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- 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 Stöckli, 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 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
- 8626: Tobacco Taxation Incidence: Evidence from the Russian Federation

- Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Mikhail Matytsin and Olga Obukhova
- 8625: The Intensive Margin in Trade

- Ana Fernandes, Pete Klenow, Sergii Meleshchuk, Martha Denisse Pierola and Andres Rodriguez-Clare
- 8624: How Do Countries Use an Asset and Liability Management Approach ? A Survey on Sovereign Balance Sheet Management

- Mehmet Cangoz, Sebastien-000379895 Boitreaud and Christopher Benjamin Dychala
- 8623: The Cost and Benefits of Tax Treaties with Investment Hubs: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

- Sebastian Beer and Jan Loeprick
- 8622: Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

- Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones
- 8621: Are Banks Engines of Export ? Financial Structures and Export Dynamics

- Raoul Minetti, Alen Mulabdic, Michele Ruta and Susan Chun Zhu
- 8620: Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition: The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion

- Lixin Xu and Li Yang
- 8619: The Causal Mechanism of Financial Education: Evidence from Mediation Analysis

- Fenella Carpena and Bilal Zia
- 8618: Root for the Tubers: Extended-Harvest Crop Production and Productivity Measurement in Surveys

- Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan, John Ilukor, Clement Mtengula and Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri
- 8617: Ghana Private Equity and Venture Capital Ecosystem Study

- Shanthi Divakaran, Sam Schneider and Patrick J. Mcginnis
- 8616: How Does Poverty Differ Among Refugees ? Taking a Gender Lens to the Data on Syrian Refugees in Jordan

- Lucia C. Hanmer, Diana Jimena Arango, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, Julieth Santamaria and Mariana Viollaz
- 8615: Concentration in the Banking Sector and Financial Stability: New Evidence

- Pietro Calice and Leone Leonida
- 8614: How Much Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reduce Trade Costs ?

- François de Soyres, Alen Mulabdic, Siobhan Murray, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta
- 8613: FDI and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Emerging Economies

- Marcio Cruz, Gaurav Nayyar, Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vézina
- 8612: Who Wins and Who Loses from Staple Food Price Spikes ? Welfare Implications for Mozambique

- Javier Baez, German Caruso and Hemant Pullabhotla
- 8611: Courts and Business Registration: Evidence from Serbia

- Miriam Bruhn, Caleb Sungwoo Cho, Andreja Marusic, Ha Nguyen, José-Daniel Reyes and Trang Thu Tran
- 8610: Living Life: Assessing Bureaucratic Complexity in Citizen-Government Interactions

- Valeria Perotti, Marina Kayumova and Natalia Mazoni Silva Martins
- 8609: Are the Poor Getting Globalized?

- Adelina Mendoza, Gaurav Nayyar and Roberta Piermartini
- 8608: Taking Management Digital: Lessons from the Development of an Innovative Management Information System for Small Businesses in Ethiopia

- Aly Salman Alibhai, Francesco Strobbe and Espen Villanger
- 8607: Foreign Investment across the Belt and Road: Patterns, Determinants, and Effects

- Maggie Chen and Chuanhao Lin
- 8606: Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration?: Evidence from Nigeria

- Oyebola Okunogbe
- 8605: A Proxy Means Test for Sri Lanka

- Ashwini Sebastian, Shivapragasam Shivakumaran, Ani Silwal, David Newhouse, Thomas Walker and Nobuo Yoshida
- 8604: Assessing the Effect of Public Capital on Growth: An Extension of the World Bank Long-Term Growth Model

- Sharmila Devadas and Steven Michael Pennings
- 8603: Exporting Firms and the Demand for Skilled Tasks

- Irene Brambilla, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto
- 8602: Prioritizing Infrastructure Investments: A Comparative Review of Applications in Chile

- Darwin Marcelo Gordillo, Schuyler House and Aditi Raina
- 8601: How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System ? Experimental Evidence from Malawi

- Francisco Campos, Markus Goldstein and David McKenzie
- 8600: Trade Liberalization and Integration of Domestic Output Markets in Brazil

- Jose Guilherme Reis, Mariana Iootty, Jose E. Signoret, Tanja K. Goodwin, Martha Martinez Licetti, Alice Duhaut and Somik V. Lall
- 8599: India's Growth Story

- Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Florian Michael Blum, Poonam Gupta and Dhruv Jain
- 8598: Survey of the Kenyan Private Equity and Venture Capital Landscape

- Shanthi Divakaran, Patrick J. Mcginnis and Sam Schneider
- 8597: Remittances and Labor Supply in the Northern Triangle

- Liliana Sousa and Andres Felipe Garcia Suaza
- 8596: Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter ? The Role of Manufacturing versus Services in Development

- Gaurav Nayyar, Marcio Cruz and Linghui Zhu
- 8595: Management and Bureaucratic Effectiveness: Evidence from the Ghanaian Civil Service

- Imran Rasul, Daniel Oliver Rogger and Martin J. Williams
- 8594: Training to Teach Science: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

- Facundo Albornoz, Maria Victoria Anauati, Melina Gabriela Furman, Mariana Luzuriaga, Maria Eugenia Podesta and Ines Taylor
- 8593: Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index

- Aart Kraay
- 8592: Global Dataset on Education Quality: A Review and Update (2000-2017)

- Harry Patrinos and Noam Angrist
- 8591: Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS): Defining A New Macro Measure of Education

- Deon Filmer, Frederic Rogers, Noam Angrist and Shwetlena Sabarwal
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