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8253: Moving teachers to Malawi's remote communities: a data-driven approach to teacher deployment

Salman Asim, Joseph P. G. Chimombo, Dmitry Chugunov and Ravinder Madron Casley Gera

8252: Microfinance and economic development

Robert Cull and Jonathan Morduch

8251: Mangroves as protection from storm surges in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Saiful Islam, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huque Khan and Md. Raqubul Hasib

8250: Gender and property rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of constraints and effective interventions

Michael O'Sullivan

8249: Glass barriers: constraints to women's small-scale cross-border trade in Cambodia and Lao PDR

Marlon Armand Remy Seror, Richard Record and Julian Latimer Clarke

8248: Polarization, foreign military intervention, and civil conflict

Suleiman Abu Bader and Elena Ianchovichina

8247: Putting your money where your mouth is: geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent

Hannes Ohler, Mario Negre, Lodewijk Smets, Renzo Massari and Zeljko Bogetic

8246: The impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Zambia

Alejandro De La Fuente, Manuel Rosales and Jon Robbert Jellema

8245: Gender and youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of constraints and effective interventions

Shubha Chakravarty, Smita Das and Julia Vaillant

8244: Internal borders and migration in India

Zovanga Louis Kone, Maggie Y. Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Caglar Ozden, Siddharth Sharma, Zovanga Louis Kone, Maggie Y. Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Caglar Ozden and Siddharth Sharma

8243: FDI spillovers and high-growth firms in developing countries

José-Daniel Reyes

8242: Women's entrepreneurship: how to measure the gap between new female and male entrepreneurs?

Frederic Meunier, Yulia Krylova and Rita Ramalho

8241: SME finance

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

8240: Korea's growth experience and long-term growth model

Hyeok Jeong

8239: Gender and enterprise development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of constraints and effective interventions

Francisco Campos and Marine Gassier

8238: Learning the impact of financial education when take-up is low

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, David McKenzie and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

8237: Financial development, growth, and crisis: is there a trade-off ?

Norman Loayza, Amine Ouazad and Romain Ranciere

8236: Small firm death in developing countries

David J. Mckenzie, Anna Luisa Paffhausen, David J. Mckenzie and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

8235: Charting the diffusion of power sector reforms across the developing world

Vivien Foster, Samantha Helen Witte, Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Alejandro Vega Moreno, Vivien Foster, Samantha Helen Witte, Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee and Alejandro Vega Moreno

8234: Public procurement regulation and road quality

Simeon Djankov, Tania Ghossein, Asif Islam and Federica Saliola

8233: Labor adjustment costs across sectors and regions

Marcio Cruz, Emmanuel Milet and Marcelo Olarreaga

8232: The impact of large-scale migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal

Maheshwor Shrestha

8231: How much oil is the Islamic state group producing ? evidence from remote sensing

Quy-Toan Do, Jacob N. Shapiro, Christopher D. Elvidge, Mohamed Abdel Jelil, Daniel P. Ahn, Kimberly Baugh, Hansen-Lewis,Jamie Nicole and Mikhail Zhizhin

8230: Marital trajectories and women's well-being in Senegal

Sylvie Lambert, Dominique van de Walle and Paola Villar

8229: What are the effects of expanding a social pension program on extreme poverty and labor supply ? evidence from Mexico's pension program for the elderly

Clemente Avila Parra and David Ricardo Escamilla Guerrero

8228: Productivity and health: alternative productivity estimates using physical activity

Oladele B Akogun, Andrew S. Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann, Pieter Maria Serneels, Oladele B Akogun, Andrew S. Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann and Pieter Maria Serneels

8227: Regressive or progressive ? the effect of tobacco taxes in Ukraine

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Francisco Jalles Meneses

8226: Roads and the geography of economic activities in Mexico

Brian Blankespoor, Theophile Bougna, Rafael Garduño Rivera and Harris Selod

8225: Prospects of estimating poverty with phone surveys: experimental results from Serbia

Vladan Boznic, Roy Shuji Katayama, Rodrigo Munoz, Shinya Takamatsu and Nobuo Yoshida

8224: Political economy of reform

Stuti Khemani

8223: Introducing a performance-based school grant in Jakarta: what do we know about its impact after two years ?

Al-Samarrai,Samer, Unika Shrestha, Amer Hasan, Nozomi Nakajima, Santoso Santoso and Wisnu Harto Adi Wijoyo

8222: Corporate debt maturity in developing countries: sources of long- and short-termism

Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Tatiana Didier Brandao, Sergio L. Schmukler, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Tatiana Didier Brandao and Sergio L. Schmukler

8221: Labor policy and digital technology use: indicative evidence from cross-country correlations

Truman G. Packard and Claudio Montenegro

8220: Who escaped poverty and who was left behind ? a non-parametric approach to explore welfare dynamics using cross-sections

Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti and Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti

8219: Revisiting the national innovation system in developing countries

William F. Maloney

8218: Product and factor market distortions: the case of the manufacturing sector in Morocco

Jean-Pierre Christophe Chauffour and Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez

8217: The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Mohammed Golam Mustafa, Tapas Paul, David Wheeler, Susmita Dasgupta, Mohammed Golam Mustafa, Tapas Paul and David Wheeler

8216: Fiscal incidence in Belarus: a commitment to equity analysis

Kateryna Bornukova, Gleb Shymanovich and Alexander Chubrik

8215: Technological change and the labor market in Argentina and Uruguay: a task content analysis

Ignacio Apella and Gonzalo Zunino

8214: Economic growth in guinea and how to accelerate it

Abdoul Ganiou Mijiyawa

8213: Demand and supply curves in political markets: understanding the problem of public goods and why governments fail them

Stuti Khemani

8212: Municipal pooled financing of infrastructure in the United States: experience and lessons

Lili Liu, Michael A. De Angelis and Sally M. Torbert

8211: Firm-level decomposition of energy consumption in Turkish manufacturing industry

Sebnem Sahin

8210: Information disclosure and demand elasticity of financial products: evidence from a multi-country study

Xavier Gine, Cristina Martínez Cuellar, Rafael Keenan Mazer, Xavier Gine, Cristina Martínez Cuellar and Rafael Keenan Mazer

8209: Oil discovery and macroeconomic management: the recent Ghanaian experience

Mahamudu Bawumia and Havard Halland

8208: An evaluation of border management reforms in a technical agency

Ana Fernandes, Russell Hillberry and Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara

8207: Measuring the effectiveness of service delivery: delivery of government provided goods and services in India

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Neeraj Prasad

8206: Trade creation and trade diversion in deep agreements

Aaditya Mattoo, Alen Mulabdic, Michele Ruta, Aaditya Mattoo, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta

8205: Making it easier to apply for a bank account: a study of the Indian market

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Saniya Ansar and Aditya Jagati

8204: How does port efficiency affect maritime transport costs and trade ? evidence from Indian and western Pacific Ocean countries

Matias Herrera Dappe, Charl Jooste and Ancor Suarez Aleman

8203: The distributional impact of taxes and social spending in Croatia

Gabriela Inchauste and Ivica Rubil

8202: Unequal laws and the disempowerment of women in the labor market: evidence from firm-level data

Asif Islam, Silvia Muzi and Mohammad Amin

8201: Output- and performance-based road contracts and agricultural production: evidence from Zambia

Atsushi Iimi and Ben Gericke

8200: Assessing effects of large-scale land transfers: challenges and opportunities in Malawi's estate sector

Klaus W. Deininger and Fang Xia

8199: Regulatory constraints to agricultural productivity

Raian Divanbeigi and Federica Saliola

8198: Which emerging markets and developing economies face corporate balance sheet vulnerabilities ?: a novel monitoring framework

Erik H.B. Feyen, Norbert Matthias Fiess, Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas and Lara Alice Victoria Lambert

8197: Flies without borders: lessons from Chennai on improving India's municipal public health services

Monica Das Gupta, Rajib Dasgupta, P. Kugananthan, Vijayendra Rao, Trikkur V. Somanathan and K.N. Tewari

8196: Export quality in advanced and developing economies: evidence from a new data set

Christian Henn, Chris Papageorgiou, Jose Romero and Nikola L. Spatafora

8195: Short-term impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom's export of goods

Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita, Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita

8194: Financial globalization: a glass half empty ?

Sergio Schmukler and Facundo Abraham

8193: Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction -- a migrant's perspective

Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur, Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

8192: Could the debate be over ? errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for the inverse scale-productivity relationship in Uganda

Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic and David Lobell

8191: Optimal targeting under budget constraints in a humanitarian context

Chiara Gigliarano and Paolo Verme

8190: Preferential trade agreements and global value chains: theory, evidence, and open questions

Michele Ruta

8189: Shelter from the storm ? household-level impacts of, and responses to, the 2015 floods in Malawi

Nancy Mccarthy, Talip Kilic, Alejandro De La Fuente and Josh Brubaker

8188: Natural disaster damage indices based on remotely sensed data: an application to Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit

8187: The impact of digital technologies on routine tasks: do labor policies matter?

Rita Almeida, Carlos H. L. Corseuil and Jennifer Poole

8186: Moving out and up: panel data evidence on migration and poverty in Uganda

Edouard Romeo Mensah and Michael O'Sullivan

8185: A bit far ? geography, international economic agreements, and foreign direct investment: evidence from emerging markets

Laura Gomez-Mera and Gonzalo Varela

8184: When is the government transfer multiplier large ?

Eric Giambattista and Steven Michael Pennings

8183: Investigating the transmission channels behind Dutch disease effects: lessons from Mongolia using a CGE model

Tehmina Shaukat Khan and Jan Gottschalk

8182: Child schooling and child work in the presence of a partial education subsidy

Jacobus Joost De Hoop, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Furio Rosati

8181: Bridging the intention-behavior gap ? the effect of plan-making prompts on job search and employment

Simon Martin Abel, Rulof Petrus Burger, Eliana Carranza and Patrizio Piraino

8180: Labor market discrimination and sorting: evidence from South Africa

Abel Simon Martin

8179: The many faces of deprivation: a multidimensional approach to poverty in Armenia

Diana Martirosova, Osman Kaan Inan, Moritz Meyer and Nistha Sinha

8178: Politics, public works and poverty: evidence from the Bangladesh employment generation programme for the poorest

Iffath Anwar Sharif and Ummul Hasanath Ruthbah

8177: Delivering education to the underserved through a public-private partnership program in Pakistan

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, David S. Blakeslee, Matthew Hoover, Leigh Linden, Dhushyanth Raju and Stephen P. Ryan

8176: Will elders provide for their grandchildren ?: unconditional cash transfers and educational expenditures in Bolivia

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Alberto Chong, Fernando Rios-Avila and Monica Yanez Pagans

8175: Longevity and lifetime education: global evidence from 919 surveys

Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth King, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem

8174: Modal choice between rail and road transportation: evidence from Tanzania

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys, Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu, Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys and Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu

8173: Rail transport and firm productivity: evidence from Tanzania

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys, Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu, Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys and Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu

8172: Does arsenic-contaminated drinking water limit early childhood development in Bangladesh ?

Sabrina Sharmin Haque, George Joseph and Nazia Sultana Moqueet

8171: Revisiting the effect of food aid on conflict: a methodological caution

Paul J. Christian and Christopher Barrett

8170: Welfare-consistent global poverty measures

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

8169: The impact of strengthening agricultural extension services: evidence from Ethiopia

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Ezequiel Molina and Julia Vaillant

8168: The nature of trade and growth linkages

Tatiana Didier Brandao and Magali Pinat

8167: Tracing back the weather origins of human welfare: evidence from Mozambique

Javier Eduardo Baez Ramirez, German Daniel Caruso and Chiyu Niu

8166: Buses, houses or cash ? socio-economic, spatial and environmental consequences of reforming public transport subsidies in Buenos Aires

Paolo Avner, Shomik Raj Mehndiratta, Vincent Viguie and Stephane Hallegatte

8165: Assessing forecast uncertainty: an information Bayesian approach

Fabian Mendez Ramos

8164: The poverty implications of alternative tax reforms: results from a numerical application to Pakistan

Andrew Feltenstein, Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina, David Newhouse and Gohar Sedrakyan

8163: Peer effects in the demand for property rights: experimental evidence from urban Tanzania

Matthew Collin

8162: Looking into the performance-based financing black box: evidence from an impact evaluation in the health sector in Cameroon

Damien de Walque, Paul Jacob Robyn, Hamadou Saidou, Gaston Sorgho and Maria Ward Steenland

8161: Does financial education impact financial literacy and financial behavior, and if so, when ?

Tim Kaiser and Lukas Menkhoff

8160: Online exports and the wage gap

Marcio Cruz, Emmanuel Milet and Marcelo Olarreaga

8159: Understanding the interactions between emissions trading systems and renewable energy standards using a multi-regional CGE model of China

Ying Fan, Jie Wu, Govinda R. Timilsina and Yan Xia

8158: Reducing traffic congestion in Beirut: an empirical analysis of selected policy options

Alex Anas, Sayan De Sarkar, Maya Abou Zeid, Govinda R. Timilsina and Ziad Salim El Nakat

8157: A cross-country database of fiscal space

Ayhan Kose, Sergio Andres Kurlat, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara

8156: Through the looking glass: can classroom observation and coaching improve teacher performance in Brazil ?

Barbara Bruns, Leandro Oliveira Costa and Nina Menezes Cunha

8155: Can business input improve the effectiveness of worker training? evidence from Brazil's Pronatec-MDIC

Stephen O'Connell, Lucas Ferreira Mation, Joao Bevilaqua Teixeira Basto and Mark Andrew Dutz

8154: Surveys, big data, and experiments: how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes ?

Dominik Koehler and Nicholas Menzies