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10945: Identifying Growth Accelerations

Bram Gootjes, Jakob de Haan, Kersten Kevin Stamm and Shu Yu

10944: The Effect of Carbon Taxes on Aggregate Productivity: The Case of the Dominican Republic

Esteban Ferro, Davide Salvatore Mare, Faruk Miguel Liriano, Fausto Andres Patino Pena, Maria Gabriela Rodriguez Quezada and Federica Zeni

10943: Taxing for Growth: Revisiting the 15 Percent Threshold

Rishabh Choudhary, Franz Ulrich Ruch and Emilia Skrok

10942: Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Argentina: Drivers and Channels of a Long-Lasting Marriage

Francisco García Posleman and Julian Folgar

10941: Digitalization and Inclusive Growth: A Review of the Evidence

Regina Pleninger, Dana Vorisek, Shu Yu and Gaurav Nayyar

10940: Tax Compliance in Romania

Monica Robayo-Abril, Georgiana Balaban and Marcin Wroński

10939: Fuel Subsidy Reforms: Lessons from the Literature and Assessing the Price Shock for Different Sectors through an Input-Output Table in the Case of Angola

Bao We Wal Bambe, Chadi Bou Habib and Joaquin Marandino Peregalli

10938: Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success

Francisco Campos, Michael Frese, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary C. Johnson, David McKenzie and Mona Mensmann

10937: Domestic Laws and Protectionism in Government Procurement

Carlos Sebastian Barreto Cifuentes, Katayoon Beshkardana, Majed M. El-Bayya and Lorenzo Rotunno

10936: Usus Fructus: Taking Account of Property Use Rights in Household Wealth Measurement

Giovanni D'Alessio, Andrea Neri and I. Toma

10935: Mapping the Risk Posed to Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems by Uncontrolled Access to Photovoltaic Water Pumping in Sub-Saharan Africa

Guillaume Zuffinetti and Simon Meunier

10934: Simulating Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Minimum Wage Increases in Romania: Evidence from Survey and Administrative Tax Data

Monica Robayo-Abril, Madalina Zamfir and Marcin Wroński

10933: Find the Fake: Boosting Resistance to Health Misinformation in Jordan with a WhatsApp Chatbot Game

Michelle Dugas, Daniel Alejandro Pinzon Hernandez, Jungkyu Rhys Lim, Renos Vakis, Zeina Afif, Takahiro Hasumi and Diya Nitham Mousa Elfadel

10932: Spatial Inequality and Informality in Kenya’s Firm Network

Verena Christina Wiedemann, Benard K. Kirui, Vatsal Khandelwal and Peter W. Chacha

10931: Using Post-Double Selection Lasso in Field Experiments

Jacobus Cilliers, Nour Elashmawy and David McKenzie

10930: Disaggregated Impacts of Growth on Multidimensional Poverty: Does the Source of Growth Matter?

Francis Muamba Mulangu, Jean-Pascal Nguessa Nganou, Mokhtar Benlamine and Michael Keller

10929: The Financial Premium and Real Cost of Bureaucrats in Businesses

Ana Paula Cusolito, Roberto Fattal Jaef, Fausto Andres Patino Pena and Akshat Vikram Singh

10928: Jobless Development

Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge, Richard Rogerson and Zoe Leiyu Xie

10927: Characterizing Green and Carbon-intensive Employment in India

Andrés Ham, Emmanuel Vazquez and Monica Yanez Pagans

10926: Effective Fuel Price in Reducing Emission Intensity: A Panel Analysis for Brazil

Ayan Qu

10925: The Division of Revenues from Unexpected Demand Shocks

Paulo Bastos, Natalia P. Monteiro and Odd Rune Straume

10924: Exploring the Drivers of Youth Pursuing Vocational Training in High-Paying Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire

Clara Delavallade, Manil Nadir Zenaki, Léa Rouanet and Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube

10923: Thirsty Business: A Global Analysis of Extreme Weather Shocks on Firms

Roberta V. Gatti, Asif Islam, Casey Maue and Esha Dilip Zaveri

10922: Rebating Revenues from Unilateral Emissions Pricing

Christoph Böhringer, Carolyn Fischer and Nicholas Rivers

10921: Do More Informed Citizens Make Better Climate Policy Decisions ?

Michael Lokshin, Michael Hannon, Miguel Purroy and Iván Torre

10920: It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies

Samuel Bazzi, Masyhur Hilmy, Benjamin Marx, Mahvish Ifrah Shaukat and Andreas Stegmann

10919: Regenerative Agriculture in Practice: A Review

Andrew L. Dabalen, Aparajita Goyal and Ruozi Song

10918: Questioning the Climate Change Age Gap

Alexandru Cojocaru, Arina Nikandrova and Michael Lokshin

10917: Statistically Matching Income and Consumption Data: An Evaluation of Energy and Income Poverty in Romania

Britta Laurin Rude and Monica Robayo-Abril

10916: How Well Did Real-Time Indicators Track Household Welfare Changes in Developing Countries during the COVID-19 Crisis?

David Newhouse, Rachel Swindle, Shun Wang, Joshua David Merfeld, Utz Pape, Kibrom Tafere and Michael Weber

10915: Generative AI: Catalyst for Growth or Harbinger of Premature De-Professionalization ?

Yan Liu

10914: Why Did Support for Climate Policies Decline in Europe and Central Asia?

Alexandru Cojocaru, Michael Lokshin and Iván Torre

10913: Fiscal Challenges in Small States: Weathering Storms, Rebuilding Resilience

Samuel Christopher Hill and Jeetendra Khadan

10912: Using Satellite Imagery and a Farmer Registry to Assess Agricultural Support in Conflict Settings: The Case of the Producer Support Grant Program in Ukraine

Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

10911: Do Capital Incentives Distort Technology Diffusion ? Evidence on Cloud, Big Data and AI

Richard Kneller, Jonathan David Timmis, Timothy DeStefano and Nick Johnstone

10910: Using Poverty Lines to Measure Refugee Self-Reliance

Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Robert Benjamin Hopper

10909: Trade-offs in the Design of Simplified Tax Regimes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicolas Orgeira Pillai, Christopher Alexander Hoy, Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, Alex Oguso, Anna Custers, Daniel Zalo, Ruggero Doino and Jonathan George Karver

10908: Identification of an Expanded Inventory of Green Job Titles through AI-Driven Text Mining

Michal Palinski, Gunes Asik, Tomasz Gajderowicz, Maciej Jakubowski, Efsan Nas Ozen and Dhushyanth Raju

10907: Hidden Debt Revelations

Sebastian Andreas Horn, David Mihalyi, Philipp Nickol and César Sosa-Padilla

10906: Women at Work: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti

Florencia Devoto, Emanuela Galasso, Kathleen G. Beegle and Stefanie Brodmann

10905: Firm Networks and Global Technology Diffusion

Paulo Bastos, Katherine Stapleton, Daria Taglioni and Hannah Yi Wei

10904: Regional Convergence in Brazil

Kaleb Abreha, Rafael Amaral Ornelas and Gabriel Roberto Zaourak

10903: The Economic Impacts of the Syrian Refugee Migration on Jordan: An Integration Perspective

Juan Segnana, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez

10902: Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?

Tristan Reed

10901: Evaluation of Door-to-Door Tax Enforcement Strategy in Indonesia

Paulo Antonacci and Muhammad Khudadad Chattha

10900: Long-Term Growth Prospects in Peru: Leveraging the Global Green Transition and the Reforms Needed to Become a High-Income Country

Paulo Chávez, Daniel Francisco Barco Rondan, Bledi Celiku, Arthur Galego Mendes, Steven Michael Pennings and Elena Resk

10899: Racial Peer Effects at Work: Evidence from Worker Deaths in Brazil

Aiko Schmeißer and Katharina Maria Fietz

10898: Conflict and Firms’ Performance: A Global View

Emanuele Brancati, Michele Di Maio, Roberta V. Gatti and Asif Islam

10897: A Literature Review on Productivity and Growth in Brazil

Fernando Veloso and Gabriel Roberto Zaourak

10896: Economic Transformation in Africa: The Role of North-South and South-South Trade

Woubet Kassa, Gideon Ndubuisi and Solomon Owusu

10895: Dynamic Exports and Labor Markets for Inclusive Growth in Cambodia

Deeksha Kokas, Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Wendy Karamba

10894: Can Public Credit Schemes Improve Access to Finance for Small Businesses ? Evidence from Indonesia

Hillary C. Johnson, Cecile Thioro Niang, Francesco Strobbe and Salman Alibhai

10893: Optimal Investments in Africa’s Road Network

Sebastian Martin Krantz

10892: Small Area Estimation of Poverty in Four West African Countries by Integrating Survey and Geospatial Data

Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, David Newhouse, Nikos Tzavidis, Timo Schmid, Elizabeth Mary Foster, Angela Luna Hernandez, Aissatou Ouedraogo, Aly Sanoh and Aboudrahyme Savadogo

10891: The Accumulation and Utilization of Human Capital over the Development Spectrum

Federico Rossi and Michael Weber

10890: Sustaining Poverty Gains: A Vulnerability Map to Guide the Expansion of Social Registries

Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Emmanuel Skoufias, Thomas Bossuroy and Paul Andres Corral Rodas

10889: Understanding the Main Determinants of Telework and Its Role in Women’s Labor Force Participation

Gabriela Inchauste and Mariel Cecilia Siravegna

10888: The Mis-Education of Women in Afghanistan: From Wage Premiums to Economic Losses

Rafiuddin Najam, Harry Patrinos and Raja Bentaouet Kattan

10887: How Redistributive Is Fiscal Policy in China ? New Evidence on the Distributional Impacts of Taxes and Spending

Veronica Sonia Montalva Talledo, Sailesh Tiwari, Yang Wang, Maria Ana Lugo and Nora Lustig

10886: Spilling Over: The Benefits of Public Works Projects for Groundwater in India

A. Patrick Behrer and Hemant Pullabhotla

10885: Agriculture Production Potential of Groundwater Irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bhavya Srivastava, Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, Aparajita Goyal and Andrew L. Dabalen

10884: Refugees and Humanitarian Aid: The Rohingya Impact on Bangladesh’s Development

Maria Jose Urbina, Christina Wieser, Alvin Etang Ndip and Sandra Rozo

10883: A Learning Agenda for Community-Driven Development: Responding to Complex Contextual, Evaluation, and Inference Challenges

Patrick John Barron, Patricia Fernandes, Stephen Joseph Winkler and Michael Woolcock

10882: Development Acupuncture: The Network Structure of Multidimensional Poverty and Its Implications

Luis Lopez-Calva, Kimberly Blair Bolch, Viktor Stojkoski and Almudena Fernandez

10881: “Crowding In” Effect of Public Investment on Private Investment Revisited

John Nana Darko Francois, Maty Konte and Franz Ulrich Ruch

10880: What Data-Rich Assessments of Socioeconomic Inequality and Mobility in Rich Countries Overlook in Poor Countries

Roy Van der Weide and Michael Woolcock

10879: Learning When Schools Shutdown: Impacts of H1N1 Outbreak on Learning Loss and Learning Gaps

Vivian Amorim, Caio Piza and Ildo José Lautharte

10878: High-Skilled Migration from Myanmar: Responses to Signals of Political and Economic Stabilization

Yashodhan Ghorpade, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz and Theingie Han

10877: Public Investment Quality and Its Implications for Sovereign Risk and Debt Sustainability

Amat Adarov and Ugo Panizza

10876: Rate Cycles

Kristin Forbes, Jongrim Ha and Ayhan Kose

10875: Measuring Social Sustainability: A Multidimensional Approach

Paola Marcela Ballon Fernandez and Jose Cuesta

10874: Private Management of African Protected Areas Improves Wildlife and Tourism Outcomes but With Security Concerns in Conflict Regions

Patrick Hunnicutt, Sean Denny and Gabriel Englander

10873: Do Men Really Have Greater Socio-Emotional Skills Than Women ? Evidence from Tanzanian Youth

Rachel Cassidy, Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Elijah Kipchumba and Julietha Komba

10872: Rate-Based Emissions Trading with Overlapping Policies: Insights from Theory and an Application to China

Carolyn Fischer, Chenfei Qu and Lawrence H. Goulder

10871: Measuring Poverty in Tanzania: Comparison of Diary and Recall Approaches to Food Consumption Data Collection

Darcey Jeanne Genou Johnson, Josephine Ofori Adofo, Maryam Gul, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Akuffo Amankwah

10870: Who on Earth Is Using Generative AI ?

Yan Liu and He Wang

10869: Micro-Level Impacts of the War on Ukraine’s Agriculture Sector: Distinguishing Local and National Effects over Time

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

10868: Export and Labor Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective — Evidence from Viet Nam

Deeksha Kokas, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Ha Vu

10867: Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data: An Exploratory Analysis

Hai-Anh Dang, Talip Kilic, Ksenia Abanokova and Gero Carletto

10866: Outward and Upward Construction: A 3D Analysis of the Global Building Stock

Thomas Esch, Klaus W. Deininger, Remi Jedwab and Daniela Palacios-Lopez

10865: Absentee Landlords and Land Tenancy

Annemie Maertens, Siddharth Sharma and Melanie Khamis

10864: Measuring Legislative Predictability: The Case of the Kingdom of Jordan and Implications for the MENA Region

Mihály Fazekas, Dominik Brenner and Peter Farup Ladegaard

10863: Buffer or Bottleneck ? Employment Exposure to Generative AI and the Digital Divide in Latin America

Paweł Gmyrek, Hernan Winkler and Santiago Garganta

10862: Making Agriculture Work for the Poor in Timor-Leste

Francis Addeah Darko and Ririn Salwa Purnamasari

10861: Do Psychosocial Stimulation, Parental Distress and Early Childhood Education Enrollment Show Different Associations with Early Childhood Development Outcomes for Boys and Girls ? Findings from a Phone Survey in Pakistan

Emily Esther Franchett, Amer Hasan, Elizabeth Lauren Hentschel, Mahreen Tahir Chowdhry, Heather B. Tomlinson, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai and Mina Zamand

10860: Should Farm Input Subsidy Programs Target Poor or Non-Poor Farmers ? Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program

Francis Addeah Darko

10859: Profitability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Francis Addeah Darko, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert and Talip Kilic

10858: Assessing Power System Disruptions and Associated Economic Impacts from Increasing Extreme Heat Events in Southeast Europe Using an Idealized Design Methodology

David Farnham, Ross Marc Eisenberg and Luc Marius Jacques Bonnafous

10857: Revealing Tax Evasion: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Survey of Indonesian Firms

Christopher Alexander Hoy, Filip Jolevski and Sheannal Obeyesekere

10856: Does Climbing the Jobs Ladder Promote Poverty Reduction ?

Yunji Choi, Mario Gronert, Maddalena Honorati, Joshua D. Merfeld and David Newhouse

10855: Trade Policies Mix and Match: Theory, Evidence and the EU-Sino Electric Vehicle Disputes

Hiau Looi Kee and Enze Xie

10854: Electricity Transition in MFMod: A Methodological Note with Applications

Charl Jooste, Florent John Mcisaac and Alexander Haider

10853: A Comparative Analysis of Financial Sector Reforms and Policies in Countries Exiting Fragility

Pietro Calice and Dimitri G. Demekas

10852: Know Thy Foe: Information Provision and Air Pollution in Tbilisi

Sandra Baquie, Arnold Behrer, Xinming Du, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Natsuko Kiso Nozaki

10851: When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency ? Evidence from the Rural Philippines

Aries Ayuson Arugay, Aletheia Donald, Forest Brach Jarvis, Hillary C. Johnson and Aletheia Valenciano

10850: Financial Development and Fragility: A Clustering Analysis

Igor Custodio João, Pietro Calice, Andre Lucas and Julia Schaumburg

10849: Therapy, Mental Health, and Human Capital Accumulation among Adolescents in Uganda

Sarah Jane Baird, Berk Özler, Chiara Dell'Aira, Luca Parisotto and Danish Us-Salam

10848: The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs

Aletheia Donald, Markus P. Goldstein, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz and Mathilde Sage

10847: Connectivity, Road Quality, and Jobs: Evidence from Armenia

Nino Pkhikidze

10846: Does Effective School Leadership Improve Student Progression and Test Scores ? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi

Salman Asim, Ravinder Madron Casley Gera, Donna Oretha Harris and Stefan Dercon