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8811: E-Commerce Participation and Household Income Growth in Taobao Villages Downloads
Xubei Luo and Chiyu Niu
8810: E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China Downloads
Xubei Luo, Yue-000541442 Wang and Xiaobo Zhang
8809: From Currency Depreciation to Trade Reform: How to Take Egyptian Exports to New Levels? Downloads
Hoda Youssef and Chahir Zaki
8808: Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health: A Global Stocktake Downloads
Adam Wagstaff, Patrick Eozenou and Marc-Francois Smitz
8807: The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping Economic Geography in Central Asia? Downloads
Julia Bird, Mathilde Lebrand and Anthony Venables
8806: Who Wins, Who Loses ? Understanding the Spatially Differentiated Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative Downloads
Somik V. Lall and Mathilde Lebrand
8805: Distributional Effects of Tobacco Taxation: A Comparative Analysis Downloads
Alan Fuchs, Maria Fernanda Gonzalez Icaza and Daniela Paula Paz
8804: Measuring What Matters in Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade Downloads
Alessandro Borin and Michele Mancini
8803: Family Firms and Contractual Institutions Downloads
Leonardo Iacovone, William Maloney and Nick Tsivanidis
8802: What Works to Reduce Inequalities in Higher Education ? A Systematic Review of the (Quasi-)Experimental Literature on Outreach and Financial Aid Downloads
Estelle Herbaut and Koen Martijn Geven
8801: Common Transport Infrastructure: A Quantitative Model and Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative Downloads
François de Soyres, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta
8800: Rural Roads, Poverty, and Resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia Downloads
Shohei Nakamura, Tom Bundervoet and Mohammed Nuru
8799: Micro-Equity for Microenterprises Downloads
Suresh De Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff
8798: Accounting for Regional Differences in Mother and Child Health: Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand Downloads
Susmita Dasgupta and David J. Wheeler
8797: Of Governance and Revenue: Participatory Institutions and Tax Compliance in Brazil Downloads
Michael Ryan Touchton, Brian Wampler and Tiago Carneiro Peixoto
8796: Electrification and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Rural India Downloads
Hussain A. Samad and Fan Zhang
8795: Mangroves for Coastal Protection: Evidence from Hurricanes in Central America Downloads
Alejandro Del Valle, Mathilda Eriksson, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero and Juan Jose Miranda
8794: Debt in Low-Income Countries: Evolution, Implications, and Remedies Downloads
Sebastian Michael Essl, Sinem Kilic Celik, Patrick Alexander Kirby and Andre Proite
8793: Import Uncertainty and Export Dynamics Downloads
Mariana Vijil, Laurent Wagner and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael
8790: Estimation of the ex ante Distribution of Returns for a Portfolio of U.S. Treasury Securities via Deep Learning Downloads
Andrea Foresti
8789: Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey Downloads
Harry Patrinos, George Psacharopoulos and Aysıt Tansel
8788: Firm Dynamics, Job Outcomes, and Productivity: South African Formal Businesses, 2010-14 Downloads
Reyes Aterido, Ayanda Hlatshwayo, Duncan Pieterse and Andre Steenkamp
8787: Swept by the Tide ? The International Comovement of Capital Flows Downloads
Luis Fernandez Lafuerza and Luis Servén
8786: Adding Space to the International Business Cycle Downloads
Girum Dagnachew Abate and Luis Servén
8785: Inflation Expectations: Review and Evidence Downloads
Ayhan Kose, Hideaki Matsuoka, Ugo Panizza and Dana Lauren Vorisek
8784: Why Do Fiscal Multipliers Depend on Fiscal Positions? Downloads
Raju Huidrom, Ayhan Kose, Jamus Lim and Franziska Ohnsorge
8783: Are Management Practices Failing or Aiding the Private Sector in South America? Downloads
Marie Caitriona Hyland, David C. Francis and Jorge Rodriguez Meza
8782: The Three-Gap Model of Health Worker Performance Downloads
Fabliha Ibnat, Kenneth Leonard, Luke Bawo and Rianna L. Mohammed-Roberts
8781: Firms'and States'Responses to Laxer Environmental Standards Downloads
Tito Cordella and Shantayanan Devarajan
8780: Inflation and Exchange Rate Pass-Through Downloads
Jongrim Ha, Marc Stocker and Hakan Yilmazkuday
8779: Employment in South Asia: A New Dataset Downloads
Robert Beyer, Milagros Alejandra Chocce Falla and Martin Rama
8778: Low Tax Jurisdictions and Preferential Regimes: Policy Gaps in Developing Economies Downloads
Jonathan Leigh Pemberton and Jan Loeprick
8777: Drivers of Gross Capital Inflows: Which Factors Are More Important for Sub-Saharan Africa? Downloads
Cesar Calderon, Punam Chuhan-Pole and Megumi Kubota
8776: Estimating Small Area Population Density Using Survey Data and Satellite Imagery: An Application to Sri Lanka Downloads
Ryan Engstrom, David Newhouse and Vidhya Soundararajan
8775: International Willingness to Pay for the Protection of the Amazon Rainforest Downloads
Juha Siikamäki, Alan Jeff Krupnick, Jon Strand and Jeffrey Vincent
8774: Pioneering Firms in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: Why and How Development Finance Institutions Should Support Them Downloads
Paul Collier, Neil Gregory and Alexandros Ragoussis
8773: Mobilizing Resources for Education and Improving Spending Effectiveness: Establishing Realistic Benchmarks Based on Past Trends Downloads
Samer Al-Samarrai, Pedro Cerdan-Infantes and Jonathan David Lehe
8772: Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences: The Case of Peru Downloads
Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez
8771: Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences: The Case of Colombia Downloads
Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez
8770: Input Substitutability and Cross-Country Variation in Sectoral Linkages Downloads
Rishabh Sinha
8769: Morocco's Growth and Employment Prospects: Public Policies to Avoid the Middle-Income Trap Downloads
Emmanuel Pinto Moreira
8768: Global Inflation Synchronization Downloads
Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge
8767: Active Trading and (Poor) Performance: The Social Transmission Channel Downloads
Laura Manuela Escobar Pradilla and Alvaro Pedraza
8766: The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia Downloads
Felipe Fadullon Dizon, Anna Josephson and Dhushyanth Raju
8765: Fiscal Incidence in Ukraine: A Commitment to Equity Analysis Downloads
Kateryna Bornukova, Nataliia Leshchenko and Mikhail Matytsin
8764: Migration and Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa Downloads
Jan David Bakker, Christopher Robert Parsons and Ferdinand Rauch
8763: Business Regulations and Poverty Downloads
Simeon Djankov, Dorina Peteva Georgieva and Rita Ramalho
8762: Growing a Developing City: A Computable Spatial General Equilibrium Model Applied to Dhaka Downloads
Julia Bird and Anthony Venables
8761: Understanding Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies Downloads
Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge
8760: The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola: Lessons from an Empowerment Program Downloads
Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Imran Rasul and Andrea Smurra
8759: How Household Characteristics Shape Program Access and Asset Accumulation: A Mixed Method Analysis of the Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme in Rwanda Downloads
Justine Gatzinsi, Renate Hartwig, Lindsay Suzanne Mossman, Umutoni Marie Francoise, Isimbi Roberte and Laura B. Rawlings
8758: From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development Downloads
Salvatore Lo Bello, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta and Hernan Winkler
8757: Pollution and Expenditures in a Penalized Vector Spatial Autoregressive Time Series Model with Data-Driven Networks Downloads
Bo Andree, Phoebe Girouard Spencer, Sardar Azari, Andres Chamorro, Dieter Wang and Harun Dogo
8756: Environment and Development: Penalized Non-Parametric Inference of Global Trends in Deforestation, Pollution and Carbon Downloads
Bo Andree, Phoebe Girouard Spencer, Andres Chamorro and Harun Dogo
8755: Integration and Price Transmission in Key Food Commodity Markets in India Downloads
Mauro Boffa and Gonzalo Varela
8754: Are Public Sector Workers in Developing Countries Overpaid ? Evidence from a New Global Data Set Downloads
Thomas (Tim) Gindling, Zahid Hasnain, David Newhouse and Rong Shi
8753: Are Trade Preferences a Panacea?: The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports Downloads
Ana Fernandes, Alejandro Forero, Hibret Maemir and Aaditya Mattoo
8752: Equivalent Years of Schooling: A Metric to Communicate Learning Gains in Concrete Terms Downloads
David Evans and Fei Yuan
8751: Household Savings in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe: How Do Poorer Households Save? Downloads
Elisabeth Beckmann
8750: Are They Really Being Served?: Assessing Effective Infrastructure Access and Quality in 15 Kenyan Cities Downloads
Sumila Gulyani, Andrea C. Ryan Rizvi and Debabrata Talukdar
8749: Do Firms Exit the Formal Economy after a Minimum Wage Hike ? Downloads
Laurent Bossavie, Aysenur Acar and Mattia Makovec
8748: Scenarios: Leapfrog, Lock-in, and Lopsided Downloads
Michael Meir Leifman
8747: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal for Electricity Access -- Using a Multi-Scenario Approach to Understand the Cost Drivers of Power Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Claire Nicolas, Benjamin Samson and Julie Rozenberg
8746: Assessing Rural Accessibility and Rural Roads Investment Needs Using Open Source Data Downloads
Mehdi Mikou, Julie Rozenberg, Elco Eduard Koks, Charles James Edward Fox and Tatiana Peralta Quiros
8745: Global Investment Costs for Coastal Defense through the 21st Century Downloads
Robert John Nicholls, Jochen Hinkel, Daniel Lincke and Thomas van der Pol
8744: Investment Needs for Irrigation Infrastructure along Different Socioeconomic Pathways Downloads
Amanda Palazzo, Hugo Valin, Miroslav Batka and Petr Havlík
8743: Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment Downloads
Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso, Italo Lopez Garcia, Paula Bedregal and Miguel Cordero
8742: Measuring Human Capital Downloads
Noam Angrist, Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi Goldberg and Harry Patrinos
8741: Does Automation in Rich Countries Hurt Developing Ones?: Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico Downloads
Erhan Artuc, Luc Christiaensen and Hernan Winkler
8740: Pollution and City Competitiveness: A Descriptive Analysis Downloads
Nancy Lozano Gracia and Maria Edisa Soppelsa
8739: Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness ? Downloads
Matthew Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Maria Edisa Soppelsa
8738: Inflation: Concepts, Evolution, and Correlates Downloads
Jongrim Ha, Anna Ivanova, Franziska Ohnsorge and Filiz Unsal
8737: Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia Downloads
Moussa Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis and Todd Pugatch
8736: Does Culture Matter or Firm ? Demand for Female Labor in Three Indian Cities Downloads
Maitreyi B Das, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, Ieva Zumbyte, Sanjeev Sasmal and Sangeeta Goyal
8735: Estimation of Poverty in Somalia Using Innovative Methodologies Downloads
Utz Pape and Philip Randolph Wollburg
8734: What Is State Capacity ? Downloads
Stuti Khemani
8733: Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya Downloads
Heather Ashley Knauer, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Frances E Aboud and Lia C.H. Fernald
8732: Sex, Lies, and Surveys: The Role of Interviewer Characteristics Downloads
Tricia Koroknay-Palicz and Joao Montalvao
8731: The Textile-Clothing Value Chain in India and Bangladesh: How Appropriate Policies Can Promote (or Inhibit) Trade and Investment Downloads
Mahfuz Kabir, Surendar Singh and Michael Joseph Ferrantino
8730: Hitting the Trillion Mark -- A Look at How Much Countries Are Spending on Infrastructure Downloads
Marianne Fay, Hyoung Il Lee, Massimo Mastruzzi, Sungmin Han and Moonkyoung Cho
8729: Why Do So Many Water Points Fail in Tanzania ? An Empirical Analysis of Contributing Factors Downloads
George Joseph, Luis Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Jonathan Grabinsky Zabludovsky, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling and Yi Rong Hoo
8728: A Joint Foreign Currency Risk Management Approach for Sovereign Assets and Liabilities Downloads
Mehmet Cangoz, Olga Sulla, ChunLan Wang and Christopher Benjamin Dychala
8727: The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities: A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics Downloads
Paolo Verme and Kirsten Schuettler
8726: Pension Funds with Automatic Enrollment Schemes: Lessons for Emerging Economies Downloads
Heinz P. Rudolph
8725: Inequality of Access to Opportunities and Socioeconomic Mobility: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey Downloads
Alexandru Cojocaru
8724: Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies Downloads
David Laborde Debucquet, Csilla Lakatos and Will Martin
8723: Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines: Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses Downloads
Brian James Walsh and Stephane Hallegatte
8722: Estimating Poverty in a Fragile Context -- The High Frequency Survey in South Sudan Downloads
Utz Pape and Luca Parisotto
8721: Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences: The Case of the Philippines Downloads
Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez
8720: Policy Implications of Non-linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output Downloads
Samara Gunter, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Alberto Vegh Gramont and Guillermo Vuletin
8719: Discriminatory Laws Against Women: A Survey of the Literature Downloads
Sanchari Roy
8718: Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure Downloads
Elizabeth Claire Losos, Alexander Pfaff, Lydia Pauline Olander, Sara Mason and Seth Morgan
8717: Measuring Farm Labor: Survey Experimental Evidence from Ghana Downloads
Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Janneke Pieters
8716: Investing in Human Capital: What Can We Learn from the World Bank's Portfolio Data ? Downloads
Roberta V. Gatti and Aakash Mohpal
8715: Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries Downloads
Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam
8714: Enforcing Competition and Firm Productivity: Evidence from 1,800 Peruvian Municipalities Downloads
Marc Tobias Schiffbauer and James Sampi
8713: Interest Rate Pass-Through: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature Downloads
Jiri Gregora, Ales Melecky and Martin Melecký
8712: When the Cycle Becomes the Trend: The Emerging Market Experience with Fiscal Policy during the Last Commodity Super Cycle Downloads
Rashaad Amra, Marek Hanusch and Charl Jooste
8711: Can Regulation Promote Financial Inclusion ? Downloads
Rong - DECID Chen and Raian Divanbeigi
8710: Highway Politics in a Divided Government: Evidence from Mexico Downloads
Harris Selod and Souleymane Soumahoro
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