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10626: Migration, families, and counterfactual families Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Garima Vasishtha and Hakan Yilmazkuday
10622: Are the Poorest Catching Up ? Downloads
James Cust, Paul Collier and Lexis Rivera-Ballesteros
10621: An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Phoebe Saad Wasfy Ishak, Alia Jane Aghajanian and Yashodhan Ghorpade
10617: Is Natural Capital a Complement to Human Capital ? Evidence from 46 Countries Downloads
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10616: Updating Poverty in Afghanistan Using the SWIFT-Plus Methodology Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Laurent Bossavie, Sandra Rozo and Maria Jose Urbina Florez
10611: Forecasting Industrial Commodity Prices: Literature Review and a Model Suite Downloads
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 Downloads
Muhammad Khudadad Chattha, Prabaning Tyas, Naranggi Pramudya Soko and Raka Rizky Fadilla
10609: Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa Downloads
Lionel Fontagné, Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Siobhan Murray, Michele Ruta and Gianluca Santoni
10608: Indonesia's Informal Economy: Measurement, Evidence, and a Research Agenda Downloads
Christine Marie Jimenez Ablaza, Vinayak Alladi and Utz Pape
10607: Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net Downloads
Jeffrey Richard Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis and Harrison Mitchell
10606: Containing Tariff Evasion Downloads
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? Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Indermit S. Gill and Brian R. Pinto
10601: Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade Downloads
Lucas Zavala, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Ryan Haygood, Tristan Reed and Jose Daniel Reyes
10600: Endogenous Institutions and Economic Policy Downloads
James Alan Robinson, Alexander Vostroknutov and Ekaterina Vostroknutova
10599: Alternative Paths for Yemen up to 2030: A CGE-Based Simulation Analysis Downloads
Hans Lofgren, Martín Cicowiez and Gianluca Mele
10598: MiDES: New Data and Facts from Local Procurement and Budget Execution in Brazil Downloads
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 Downloads
Julian Ashwin, Aditya Chhabra and Vijayendra Rao
10596: The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan Downloads
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 Downloads
Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Daniela Ruiz Zárate
10594: A Fish Cartel for Africa Downloads
Gabriel Englander and Christopher Costello
10593: Is US Trade Policy Reshaping Global Supply Chains ? Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
John C. Keyser, Charles Kunaka and Peter Walkenhorst
10588: The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in Iraq Downloads
Beenish Amjad, Maynor Vinicio Cabrera and Lokendra Phadera
10587: Labor Market Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza Downloads
Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti
10586: Informality in Indonesia: Levels, Trends, and Features Downloads
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? Downloads
Ben James Brunckhorst, Yeon Soo Kim and Alexandru Cojocaru
10584: Business Size, Development, and Inequality in Latin America: A Tale of One Tail Downloads
Marcela Eslava, Marcela Melendez Arjona, Laura Daniela Tenjo Galvis and Nicolas Urdaneta
10583: Geospatial Analysis of Displacement in Afghanistan Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Paola Carolina Fajardo Heyward and Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva
10577: Reconceptualizing Global Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, with Illustration on Nigerian Data Downloads
Benoit Marie A Decerf and Kikè Fonton
10576: Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries Downloads
Eliana Carranza and David McKenzie
10575: The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss Downloads
Anikó Bíró, Cecília Hornok, Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz and Ágota Scharle
10574: Training Microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental Evidence from Mexico Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Marianna Balampama, Damien B. C. M. De Walque, William Dow and Rebecca Hémono
10570: Fiscal Policy Effects on Poverty and Inequality in Cambodia Downloads
Wendy Karamba, Michal Myck, Kajetan Wladyslaw Trzcinski and Kimsun Tong
10569: Inequality of Opportunity and Investment Choices Downloads
J. Michelle Brock and Maurizio Bussolo
10568: How to Deal with Exchange Rate Risk in Infrastructure and Other Long-Lived Projects Downloads
Luciano de Castro, Claudio R. Frischtak and Arthur Rodrigues
10567: Rebel with a Cause: Effects of a Gender Norms Intervention for Adolescents in Somalia Downloads
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 Downloads
Andrea Bernini, Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez and Mattia Makovec
10565: Identifying Skills Needs in Vietnam: The Survey of Detailed Skills Downloads
Julia Granata, Harry Edmund Moroz and Nga Thi Nguyen
10564: Policy Uncertainty and Aggregate Fluctuations: Evidence from Emerging and Developed Economies Downloads
Haroon Mumtaz and Franz Ruch
10563: Savings Facilitation or Capital Injection ? Impacts and Spillovers of Livelihood Interventions in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire Downloads
Alicia C. Marguerie and Patrick Premand
10562: The Resilience of SMEs and Large Firms in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Decomposition Analysis Downloads
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 Downloads
Remi Jedwab, Federico Haslop, Roman David Zarate Vasquez and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
10560: Women’s Empowerment and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Burkina Faso Downloads
Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema and Monsoi Kenneth Colombiano Kponou
10559: Machine Learning Imputation of High Frequency Price Surveys in Papua New Guinea Downloads
Bo Andree and Utz Pape
10558: Could Sustainability-Linked Bonds Incentivize Lower Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon ? Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Arlan Zandro Ilagan Brucal and Arti Goswami Grover
10555: The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India Downloads
Abhishek Arora, Siddharth George, Vijayendra Rao and Mr Sharan
10554: Anticipation, Disappointment and Adaptation: Evidence from a Home Upgrading Project Downloads
Xavier Gine, Meritxell Martinez Ruiz and Virginia Melo
10553: A Spatial Perspective on Booms and Busts: Evidence from Türkiye Downloads
Javier Eduardo Baez Ramirez, Cigdem Celik and Varun Sridhar Kshirsagar
10552: Greener Is Not Always Pricier: Ecolabeling and Price Premium in the Tourism Industry Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Travis Baseler, Ambar Narayan, Odyssia Sophie Si Jia Ng and Sutirtha Sinha Roy
10548: Ayollarga nisbatan ish haqini kamsitish uchun imtiyozlar Downloads
William Hutchins Seitz
10547: Fiscal Policy as a Tool for Gender Equity in El Salvador Downloads
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 Downloads
Katrin Gasior, H. Xavier Jara and Mattia Makovec
10545: Learning from Self and Learning from Others: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh Downloads
Florence Kondylis, John Ashton Loeser, Mushfiq Mobarak, Maria Ruth Jones and Daniel Kevin Stein
10544: Missing SDG Gender Indicators Downloads
Kathleen G. Beegle, Umar Serajuddin, Brian William Stacy and Divyanshi Wadhwa
10543: The Value of Information in a Congested Fishery Downloads
Aaron Gabriel Ratliffe Englander, Larry Karp and Leo Simon
10542: Evaluation of Educational Loss in Europe and Central Asia Downloads
Harry Patrinos, Maciej Jan Jakubowski and Tomasz Janusz Gajderowicz
10541: Seasonal Deprivation in the Sahel Is Large, Widespread, and Can Be Anticipated Downloads
Jonathan William Lain and Stephanie Brunelin
10540: Rule-Based Civil Service: Evidence from a Nationwide Teacher Reform in Mexico Downloads
Juan Bedoya, Rafael E. De Hoyos Navarro and Ricardo Estrada
10539: Reducing Carbon using Regulatory and Financial Market Tools Downloads
Franklin Allen, Adelina Barbalau and Federica Zeni
10538: Fiscal Policy and Equity: Vietnam 2018 Fiscal Incidence Analysis Downloads
Laura Kiku Rodriguez Takeuchi, Kajetan Wladyslaw Trzcinski and Matthew Grant Wai-Poi
10537: Services Trade Policies across Africa: New Evidence for 54 Economies Downloads
Laura Baiker, Ingo Borchert, Joscelyn Magdeleine and Juan Marchetti
10536: Plant Closings and the Labor Market Outcomes of Displaced Workers: Evidence from Mexico Downloads
Francisco Javier Arias Vazquez and Daniel Lederman
10535: Disastrous Displacement: The Long-Run Impacts of Landslides Downloads
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 Downloads
Atsushi Iimi
10533: Estimating Road Freight Transport Costs in Eastern Europe and Central AsiaUsing Large Shipping Data Downloads
Atsushi Iimi
10532: Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization Downloads
Diana Goldemberg, Luke Simon Jordan and Thomas Kenyon
10531: Trading Places: Fundamentals, Speculation, and Information in US Corn Markets Downloads
Francisco Arroyo Marioli
10530: The Welfare Effects of Structural Change and Internal Migration in Tanzania Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Arnold Behrer and Valentin Bolotnyy
10527: The Distributional Impact of Inflation in South Asia: An Empirical Approach Downloads
Vanessa-Paradis Olakemi Dovonou Lamissi and Zoe Xie
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