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- 10587: Labor Market Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza

- Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Youssef Louis William 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 Kike Yra Fonton
- 10576: Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries

- Eliana Carranza and David J. 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 Adriaan Robin Davies, Peter William Deffebach, Leonardo Iacovone and David J. 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

- World Bank
- 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 Robertus A 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 Leiyu Xie
- 10526: Mobile Phones and Local Economic Development: A Global Evidence

- Justice Tei Mensah
- 10525: Global Trends in Child Monetary Poverty According to International Poverty Lines

- Daylan Alberto Salmeron Gomez, Solrun Engilbertsdottir, Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva, David Newhouse and David Stewart
- 10524: Religious Terrorism, Forced Migration, and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency

- Paola Elice, Fernanda Martínez Flores and Arndt Rudiger Reichert
- 10523: Issuer Composition and Stock Market Growth

- Djeneba Doumbia, Imtiaz Ul Haq and Valentina Saltane
- 10522: Buy Big or Buy Small ? Procurement Policies, Firms’ Financing, and the Macroeconomy

- Julian di Giovanni, Manuel Jose Garcia Santana, Priit Jeenas, Enrique Moral Benito and Josep Pijoan-Mas
- 10521: The Monetary Value of Externalities: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Farmers

- Benedetta Lerva
- 10520: Revisiting the Distributive Impacts of Fiscal Policy in Colombia

- Juan Pablo Baquero, Maria Eugenia Davalos and Juan Manuel Monroy Barragan
- 10519: An Axiomatic Study Contrasting the Two Main Poverty Line Rules

- Benoit Marie A Decerf
- 10518: Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and Trade Shocks

- Carlos Andre Bezerra De Goes, Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo and Raymond Robertson
- 10517: Green Transmission: Context, Rationale, and Planning Methodology

- Debabrata Chattopadhyay and Durreh Tabassum
- 10516: Steered Away from the Fields: Short-Term Impacts of Oxen on Agricultural Production and Intra-household Labor Supply

- Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Aletheia Donald and Lea Marie Rouanet
- 10515: Air Pollution Reduces Economic Activity: Evidence from India

- Arnold Behrer, Rishabh Choudhary and Dhruv Sharma
- 10514: Firms in Global Value Chains during Covid-19: Evidence from Indonesia

- Devaki Ghose and Angella Montfaucon
- 10513: The Internationalization of China’s Equity Markets

- Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Maria Martinez Peria, Sergio Schmukler and Jasmine Xiao
- 10512: Small Area Estimation of Poverty and Wealth Using Geospatial Data: What Have We Learned So Far ?

- David Newhouse
- 10511: Experimental Evaluation of a Financial Education Program in Elementary and Middle School Grades

- Caio Piza, Isabela Brandao Furtado and Vivian De Fatima Amorim
- 10510: Power Constraints and Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in Developing Countries

- Ablam Estel Apeti and Alpha Ly
- 10509: Female-Worker Representation Effect: Gender Pay Variation in the Kuwaiti Civil Service

- Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Simon Bilo, Ha Nguyen, Ebtesam AlAnsari, Lama AlHumaidan and Faleh M F E Alrashidi
- 10508: Over-Drilling: Local Externalities and the Social Cost of Electricity Subsidies for Groundwater Pumping

- Jesus Bueren, Xavier Gine, Hanan Jacoby and Pedro Mira
- 10507: Violent Discipline and Parental Behavior: Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers

- Lelys Ileana Dinarte Diaz, Saravana Ravindran, Manisha Shah, Shawn Michael Powers and Helen Baker-Henningham
- 10506: Who Should Drive Green Technology Transitions in Developing Countries: State-Owned Enterprises versus Private Firms

- Prudence Zowadan Dato, Frank Krysiak, Christian Nolde and Govinda R. Timilsina
- 10505: (Perceptions of) Inequality, Demand for Redistribution, and Group-Specific Public Goods: A Survey Experiment in India

- Maurizio Bussolo and Akshay Govind Dixit
- 10504: Natural Disaster, Infrastructure, and Income Distribution: Empirical Evidence from Global Data

- Ze Song, Gal Hochman and Govinda R. Timilsina
- 10503: Psychology, Skills, or Cash ? Evidence on Complementary Investments for Anti-Poverty Programs

- Megan Elizabeth Lang, Edward Soule and Catherine H. Tinsley
- 10502: How Prevalent Are Credit-Constrained Firms in the Formal Private Sector ? Evidence Using Global Surveys

- Asif Islam and Jorge Luis Rodriguez Meza
- 10501: A Survey of Judicial Effectiveness: The Last Quarter Century of Empirical Evidence

- Erica Bosio
- 10500: Corporate Responses to Size-Based Tax Rates in Lithuania

- Pablo Garriga and Thiago Scot
- 10499: The Early Career Dynamics of Informality and Underemployment: Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt

- Samia Ferhat and Clement Jean Edouard Joubert
- 10498: Learning Poverty at the Local Level in Colombia

- Gabriel Demombynes
- 10497: Considering Labor Informality in Forecasting Poverty and Inequality: A Microsimulation Model for Latin American and Caribbean Countries

- Kelly Montoya Muñoz, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Cicero Augusto Silveira Braga
- 10496: The Impact of the Transition and EU Membership on the Returns to Schooling in Europe

- Harry Patrinos and Angelica Rivera-Olvera
- 10495: Poverty and Inequality Implications of Fiscal Policies: The Case of Brazil

- Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Maynor Cabrera, Otavio Canozzi Conceicao and Ricardo Campante Cardoso Vale
- 10494: A Tale of Two Surveys: Comparing the Outcomes of an In-Person and Web-Based Survey of Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza

- Arden Jeremy Finn, Jessica Marie Anderson and Alia Jane Aghajanian
- 10493: Why Do People Move across State Borders ? Evidence from Mexico

- Trinidad Berenice Saavedra Facusse and Gabriela Inchauste
- 10492: Filling the Gaps: Childcare Laws for Women's Economic Empowerment

- S Anukriti, Lelys Ileana Dinarte Diaz, Marina Elefante, Maria Montoya Aguirre and Alena Sakhonchik
- 10491: The Economic Effects of Market Integration in the Western Balkans

- Maria Del Mar Gomez Ortiz, Roman David Zarate Vasquez and Daria Taglioni
- 10490: Trade Elasticities in Aggregate Models: Estimates for 191 Countries

- Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go and Sherman Robinson
- 10489: Returns to Soft Skills Training in Rwanda

- Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman and Diego Ubfal
- 10488: How Do Agricultural Import Tariffs Affect Men and Women Smallholders ? Evidence from Bangladesh

- Gayatri B. Koolwal, Caren Grown and Nasiruddin Ahmed
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