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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

8596: Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter ? The Role of Manufacturing versus Services in Development

Gaurav Nayyar, Marcio Cruz and Linghui Zhu

8595: Management and Bureaucratic Effectiveness: Evidence from the Ghanaian Civil Service

Imran Rasul, Daniel Oliver Rogger and Martin J. Williams

8594: Training to Teach Science: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

Facundo Albornoz, Maria Victoria Anauati, Melina Gabriela Furman, Mariana Luzuriaga, Maria Eugenia Podesta and Ines Taylor

8593: Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index

Aart Kraay

8592: Global Dataset on Education Quality: A Review and Update (2000-2017)

Harry Patrinos and Noam Angrist

8591: Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS): Defining A New Macro Measure of Education

Deon Filmer, F. Rogers, Noam Angrist and Shwetlena Sabarwal

8590: The Effect of Increasing Human Capital Investment on Economic Growth and Poverty: A Simulation Exercise

Matthew Edward Collin and David Weil

8589: Bank Runs and Moral Hazard: A Review of Deposit Insurance

Deniz Anginer and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

8588: More Than Schooling: Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill Are Available

Dileni Gunewardena, Elizabeth M. King and Alexandria Valerio

8587: Comparison of Deep Regional Integration in the Melitz, Krugman and Armington Models: The Case of The Philippines in RCEP

Edward Balistreri and David Tarr

8586: Efficiency of Public Spending in Education, Health, and Infrastructure: An International Benchmarking Exercise

Santiago Herrera and Abdoulaye Ouedraogo

8585: Revisiting the Poverty Trend in Rwanda: 2010/11 to 2013/14

Freeha Fatima and Nobuo Yoshida

8584: Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization: Application to the Road Transport Sector

Darwin Marcelo Gordillo, Ruth Schuyler House and Aditi Raina

8583: Occupational Segregation and Declining Gender Wage Gap: The Case of Georgia

Tamar Khitarishvili, Lourdes Rodriguez Chamussy and Nistha Sinha

8582: Electrification and Household Welfare: Evidence from Pakistan

Hussain A. Samad and Fan Zhang

8581: Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries: A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia

Ignacio Raul Apella and Gonzalo Zunino

8580: The Distributional Impacts of Cigarette Taxation in Bangladesh

Giselle Eugenia Del Carmen Hasbun, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Maria Eugenia Genoni

8579: Services Globalization in an Age of Insecurity: Rethinking Trade Cooperation

Aaditya Mattoo

8578: Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: A Robust Relationship?

Gustavo Marrero and Luis Servén

8576: Endowment Effects and Usage of Financial Products: Field Evidence from Malawi

Xavier Gine and Jessica Goldberg

8575: Public Procurement and the Private Business Sector: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Tania Ghossein, Asif Islam and Federica Saliola

8574: Tax-Transfers Schemes, Informality, and Search Frictions in a Small Open Economy

Monica Robayo-Abril

8573: Gender Gaps in Property Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa

Isis Gaddis, Rahul Suresh Lahoti and Wenjie Li

8572: Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice

Anna Popova, David Evans, Mary E. Breeding and Violeta Arancibia

8571: Bank Credit Allocation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Eva M. Gutierrez, Nadeem M. Karmali and Diego M. Sourrouille

8570: Comparison of Welfare Gains in the Armington, Krugman and Melitz Models: Insights from a Structural Gravity Approach

Edward Balistreri and David Tarr

8569: Potential Forest Loss and Biodiversity Risks from Road Improvement in Lao PDR

Stephen Danyo, Susmita Dasgupta and David J. Wheeler

8568: Measuring the Middle Class in Kazakhstan: A Subjective Approach

M. Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli

8567: The Heterogeneous Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty: How Much Do Trade Commitments Boost Trade ?

Alberto Osnago, Roberta Piermartini and Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri

8566: Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling: evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Andreas De Barros and Deon Filmer

8565: The distributional impact of taxes and social spending in Romania

Gabriela Inchauste and Eva Militaru

8564: Mapping the landscape of transactions: the governance of business relations in Latin America

David C. Francis, Nona Karalashvili and Peter Murrell

8563: Upping the ante: the equilibrium effects of unconditional grants to private schools

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Selcuk Ozyurt and Niharika Singh

8562: Financial development, exchange rate regimes, and growth dynamics

Woubet Kassa and Emmanuel Lartey

8561: Creating new positions ? direct and indirect effects of a subsidized apprenticeship program

Bruno Jacques Jean Philippe Crepon and Patrick Premand

8560: Explaining spatial variations in productivity: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Luis Quintero and Mark Roberts

8559: Land fragmentation and food insecurity in Ethiopia

Erwin Willem Yvonnick Leon Knippenberg, Dean Jolliffe and John Hoddinott

8558: The distributional effects of tobacco taxation: the evidence of white and clove cigarettes in Indonesia

Alan Fuchs

8557: The cost of nutritious food in South Asia

Felipe Fadullon Dizon and Anna Whitson Herforth

8556: Selective control: the political economy of censorship

Cristina Corduneanu Huci and Alexander James Hamilton

8555: Effects of corporate governance on the performance of state-owned enterprises

Kyoungsun Heo

8554: The consequences of political interference in bureaucratic decision making: evidence from Nigeria

Daniel Oliver Rogger

8553: Corporate debt overhang and investment: firm-level evidence

Eduardo R. Borensztein and Lei Sandy Ye

8552: Water and sanitation in Dhaka slums: access, quality, and informality in service provision

Yurani Arias Granada, Sabrina Sharmin Haque, George Joseph and Monica Yanez Pagans

8551: Pathways to formalization: going beyond the formality dichotomy -- the case of Peru

Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Iamele P. Rigolini and Claudia Ruiz

8550: Competing priorities: women's microenterprises and household relationships

Friedson-Ridenour,Sophia and Rachael Susan Pierotti

8549: Nutrition, religion, and widowhood in Nigeria

Annamaria Milazzo and Dominique van de Walle

8548: Heterogeneous impacts of main and feeder road improvements: evidence from Ethiopia

Atsushi Iimi, Haileyesus Adamtei Mengesha, James Markland, Yetmgeta Asrat and Kefargachew Kassahun

8547: Infrastructure, value chains, and economic upgrades

Xubei Luo and Xuejiao Xu

8546: Mobility and congestion in urban India

Prottoy Aman Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, Ejaz Ghani and Adam Storeygard

8545: What can we (machine) learn about welfare dynamics from cross-sectional data?

Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti

8544: Study on public debt management systems and results of a survey on solutions used by debt management offices

Cigdem Aslan, Artan Ajazaj and Shurufa Abdul Wahidh

8543: Playing to strength: growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa

Shahid Yusuf and Praveen Kumar

8542: Import substitution with labor misallocation

Marco A.C. Martins and Jorge A. De Thompson R. Araujo

8541: Can government intervention make firms more investment-ready ? a randomized experiment in the Western Balkans

Ana Paula Cusolito, Ernest Dautovic and David McKenzie

8540: Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: a gender perspective

Goedele Van den Broeck and Talip Kilic

8539: A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP?s Food Consumption

Lennart Christian Kaplan, Utz Pape and James Sonam Walsh

8538: Inequality in earnings and adverse shocks in early adulthood

Franck M. Adoho and Bienvenue Tien

8537: Does the environment matter for poverty reduction ? the role of soil fertility and vegetation vigor in poverty reduction

Martin Heger, Gregor Zens and Mook Bangalor

8536: The aggregate income losses from childhood stunting and the returns to a nutrition intervention aimed at reducing stunting

Emanuela Galasso and Robert Adam Stephen Wagstaff

8535: Bought, sold, and bought again: the impact of complex value chains on export elasticities

Francois Michel Marie Raphael De Soyres, Erik Frohm, Vanessa Gunnella and Elena Pavlova

8534: Who are America's star firms?

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

8533: Trade in developing East Asia: how it has changed and why it matters

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

8532: Aquatic salinization and mangrove species in a changing climate: impact in the Indian Sundarbans

Anirban Mukhopadhyay, David J. Wheeler, Susmita Dasgupta, Ajanta Dey and Istiak Sobhan

8531: Cooperation creates special moral obligations

Alexander Cappelen, Varun Gauri and Bertil Tungodden

8530: Urbanization in Kazakhstan: desirable cities, unaffordable housing, and the missing rental marke

William Seitz

8529: Joint effects of parenting and nutrition status on child development: evidence from rural Cambodia

Jan Lukas Berkes, Abbie Raikes, Adrien Bouguen and Deon Filmer

8528: Productivity shocks and repayment behavior in rural credit markets: a framed field experiment

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Lenis Liverpool-Tasie and Robert Shupp

8527: Characterizing business cycles in small economies

Viktoria Hnatkovska and Koehler-Geib,Fritzi

8526: Sources of volatility in small economies

Viktoria Hnatkovska and Koehler-Geib,Fritzi

8525: Should I stay or should I go: do cash transfers affect migration ?

Samik Adhikari and Ugo Gentilini

8524: Not(ch) your average tax system: corporate taxation under weak enforcement

Pierre Jean Bachas and Mauricio Soto

8523: Measuring districts'monthly economic activity from outer space

Robert Beyer, Esha Chhabra, Virgilio Galdo and Martin Rama

8522: Tax Evasion in Africa and Latin America: the role of distortionary infrastructures and policies

Wilfried Kouamé and Jonathan Goyette

8521: Decentralized delivery of financial education: evidence from a country-wide field experiment

Emmanuel Hakizimfura, Douglas Randall and Bilal Zia

8520: The shifting natural wealth of nations: the role of market orientation

Rabah Arezki, Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Frederik Toscani

8519: Taking stock of wholesale power markets in developing countries: a literature review

Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez

8518: Taking stock of the political economy of power sector reforms in developing countries: a literature review

Alan David Lee and Zainab Usman

8517: Integrating variable renewable energy in the Bangladesh power system: a planning analysis

Miklos Bankuti, Debabrata Chattopadhyay and Chong Suk Song

8516: Assessing the international comovement of equity returns

Girum Dagnachew Abate and Luis Servén

8515: Spatial and sectoral heterogeneity of occupational choice in Cameroon

Theophile Bougna Lonla and Pierre Nguimkeu

8514: Gross capital flows by banks, corporates, and sovereigns

Stefan Avdjiev, Bryan James Hardy, Kalemli-Ozcan,Sebnem and Luis Servén

8513: How would cross-border electricity trade stimulate hydropower development in South Asia ?

Govinda R. Timilsina

8512: Jati inequality in rural Bihar

Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao

8511: Better loans or better borrowers ? impact of meso-credit on female-owned enterprises in Ethiopia

Aly Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren and Sreelakshmi Papineni

8510: Impact of conflict on adolescent girls in South Sudan

Utz Pape and Verena Phipps

8509: Transport costs, comparative advantage, and agricultural development: evidence from Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh

Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Lu - DECEE Xu

8508: Bridge to bigpush or backwash ? market integration, reallocation, and productivity effects of Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh

Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Lu - DECEE Xu

8507: The ecological impact of transportation infrastructure

Samuel Edward Asher, Teevrat Garg and Paul Novosad

8506: How does participation in value chains matter to African farmers ?

Nora Carina Dihel, Arti Grover Goswami, Claire Honore Hollweg and Anja Slany

8505: The dynamics of development: innovation and reallocation

Francisco J. Buera and Roberto Fattal Jaef