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7681: Guns, books, or doctors ? conflict and public spending in Haiti: lessons from cross-country evidence Downloads
Raju Singh, Cristina Bodea and Masaaki Higashijima
7680: Commercialization and mission drift: evidence from a large Chinese microfinance institution Downloads
Xiangping Jia, Robert Cull, Pei Guo and Tao Ma
7679: Money demand in the Arab Republic of Egypt: a vector equilibrium correction model Downloads
Ahmed Rostom
7678: Ageing and family solidarity in Europe: patterns and driving factors of intergenerational support Downloads
Marco Albertini
7677: The role of inequality in climate-poverty debates Downloads
Petra Tschakert
7676: Exports and job training Downloads
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 Downloads
Joana Silva, Matteo Morgandi and Victoria Levin
7674: Prioritizing infrastructure investment: a framework for government decision making Downloads
Darwin Marcelo, Xavier Cledan Mandri-Perrott, Ruth Schuyler House and Jordan Z. Schwartz
7673: Does the global trade slowdown matter ? Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 ? Downloads
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 Downloads
David J. Mckenzie and David J. Mckenzie
7667: Learning, Prices, and firm dynamics Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Túlio Cravo and Caio Piza
7663: Assessing socioeconomic resilience to floods in 90 countries Downloads
Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Adrien Camille Vogt-Schilb
7662: Property rights for fishing cooperatives: how (and how well) do they work ? Downloads
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 Downloads
Josh Ederington and Michele Ruta
7660: Poverty and shared prosperity implications of deep integration in Eastern and Southern Africa Downloads
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 Downloads
Ergys Islamaj and Ayhan Kose
7658: Particulate matter and labor supply: the role of caregiving and non-linearities Downloads
Fernando Aragon, Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Paulina Oliva
7657: Does e-government improve government capacity ? evidence from tax administration and public procurement Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Arti Grover and Somik V. Lall
7654: Effects of fiscal policy shocks in an open economy: evidence from Canada Downloads
Vincent De Paul Tsoungui Belinga
7653: Markets and manipulation: time for a paradigm shift ? Downloads
Kaushik Basu
7652: Prices for poverty analysis in Africa Downloads
Isis Gaddis
7651: Public school teacher management in Sri Lanka: issues and options Downloads
Dhushyanth Raju
7650: The role of regulation on entry: evidence from the Italian provinces Downloads
Francesco Bripi
7649: The GATT's starting point: tariff levels circa 1947 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Marcel Fafchamps and Christopher Woodruff
7646: Decomposing response errors in food consumption measurement: implications for survey design from a survey experiment in Tanzania Downloads
Jed Friedman, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and John Gibson
7645: What type of finance matters for growth ? Bayesian model averaging evidence Downloads
Iftekhar Hasan, Roman Horvath and Jan Mares
7644: Assessing the impacts of Mais Educacao on educational outcomes: evidence between 2007 and 2011 Downloads
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 Downloads
Victoria Levin, Elena Besedina and Tami Aritomi
7642: The cost of fear: the welfare effect of the risk of violence in northern Uganda Downloads
Marc Rockmore
7641: Is living in African cities expensive ? Downloads
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 Downloads
Marcio Cruz, Maurizio Bussolo and Leonardo Iacovone
7639: Managing sudden stops Downloads
Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta
7638: Competition makes IT better: evidence on when firms use it more effectively Downloads
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 Downloads
Alexander Golub and Michael Toman
7636: Opportunity versus necessity: understanding the heterogeneity of female micro-entrepreneurs Downloads
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 Downloads
Reinhard Mechler, Junko Mochizuki and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
7634: Capturing the co-benefits of disaster risk management on the private sector side Downloads
Adam Rose
7633: Co-benefits of disaster risk management Downloads
Francis Vorhies and Emily Wilkinson
7632: Higher losses and slower development in the absence of disaster risk management investments Downloads
Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Marie-Agnès Jouanjean
7631: Investing in disaster risk management in an uncertain climate Downloads
Thomas K.J. McDermott
7630: Unraveling a secret: Vietnam's outstanding performance on the PISA test Downloads
Suhas D. Parandekar and Elisabeth Sedmik
7629: ICT use, competitive pressures and firm performance in Mexico Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Futoshi Yamauchi and Donald Larson
7626: Looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in India Downloads
Ambar Narayan and Rinku Murgai
7625: The use of detailed statistical data in customs reform: the case of Madagascar Downloads
Cyril Chalendard, Gaël Raballand and Antsa Rakotoarisoa
7624: School grants and education quality: experimental evidence from Senegal Downloads
Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouede, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts
7623: Identifying the economic potential of Indian districts Downloads
Mark Roberts
7622: Absent laws and missing women: can domestic violence legislation reduce female mortality ? Downloads
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 Downloads
R. Castañeda, Leonardo Gasparini, Santiago Garriga, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti and Daniel Valderrama Gonzalez
7620: The empirical landscape of trade policy Downloads
Chad P. Bown, Meredith A Crowley, Chad P. Bown and Meredith A Crowley
7619: Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology Downloads
Ernest Miguelez
7618: Impacts of sovereign rating on sub-sovereign bond ratings in emerging and developing economies Downloads
Sanket Mohapatra, Manabu Nose and Dilip Ratha
7617: Second-stage sampling for conflict areas: methods and implications Downloads
Kristen Himelein, Stephanie Eckman, Siobhan Murray and Johannes Bauer
7616: MENA export performance and specialization -- the role of financial sector development and governance Downloads
Christina Wood and Judy Yang
7615: The labor content of exports database Downloads
Massimiliano Calì, Joseph Francois, Claire Honore Hollweg, Miriam Manchin, Doris Oberdabernig, Hugo Alexander Rojas Romagosa, Stela Rubínová and Patrick Tomberger
7614: Deal or no deal: strictly business for China in Kenya ? Downloads
Apurva Sanghi and Dylan Conte Johnson
7611: Robustness of shared prosperity estimates: how different methodological choices matter Downloads
Aziz Atamanov, Christina Wieser, Hiroki Uematsu, Nobuo Yoshida, Minh Nguyen, João Pedro Azevedo and Reno Dewina
7610: Providing policy makers with timely advice: the timeliness-rigor trade-off Downloads
Clive Bell and Lyn Squire
7609: Strengthening national hydrometeorological services through cascading forecasting: investing for sustainability and impact across global, regional, and national centers Downloads
Daniel Werner Kull, Corinne Graessle and Barzin Aryan
7608: When measure matters: coresidency, truncation bias, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries Downloads
M. Shahe Emran, William Greene and Forhad Shilpi
7607: Can wage subsidies boost employment in the wake of an economic crisis ? evidence from Mexico Downloads
Miriam Bruhn
7606: Estimating international poverty lines from comparable national thresholds Downloads
Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Espen Beer Prydz
7605: Revisiting the impact of the Brazilian SIMPLES program on firms'formalization rates Downloads
Caio Piza
7604: Access to finance and job growth: firm-level evidence across developing countries Downloads
Meghana Ayyagari, Pedro Juarros, Maria Martinez Peria and Sandeep Singh
7603: Unemployment and mortality: evidence from the great recession Downloads
Ha Minh Nguyen and Huong Nguyen
7602: Why did poverty decline in India ? a nonparametric decomposition exercise Downloads
Carlos Balcazar, Sonal Desai, Rinku Murgai and Ambar Narayan
7601: Survival of the fittest ? using network methods to assess the diffusion of project design concepts Downloads
Kenneth M. Chomitz, Pierre-Yves Koenig, Guy Melancon and Benjamin Renoust
7600: Taxation, information, and withholding: evidence from Costa Rica Downloads
Anne Brockmeyer and Marco Hernandez
7599: Effect of lengthening the school day on mother's labor supply Downloads
Dante Contreras, Paulina Sepulveda, Dante Contreras and Paulina Sepulveda
7598: The week Downloads
Maya Eden
7597: Land measurement bias and its empirical implications: evidence from a validation exercise Downloads
Andrew S. Dillon, Sydney Gourlay, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Gbemisola O. Oseni, Andrew S. Dillon, Sydney Gourlay, Kevin Robert Mcgee and Gbemisola O. Oseni
7596: Mangroves as protection from storm surges in a changing climate Downloads
Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Glenn-Marie-000351319 Lange
7595: Welfare dynamics with synthetic panels: the case of the Arab world in transition Downloads
Hai-Anh H. Dang, Elena Ianchovichina, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Elena Ianchovichina
7594: Assessment of net mitigation in the context of international greenhouse gas emissions control mechanisms Downloads
Jon Strand
7593: Impact of climate change and aquatic salinization on fish habitats and poor communities in southwest coastal Bangladesh and Bangladesh Sundarbans Downloads
Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Md. Golam Mustafa, Md Istiak Sobhan and David R. Wheeler
7592: Can electronic tax invoicing improve tax compliance ? a case study of the Republic of Korea's electronic tax invoicing for value-added tax Downloads
Hyung Chul Lee
7591: Learning or leaning: persistent and transitory growth spillovers from FDI Downloads
Ronald Davies, Michael Lamla and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer
7590: Globalization of labor markets and the growth prospects of nations Downloads
Kaushik Basu
7589: What explains agricultural price movements ? Downloads
John Baffes and Tassos Haniotis
7588: Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies ? evidence from firm data Downloads
Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Alena Sakhonchik
7587: Vietnam's labor market institutions, regulations, and interventions: helping people grasp work opportunities in a risky world Downloads
Achim Schmillen and Truman G. Packard
7586: The economic effects of counterfeiting and piracy: a review and implications for developing countries Downloads
Carsten Fink, Keith Maskus and Yi Qian
7585: Measuring violent conflict in micro-level surveys: current practices and methodological challenges Downloads
Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp and Andrew Anthony Tedesco
7584: The revival of the"cash versus food"debate: new evidence for an old quandary ? Downloads
Ugo Gentilini
7583: The price is not always right: on the impacts of commodity prices on households (and countries) Downloads
Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto
7582: Employer voices, employer demands, and implications for public skills development policy connecting the labor and education sectors Downloads
Wendy Cunningham and Paula Villasenor
7581: Small area estimation of child malnutrition in Ethiopian woredas Downloads
Thomas Sohnesen, Alemayehu Ambel, Peter Fisker, Colin Andrews and Qaiser M. Khan
7580: Can you work it ? evidence on the productive potential of public works from a youth employment program in Sierra Leone Downloads
Nina Rosas Raffo and Shwetlena Sabarwal
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