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8728: A Joint Foreign Currency Risk Management Approach for Sovereign Assets and Liabilities

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

Paolo Verme and Kirsten Schuettler

8726: Pension Funds with Automatic Enrollment Schemes: Lessons for Emerging Economies

Heinz P. Rudolph

8725: Inequality of Access to Opportunities and Socioeconomic Mobility: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey

Alexandru Cojocaru

8724: Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies

David Laborde Debucquet, Csilla Lakatos and Will Martin

8723: Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines: Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses

Brian James Walsh and Stephane Hallegatte

8722: Estimating Poverty in a Fragile Context -- The High Frequency Survey in South Sudan

Utz Pape and Luca Parisotto

8721: Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences: The Case of the Philippines

Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez

8720: Policy Implications of Non-linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output

Samara Gunter, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Alberto Vegh Gramont and Guillermo Vuletin

8719: Discriminatory Laws Against Women: A Survey of the Literature

Sanchari Roy

8718: Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure

Elizabeth Claire Losos, Alexander Pfaff, Lydia Pauline Olander, Sara Mason and Seth Morgan

8717: Measuring Farm Labor: Survey Experimental Evidence from Ghana

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 ?

Roberta V. Gatti and Aakash Mohpal

8715: Paid Maternity Leave and Female Employment: Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

8714: Enforcing Competition and Firm Productivity: Evidence from 1,800 Peruvian Municipalities

Marc Tobias Schiffbauer and James Sampi

8713: Interest Rate Pass-Through: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature

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

Rashaad Amra, Marek Hanusch and Charl Jooste

8711: Can Regulation Promote Financial Inclusion ?

Rong - DECID Chen and Raian Divanbeigi

8710: Highway Politics in a Divided Government: Evidence from Mexico

Harris Selod and Souleymane Soumahoro

8709: A New Tail-Based Correlation Measure and Its Application in Global Equity Markets

Jinjing Liu

8708: Using Referenda to Improve Targeting and Decrease Costs of Conditional Cash Transfers

Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia, Katharine R. Emans Sims and Daniel J. Phaneuf

8707: Can Environmental Cash Transfers Reduce Deforestation and Improve Social Outcomes ? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Mexico?s National Program (2011-2014)

Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia, Katharine R. Emans Sims, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera, Laura Elena Costica, Fernandez Medina.Jorge David, Sofia Romo-Monroy and Stefano Pagiola

8706: Assessing Innovation Patterns and Constraints in Developing East Asia: An Introductory Analysis

Mariana Iootty

8705: Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings

Caroline T. Witte, Martijn Burger and Elena Ianchovichina

8704: Natural Resources and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Testing A New Methodology

Kirk E. Hamilton, Esther G. Naikal and Glenn-Marie Lange

8703: Managing South Africa's Exposure to Eskom: How to Evaluate the Credit Risk from the Sovereign Guarantees?

Fritz Florian Bachmair, Cigdem Aslan and Mkhulu Maseko

8702: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Growth in Latin American Cities: An Analysis Using Nighttime Lights Imagery

Juan Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge Patiño, Paula Restrepo Cadavid and Wilson A. Velasquez

8701: The Medium-Term Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from University Graduates in Tunisia

Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Stefanie Koettl-Brodmann and Patrick Premand

8700: Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

8699: Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective

Michael Geiger, Jan Trenczek and Konstantin Wacker

8698: Impact of Drought on Poverty in Somalia

Utz Pape and Philip Randolph Wollburg

8697: Urban Form and Productivity: What Is the Shape of Latin American Cities ?

Juan Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge Patiño and Paula Restrepo Cadavid

8696: Institutional Fragmentation and Metropolitan Coordination in Latin American Cities: What Consequences for Productivity and Growth ?

Juan Duque, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Jorge Patiño and Paula Restrepo Cadavid

8695: Understanding the Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies on Shipping: What Is the State of the Art of Current Modeling Approaches ?

Ronald Apriliyanto Halim, Tristan Smith and Dominik Paul Englert

8694: Trade Effects of the New Silk Road: A Gravity Analysis

Suprabha Baniya, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta

8693: Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations

Grant James Cameron, Hai-Anh Dang, Mustafa Dinc, James Foster and Michael Lokshin

8692: Poverty Measurement in the Era of Food Away from Home: Testing Alternative Approaches in Vietnam

Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Julie Ting Ting Perng and Renos Vakis

8691: The Short-Term Impact of Inter-Community Volunteering Activities and Soft Skills Training on Self-Reported Social Cohesion Values: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Lebanon

Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Rene Antonio Leon Solano, Carlos Asenjo, Marwan Alawiye and Marwa El-Kik

8690: Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico

Santiago Levy and Luis Lopez-Calva

8689: The Use of Data Analytics Techniques to Assess the Functioning of a Government's Financial Management Information System: An Application to Pakistan and Cambodia

Ali Hashim, Moritz Otto Maria Alfons Piattifuenfkirchen, Winston Percy Onipede Cole, Ammar Naqvi, Akmal Minallah, Maun Prathna and Sokbunthoeun So

8688: Understanding the Geographical Distribution of Stunting in Tanzania: A Geospatial Analysis of the 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey

George Joseph, Peter William Gething, Samir Bhatt and Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling

8687: Financial Outreach and Working Poverty in Developing Countries: New Evidence from Bank Penetration

Aissata-000536535 Coulibaly and Thierry Yogo

8686: Beyond Capital: Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises

Iza Lejárraga and Alexandros Ragoussis

8685: The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic Activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria

Julian C Jamison, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Gbemisola Oseni, Julie Ting Ting Perng, Ryoko Sato, Tomomi - GPV07 Tanaka and Renos Vakis

8684: Shifting Social Norms to Reduce Open Defecation in Rural India

Varun Gauri, Tasmia Rahman and Iman Kalyan Sen

8683: International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia

T M Tonmoy Islam, David Newhouse and Monica Yanez Pagans

8682: Intervening at Home and Then at School: A Randomized Evaluation of Two Approaches to Improve Early Educational Outcomes in Tonga

Kevin Macdonald, Sally Anne Brinkman, Wendy Jarvie, Myrna Machuca-Sierra, Kristen Andrew Mcdonall, Souhila Messaoud-Galusi, Siosiana Tapueluelu and Binh Thanh Vu

8681: Minimum Wages and Labor Supply in an Emerging Market: The Case of Mauritius

Zaakhir Asmal, Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Marco Ranzani and Pierella Paci

8680: Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change: A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa

Dalal Aassouli, Mehmet Asutay, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Tochukwu Chiara Nwokike

8679: The Economic Case for Education in Vietnam

Harry Patrinos, Pham Vu Thang and Nguyen Duc Thanh

8678: Measuring Urban Economic Density

J. Vernon Henderson, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina and Sebastian Constantine Gilmour Kriticos

8677: How Much Would Bangladesh Gain from the Removal of Subsidies on Electricity and Natural Gas ?

Govinda Timilsina, Sheoli Pargal, Marinos E. Tsigas and Sebnem Sahin

8676: Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Zovanga Louis Kone, Aaditya Mattoo and Caglar Ozden

8675: Explaining the WAEMU Growth Spurt -- The Role of Financial Deepening and Macro Policy

Fiseha Haile Gebregziabher and Lars Moller

8673: Political Selection and Bureaucratic Productivity

James Paul Habyarimana, Stuti Khemani and Thiago Scot

8672: Survey of the Nepal Private Equity and Venture Capital Environment

Shanthi Divakaran, Gianni Lorenzato, Anup Raj Upreti and Pratikshya Dahal

8671: Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect

Michele Di Maio and Nathan Fiala

8670: Promoting Early Childhood Development through Combining Cash Transfers and Parenting Programs

Ana-Maria Arriagada, Jonathan Perry, Laura B. Rawlings, Julieta M. Trias and Melissa Zumaeta Aurazo

8669: Comprehensive Private School Model for Low-Income Urban Children in Mexico

Lucrecia Santibanez, Juan E. Saavedra, Raja Bentaouet Kattan and Harry Patrinos

8668: Non-Linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output: The Role of the Initial Level of Taxation

Samara Gunter, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Alberto Vegh Gramont and Guillermo Vuletin

8667: Extreme Weather and Poverty Risk: Evidence from Multiple Shocks in Mozambique

Javier Baez, German Caruso and Chiyu Niu

8666: Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ?

Sheheryar Banuri, Damien de Walque, Philip Keefer and Paul Jacob Robyn

8665: Re-Kindling Learning: eReaders in Lagos

James Paul Habyarimana and Shwetlena Sabarwal

8664: Malnutrition Gap as a New Measure of Child Malnutrition: A Global Application

Juan Feng, Shamma Adeeb Alam and Patrick Eozenou

8663: Potential Growth: Outlook and Options for the Russian Federation

Yoki Okawa and Apurva Sanghi

8662: On the Asymmetry of Global Spillovers: Emerging Markets Versus Advanced Economies

Rabah Arezki and Yang Liu

8661: Gender Gaps in the Labor Market and Economic Growth

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Kamer Karakurum-Ozdemir and Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

8660: States Diverge, Cities Converge: Drivers of Local Growth Catch-up in India

Yue Li, Martin Rama and Qinghua Zhao

8659: Developing Countries and Services in the New Industrial Paradigm

Gaurav Nayyar and Marcio Cruz

8658: Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

John Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue and Guochang Zhao

8657: Vertical and Horizontal Redistribution: The Cases of Western and Eastern Europe

Maurizio Bussolo, Carla Krolage, Mattia Makovec, Andreas Peichl, Marc Stockli, Iván Torre and Christian Wittneben

8656: Evidence-Based Teaching: Effective Teaching Practices in Primary School Classrooms

Ezequiel Molina, Adelle Pushparatnam, Sara Elisabeth Rimm-Kaufman and Keri Ka-Yee Wong

8655: Feeding of Infants and Young Children in South Asia

Harriet Torlesse and Dhushyanth Raju

8654: Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya

Shohei Nakamura and Paolo Avner

8653: Measuring Teaching Practices at Scale: Results from the Development and Validation of the Teach Classroom Observation Tool

Ezequiel Molina, Syeda Farwa Fatima, Andrew Dean Y C Ho, Carolina Eugenia Melo Hurtado, Tracy Wilichowksi and Adelle Pushparatnam

8652: Does Job Polarization Explain the Rise in Earnings Inequality ? Evidence from Europe

Maurizio Bussolo, Iván Torre and Hernan Winkler

8651: Catastrophic Medical Expenditures: Reflections on Three Issues

Adam Wagstaff

8650: Human Capital and Macro-Economic Development: A Review of the Evidence

Federico Rossi

8649: Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices

Samuel Paul Fraiberger, Do Lee, Damien Puy and Romain Rancier

8648: Forest Carbon Supply in Nepal: Evidence from a Choice Experiment

Sahan Dissanayake, Randall Bluffstone, E. Somanathan, Harisharan Luintel, N. S. Paudel and Michael Toman

8647: Three Macroeconomic Trends Around the Onset of Armed Conflict in Developing Economies

Daniel Lederman and Claudio Rojas Guzmán

8646: GVC Participation and Deep Integration in Brazil

Claire Honore Hollweg and Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri

8645: Is It the Journey That Matters ? A Fresh Look at the Impact of World Bank Policy Lending

Peter G. Moll and Lodewijk Smets

8644: Hierarchy and Information

Daniel Oliver Rogger and Ravi Somani

8643: Servicification of Manufacturing and Boosting Productivity through Services Sector Reform in Turkey

Thomas Edward Haven and Erik van der Marel

8642: High-Growth Firms: Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Francesca de Nicola, Balazs Murakozy and Shawn Tan

8641: Definition Matters: Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country

Maarten Bosker, Jane Park and Mark Roberts

8640: Traders'Dilemma: Developing Countries'Response to Trade Disputes

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Csilla Lakatos, Sherman Robinson and Karen E. Thierfelder

8639: Mongolia: Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers

Samuel Freije-Rodriguez and Judy Yang

8638: Poverty, Inequality, and Agriculture in the EU

João Pedro Azevedo, Rogier J. E. Van Den Brink, Paul Corral Rodas, Montserrat Avila, Hongxi Zhao and Mohammad-Hadi Mostafavi

8637: The Drivers and Impacts of Water Infrastructure Reliability: A Global Analysis of Manufacturing Firms

Asif Islam and Marie Caitriona Hyland

8635: Preventing More"Missing Girls": A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference

Sneha Kumar and Nistha Sinha

8634: On the Allocation of Resources in Developing East Asia and Pacific

Francesca de Nicola, Vera Vencheva Kehayova and Ha Nguyen

8633: The Limits of Commitment: Who Benefits from Illiquid Savings Products?

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Leora Klapper, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz and Simone Gabrielle Schaner

8632: Busting the Myth: The Impact of Increasing the Minimum Wage: The Experience of Romania

Frank Heemskerk, Liviu Voinea and Alexandra Cojocaru

8631: Contractual Frictions and the Margins of Trade

Theophile Thomas Azomahou, Hibret Maemir and Hassen Wako

8630: sae: A Stata Package for Unit Level Small Area Estimation

Minh Nguyen, Paul Corral Rodas, João Pedro Azevedo and Qinghua Zhao

8629: Inequality and Welfare Dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015

Hai-Anh Dang, Michael Lokshin, Kseniya Abanokova and Maurizio Bussolo

8628: Identifying Urban Areas by Combining Data from the Ground and from Outer Space: An Application to India

Virgilio Galdo, Yue Li and Martin Rama

8627: Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

Ruth Hill, Carolina Mejia-Mantilla and Kathryn Vasilaky