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8082: Credit composition, output composition, and external balances

Roumeen Islam

8081: A review of the anthropological literature on the civil service

Colin Brewster Hoag and Matthew Hull

8080: How do women fare in rural non-farm economy ?

Habtamu Neda Fuje

8079: In the mind, the household, or the market ? concepts and measurement of women's economic empowerment

Louise Fox and Carolina Romero

8078: Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries

Stephen Knack, Nataliya Biletska and Kanishka Kacker

8077: Does energy efficiency promote economic growth?: evidence from a multi-country and multi-sector panel data set

Ashish Rajbhandari and Fan Zhang

8076: Energy prices and international trade: incorporating input-output linkages

Hei Sing Chan, Edward John Matlock Manderson and Fan Zhang

8075: Predicting conflict

Bledi Celiku and Aart Kraay

8074: Is consanguinity an impediment to improving human development outcomes ?

Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John Giles and Harold Alderman

8073: Societal poverty: a relative and relevant measure

Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Espen Beer Prydz

8072: Perceptions of distributive justice in Latin America during a period of falling inequality

German Jeremias Reyes and Leonardo Gasparini

8071: Do different types of assets have differential effects on child education ? evidence from Tanzania

Kashi Ram Kafle, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Alex Eugene Winter-Nelson, Kashi Ram Kafle, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Alex Eugene Winter-Nelson

8069: Where to create jobs to reduce poverty: cities or towns ?

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

8068: The rise of the middle class and economic growth in ASEAN

Markus Brueckner, Era Dabla-Norris, Mark Gradstein and Daniel Lederman

8067: Elections and embezzlement: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso

Malte Lierl

8066: Why do some oil-rich countries perform better than others ?

Farrukh Iqbal and Youssouf Kiendrebeogo

8065: Crossovers: female entrepreneurs who enter male sectors -- evidence from Ethiopia

Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Rachael Susan Pierotti

8064: Status goods: experimental evidence from platinum credit cards

Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz, Gautam Rao, Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz and Gautam Rao

8063: Effect of stress on later-life health: evidence from the Vietnam war draft

John Cawley, Damien de Walque and Daniel Grossman

8062: The entry of randomized assignment into the social sciences

Julian C Jamison

8061: To sew or not to sew ? assessing the welfare effects of the garment industry in Cambodia

Carolina Mejia-Mantilla and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichae

8060: The effects of in-kind demand-side conditional transfers for improving uptake of maternal and child health services in Rwanda

Gil Shapira, Ina Kalisa, Jeanine Condo, James Humuza, Cathy Mugeni and Jeanette Walldorf

8059: Effects of performance incentives for community health worker cooperatives in Rwanda

Gil Shapira, Ina Kalisa, Jeanine Condo, James Humuza, Cathy Mugeni, Denis Nkunda and Jeanette Walldorf

8058: Compensation, diversity and inclusion at the World Bank Group

Jishnu Das, Clément Joubert and Sander Florian Tordoir

8057: Collecting the dirt on soils: advancements in plot-level soil testing and implications for agricultural statistics

Sydney Gourlay, Ermias Aynekulu, Keith Shepherd, Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Ermias Aynekulu, Keith Shepherd and Calogero Carletto

8056: Industrial policy, information, and government capacity

William Maloney and Gaurav Nayyar

8055: Documenting Myanmar's social transformation: insights from six rounds of research on livelihoods and social change in rural communities

Samuel James Pursch, Andrea Fitri Woodhouse, Michael Woolcock and Matthew Pierre Zurstrassen

8054: Do countries learn from experience in infrastructure PPP ? PPP practice and contract cancellation

Darwin Marcelo Gordillo, Ruth Schuyler House, Xavier Cledan Mandri-Perrott and Jordan Z. Schwartz

8053: The influence of non-cognitive skills on wages within and between firms: evidence from Bangladesh's formal sector

Shinsaku Nomura and Samik Adhikari

8052: Industrial policies vs public goods under asymmetric information

Constantino Hevia, Norman Loayza and Claudia Maria Meza Cuadra Balcazar

8051: Who serves the poor ? surveying civil servants in the developing world

Daniel Rogger

8050: The misallocation of pay and productivity in the public sector: evidence from the labor market for teachers

Natalie Bau and Jishnu Das

8049: Child undernutrition in Pakistan: what do we know ?

Dhushyanth Raju, Ritika Dsouza, Dhushyanth Raju and Ritika Dsouza

8048: Does oil revenue crowd out other tax revenues ? policy lessons for Uganda

Vincent De Paul Tsoungui Belinga, Maximillien Kaffo Melou and Jean-Pascal Nganou

8047: Does the World Bank foster business ?

Raffaela Giordano and Patrizio Pagano

8046: What to do when foreign direct investment is not direct or foreign: FDI round tripping

Dilek Aykut, Apurva Sanghi and Gina Kosmidou

8045: Do private water utility operators care about regulatory agencies in developing countries ?

Salvador Bertoméu Sánchez, Daniel Camos and Antonio Estache

8044: Underreporting of gender-based violence in Kerala, India: an application of the list randomization method

George Joseph, Syed Usman Javaid, Luis Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Jennifer Solotaroff and Sebastian Irudaya Rajan

8043: Stronger together: intra-household cooperation and household welfare in Malawi

Nancy Mccarthy, Talip Kilic, Nancy Mccarthy and Talip Kilic

8042: Economywide and sectoral impacts on workers of Brazil?s internet rollout

Mark Andrew Dutz, Lucas Ferreira Mation, Stephen O'Connell and Robert Willig

8041: Structural change, fundamentals, and growth: a framework and case studies

Margaret Mc Millan, Dani Rodrik and Claudia Paz Sepulveda

8040: Financial inclusion and inclusive growth: a review of recent empirical evidence

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer

8039: On the frontlines of scaling-up: a qualitative analysis of implementation challenges in a CDD project in rural India

Shruti Majumdar, Vijayendra Rao and Paromita Sanyal

8038: The economics of forced displacement: an introduction

Paolo Verme

8037: How much labor do South African exports contain ?

Massimiliano Calì and Claire Honore Hollweg

8036: They got mad skills: the effects of training on youth employability and resilience to the Ebola shock

Nina Rosas Raffo, Maria Cecilia Acevedo and Samantha Zaldivar Chimal

8035: Consumption smoothing and shock persistence: optimal simple fiscal rules for commodity exporters

Arthur Galego Mendes and Steven Michael Pennings

8034: Migration and cross-border financial flows

Maurice Kugler, Oren Levintal and Hillel Rapoport

8033: Is Poverty in Africa mostly chronic or transient ? evidence from synthetic panel data

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Andrew L. Dabalen, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Andrew L. Dabalen

8032: Can public works programs reduce youth crime ? evidence from Papua New Guinea's urban youth employment project

Oleksiy Ivaschenko, Darian Naidoo, David Newhouse and Sonya M. Sultan

8031: Leveraging the potential of the services sector to support accelerated growth in Senegal

Matthias Cinyabuguma, Djibril Ndoye and Olumide Olusola Taiwo

8030: Implications of minimum wage increases on labor market dynamics lessons for emerging economies

Ximena Del Carpio and Laura M. Pabon

8029: Arithmetics and politics of domestic resource mobilization

Kimberly Blair Bolch, Lidia Ceriani and Luis Lopez-Calva

8028: Re-evaluating microfinance: evidence from propensity score matching

Inna Cintina and Inessa Love

8027: Heterogeneous technology diffusion and Ricardian trade patterns

William Kerr

8026: The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: an illustration from PROGRESA/oportunidades

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman and Afia Tasneem

8025: Sustainability of demand responsive approaches to rural water supply: the case of Kerala

Luis Andres, Saubhik Deb, Martin P. Gambrill, Elisa Giannone, George Joseph, Pramod Kannath, Manish Kumar, P.K. Kurian, Rajesh Many and Abdu Muwonge

8024: Precarious drop: reassessing patterns of female labor force participation in India

Luis Andres, Basab Dasgupta, George Joseph, Vinoj Abraham and Maria C. Correia

8023: Entry and exit, multi-product firms, and allocative distortions

Roberto Fattal Jaef

8022: Neighborhood effects in integrated social policies

Matteo Bobba and Jeremie D. Gignoux

8021: Relief from usury: impact of a community-based microcredit program in rural India

Vivian Hoffmann, Vijayendra Rao, Vaishnavi Surendra and Upamanyu Datta

8020: Savings, financial development, and economic growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt revisited

Khaled Hussein, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom

8019: Urbanization and development: is Latin America and the Caribbean different from the rest of the world?

Mark Roberts, Brian Blankespoor, Chandan Deuskar and Benjamin P. Stewart

8018: Ageing poorly?: accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012

Francisco Ferreira, Sergio Firpo and Julian Messina

8017: Gender-neutral inheritance laws, family structure, and women's status in India

Sulagna Mookerjee

8016: The distributive impact of terms of trade shocks

Maurizio Bussolo and Patrizia Luongo

8015: An employment guarantee as risk insurance ? assessing the effects of the NREGS on agricultural production decisions

Esther Gehrke

8014: Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education ?

Lisa Sofie Hockel, Manuel Santos Silva and Tobias Stohr

8013: Improving the resilience of Peru's road network to climate events

Julie Rozenberg, Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia, Xijie Lu, Laura Bonzanigo and Harry Edmund Moroz

8012: Leaving, staying, or coming back ? migration decisions during the northern Mali conflict

Johannes G. Hoogeveen, Mariacristina Rossi and Dario Sansone

8011: How effective are active labor market policies in developing countries ? a critical review of recent evidence

David McKenzie

8010: Brexit: trade governance and legal implications for third countries

Martin Molinuevo

8009: All these worlds are yours, except India: the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal

Fabrice Defever, José-Daniel Reyes, Alejandro Riano and Gonzalo Varela

8008: Challenges in assessing the costs of household cooking energy in lower-income countries

Michael Toman and Randall Bluffstone

8007: Economic upgrading through global value chain participation: which policies increase the value added gains ?

Victor Kummritz, Daria Taglioni, Deborah Elisabeth Winkler, Victor Kummritz, Daria Taglioni and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

8006: Assessing the role of international organizations in the development of the social enterprise sector

Angela Hoyos and Diego Angel-Urdinola

8005: Trade policy and redistribution when preferences are non-homothetic

Quy-Toan Do and Andrei Levchenko

8004: The motherhood penalty and female employment in urban India

Maitreyi B Das and Ieva Zumbyte

8003: Is there enough redistribution ?

Maya Eden

8002: Do foreign investors underperform ? An empirical decomposition into style and flows

Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Fredy Pulga, Jose Vasquez, Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Fredy Pulga and Jose Vasquez

8001: Are poor individuals mainly found in poor households ? evidence using nutrition data for Africa

Caitlin Brown, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

8000: Measuring skills in developing countries

Rachid Laajaj and Karen Macours

7999: Effects of public policy on child labor: current knowledge, gaps, and implications for program design

Ana Dammert, Jacobus Joost De Hoop, Eric Mvukiyehe and Furio Rosati

7998: Financial information in Colombia

Xavier Gine, Nidia Garcia, Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Xavier Gine, Nidia Garcia and Jose Gomez-Gonzalez

7997: Municipal asset management in China's small cities and towns

Alessandra Campanaro, Joanna Mclean Masic, Olga Kaganova, Hongye Fan, Hazem Abdelfattah, Alessandra Campanaro and Joanna Mclean Masic

7996: Who should be at the top of bottom-up development ? a case study of the national rural livelihoods mission in Rajasthan, India

Shareen Joshi and Vijayendra Rao

7995: Deliberative democracy in India

Ramya Parthasarathy and Vijayendra Rao

7994: For India's rural poor, growing towns matter more than growing cities

John Gibson, Gaurav Datt, Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion

7993: Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs: a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya

David J. Mckenzie, Susana Puerto, David J. Mckenzie and Susana Puerto

7992: Antidiscrimination law and shared prosperity: an analysis of the legal framework of six economies and their impact on the equality of opportunities of ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities

Elaine Rene Elizabeth Panter, Tanya Primiani, Tazeen Hasan and Eduardo Calderon Pontaza

7991: Regional dimensions of recent weakness in investment: drivers, investment needs and policy responses

Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze, Gerard Kambou, Derek Hung Chiat Chen, Boaz Nandwa, Yohei Okawa and Dana Lauren Vorisek

7990: Weakness in investment growth: causes, implications and policy responses

Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, Lei Sandy Ye and Ergys Islamaj

7989: Design of a multi-stage stratified sample for poverty and welfare monitoring with multiple objectives: a Bangladesh case study

Faizuddin Ahmed, Dipankar Roy, Monica Yanez Pagans and Nobuo Yoshida

7988: Are tobacco taxes really regressive ? evidence from Chile

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Francisco Jalles Meneses

7987: Rising incomes and inequality of access to infrastructure among Latin American households

Marianne Fay and Stephane Straub

7986: Seasonality of rural finance

Shahidur Khandker, Hussain A. Samad and Syed Badruddoza

7985: Stocktaking of global forced displacement data

Zara Inga Sarzin

7984: Agent banking in a highly under-developed financial sector: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Robert Cull, Xavier Gine, Sven Harten and Anca Bogdana Rusu

7983: Special study on benchmarking the quality of project economic analysis for the South Asia Region

Kenechukwu Maria Ezemenari and Xiao Ye

7982: The direct and indirect costs of tax treaty policy: evidence from Ukraine

Oleksii Balabushko, Sebastian Beer, Jan Loeprick and Felipe Pinto Vallada