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10745: Taxes, Transfers, and Gender: Fiscal Policy Incidence across Fiscal and Care Categories in Jordan

Laura Kiku Rodriguez Takeuchi, Matthew Grant Wai-Poi and Jeffrey Scott Woodham

10744: What Works in Supporting Women-Led Businesses ?

Diego Ubfal

10743: How Delayed Learning about Climate Uncertainty Impacts Decarbonization Investment Strategies

Adam Michael Bauer, Florent McIsaac and Stephane Hallegatte

10742: Climate Shocks and the Poor: A Review of the Literature

Margaret Maggie Triyana, Andy Jiang Turk, Yurui Hu and Md Shah Naoaj

10741: The Sovereign Spread Compressing Effect of Fiscal Rules during Global Crises

Ergys Islamaj, Agustin Samano Penaloza and Scott James Sommers

10740: The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Shocks in Uruguay

Fernando Giuliano, Daniel Navia Simon and Heather Jane Ruberl

10739: The Role of Firm Dynamics in Aggregate Productivity, Job Flows, and Wage Inequality in Ecuador

Fausto Andres Patino Pena and Esteban Ferro

10738: Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation to Fill Poverty Data Gaps at a Low Cost: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment

Hai-Anh Dang, Talip Kilic, Vladimir Hlasny, Ksenia Abanokova and Calogero Carletto

10737: Linking Export Activities to Productivity and Wage Rate Growth

Luis Alejandro Aguilar Luna and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

10736: Assessing the Extent of Monetary Poverty in the Syrian Arab Republic after a Decade of Conflict

Silvia Redaelli, Michelle Infanzon Guadarrama and Laura Liliana Moreno Herrera

10735: Inelastic Demand Meets Optimal Supply of Risky Sovereign Bonds

Matías Moretti, Lorenzo Pandolfi, Sergio Schmukler, Germán Villegas Bauer and Tomas Williams

10734: Overcoming Left-Behindedness: Moving beyond the Efficiency versus Equity Debate in Territorial Development

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Federico Bartalucci, Nancy Lozano-Gracia and Maria Davalos

10733: Gender and Fiscal Policy — A Methodological Proposal and Its Application to Jordan and Armenia

Jon Robbert Jellema, Caren Grown, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Matthew Grant Wai-Poi, Sailesh Tiwari and Mariano Ernesto Sosa

10732: Fiscal Policy, Poverty and Inequality in Jordan: The Role of Taxes and Public Spending

Laura Kiku Rodriguez Takeuchi and Matthew Grant Wai-Poi

10731: Mortality Costs of and Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Côte d'Ivoire

Hermann Pythagore Pierre Donfouet, Ndoh Ashken Sanogo, Amantchi Jean - Noel Gogoua, Opope Oyaka Tshivuila Matala, Adama-000558561 Traore and Gaston Sorgho

10730: Does Africa Need More Roads in the Digital Age ? Evidence of Complementarities in Infrastructure

Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Arcady Mongoue, Roland Pongou and Fan Zhang

10729: Climate Change Adaptation: What Does the Evidence Say ?

Jonah Matthew Rexer and Siddharth Sharma

10728: Lives, Livelihoods, and Learning: A Global Perspective on the Well-Being Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Benoit Marie A Decerf, Jed Friedman, Arthur Galego Mendes, Steven Michael Pennings and Nishant Yonzan

10727: Responsibility Sharing and the Economic Participation of Refugees in Chad

Mohamed Coulibaly, Johannes G. Hoogeveen, Emilie Sandrine Celine Jourdan and Aboudrahyme Savadogo

10726: Who did Covid-19 hurt the most in Sub-Saharan Africa ?

Feraud Tchuisseu Seuyong, Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, David Newhouse and Ani Rudra Silwal

10725: Comparing Internally Displaced Persons with Those Left Behind: Evidence from the Central African Republic

Jonathan William Lain, Gervais Chamberlin Yama and Johannes G. Hoogeveen

10724: Climate Immobility Traps: A Household-Level Test

Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano and Adriana Paolantonio

10723: New Evidence on Inequality of Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa: More Unequal Than We Thought

Aziz Atamanov, Pablo Facundo Cuevas, Jeremy Aaron Lebow and Daniel Gerszon Mahler

10722: Two Decades of Top Income Shares in Honduras

Giselle Del Carmen, Santiago Garriga, Wilman Nuñez and Thiago De Gouvea Scot De Arruda

10721: Empowering Adolescent Girls through Safe Spaces and Accompanying Measures in Côte d’Ivoire

Othmane Boulhane, Claire Elise Boxho, Désiré Kanga, Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube and Lea Marie Rouanet

10720: Right to Education: Forced Migration and Child Education Outcomes

Juan Vargas and Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga

10719: Environmental Policy under Weak Institutions

Cem Karayalcin and Harun Onder

10718: The Quality and Price of Africa’s Imports of Digital Goods

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Lucio Castro and Marcio Cruz

10717: Reviewing Assessment Tools for Measuring Country Statistical Capacity

Hai-Anh Dang, John James Pullinger, Umar Serajuddin and Brian William Stacy

10716: Cross-Country Empirical Analysis of GovTech Platforms on Citizen Engagement

World Bank

10715: Environmental Hazards, Climate, and Health in Cambodia: The Shield of Sanitation

World Bank

10714: High Temperature and Learning Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia

Bhavya Srivastava, Kibrom Tafere Hirfrfot and Arnold Behrer

10713: Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century: Four Trends and an Uncertain Outlook

Deborah Hannah Isser, Gael J. R. F. Raballand, Michael John Watts and Diane Zovighian

10712: Does Unequal Tax Burden Contribute to Women-Owned Businesses Leaving the Tax Net ?

Alemayehu Ambel and Firew Bekele Woldeyes

10711: Does Financial Development Reduce Gender Disparity in Top Manager Positions in Manufacturing SMEs in Developing Countries ?

Mohammad Amin and Norma Janeth Gomez Caceres

10710: Which Firms Drive the Gains from Connectivity and Competition ? The Impact of India’s Golden Quadrilateral across the Firm Life Cycle

Arti Goswami Grover, William F. Maloney and Stephen A. O'Connell

10709: Stages of Diversification Redux

Hoda Assem Mohammed G Hassan Ahmed, Roberta V. Gatti and Daniel Lederman

10708: Costs of Health Care Associated Infections from Inadequate Water and Sanitation in Health Care Facilities in Eastern and Southern Africa

Guy Hutton, Claire Chase and Ruth Jane Kennedy-Walker

10707: Presumptive Tax on Small and Microenterprises with a Gender Lens in Ethiopia

Hitomi Komatsu

10706: How Large Are the Economic Dividends from Closing Gender Employment Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa ?

Federico Ivan Fiuratti, Steven Michael Pennings and Jesica Torres Coronado

10705: The Gendered Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Iranian Labor Market

Silvia Redaelli

10704: What Lies Behind “Good” Analytical Work on Development ? Four Years of Knowledge Products at the World Bank

Martin Rama, Rucheta Singh and Aiza Aslam

10703: Urban Informality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Profiling Workers and Firms in an Urban Context

Wendy Cunningham, David Newhouse, Federica Ricaldi, Feraud Tchuisseu Seuyong, Mariana Viollaz and Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie

10702: Beyond the Usual: Understanding the Multidimensional Nature of Job Quality in Bolivia’s Labor Market

Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza, Ronald A. Cueva and Maria Eugenia Davalos

10701: Gender-Specific Transportation Costs and Female Time Use: Evidence from India’s Pink Slip Program

Yutong Chen, Kerem Cosar, Devaki Ghose, Shirish Mahendru and Sheetal Sekhri

10700: Indigenous peoples, land and conflict in Mindanao, Philippines

Alma Lucia Madrigal Correa, Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva and Sergio Patrick Somerville

10699: Household Vulnerability and Preparedness for Disasters in Haiti

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Naraya Carrasco, Marlen Yamilet Cardona Botero and Olive Nsababera

10698: Are Unit Values Reliable Proxies for Prices ? Implications of Better Price Data for Household Consumption Measurement in a Low-Income Context

Omoniyi Babatunde Alimi, Wilbert Drazi Vundru and Talip Kilic

10697: Does Global Warming Worsen Poverty and Inequality ? An Updated Review

Hai-Anh Dang, Stephane Hallegatte and Trong-Anh Trinh

10696: Turning Risks into Rewards: Diversifying the Global Value Chains of Decarbonization Technologies

Samuel Kaspar Rosenow and Penelope Ann Mealy

10695: Recording the Time Divide: A Comparative Study of Smartphone- and Recall-Based Approaches to Time Use Measurement

Talip Kilic, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Wilbert Drazi Vundru, Thomas Lothar Georg Daum, Hannes Buchwald, Greg Seymour, Peter Mathias Mvula, Alister Chaundumuka Munthali and Monice Kachinjika

10694: Gender Role Attitudes, Perceived Norms, and the "Double Burden'' in Morocco

Carolyn Louise Barnett

10693: Tackling Gender Discriminatory Inheritance Law Privately: Lessons from a Survey Expe riment in Tunisia

Christina Sarah Hauser

10692: Breadwinners and Caregivers: Examining the Global Relationship between Gender Norms and Economic Behavior

Markus P. Goldstein, Paula Lorena Gonzalez Martinez, Talip Kilic, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Philip Randolph Wollburg

10691: The Long-Term and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of the Islamic Republic of Iran-Iraq War in 1980–88 on School Access and Labor Market Performance

Trung Xuan Hoang

10690: The Growth Elasticity of Poverty: Is Africa Any Different ?

Haoyu Wu, Aziz Atamanov, Tom Bundervoet and Pierella Paci

10689: In Most Low- and Middle-Income Countries Pollution Levels Are Higher in Wealthier Areas

Arnold Behrer and Sam Heft-Neal

10688: Globalization, Dutch Disease, and Vulnerability to External Shocks in a Small Open Economy: The Case of Lebanon in 1916 and 2019

Chadi Bou Habib

10687: Fiscal Policy, Poverty, and Inequality in a Constrained Environment: The Case of the West Bank and Gaza

Beenish Amjad, Haydeeliz Carrasco Nunez, Arden Jeremy Finn and Maya Scott Goldman

10686: Little Nomads: Economic and Social Impacts of Migration on Children

Magdalena Cortina Toro, Juan Miguel Jimenez and Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga

10685: Just Transition: Issues for Central Banks and Financial Regulators

Pietro Calice and Dimitri G. Demekas

10684: Dysfunctional Family Management: Family-Managed Businesses and the Quality of Management Practices

Asif Islam and Roberta V. Gatti

10683: The Welfare Cost of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jon Gascoigne, Sandra Baquie, Katja Pauliina Vinha, Emmanuel Skoufias, Evie Isabel Neall Calcutt, Varun Sridhar Kshirsagar, Conor Meenan and Ruth Hill

10682: The Impact of Climate Change on Work: Lessons for Developing Countries

Moustafa Amgad Moustafa Ahmed Moustafa Feriga, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Pieter Maria Serneels

10681: Leveraging Women’s Views to Influence Gender Norms around Women Working: Evidence from an Online Intervention in Indonesia

Lisa Cameron, Diana Stella Contreras Suarez and Diahhadi Setyonaluri

10680: Rural Labor and Long Recall Loss

Kate Ambler, Sylvan Rene Herskowitz and Mywish Karimbhai Maredia

10679: The Costs Come before the Benefits: Why Donors Should Invest More in Refugee Autonomy in Uganda

Aziz Atamanov, Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Benjamin Christopher Reese

10678: Fiscal Incidence on the Island: Grenada’s Fiscal System and Its Incidence

Wilson Jimenez Pozo, Silvia Granados Ibarra, Ran Li, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Guillermo Gómez Aliaga, Chevanne Britton and Fernando Rios-Avila

10677: VAT Rate Structures in Theory and Practice

Alastair Geoffrey Arthur Thomas

10676: Does Local Employment Growth Accelerate Exits from Social Assistance ? Evidence From Brazil’s Conditional Cash Transfer Bolsa Familia

Katharina Maria Fietz, Matteo Morgandi, Gabriel Lyrio de Oliveira and Luiz Henrique Ferreira Cruz E Superti

10675: Implications of Choice of Second Stage Selection Method on Sampling Error and Non-Sampling Error: Evidence from an IDP Camp in South Sudan

Kristen Himelein, Utz Pape and Michael Wild

10674: Closing the gap: Effect of a gender quota on women's access to education in Afghanistan

Rafiuddin Najam

10673: Missing Evidence: Tracking Academic Data Use around the World

Brian William Stacy, Lucas Kitzmüller, Xiaoyu Wang, Daniel Gerszon Mahler and Umar Serajuddin

10672: Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Typology

Shireen AlAzzawi, Hai-Anh Dang, Vladimir Hlasny, Ksenia Abanokova and Jere Behrman

10671: Estimating Economic Costs of Unhealthy Diets: A Proposed Methodology

Susan E. Horton, Patrizia Fracassi, Kendra Siekmans, Tomoko Kato and Giles Hanley-Cook

10670: Job Finding and Separation among Syrian refugees in Jordan and Their Hosts during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sarah Mohammad Osman Wahby and Ragui A Assaad

10669: The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times

Yoonyoung Cho and Teresa Sacro Molina

10668: Costing Disasters: Hedonic Pricing, Neighborhood Effects, and the Nepal Gorkha Earthquakes

Vincent Floreani and Martin Rama

10667: Are Global Value Chains Women Friendly in Developing Countries ? Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Marize Kalliny and Chahir Zaki

10666: COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA

Maciej Jan Jakubowski, Tomasz Janusz Gajderowicz and Harry Patrinos

10665: Trade, Outsourcing, and the Environment

Erhan Artuc and Konstantin Heinrich Ludwig Sommer

10664: Labor Market Participation and Employment Choice in Ghana: Do Individual Personality Traits and Gender Role Attitudes Matter ?

Akuffo Amankwah, Pauline Castaing, Nkechi Owoo and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

10663: Could Digital Inclusion Close the Gender Economic Gap in the MENA Region ?

Mahmoud Mohieldin and Racha Ramadan

10662: Leveraging Big Data to Understand Women’s Mobility in Buenos Aires

Aiga Stokenberga, Linda Ellin Maria Ivarsson Molina, Juan Ignacio Fulponi and Karla Dominguez Gonzalez

10661: For Labor or for Divorce ? Unilateral Divorce Laws and Women’s Labor Outcomes

Najat El Mekkaoui, Sara Loukili, Yeganeh Fourouheshfar and Nada Omer Eissa

10660: The Impacts of Disasters on African Agriculture: New Evidence from Micro-Data

Philip Randolph Wollburg, Yannick Markhof, Thomas Patrick Bentze and Giulia Ponzini

10659: Connecting People to Projects: A New Approach to Measuring Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa

Ragui A Assaad and Caroline Gould Krafft

10658: Are Regional Fiscal Multipliers on EU Structural and Investment Fund Spending Large ? A Reassessment of the Evidence

Federico Ivan Fiuratti, Desislava Enikova Nikolova, Steven Michael Pennings and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

10657: Reassessing Welfare Impacts of Bulgarian Fiscal Policy through a Child Poverty Perspective

Monica Robayo-Abril and Maynor Vinicio Cabrera

10656: Correcting Sampling and Nonresponse Bias in Phone Survey Poverty Estimation Using Reweighting and Poverty Projection Models

Kexin Zhang, Shinya Takamatsu and Nobuo Yoshida

10655: How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes ? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics

Oyebola Motunrayo Okunogbe and Gabriel Zenon Tourek

10654: Can Effective Policy Implementation Alter Political Selection ? Evidence from Female Legislators in India

S Anukriti, Rossella Calvi and Abhishek Chakravarty

10653: Unraveling the Factors behind Women's Empowerment in the Labor Market in Colombia

Héctor M. Zárate-Solano, Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra, Ana María Iregui-Bohórquez, Maria Ramirez-Giraldo and Ana Tribin

10652: The Macroeconomic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from Brazil

Arthur Galego Mendes, Wataru Miyamoto, Thuy Lan Nguyen, Steven Michael Pennings and Leo Feler

10651: Shifting Spousal Decision-Making Patterns: Whom You Target in an Agricultural Intervention Matters

Tara Sylvia Bedi, Niklas Buehren, Markus P. Goldstein and Tigist Assefa Ketema

10650: Spatial Misallocation of Complementary Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Brazil

Fidel Pérez-Sebastián, Rafael Serrano Quintero and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

10649: Does State Ownership Have Limits in Romania ? An Assessment of Firm Performance and Market Outcomes

Seidu Dauda, Georgiana Pop and Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias

10648: What Explains Global Inflation

Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge

10647: Vehicle and Fuel Taxation for Transport Demand Management: Learnings from the Literature through a Development Lens

He He and Chaeyoung Kim

10646: The Effect of COVID-19 on the Gender Employment Gap in Egyptian Manufacturing

Amirah El-Haddad and Phoebe Saad Wasfy Ishak