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- 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
- 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
- 7617: Second-stage sampling for conflict areas: methods and implications

- Kristen Himelein, Stephanie Eckman, Siobhan Murray and Johannes Bauer
- 7616: MENA export performance and specialization -- the role of financial sector development and governance

- Christina Wood and Judy Yang
- 7615: The labor content of exports database

- 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 ?

- Apurva Sanghi and Dylan Conte Johnson
- 7611: Robustness of shared prosperity estimates: how different methodological choices matter

- 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

- Clive Bell and Lyn Squire
- 7609: Strengthening national hydrometeorological services through cascading forecasting: investing for sustainability and impact across global, regional, and national centers

- Daniel Werner Kull, Corinne Graessle and Barzin Aryan
- 7608: When measure matters: coresidency, truncation bias, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries

- M. Shahe Emran, William Greene and Forhad Shilpi
- 7607: Can wage subsidies boost employment in the wake of an economic crisis ? evidence from Mexico

- Miriam Bruhn
- 7606: Estimating international poverty lines from comparable national thresholds

- 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

- Caio Piza
- 7604: Access to finance and job growth: firm-level evidence across developing countries

- Meghana Ayyagari, Pedro Juarros, Maria Martinez Peria and Sandeep Singh
- 7603: Unemployment and mortality: evidence from the great recession

- Ha Minh Nguyen and Huong Nguyen
- 7602: Why did poverty decline in India ? a nonparametric decomposition exercise

- 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

- Kenneth M. Chomitz, Pierre-Yves Koenig, Guy Melancon and Benjamin Renoust
- 7600: Taxation, information, and withholding: evidence from Costa Rica

- Anne Brockmeyer and Marco Hernandez
- 7599: Effect of lengthening the school day on mother's labor supply

- Dante Contreras, Paulina Sepulveda, Dante Contreras and Paulina Sepulveda
- 7598: The week

- Maya Eden
- 7597: Land measurement bias and its empirical implications: evidence from a validation exercise

- 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

- Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Glenn-Marie-000351319 Lange
- 7595: Welfare dynamics with synthetic panels: the case of the Arab world in transition

- 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

- Jon Strand
- 7593: Impact of climate change and aquatic salinization on fish habitats and poor communities in southwest coastal Bangladesh and Bangladesh Sundarbans

- 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

- Hyung Chul Lee
- 7591: Learning or leaning: persistent and transitory growth spillovers from FDI

- Ronald Davies, Michael Lamla and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer
- 7590: Globalization of labor markets and the growth prospects of nations

- Kaushik Basu
- 7589: What explains agricultural price movements ?

- John Baffes and Tassos Haniotis
- 7588: Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies ? evidence from firm data

- 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

- Achim Schmillen and Truman G. Packard
- 7586: The economic effects of counterfeiting and piracy: a review and implications for developing countries

- Carsten Fink, Keith Maskus and Yi Qian
- 7585: Measuring violent conflict in micro-level surveys: current practices and methodological challenges

- 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 ?

- Ugo Gentilini
- 7583: The price is not always right: on the impacts of commodity prices on households (and countries)

- Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto
- 7582: Employer voices, employer demands, and implications for public skills development policy connecting the labor and education sectors

- Wendy Cunningham and Paula Villasenor
- 7581: Small area estimation of child malnutrition in Ethiopian woredas

- 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

- Nina Rosas Raffo and Shwetlena Sabarwal
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