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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
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