and Xin Zhou

10088: Scaling Up Oportunidades and Its Impact on Child Nutrition

Maria Gabriela Farfan Betran, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Luis Rubalcava, Graciela M. Teruel and Duncan Thomas

10087: Economic Impacts of Meeting China’s NDC through Carbon Taxes with Alternative Schemes for Recycling Tax Revenues

Govinda R. Timilsina, Jun Pang and Yuanhua Chang

10086: Why Do Indian States Differ in Their Infrastructure Development ?

Govinda R. Timilsina, Pravakar Sahoo and Ranjan Kumar Dash

10085: Social Sustainability, Poverty, and Income: An Empirical Exploration

Jose Cuesta, Alma Lucia Madrigal Correa and Natalia Gisel Pecorari

10084: Natural Disasters and Economic Dynamics: Evidence from the Kerala Floods

Robert Beyer, Abhinav Narayanan and Gogol Thakur

10083: Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate ? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Hai-Anh Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh and Paolo Verme

10082: Understanding the Climate Change-Migration Nexus through the Lens of Household Surveys: An Empirical Review to Assess Data Gaps

Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano and Adriana Paolantonio

10081: The Welfare Implications of COVID-19 for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Areas

Chrysostomos Tabakis, Gi Khan Ten, Joshua David Merfeld, David Newhouse, Utz Pape and Michael Weber

10080: How Well Can Real-Time Indicators Track the Economic Impacts of a Crisis Like COVID-19 ?

Gi Khan Ten, Joshua David Merfeld, Kibrom Tafere, David Newhouse and Utz Pape

10079: Corporate Debt and Stock Returns: Evidence from U.S. Firms during the 2020 Oil Crash

Rabah Arezki, Caleb Sungwoo Cho, Ha Nguyen and Anh Pham

10078: Geography, Institutions, and Global Cropland Dynamics

Hogeun Park, Harris Selod, Siobhan Murray and Gnanaraj Chellaraj

10077: Combining Survey and Geospatial Data Can Significantly Improve Gender-Disaggregated Estimates of Labor Market Outcomes

Joshua David Merfeld, David Newhouse, Michael Weber and Partha Lahiri

10076: A Welfarist Theory Unifying Monetary and Non-Monetary Poverty Measurement

Benoit Marie A Decerf

10075: How Do Government Transfer Payments Affect Retail Prices and Welfare ? Evidence from SNAP

Justin H. Leung and Hee Kwon (Samuel) Seo

10074: What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss: Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance

Md. Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad J. Shilpi

10073: The Financial Risk Reduction Provided by Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme

Dhushyanth Raju and Stephen D. Younger

10072: Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence

Manisha Shah, Jennifer Seager, Joao H. C. Montalvao Machado and Markus P. Goldstein

10071: Spatial Development and Mobility Frictions in Latin America: Theory-Based Empirical Evidence

Bruno Conte and Elena Ianchovichina

10070: The Demand for Digital and Complementary Skills in Southeast Asia

Wendy Cunningham, Harry Edmund Moroz, Noel Muller and Aivin Vicquierra Solatorio

10069: Intensity-Based Rebating of Emission Pricing Revenues

Christoph Böhringer, Carolyn Fischer and Nicholas Rivers

10068: Trade Policy and Exporters’ Resilience: Evidence from Indonesia

Massimiliano Calì, Devaki Ghose, Angella Montfaucon and Michele Ruta

10067: Financing Vaccine Equity: Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic

Ruchir Agarwal and Tristan Reed

10066: Trade, Transport, and Territorial Development

Kunal Dasgupta and Arti Goswami Grover

10065: Small and Medium Enterprises in Emerging Economies: The Achilles’ Heel of Corporate ESG Responsibility Practices ?

Matteo Ferrazzi and Annamaria Tueske

10064: Green Investment by Firms: Finance or Climate Driven ?

Fotios Kalantzis, Helena Schweiger and Sofia Dominguez

10063: The Human Capital of Firms and the Formal Training of Workers

Asif Islam and Roberta V. Gatti

10062: Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Asif Islam and Roberta V. Gatti

10061: Jobs, Access to Credit, and Informality in MENA Countries

Emanuele-000592383 Brancati, Michele Di Maio and Aminur Rahman

10060: Trade and Innovation in MENA

World Bank

10059: Trucking Costs and the Margins of Internal Trade: Evidence from a Trucking Portal in India

Somik V. Lall, Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Forhad J. Shilpi

10058: Is Inequality Systematically Underestimated in Sub-Saharan Africa ? A Proposal to Overcome the Problem

Fabio Clementi, Michele Fabiani, Vasco Molini and Francesco Schettino

10057: Neither by Land nor by Sea: The Rise of Electronic Remittances during COVID-19

Lelys Dinarte Diaz, David Jaume, Eduardo Medina-Cortina and Hernan Winkler

10056: Managing the Fiscal Risks Wrought by PPPs: A Simple Framework and Some Lessons from Chile

Eduardo Engel, Martín Ferrari, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

10055: Policy Preferences in Response to Large Migration Inflows

William Allen, Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Ivan Vargas Silva

10054: The Effects of Internally Displaced Peoples on Consumption and Inequality in Mali

World Bank, Jeremy Foltz and Sakina Shibuya

10053: Inequality and Security in the Aftermath of Internal Population Displacement Shocks: Evidence from Nigeria

Lars Ludolph, Barbora Šedová and Marta Talevi

10052: Refugees, Diversity and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay and Jean-François Maystadt

10051: Measuring What Matters: Principles for a Balanced Data Suite That Prioritizes Problem-Solving and Learning

Kate Bridges and Michael Woolcock

10050: How Binding Is Supervisory Guidance ? Evidence from the European Calendar Provisioning

Franco Fiordelisi, Gabriele Lattanzio and Davide Salvatore Mare

10049: Mobility and Resilience: A Global Assessment of Flood Impacts on Road Transportation Networks

Yiyi He, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Paolo Avner, Jianxi Gao, Xiangyu Yue and John Radke

10048: Firm-Level Input Distortion in Indian States

Ritam Chaurey, Ruchita Manghnani, Viviana Maria Eugenia Perego and Siddharth Sharma

10047: Two Heads Are Better Than One: Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire

Aletheia Donald, Markus P. Goldstein and Léa Rouanet

10046: A Method to Scale-Up Inter pretative Qualitative Analysis, with an Application to Aspirations in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh

Julian Ashwin, Vijayendra Rao, Monica Rao Biradavolu, Aditya Chhabra, Arshia Haque, Afsana Iffat Khan and Nandini Krishnan

10045: Prospects for Markets for Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes under the Paris Agreement

Jon Strand