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- 7798: Making the most of demographic change in Southern Africa

- Syud Ahmed and Marcio Cruz
- 7797: Combining mentoring programs with cash transfers for adolescent girls in Liberia:baseline report

- Kelly K. Hallman, Elizabeth Kelvin, Berk Özler, Juliette Seban, Erica Kuhlik, Cooper Alton, Joseph Kamara and Sarah Goodman
- 7796: Short- and long-term effects of a child-labor ban

- Caio Piza and André Souza
- 7795: Understanding the dynamics of labor income inequality in Latin America

- Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Luis Lopez-Calva, Nora Lustig and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez
- 7794: Synergies in child nutrition: interactions of food security, health and environment, and child care

- Emmanuel Skoufias
- 7793: Estimating poverty rates in target populations: an assessment of the simple poverty scorecard and alternative approaches

- Alexis Diamond, Michael Gill, Miguel Angel Rebolledo Dellepiane, Emmanuel Skoufias, Katja Vinha and Yiqing Xu
- 7792: Hidden human capital: psychological empowerment and adolescent girls'aspirations in India

- Sanchari Roy, Matthew H. Morton and Shrayana Bhattacharya
- 7791: Negative interest rate policies: sources and implications

- Carlos Arteta, Ayhan Kose, Marc Stocker and Temel Taskin
- 7790: Global health workforce labor market projections for 2030

- Jenny X Liua, Yevgeniy Goryakin, Akiko Maeda, Tim Allen Bruckner and Richard M. Scheffler
- 7789: Who uses electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa ? findings from household surveys

- Masami Kojima, Xin-000438564 Zhou, Jeesun Han, Joerie Frederik De Wit, Robert W. Bacon, Christopher Philip Trimble, Masami Kojima, Xin-000438564 Zhou, Jeesun Han, Joerie Frederik De Wit, Robert W. Bacon and Christopher Philip Trimble
- 7788: Financial viability of electricity sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa: quasi-fiscal deficits and hidden costs

- Christopher Philip Trimble, Masami Kojima, Ines Perez Arroyo and Farah Mohammadzadeh
- 7787: The distributional impact of taxes and transfers in Poland

- Karolina Marta Goraus Tanska and Gabriela Inchauste
- 7786: The microfinance business model: enduring subsidy and modest profit

- Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch
- 7785: Disaggregating the impact of the internet on international trade

- Alberto Osnago and Shawn Tan
- 7784: Building long-term portfolio benchmarks for pension funds in emerging economies

- Heinz P. Rudolph and Jorge Sabat
- 7783: Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size?productivity relationship ? longitudinal evidence from rural India

- Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Yanyan Liu and Sudhir Singh
- 7782: Inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Paolo Brunori, Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine
- 7781: The volatility of international trade flows in the 21st century: whose fault is it anyway ?

- Federico Roberto Bennett, Daniel Lederman, Samuel Pienknagura and Diego Rojas
- 7780: Resource misallocation in Turkey

- Ha Nguyen, Temel Taskin and Ayberk Yilmaz
- 7779: Building voluntary pension schemes in emerging economies

- Heinz P. Rudolph
- 7778: Dictators walking the Mogadishu line: how men become monsters and monsters become men

- Shaun Larcom, Mare Sarr and Tim Willems
- 7777: Factor endowments, technology, capital mobility and the sources of comparative advantage in manufacturing

- Shushanik Hakobyan and Daniel Lederman
- 7776: Global inequality: the implications of Thomas Piketty's capital in the 21st century

- Christoph Lakner
- 7775: The effects of innovation on employment in developing countries: evidence from enterprisesurveys

- Xavier Cirera and Leonard Sabetti
- 7774: Pathways to profits: identifying separate channels of small firm growth through business training

- Stephen J. Anderson, Rajesh Chandy and Bilal Zia
- 7773: Not your average job: measuring farm labor in Tanzania

- Vellore Shroff Arthi, Kathleen G. Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Vellore Shroff Arthi, Kathleen G. Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Amparo Palacios-Lopez
- 7772: International financial integration of East Asia and Pacific

- Tatiana Didier Brandao, Ruth Llovet Montanes, Sergio L. Schmukler, Tatiana Didier Brandao, Ruth Llovet Montanes and Sergio L. Schmukler
- 7771: Geopolitics, aid, and growth: the impact of UN security council membership on the effectiveness of aid

- Axel Dreher, Vera Eichenauer and Kai Gehring
- 7770: Quantifying uncertainties in global growth forecasts

- Franziska Ohnsorge, Marc Stocker and Modeste Y. Some
- 7769: Vulnerability to Poverty in rural Malawi

- Nancy Mccarthy, Josh Brubaker and Alejandro De La Fuente
- 7768: Feedback matters: evidence from agricultural services

- Maria Ruth Jones and Florence Kondylis
- 7767: Services and innovation for the competitiveness of the Ecuadorian economy

- Luis Rubalcaba, David Gago, Maria Ariano and Arvind Kumar Tripathi
- 7766: Modeling the impacts of climate change on future Vietnamese households: a micro-simulation approach

- Julie Rozenberg and Stephane Hallegatte
- 7765: Exposure to floods, climate change, and poverty in Vietnam

- Mook Bangalore, Andrew Smith and Ted Veldkamp
- 7764: The varying income effects of weather variation: initial insights from rural Vietnam

- Ulf Gerrit Narloch
- 7763: Environmental risks and poverty: analyzing geo-spatial and household data from Vietnam

- Ulf Gerrit Narloch and Mook Bangalore
- 7762: If it pays, it stays: can agribusiness internalize the benefits of malaria control ?

- Richard Sedlmayr
- 7761: If politics is the problem, how can external actors be part of the solution ?

- Shantayanan Devarajan and Stuti Khemani
- 7760: A randomized control trial of a peer adherence and nutritional support program for public sector antiretroviral patients

- Frederik Le Roux Booysen, Damien de Walque, A. Over, Satoko Hashimoto and Chantell de Reuck
- 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
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