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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 Marie L. Sadoulet

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

Alain F. De Janvry, Alejandro del Valle and Elisabeth Marie L. 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 Serven

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 F. 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 C. G. 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

7659: How does the sensitivity of consumption to income vary over time? international evidence

Ergys Islamaj and Ayhan Kose

7658: Particulate matter and labor supply: the role of caregiving and non-linearities

Fernando Aragon, Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Paulina Oliva

7657: Does e-government improve government capacity ? evidence from tax administration and public procurement

Anna Kochanova, Zahid Hasnain and Bradley Robert Larson

7656: The role of training programs for youth employment in Nepal: impact evaluation report on the employment fund

Shubha Chakravarty, Mattias K. A. Lundberg, Plamen V. Nikolov, Juliane Zenker, Shubha Chakravarty, Mattias K. A. Lundberg, Juliane Zenker and Plamen V. Nikolov

7655: Jobs in the city: explaining urban spatial structure in Kampala

Arti Grover and Somik V. Lall

7654: Effects of fiscal policy shocks in an open economy: evidence from Canada

Vincent De Paul Tsoungui Belinga

7653: Markets and manipulation: time for a paradigm shift ?

Kaushik Basu

7652: Prices for poverty analysis in Africa

Isis Gaddis

7651: Public school teacher management in Sri Lanka: issues and options

Dhushyanth Raju

7650: The role of regulation on entry: evidence from the Italian provinces

Francesco Bripi

7649: The GATT's starting point: tariff levels circa 1947

Chad P. Bown, Douglas A. Irwin, Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin

7648: Reducing crime and violence: experimental evidence on adult noncognitive investments in Liberia

Christopher Blattman, Julian C Jamison and Margaret Sheridan

7647: Identifying gazelles: expert panels vs. surveys as a means to identify firms with rapid growth potential

Marcel Fafchamps and Christopher Woodruff

7646: Decomposing response errors in food consumption measurement: implications for survey design from a survey experiment in Tanzania

Jed Friedman, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and John Gibson

7645: What type of finance matters for growth ? Bayesian model averaging evidence

Iftekhar Hasan, Roman Horvath and Jan Mares

7644: Assessing the impacts of Mais Educacao on educational outcomes: evidence between 2007 and 2011

Rita Almeida, Antonio Bresolin, Bruna Pugialli Da Silva Borges, Karen Mendes and Naercio Menezes Filho

7643: Going beyond the first child: analysis of Russian mothers'desired and actual fertility Patterns

Victoria Levin, Elena Besedina and Tami Aritomi

7642: The cost of fear: the welfare effect of the risk of violence in northern Uganda

Marc Rockmore

7641: Is living in African cities expensive ?

Shohei Nakamura, Rawaa Harati, Somik V. Lall, Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Marko Olavi Rissanen and Mizuki Yamanaka

7640: Organizing knowledge to compete: impacts of capacity building programs on firm organization

Marcio Cruz, Maurizio Bussolo and Leonardo Iacovone

7639: Managing sudden stops

Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta

7638: Competition makes IT better: evidence on when firms use it more effectively

Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez, Marc Tobias Schiffbauer, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

7637: Economic structural change as an option for mitigating the impacts of climate change

Alexander Golub and Michael Toman

7636: Opportunity versus necessity: understanding the heterogeneity of female micro-entrepreneurs

Gabriela Calderón, Leonardo Iacovone and Laura Juarez

7635: Disaster risk management and fiscal policy: narratives, tools, and evidence associated with assessing fiscal risk and building resilience

Reinhard Mechler, Junko Mochizuki and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

7634: Capturing the co-benefits of disaster risk management on the private sector side

Adam Rose

7633: Co-benefits of disaster risk management

Francis Vorhies and Emily Wilkinson

7632: Higher losses and slower development in the absence of disaster risk management investments

Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Marie-Agnès Jouanjean

7631: Investing in disaster risk management in an uncertain climate

Thomas K.J. McDermott

7630: Unraveling a secret: Vietnam's outstanding performance on the PISA test

Suhas D. Parandekar and Elisabeth Sedmik

7629: ICT use, competitive pressures and firm performance in Mexico

Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

7628: Global migration revisited: short-term pains, long-term gains, and the potential of south-south migration

Syud Ahmed, Delfin Go and Dirk Willenbockel

7627: Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event: the 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia

Futoshi Yamauchi and Donald Larson

7626: Looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in India

Ambar Narayan and Rinku Murgai

7625: The use of detailed statistical data in customs reform: the case of Madagascar

Cyril Chalendard, Gaël Raballand and Antsa Rakotoarisoa

7624: School grants and education quality: experimental evidence from Senegal

Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouede, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts

7623: Identifying the economic potential of Indian districts

Mark Roberts

7622: Absent laws and missing women: can domestic violence legislation reduce female mortality ?

Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Augusto Lopez Claros

7621: Measuring poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: methodological considerations when estimating an empirical regional poverty line

R. Castañeda, Leonardo Gasparini, Santiago Garriga, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti and Daniel Valderrama Gonzalez

7620: The empirical landscape of trade policy

Chad P. Bown, Meredith A Crowley, Chad P. Bown and Meredith A Crowley

7619: Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology

Ernest Miguelez

7618: Impacts of sovereign rating on sub-sovereign bond ratings in emerging and developing economies

Sanket Mohapatra, Manabu Nose and Dilip Ratha