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- 9423: How Do Small Formal and Informal Firms in the Arab Republic of Egypt Compare ?

- Caroline Krafft, Ragui A. Assaad, Khandker Wahedur Rahman and Maakwe Cumanzala
- 9422: Inflation Targeting in India: An Interim Assessment

- Barry Eichengreen, Poonam-000193453 Gupta and Rishabh Choudhary
- 9421: Transportation and the Environment: A Review of Empirical Literature

- Shanjun Li, Jianwei Xing, Lin Yang and Fan Zhang
- 9420: Secondary Schools and Teenage Childbearing: Evidence from the School Expansion in Brazilian Municipalities

- Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Jesse Matheson
- 9419: Modeling and Predicting the Spread of Covid-19: Comparative Results for the United States, thePhilippines, and South Africa

- Susmita Dasgupta and David R. Wheeler
- 9418: Life Expectancy at Birth and Lifetime Education and Earnings

- Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth King, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem
- 9417: Revised Estimates of the Impact of Climate Change on Extreme Poverty by 2030

- Bramka Arga Jafino, Brian James Walsh, Julie Rozenberg and Stephane Hallegatte
- 9416: Perceptions, Contagion, and Civil Unrest

- Christophe Abi-Nassif, Asif Islam and Daniel Lederman
- 9415: Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica

- Alessandro Maffioli, David McKenzie and Diego Ubfal
- 9414: Small and Medium Enterprises in the Pandemic: Impact, Responses and the Role of Development Finance

- Ikmal Adian, Djeneba Doumbia, Neil Gregory, Alexandros Ragoussis, Aarti Reddy and Jonathan David Timmis
- 9413: Stochastic Modeling of Food Insecurity

- Dieter Wang, Bo Andree, Andres Fernando Chamorro Elizondo and Phoebe Girouard Spencer
- 9412: Predicting Food Crises

- Bo Andree, Andres Fernando Chamorro Elizondo, Aart C. Kraay, Phoebe Girouard Spencer and Dieter Wang
- 9411: Implications of Major Adverse Events on Productivity

- Alistair Dieppe, Sinem Kilic Celik and Cedric Iltis Finafa Okou
- 9410: Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor: Evidence from Survey Design Experiments

- Jose Galdo, Ana Dammert and Degnet Abebaw Ejigie
- 9409: The Role of Inequality for Poverty Reduction

- Katy Bergstrom
- 9408: Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in Developing Countries: Reassessingthe Evidence for 'Training Doesn’t Work'

- David McKenzie
- 9407: Urban Design, Public Spaces, and Social Cohesion: Evidence from a Virtual Reality Experiment

- Jimena Llopis Abella, Anna Fruttero, Emcet Tas and Umar Taj
- 9406: When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short

- Asad Islam, Sungoh Kwon, Eema Masood, Nishith Prakash, Shwetlena Sabarwal and Deepak Saraswat
- 9405: Inflation Threshold Levels and Economic Growth in the Franc Zone Countries

- Dimitri Sanga and Steve Gui-Diby
- 9404: Long-Term Effects of Free Primary Education on Educational Achievement: Evidence from Lesotho

- Ramaele Moshoeshoe
- 9403: Implications of Cheap Oil for Emerging Markets

- Alain Kabundi and Franziska Ohnsorge
- 9402: Designing Oil Revenue Management Mechanisms: An Application to Chad

- Benoît Campagne, Markus Kitzmuller and Silvana Tordo
- 9401: Sovereign Credit Ratings, Relative Risk Ratings, and Private Capital Flows

- Supriyo De, Sanket Mohapatra and Dilip Ratha
- 9400: One Rule Fits All ? Heterogeneous Fiscal Rules for Commodity Exporters When Price Shocks Can BePersistent: Theory and Evidence

- Arthur Galego Mendes and Steven Michael Pennings
- 9399: Determinants of Property Tax Revenue: Lessons from Empirical Analysis

- Rajul Awasthi, Tuan Minh Le and Chenli You
- 9398: A Structural Model of the Labor Market to Understand Gender Gaps among Marginalized Roma Communities

- Mauricio Salazar-Saenz and Monica Robayo-Abril
- 9397: The Energy-Management Nexus in Firms: Which Practices Matter, How Much and for Whom ?

- Arti Goswami Grover and Valerie Jean Karplus
- 9396: Child Stature, Maternal Education, and Early Childhood Development

- Emmanuel Skoufias and Katja Vinha
- 9395: Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools

- Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels and Andrew Zeitlin
- 9394: Growth of Global Corporate Debt: Main Facts and Policy Challenges

- Facundo Abraham, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente and Sergio Schmukler
- 9393: Cross-Border Banking in EMDEs: Trends, Scale, and Policy Implications

- Erik H.B. Feyen, Norbert Fiess, Ata Bertay and Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas
- 9392: Bank Lending Rates and Spreads in EMDEs: Evolution, Drivers, and Policies

- Erik H.B. Feyen and Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas
- 9391: Making Gravity Great Again

- Will Martin
- 9390: On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality

- S Anukriti, Sonia Bhalotra and Hiu Tam
- 9389: What is the Impact of Weather Shocks on Prices?: Evidence from Ethiopia

- Ruth Hill and Habtamu Neda Fuje
- 9388: How Useful is CPI Price Data for Spatial Price Adjustment in Poverty Measurement?: A Case from Ghana

- Xiaomeng Chen, Rose Mungai, Shohei Nakamura, Thomas Patrick Pearson, Ayago Esmubancha Wambile and Nobuo Yoshida
- 9387: Returns to Education in the Russian Federation: Some New Estimates

- Ekaterina Melianova, Suhas D. Parandekar, Harry Patrinos and Artem Volgin
- 9386: Broadband Internet and Household Welfare in Senegal

- Takaaki Masaki, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
- 9385: Mining and the Quality of Public Services: The Role of Local Governance and Decentralization

- Maty Konte and Rose Vincent
- 9384: How Did Africa's Prospective Petroleum Producers Fall Victim to the Presource Curse ?

- David Mihalyi and Thomas Scurfield
- 9383: Small Area Estimation of Non-Monetary Poverty with Geospatial Data

- Takaaki Masaki, David Newhouse, Ani Silwal, Adane Bedada and Ryan Engstrom
- 9382: Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality

- Deon Filmer, James Paul Habyarimana and Shwetlena Sabarwal
- 9381: Educator Knowledge of Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Eastern Nepal

- Lindsey Buck, Nathan V. Fiala, Nishith Prakash, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Deepak Saraswat and Deepika Shrestha
- 9380: Talent Allocation and Post-Reform Growth in Central America

- Rishabh Sinha
- 9379: Which Firms Benefit from Corporate QE during the COVID-19 Crisis ? The Case of the ECB's Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga
- 9378: Productivity Convergence: Is Anyone Catching Up?

- Gene Kindberg-Hanlon and Cedric Iltis Finafa Okou
- 9377: Violence and Newborn Health: Estimates for Colombia

- Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi
- 9376: The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources: Evidence from Ghana

- Andrew Agyei-Holmes, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto and Christopher Udry
- 9375: The Utilization-adjusted Human Capital Index (UHCI)

- Steven Michael Pennings
- 9374: The Oil Nouveau-Riche and Arms Imports

- Pierre-Louis Vézina
- 9373: The Seasonality of Conflict

- Jenny Guardado and Steven Michael Pennings
- 9372: Natural Resource Discoveries, Citizen Expectations and Household Decisions

- James Cust and Justice Tei Mensah
- 9371: Supporting Teacher Autonomy to Improve Education Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Brazil

- Caio Piza, Astrid Maria Theresia Zwager, Matteo Ruzzante, Rafael Santos Dantas and Andre Loureiro
- 9370: Who Is Employed ? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on Redefining Employment

- Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Janneke Pieters
- 9369: An Optimal Rice Policy for Sierra Leone: Balancing Consumer and Producer Welfare

- Errol George Graham, Hardwick Tchale and Mamadou Ndione
- 9368: Behavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development: Experimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-Income Setting

- Patrick Premand and Oumar Barry
- 9367: Autonomy and Specificity in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mexico

- Carolina Corral, Xavier Gine, Aprajit Mahajan and Enrique Seira Bejarano
- 9366: Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

- Shawn Allen Cole, Martin Melecký, Florian Molders and Tristan Reed
- 9365: Identifying Effective Teachers: Lessons from Four Classroom Observation Tools

- Deon Filmer, Ezequiel Molina and Waly Wane
- 9364: Multinational Corporation Affiliates, Backward Linkages, and Productivity Spillovers in Developing and Emerging Economies: Evidence and Policy Making

- Jacob Jordaan, Willem Douw and Zhenwei Qiang
- 9363: Banking Sector Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Alvaro Pedraza and Claudia Ruiz Ortega
- 9362: Evaluating the Impact of Export Finance Support on Firm-Level Export Performance: Evidence from Pakistan

- Fabrice Defever, Alejandro Riano and Gonzalo Varela
- 9361: The Impact of Employer Discrimination on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia

- Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Samira Nikaein Towfighian, Gustavo Nicolas Paez Salamanca and Mohammed Thabet M Audah
- 9360: Low-Cost Private Schools in Tanzania: A Descriptive Analysis

- Shwetlena Sabarwal, Celeste Sununtnasuk and Deepika Ramachandran
- 9359: The Role of Government in the Market for Electric Vehicles: Evidence from China

- Shanjun Li, Xianglei Zhu, Yiding Ma, Fan Zhang and Hui Zhou
- 9358: Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid?: Evidence from 15 Countries

- David Evans, Fei Yuan and Deon Filmer
- 9357: Ex-ante Evaluation of the Impact of Increases in Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes in Kosovo

- Monica Robayo-Abril, Anastasia Terskaya and Stefanie Koettl-Brodmann
- 9356: Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market

- Gordon Betcherman, Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Ioanna Pantelaiou, Mauro Testaverde and Giannis Tzimas
- 9355: Mama Knows (and Does) Best: Maternal Schooling Opportunities and Child Development in Indonesia

- Amer Hasan, Nozomi Nakajima and Marcos A. Rangel
- 9354: Borrowing to Keep Up (with the Joneses): Inequality, Debt, and Conspicuous Consumption

- Sheheryar Banuri and Ha Nguyen
- 9353: Slow Rockets and Fast Feathers or the Link between Exchange Rates and Exports: A Case Study for Pakistan

- Martín Brun, Juan Pedro Gambetta and Gonzalo Varela
- 9352: Coastal Development between Opportunity and Disaster Risk: A Multisectoral Risk Assessment for Vietnam

- Johannes Michael Braese, Sophie Anne De Vries Robbe and Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler
- 9351: Coastal Development between Opportunity and Disaster Risk: An Assessment of the Coastal Protection System in Vietnam

- Mathijs van Ledden, Tran Thanh Tung, Dzung Huy Nguyen and Long Thanh Nguyen
- 9350: Political Reservation and Female Labor Force Participation in Rural India

- Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Hari Krishnan Nagarajan and Sudhir K. Singh
- 9349: Internationally Linked Firms, Integration Reforms and Productivity: Evidence from Pakistan

- Stefania Lovo and Gonzalo Varela
- 9348: Hide and Protect: A Role of Global Financial Secrecy in Shaping Domestic Institutions

- Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Michael Lokshin
- 9347: Who on Earth Can Work from Home ?

- Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Nicolas Gomez Parra, Caglar Ozden, Bob Rijkers, Mariana Viollaz and Hernan Winkler
- 9346: Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions: A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia

- Damien de Walque, Adanna Deborah Ugochi Chukwuma, Nono Akpedje Ayivi Guedehoussou and Marianna Koshkakaryan
- 9345: Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills

- Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Neil Rankin
- 9344: Expansionary Fiscal Austerity: New International Evidence

- Owen Nie
- 9343: The Information Content of Capital Controls

- Owen Nie
- 9342: Income Distribution, International Integration and Sustained Poverty Reduction

- Pinelopi Goldberg and Tristan Reed
- 9341: Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Guinea

- Abdoul Ganiou Mijiyawa and Lancine Conde
- 9340: Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence on Bangladesh

- Ana Fernandes and Hiau Looi Kee
- 9339: Crop Yield Convergence across Districts in India's Poorest State

- Rishabh Sinha
- 9338: Mobile Money and Investment by Women Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Asif Islam and Silvia Muzi
- 9337: Capital Market Financing and Firm Growth

- Tatiana Didier Brandao, Ross Levine, Ruth Llovet Montanes and Sergio Schmukler
- 9336: The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador

- Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Eliana Carranza and Ana Mercedes Rivadeneira Alava
- 9335: The State of Land Use in Northern Nigeria: A Landsat-Based Mapping Framework

- Fernando Sedano, Vasco Molini and M Abul Kalam Azad
- 9334: What Can the Service Delivery Indicator Surveys Tell Us about COVID-19 Preparedness ?

- Jigyasa Sharma, Kathryn Gilman Andrews, Ruben Orion Conner and Roberta V. Gatti
- 9333: The Effects of Digital-Technology Adoption on Productivity and Factor Demand: Firm-level Evidence from Developing Countries

- Ana Paula Cusolito, Daniel Lederman and Jorge O. Pena
- 9332: Shoring Up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market

- Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Mercedes Rivadeneira Alava and Eliana Carranza
- 9331: Using Remittance Transaction Data for Timely Estimation of the Foreign Worker Population in Malaysia

- Zainab Binti Ali Ahmad, Kenneth Simler and Soonhwa Yi
- 9330: Active Conflict and Access to Education: Evidence from a Series of Conflict-Related Shocks in the Republic of Yemen

- Safa Ali Qassim Almoayad, Eliana Favari, Samira Halabi, Siddharth Krishnaswamy, Almedina Music and Sharad Tandon
- 9329: Big Data for Sampling Design: The Venezuelan Migration Crisis in Ecuador

- Juan Eduardo Munoz, Jose Victor Gallegos Munoz and Sergio Olivieri
- 9328: Transforming Teacher Education in the West Bank and Gaza: Policy Implications for Developing Countries

- Andrew Burke, Ernesto Pancracio Cuadra, Tony Mahon, Juan Manuel Moreno Olmedilla and Simon Thacker
- 9327: The Lives and Livelihoods of Syrian Refugees in the Middle East: Evidence from the 2015-16 Surveys of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, Iraq

- Nandini Krishnan, Flavio Luiz Russo Riva, Dhiraj Sharma and Tara Vishwanath
- 9326: Coping with the Influx: Service Delivery to Syrian Refugees and Hosts in Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, Iraq

- Nandini Krishnan, Flavio Luiz Russo Riva, Dhiraj Sharma and Tara Vishwanath
- 9325: Short-Run Welfare Impacts of Factory Jobs: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

- Girum Abebe, Niklas Buehren and Markus Goldstein
- 9324: COVID-19 and EMDE Corporate Balance Sheet Vulnerabilities: A Simple Stress-Test Approach

- Erik H.B. Feyen, Fernando Dancausa, Bryan O'Reilly Gurhy and Owen Nie
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