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10884: Refugees and Humanitarian Aid: The Rohingya Impact on Bangladesh’s Development

Maria Jose Urbina, Christina Wieser, Alvin Etang Ndip and Sandra Rozo

10883: A Learning Agenda for Community-Driven Development: Responding to Complex Contextual, Evaluation, and Inference Challenges

Patrick John Barron, Patricia Fernandes, Stephen Joseph Winkler and Michael Woolcock

10882: Development Acupuncture: The Network Structure of Multidimensional Poverty and Its Implications

Luis Lopez-Calva, Kimberly Blair Bolch, Viktor Stojkoski and Almudena Fernandez

10881: “Crowding In” Effect of Public Investment on Private Investment Revisited

John Nana Darko Francois, Maty Konte and Franz Ulrich Ruch

10880: What Data-Rich Assessments of Socioeconomic Inequality and Mobility in Rich Countries Overlook in Poor Countries

Roy van der Weide and Michael Woolcock

10879: Learning When Schools Shutdown: Impacts of H1N1 Outbreak on Learning Loss and Learning Gaps

Vivian Amorim, Caio Piza and Ildo José Lautharte

10878: High-Skilled Migration from Myanmar: Responses to Signals of Political and Economic Stabilization

Yashodhan Ghorpade, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz and Theingie Han

10877: Public Investment Quality and Its Implications for Sovereign Risk and Debt Sustainability

Amat Adarov and Ugo Panizza

10876: Rate Cycles

Kristin Forbes, Jongrim Ha and Ayhan Kose

10875: Measuring Social Sustainability: A Multidimensional Approach

Paola Marcela Ballon Fernandez and Jose Cuesta

10874: Private Management of African Protected Areas Improves Wildlife and Tourism Outcomes but With Security Concerns in Conflict Regions

Patrick Hunnicutt, Sean Denny and Gabriel Englander

10873: Do Men Really Have Greater Socio-Emotional Skills Than Women ? Evidence from Tanzanian Youth

Rachel Cassidy, Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Elijah Kipchumba and Julietha Komba

10872: Rate-Based Emissions Trading with Overlapping Policies: Insights from Theory and an Application to China

Carolyn Fischer, Chenfei Qu and Lawrence H. Goulder

10871: Measuring Poverty in Tanzania: Comparison of Diary and Recall Approaches to Food Consumption Data Collection

Darcey Jeanne Genou Johnson, Josephine Ofori Adofo, Maryam Gul, Amparo Palacios-Lopez and Akuffo Amankwah

10870: Who on Earth Is Using Generative AI ?

Yan Liu and He Wang

10869: Micro-Level Impacts of the War on Ukraine’s Agriculture Sector: Distinguishing Local and National Effects over Time

Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Nataliia Kussul, Guido Lemoine and Andrii Shelestov

10868: Export and Labor Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective — Evidence from Viet Nam

Deeksha Kokas, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Ha Vu

10867: Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data: An Exploratory Analysis

Hai-Anh Dang, Talip Kilic, Ksenia Abanokova and Gero Carletto

10866: Outward and Upward Construction: A 3D Analysis of the Global Building Stock

Thomas Esch, Klaus W. Deininger, Remi Jedwab and Daniela Palacios-Lopez

10865: Absentee Landlords and Land Tenancy

Annemie Maertens, Siddharth Sharma and Melanie Khamis

10864: Measuring Legislative Predictability: The Case of the Kingdom of Jordan and Implications for the MENA Region

Mihály Fazekas, Dominik Brenner and Peter Farup Ladegaard

10863: Buffer or Bottleneck ? Employment Exposure to Generative AI and the Digital Divide in Latin America

Paweł Gmyrek, Hernan Winkler and Santiago Garganta

10862: Making Agriculture Work for the Poor in Timor-Leste

Francis Addeah Darko and Ririn Salwa Purnamasari

10861: Do Psychosocial Stimulation, Parental Distress and Early Childhood Education Enrollment Show Different Associations with Early Childhood Development Outcomes for Boys and Girls ? Findings from a Phone Survey in Pakistan

Emily Esther Franchett, Amer Hasan, Elizabeth Lauren Hentschel, Mahreen Tahir Chowdhry, Heather B. Tomlinson, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai and Mina Zamand

10860: Should Farm Input Subsidy Programs Target Poor or Non-Poor Farmers ? Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program

Francis Addeah Darko

10859: Profitability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Francis Addeah Darko, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert and Talip Kilic

10858: Assessing Power System Disruptions and Associated Economic Impacts from Increasing Extreme Heat Events in Southeast Europe Using an Idealized Design Methodology

David Farnham, Ross Marc Eisenberg and Luc Marius Jacques Bonnafous

10857: Revealing Tax Evasion: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Survey of Indonesian Firms

Christopher Alexander Hoy, Filip Jolevski and Sheannal Obeyesekere

10856: Does Climbing the Jobs Ladder Promote Poverty Reduction ?

Yunji Choi, Mario Gronert, Maddalena Honorati, Joshua D. Merfeld and David Newhouse

10855: Trade Policies Mix and Match: Theory, Evidence and the EU-Sino Electric Vehicle Disputes

Hiau Looi Kee and Enze Xie

10854: Electricity Transition in MFMod: A Methodological Note with Applications

Charl Jooste, Florent John Mcisaac and Alexander Haider

10853: A Comparative Analysis of Financial Sector Reforms and Policies in Countries Exiting Fragility

Pietro Calice and Dimitri G. Demekas

10852: Know Thy Foe: Information Provision and Air Pollution in Tbilisi

Sandra Baquie, Arnold Behrer, Xinming Du, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Natsuko Kiso Nozaki

10851: When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency ? Evidence from the Rural Philippines

Aries Ayuson Arugay, Aletheia Donald, Forest Brach Jarvis, Hillary C. Johnson and Aletheia Valenciano

10850: Financial Development and Fragility: A Clustering Analysis

Igor Custodio João, Pietro Calice, Andre Lucas and Julia Schaumburg

10849: Therapy, Mental Health, and Human Capital Accumulation among Adolescents in Uganda

Sarah Jane Baird, Berk Özler, Chiara Dell'Aira, Luca Parisotto and Danish Us-Salam

10848: The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs

Aletheia Donald, Markus P. Goldstein, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz and Mathilde Sage

10847: Connectivity, Road Quality, and Jobs: Evidence from Armenia

Nino Pkhikidze

10846: Does Effective School Leadership Improve Student Progression and Test Scores ? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi

Salman Asim, Ravinder Madron Casley Gera, Donna Oretha Harris and Stefan Dercon

10845: Are Short-Term Gains in Learning Outcomes Possible ? Evidence from the Malawi Education Sector Improvement Project

Salman Asim and Ravinder Madron Casley Gera

10844: Can Targeted Allocation of Teachers Improve Student Learning Outcomes? Evidence from Malawi

Salman Asim, Ravinder Madron Casley Gera, Juan Martin Moreno and Kerry Lai Man Wong

10843: Learning Loss as a Result of COVID-19: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey in Malawi

Salman Asim, Sajitha Bashir and Ravinder Madron Casley Gera

10842: Fertilizer Price Shocks in Smallholder Agriculture: Cross-Country Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa

Akuffo Amankwah, Alemayehu Ambel, Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic, Yannick Markhof and Philip Randolph Wollburg

10841: Cultivating Collaboration through Joint Participation: Evidence from a Video-Based Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Extension Program in Ethiopia

Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Rachael Susan Pierotti, Emily Ann Springer and Alemgena Gebreyohannes

10840: The Impact of Submarine Cables on Internet Access Price, and the Role of Competition and Regulation

Joël Cariolle, Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Tarna Abdoul Hamid Silue and Davide Strusani

10839: A Metric of Global Maritime Supply Chain Disruptions: The Global Supply Chain Stress Index (GSCSI)

Jean Francois Arvis, Cordula Rastogi, Jean Paul Rodrigue and Daria Ulybina

10838: Mobilizing Private Capital for the Sustainable Development Goals

Robert J. Cull, Indermit S. Gill, Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Federica Zeni

10837: Voting when Rankings Matter: Truthful Equilibria, Efficiency, and Abstention

Roland Pongou and Ghislain Junior Sidie

10836: Measuring the Upper Tail of the Income and Wealth Distributions

Andrew Nicholas Kerr and Mxolisi Zondi

10835: Making Time Count: A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Time Use in Low-Income Countries from Physical Activity Tracking Data

Joris Mulder, Seyit Hocuk, Talip Kilic, Alberto Zezza and Pradeep Kumar

10834: The Socioeconomic Outcomes of Native Groups in Argentina

Pedro Dal Bó and Janet Carolina De Los Angeles Lopez

10833: Economic and Policy Analysis for Emission Reduction from the Brick Industry in Nepal

Govinda R. Timilsina, Dr. Sunil Malla and Martin Heger

10832: Social Protection and Youth

Caridad Araujo, Sarah Jane Baird, Saini Das, Berk Özler, Luca Parisotto and Tassew Woldehanna

10831: Making the Market Access Countries’ Debt Sustainability Framework Relevant for Emerging Markets

Indermit S. Gill and Brian R. Pinto

10830: Chad’s Livestock: Securing Cross-Border Value-Chain Post-COVID-19

Dominique Njinkeu, Fulbert Tchana Tchana, Julie Saty Lohi and Mosuru Olukayodé Alli

10829: Local Labor Market Dynamics and Export Shocks: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Carlos Góes, Juan Segnana, Raymond Robertson and Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo

10828: Frontiers in Small Area Estimation Research: Application to Welfare Indicators

Isabel Molina Peralta

10827: Conceptualizing and Measuring Energy Poverty in Bulgaria

Monica Robayo-Abril and Britta Laurin Rude

10826: Private Provisioning of Employment Services: Experimental Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Merima Balavac-Orlic, John Giles, Siddharth Hari and Mirey Ovadiya

10825: Understanding Vulnerability to Poverty and Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza, Adriana Conconi, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Monserrat Serio

10824: How Culturally Wise Psychological Interventions Help Reduce Poverty

Patrick Premand, Thomas Bossuroy, Soumaila Abdoulaye Sambo, Hazel Markus, Gregory Walton and Catherine Thomas

10823: Weather, Water, and Work: Climatic Water Variability and Labor MarketOutcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Amjad Khan, Landry Kuate, Roland Pongou and Fan Zhang

10822: Estimating Extinction Threats with Species Occurrence Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor and David Wheeler

10821: Revisiting Global Biodiversity: A Spatial Analysis of Species Occurrence Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor and David J. Wheeler

10820: What Happens When the State Is Bossing around Markets ? An Analysis of the Performance Differentials between Businesses of the State (BOS) and Private-Owned Enterprises (POEs)

Dennis Sanchez Navarro

10819: Debt Relief for Households in Developing Economies

Sasha Indarte and Martin Kanz

10818: Statistical Matching for Combining the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions and the Household Budget Surveys: An Evaluation of Energy Expenditures in Bulgaria

Britta Laurin Rude and Monica Robayo-Abril

10817: Simulating Welfare Impacts of Changes in the Monthly Social Allowance Scheme and Heating Allowances in Bulgaria

Monica Robayo-Abril and Maynor Vinicio Cabrera

10816: Never Too Young to Dream Big: Measuring Youth Aspirations in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Valentina Costa, Ivette Maria Contreras Gonzalez and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

10815: The Rising Concentration of Foreign Direct Investment

Alexandros Ragoussis, Davide Rigo and Gianluca Santoni

10814: From Access to Achievement: The Primary School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities

Marina Bassi, Bruno Azzedine Besbas, Lelys Ileana Dinarte Diaz, Saravana Ravindran and Ana Maria Reynoso

10813: Setting Poverty Lines for Consumption-Based Welfare Measures: A Research Agenda

Nicola Amendola, Giulia Mancini and Giovanni Vecchi

10812: The Effect of Pricing Instruments on CO2 Emissions: Empirical Evidence from Australia

Daniel Christopher Kraynak, Govinda R. Timilsina and Anna Alberini

10811: The Role of Financial (Mis)allocation on Real (Mis)allocation: Firm-level Evidence for European Countries

Ana Paula Cusolito, Roberto Fattal Jaef, Davide Salvatore Mare and Akshat Vikram Singh

10810: Women’s Labor Force Participation in Nepal: An Exploration of The Role of Social Norms

Jumana Jamal Subhi Alaref, Aishwarya Shivaji Patil, Tasmia Rahman and Ana Maria Munoz Boudet

10809: Explaining Gender Differences in Economic Outcomes in Burkina Faso

Aletheia Donald, T M Tonmoy Islam and Anja Robakowski- Van Stralen

10808: The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women’s Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India

S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Sophie Ochmann

10807: Disaster Risk Preparedness of Households in the Caribbean

Boaz Anglade, Maria Emilia Cucagna, Jacobus Joost De Hoop and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

10806: Trade Effects of Industrial Policies: Are Preferential Agreements a Shield ?

Alessandro Barattieri, Aaditya Mattoo and Daria Taglioni

10805: Distributional Effects of Taxation of Processed Foods in Brazil

Bernardo Dantas Pereira Coelho, Courtney Price Ivins and Roberto F. Iunes

10804: Household Business Performance in Ghana: The Role of Personality Traits and Gender Role Attitudes

Nkechi Owoo, Akuffo Amankwah, Pauline Castaing and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

10803: Virtual Windows Through Glass Walls? Digitalization for Low-Mobility Female Entrepreneurs

Layane Alhorr

10802: The Welfare and Productivity Effects of Transit Improvements in Amman

Tatjana Karina Kleineberg, Sally Beth Murray, Yulu Tang and Jon Kher Kaw

10801: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Hai-Anh Dang, Djavad Salehi Isfahani and Minh N. N. Do

10800: Multidimensional Well-Being Measurement Practices: A Review Focused on Improving Global Multidimensional Poverty Indicators

Benoit Marie A Decerf

10799: Do Disasters Always Increase Intimate Partner Violence ? Evidence from the 2018 Earthquake in Papua New Guinea

Alyssa Amanda Leng and Sharad Tandon

10798: How Much of Economic Growth Trickles Down to the Population in Resource-Rich Countries ? Evidence from Papua New Guinea

Paripoorna Baxi, Darian Naidoo and Sharad Tandon

10797: Firm Adaptation to Climate Risk in the Developing World

Arti Goswami Grover and Matthew Edwin Kahn

10796: The World Bank’s New Inequality Indicator: The Number of Countries with High Inequality

Cameron Nadim Haddad, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Ruth Hill, Christoph Lakner and Gabriel Lara Ibarra

10795: Barrier or Opportunity ? How Trade Regulations Shape Colombian Firms’ Export Strategies

Samuel Kaspar Rosenow

10794: Measuring Green Jobs: A New Database for Latin America and Other Regions

Hernan Winkler, Vincenzo Di Maro, Kelly Montoya Muñoz, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Emmanuel Vazquez

10793: Two Hundred and Fifty-Thousand Democracies: A Review of Village Government in India

Siddharth George, Vijayendra Rao and M. R. Sharan

10792: Bridging the Gap in Trade Reporting: Insights from the Discrepancy Index

Sonja Mitikj and Siddhesh Vishwanath Kaushik

10791: Economic and Distributional Impacts of Selected Carbon Pricing Policies for the Arab Republic of Egypt

Govinda R. Timilsina and Samuel Sebsibie

10790: Policies for Aspirations. And Opportunities

Noel Muller, Anna Fruttero, Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez and Jacobus Joost De Hoop

10789: Intra-national Trade Costs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Bernardo Díaz de Astarloa and Nino Pkhikidze

10788: Empowering Change: Assessing the Role of Democracy, Civil Society, and Women’s Rights Groups in Advancing Legal Gender Equality

Daniela Monika Behr, Caroline Sabine Marie Perrin, Marie Caitriona Hyland and Tea Trumbic

10787: Climate Change Vulnerability, Adaptation and Public Debt Sustainability in Small Island Developing States

Martin Brownbridge and Roy S. Canagarajah

10786: Distributional Crowding Out Effects of Public Debt on Private Investment in Developing Economies

Asif Islam and Ha Nguyen

10785: Infrastructure Complementarities and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from Electrification and Highway Construction in Brazil

Harris Selod, Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Ian Michael Trotter and Brian Blankespoor