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- 8913: The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

- 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

- Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, Dorothea Huberta Maria Hilhorst, Frank Kakungu and Yuanyuan Yi
- 8911: Corruption, Regulatory Burden and Firm Productivity

- 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

- Jun Pang and Govinda Timilsina
- 8908: How Much Would China Gain from Power Sector Reforms ? An Analysis Using TIMES and CGE Models

- Govinda Timilsina, Jun Pang and Xi Yang
- 8907: The Right to Be Nudged ? Rethinking Social and Economic Rights in the Light of Behavioral Economics

- Varun Gauri
- 8906: Willingness to Pay for Electricity Access in Extreme Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

- Maximiliane Sievert and Jevgenijs Steinbuks
- 8905: Linking Top-Down and Bottom-UP Models for Climate Policy Analysis: The Case of China

- 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

- Kate Bridges and Michael Woolcock
- 8903: Methodology and Findings for the Exposure Analysis of the Chinese Wastewater Sector to Flooding and Earthquakes Hazards

- Xi Hu, Raghav Pant, Conrad Zorn, Weeho Lim, Elco Eduard Koks and Zhimin Mao
- 8902: Infrastructure Disruptions: How Instability Breeds Household Vulnerability

- 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

- 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

- Amy Elizabeth Schweikert, Lindsey Nield, Erica Otto and Mark Robert Deinert
- 8899: Underutilized Potential: The Business Costs of Unreliable Infrastructure in Developing Countries

- 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

- 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

- Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky and Martin Gunter Michail Kornejew
- 8896: Strengthening New Infrastructure Assets: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

- 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

- Johannes Michael Braese, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Stephane Hallegatte
- 8894: Well Spent: How Governance Determines the Effectiveness of Infrastructure Investments

- Martin Gunter Michail Kornejew, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Stephane Hallegatte
- 8893: Dollarization Dilemma: Price Stability at the Cost of External Competitiveness in Cambodia

- Sovannroeun Samreth, Miguel Eduardo Sanchez Martin and Sodeth Ly
- 8892: Full Esteem Ahead ? Mindset-Oriented Business Training in Ethiopia

- 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

- Luca Bandiera and Vasileios Tsiropoulos
- 8890: Search for Yield in Large International Corporate Bonds: Investor Behavior and Firm Responses

- Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio Schmukler and Tomas Williams
- 8889: Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ?

- Kurt Annen and Stephen Knack
- 8888: Does Rainfall Matter for Economic Growth ? Evidence from Global Sub-National Data (1990-2014

- Richard Damania, Sébastien Desbureaux and Esha Zaveri
- 8887: The Redistributive Effects of Fiscal Policy in Mali and Niger

- Thierry Hounsa, Mohamed Coulibaly and Aly Sanoh
- 8886: Measuring the Full Extent of Fiscal Losses and Gains

- Mohamed Coulibaly and Aly Sanoh
- 8885: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network

- Abhiman Das, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Goswami Grover, William Robert Kerr and Ramana Nanda
- 8884: Diagonal Cumulation and Sourcing Decisions

- Pamela Bombarda and Elisa Gamberoni
- 8883: Labor and Welfare Impacts of a Large-Scale Livelihoods Program: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from India

- Vivek Pandey, Abhishek Gupta and Shivani Gupta
- 8882: Employment Data in Household Surveys: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead

- Sam Desiere and Valentina Costa
- 8881: Monetary Policy in Fossil Fuel Exporters: The Curse of Horizons

- Rabah Arezki
- 8880: Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Liberia

- Alejandro De La Fuente, Hanan Jacoby and Kotchikpa Lawin
- 8879: The 2019 Update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database: An Overview

- Adam Wagstaff, Patrick Eozenou, Sven Neelsen and Marc-Francois Smitz
- 8878: Estimating Poverty in India without Expenditure Data: A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach

- David Newhouse and Pallavi Vyas
- 8877: No Household Left Behind: Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluation

- 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

- 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

- Patricia H. Jones, Emmanuel Lartey, Taye Mengistae and Albert G. Zeufack
- 8874: School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico

- Vicente A. Garcia Moreno, Paul J. Gertler and Harry Patrinos
- 8873: From Theory to Practice: Open Government Data, Accountability, and Service Delivery

- 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

- Priyam Saraf, Tasmia Rahman and Julian C Jamison
- 8871: Latin American Growth: A Trade Perspective

- Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize
- 8870: Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia

- Rabah Arezki, Yuting Fan and Ha Nguyen
- 8869: How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty ?

- Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Mario Negre and Espen Prydz
- 8868: The Exchange Rate: Why It Matters for Structural Transformation and Growth in Ethiopia

- Fiseha Haile
- 8867: Migration and Jobs: Issues for the 21st Century

- Luc Christiaensen, Alvaro Gonzalez and David Robalino
- 8866: The Changing Pattern of Returns to Education: What Impact Will This Have on Inequality?

- Harry Patrinos
- 8864: Corruption and Country Size: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data

- 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

- Rabah Arezki and Ferid Belhaj
- 8862: Preventing Violence in the Most Violent Contexts: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence

- 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

- Maryla Maliszewska, Jakob Engel, Guillermo Carlos Arenas and Barbara Kotschwar
- 8860: Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia

- Andualem Telaye, Pablo Benitez, Seneshaw Tamru, Haileselassie Medhin and Michael Toman
- 8859: Trade Integration and Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

- Cesar Calderon and Catalina Castillo Castro
- 8858: The Economics of Sustainability: Causes and Consequences of Energy Market Transformation

- Rabah Arezki
- 8857: Identifying the Vulnerable to Poverty from Natural Disasters: The Case of Typhoons in the Philippines

- Emmanuel Skoufias, Yasuhiro Kawasoe, Eric Strobl and Pablo Acosta
- 8856: Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam

- Hai-Anh Dang, Masako Hiraga and Cuong Nguyen
- 8855: Voice and Punishment: A Global Survey Experiment on Tax Morale

- 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

- Leonardo Iacovone, William Maloney and David McKenzie
- 8853: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of The Philippines

- Robert W. Bacon
- 8852: Productivity Growth: Patterns and Determinants across the World

- Young Eun Kim and Norman Loayza
- 8851: The Apprenticeship-to-Work Transition: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

- Morgan L. Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie Lee Mccasland and Isabelle Salcher
- 8850: Welfare Effects of Introducing Competition in the Telecom Sector in Djibouti

- Xavier Stephane Decoster, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Marco Santacroce
- 8849: The Lost Human Capital: Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa

- Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Ezequiel Molina and Jakob Svensson
- 8848: The Economics of International Student and Scholar Mobility: Directions for Research

- Gnanaraj Chellaraj
- 8847: Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both

- Elena Ianchovichina and Danny Leipziger
- 8846: Can Micro-Credit Support Public Health Subsidy Programs ?

- Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers and Bansi Malde
- 8845: Labelled Loans, Credit Constraints and Sanitation Investments

- Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers, Sara Giunti, Bansi Malde and Susanna Smets
- 8844: The Rise of Domestic Capital Markets for Corporate Financing

- Facundo Abraham, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente and Sergio Schmukler
- 8843: Tracking the Sustainable Development Goals: Emerging Measurement Challenges and Further Reflections

- Hai-Anh Dang and Umar Serajuddin
- 8842: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Pakistan

- Robert W. Bacon
- 8841: Uncertainty in Ex-Ante Poverty and Income Distribution: Insights from Output Growth and Natural Resource Country Typologies

- Fabian Mendez Ramos
- 8840: Improving the Measurement of Rural Women's Employment: Global Momentum and Survey Research Priorities

- Gayatri B. Koolwal
- 8839: The Impact of Minimum Wage Hikes on Employment and Wages in Cambodia

- Maheshwor Shrestha
- 8838: Distributional Effects of Competition: A Simulation Approach

- 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

- 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

- Stephen J. Anderson, Christy Marie Lazicky and Bilal Zia
- 8835: Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming

- Owen Ozier
- 8834: The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa

- Maria Edisa Soppelsa, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Lixin Xu
- 8833: Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Export Promotion

- Marcelo Olarreaga, Stefan Sperlich and Virginie Trachsel
- 8832: The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition

- Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic
- 8831: The Social Lives of Married Women: Peer Effects in Female Autonomy and Investments in Children

- Eeshani Kandpal and Kathy Baylis
- 8830: Financial Inclusion in the Europe and Central Asia Region: Recent Trends and a Research Agenda

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Bingjie Hu and Leora Klapper
- 8829: Trade Wars: What Do They Mean ? Why Are They Happening Now ? What Are the Costs ?

- Aaditya Mattoo and Robert Staiger
- 8828: Auction Length and Prices: Evidence from Random Auction Closing in Brazil

- Alexandre Borges De Oliveira, Abdoulaye Fabregas Masllovet and Mihaly Fazekas
- 8827: Labor Market Impacts and Responses: The Economic Consequences of a Marine Environmental Disaster

- 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

- Rafael De Hoyos, Orazio Pietro Attanasio and Costas Meghir
- 8825: Trading off the Income Gains and the Inequality Costs of Trade Policy

- Erhan Artuc, Bob Rijkers and Guido Porto
- 8824: Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in the Arab Republic of Egypt

- Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Nistha Sinha, Rana Nayer Safwat Fayez and Jon Robbert Jellema
- 8823: Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia

- Paul Brenton and Mike Nyawo
- WSP8822: Does School Safety and Classroom Disciplinary Climate Hinder Learning ? Evidence from the MENA Region

- Paul Marie Michel Cahu and Manal Bakur N Quota
- 8821: Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers'Sexual Education ? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia

- Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan and Martín Valdivia
- 8820: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Uganda

- Catrina Godinho and Anton Adriaan Eberhard
- 8819: Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Kenya

- 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

- Günther Fink, Eeshani Kandpal and Gil Shapira
- 8817: How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan

- Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew Forrester and Cole Blondin
- 8816: Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity: Revisiting the Evidence

- Véronique Gille
- 8815: Assessing the Value of Market Access from Belt and Road Projects

- Tristan Reed and Alexandr Trubetskoy
- 8814: The Belt and Road Initiative: Economic, Poverty and Environmental Impacts

- Maryla Maliszewska and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
- 8813: Evolution of Poor Food Access over the Course of the Conflict in the Republic of Yemen

- Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath
- 8812: Famine and the Aid Response: Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen

- Sharad Tandon and Tara Vishwanath
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