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- wp-2022-175 The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil
by Yuri Barreto & Rodrigo Oliveira
- wp-2022-174 The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis
by Katrin Gasior & Iva V. Tasseva & Gemma Wright
- wp-2022-173 The impact of COVID-19 on urban informal workers in Maputo
by Nilifer Anaç & Eva-Maria Egger & Sam Jones & Ricardo Santos & Alex Warren-Rodriguez
- wp-2022-172 Savings transition in Asia: Unity in diversity
by Prema-chandra Athukorala & Wanissa Suanin
- wp-2022-171 The state and the 'legalization' of illicit financial flows: Trading gold in Bolivia
by Fritz Brugger & Joschka Proksik & Felicitas Fischer
- wp-2022-170 Marine mining and its potential implications for low- and middle-income countries
by Anton Löf & Magnus Ericsson & Olof Löf
- wp-2022-169 Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in Mozambique
by Margherita Squarcina & Eva-Maria Egger
- wp-2022-168 Don't rock the boat? Fears of conflict and support for protest in Iraq and beyond
by Daniel Silverman & Karl Kaltenthaler & Mujtaba Ali Isani
- wp-2022-167 The making (and unmaking) of Uganda's ethnic-based decentralization programme
by Adventino Banjwa
- wp-2022-166 Determinants of domestic savings in Tanzania: Empirical evidence
by Maureen Were & Cornel Joseph
- wp-2022-165 Structural features of the Mozambique economy through the lens of a 2019 social accounting matrix
by Sam Jones & Enilde Sarmento & Dirk van Seventer & Finn Tarp
- wp-2022-164 Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban Mozambique
by Jana Bischler & Eva-Maria Egger & Paul Jasper & Ivan Manhique
- wp-2022-163 The loser's long curse: electoral consequences of a class conflict
by Jaakko Meriläinen & Matti Mitrunen
- wp-2022-162 Herding, rent-seeking taxpayers, and endemic corruption
by Gil S. Epstein & Ira N. Gang
- wp-2022-161 Tax-benefit responses in Uruguay during the COVID-19 pandemic
by Verónica Amarante & Federico Scalese
- wp-2022-160 Evidence on aid (in)effectiveness in highly fragile states: A synthesis of three systematic reviews of aid to Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan, 2008-21
by Christoph Zürcher
- wp-2022-159 Public savings in Africa: Do sovereign wealth funds serve development?
by Tony Addison & Amir Lebdioui
- wp-2022-158 Inequality configurations
by Letícia Barbabela & Miquel Pellicer & Eva Wegner
- wp-2022-157 The legacy of church-state conflict: Evidence from Nazi repression of Catholic priests
by Leonid Peisakhin & Didac Queralt
- wp-2022-156 A look offshore: unpacking the routes of misinvoicing in international trade
by Catalin Dragomirescu-Gaina & Leandro Elia
- wp-2022-155 The link between public debt and public investment in Tanzania
by Maureen Were & Lorah Madete
- wp-2022-154 States of disorder: An ecosystems approach to state-building in conflict-affected countries
by Adam Day
- wp-2022-153 Climate vulnerability and government resource mobilization in developing countries
by Pierre Christian Tsopmo & Suzie Imelda Foudjo & Michelle Josée Ekila Elanga
- wp-2022-152 Trust the hand that protects you—Does UN peacekeeping harm post-conflict governments' legitimacy?
by Jessica Di Salvatore
- wp-2022-151 The evolution of inequality in Mozambique: 1996/97-2019/20
by Giulia Barletta & Maimuna Ibraimo & Vincenzo Salvucci & Enilde Sarmento & Finn Tarp
- wp-2022-150 Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement: Evidence from India
by Vinitha Varghese
- wp-2022-149 Development narratives in a post-aid era: Reflections on implications for the global effectiveness agenda
by Nilima Gulrajani
- wp-2022-148 Elite murder and popular resistance: Evidence from post-World War II Poland
by Krzysztof Krakowski & Max Schaub
- wp-2022-147 Hidden hostility: donor attention and political violence
by Siwan Anderson & Patrick Francois & Dominic Rohner & Rogerio Santarrosa
- wp-2022-146 Humanity over economy: biopolitical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
by James McKeown
- wp-2022-145 Civil wars and stumbling of patriarchal societies: The reconstruction of gender relations in post-conflict Liberia
by Augustine T. Larmin & Daniel K. Banini
- wp-2022-144 A fiscal approach to the social contract in sub-Saharan African countries: Looking for opportunities to strengthen trust in government and tax compliance by analysing citizens' perception of governance
by Enrico Nichelatti & Heikki Hiilamo
- wp-2022-143 Distributional impacts of agricultural policies in Zambia: A microsimulation approach
by Katrin Gasior & Silvia Navarro & Jukka Pirttilä & Mari Kangasniemi
- wp-2022-142 Political representation in the wake of ethnic violence and post-conflict institutional reform: Comparing views from Rwandan and Burundian citizens
by Bert Ingelaere & Réginas Ndayiragije & Marijke Verpoorten
- wp-2022-141 Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes?: Evidence from household panel data in Uganda
by Lynda Pickbourn & Raymond Caraher & Léonce Ndikumana
- wp-2022-140 Good for now but not forever: officials' perspectives on the relevance of the effectiveness agenda and the need for change
by Rachael Calleja & Beata Cichocka
- wp-2022-139 Foreign aid and intergenerational mobility in Africa
by Ali Compaoré & Roukiatou Nikièma & Rasmané Ouédraogo
- wp-2022-138 Elite incomes around the world: Command over tradables, non-tradables, and people
by Paul Segal & Michail Moatsos
- wp-2022-137 Between victory and statehood: Armed violence in post-war Abkhazia
by Anastasia Shesterinina
- wp-2022-136 The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru
by Guillermo Kreiman
- wp-2022-135 Trust as state capacity: The political economy of compliance
by Timothy Besley & Sacha Dray
- wp-2022-134 Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India
by Shreyasee Das & Shatanjaya Dasgupta
- wp-2022-133 Tax provisioning by extractive industry multinational subsidiaries
by Khanindra Ch. Das
- wp-2022-132 The determinants of domestic saving in Kenya
by Rodgers Musamali & Cecilia Mutia & Rose W. Ngugi
- wp-2022-131 Looking ahead to COP27—from climate pledges to action: The Global Methane Pledge—opportunities and risks
by Etienne Romsom & Kathryn McPhail
- wp-2022-130 Rebel governance during COVID-19: Describing and explaining armed groups' response to the pandemic in the Middle East
by Marta Furlan
- wp-2022-129 The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
by Idrissa Ouedraogo & Issa Dianda & Pegdwende Patrik Ouedraogo & Rodrigue Tiraogo Ouedraogo & Bassirou Konfe
- wp-2022-128 Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children: Lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte d'Ivoire
by Arnab K. Basu & Ralitza Dimova & Monnet Gbakou & Romane Viennet
- wp-2022-127 Social protection floor gaps and pandemic relief measures: a case for universalism?: Exploring scalability through targeted versus universalist approaches
by Annalena Oppel
- wp-2022-126 Mothers at peace: post-conflict fertility and United Nations peacekeeping
by Vincenzo Bove & Jessica Di Salvatore & Leandro Elia & Roberto Nisticò
- wp-2022-125 The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
by David Rodríguez & H. Xavier Jara & Mariana Dondo & Cristina Arancibia & David Macas & Rebeca Riella & Joana Urraburu & Linda Llamas & Luis Huesca & Javier Torres & Rodrigo Chang
- wp-2022-124 A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa: Individual impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive
by Amina Ebrahim & Jukka Pirttilä
- wp-2022-123 Understanding Somalia's social contract and state-building efforts: Consequences for donor interventions
by Mathieu Cloutier & Hodan Hassan & Deborah Isser & Gaël Raballand
- wp-2022-122 Can fungibility of development aid lead to more effective achievement of the SDGs?: An analysis of the aggregate welfare effect of aid fungibility
by Zunera Rana & Dirk-Jan Koch
- wp-2022-121 Global profit shifting, 1975-2019
by Ludvig Wier & Gabriel Zucman
- wp-2022-120 Domestic revenue mobilization and informality: Challenges and opportunities for sub-Saharan Africa
by Abel Gwaindepi
- wp-2022-119 Other Backward Classes and the politics of reservations in India: Past and present
by Zoya Hasan
- wp-2022-118 Law enforcement and illegal markets: Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil
by André Mancha
- wp-2022-117 Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in Africa
by Abdul Malik Iddrisu & Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel Karakara & Evans S. Osabuohien
- wp-2022-116 So close and yet so far: the ability of mandatory disclosure rules to crack down on offshore tax evasion
by Elisa Casi & Mohammed Mardan & Rohit Reddy Muddasani
- wp-2022-115 Unravelling Africa's raw material footprints and their drivers
by Albert Kwame Osei-Owusu & Michael Danquah & Edgar Towa
- wp-2022-114 The effect of wage subsidies on job retention: Evidence from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
by Timothy Köhler & Robert Hill & Haroon Bhorat
- wp-2022-113 Ethnic inequality, the federal character principle, and the reform of Nigeria's presidential federalism
by Rotimi T. Suberu
- wp-2022-112 Capital markets in sub-Saharan Africa
by Githinji Njenga & Josphat Machagua & Samwel Gachanja
- wp-2022-111 Impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and aid packages: Evidence from Viet Nam
by Cuong Viet Nguyen
- wp-2022-110 Growth and inequality convergence: the role of environmentally related impacts on human capital
by Angela Cindy Emefa Mensah & Edward B. Barbier
- wp-2022-109 The COVID-19 pandemic and poor women's agency: A case of domestic workers in Delhi
by Deepita Chakravarty & Nandini Nayak
- wp-2022-108 Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers: Evidence from COVID-19
by Sam Jones & Ivan Manhique
- wp-2022-107 Aid, taxes, and government spending: A heterogeneous co-integrated panel analysis
by Abrams M.E. Tagem
- wp-2022-106 The social consequences of organized crime in Italy
by Pierfrancesco Rolla & Patricia Justino
- wp-2022-105 Who was impacted and how? COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in India
by Mrinalini Jha & Rahul Lahoti
- wp-2022-104 The politics of affirmative action: ethnicity, equity, and state-business relations in Malaysia
by Edmund Terence Gomez
- wp-2022-103 Revealing 21 per cent of GDP in hidden assets: Evidence from Argentina's tax amnesties
by Juliana Londoño-Vélez & Dario Tortarolo
- wp-2022-102 A model to explain the impact of government revenue on the quality of governance and the SDGs
by Stephen G. Hall & Bernadette O'Hare
- wp-2022-101 Fintech in sub-Saharan Africa
by Njuguna Ndung'u
- wp-2022-100 Employer power and employment in developing countries
by Nancy H. Chau & Ravi Kanbur & Vidhya Soundararajan
- wp-2022-99 Does aid fragmentation affect tax revenue dynamics in developing countries?: Observations with new tax data
by Ali Compaoré & Abrams M.E. Tagem
- wp-2022-98 Rebel governance and political participation
by Abbey Steele & Michael Weintraub
- wp-2022-97 Fiscal consequences of corporate tax avoidance
by Katarzyna Bilicka & Evgeniya Dubinina & Petr Janský
- wp-2022-96 Inequality and human development: The role of different parts of the income distribution
by David Castells-Quintana & Carlos Gradín & Vicente Royuela
- wp-2022-95 Pension funds in sub-Saharan Africa
by Owen Nyang'oro & Githinji Njenga
- wp-2022-94 Social protection expansions during crisis and fiscal space: From ad hoc to durable solutions?
by Annalena Oppel
- wp-2022-93 Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
by Gashaw Abate & Alan de Brauw & Kalle Hirvonen & Abdulazize Wolle
- wp-2022-92 Productivity growth effects of structural reforms: Evidence from developing countries
by Kwamivi Gomado
- wp-2022-91 Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities: Evidence from India
by Vinitha Varghese
- wp-2022-90 Physical proximity and occupational employment change by gender during the COVID-19 pandemic
by Jacqueline Mosomi & Amy Thornton
- wp-2022-89 The pandemic and the state: Interrogating capacity and response to COVID-19 in West Bengal
by Zaad Mahmood & Achin Chakraborty
- wp-2022-88 Gender preference at birth: A new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions
by Mehwish Ghulam Ali & Ashton De Silva & Sarah Sinclair & Ankita Mishra
- wp-2022-87 Reigniting labour productivity growth in developing countries: Do structural reforms matter?
by Kwamivi Gomado
- wp-2022-86 Standardization and ethnocracy in Sri Lanka
by Neil DeVotta
- wp-2022-85 Determinants of corporate cash holdings in South Africa
by Ewa Karwowski & Hanna Szymborska & Keagile Lesame & Tlhologelo Thoka
- wp-2022-84 Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in Tanzania
by Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyyssölä
- wp-2022-83 Can domestic institutions affect exports and innovation?: Mediation effects of institutional quality on manufacturing sector exports and innovation in developing countries
by Achinthya Koswatta
- wp-2022-82 Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future paths
by Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyyssölä & Alexis Bernigaud
- wp-2022-81 Peruvian response to COVID-19 pandemic: The role of evidence-based governance and structural violence
by Camila Gianella
- wp-2022-80 Social distress and (some) relief: Estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa
by Ihsaan Bassier & Joshua Budlender & Maya Goldman
- wp-2022-79 Financial liberalization and its implications for private savings in sub-Saharan Africa
by Elizabeth Asiedu & Fafanyo Asiseh & Theresa Mannah-Blankson & Jones Arkoh Paintsil
- wp-2022-78 PROCEDE: a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in Mexico
by Ana de Ita
- wp-2022-77 Inclusion amid ethnic inequality: Insights from Brazil's social protection system
by Natasha Borges Sugiyama
- wp-2022-76 Illicit financial flows and country-by-country reporting in extractive industries
by Saila Stausholm & Petr Janský & Marek Šedivý
- wp-2022-75 Return migration and entrepreneurship in Cameroon
by Sévérin Tamwo & Ghislain Stéphane Gandjon Fankem & Dieudonné Taka
- wp-2022-74 The legal basis for affirmative action in India
by Kiruba Munusamy
- wp-2022-73 How have formal firms recovered from the pandemic?: Insights from survey and tax administrative data in Zambia
by Christopher Hoy & Laban Simbeye & Muhammad Abdullah Ali Malik & Aliisa Koivisto & Mashekwa Maboshe
- wp-2022-72 Tax-benefit microsimulation model in Rwanda: A feasibility study
by Naphtal Hakizimana & John Karangwa & Jesse Lastunen & Aimable Nsabimana & Innocente Murasi & Lucie Niyigena & Michael Noble & Gemma Wright
- wp-2022-71 Microsimulation approaches to studying shocks and social protection in selected developing economies
by Kwabena Adu-Ababio
- wp-2022-70 What drove the profitability of colonial firms?: Labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920-74)
by Sam Jones & Peter Gibbon
- wp-2022-69 Labour market effects of digital matching platforms: Experimental evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
by Sam Jones & Kunal Sen
- wp-2022-68 Is economic development affected by the leaders' education levels?: Evidence from India
by Chandan Jain & Shagun Kashyap & Rahul Lahoti & Soham Sahoo
- wp-2022-67 Employment policy in Mainland Tanzania: what's in it for women?
by Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyyssölä
- wp-2022-66 Are the effects of terrorism short-lived?
by Vincenzo Bove & Georgios Efthyvoulou & Harry Pickard
- wp-2022-65 On data and trends in horizontal inequality
by Carla Canelas
- wp-2022-64 Elementary education in India versus China: Guidelines for NEP implementation
by Naveen Kumar & Vinitha Varghese
- wp-2022-63 Duterte's pandemic populism: Strongman leadership, weak state capacity, and the politics of deployment in the Philippines
by Julio C. Teehankee
- wp-2022-62 Does an effective government lower COVID-19's health impact?: Evidence from Viet Nam
by Duc Anh Dang & Ngoc Anh Tran
- wp-2022-61 The social foundations of (in)effective states: Uttar Pradesh's response to the COVID-19 pandemic
by Indrajit Roy
- wp-2022-60 Management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala through the lens of state capacity and clientelism
by Jos Chathukulam & Manasi Joseph
- wp-2022-59 Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam
by Tung Duc Phung & Thanh Minh Pham
- wp-2022-58 'Delangokubona' and the distribution of rents and opportunity: An exploration of tensions over race-based policies of redress and redistribution in South Africa
by Ayabonga Cawe
- wp-2022-57 Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa
by Aimable Nsabimana
- wp-2022-56 The political economy of women's empowerment policies in India: Understanding it through the beginning and end of the Mahila Samakhya programme
by Jyotsna Jha & Niveditha Menon & Neha Ghatak
- wp-2022-55 Identity and support for policies towards Indigenous people: Evidence from Australia
by Astghik Mavisakalyan & Yashar Tarverdi
- wp-2022-54 Determinants of clove exports in Zanzibar: Implications for policy
by Samwel J. Kabote & Jires Tunguhole
- wp-2022-53 Governance and COVID-19 in Bolivia
by Calla Hummel & Ximena Velasco Guachalla & Jami Nelson-Nuñez & Carew Boulding
- wp-2022-52 Fiscal policy in times of fiscal stress: Or what to do when r > g
by Roy Havemann & Hylton Hollander
- wp-2022-51 The COVID-19 pandemic and the state in Bihar
by Avinash Kumar & Manish Kumar
- wp-2022-50 Health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique with special reference to leprosy
by Isabel Maria Casimiro & Júlio Machele
- wp-2022-49 A new social contract inclusive of informal workers
by Martha Chen & Sophie Plagerson & Laura Alfers
- wp-2022-48 Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies
by Patricia Justino
- wp-2022-47 Female labour supply and informal employment in Ecuador
by H. Xavier Jara & Pia Rattenhuber
- wp-2022-46 Pandemic precarity and the complicated case of Maharashtra: Interrogating state capacity and its fault lines
by Manish K Jha
- wp-2022-45 COVID-19 and informal work: Degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the world
by Martha Chen & Erofili Grapsa & Ghida Ismail & Sarah Orleans Reed & Michael Rogan & Marcela Valdivia
- wp-2022-44 Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in Ghana
by Kofi Takyi Asante
- wp-2022-43 Poverty, inequality, and growth: trends, policies, and controversies
by Ines A. Ferreira & Vincenzo Salvucci & Finn Tarp
- wp-2022-42 Anticompetitive practices on public procurement: Evidence from Brazilian electronic biddings
by Adilson Sampaio & Paulo Figueiredo & Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon
- wp-2022-41 COVID-19 and the state: Nicaragua case study
by Mateo C. Jarquín
- wp-2022-40 The COVID-19 crisis and the South African informal economy: A stalled recovery
by Michael Rogan & Caroline Skinner
- wp-2022-39 Profit shifting by multinational corporations in Kenya: The role of internal debt
by Roseline Misati & Kethi Ngoka & Anne Kamau & Maureen Odongo
- wp-2022-38 Exploring social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania: Driving for gender-inclusive development?
by Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyyssölä
- wp-2022-37 Corruption and crisis: do institutions matter?
by Shrabani Saha & Kunal Sen
- wp-2022-36 Profit shifting by multinational corporations: Evidence from transaction-level data in Nigeria
by Bathusi Gabanatlhong & Javier Garcia-Bernardo & Paulinus Iyika & Miroslav Palanský
- wp-2022-35 Countering global oil theft: responses and solutions
by Etienne Romsom
- wp-2022-34 The Tanzanian state response to COVID-19: Why low capacity, discursive legitimacy, and twilight authority matter
by Amy S. Patterson
- wp-2022-33 The indirect costs of corporate tax avoidance exacerbate cross-country inequality
by Javier Garcia-Bernardo & Daniel Haberly & Petr Janský & Miroslav Palanský & Valeria Secchini
- wp-2022-32 Affirmative action: meaning, intentions, and impacts in the big picture
by Satu Kuitunen
- wp-2022-31 Affirmative action with no major switching: Evidence from a top university in Brazil
by Rodrigo Oliveira & Alei Santos & Edson Severnini
- wp-2022-30 Two decades of Tanzanian health policy: Examining policy developments and opportunities through a gender lens
by Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyyssölä
- wp-2022-29 Monetary policy in South Africa, 2007-21
by Patrick Honohan & Athanasios Orphanides
- wp-2022-28 Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions and skills formation in secondary school
by Martina Querejeta
- wp-2022-27 The global inequality boomerang
by Ravi Kanbur & Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez & Andy Sumner
- wp-2022-26 Taxless fiscal states: Lessons from 19th-century America and 21st-century China
by Yuen Yuen Ang
- wp-2022-25 Ethnic dominance and exclusion: Unpacking cross-national data
by Andrea Vaccaro
- wp-2022-24 Measuring illicit financial flows: A gravity model approach to estimate international trade misinvoicing
by Lourenço S. Paz
- wp-2022-23 Impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in a low-income country
by Anna Holvio
- wp-2022-22 Does aid to the productive sectors cause manufacturing sector growth in Africa?
by Alain Ndikumana
- wp-2022-21 Profit-shifting behaviour of emerging multinationals from India
by Khanindra Ch. Das
- wp-2022-20 Women's inheritance rights and time use: Evidence from Hindu Succession Act in India
by Tanu Gupta
- wp-2022-19 Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilization
by Patricia Justino
- wp-2022-18 Does the adoption of peer-to-government mobile payments improve tax revenue mobilization in developing countries?
by Abdoul-Akim Wandaogo & Fayçal Sawadogo & Jesse Lastunen