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8554: The consequences of political interference in bureaucratic decision making: evidence from Nigeria

Daniel Oliver Rogger

8553: Corporate debt overhang and investment: firm-level evidence

Eduardo R. Borensztein and Lei Sandy Ye

8552: Water and sanitation in Dhaka slums: access, quality, and informality in service provision

Yurani Arias Granada, Sabrina Sharmin Haque, George Joseph and Monica Yanez Pagans

8551: Pathways to formalization: going beyond the formality dichotomy -- the case of Peru

Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Iamele Rigolini and Claudia Ruiz

8550: Competing priorities: women's microenterprises and household relationships

Sophia Friedson-Ridenour and Rachael Susan Pierotti

8549: Nutrition, religion, and widowhood in Nigeria

Annamaria Milazzo and Dominique van de Walle

8548: Heterogeneous impacts of main and feeder road improvements: evidence from Ethiopia

Atsushi Iimi, Haileyesus Adamtei Mengesha, James Markland, Yetmgeta Asrat and Kefargachew Kassahun

8547: Infrastructure, value chains, and economic upgrades

Xubei Luo and Xuejiao Xu

8546: Mobility and congestion in urban India

Prottoy Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, Ejaz Ghani and Adam Storeygard

8545: What can we (machine) learn about welfare dynamics from cross-sectional data?

Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti

8544: Study on public debt management systems and results of a survey on solutions used by debt management offices

Cigdem Aslan, Artan Ajazaj and Shurufa Abdul Wahidh

8543: Playing to strength: growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa

Shahid Yusuf and Praveen Kumar

8542: Import substitution with labor misallocation

Marco A.C. Martins and Jorge A. De Thompson R. Araujo

8541: Can government intervention make firms more investment-ready ? a randomized experiment in the Western Balkans

Ana Paula Cusolito, Ernest Dautović and David McKenzie

8540: Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: a gender perspective

Goedele Van den Broeck and Talip Kilic

8539: A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP?s Food Consumption

Lennart Kaplan, Utz Pape and James Sonam Walsh

8538: Inequality in earnings and adverse shocks in early adulthood

Franck M. Adoho and Bienvenue Tien

8537: Does the environment matter for poverty reduction ? the role of soil fertility and vegetation vigor in poverty reduction

Martin Heger, Gregor Franz Zens and Mook Bangalor

8536: The aggregate income losses from childhood stunting and the returns to a nutrition intervention aimed at reducing stunting

Emanuela Galasso and Adam Wagstaff

8535: Bought, sold, and bought again: the impact of complex value chains on export elasticities

François de Soyres, Erik Frohm, Vanessa Gunnella and Elena Pavlova

8534: Who are America's star firms?

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

8533: Trade in developing East Asia: how it has changed and why it matters

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

8532: Aquatic salinization and mangrove species in a changing climate: impact in the Indian Sundarbans

Anirban Mukhopadhyay, David J. Wheeler, Susmita Dasgupta, Ajanta Dey and Istiak Sobhan

8531: Cooperation creates special moral obligations

Alexander Cappelen, Varun Gauri and Bertil Tungodden

8530: Urbanization in Kazakhstan: desirable cities, unaffordable housing, and the missing rental marke

William Seitz

8529: Joint effects of parenting and nutrition status on child development: evidence from rural Cambodia

Jan Lukas Berkes, Abbie Raikes, Adrien Bouguen and Deon Filmer

8528: Productivity shocks and repayment behavior in rural credit markets: a framed field experiment

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Lenis Liverpool-Tasie and Robert Shupp

8527: Characterizing business cycles in small economies

Viktoria Hnatkovska and Fritzi Koehler-Geib

8526: Sources of volatility in small economies

Viktoria Hnatkovska and Fritzi Koehler-Geib

8525: Should I stay or should I go: do cash transfers affect migration ?

Samik Adhikari and Ugo Gentilini

8524: Not(ch) your average tax system: corporate taxation under weak enforcement

Pierre Jean Bachas and Mauricio Soto

8523: Measuring districts'monthly economic activity from outer space

Robert Beyer, Esha Chhabra, Virgilio Galdo and Martin Rama

8522: Tax Evasion in Africa and Latin America: the role of distortionary infrastructures and policies

Wilfried Kouamé and Jonathan Goyette

8521: Decentralized delivery of financial education: evidence from a country-wide field experiment

Emmanuel Hakizimfura, Douglas Randall and Bilal Zia

8520: The shifting natural wealth of nations: the role of market orientation

Rabah Arezki, Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Frederik Toscani

8519: Taking stock of wholesale power markets in developing countries: a literature review

Hugh Rudnick and Constantin Velasquez

8518: Taking stock of the political economy of power sector reforms in developing countries: a literature review

Alan David Lee and Zainab Usman

8517: Integrating variable renewable energy in the Bangladesh power system: a planning analysis

Miklos Bankuti, Debabrata Chattopadhyay and Chong Suk Song

8516: Assessing the international comovement of equity returns

Girum Dagnachew Abate and Luis Servén

8515: Spatial and sectoral heterogeneity of occupational choice in Cameroon

Theophile Bougna and Pierre Nguimkeu

8514: Gross capital flows by banks, corporates, and sovereigns

Stefan Avdjiev, Bryan Hardy, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Luis Servén

8513: How would cross-border electricity trade stimulate hydropower development in South Asia ?

Govinda Timilsina

8512: Jati inequality in rural Bihar

Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao

8511: Better loans or better borrowers ? impact of meso-credit on female-owned enterprises in Ethiopia

Aly Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren and Sreelakshmi Papineni

8510: Impact of conflict on adolescent girls in South Sudan

Utz Pape and Verena Phipps

8509: Transport costs, comparative advantage, and agricultural development: evidence from Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh

Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Lu - DECEE Xu

8508: Bridge to bigpush or backwash ? market integration, reallocation, and productivity effects of Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh

Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Lu - DECEE Xu

8507: The ecological impact of transportation infrastructure

Samuel Edward Asher, Teevrat Garg and Paul Novosad

8506: How does participation in value chains matter to African farmers ?

Nora Dihel, Arti Grover, Claire Honore Hollweg and Anja Slany

8505: The dynamics of development: innovation and reallocation

Francisco Buera and Roberto Fattal Jaef

8504: Discrimination against sexual minorities in education and housing: evidence from two field experiments in Serbia

Dominik Koehler, Georgia Harley and Nicholas Menzies

8503: Exposure of belt and road economies to china trade shocks

Paulo Bastos

8502: Do politically connected firms innovate, contributing to long-term economic growth ?

David C. Francis, Sahar Sajjad Hussain and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

8501: The optimal mix of pricing and infrastructure expansions to alleviate traffic congestion and in-bus crowding in grand Casablanca

Alexandros Anas, Sayan De Sarkar and Govinda Timilsina

8500: The evidence is in: how should youth employment programs in low-income countries be designed ?

Louise Fox and Upaasna Kaul

8499: Improved cook stoves for climate change mitigation ? evidence of values, preferences and carbon savings from a choice experiment in Ethiopia

Sahan Dissanayake, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Gilbert Kiggundu, Shannon H. Kooser, Peter Martinsson, Alemu Mekonnen and Michael Toman

8498: The effect of remittances on the current account in developing and emerging economies

Emmanuel Lartey

8497: The economic effects of refugee return and policy implications

Uri B. Dadush

8496: Funding and financing infrastructure: the joint-use of public and private finance

Marianne Fay, David Martimort and Stephane Straub

8495: The role of major emerging markets in global commodity demand

John Baffes, Alain Kabundi, Peter Nagle and Franziska Ohnsorge

8494: The devil is in the details: growth, polarization, and poverty reduction in Africa in the past two decades

Fabio Clementi, M. Fabiani and Vasco Molini

8493: Where is the carbon tax after thirty years of research ?

Govinda Timilsina

8492: The effect of immigration on natives'school achievement: does length of stay in the host country matter?

Laurent Bossavie

8491: Deep trade agreements and global value chains

Edith Laget, Alberto Osnago, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta

8490: Piloting the use of network analysis and decision-making under uncertainty in transport operations: preparation and appraisal of a rural roads project in Mozambique under changing flood risk and other deep uncertainties

Xavier Espinet Alegre, Julie Rozenberg, Kulwinder Singh Rao and Satoshi Ogita

8489: Improving mental well-being and productivity of small-medium entrepreneurs in fragile, conflict and violence affected areas: can cognitive behavioral therapy trainings help ?

Priyam Saraf, Tasmia Rahman, Miguel Angel Jimenez Gallardo, Julian C Jamison and Charles Lor

8488: Optimal locational choice for agrobusinesses in Madagascar: an application of spatial autoregressive Tobit regression

Atsushi Iimi

8487: Transport connectivity, Medical supplies, and people's health care access: evidence from Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi and Voahirana Hanitriniala Rajoela

8486: Crop production, transport infrastructure, and agrobusiness nexus: evidence from Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You and Ulrike Wood-Sichra

8485: Integrating services in the economic fitness approach

Andrea Zaccaria, Saurabh Mishra, Masud Z. Cader and Luciano Pietronero

8484: Measuring and explaining patterns of Spatial Income Inequality from Outer Space: Evidence from Africa

Anthony Mveyange

8483: Sowing the seeds for rural finance: the impact of support services for credit unions in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Rekha Reddy and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

8482: The informal city

Harris Selod and Lara Tobin

8481: Sustainable development goals diagnostics: an application of network theory and complexity measures to set country priorities

M. H. El-Maghrabi, Susanna Elisabeth Gable, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Jos Verbeek

8480: The long-run and gender-equalizing impacts of school access: evidence from the first Indochina war

Hai-Anh Dang, Trung Xuan Hoang and Ha Nguyen

8479: Efficient financial allocation and productivity growth in Brazil

Pietro Calice, Eduardo Ribeiro and Steen Byskov

8478: Benchmarking costs of financial intermediation around the world

Pietro Calice and Nan Zhou

8477: Are driving forces of CO2 emissions different across countries?: insights from identity and econometric analyses

Kangyin Dong, Gal Hochman and Govinda Timilsina

8476: Incentivizing school attendance in the presence of parent-child information frictions

Damien de Walque and Christine Valente

8475: Services liberalization and GVC participation: new evidence for heterogeneous effects by income level and provisions

Woori Lee

8474: Automation and labor market outcomes: the pivotal role of high-quality education

Raja Bentaouet Kattan, Kevin Macdonald and Harry Patrinos

8473: Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition: evidence from simultaneous field experiments

Varun Gauri, Julian C Jamison, Nina Mazar, Owen Ozier, Shomikho Raha and Karima Saleh

8472: Small area estimation of poverty under structural change

Simon Lange, Utz Pape and Peter Putz

8471: Crony capitalism in Ukraine: relationship between political connectedness and firms'performance

Oleksii Balabushko, Oleksandra Betliy, Veronika Movchan, Ruslan Piontkivsky and Mykola Ryzhenkov

8470: Anatomy and impact of export promotion agencies

Marcio Cruz, Daniel Lederman and Laura De Castro Zoratto

8469: The road to recovery: the role of poverty in the exposure, vulnerability and resilience to floods in Accra

Alvina Elisabeth Erman, Elliot Gaston Motte, Radhika Goyal, Akosua Boahemaa Asare, Shinya Takamatsu, Xiaomeng Chen, Silvia Malgioglio, Alexander Skinner, Nobuo Yoshida and Stephane Hallegatte

8468: How much has Nepal lost in the last decade due to load shedding? an economic assessment using a CGE model

Govinda Timilsina, Prakash Sapkota and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

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