Policy Research Working Paper Series

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192482: Policies for Aspirations and Opportunities

Noel Muller, Anna Fruttero, Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez and Jacobus Joost De Hoop

172983: Early Grade Reading in South Africa

Jesal Chandrakant Kika, Luis A. Crouch, Elizabeth Ninan Dulvy and Tshegofatso Desdemona Thulare

115004: Urbanization and housing investment

Basab Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall and Nancy Lozano Gracia

84893: Where is the carbon tax after thirty years of research ?

Govinda Timilsina

75043: Integrated urban water management: lessons and recommendations from regional experiences in Latin America, Central Asia, and Africa

Alvar Closas, Matthijs Schuring and Diego Rodriguez

69437: Vietnam - Support to carrying out pilot strategic environmental assessment of socio-economic development master plan in Red River Delta area to 2020

Jiri Dusik

69436: Vietnam - Susatinable use of land and water resoruces in regional master socio-economic development planning for the Mekong Delta under the context of Vietnam integration into global economics

Nguyen Van Phuong, Nguyen Van Phuong and Hoang Sy Dong

69434: Vietnam - Analysis, assessment for potential development of the central regional clusters to prepare master planning of socio-economic development in the context of economic integration

Hoang Sy Dong, Nguyen Thi Thu Lan and Nguyen Quang Vinh

50975: Trade in financial services: mobile banking in Southern Africa

Robert Stone, Jerry Grossman, Philippe Breul, Abigail Carpio and Mateo Cabello

44126: Performance improvement planning: designing an effective leakage reduction and management program

Anonymous

44121: Economic impacts of sanitation in Southeast Asia: summary

Anonymous

44119: Performance improvement planning: developing effective billing and collection practices

Anonymous

44093: Change of water and sanitation services management model in small towns with a participatory approach: a summary of guidelines

Jorge Luis McGregor

39690: Health sector decentralization and Indonesia ' s nutrition programs: opportunities and challenges

Yoonjoung Choi, Fadia Saadah, Geoff Marks, Peter F. Heywood and Jed Friedman

32847: Abstracts: Policy Research working papers series - numbers 3540 - 3650

Anonymous

32054: Abstracts: Policy Research working papers series - numbers 3469 - 3539

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31696: Abstracts: Policy Research working papers series - numbers 3399-3468

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30106: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers3348-3398

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29645: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 3237-3347

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28610: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 3171-3236

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28609: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 3135-3170

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27025: Abstracts: Policy research working paper series - numbers 3080-3134

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25747: Abstracts: Policy research working paper series - numbers 2934-3008

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25258: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2883 - 2933

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24927: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2857 - 2882

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24502: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2803 - 2856

Anonymous

23971: Microfinance for infrastructure: recent experiences

Sinha, Shalini [editor], Renana Jhabvala, Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Ela Bhatt, Jayashree Vyas, K. Rajeswara Rao, James P. Lynch, Meera Mehta and Smita Ghatate

23937: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2754 - 2802

Anonymous

23611: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2680 - 2753

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22882: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2568-2618

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22879: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2619-2679

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21990: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2499-2567

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21522: Abstracts: Policy Research working paper series - numbers 2458 - 2498

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21224: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2133-2196

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21223: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2071-2132

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21222: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 1989-2015

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21221: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 1936-1988

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21220: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 1894-1935

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21142: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2363 - 2457

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21028: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2300-2362

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20012: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 2197 - 2261

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19735: Making Time Count: A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Time Use in Low-Income Countries from Physical Activity Tracking Data

Joris Mulder, Seyit Hocuk, Talip Kilic, Alberto Zezza and Pradeep Kumar

17782: Abstracts: policy research working paper series - numbers 1871-1893

Anonymous

14491: Policy research working papers: catalog of numbers 401 to 800

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14411: Policy research working papers: catalog of numbers 801-1200

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14311: PRE working papers: catalog of numbers 401 to 601

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14310: PRE working papers: catalog of numbers 1 to 400

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14309: PPR working papers: catalog of numbers 1 to 105

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13970: Policy research working papers: catalog of numbers 1201-1400

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13310: Policy, Research working paper series: numbers 1281-1302

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10999: Climate Shocks and Their Effects on Food Security, Prices, and Agricultural Wages in Afghanistan

Tosin Kolajo Gbadegesin, Bo Pieter Johannes Andree and Ademola Braimoh

10998: Reforming Land Valuation and Taxation in Ukraine: A Path towards greater Sustainability Fairness, and Transparency

Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Eduard Bukin and Andrii Martyn

10997: Firm Size and Public Investment Multipliers: Micro Evidence from Peru

Guillermo Javier Vuletin, James Sampi and J.T. Araujo

10996: VAT Refunds and Firms’ Performance: Evidence from a Withholding Reform in Honduras

David Pineda Pinto, Jose Carlo Bermúdez and Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda

10995: Impacts of Disasters in Conflict Settings: Evidence from Mozambique and Nigeria

Karima Ben Bih, Chloe Genevieve Helene Desjonqueres, Bramka Arga Jafino, Elodie Blanc and Solene Masson

10994: Local Knowledge, Formal Evidence, and Policy Decisions

Eva Vivalt, Aidan Coville and Sampada Kc

10993: Local Economic Shocks and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Rwandan Coffee Mills

Andrew L. Dabalen, Justice Tei Mensah and Aimable Nsabimana

10992: Testing the Promise of Digital Scaling: In-Person versus App-Based Training for Women Entrepreneurs

Rachel Cassidy, Menaal Fatima Ebrahim and Diego Ubfal

10991: The Only Way Is Up ? Economic Mobility in Malaysia in the 21st Century

Gerton Rongen and Peter Lanjouw

10990: Yield Growth Patterns of Food Commodities: Insights and Challenges

John Baffes and Xiaoli Etienne

10989: GDP-Employment Elasticities across Developing Economies

Constantin Burgi, Shoghik Hovhannisyan and Camilo Mondragon Velez

10988: Global Ripple Effects: Knock-on Effects of EU, US, and China Climate Policies on Developing Countries’ Trade

Enrique Aldaz-Carroll, Euijin Jung, Maryla Maliszewska and Iryna Sikora

10987: Green Is Less Greedy: Competition, Corruption, and Productivity in Green Public Procurement in Bulgaria

Viktoriia Poltoratskaia, Maria Fernanda Quintero, Mihaly Fazekas and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

10986: Global Evolution of Power Market Designs

Elcin Akcura and Emelly Mutambatsere

10985: Firm Linkages and Domestic Value Added in Exports: Moving up the Global Value Chains with High-Speed Railways

Hiau Looi Kee, Enze Xie and Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu

10984: From Fiscal Cyclicality to Fiscal Stress: The Role of Asymmetric Public Consumption Rigidities in Emerging Markets

Daniel Riera-Crichton, Pilar Ruiz Orrico and Guillermo Javier Vuletin

10983: The Potential Cascading Impacts of Climate Change in Cambodia

Hector Pollitt and Migle Petrauskaite

10982: Fiscal Policy’s Role in Economic Resilience to Climate Shocks

Armon Rezai, Franz Ulrich Ruch, Rishabh Choudhary and John Nana Darko Francois

10981: Behaviorally Informed Messages Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions: Insights from a Global Meta-Analysis

Corey Cameron, Jungkyu Rhys Lim, Michelle Dugas, Ellen Elizabeth Moscoe, Mohamad Chatila, Renos Vakis, Zeina Afif, Victor Orozco-Olvera and Daniel Alejandro Pinzon Hernandez

10980: Building Women's Skills for Economic Inclusion and Resilience

Megan Elizabeth Lang and Julia Seither

10979: Reconciling Multi-Level Rights-Based Commitments in Development: Assessing the Legal and Administrative Imperatives of Responding to Education, Health Care, and Environment Protection Challenges

Bernice Nuerkey Narh and Michael Woolcock

10978: Poverty Lines and Spatial Differences in the Cost of Living

Nicola Amendola, Federico Belotti, María Edo, Marco Ranzani and Giovanni Vecchi

10977: High Tariffs, High Stakes: The Policy Drivers behind Firm-Level Adoption of Green Technologies

Samuel Rosenow, Alvaro Raul Espitia Rueda and Ana Margarida Fernandes

10976: A Longitudinal Cross-Country Dataset on Agricultural Productivity and Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Thomas Patrick Bentze and Philip Randolph Wollburg

10975: Maternal Mental Health and Its Influence on Children’s Early Development: Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Mahreen Tahir Chowdhry, Elizabeth Lauren Hentschel, Heather B. Tomlinson, Amna Ansari, Amer Hasan, Aisha Yousafzai and Naveed Hussain

10974: Resolving Puzzles of Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Markets

Ayhan Kose, Jongrim Ha, Dohan Kim and Eswar Prasad

10973: Is There a Gendered Parenthood Penalty in Indonesian Labor Markets?

Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, Ardina Hasanbasri and Fernando Rios-Avila

10972: Are There Jobs for Everyone ? An Analysis of the Relationship between the Employment of Older and Younger Persons in Indonesia

Amanina Binti Abdur Rahman

10971: The Timing versus Allocation Trade-off in Politically Constrained Climate Policies

Adam Michael Bauer, Stephane Hallegatte and Florent McIsaac

10970: Weathering Shocks: Unraveling the Effects of Short-Term Weather Shocks on Poverty in Paraguay

Teresa Janz, Franziska Gassmann and Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin

10969: Afghanistan’s New Economic Landscape: Using Nighttime Lights to Understand the Civilian Economy after 2021

Ivo Teruggi, Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas, Walker Kosmidou-Bradley, Silvia Redaelli and Eigo Tateishi

10968: Is There an Underside to Economic Growth ? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia

M Asadullah, Monica Biradavolu, Vijayendra Rao and Kenneth Simler

10967: Can Facebook Ads Prevent Malaria ? Two Field Experiments in India

Dante Donati, Nandan Rao, Victor Orozco-Olvera and Ana Maria Munoz Boudet

10966: Perceptions of Economic Mobility and Support for Education Reforms

Alexandru Cojocaru, Michael Lokshin and Ivan Torre

10965: Maximizing Output and Government Revenues from Mining in Developing Countries: The Role of Country Political Risk and Investors’ Return, and Implications for the Energy Transition

Graham Davis, Chadi Bou Habib, Gaute Solheim and Martin Lokanc

10964: Yielding Insights: Machine Learning-Driven Imputations to Filling Agricultural Data Gaps

Ismael Yacoubou Djima, Marco Tiberti and Talip Kilic

10963: Optimal Public Sector Premium, Talent Misallocation, and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Jesica Torres Coronado and Francisco Parro

10962: Ancaman Beracun terhadap Sumber Daya Manusia Indonesia: Prevalensi dan Dampak Cat timbal di Rumah Indonesia

William Hutchins Seitz and Imam Setiawan

10961: How Regulations Impact the Labor Market: A Review of the Literatures on Product and Labor Market Regulations

David Alzate, Eliana Carranza, Joana Duran-Franch, Truman G. Packard and Celina Proffen

10960: Prioritizing Heat Mitigation Actions in Indian Cities: A Cost-Benefit Analysis under Climate Change Scenarios

Nicholas K.W. Jones, Asmita Tiwari, Natsuko Kikutake, Sacha Takacs and Niels Souverijns

10959: Is Escaping the Fiscal Pro-Cyclicality Trap Possible ? Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Zeljko Bogetic and Dominik Naeher

10958: Crisis Credit, Employment Protection, Indebtedness, and Risk

Federico Huneeus, Joseph Kaboski, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio Schmukler and Mario Vera

10957: Designing Air Quality Measurement Systems in Data-Scarce Settings

Bridget Hoffmann and Sveta Milusheva

10956: Fading Away Informality by Development

M Nazim Tamkoc

10955: Trade Restructuring: Assessing Labor Market and Welfare Effects

Kaleb Abreha and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

10954: Revisiting Public Investment Multipliers: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Efficiency, and Capital Stock

Amat Adarov, Benedict Clements and Joao Jalles

10953: The Impact of Market Volatility on Hotel Efficiency in Malaysia: Does Hotel Size Matter ?

Mohammad Amin and Nesma Ali

10952: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and 2024 Update

Daniel Kaufmann and Aart C. Kraay