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7759: Cheaper, faster, and more than good enough: is GPS the new gold standard in land area measurement ?

Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Siobhan Murray, Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Siobhan Murray and Alberto Zezza

7758: All that glitters is not gold: polarization amid poverty reduction in Ghana

Fabio Clementi, Vasco Molini and Francesco Schettino

7757: Public versus Private Protection against Crime: The Case of Somali Piracy

Quy-Toan Do, Lin Ma, Claudia Ruiz Ortega, Quy-Toan Do, Lin Ma and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

7756: Firm financing and growth in the Arab region

Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Soha Ismail Ahmed Aly Ismail, Sergio L. Schmukler, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Soha Ismail Ahmed Aly Ismail and Sergio L. Schmukler

7755: A comparative analysis of subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Abdelkrim Araar and Paolo Verme

7754: Subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: a review

Paolo Verme

7753: Assessing implementation of the principles for public credit guarantees for SMEs: a global survey

Pietro Calice and Pietro Calice

7752: Should I stay or should I go ? internal migration and household welfare in Ghana

Vasco Molini, Dan Pavelesku and Marco Ranzani

7751: Effects of multilateral support on infrastructure PPP contract cancellation

Darwin Marcelo Gordillo and Ruth Schuyler House

7750: Financial (Dis-)information: evidence from a multi-country audit study

Xavier Gine, Rafael Keenan Mazer, Xavier Gine and Rafael Keenan Mazer

7749: Does the 2015 peace accord in Mali reflect the priorities of households and local leaders ?

Julia Lendorfer and Johannes G. Hoogeveen

7748: Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union: tariff and non-tariff policy challenges

Michael Joseph Ferrantino, Ian John Douglas Gillson and Gabriela Schmidt

7747: Do returns to education depend on how and who you ask ?

Pieter Serneels, Kathleen G. Beegle and Andrew Dillon

7746: On minimizing the risk of bias in randomized controlled trials in economics

Alex Eble, Peter Boone and Diana Elbourne

7745: Do consumers benefit from supply chain intermediaries ? evidence from a policy experiment in the edible oils market in Bangladesh

M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin

7744: How to measure whether index insurance provides reliable protection

Karlijn Morsink, Daniel Clarke and Shadreck Mapfumo

7743: Structural transformation in Africa: a historical view

Maria Enache, Ejaz Ghani and Stephen O'Connell

7742: Technology strategies for low-carbon economic growth: a general equilibrium assessment

Ian Newel James Sue Wing and Govinda Timilsina

7741: Spatial development and agglomeration economies in services -- lessons from India

Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

7740: Aging, trade, and migration

Richard Chisik, Harun Onder and Dhimitri Qirjo

7739: Inherited wealth and demographic aging

Harun Onder and Pierre Pestieau

7738: Euro currency risk and the geography of debt flows to peripheral European monetary union members

Eylem Ersal-Kiziler and Ha Nguyen

7737: Sectoral productivity gaps and aggregate productivity

Rishabh Sinha

7736: Impact of climate change and aquatic salinization on mangrove species and poor communities in the Bangladesh Sundarbans

Susmita Dasgupta, Istiak Sobhan and David J. Wheeler

7735: Impacts of carbon pricing in reducing the carbon intensity of China's GDP

Jing Cao, Mun Ho and Govinda Timilsina

7734: The development impact of financial regulation: evidence from Ethiopia and antebellum USA

Nicola Limodio and Francesco Strobbe

7733: Financial regulation and government revenue: the effects of a policy change in Ethiopia

Nicola Limodio and Francesco Strobbe

7732: Who benefited from Burundi's demobilization program ?

Olivia D'Aoust, Olivier Sterck and Philip Verwimp

7731: Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds

Vera Eichenauer and Stephen Knack

7730: Evidence from a randomized evaluation of the household welfare impacts of conditional and unconditional cash transfers given to mothers or fathers

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

7729: Roads and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Claudia N. Berg, Brian Blankespoor and Harris Selod

7728: Estimation of climate change damage functions for 140 regions in the GTAP9 database

Roberto Roson and Martina Sartori

7727: Is inequality underestimated in Egypt ? evidence from house prices

Roy Van Der Weide, Christoph Lakner, Elena Ianchovichina, Roy Van Der Weide, Christoph Lakner and Elena Ianchovichina

7726: What difference does good monitoring&evaluation make to World Bank project performance ?

Estelle Rosine Raimondo

7725: Challenges of fiscal policy in emerging and developing economies

Raju Huidrom, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge

7724: Do fiscal multipliers depend on fiscal positions ?

Raju Huidrom, Ayhan Kose, Jamus Lim and Franziska Ohnsorge

7723: Financial systems, growth, and volatility: searching for the perfect fit

Roumeen Islam

7722: The Nexus of financial inclusion and financial stability: a study of trade-offs and synergies

Martin Cihak, Davide Salvatore Mare and Martin Melecký

7721: Evaluating sovereign disaster risk finance strategies: a framework

Daniel Clarke, Olivier Mahul, Richard Andrew Poulter and Tse-Ling Teh

7720: Solving commitment problems in disaster risk finance

Daniel Clarke and Liam Wren-Lewis

7719: A methodology to assess indicative costs of risk financing strategies for scaling up Ethiopia's productive safety net programme

Daniel Clarke, Sarah Coll-Black, Naomi Victoria Cooney and Anna Edwards

7718: Financing the reconstruction of public capital after a natural disaster

David Bevan and Christopher Adam

7717: Potential for application of a probabilistic catastrophe risk modelling framework to poverty outcomes: general form vulnerability functions relating household poverty outcomes to hazard intensity in Ethiopia

Catherine Porter and Emily Jennifer White

7716: Early warning, early action: the use of predictive tools in drought response through Ethiopia's productive safety net programme

Mareile Beate Stephanie Drechsler and Wolter Soer

7715: Weather index insurance and shock coping: evidence from Mexico's CADENA Program

Alain F. De Janvry, Elizabeth Andrea Ramirez Ritchie and Elisabeth Sadoulet

7714: Insuring growth: the impact of disaster funds on economic reconstruction in Mexico

Alain F. De Janvry, Alejandro del Valle and Elisabeth Sadoulet

7713: Social Inclusion in macro-level diagnostics: reflecting on the World Bank Group's early systematic country diagnostics

Maitreyi B Das and Maitreyi B Das

7712: Inflation targeting and exchange rate volatility in emerging markets

Rene Cabral, Francisco Carneiro and Andre Mollick

7711: Openness, specialization, and the external vulnerability of developing countries

Luis-Diego Barrot, Cesar Calderon and Luis Servén

7710: On the central role of small farms in African rural development strategies

Donald Larson, Rie Muraoka and Keijiro Otsuka

7709: Increased coverage of maternal health services among the poor in western Uganda in an output-based aid voucher scheme

Francis Obare, Peter Okwero, Leslie Villegas, Samuel Lantei Mills, Ben Bellows, Francis Obare, Peter Okwero, Leslie Villegas, Samuel Lantei Mills and Ben Bellows

7708: Expediting trade: impact evaluation of an in-house clearance program

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Russell Henry Hillberry, Claudia N. Berg, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Russell Henry Hillberry and Claudia N. Berg

7707: Social capital, trust, and well-being in the evaluation of wealth

Kirk E. Hamilton, John Helliwell and Michael Woolcock

7706: Crime and persistent punishment: a long-run perspective on the links between violence and chronic poverty in Mexico

Adan Martinez-Cruz and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7705: Using administrative data to assess the impact and sustainability of Rwanda's land tenure regularization

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus W. Deininger, Marguerite Felicienne Duponchel, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus W. Deininger and Marguerite Felicienne Duponchel

7704: Recent credit surge in historical context

Franziska Ohnsorge and Shu Yu

7703: How do we prioritize the GHG mitigation options ? development of a marginal abatement cost curve for the building sector in Armenia and Georgia

Govinda Timilsina, Anna Sikharulidze, Eduard Karapoghosyan and Suren Shatvoryan

7702: State secretaries reform in Ukraine: attempt to delineate responsibilities between ministers and senior civil servants

Oleksii Balabushko

7701: Nash on a rotary: two theorems with implications for electoral politics

Kaushik Basu and Tapan Mitra

7700: Democratic Republic of Congo: product and market concentration and the vulnerability to exogenous shocks

Chadi Bou Habib and Ephraim Kebede

7699: Women's empowerment, sibling rivalry, and competitiveness: evidence from a lab experiment and a randomized control trial in Uganda

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Leonard, Joao Montalvao and Kathryn Vasilaky

7698: Development of low-carbon energy supply system in Romania

Govinda Timilsina and Erika A. Jorgensen

7697: Long-term energy demand forecasting in Romania: an end-use demand

Sunil Malla and Govinda Timilsina

7696: Measuring firm-level innovation using short questionnaires: evidence from an experiment

Xavier Cirera and Silvia Muzi

7695: Non-renewable resources, fiscal rules, and human capital

Paul Leslie Levine, Giovanni Melina, Harun Onder, Paul Leslie Levine, Giovanni Melina and Harun Onder

7694: Markets, contracts, and uncertainty in a groundwater economy

Xavier Gine, Hanan G. Jacoby, Xavier Gine and Hanan G. Jacoby

7693: Saving for old age

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Georgios Panos

7692: Weathering storms: understanding the impact of natural disasters on the poor in Central America

Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero and Juan Jose Miranda Montero

7691: Who supports violent extremism in developing countries ? analysis of attitudes based on value surveys

Youssouf Kiendrebeogo, Elena Ianchovichina, Youssouf Kiendrebeogo and Elena Ianchovichina

7690: Behavioral interventions in tax compliance: evidence from Guatemala

Stewart Kettle, Marco Hernandez, Simon Ruda and Michael Sanders

7689: Are gender differences in performance innate or socially mediated ?

Ariel BenYishay, Maria Ruth Jones, Florence Kondylis and Ahmed Mobarak

7688: Informed trading in business groups, ownership concentration, and market liquidity

Jose Leaño and Alvaro Pedraza

7687: Bank competition, financial dependence, and economic growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Giovanni Caggiano and Pietro Calice

7686: Exporters, engineers, and blue-collar workers

Irene Brambilla, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

7685: Agricultural productivity and non-farm employment: evidence from Bangladesh

Forhad J. Shilpi, Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi and Shahe Emran

7684: Creative trade for human development

Patrick Kabanda

7683: Creative natives in the digital age: how digital technology has revolutionized creative work

Patrick Kabanda

7682: Estimating an equilibrium exchange rate for the Argentine Peso

Andrea Coppola, Andresa Lagerborg and Zafer Mustafaoglu

7681: Guns, books, or doctors ? conflict and public spending in Haiti: lessons from cross-country evidence

Raju Singh, Cristina Bodea and Masaaki Higashijima

7680: Commercialization and mission drift: evidence from a large Chinese microfinance institution

Xiangping Jia, Robert Cull, Pei Guo and Tao Ma

7679: Money demand in the Arab Republic of Egypt: a vector equilibrium correction model

Ahmed Rostom

7678: Ageing and family solidarity in Europe: patterns and driving factors of intergenerational support

Marco Albertini

7677: The role of inequality in climate-poverty debates

Petra Tschakert

7676: Exports and job training

Bastos, Joana C. G. Silva, Rafael Prado Proenca, Bastos, Joana C. G. Silva and Rafael Prado Proenca

7675: Trust in government and support for redistribution

Joana Silva, Matteo Morgandi and Victoria Levin

7674: Prioritizing infrastructure investment: a framework for government decision making

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

7673: Does the global trade slowdown matter ?

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

7672: Skill use, skill deficits, and firm performance in formal sector enterprises: evidence from the Tanzania enterprise skills survey, 2015

Hong W. Tan, Sajitha Bashir and Nobuyuki Tanaka

7671: The impact of a community development and poverty reduction program on early childhood development in Morocco

Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali, Caroline Gould Krafft, Touhami Abdelkhalek, Mohamed Benkassmi, Monica I. Chavez, Lucy Katherine Bassett, Fouzia Ejjanoui, Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali, Caroline Gould Krafft, Touhami Abdelkhalek, Mohamed Benkassmi, Monica I. Chavez, Lucy Katherine Bassett and Fouzia Ejjanoui

7670: Inequality of opportunity in early childhood development in Morocco over time

Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali, Caroline Gould Krafft, Touhami Abdelkhalek, Mohamed Benkassmi, Monica I. Chavez, Lucy Katherine Bassett, Fouzia Ejjanoui, Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali, Caroline Gould Krafft, Touhami Abdelkhalek, Mohamed Benkassmi, Monica I. Chavez, Lucy Katherine Bassett and Fouzia Ejjanoui

7669: Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries ?

Uwe Deichmann, Aparajita Goyal and Deepak K. Mishra

7668: Can business owners form accurate counterfactuals ? eliciting treatment and control beliefs about their outcomes in the alternative treatment status

David J. Mckenzie and David J. Mckenzie

7667: Learning, Prices, and firm dynamics

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Daniel Dias, Olga A. Timoshenko, Paulo S. R. Bastos, Daniel Dias and Olga A. Timoshenko

7666: China's slowdown and rebalancing: potential growth and poverty impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa

Csilla Lakatos, Maryla Maliszewska, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Delfin Go

7665: Short-term effects of India's employment guarantee program on labor markets and agricultural productivity

Klaus W. Deininger, Hari Krishnan Nagarajan, Sudhir K. Singh, Klaus W. Deininger, Hari Krishnan Nagarajan and Sudhir K. Singh

7664: The impact of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low- and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis

Túlio Cravo and Caio Piza

7663: Assessing socioeconomic resilience to floods in 90 countries

Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Adrien Camille Vogt-Schilb

7662: Property rights for fishing cooperatives: how (and how well) do they work ?

Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Heather M. Leslie, Austen Mack-Crane, Sriniketh Suryasesha Nagavarapu, Sheila M.W. Reddy and Leila Sievanen

7661: Non-tariff measures and the world trading system

Josh Ederington and Michele Ruta

7660: Poverty and shared prosperity implications of deep integration in Eastern and Southern Africa

Edward Balistreri, Maryla Maliszewska, Israel Osorio-Rodarte, David Tarr and Hidemichi Yonezawa