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- 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 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 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

- Max 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
- 8932: Taking Another Look at Policy Research on China's Accession to the World Trade Organization

- Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin
- 8931: Fertility and Parental Labor-Force Participation: New Evidence from a Developing Country in theBalkans

- Iva Trako
- 8930: Do Improved Biomass Cookstoves Reduce PM2.5 Concentrations ? If So, for Whom ? Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

- Randall Bluffstone, Daniel LaFave, Alemu Mekonnen, Sahan Dissanayake, Abebe Damte Beyene, Zenebe Gebreegziabher and Michael Toman
- 8929: Impacts of Improved Biomass Cookstoves on Child and Adult Health: Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

- Daniel LaFave, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen and Michael Toman
- 8928: Stability and Evolution of Preferences for Improved Cookstoves -- A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of a Choice Experiment from Ethiopia

- Sahan Dissanayake, George Voigt, Abbie Cooper, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Daniel LaFave, Peter Martinsson, Alemu Mekonnen and Michael Toman
- 8927: Unfortunate Moms and Unfortunate Children: Impact of the Nepali Civil War on Women's Stature and Intergenerational Health

- Lokendra Phadera
- 8926: I Perceive Therefore I Demand: The Formation of Inequality Perceptions and Demand for Redistribution

- Maurizio Bussolo, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Anna Barbara Giolbas and Iván Torre
- 8925: Beyond the S-curve: Insurance Penetration, Institutional Quality and Financial Market Development

- Xavier Gine, Bernardo Barboza Ribeiro and Peter Friedrich Wilhelm Wrede
- 8924: An Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Access in Bangladesh's Community Health Clinics

- George Joseph, Bushra Binte Alam, Anne Shrestha, Khairul Islam, Santanu Lahiri and Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling
- 8923: Welfare Impact of Value-Added Tax Reform: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

- Franck M. Adoho and Romeo Jacky Gansey
- 8922: Multi-Hazard Groundwater Risks to the Drinking Water Supply in Bangladesh: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

- Mohammad Shamsudduha, George Joseph, Sabrina Sharmin Haque, Mahfuzur R. Khan, Anwar Zahid and Kazi Matin Uddin Ahmed
- 8921: Assessing Urban Policies Using a Simulation Model with Formal and Informal Housing: Application to Cape Town, South Africa

- Basile Fabrice Pfeiffer, Claus Rabe, Harris Selod and Vincent Viguié
- 8920: The Nollywood Nudge: An Entertaining Approach to Saving

- Aidan Coville, Vincenzo Di Maro, Felipe Dunsch and Siegfried Zottel
- 8919: The Next Frontier in Water Supply Service Delivery: An Assessment of the Performance of Water Sector Service Providers in Pourashavas in Bangladesh

- Aroha Bahuguna, Luis Andres, George Joseph and Mainul Huq
- 8918: Informality, Harassment, and Corruption: Evidence from Informal Enterprise Data from Harare, Zimbabwe

- David C. Francis
- 8917: Co-Location, Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Indian Sundarbans

- Susmita Dasgupta, Bansari Guha and David Wheeler
- 8916: Measuring Social Norms About Female Labor Force Participation in Jordan

- Varun Gauri, Tasmia Rahman and Iman Kalyan Sen
- 8915: Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Indonesia

- Daniel Halim, Hillary C. Johnson and Elizaveta Perova
- 8914: Climate Finance, Carbon Market Mechanisms and Finance"Blending"as Instruments to Support NDC Achievement under the Paris Agreement

- Jon Strand
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