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9038: Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation: A Municipal-Level Perspective from Mexico (1992-2014)

Luis Lopez-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

9037: Regulatory Arbitrage and Cross-Border Syndicated Loans

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Laszlo Horvath and Harry Huizinga

9036: Trade Policy to Catalyze Export Diversification: What Should Landlocked Fragile Countries Do ? The Cases of Mali, Chad, and Niger

Jose R. Lopez Calix and Nihal Pitigala

9035: Is Informality Good for Business ? The Impacts of IDP Inflows on Formal Firms

Sandra Rozo and Hernan Winkler

9034: Taking Power: Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jeannie Ruth Annan, Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Paula Lorena Gonzalez Martinez and Gayatri B. Koolwal

9033: Domestic Government Spending on Human Capital: A Cross-Country Analysis of Recent Trends

Kathryn Gilman Andrews, Ciro Avitabile and Roberta V. Gatti

9032: Innovations in Tax Compliance: Conceptual Framework

Wilson Prichard, Anna Louise Custers, Roel Dom, Stephen R. Davenport and Michael Anthony Roscitt

9031: Capital Allocation in Developing Countries

Joel Michael David, Venky Venkateswaran, Ana Paula Cusolito and Tatiana Didier Brandao

9030: Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development: A Cross-Sectional Study

Esther O. Chung, Lia C.H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lisy Zarasoa Ratsifandrihamanana and Ann Weber

9029: Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Expenditure Management: Using Banking Sector Innovations for Improved Expenditure Control and Effective Service Delivery

Moritz Otto Maria Alfons Piattifuenfkirchen, Ali Hashim and Khuram Farooq

9028: Multilingual Assessment of Early Child Development: Analyses from Repeated Observations of Children in Kenya

Heather Ashley Knauer, Patricia Karol Kariger, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier and Lia C. H. Fernald

9027: Entry Barriers, Idiosyncratic Distortions, and the Firm-Size Distribution

Roberto Fattal Jaef

9026: Firm Compliance and Public Disclosure in Vietnam

Claire Honore Hollweg

9025: Magnitude and Distribution of Electricity and Water Subsidies for Households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Helena Cardenas and Dale Whittington

9024: Is 3D Printing a Threat to Global Trade ? The Trade Effects You Didn't Hear About

Caroline Freund, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta

9023: Expectations Set High: Understanding Reservation Wages in North Macedonia

Marjan Petreski, Ana Maria Oviedo Silva and Cesar A. Cancho

9022: Is Short-Term Debt a Substitute or a Complement to Good Governance ?

Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Mete Tepe and Serif Aziz Simsir

9021: Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements: The Case of Indonesia

Massimiliano Calì, Maryla Maliszewska, Zoryana Olekseyuk and Israel Osorio-Rodarte

9020: A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

Ritika Dsouza, Roberta V. Gatti and Aart C. Kraay

9019: Conflict, Household Victimization, and Welfare: Does the Perpetrator Matter ?

Heidi Kristiina Kaila and M Abul Kalam Azad

9018: The Moroccan New Keynesian Phillips Curve: A Structural Econometric Analysis

Vincent De Paul Tsoungui Belinga and Mohamed Doukali

9017: Eurobonds: A Quantitative Analysis of Joint-Liability Debt

Vasileios Tsiropoulos

9016: Broken Promises: Evaluating an Incomplete Cash Transfer Program

Angelika Muller, Utz Pape and Laura R. Ralston

9015: Socioeconomic Resilience in Sri Lanka: Natural Disaster Poverty and Wellbeing Impact Assessment

Brian James Walsh and Stephane Hallegatte

9014: Impact of International Migration on Labor Supply in Nepal

Lokendra Phadera

9013: Targeting Inputs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Xavier Gine, Bernardo Barboza Ribeiro and Ildrim Valley

9012: Moral Hazard vs. Land Scarcity: Flood Management Policies for the Real World

Paolo Avner and Stephane Hallegatte

9011: Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development ? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India

Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzalez and Hai-Anh Dang

9010: Fiscal Incidence in Moldova: A Commitment to Equity Analysis

Alexandru Cojocaru, Mikhail Matytsin and Valeriu Prohnitchi

9009: Paying Attention to Profitable Investments: Experimental Evidence from Renewable Energy Markets

Aidan Coville, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera and Arndt Reichert

9008: On Financial Development and Economic Growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Mahmoud Mohieldin, Khaled Hussein and Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom

9007: Self-Employment and Migration

Samuele Giambra and David McKenzie

9006: Requirements to Be a Teacher in Brazil: Effective or Not ?

Marcelo Ponte Barbosa and Leandro Oliveira Costa

9005: The Missing Market for Work Permits

Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion

9004: The Social Value of Health Insurance Results from Ghana

Silvia Garcia Mandico, Arndt Reichert and Christoph Strupat

9003: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Household Coping Strategies during the 2015-16 Recession in Belarus

Kateryna Bornukova, Alexandru Cojocaru, Mikhail Matytsin and Gleb Shymanovich

8998: The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV

Abhijit Banerjee, Eliana La Ferrara and Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera

8997: The Large-Firm Wage Premium in Developing Economies

Tristan Reed and Trang Thu Tran

8996: Management Capabilities and Performance of Firms in the Russian Federation

Arti Goswami Grover and Iván Torre

8995: Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America

Julian Messina and Joana C. G. Silva

8994: RUSMOD -- A Tool for Distributional Analysis in the Russian Federation

Mikhail Matytsin, Daria Popova and Samuel Freije-Rodriguez

8993: Revisiting the Trade Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act: A Synthetic Control Approach

Woubet Kassa and Souleymane Coulibaly

8992: Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa

Pierre Nguimkeu and Albert G. Zeufack

8991: Financing Low-Carbon Transitions through Carbon Pricing and Green Bonds

Dirk Heine, Willi Semmler, Mariana Mazzucato, Joao Paulo Braga, Michael Flaherty, Arkady Gevorkyan, Erin Kate Hayde and Siavash Radpour

8990: Fiscal Rules for the Western Balkans

Edith Kikoni, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster, Tim Irwin and Charl Jooste

8989: Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation

Yeon Soo Kim, Mikhail Matytsin and Samuel Freije-Rodriguez

8988: Sources of Manufacturing Productivity Growth in Africa

Patricia Jones, Emmanuel Lartey, Taye Mengistae and Albert G. Zeufack

8987: Innovative Learning Environments: The Role of Energy--Efficient Investments in Russian Preschool Education Facilities (A Case Study of the Khanty-Mansyisk Region)

Tigran Shmis, Dmitry Chugunov, Maria Ustinova and Jure Kotnik

8986: Test Score Gap Robustness to Scaling: The Scale Transformation Command

Andres Yi Chang

8985: Generating Gridded Agricultural Gross Domestic Product for Brazil: A Comparison of Methodologies

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

8984: Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts ?

Rita Ramalho and Valentina Saltane

8983: Evaluating the Accuracy of Homeowner Self-Assessed Rents in Peru

Lidia Ceriani, Sergio Olivieri and Marco Ranzani

8982: Turkey: An Empirical Assessment of the Determinants of the Current Account Balance

David Stephen Knight, Alberto Portugal-Perez and Milan Nedeljkovic

8981: Gender Differences in Time Use: Allocating Time between the Market and the Household

Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich and Mariana Viollaz

8980: Industrialization on a Knife's Edge: Productivity, Labor Costs and the Rise of Manufacturing in Ethiopia

Stefano Caria

8979: The Extent of Engagement in Global Value Chains by Firms in Rwanda

Garth Frazer and Johannes Van Biesebroeck

8978: Performance and Challenges of the Income Protection System for Older People in Ecuador

Ignacio Apella

8977: Shortening Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota

Leonardo Iacovone and David McKenzie

8976: Wading Out the Storm: The Role of Poverty in Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Dar Es Salaam

Alvina Elisabeth Erman, Mersedeh Tariverdi, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky, Xiaomeng Chen, Rose Vincent, Silvia Malgioglio, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Stephane Hallegatte and Nobuo Yoshida

8975: Can Taxes Help Ensure a Fair Globalization ?

Francois Langot, Rossana Merola and Samil Oh

8974: Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES): Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Daan van Soest and Jonas Christoph Guthoff

8973: Property Rights, Political Connections, and Corporate Investment

Meng Miao, Dragon Yongjun Tang and Lixin Xu

8972: A Novel Approach to the Automatic Designation of Predefined Census Enumeration Areas and Population Sampling Frames: A Case Study in Somalia

Sarchil Qader, Veronique Lefebvre, Amy Ninneman, Kristen Himelein, Utz Pape, Linus Bengtsson, Andy Tatem and Tomas Bird

8971: Exploring Accessibility to Employment Opportunities in African Cities: A First Benchmark

Tatiana Peralta Quiros, Tamara Kerzhner and Paolo Avner

8970: Using Student and Teacher Assessments to Design More Pertinent In-Service Teacher Training: The Case of Ecuador

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Sebastian Francisco Burgos Davila

8969: Lessons from Power Sector Reforms: The Case of Morocco

Zainab Usman and Tayeb Amegroud

8968: Trust to Pay ? Tax Morale and Trust in Africa

Wilfried Kouamé

8967: Growth after War in Syria

Sharmila Devadas, Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi and Norman Loayza

8966: Measuring Inequality of Access: Modeling Physical Remoteness in Nepal

Robert Steven Banick and Yasuhiro Kawasoe

8965: The World Bank Macro-Fiscal Model Technical Description

Andrew Burns, Benoît Campagne, Charl Jooste, David Andrew Stephan and Thi Thanh Bui

8964: On Promoting Fiscal Discipline: The Role of Exchange Rate Regimes, Fiscal Rules and Institutions

Kady Synthia Keita and Camelia Romocea Turcu

8963: Why Some Countries Can Escape the Fiscal Pro-Cyclicality Trap and Others Cannot ?

Santiago Herrera Aguilera, Wilfried Kouamé and Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon

8962: Temporary Trade Shocks, Spatial Reallocation, and Persistence in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi, Harold Coulombe and Brian Blankespoor

8961: What Determines the Size of Public Employment ? An Empirical Investigation

Santiago Herrera Aguilera and Ercio Muñoz Saavedra

8960: Hidden Treasures in the Comoros: The Impact of Inter-Island Connectivity Improvement on Agricultural Production

Atsushi Iimi

8959: Job Accessibility and Urban Transport Connectivity: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi

8958: Location, Location, Location Revisited: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi

8957: Are Budget Rigidities a Source of Fiscal Distress and a Constraint for Fiscal Consolidation ?

Ercio Muñoz Saavedra and Eduardo Olaberria

8956: Political Connections and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Transition Countries

Maurizio Bussolo, Francesca de Nicola, Ugo Panizza and Richard Varghese

8955: Housing, Imputed Rent, and Households'Welfare

Lidia Ceriani, Sergio Olivieri and Marco Ranzani

8954: The Third Function of Law Is to Transform Cultural Categories

Karla Hoff and James Sonam Walsh

8953: Jobs in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Four African Countries in International Perspective

Stefan Pahl, Marcel Timmer, Reitze Gouma and Pieter Woltjer

8952: Winners and Losers When Private Banks Distribute Government Loans: Evidence from Earmarked Credit in Brazil

Jose Ornelas, Alvaro Pedraza, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Thiago Silva

8950: The Sovereign-Bank Nexus in EMDEs: What Is It, Is It Rising, and What Are the Policy Implications ?

Erik H.B. Feyen and Igor Zuccardi

8949: Growth in Low-Income Countries: Evolution, Prospects, and Policies

Rudi Steinbach

8948: Policy and Regulatory Issues with Digital Businesses

Rong - DECAG Chen

8947: A Novel Downside Risk Measure and Expected Returns

Jinjing Liu

8946: Agglomeration, Urbanization and Employment growth in Ghana: Evidence from an industry-district panel

Andrew Nicholas Kerr and Bruce McDougall

8945: Casting a Shadow: Productivity of Formal Firms and Informality

Mohammad Amin, Franziska Ohnsorge and Cedric Iltis Finafa Okou

8944: What We Learn about Girls'Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls

David Evans and Fei Yuan

8943: Assortative Matching in Africa: Evidence from Rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Malawi

Claire Elise Boxho, Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Joao Montalvao and Léa Rouanet

8942: Why South Africa Is Cheap for the Rich and Expensive for the Poor: Reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson Effect

Vincent Dadam, Marek Hanusch and Nicola Viegi

8941: Preferred and Non-Preferred Creditors

Tito Cordella and Andrew Powell

8939: Estimating and Calibrating MFMod: A Panel Data Approach to Identifying the Parameters of Data Poor Countries in the World Bank's Structural Macro Model

Andrew Burns and Charl Jooste

8938: Determinants of Participation in Manufacturing GVCs in Africa: The Role of Skills, Human Capital Endowment and Migration

Nadege Desiree Yameogo and Kebba Jammeh

8937: The Extent of GVC Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa

Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Emmanuel Mensah

8936: Effects of Trade Liberalization on Textile and Apparel Exports from Sub-Sahara Africa

Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Elena Zaurino

8935: Women at Work: How Can Investment Incentives be Used to Enhance Economic Opportunities for Women?

Hania Kronfol, Alison Mc Donell Nichols and Trang Thu Tran

8934: Inflation in Low-Income Countries

Jongrim Ha, Anna Ivanova, Peter Montiel and Peter Pedroni

8933: Learning to Grow from Peers: Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia

Patricio Dalton, Julius Rüschenpöhler, Burak Uras and Bilal Zia