Policy Research Working Paper Series
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- 5974: Soil endowments, female labor force participation and the demographic deficit of women in India

- Eliana Carranza
- 5973: Stimulating demand for AIDS prevention: lessons from the RESPECT trial

- Damien de Walque, William Dow, Carol Medlin and Rose Nathan
- 5972: Islamic inheritance law, son preference and fertility behavior of Muslim couples in Indonesia

- Eliana Carranza
- 5971: A tale of two species: revisiting the effect of registration reform on informal business owners in Mexico

- Miriam Bruhn
- 5970: Regional integration and natural resources: who benefits ? evidence from MENA

- Celine Carrere, Julien Gourdon and Marcelo Olarreaga
- 5969: Global survey of development banks

- Jose de Luna-Martinez and Carlos Leonardo Vicente
- 5968: Poor, or just feeling poor ? on using subjective data in measuring poverty

- Martin Ravallion
- 5967: An economic integration zone for the East African Community: exploiting regional potential and addressing commitment challenges

- Anton Dobronogov and Thomas Farole
- 5966: Mines, migration and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa

- Lucia Corno and Damien de Walque
- 5965: Child labor, schooling, and child ability

- Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga
- 5964: Multidimensional poverty analysis: Looking for a middle ground

- Francisco Ferreira and Maria Ana Lugo
- 5963: Uganda's infrastructure: a continental perspective

- Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster
- 5962: Tanzania's infrastructure: a continental perspective

- Maria Shkaratan
- 5961: Emerging economies in the 2000s: real decoupling and financial recoupling

- Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Tomas Williams
- 5960: Simulating the impact of the 2009 financial crisis on welfare in Latvia

- Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Francisco Haimovich and Mehtabul Azam
- 5959: The impact of wealth on the amount and quality of child labor

- Ximena Del Carpio and Norman Loayza
- 5958: Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms: impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso

- Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga
- 5957: Anatomy of coping: evidence from people living through the crises of 2008-11

- Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain, Anna Reva and Carolyn Turk
- 5956: Fiscal implications of climate change

- Benjamin Jones, Michael Keen and Jon Strand
- 5955: Allocative inefficiencies resulting from subsidies to agricultural electricity use: an illustrative model

- Jon Strand
- 5954: Identification of sources of variation in poverty outcomes

- B. Essama-Nssah
- 5953: Bilateral M&A activity from the global south

- Mansoor Dailami, Sergio Kurlat and Jamus Lim
- 5952: Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits

- Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani
- 5951: Human rights as demands for communicative action

- Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks
- 5950: Market-based instruments for international aviation and shipping as a source of climate finance

- Michael Keen, Ian Parry and Jon Strand
- 5949: Moving off the farm: Land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China

- Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Fang Xia
- 5948: Services reform and manufacturing performance: evidence from India

- Jens Arnold, Beata Javorcik, Molly Lipscomb and Aaditya Mattoo
- 5947: Is the financial safety net a barrier to cross-border banking ?

- Ata Bertay, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga
- 5946: Surviving the global financial crisis: foreign ownership and establishment performance

- Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
- 5945: Life satisfaction, social capital and the bonding-bridging nexus

- Maurizio Pugno and Paolo Verme
- 5944: Services liberalization and productivity of manufacturing firms: evidence from Ukraine

- Oleksandr Shepotylo and Volodymyr Vakhitov
- 5943: Optimal food price stabilization in a small open developing country

- Christophe Gouel and Sebastien Jean
- 5942: Landlocked or policy locked ? how services trade protection deepens economic isolation

- Ingo Borchert, Batshur Gootiiz, Arti Grover and Aaditya Mattoo
- 5941: Systemic oversight frameworks in LAC: current practices and reform agenda

- Eva Gutierrez and Patricia Caraballo
- 5940: Beyond Keynesianism: global infrastructure investments in times of crisis

- Justin Lin and Doerte Doemeland
- 5939: Mozambique Cashew reforms revisited

- M. Ataman Aksoy and Fahrettin Yagci
- 5938: Human rights based approaches to developmen t: concepts, evidence, and policy

- Varun Gauri and Siri Gloppen
- 5937: The unexpected global financial crisis: researching its root cause

- Justin Lin and Volker Treichel
- 5936: Macroprudential stress testing of credit risk: a practical approach for policy makers

- Daniel Buncic and Martin Melecký
- 5935: Reputation matters: spillover effects in the enforcement of US SPS measures

- Marie-Agnès Jouanjean and Jean-Christophe Maur
- 5934: Aid tying and donor fragmentation

- Stephen Knack and Lodewijk Smets
- 5933: Severance pay compliance in Indonesia

- Vera Brusentsev, David Newhouse and Wayne Vroman
- 5932: Green growth, technology and innovation

- Mark A. Dutz and Siddharth Sharma
- 5931: Innovative and absorptive capacity of international knowledge: an empirical analysis of productivity sources in Latin American countries

- Leopoldo Laborda Castillo, Daniel Sotelsek and Jose Luis Guasch
- 5930: Relative deprivation, reference groups and the assessment of standard of living

- Jacques Silber and Paolo Verme
- 5929: Financial distortions and the distribution of global volatility

- Maya Eden
- 5928: Reducing distortions in international commodity markets: an agenda for multilateral cooperation

- Bernard Hoekman and Will Martin
- 5927: The challenges to long run fiscal sustainability in Romania

- R. Sudharshan Canagarajah, Martin Brownbridge, Anca Paliu and Ionut Dumitru
- 5926: Income shocks reduce human capital investments: evidence from five east European countries

- Basab Dasgupta and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad
- 5925: Assessing real exchange rate misalignments

- Megumi Kubota
- 5924: Post-HIPC growth dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Nihal Bayraktar and Hippolyte Fofack
- 5923: Undeclared economic activity in central and eastern Europe -- how taxes contribute and how countries respond to the problem

- Willi Leibfritz
- 5922: Tax morale and compliance: review of evidence and case studies for Europe

- Benno Torgler
- 5921: Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010

- Leonardo Gasparini, Sebastian Galiani, Guillermo Cruces and Pablo Acosta
- 5920: The role of Islamic finance in enhancing financial inclusion in organization of Islamic cooperation (OIC) countries

- Mahmoud Mohieldin, Zamir Iqbal, Ahmed Rostom and Xiaochen Fu
- 5919: Coordinating tax reforms in the poorest countries: can lost tariffs be recouped ?

- Swarnim Wagle
- 5918: Identifying and evaluating large scale policy interventions: what questions can we answer ?

- Sandesh Dhungana
- 5917: What explains prevalence of informal employment in European countries: the role of labor institutions, governance, immigrants, and growth

- Mihails Hazans
- 5916: Intra-generational mobility and repeated cross-sections: a three-country validation exercise

- Guillermo Cruces, Peter Lanjouw, Leonardo Lucchetti, Elizaveta Perova, Renos Vakis and Mariana Viollaz
- 5915: Does financial structure matter for poverty ? evidence from developing countries

- Kangni Kpodar and Raju Singh
- 5914: Investing across borders with heterogeneous firms: do FDI-specific regulations matter?

- Swarnim Wagle
- 5913: Labor institutions and their impact on shadow economies in Europe

- Kamila Fialova and Ondrej Schneider
- 5912: Informal workers across Europe: evidence from 30 European countries

- Mihails Hazans
- 5911: Tax morale, eastern Europe and European enlargement

- Benno Torgler
- 5910: An attempt to measure the trends in shadow employment in Poland

- Mateusz Walewski
- 5909: Economic integration in the lower Congo region: opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville bottleneck

- Marius Brülhart and Mombert Hoppe
- 5908: Fact or artefact: the impact of measurement errors on the farm size - productivity relationship

- Calogero Carletto, Sara Savastano, Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto, Sara Savastano and Alberto Zezza
- 5907: Migration, remittances and forests: disentangling the impact of population and economic growth on forests

- Sailesh Tiwari and Keshav Bhattarai
- 5906: Stress-testing croatian households with debt -- implications for financial stability

- Naotaka Sugawara and Juan Zalduendo
- 5905: Spending on Public Infrastructure: A Practitioner's Guide

- Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Afua Sarkodie
- 5904: Power tariffs: caught between cost recovery and affordability

- Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Maria Shkaratan
- 5903: The relative volatility of commodity prices: a reappraisal

- Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman and Hongyan Zhao
- 5902: A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class

- Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
- 5901: How important is the efficiency of government investment ? The case of the Republic of Congo

- Hannah Nielsen and Hans Lofgren
- 5900: Cluster-based industrial parks: a practical framework for action

- Celestin Monga
- 5899: ECOWAS's infrastructure: a regional perspective

- Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster
- 5898: The SADC's infrastructure: a regional perspective

- Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster
- 5897: China and the world trading system

- Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian
- 5896: Cotton, biotechnology, and economic development

- John Baffes
- 5895: Quality of tax administration: how relevant is country size ?

- Mohammad Amin
- 5894: The time cost of documents to trade

- Mohammad Amin
- 5893: Risk absorption by the state: when is it good public policy ?

- Deniz Anginer, Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize
- 5892: Knowledgeable bankers ? the demand for research in World Bank operations

- Martin Ravallion
- 5891: Explaining local manufacturing growth in Chile: the advantages of sectoral diversity

- Rita Almeida and Ana Fernandes
- 5890: Assessment testing can be used to inform policy decisions: the case of Jordan

- Husein Abdul-Hamid, Khattab M. Abu-Lebdeh and Harry Patrinos
- 5889: A trio of perspectives on corruption: bias, speed money and"grand theft infrastructure"

- Charles Kenny, Michael Klein and Monika Sztajerowska
- 5888: Explaining the demand for sovereignty

- Nicholas Sambanis and Branko Milanovic
- 5887: Botswana's infrastructure: a continental perspective

- Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Nataliya Pushak
- 5886: International trade and inclusive growth: a primer for busy policy analysts

- Daniel Lederman
- 5885: Mozambique's infrastructure: a continental perspective

- Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia
- 5884: Avoiding the fragility trap in Africa

- Noro Aina Andrimihaja, Matthias Cinyabuguma and Shantayanan Devarajan
- 5883: The regressive demands of demand-driven development

- Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler
- 5882: The household enterprise sector in Tanzania: why it matters and who cares

- Josaphat Kweka and Louise Fox
- 5881: The impact of pro-vulnerable income transfers: Leisure, dependency and a distribution hypothesis

- Nicola Limodio
- 5880: Job growth and finance: are some financial institutions better suited to early stages of development than others?

- Robert Cull and L. Colin Xu
- 5879: Is optimization an opportunity ? an assessment of the impact of class size and school size on the performance of Ukrainian secondary schools

- Tom Coupé, Anna Olefir and Juan Diego Alonso
- 5878: Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

- Pedro Carneiro, Michael Lokshin, Cristobal Ridao-Cano and Nithin Umapathi
- 5877: Impact evaluation of trade interventions: paving the way

- Olivier Cadot, Ana Fernandes, Julien Gourdon and Aaditya Mattoo
- 5876: Effects of licensing reform on firm innovation: evidence from India

- Murat Seker
- 5875: Should cash transfers be confined to the poor ? implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America

- Pablo Acosta, Phillipe Leite and Iamele Rigolini
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