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9122: The Role of Income and Substitution in Commodity Demand Downloads
John Baffes, Alain Kabundi and Peter Nagle
9121: Inequality, Poverty and the Intra-Household Allocation of Consumption in Senegal Downloads
Philippe H. De Vreyer and Sylvie Lambert
9120: Assessing Deprivation with an Ordinal Variable: Theory and Application to Sanitation Deprivation in Bangladesh Downloads
Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky
9119: Regional Integration in South Asia: Implications for Green Growth, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Gender Wage Gap Downloads
Muthukumara S. Mani, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan and Deepika Wadhwa
9118: Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women Downloads
Sonia Bhalotra, Uma Kambhampati, Samantha Rawlings and Zahra Siddique
9117: Returns to Education in Azerbaijan: Some New Estimates Downloads
Vicente A. Garcia Moreno and Harry Patrinos
9116: Debt and Financial Crises Downloads
Wee Chian Koh, Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara
9115: Heterogeneous Effects of the de jure and de facto Business Environment: Findings from Multiple Data Sets on the Business Environment Downloads
Christine Zhenwei Qiang, He Wang and Lixin Xu
9114: Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains Downloads
Pol Antras
9113: Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Cote d'Ivoire: Changes in Determinants and Distributional Composition over the Past Decade Downloads
Aletheia Donald, Kotchikpa Lawin and Léa Rouanet
9112: Does Democratization Promote Competition?: Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto Downloads
Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anna Kochanova and Bob Rijkers
9111: Migration and Remittances in the Former Soviet Union Countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus: What Are the Long-Term Macroeconomic Consequences? Downloads
Martin Brownbridge and Sudharshan Canagarajah
9110: Migration in Libya: A Spatial Network Analysis Downloads
Michele Di Maio, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza and Vasco Molini
9109: Macro-Financial Aspects of Climate Change Downloads
Erik H.B. Feyen, Robert Johann Utz, Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas, Olena Bogdan and Jisung Moon
9108: What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value ? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh Downloads
Minhaj Mahmud, Italo Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar and Shanthi Nataraj
9106: The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education Downloads
Tianshu Li and Sheetal Sekhri
9105: Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market: Evidence from Ethiopia Downloads
Luke Chicoine
9104: Stages of Development of Payment Systems: Leapfrogging across Countries and MENA's Place in the World Downloads
Clément Gévaudan and Daniel Lederman
9103: The External Wealth of Arab Nations: Structure, Trends, and Policy Implications Downloads
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom and Chahir Zaki
9102: Using Labor Supply Elasticities to Learn about Income Inequality: The Role of Productivities versus Preferences Downloads
Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds
9101: The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers Downloads
Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds
9100: Gender Bias in SME Lending: Experimental Evidence from Turkey Downloads
Salman Alibhai, Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Alper Ahmet Oguz, Alexander Pankov and Francesco Strobbe
9099: Firms Far Up: Productivity, Agglomeration, and High-Growth Firms in Ethiopia Downloads
Arti Goswami Grover
9098: Trade and Female Labor Participation: Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset Downloads
Nadia Rocha and Deborah Winkler
9097: Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese?: Evidence from Greenfield FDI in Manufacturing Downloads
Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Gaurav Nayyar
9096: Decline in Wage Inequality in Brazil: A Survey Downloads
Sergio Firpo and Alysson Portella
9095: How Technology Adoption and Trade Are Shaping Indonesian Labor Markets Downloads
Mariana Viollaz, Francis Addeah Darko and Andrew D. Mason
9094: Effects over the Life of a Program: Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls Downloads
Esha Chhabra, Fatima Najeeb and Dhushyanth Raju
9093: Lights Off, Lights On: The Effects of Electricity Shortages on Small Firms Downloads
Morgan Hardy and Jamie Lee Mccasland
9092: Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda Downloads
Maria Ruth Jones, Florence Kondylis, John Ashton Loeser and Jeremy Magruder
9091: Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement: An Empirical Investigation Downloads
François de Soyres and Alexandre Gwen Simon Gaillard
9090: Inflation Dynamics and Global Value Chains Downloads
François de Soyres and Sebastian Franco Bedoya
9089: An Empirical Investigation of Trade Diversion and Global Value Chains Downloads
François de Soyres, Julien Luc Yvon Maire and Guillaume Sublet
9088: Can Medium-Resolution Satellite Imagery Measure Economic Activity at Small Geographies ? Evidence from Landsat in Vietnam Downloads
Ran Philip Goldblatt, Kilian Tobias Heilmann and Yonatan Vaizman
9087: Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment Downloads
Carol Newman, Tara Mitchell, Marcus Erik Holmlund and Chloe Monica Fernandez
9086: The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning Downloads
Ciro Avitabile, Jesse Matthew Cunha and Ricardo Meilman Lomaz Cohn
9085: Addressing High School Dropouts with a Scalable Intervention: The Case of PODER Downloads
Ciro Avitabile, Janina Cuevas, Rafael De Hoyos and Julian C Jamison
9084: Product Market Competition, Productivity, and Jobs: The Case of South Africa Downloads
Seidu Dauda, Sara Nyman and Aalia Cassim
9083: Foreign Direct Investment and Female Entrepreneurship Downloads
Sheng Fang, Heba M.M. Shamseldin and Lixin Xu
9082: Exiting Financial Repression: The Case of Ethiopia Downloads
Jean-Pierre Christophe Chauffour and Muluneh Ayalew Gobezie
9081: Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Equity, Learning, and School Management: Evidence from India Downloads
Clara Delavallade, Alan Griffith and Rebecca Thornton
9079: Markups, Market Imperfections, and Trade Openness: Evidence from Ghana Downloads
Kaku Attah Damoah
9078: Financial Risk Management in Agriculture: Analyzing Data from a New Module of the Global Findex Database Downloads
Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar and Jake Richard Hess
9077: Quality Education and the Efficiency of Public Expenditure: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis Downloads
Elisé Miningou
9076: Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity ? Downloads
Hai-Anh Dang and Paolo Verme
9075: Intergenerational Impact of Population Shocks on Children's Health: Evidence from the 1993-2001 Refugee Crisis in Tanzania Downloads
Soazic Elise Wang Sonne and Paolo Verme
9074: Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Credit Repayment Downloads
Daniel Björkegren and Darrell Grissen
9073: Decomposing the Labor Productivity Gap between Upper-Middle-Income and High-Income Countries Downloads
Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Usman Khalid
9072: Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence from SME Lending in Peru Downloads
Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn, Benjamin N. Roth, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Rodolfo Stucchi
9071: Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa: Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data Downloads
Javier Baez, Varun Kshirsagar and Emmanuel Skoufias
9070: Improving Preschool Provision and Encouraging Demand: Heterogeneous Impacts of a Large-Scale Program Downloads
Jan Lukas Berkes, Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer and Tsuyoshi Fukao
9069: Basel III Implementation and SME Financing: Evidence for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies Downloads
Boris Fisera, Roman Horvath and Martin Melecký
9068: The Financial Costs of the U.S.-China Trade Tensions: Evidence from East Asian Stock Markets Downloads
Francesca de Nicola, Martin Dov Alfred Kessler and Ha Nguyen
9067: Management Practices in Croatia: Drivers and Consequences for Firm Performance Downloads
Arti Goswami Grover, Leonardo Iacovone and Pavel Chakraborty
9066: Obesity and Food away from Home: What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight ? Downloads
Christoph Strupat, Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Laura Moritz, Mario Negre and Renos Vakis
9065: The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh Downloads
Laurent Bossavie, Yoonyoung Cho and Rachel Heath
9064: Third-Country Effects of Regional Trade Agreements: A Firm-Level Analysis Downloads
Woori Lee, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta
9063: Labor Market Analysis Using Big Data: The Case of a Pakistani Online Job Portal Downloads
Norihiko Matsuda, Tutan Ahmed and Shinsaku Nomura
9061: Built to Last: Sustainability of Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia Downloads
Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Amelia Maika, Nozomi Nakajima and Menno Prasad Pradhan
9060: Contrasting Experiences: Understanding the Longer-Term Impact of Improving Access to Preschool Education in Rural Indonesia Downloads
Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Amelia Maika, Nozomi Nakajima and Menno Prasad Pradhan
9059: Impact of Early Life Exposure to Environments with Unimproved Sanitation on Education Outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh Downloads
George Joseph, Yi Rong Hoo, Nazia Sultana Moqueet and Gnanaraj Chellaraj
9058: Impact of Salinity on Infant and Neonatal Mortality in Bangladesh Downloads
George Joseph, Qiao Wang, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Mohammed Shamsudduha and Abu Mohammed Naser
9057: Wider Economic Benefits of Transport Corridors: Evidence from International Development Organizations Downloads
Muneeza Mehmood Alam, Matias Herrera Dappe, Martin Melecký and Ran Philip Goldblatt
9056: Regional Development Overview: Challenges, Adopted Strategies, and New Initiatives Downloads
Randall Jackson, Geoffrey Hewings, Serge Rey and Nancy Lozano Gracia
9055: Index Insurance: A Viable Solution for Irrigated Farming? Downloads
Rathnija Arandara, Shanuki Gunasekera and Agrotosh Mookerjee
9054: Children Need Clean Water to Grow: E. Coli Contamination of Drinking Water and Childhood Nutrition in Bangladesh Downloads
George Joseph, Sabrina Sharmin Haque, Nazia Sultana Moqueet and Yi Rong Hoo
9053: Measuring and Explaining Management in Schools: New Approaches Using Public Data Downloads
Clare Leaver, Renata Lemos and Daniela Scur
9052: Can We Rely on VIIRS Nightlights to Estimate the Short-Term Impacts of Natural Disasters ? Downloads
Emmanuel Skoufias, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit
9051: Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty and Inequality in Uganda: Fiscal Incidence Analysis Using the UNHS 2016/17 Downloads
Carolina Mejia-Mantilla, Deisy Johanna Fajardo Gonzalez, Maya Scott Goldman, Jon Robbert Jellema and Haley Renda
9050: Trade Policy and Market Power: Firm-Level Evidence Downloads
Alan Asprilla, Nicolas Berman, Olivier Cadot and Melise Jaud
9049: Polarization and Its Discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring Downloads
Fabio Clementi, Haider Khan, Vasco Molini, Francesco Schettino and Khalid Soudi
9048: Policy Uncertainty, Trade, and Global Value Chains: Some Facts, Many Questions Downloads
Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta
9047: New Approaches to the Identification of Low-Frequency Drivers: An Application to Technology Shocks Downloads
Alistair Dieppe, Francis Neville and Gene Joseph Kindberg Hanlon
9046: Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks: Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana Downloads
Rachel Heath, Ghazala Mansuri and Bob Rijkers
9045: Household Impacts of Tariffs: Data and Results from Agricultural Trade Protection Downloads
Erhan Artuc, Guido Porto and Bob Rijkers
9044: Bank Regulation and Supervision Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis Downloads
Deniz Anginer, Ata Bertay, Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Davide Salvatore Mare
9043: Productivity Growth in Romania: A Firm-Level Analysis Downloads
Mariana Iootty, Jorge O. Pena and Donato De Rosa
9042: Progress and Challenges of Upper Secondary Education in China Downloads
Dandan Chen, Ning - HEAED Fu and Yilin Pan
9041: Integrating Value for Money and Impact Evaluations: Issues, Institutions, and Opportunities Downloads
Elizabeth Denison Brown and Jeffery Tanner
9040: Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities Downloads
Remi Jedwab, Daniel Pereira and Mark Roberts
9039: Too Much Energy: The Perverse Effect of Low Fuel Prices on Firms Downloads
Massimiliano Calì, Nicola Cantore, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Giorgio Presidente
9038: Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation: A Municipal-Level Perspective from Mexico (1992-2014) Downloads
Luis Lopez-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
9037: Regulatory Arbitrage and Cross-Border Syndicated Loans Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga
9036: Trade Policy to Catalyze Export Diversification: What Should Landlocked Fragile Countries Do ? The Cases of Mali, Chad, and Niger Downloads
Jose R. Lopez Calix and Nihal Pitigala
9035: Is Informality Good for Business ? The Impacts of IDP Inflows on Formal Firms Downloads
Sandra Rozo and Hernan Winkler
9034: Taking Power: Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
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 Downloads
Kathryn Gilman Andrews, Ciro Avitabile and Roberta V. Gatti
9032: Innovations in Tax Compliance: Conceptual Framework Downloads
Wilson Prichard, Anna Louise Custers, Roel Dom, Stephen R. Davenport and Michael Anthony Roscitt
9031: Capital Allocation in Developing Countries Downloads
Joel Michael David, Venky Venkateswaran, Ana Paula Cusolito and Tatiana Didier Brandao
9030: Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development: A Cross-Sectional Study Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Roberto Fattal Jaef
9026: Firm Compliance and Public Disclosure in Vietnam Downloads
Claire Honore Hollweg
9025: Magnitude and Distribution of Electricity and Water Subsidies for Households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Downloads
Helena Cardenas and Dale Whittington
9024: Is 3D Printing a Threat to Global Trade ? The Trade Effects You Didn't Hear About Downloads
Caroline Freund, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta
9023: Expectations Set High: Understanding Reservation Wages in North Macedonia Downloads
Marjan Petreski, Ana Maria Oviedo Silva and Cesar A. Cancho
9022: Is Short-Term Debt a Substitute or a Complement to Good Governance ? Downloads
Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Mete Tepe and Serif Aziz Simsir
9021: Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements: The Case of Indonesia Downloads
Massimiliano Calì, Maryla Maliszewska, Zoryana Olekseyuk and Israel Osorio-Rodarte
9020: A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index Downloads
Ritika Dsouza, Roberta V. Gatti and Aart C. Kraay
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