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8467: Inequality and economic growth: the role of initial income

Markus Brueckner and Daniel Lederman

8466: Rural roads and local economic development

Samuel Edward Asher and Paul Novosad

8465: Anatomy of credit-less recoveries

Luis Corrado and Isolina Rossi

8464: Gendered language

Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

8463: Sustainable development goal diagnostics: the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

H. Amin-Salem, M.H. El-Maghrabi, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Jos Verbeek

8462: Understanding forests'contribution to poverty alleviation: a framework for interventions in forested areas

Priya Shyamsundar, Sofia Elisabet Ahlroth, Patricia M. Kristjanson and Stefanie Onder

8461: Taking stock of economic regulation of power utilities in the developing world: a literature review

Martin Augusto Rodriguez Pardina and Julieta Schiro

8460: Taking stock of the impact of power utility reform in developing countries: a literature review

Robert W. Bacon

8459: Predicting individual wellbeing through test scores: evidence from a national assessment in Mexico

Rafael De Hoyos, Ricardo Estrada and Maria Jose Vargas

8458: Quantifying the impacts of capturing territory from the government in the Republic of Yemen

Sharad Tandon

8457: The burden of water shortages on informal firms

Asif Islam

8456: The globalization of farmland: theory and empirical evidence

Rabah Arezki, Christian Bogmans and Harris Selod

8455: Social protection in Niger: what have shocks and time got to say ?

Francis Annan and Aly Sanoh

8454: What teachers believe: mental models about accountability, absenteeism, and student learning

Shwetlena Sabarwal and Malek Abu-Jawdeh

8453: Conflict and the nature of precautionary wealth

Leila Aghabarari, Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom and Rishabh Sinha

8452: Technology, taxation, and corruption: evidence from the introduction of electronic tax filing

Oyebola Okunogbe and Victor Pouliquen

8451: Shared prosperity: concepts, data, and some policy examples

Francisco Ferreira, Emanuela Galasso and Mario Negre

8450: Services development and comparative advantage in manufacturing

Xuepeng Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei

8449: Social accountability and service delivery: experimental evidence from Uganda

Nathan Fiala and Patrick Premand

8448: Using courts to realize education rights: reflections from India and Indonesia

Andrew Rosser and Anuradha Joshi

8446: How preferential is preferential trade ?

Alvaro Raul Espitia Rueda, Aaditya Mattoo, Mondher Mimouni, Xavier Pichot and Nadia Rocha

8445: The labor productivity gap between female and male-managed firms in the formal private sector

Asif Islam, Isis Gaddis, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Mohammad Amin

8444: Overview and meta-analysis of global water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) impact evaluations

Luis Andres, Christian Borja-Vega, Crystal Fenwick, Jaime De Jesus Filho and Ronald Eduardo Gomez Suarez

8443: Investment under risks and uncertainty in Afghanistan

Subika Farazi, Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom and Rishabh Sinha

8442: Food insecurity and rising food prices: what do we learn from experiential measures ?

Dean Jolliffe, Ilana Julie Seff and Alejandro De La Fuente

8441: Welfare dynamics in Colombia: results from synthetic panels

Carlos Balcazar, Hai-Anh Dang, Eduardo Malásquez, Sergio Olivieri and Julieth Pico

8440: Better than most: teacher beliefs about effort and ability in Uganda

Shwetlena Sabarwal, Kanishka Kacker and James Paul Habyarimana

8439: Clientelism in the public sector: why public service reforms fail and what to do about it

Tessa Bold, Ezequiel Molina and Abla Safir

8438: Multidimensional connectivity: benefits, risks, and policy implications for Europe and Central Asia

David Gould, Dror Yossef Kenett and Georgi Lyudmilov Panterov

8437: Using satellite imagery to revolutionize creation of tax maps and local revenue collection

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Michael-000475260 Wild

8436: Inflation, liquidity and innovation

Michael Evers, Stefan Niemann and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

8435: Community-driven development: myths and realities

Susan Wong and Scott E. Guggenheim

8434: The impact of positive agricultural income shocks on rural Chinese households

Jessica Leight

8433: Gender gap in earnings in Vietnam: why do Vietnamese women work in lower paid occupations?

Iffat Ara Chowdhury, Hillary C. Johnson, Aneesh Mannava and Elizaveta Perova

8432: Inequality of opportunity in South Caucasus

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Sailesh Tiwari and Akhmad Rizal Shidiq

8431: International data flows and privacy: the conflict and its resolution

Aaditya Mattoo and Joshua Paul Meltzer

8430: Household expenditure and poverty measures in 60 minutes: a new approach with results from Mogadishu

Utz Pape and Johan A. Mistiaen

8429: Who benefits from dual training systems ? evidence from the Philippines

Takiko Igarashi and Pablo Acosta

8428: Political connections and firms: network dimensions

Maurizio Bussolo, Simon John Commander and Stavros Poupakis

8427: A randomized evaluation of a low-cost and highly scripted teaching method to improve basic early grade reading skills in Papua New Guinea

Kevin Macdonald and Binh Thanh Vu

8426: Do demographics matter for African child poverty ?

Yele Batana and John Cockburn

8425: Infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scorecard

Cesar Calderon, Martha Catalina Cantu Canales and Punam Chuhan-Pole

8424: The use of financial incentives to prevent undesirable behaviors

Damien de Walque

8423: Trade linkages between the belt and road economies

Mauro Boffa

8422: One more time: what are institutions and how do they change?

Roumeen Islam

8421: School costs, short-run participation, and long-run outcomes: evidence from Kenya

David Evans and Irene Muthoni Ngatia

8420: Designing pension systems with coherent funded private pillars including issues for notional defined contribution schemes

William Joseph Price

8419: The 2014-16 oil price collapse in retrospect: sources and implications

Marc Stocker, John Baffes, Y. Modeste Some, Dana Lauren Vorisek and Collette Mari Wheeler

8418: Capital flow measures: structural or cyclical policy tools?

Poonam Gupta and Oliver Masetti

8417: Banking with agents: experimental evidence from Senegal

Sinja Buri, Robert Cull, Xavier Gine, Sven Harten and Soren Heitmann

8416: Impact of free trade agreement use on import prices

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul, Hiroshi Mukunoki and Shujiro Urata

8415: Jobs ! electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa

Justice Tei Mensah

8414: Estimating intergenerational mobility with incomplete data: coresidency and truncation bias in rank-based relative and absolute mobility measures

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

8413: Transport connectivity and health care access: evidence from Liberia

Atsushi Iimi and Kulwinder Singh Rao

8412: Efficiency, legitimacy and impacts of targeting methods: evidence from an experiment in Niger

Patrick Premand and Pascale Schnitzer

8411: Firm location, transport connectivity, and agglomeration economies: Evidence from Liberia

Atsushi Iimi and Kulwinder Singh Rao

8410: Place-based policies for development

Gilles Duranton and Anthony Venables

8409: The economics of the gender wage gap in Armenia

Lourdes Rodriguez Chamussy, Nistha Sinha and Andrea Atencio

8408: Electricity provision and tax mobilization in Africa

Moussa Blimpo, Justice Tei Mensah, Opalo,K. Ochieng? and Ruifan Shi

8407: Why are connection charges so high ? an analysis of the electricity sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moussa Blimpo, Shaun McRae and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

8406: Sharing the benefits of innovation-digitization: a summary of market processes and policy suggestions

Roumeen Islam

8405: Capital inflows, equity issuance activity, and corporate investment

Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain and Sergio Schmukler

8404: The effects of cash transfers on adult labor market outcomes

Sarah Jane Baird, David McKenzie and Berk Özler

8403: To impute or not to impute ? a review of alternative poverty estimation methods in the context of unavailable consumption data

Hai-Anh Dang

8402: Returns to investment in education: a decennial review of the global literature

George Psacharopoulos and Harry Patrinos

8401: Closer, but no cigar: intergenerational mobility across caste groups in India

Rishabh Sinha

8400: Determinants and dynamics of business aspirations: evidence from small-scale entrepreneurs in an emerging market

Patricio Dalton, Julius Rüschenpöhler and Bilal Zia

8399: Communism as the unhappy coming

Simeon Djankov and Elena Nikolova

8398: Interest rate caps: the theory and the practice

Aurora Ferrari, Oliver Masetti and Jiemin Ren

8397: Surviving firms of the Syrian Arab Republic: a rapid assessment

Kinley Clemens Salmon, Nabila Assaf and David C. Francis

8396: Understanding effective teaching practices in Chinese classrooms: evidence from a pilot study of primary and junior secondary schools in Guangdong, China

Andrew Moore Coflan, Andrew B. Ragatz, Amer Hasan and Yilin Pan

8395: Does workfare work well ? the case of the employment generation program for the poorest in Bangladesh

Yoonyoung Cho and Ummul Hasanath Ruthbah

8394: Lobbying for capital tax benefits and misallocation of resources during a credit crunch

Gabriel Zaourak

8393: The impact of interest rate caps on the financial sector: evidence from commercial banks in Kenya

Mehnaz S. Safavian and Bilal Zia

8392: Paris climate agreement and the global economy: winners and losers

Muthukumara S. Mani, Zekarias Hussein, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan and Deepika Wadhwa

8391: Taxation and the shadow economy: how the tax system can stimulate and enforce the formalization of business activities

Rajul Awasthi and Michael Engelschalk

8390: Assessing fiscal space in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cesar Calderon, Punam Chuhan-Pole and Yirbehogre Modeste Some

8389: Peacekeeping and development in fragile states: micro-level evidence from Liberia

Eric Mvukiyehe

8388: Why are so many water points in Nigeria non-functional?: an empirical analysis of contributing factors

Luis Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Basab Das Gupta, Jonathan Grabinsky and George Joseph

8387: Too small to be beautiful?: the farm size and productivity relationship in Bangladesh

Madhur Gautam and Mansur Ahmed

8386: What investors want: perceptions and experiences of multinational corporations in developing countries

Peter Kusek and Andrea Antonia Lim Silva

8385: Obstacles on the road to Palestinian economic growth

Roy van der Weide, Bob Rijkers, Brian Blankespoor and Alexei Sisulu Abrahams

8384: Public works programs and crime: evidence for El Salvador

Pablo Acosta and Emma Mercedes Monsalve Montiel

8383: Access to employment and property values in Mexico

Laura H. Atuesta, J. Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Uwe Deichmann

8382: Fiscal incentives and firm performance: evidence from the Dominican Republic

Alessandra Amendola, Marinella Boccia, Gianluca Mele and Luca Sensini

8381: Transnational Terrorist Recruitment: Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records

Anne Brockmeyer, Quy-Toan Do, Clément Joubert, Mohamed Abdel Jelil and Kartika Bhatia

8380: Growth, safety nets and poverty: assessing progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011

Ruth Hill and Eyasu Tsehaye

8379: Reflections of employers'gender preferences in job ads in India: an analysis of online job portal data

Afra Chowdhury, Ana Carolina Areias, Saori Imaizumi, Shinsaku Nomura and Futoshi Yamauchi

8378: Asymmetric information on noncognitive skills in the Indian labor market: an experiment in online job portal

Futoshi Yamauchi, Shinsaku Nomura, Saori Imaizumi, Ana Carolina Areias and Afra Chowdhury

8377: Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Nonbeneficiary Children

Deon Filmer, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Junko Onishi

8376: Risk preferences and the decision to flee conflict

Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

8375: Safety nets and natural disaster mitigation: evidence from cyclone Phailin in Odisha

Paul Christian, Eeshani Kandpal, Nethra Palaniswamy and Vijayendra Rao

8374: Eyes in the sky, boots on the ground: assessing satellite- and ground-based approaches to crop yield measurement and analysis in Uganda

David B. Lobell, George Azzari, Burke Marshall, Sydney Gourlay, Zhenong Jin, Talip Kilic and Siobhan Murray

8373: Credit risk dynamics of infrastructure investment: considerations for financial regulators

Andreas Jobst

8372: The speed of justice

Florence Kondylis and Mattea Stein

8371: An evaluation of the contributing factors of water scheme failures in Nigeria

Luis Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Basab Das Gupta, Jonathan Grabinsky and George Joseph

8370: The distributional impact of the fiscal system in Albania

Maria Eugenia Davalos, Monica Robayo-Abril, Esmeralda Shehaj and Aida Gjika

8369: Long-run impacts of increasing tobacco taxes: evidence from South Africa

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Giselle Del Carmen and Alfred Mukong

8368: Resource misallocation and productivity gaps in Malaysia

Lay Lian Chuah, Norman Loayza and Ha Nguyen

8367: Giving Sisyphus a helping hand: pathways for sustainable RIA systems in developing countries

Peter Farup Ladegaard, Petter Lundkvist and Jonathan Camillo Kamkhaji