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8913: The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households: Experimental Evidence from Uganda Downloads
Christina Wieser, Miriam Bruhn, Johannes Philipp Kinzinger, Christian Simon Ruckteschler and Soren Heitmann
8912: Making Secure Land Tenure Count for Global Development Goals and National Policy: Evidence from Zambia Downloads
Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, Dorothea Huberta Maria Hilhorst, Frank Kakungu and Yuanyuan Yi
8911: Corruption, Regulatory Burden and Firm Productivity Downloads
Mohammad Amin and Hulya Ulku
8909: Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme: A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis Downloads
Jun Pang and Govinda Timilsina
8908: How Much Would China Gain from Power Sector Reforms ? An Analysis Using TIMES and CGE Models Downloads
Govinda Timilsina, Jun Pang and Xi Yang
8907: The Right to Be Nudged ? Rethinking Social and Economic Rights in the Light of Behavioral Economics Downloads
Varun Gauri
8906: Willingness to Pay for Electricity Access in Extreme Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Maximiliane Sievert and Jevgenijs Steinbuks
8905: Linking Top-Down and Bottom-UP Models for Climate Policy Analysis: The Case of China Downloads
Govinda Timilsina, Jun Pang and Xi Yang
8904: Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios: A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice Downloads
Kate Bridges and Michael Woolcock
8903: Methodology and Findings for the Exposure Analysis of the Chinese Wastewater Sector to Flooding and Earthquakes Hazards Downloads
Xi Hu, Raghav Pant, Conrad Zorn, Weeho Lim, Elco Eduard Koks and Zhimin Mao
8902: Infrastructure Disruptions: How Instability Breeds Household Vulnerability Downloads
Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky, Alvina Elisabeth Erman, Julie Rozenberg, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Paolo Avner and Stephane Hallegatte
8901: Vulnerabilities of Networked Energy Infrastructure: A Primer Downloads
Amy Elizabeth Schweikert, Lindsey Nield, Erica Otto, Magdalena Klemun, Sanna Maria Ojanpera and Mark Robert Deinert
8900: Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs Downloads
Amy Elizabeth Schweikert, Lindsey Nield, Erica Otto and Mark Robert Deinert
8899: Underutilized Potential: The Business Costs of Unreliable Infrastructure in Developing Countries Downloads
Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Martin Gunter Michail Kornejew, Stephane Hallegatte, Johannes Michael Braese and Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky
8898: Three Feet Under: The Impact of Floods on Urban Jobs, Connectivity, and Infrastructure Downloads
Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Johannes Michael Braese, Nicholas K.W. Jones and Paolo Avner
8897: Candle in The Wind ? Energy System Resilience to Natural Shocks Downloads
Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky and Martin Gunter Michail Kornejew
8896: Strengthening New Infrastructure Assets: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Downloads
Stephane Hallegatte, Julie Rozenberg, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Claire Marion Nicolas and Charles James Edward Fox
8895: Resilient Infrastructure for Thriving Firms: A Review of The Evidence Downloads
Johannes Michael Braese, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Stephane Hallegatte
8894: Well Spent: How Governance Determines the Effectiveness of Infrastructure Investments Downloads
Martin Gunter Michail Kornejew, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Stephane Hallegatte
8893: Dollarization Dilemma: Price Stability at the Cost of External Competitiveness in Cambodia Downloads
Sovannroeun Samreth, Miguel Eduardo Sanchez Martin and Sodeth Ly
8892: Full Esteem Ahead ? Mindset-Oriented Business Training in Ethiopia Downloads
Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren, Michael Frese, Markus Goldstein, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Kathrin Wolf
8891: A Framework to Assess Debt Sustainability and Fiscal Risks under the Belt and Road Initiative Downloads
Luca Bandiera and Vasileios Tsiropoulos
8890: Search for Yield in Large International Corporate Bonds: Investor Behavior and Firm Responses Downloads
Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio Schmukler and Tomas Williams
8889: Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? Downloads
Kurt Annen and Stephen Knack
8888: Does Rainfall Matter for Economic Growth ? Evidence from Global Sub-National Data (1990-2014 Downloads
Richard Damania, Sébastien Desbureaux and Esha Zaveri
8887: The Redistributive Effects of Fiscal Policy in Mali and Niger Downloads
Thierry Hounsa, Mohamed Coulibaly and Aly Sanoh
8886: Measuring the Full Extent of Fiscal Losses and Gains Downloads
Mohamed Coulibaly and Aly Sanoh
8885: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network Downloads
Abhiman Das, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Goswami Grover, William Robert Kerr and Ramana Nanda
8884: Diagonal Cumulation and Sourcing Decisions Downloads
Pamela Bombarda and Elisa Gamberoni
8883: Labor and Welfare Impacts of a Large-Scale Livelihoods Program: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from India Downloads
Vivek Pandey, Abhishek Gupta and Shivani Gupta
8882: Employment Data in Household Surveys: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead Downloads
Sam Desiere and Valentina Costa
8881: Monetary Policy in Fossil Fuel Exporters: The Curse of Horizons Downloads
Rabah Arezki
8880: Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Liberia Downloads
Alejandro De La Fuente, Hanan Jacoby and Kotchikpa Lawin
8879: The 2019 Update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database: An Overview Downloads
Adam Wagstaff, Patrick Eozenou, Sven Neelsen and Marc-Francois Smitz
8878: Estimating Poverty in India without Expenditure Data: A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach Downloads
David Newhouse and Pallavi Vyas
8877: No Household Left Behind: Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluation Downloads
Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Aidan Coville, Johannes Haushofer, Mohammad Razaq Isaqzadeh and Jeremy Shapiro
8876: Innovation Patterns and Their Effects on Firm-Level Productivity in South Asia Downloads
Xavier Cirera and Ana Paula Cusolito
8875: Market Size, Sunk Costs of Entry, and Transport Costs: An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Demand-Side Factors versus Supply-Side Factors on Manufacturing Productivity Downloads
Patricia H. Jones, Emmanuel Lartey, Taye Mengistae and Albert G. Zeufack
8874: School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico Downloads
Vicente A. Garcia Moreno, Paul J. Gertler and Harry Patrinos
8873: From Theory to Practice: Open Government Data, Accountability, and Service Delivery Downloads
Michael Christopher Jelenic
8872: Group?Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Training Improves Mental Health of SME Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Conflict?Affected Areas of Pakistan Downloads
Priyam Saraf, Tasmia Rahman and Julian C Jamison
8871: Latin American Growth: A Trade Perspective Downloads
Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize
8870: Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia Downloads
Rabah Arezki, Yuting Fan and Ha Nguyen
8869: How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty ? Downloads
Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Mario Negre and Espen Prydz
8868: The Exchange Rate: Why It Matters for Structural Transformation and Growth in Ethiopia Downloads
Fiseha Haile
8867: Migration and Jobs: Issues for the 21st Century Downloads
Luc Christiaensen, Alvaro Gonzalez and David Robalino
8866: The Changing Pattern of Returns to Education: What Impact Will This Have on Inequality? Downloads
Harry Patrinos
8864: Corruption and Country Size: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data Downloads
Mohammad Amin and Yew Chong Soh
8863: Developing Public-Private Partnership Initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa: From Public Debt to Maximizing Finance for Development Downloads
Rabah Arezki and Ferid Belhaj
8862: Preventing Violence in the Most Violent Contexts: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence Downloads
Lelys Dinarte Diaz and Pablo Egana-delSol
8861: Small African Economies in a More Uncertain Global Trade Environment: The Potential Impact of Post-AGOA Scenarios for Lesotho Downloads
Maryla Maliszewska, Jakob Engel, Guillermo Carlos Arenas and Barbara Kotschwar
8860: Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia Downloads
Andualem Telaye, Pablo Benitez, Seneshaw Tamru, Haileselassie Medhin and Michael Toman
8859: Trade Integration and Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Cesar Calderon and Catalina Castillo Castro
8858: The Economics of Sustainability: Causes and Consequences of Energy Market Transformation Downloads
Rabah Arezki
8857: Identifying the Vulnerable to Poverty from Natural Disasters: The Case of Typhoons in the Philippines Downloads
Emmanuel Skoufias, Yasuhiro Kawasoe, Eric Strobl and Pablo Acosta
8856: Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam Downloads
Hai-Anh Dang, Masako Hiraga and Cuong Nguyen
8855: Voice and Punishment: A Global Survey Experiment on Tax Morale Downloads
Fredrik Matias Sjoberg, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Carneiro Peixoto, Johannes Zacharias Hemker and Lily Lee Tsai
8854: Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia Downloads
Leonardo Iacovone, William Maloney and David McKenzie
8853: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of The Philippines Downloads
Robert W. Bacon
8852: Productivity Growth: Patterns and Determinants across the World Downloads
Young Eun Kim and Norman Loayza
8851: The Apprenticeship-to-Work Transition: Experimental Evidence from Ghana Downloads
Morgan L. Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie Lee Mccasland and Isabelle Salcher
8850: Welfare Effects of Introducing Competition in the Telecom Sector in Djibouti Downloads
Xavier Stephane Decoster, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Marco Santacroce
8849: The Lost Human Capital: Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa Downloads
Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Ezequiel Molina and Jakob Svensson
8848: The Economics of International Student and Scholar Mobility: Directions for Research Downloads
Gnanaraj Chellaraj
8847: Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both Downloads
Elena Ianchovichina and Danny Leipziger
8846: Can Micro-Credit Support Public Health Subsidy Programs ? Downloads
Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers and Bansi Malde
8845: Labelled Loans, Credit Constraints and Sanitation Investments Downloads
Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers, Sara Giunti, Bansi Malde and Susanna Smets
8844: The Rise of Domestic Capital Markets for Corporate Financing Downloads
Facundo Abraham, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente and Sergio Schmukler
8843: Tracking the Sustainable Development Goals: Emerging Measurement Challenges and Further Reflections Downloads
Hai-Anh Dang and Umar Serajuddin
8842: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Pakistan Downloads
Robert W. Bacon
8841: Uncertainty in Ex-Ante Poverty and Income Distribution: Insights from Output Growth and Natural Resource Country Typologies Downloads
Fabian Mendez Ramos
8840: Improving the Measurement of Rural Women's Employment: Global Momentum and Survey Research Priorities Downloads
Gayatri B. Koolwal
8839: The Impact of Minimum Wage Hikes on Employment and Wages in Cambodia Downloads
Maheshwor Shrestha
8838: Distributional Effects of Competition: A Simulation Approach Downloads
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo Malásquez, Sergio Olivieri and Tara Vishwanath
8837: Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development: County-Level Evidence from a Chinese Province Downloads
Hanming Fang, Linke Hou, Mingxing Liu, Lixin Xu and Pengfei Zhang
8836: Measuring the Unmeasured: Combining Technology and Behavioral Insights to Improve Measurement of Business Outcomes Downloads
Stephen J. Anderson, Christy Marie Lazicky and Bilal Zia
8835: Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming Downloads
Owen Ozier
8834: The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa Downloads
Maria Edisa Soppelsa, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Lixin Xu
8833: Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Export Promotion Downloads
Marcelo Olarreaga, Stefan Sperlich and Virginie Trachsel
8832: The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition Downloads
Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic
8831: The Social Lives of Married Women: Peer Effects in Female Autonomy and Investments in Children Downloads
Eeshani Kandpal and Kathy Baylis
8830: Financial Inclusion in the Europe and Central Asia Region: Recent Trends and a Research Agenda Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Bingjie Hu and Leora Klapper
8829: Trade Wars: What Do They Mean ? Why Are They Happening Now ? What Are the Costs ? Downloads
Aaditya Mattoo and Robert Staiger
8828: Auction Length and Prices: Evidence from Random Auction Closing in Brazil Downloads
Alexandre Borges De Oliveira, Abdoulaye Fabregas Masllovet and Mihaly Fazekas
8827: Labor Market Impacts and Responses: The Economic Consequences of a Marine Environmental Disaster Downloads
Trung Hoang, Duong Le, Ha Nguyen and Nguyen Vuong
8826: Can Scholarships Increase High School Graduation Rates ? Evidence from A Randomized Control Trial in Mexico Downloads
Rafael De Hoyos, Orazio Pietro Attanasio and Costas Meghir
8825: Trading off the Income Gains and the Inequality Costs of Trade Policy Downloads
Erhan Artuc, Bob Rijkers and Guido Porto
8824: Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in the Arab Republic of Egypt Downloads
Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Nistha Sinha, Rana Nayer Safwat Fayez and Jon Robbert Jellema
8823: Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia Downloads
Paul Brenton and Mike Nyawo
WSP8822: Does School Safety and Classroom Disciplinary Climate Hinder Learning ? Evidence from the MENA Region Downloads
Paul Marie Michel Cahu and Manal Bakur N Quota
8821: Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers'Sexual Education ? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia Downloads
Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan and Martín Valdivia
8820: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Uganda Downloads
Catrina Godinho and Anton Adriaan Eberhard
8819: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Kenya Downloads
Catrina Godinho and Anton Adriaan Eberhard
8818: Inequality in the Quality of Health Services: Wealth, Content of Care, and Price of Antenatal Consultations in the Democratic Republic of Congo Downloads
Günther Fink, Eeshani Kandpal and Gil Shapira
8817: How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan Downloads
Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew Forrester and Cole Blondin
8816: Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity: Revisiting the Evidence Downloads
Véronique Gille
8815: Assessing the Value of Market Access from Belt and Road Projects Downloads
Tristan Reed and Alexandr Trubetskoy
8814: The Belt and Road Initiative: Economic, Poverty and Environmental Impacts Downloads
Maryla Maliszewska and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
8813: Evolution of Poor Food Access over the Course of the Conflict in the Republic of Yemen Downloads
Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath
8812: Famine and the Aid Response: Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen Downloads
Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath
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