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- 10626: Migration, families, and counterfactual families

- Simone Bertoli, David McKenzie and Elie Murard
- 10625: Asking Better Questions: The Effect of Changing Investment Organizations’ Evaluation Practices on Gender Disparities in Funding Innovation

- Amisha Miller, Saurabh A. Lall, Markus Goldstein and Joao Montalvao
- 10624: Stuck in a Conflict Trap: The Case of the Central African Republic Civil War

- Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon, Vincent Remi Nossek and Diderot Guy D Estaing Sandjong Tomi
- 10623: Energy Price Shocks and Current Account Balances: Evidence from Emerging Market and Developing Economies

- Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Garima Vasishtha and Hakan Yilmazkuday
- 10622: Are the Poorest Catching Up ?

- James Cust, Paul Collier and Lexis Rivera-Ballesteros
- 10621: An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Pierre-Philippe Combes, Clément Gorin, Shohei Nakamura, Mark Roberts and Benjamin P. Stewart
- 10620: Where Is Poverty Concentrated ? New Evidence Based on Internationally Consistent Urban and Poverty Measurements

- Shohei Nakamura, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Robin Moellerherm, Charlotte Genevieve Julka Robert, Mark Roberts, Benjamin Stewart and Slava Yakubenko
- 10619: Counting People Exposed to, Vulnerable to, or at High Risk From Climate Shocks — A Methodology

- Miki Khanh Doan, Ruth Hill, Stephane Hallegatte, Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Ben James Brunckhorst, Minh Nguyen, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez and Esther G. Naikal
- 10618: Changes in Household Dynamics in South Yemen

- Phoebe Saad Wasfy Ishak, Alia Jane Aghajanian and Yashodhan Ghorpade
- 10617: Is Natural Capital a Complement to Human Capital ? Evidence from 46 Countries

- World Bank
- 10616: Updating Poverty in Afghanistan Using the SWIFT-Plus Methodology

- Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas, Parth Chawla, Silvia Redaelli and Nobuo Yoshida
- 10615: Building Public Support for Reducing Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Evidence across 12 Middle-Income Countries

- Christopher Alexander Hoy, Yeon Soo Kim, Minh Nguyen, Mariano Ernesto Sosa and Sailesh Tiwari
- 10614: Reassessing the Impacts of Exports on Local Labor Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective — Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt

- Pablo Antonio Tillan, Deeksha Kokas, Carlos Andre Bezerra De Goes and Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo
- 10613: Too Rare to Dare ? Leveraging Household Surveys to Boost Research on Climate Migration

- Calogero Carletto, Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano, Adriana Paolantonio and Alberto Zezza
- 10612: Impacts of Extremist Ideologies on Refugees' Integration: Evidence from Afghan Refugees in Tajikistan

- Laurent Bossavie, Sandra Rozo and Maria Jose Urbina Florez
- 10611: Forecasting Industrial Commodity Prices: Literature Review and a Model Suite

- Francisco Arroyo Marioli, Jeetendra Khadan, Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge and Takefumi Yamazaki
- 10610: Improving Consumption-Based Tax Compliance: Evidence from Point of Sale Usage in Subnational Governments in Indonesia

- Muhammad Khudadad Chattha, Prabaning Tyas, Naranggi Pramudya Soko and Raka Rizky Fadilla
- 10609: Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa

- Lionel Fontagné, Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Siobhan Murray, Michele Ruta and Gianluca Santoni
- 10608: Indonesia's Informal Economy: Measurement, Evidence, and a Research Agenda

- Christine Marie Jimenez Ablaza, Vinayak Alladi and Utz Pape
- 10607: Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net

- Jeffrey Richard Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis and Harrison Mitchell
- 10606: Containing Tariff Evasion

- Clement Xavier Frederik Anne, Cyril Romain Chalendard, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Bob Rijkers and Vincent Vicard
- 10605: How Have Gender Gaps in the Colombian Labor Market Changed during the Economic Recovery?

- Maria Davalos, Diana Isabel Londono Aguirre and Daniel Medina Gaspar
- 10604: Economic Sentiments and Expectations in Sub-Saharan Africa in a Time of Multiple Shocks

- Philip Randolph Wollburg, Thomas Patrick Bentze and Talip Kilic
- 10603: Digital Payments and the COVID-19 Shock: The Role of Preexisting Conditions in Banking, Infrastructure, Human Capabilities, and Digital Regulation

- Robert J. Cull, Vivien Foster, Dean Jolliffe, Daniel Lederman, Davide Salvatore Mare and Malarvizhi Veerappan
- 10602: Making the Low-Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework Fit for Purpose

- Indermit S. Gill and Brian R. Pinto
- 10601: Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade

- Lucas Zavala, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Ryan Haygood, Tristan Reed and Jose Daniel Reyes
- 10600: Endogenous Institutions and Economic Policy

- James Alan Robinson, Alexander Vostroknutov and Ekaterina Vostroknutova
- 10599: Alternative Paths for Yemen up to 2030: A CGE-Based Simulation Analysis

- Hans Lofgren, Martín Cicowiez and Gianluca Mele
- 10598: MiDES: New Data and Facts from Local Procurement and Budget Execution in Brazil

- Ricardo Dahis, Bernardo Ricca, Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, Nathalia Sales and Lucas Nascimento Moreira
- 10597: Using Large Language Models for Qualitative Analysis can Introduce Serious Bias

- Julian Ashwin, Aditya Chhabra and Vijayendra Rao
- 10596: The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

- Guadalupe Bedoya, Yulia Belyakova, Aidan Coville, Thomas Escande, Mohammad Isaqzadeh and Aminata Ndiaye
- 10595: Exports to Jobs: Morocco’s Trade Patterns and Local Labor Market Outcomes

- Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Daniela Ruiz Zárate
- 10594: A Fish Cartel for Africa

- Gabriel Englander and Christopher Costello
- 10593: Is US Trade Policy Reshaping Global Supply Chains ?

- Caroline Freund, Aaditya Mattoo, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta
- 10592: Assessing the Efficiency and Fairness of the Fit for 55 Package toward Net Zero Emissions under Different Revenue Recycling Schemes for Italy

- Carlo Orecchia, Valerio Ferdinando Cala, Fabiana de Cristofaroa and Hasan Dudu
- 10591: What I Really Want: Policy Maker Views on Education in East Asia Pacific

- Noah Yarrow, Paul Marie Michel Cahu, Mary Breeding and Rythia Afkar
- 10590: The Fine Line between Nudging and Nagging: Increasing Take-up Rates through Social Media Platforms

- Andres Moya, Sandra Rozo and Maria Jose Urbina Florez
- 10589: Health Crisis, Mobility Restrictions, and Group Trade: Evidence from Small-Scale Cross-Border Transactions in the Great Lakes Region

- John C. Keyser, Charles Kunaka and Peter Walkenhorst
- 10588: The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in Iraq

- Beenish Amjad, Maynor Vinicio Cabrera and Lokendra Phadera
- 10587: Labor Market Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza

- Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti
- 10586: Informality in Indonesia: Levels, Trends, and Features

- Indira Maulani Hapsari, Shu Yu, Utz Pape and Wael Mansour
- 10585: Tracing Pandemic Impacts in the Absence of Regular Survey Data: What Have We Learned from the World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys?

- Ben James Brunckhorst, Yeon Soo Kim and Alexandru Cojocaru
- 10584: Business Size, Development, and Inequality in Latin America: A Tale of One Tail

- Marcela Eslava, Marcela Melendez Arjona, Laura Daniela Tenjo Galvis and Nicolas Urdaneta
- 10583: Geospatial Analysis of Displacement in Afghanistan

- Anais Dahmani Scuitti, Erwin Willem Yvonnick Leon Knippenberg, Walker Turnbull Kosmidou-Bradley and Johanna Lee Belanger
- 10582: Capital Controls in Emerging and Developing Economies and the Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy

- Jongrim Ha, Haiqin Liu and John Rogers
- 10581: Trading in Clusters and the Future of Small-Scale Trade in the Borderlands of the Great Lakes Region of Africa

- Célestin B. Bucekuderhwa, Charles Kunaka, Nyembezi Mvunga and Douglas Amuli Ibale
- 10580: Does Informality Depress Investments and Job Recovery ? Firm-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in South Asia

- Arti Goswami Grover and Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez
- 10579: Do Shocks Perpetuate Disparities within and across Informal Firms ? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Asia

- Arti Goswami Grover and Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez
- 10578: Assessing the Success of National Human Rights Action Plans through a Political Economy Lens: The Case of Chile

- Paola Carolina Fajardo Heyward and Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva
- 10577: Reconceptualizing Global Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, with Illustration on Nigerian Data

- Benoit Marie A Decerf and Kikè Fonton
- 10576: Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries

- Eliana Carranza and David McKenzie
- 10575: The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss

- Anikó Bíró, Cecília Hornok, Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz and Ágota Scharle
- 10574: Training Microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental Evidence from Mexico

- Elwyn Davies, Peter Deffebach, Leonardo Iacovone and David McKenzie
- 10573: Effect of a Lottery Intervention on Gender-Based Violence among Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Results from a Randomized Trial

- Rebecca Hémono, Marianna Balampama, Damien B. C. M. De Walque, Sandra Irene Mccoy and William Dow
- 10572: Influence of COVID-19 on Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

- Marianna Balampama, Damien B. C. M. De Walque, William Dow and Rebecca Hémono
- 10571: Effects of a Lottery Incentive on Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Incidence among Female Sex Workers in Tanzania: Results from the RESPECT II Randomized Trial

- Marianna Balampama, Damien B. C. M. De Walque, William Dow and Rebecca Hémono
- 10570: Fiscal Policy Effects on Poverty and Inequality in Cambodia

- Wendy Karamba, Michal Myck, Kajetan Wladyslaw Trzcinski and Kimsun Tong
- 10569: Inequality of Opportunity and Investment Choices

- J. Michelle Brock and Maurizio Bussolo
- 10568: How to Deal with Exchange Rate Risk in Infrastructure and Other Long-Lived Projects

- Luciano de Castro, Claudio R. Frischtak and Arthur Rodrigues
- 10567: Rebel with a Cause: Effects of a Gender Norms Intervention for Adolescents in Somalia

- Rajdev Kaur Brar, Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Munshi Sulaiman
- 10566: Corruption as a Push and Pull Factor of Migration Flows: Evidence from European Countries

- Andrea Bernini, Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez and Mattia Makovec
- 10565: Identifying Skills Needs in Vietnam: The Survey of Detailed Skills

- Julia Granata, Harry Edmund Moroz and Nga Thi Nguyen
- 10564: Policy Uncertainty and Aggregate Fluctuations: Evidence from Emerging and Developed Economies

- Haroon Mumtaz and Franz Ruch
- 10563: Savings Facilitation or Capital Injection ? Impacts and Spillovers of Livelihood Interventions in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire

- Alicia C. Marguerie and Patrick Premand
- 10562: The Resilience of SMEs and Large Firms in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Decomposition Analysis

- Mohammad Amin, Filip Jolevski and Asif Islam
- 10561: The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad

- Remi Jedwab, Federico Haslop, Roman David Zarate Vasquez and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
- 10560: Women’s Empowerment and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Burkina Faso

- Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema and Monsoi Kenneth Colombiano Kponou
- 10559: Machine Learning Imputation of High Frequency Price Surveys in Papua New Guinea

- Bo Andree and Utz Pape
- 10558: Could Sustainability-Linked Bonds Incentivize Lower Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon ?

- Dieter Wang, Bryan O'Reilly Gurhy, Marek Hanusch and Philipp Kollenda
- 10557: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Firm Performance in Central Asia: The Role of Export Links and Digital Gains

- Nicolo Dalvit, Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias, Martin Melecký and Nithya Srinivasan
- 10556: Masters of Disasters: The Heterogeneous Effects of a Crisis on Micro-Sized Firms

- Arlan Zandro Ilagan Brucal and Arti Goswami Grover
- 10555: The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

- Abhishek Arora, Siddharth George, Vijayendra Rao and Mr Sharan
- 10554: Anticipation, Disappointment and Adaptation: Evidence from a Home Upgrading Project

- Xavier Gine, Meritxell Martinez Ruiz and Virginia Melo
- 10553: A Spatial Perspective on Booms and Busts: Evidence from Türkiye

- Javier Eduardo Baez Ramirez, Cigdem Celik and Varun Sridhar Kshirsagar
- 10552: Greener Is Not Always Pricier: Ecolabeling and Price Premium in the Tourism Industry

- Ridwan Bolaji Bello, Olanrewaju Malik Kassim and Sodiq Oladayo Bello
- 10551: A Climate-Fiscal Policy Mix to Achieve Türkiye’s Net-Zero Ambition under Feasibility Constraints

- Christian Schoder and Remzi Baris Tercioglu
- 10550: The Rough Road to Services and Livelihood Opportunities in Rural Haiti and the Added Impact of Natural Disasters

- Aiga Stokenberga, Cecilia Nallely Escalante Hernandez, Karla Dominguez Gonzalez, Xavier Espinet Alegre and Malaika Becoulet
- 10549: Does Food Insecurity Hinder Migration ? Experimental Evidence from the Indian Public Distribution System

- Travis Baseler, Ambar Narayan, Odyssia Sophie Si Jia Ng and Sutirtha Sinha Roy
- 10548: Ayollarga nisbatan ish haqini kamsitish uchun imtiyozlar

- William Hutchins Seitz
- 10547: Fiscal Policy as a Tool for Gender Equity in El Salvador

- Monica Robayo-Abril, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Jose Andres Oliva Cepeda
- 10546: Assessing the Effectiveness of Social Protection Measures in Mitigating COVID-19-Related Income Shocks in the European Union

- Katrin Gasior, H. Xavier Jara and Mattia Makovec
- 10545: Learning from Self and Learning from Others: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

- Florence Kondylis, John Ashton Loeser, Mushfiq Mobarak, Maria Ruth Jones and Daniel Kevin Stein
- 10544: Missing SDG Gender Indicators

- Kathleen G. Beegle, Umar Serajuddin, Brian William Stacy and Divyanshi Wadhwa
- 10543: The Value of Information in a Congested Fishery

- Aaron Gabriel Ratliffe Englander, Larry Karp and Leo Simon
- 10542: Evaluation of Educational Loss in Europe and Central Asia

- Harry Patrinos, Maciej Jan Jakubowski and Tomasz Janusz Gajderowicz
- 10541: Seasonal Deprivation in the Sahel Is Large, Widespread, and Can Be Anticipated

- Jonathan William Lain and Stephanie Brunelin
- 10540: Rule-Based Civil Service: Evidence from a Nationwide Teacher Reform in Mexico

- Juan Bedoya, Rafael E. De Hoyos Navarro and Ricardo Estrada
- 10539: Reducing Carbon using Regulatory and Financial Market Tools

- Franklin Allen, Adelina Barbalau and Federica Zeni
- 10538: Fiscal Policy and Equity: Vietnam 2018 Fiscal Incidence Analysis

- Laura Kiku Rodriguez Takeuchi, Kajetan Wladyslaw Trzcinski and Matthew Grant Wai-Poi
- 10537: Services Trade Policies across Africa: New Evidence for 54 Economies

- Laura Baiker, Ingo Borchert, Joscelyn Magdeleine and Juan Marchetti
- 10536: Plant Closings and the Labor Market Outcomes of Displaced Workers: Evidence from Mexico

- Francisco Javier Arias Vazquez and Daniel Lederman
- 10535: Disastrous Displacement: The Long-Run Impacts of Landslides

- Travis Baseler and Jakob Johannes Hennig
- 10534: Agglomeration Economies and Transport Connectivity Revisited: A Regional Perspective Based on Evidence from the Caucasus and Central Asian Countries

- Atsushi Iimi
- 10533: Estimating Road Freight Transport Costs in Eastern Europe and Central AsiaUsing Large Shipping Data

- Atsushi Iimi
- 10532: Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization

- Diana Goldemberg, Luke Simon Jordan and Thomas Kenyon
- 10531: Trading Places: Fundamentals, Speculation, and Information in US Corn Markets

- Francisco Arroyo Marioli
- 10530: The Welfare Effects of Structural Change and Internal Migration in Tanzania

- Akuffo Amankwah, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Goodiel Charles Moshi and Rob Swinkels
- 10529: Is the Magic Happening ? A Systematic Literature Review of the Economic Multiplier of Cash Transfers

- Franziska Gassmann, Ugo Gentilini, Julieta Morais, Conrad Nunnenmacher, Yuko Okamura, Giulio Bordon and Giorgia Valleriani
- 10528: Moving to Adaptation ? Understanding the Migratory Response to Hurricanes in the United States

- Arnold Behrer and Valentin Bolotnyy
- 10527: The Distributional Impact of Inflation in South Asia: An Empirical Approach

- Vanessa-Paradis Olakemi Dovonou Lamissi and Zoe Xie
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