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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

9323: Relationship between Macroeconomic Indicators and Capital Markets Performance in Selected Southeastern European Countries

Ante Dodig

9322: Gender Pension Gaps in a Private Retirement Accounts System: A Dynamic Model of Household Labor Supply and Savings

Clement Jean Edouard Joubert

9321: Contagious Protests

Rabah Arezki, Alou Adessé Dama, Simeon Djankov and Ha Nguyen

9320: Adding Fuel to the Fire: Cheap Oil during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collette Mari Wheeler, John Baffes, Alain Kabundi, Gene Kindberg-Hanlon, Peter Nagle and Franziska Ohnsorge

9319: Reform Chatter and Democracy

Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov, Ha Nguyen and Ivan Yotzov

9318: Recent Trends in Bank Privatization

Ata Bertay, Pietro Calice, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan and Oliver Masetti

9317: Estimating Capital Formation and Capital Stock by Economic Sector in China: The Implications for Productivity Growth

Richard Herd

9316: Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India

M. Shahe Emran, Francisco Ferreira, Yajing Jiang and Yan Sun

9315: Diversification and Cooperation Strategies in a Decarbonizing World

Grzegorz Peszko, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Alexander Golub

9314: The Evolution of Built-up Areas in Ghana since 1975

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad J. Shilpi

9313: COVID-19 Age-Mortality Curves Are Flatter in Developing Countries

Gabriel Demombynes

9312: Should Consumption Sub-Aggregates Be Used to Measure Poverty ?

Luc Christiaensen, Ethan Ligon and Thomas Pave Sohnesen

9311: How Valuable is the Reliability of Residential Electricity Supply in Low-Income Countries ? Evidence from Nepal

Anna Alberini, Jevgenijs Steinbuks and Govinda Timilsina

9310: Trust or Property Rights ? Can Trusted Relationships Substitute for Costly Land Registration in West African Cities ?

Lucie Letrouit and Harris Selod

9309: Caloric intake and energy expenditures in India

Shari Eli and Nicholas Li

9308: Big Data in Transportation: An Economics Perspective

Harris Selod and Souleymane Soumahoro

9307: Implementing Precaution in Benefit-Cost Analysis: The Case of Deep Seabed Mining

Kerry Mace Krutilla, David Henning Good, Michael Toman and Tijen Arin

9306: Using Machine Learning to Assess Yield Impacts of Crop Rotation: Combining Satellite and Statistical Data for Ukraine

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Nataliia Kussul, Mykola Lavreniuk and Oleg Nivievskyi

9305: Impact of Financial Incentives and the Role of Information and Communication in Last-Mile Delivery of Textbooks in Zambia

Seo Yeon Hong, Xiaonan Cao and Mupuwaliywa Mupuwaliywa

9304: International Benchmarking for Country Economic Diagnostics: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Subal Kumbhakar, Norman Loayza and Vivian Norambuena

9303: Demystifying the Costs of Electricity Generation Technologies

Govinda Timilsina

9302: Tax Competition: Is It a Source of the Corporate Savings Glut?

Atsushi Kawamoto and Kei Muraki

9301: Transforming Finance in the Middle East and North Africa

Rabah Arezki and Lemma W. Senbet

9300: What Are the Poverty and Inequality Impacts of Fiscal Policy in Turkey ?

Pablo Facundo Cuevas, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti and Metin Nebiler

9299: Attracting Private Solutions and Participation in the Power Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Findings from a Survey of Investors and Financiers

Benedict Sebastian Probst, Richard Holcroft, Joern Thorsten Huenteler, Ani Balabanyan, Andrew Tipping and Peter Robinson

9298: China's Productivity Slowdown and Future Growth Potential

Loren Brandt, John Litwack, Elitza Mileva, Luhang Wang, Yifan Zhang and Luan Zhao

9297: Power System Implications of Subsidy Removal, Regional Electricity Trade, and Carbon Constraints in MENA Economies

Govinda Timilsina and Ilka Fabiana Deluque Curiel

9296: Growth and Risk: A View from International Trade

Pravin Krishna, Andrei Levchenko and William Maloney

9295: Women in the Pipeline: A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps

Jishnu Das and Clement Jean Edouard Joubert

9294: Why Are So Many Children Stunted in the Philippines ?

Mario V. Capanzana, Gabriel Demombynes and Paul Michael Gubbins

9293: Rent-Seeking Activities, Misallocation, and Innovation in Argentina

Gabriel Zaourak

9292: Changes in Female Employment in Mexico: Demographics, Economics, and Policies

Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena and Diego Cardozo Medeiros

9291: Examining the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in India through Daily Electricity Consumption and Nighttime Light Intensity

Robert Beyer, Sebastian Franco Bedoya and Virgilio Galdo

9290: A Decade after the 2009 Global Recession: Macroeconomic Developments

Wee Chian Koh and Shu Yu

9289: A Decade after the 2009 Global Recession: Macroeconomic and Financial Sector Policies

Wee Chian Koh and Shu Yu

9288: Technology in the Classroom and Learning in Secondary Schools

Moussa Blimpo, Ousman Gajigo, Solomon Owusu, Ryoko Tomita and Yanbin Xu

9287: Reversal of Fortune for Political Incumbents after Oil Shocks

Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov, Ha Nguyen and Ivan Yotzov

9286: Does Corruption Hurt Employment Growth of Financially Constrained Firms More ?

Mohammad Amin and Yew Chong Soh

9285: Productivity Growth and Efficiency Dynamics of Korean Structural Transformation

Hyeok Jeong

9284: Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A Set of Global Estimates

João Pedro Azevedo, Amer Hasan, Diana Goldemberg, Syedah Aroob Iqbal and Koen Martijn Geven

9283: The Evolution of Deep Trade Agreements

Aaditya Mattoo, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta

9282: Inclusion in Indonesia's Education Sector: A Subnational Review of Gender Gaps and Children with Disabilities

Rythia Afkar, Noah Bunce Yarrow, Soedarti Surbakti and Rachel Danielle Cooper

9281: Exports and Productivity: The Role of Imported Inputs and Investment in R&D

Ruchita Manghnani

9280: Community Engagement in Schools: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan

Salman Asim and Amina Riaz

9279: Long-Term Shifts in Korean Manufacturing and Plant-Level Productivity Dynamics

Yoonsoo Lee

9278: Malaysia's Economic Growth and Transition to High Income: An Application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)

Sharmila Devadas, Jorge P. Guzman, Young Eun Kim, Norman Loayza and Steven Michael Pennings

9277: Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Benoît Decerf, Francisco Ferreira, Daniel Gerszon Mahler and Olivier Sterck

9276: Debt Intolerance: Threshold Level and Composition

Hideaki Matsuoka

9275: Female Business Leaders, Business and Cultural Environment, and Productivity around the World

Sheng Fang, Chorching Goh, Mark Roberts, Lixin Xu and Albert G. Zeufack

9274: Method Matters: Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria and Rwanda

Claire Cullen

9273: Covariate Shocks and Child Undernutrition: A Review of Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Zelalem Debebe and Dhushyanth Raju

9272: Improved Biomass Cookstove Use in the Longer Run: Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

Alemu Mekonnen, Abebe D. Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Daniel LaFave, Peter Martinsson and Michael Toman

9271: Power to the Fiscal ? An Exploration of the Use of Credit Ratings to Estimate the Expected Cost of a Guarantee of a Power-Purchase Agreement

Cigdem Aslan and Tim Irwin

9270: The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in the Russian Federation

Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang and Michael Lokshin

9269: Demand for Safe Spaces: Avoiding Harassment and Stigma

Florence Kondylis, Arianna Legovini, Kate Vyborny, Astrid Maria Theresia Zwager and Luiza Cardoso De Andrade

9268: Winners and Losers from COVID-19: Global Evidence from Google Search

Kibrom Abay, Kibrom Tafere and Andinet Woldemichael

9267: Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution

Pierre Jean Bachas, Lucie Gadenne and Anders Jensen

9266: Job Creation and Demand for Skills in Kosovo: What Can We Learn from Job Portal Data?

Calogero Brancatelli, Alicia Charlene Marguerie and Stefanie Koettl-Brodmann

9265: The Evolution of Services Trade Policy Since the Great Recession

Ingo Borchert, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Juan A. Marchetti and Aaditya Mattoo

9264: Applied Services Trade Policy: A Guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index

Ingo Borchert, Batshur Gootiiz, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Juan A. Marchetti, Aaditya Mattoo, Ester Rubio and Evgeniia Shannon

9263: Measuring Employment: Experimental Evidence from Urban Ghana

Rachel Heath, Ghazala Mansuri, Bob Rijkers, William Hutchins Seitz and Dhiraj Sharma

9262: Analyzing Flooding Impacts on Rural Access to Hospitals and Other Critical Services in Rural Cambodia Using Geo-Spatial Information and Network Analysis

Xavier Espinet Alegre, Zuzana Stanton-Geddes and Sadig Aliyev

9261: The Transformative Effects of Privatization in China: A Natural Experiment Based on Politician Career Concern

Zhangkai Huang, Jinyu Liu, Guangrong Ma and Lixin Xu

9260: COVID-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries: A Tale of Two Pandemics ?

Philip Schellekens and Diego M. Sourrouille

9259: Measuring Monetary Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Data Gaps and Different Options to Address Them

Aziz Atamanov, Sharad Tandon, Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo and Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena

9258: Infrastructure, Economic Growth, and Poverty: A Review

Govinda Timilsina, Gal Hochman and Ze Song

9257: The Sooner, the Better: The Early Economic Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Michael Lokshin and Iván Torre

9256: Pull Your Small Area Estimates up by the Bootstraps

Paul Corral Rodas, Isabel Molina and Minh Nguyen

9255: The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai and Nandini Krishnan

9254: Does Better Information Curb Customs Fraud?

Cyril Romain Chalendard, Alice Duhaut, Ana Fernandes, Aaditya Mattoo, Gaël Raballand and Bob Rijkers

9253: Covid-19 and Food Protectionism: The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets

Alvaro Espitia, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta

9252: Remote-learning, Time-Use, and Mental Health of Ecuadorian High-School Studentsduring the COVID-19 Quarantine

Igor Asanov, Francisco Flores, David McKenzie, Mona Mensmann and Mathis Schulte

9251: Transformational Climate Finance: Donors' Willingness to Support Deep and Transformational Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Lower-Income Countries

Jon Strand

9250: Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India

M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad J. Shilpi

9249: A Multiple-Arm, Cluster-Randomized Impact Evaluation of the Clean India (Swachh Bharat) Mission Program in Rural Punjab, India

Luis Andres, Saubhik Deb, George Joseph, Marna Isabel Larenas and Jonathan Grabinsky Zabludovsky

9248: Locking Crops to Unlock Investment: Experimental Evidence on Warrantage in Burkina Faso

Clara Delavallade and Susan Godlonton

9247: Nowcasting Economic Activity in Times of COVID-19: An Approximation from the Google Community Mobility Report

James Sampi and Charl Jooste

9246: Lost Wages: The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures

George Psacharopoulos, Victoria Collis, Harry Patrinos and Emiliana Vegas

9245: Study of the Distributional Performance of Piped Water Consumption Subsidies in 10 Developing Countries

Laura Abramovsky, Luis Andres, George Joseph, Juan Pablo Rud, German Eduardo Sember and Michael David Thibert

9244: Cross-Region Transfers in a Monetary Union: Evidence from the US and Some Implications

Steven Michael Pennings

9243: Early-Life Access to a Basic Health Care Program and Adult Outcomes in Indonesia

Md Nazmul Ahsan, Rakesh Banerjee and Riddhi Maharaj