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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

7981: Horizontal depth: a new database on the content of preferential trade agreements

Claudia Hofmann, Alberto Osnago and Michele Ruta

7980: Public mosquito abatement: a cluster randomized experiment

Josselin Thuilliez and Yves Dumont

7979: Agriculture in Africa -- telling myths from facts: a synthesis

Luc Christiaensen and Luc Christiaensen

7978: Does vertical specialization increase productivity ?

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo, Michele Ruta, Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

7977: A firm of one's own: experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice

Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

7976: How is the internet changing labor market arrangements ? evidence from telecommunications reforms in Europe

Emmanuel Vazquez and Hernan Winkler

7975: Growth (but not only) is good for the poor: some cross-country evidence to promote growth and shared prosperity in Haiti

Kassia Belo Da Silva Antoine, Raju Singh and Konstantin Wacker

7974: Assessing the accuracy of electricity demand forecasts in developing countries

Jevgenijs Steinbuks

7973: Dynamics of child development: analysis of a longitudinal cohort in a very low income country

Emanuela Galasso, Ann Weber and Lia C. H. Fernald

7972: Are capital flows fickle? Increasingly ? and does the answer still depend on type?

Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta and Oliver Masetti

7971: Government guarantees, transparency, and bank risk-taking

Tito Cordella, Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Robert Marquez

7970: Recovery from conflict: lessons of success

Hannes Mueller, Lavinia Piemontese and Augustin Tapsoba

7969: Estimating poverty using cell phone data: evidence from Guatemala

Marco Hernandez, Lingzi Hong, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinez

7968: Distribution of consumption expenditure in East Asia

La-Bhus Jirasavetakul and Christoph Lakner

7967: Foreign banks and trade: bridging the information gap ?

Francesca de Nicola and Shawn Tan

7966: Toward labor market policy 2.0: the potential for using online job-portal big data to inform labor market policies in India

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

7965: Push and pull: a study of international migration from Nepal

Maheshwor Shrestha

7964: Services in the trans-pacific partnership: what would be lost?

Batshur Gootiiz, Aaditya Mattoo, Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo

7963: The impact of mass bed net distribution programs on politics: evidence from Tanzania

Kevin Croke

7962: The global role of the U.S. economy: linkages, policies and spillovers

Ayhan Kose, Csilla Lakatos, Franziska Ohnsorge and Marc Stocker

7961: Evaluation of an adolescent development program for girls in Tanzania

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Munshi Sulaiman and Venus Yam