Report NEP-DEV-2020-07-20

This is the archive for NEP-DEV, a report on new working papers in the area of Development. Jacob A. Jordaan issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Wendy Janssens & Menno Pradhan & Richard de Groot & Estelle Sidze & Hermann Donfouet & Amanuel Abajobir, 2020. "The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 and risk-coping strategies of low-income households in Kenya: A rapid analysis using weekly financial household data," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 20-040/V, Tinbergen Institute.
• Aziz Atamanov & Christoph Lakner & Daniel Gerszon Mahler & Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah & Judy Yang, 2020. "The Effect of New PPP Estimates on Global Poverty: A First Look," Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note Series 12, The World Bank.
• Richard Bluhm & Axel Dreher & Andreas Fuchs & Bradley C. Parks & Austin M. Strange & Michael J. Tierney, 2020. "Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries," CESifo Working Paper Series 8344, CESifo.
• Christoph Lakner & Daniel Gerszon Mahler & Mario Negre & Espen Beer Prydz, 2020. "How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty?," Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note Series 13, The World Bank.
• Andrew Kerr & Bruce McDougall, 2020. "What is a firm census in a developing country? An answer from Ghana," CSAE Working Paper Series 2020-11, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
• Neryvia Pillay Bell, 2020. "The impacts of unconditional cash transfers on schooling in adolescence and young adulthood: Evidence from South Africa," Working Papers 821, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Raghunathan, Kalyani & Kumar, Neha & Gupta, Shivani & Chauhan, Tarana & Kathuria, Ashi Kohli & Menon, Purnima, 2020. "Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar," IFPRI discussion papers 1936, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
• Juliana Yael Milovich & Elena Villar, 2020. "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child. Impact Evaluation of the Training for Volunteers in Health and the Nutritional Recovery Cycles in West Guatemala," EconomiX Working Papers 2020-14, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.
• Anushree Sinha & Astha Sen & Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal, 2019. "Enrolment of girl children in secondary schools in Rajasthan- A district level analysis," NCAER Working Papers 117, National Council of Applied Economic Research.
• Lara Cockx & Liesbeth Colen & Joachim De Weerdt & Sergio Gomez Y Paloma, 2019. "Urbanization as a driver of changing food demand in Africa: Evidence from rural-urban migration in Tanzania," JRC Research Reports JRC107918, Joint Research Centre.
• Chattopadhyay, Mriduchhanda & Arimura, Toshi H. & 有村, 俊秀 & Katayama, Hajime & 片山, 東 & Sakudo, Mari & 作道, 真理 & Yokoo, Hide-Fumi & 横尾, 英史, 2020. "Subjective Probabilistic Expectations, Household Air Pollution, and Health: Evidence from cooking fuel use patterns in India," Discussion Papers 2020-05, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.
• Isabelle Guérin & Sébastien Michiels & Arnaud Natal & Christophe Jalil Nordman & Govindan Venkatasubramanian, 2020. "Surviving debt, survival debt in times of lockdown," Working Papers CEB 20-009, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
• Díaz Serrano, Lluís, 2020. "The Duration of Compulsory Education and the Transition to Secondary Education: Panel Data Evidence from Low-Income Countries," Working Papers 2072/376037, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
• Rasmané Ouedraogo & Amadou N Sy, 2020. "Can Digitalization Help Deter Corruption in Africa?," IMF Working Papers 20/68, International Monetary Fund.
• Chalmers Mulwa & Martine Visser & Milu Muyanga & Thomas S. Jayne, 2020. "Emergent large traders in smallholder grain markets and their role in enhancing adoption of sustainable agricultural intensification practices in Kenya," Working Papers 812, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Takeshima, Hiroyuki & Kumar, Anjani, 2020. "Changing returns-to-scale and deepening of factor-endowments-induced specialization: Exploring broader linkage between agricultural mechanization and agricultural transformation in Nepal," IFPRI discussion papers 1934, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
• Ahmed Elsayed & Olivier Marie, 2020. "Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 20-037/V, Tinbergen Institute.
• Afkar,Rythia & Yarrow,Noah Bunce & Surbakti,Soedarti & Cooper,Rachel Danielle, 2020. "Inclusion in Indonesia's Education Sector : A Subnational Review of Gender Gaps and Children with Disabilities," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9282, The World Bank.
• Helena Ting & Martina Bozzola & Timothy Swanson, 2020. "Evaluating the propensity to save in South Africa using weather-income relationship," CIES Research Paper series 49-2017, Centre for International Environmental Studies, The Graduate Institute.
• Chowdhury, Shyamal K. & Hoque, Mohammad Mainul & Rashid, Shahidur & Bin Khaled, Muhammad Nahian, 2020. "Targeting errors and leakage in a large-scale in-kind transfer program: The food friendly program in Bangladesh as an example," IFPRI discussion papers 1935, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
• Asim,Salman & Riaz,Amina, 2020. "Community Engagement in Schools : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9280, The World Bank.
• Hamed Sambo, 2020. "Effect of migration on the food security of households left behind: Evidence from Ethiopia," CEPN Working Papers 2020-05, Centre d'Economie de l'Université de Paris Nord.