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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

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