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2020
- wp-2020-164 Formalization and productivity: Firm-level evidence from Viet Nam
by Jann Lay & Tevin Tafese
- wp-2020-163 Do fiscal regimes matter for fiscal sustainability in South Africa?: A Markov-switching approach
by Gabriel Temesgen Woldu
- wp-2020-162 Identifying structural changes in the exchange rates of South Africa as a regime-switching process
by Katleho Makatjane & Roscoe van Wyk
- wp-2020-161 Wealth inequality and CO2 emissions in emerging economies: The case of BRICS
by Goodness C. Aye
- wp-2020-160 Special economic zones in Southern Africa: white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment?: The case of Zambia and South Africa
by Mwanda Phiri & Shimukunku Manchishi
- wp-2020-159 Informality and work status
by Gary S. Fields
- wp-2020-158 The electric vehicle revolution: Economic and policy implications for natural resource exporters in developing countries
by Benjamin Jones
- wp-2020-157 Pandemics and their impact on oil and metal prices
by Tony Addison & Atanu Ghoshray
- wp-2020-156 Horizontal inequality, COVID-19, and lockdown readiness: Evidence from India
by Rachel M. Gisselquist & Anustup Kundu
- wp-2020-155 Effects of productivity growth on domestic savings across countries: Disentangling the roles of trend and cycle
by Abhishek Kumar & Sushanta Mallick & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-154 Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans
by Grace Bridgman
- wp-2020-153 The impact on the South African economy of alternative regulatory arrangements in the petroleum sector
by Heinrich Bohlmann & Rod Crompton
- wp-2020-152 What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality?: A systematic review
by Vanesa Jorda & Jose M. Alonso
- wp-2020-151 By choice or by force?: Uncovering the nature of informal employment in urban Mexico
by Robert Duval Hernández
- wp-2020-150 Transforming informal work and livelihoods in China
by Carl Shu-Ming Lin & Linxiang Ye & Wei Zhang
- wp-2020-149 Agricultural input subsidy and farmers outcomes in Tanzania
by Bethuel Kinyanjui Kinuthia
- wp-2020-148 Future-proofing the plastics value chain in Southern Africa
by Liako Mofo
- wp-2020-147 Political connections and firm's formalization: Evidence from Viet Nam
by Duc Anh Dang & Hai Anh La
- wp-2020-146 Informal-formal workers' transition in Nigeria: A livelihood analysis
by Abiodun O. Folawewo & Olusegun A. Orija
- wp-2020-145 Exporters and global value chain participation: Firm-level evidence from South Africa
by Caio Torres Mazzi & Gideon Ndubuisi & Elvis Avenyo
- wp-2020-144 Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India's informal sector firms
by Ira N. Gang & Rajesh Raj Natarajan & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-143 Progress and stagnation in the livelihood of informal workers in an emerging economy: Long-term evidence from Indonesia
by Mayang Rizky & Daniel Suryadarma & Asep Suryahadi
- wp-2020-142 Dynamics of off-farm self-employment in West African Sahel
by Sènakpon Fidèle A. Dedehouanou & Didier Y. Alia
- wp-2020-141 Economic complexity and structural transformation: the case of Mozambique
by Bjørn Bo Sørensen & Christian Estmann & Enilde Sarmento & John Rand
- wp-2020-140 Petrol price regulation in South Africa: Is it meeting its intended objectives?
by Rod Crompton & Midesh Sing & Vernon Filter & Nonhlanhla Msimango
- wp-2020-139 Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19
by Nathan Barker & Austin Davis & Paula López-Peña & Harrison Mitchell & Mushfiq Mobarak & Karim Naguib & Maira Emy Reimão & Ashish Shenoy & Corey Vernot
- wp-2020-138 Updating great expectations: The effect of peer salary information on own-earnings forecasts
by Sam Jones & Ricardo Santos
- wp-2020-137 The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy: Do urban agglomeration economies matter?
by Clive Bell
- wp-2020-136 Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in Mozambique
by Jose Jaime Macuane & Carlos Muianga
- wp-2020-135 Donor relations and sovereignty
by Johnny Flentø & Leonardo Santos Simao
- wp-2020-134 Rule of law and judicial independence
by João Carlos Trindade
- wp-2020-133 Economic development and institutions in Mozambique: Factors affecting public financial management
by António S. Cruz & Fausto J. Mafambissa
- wp-2020-132 Decentralization reforms in Mozambique: The role of institutions in the definition of results
by Salvador Forquilha
- wp-2020-131 Health, development, and institutional factors: The Mozambique case
by Paulo Ivo Garrido
- wp-2020-130 The education sector in Mozambique: From access to epistemic quality in primary education
by Mouzinho Mário & Celso M. Monjane & Ricardo Santos
- wp-2020-129 Putting the financial system to work for the poor and SMEs
by Abdul Magid Osman & Djamila Pontes Osman
- wp-2020-128 Influence of institutional factors on the performance of the agricultural sector in Mozambique
by João Z. Carrilho & Rui N. Ribeiro
- wp-2020-127 Inequality, institutions, and cooperation
by Thomas Markussen & Smriti Sharma & Saurabh Singhal & Finn Tarp
- wp-2020-126 Ethnic diversity and informal work in Ghana
by Sefa Awaworyi Churchill & Michael Danquah
- wp-2020-125 Taxing extractive resources in the transition to a low-carbon future
by Evelyn Dietsche
- wp-2020-124 The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19
by Prema-chandra Athukorala & Chaturica Athukorala
- wp-2020-123 The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspective
by Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-122 Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality: Diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination
by Giorgio d'Agostino & Francesco Giuli & Marco Lorusso & Margherita Scarlato
- wp-2020-121 Polarization in the South African labour market: Economy-wide scenarios
by Rob Davies & Dirk van Seventer
- wp-2020-120 Extractive dependency in lower-income countries: Evolving trends during the transition to a low carbon future
by Magnus Ericsson & Olof Löf
- wp-2020-119 Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana
by Carlos Gradín & Simone Schotte
- wp-2020-118 Roots of dissent: Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil
by Francesco Iacoella & Patricia Justino & Bruno Martorano
- wp-2020-117 Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited: Comment on 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence'
by Markus Jäntti & Jukka Pirttilä & Risto Rönkkö
- wp-2020-116 Changes in inequality within countries after 1990
by Carlos Gradín
- wp-2020-115 Agro-industry, exports, and income distribution: A multiplier decomposition analysis for Myanmar
by Dirk van Seventer & Finn Tarp
- wp-2020-114 Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade
by Arusha Cooray & Chandan Kumar Jha & Bibhudutta Panda
- wp-2020-113 Impact of a Single Customs Territory in the East African Community on Tanzania's exports
by Anne Kamau & Maureen Odongo
- wp-2020-112 Public debt sustainability and debt dynamics: The case of Tanzania
by Maureen Were & Lekinyi Mollel
- wp-2020-111 Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility?: Evidence from Cameroon
by Rose Fontep & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-110 Income diversification and household welfare in Tanzania 2008-2013
by Rumman Khan & Oliver Morrissey
- wp-2020-109 Data, global development, and COVID-19: Lessons and consequences
by Wim Naudé & Ricardo Vinuesa
- wp-2020-108 From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification: A developmental approach to managing resource revenues
by Ha-Joon Chang & Amir Lebdioui
- wp-2020-107 Subjective returns to education: Rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India
by Pooja Balasubramanian
- wp-2020-106 Duration of pre-university education and labour market outcomes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Ghana
by Emmanuel Adu Boahen & Kwadwo Opoku & Simone Schotte
- wp-2020-105 Closing the gap: Gender and innovation
by Laura Barasa
- wp-2020-104 Discerning trends in international metal prices in the presence of non-stationary volatility
by Tony Addison & Atanu Ghoshray
- wp-2020-103 State-market-society alliance: The evolving nature of the '21st century developmental state'
by Pui Yi Wong
- wp-2020-102 Partnership for inclusive growth: Can linkages with large firms spur the growth of SMEs in Tanzania?
by Josaphat Kweka & Fadhili Sooi
- wp-2020-101 Transitions between informal and formal jobs in India: Patterns, correlates, and consequences
by Rajesh Raj Natarajan & Simone Schotte & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-100 Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
by Enrique Alaniz & T.H. Gindling & Catherine Mata & Diego Rojas
- wp-2020-99 Industry classification in the South African tax microdata
by Joshua Budlender & Amina Ebrahim
- wp-2020-98 Character or context: What explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?
by Ines A. Ferreira & Sam Jones & Jorge Mouco
- wp-2020-97 Globalization and gender inequality: Evidence from South Africa
by Caro Janse van Rensburg & Carli Bezuidenhout & Marianne Matthee & Victor Stolzenburg
- wp-2020-96 Trade, technology, and absorptive capacity: Firm-level evidence across geographical clusters in the Tanzanian textiles and apparel sector
by Amrita Saha & André Castro & Marco Carreras & Daniele Guariso
- wp-2020-95 Fast tracking the SADC integration agenda to unlock regional collaboration gains along growth corridors in Southern Africa
by Alexis Habiyaremye
- wp-2020-94 Building malls or metros?: South Africa's exports of tradable urban services to the rest of Africa
by Ivan Turok & Justin Visagie
- wp-2020-93 Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectors
by Julian Boys & Antonio Andreoni
- wp-2020-92 A medium-sized, open-economy, fiscal DSGE model of South Africa
by Johannes Hermanus Kemp & Hylton Hollander
- wp-2020-91 Empirical estimates of fiscal multipliers for South Africa
by Johannes Hermanus Kemp
- wp-2020-90 Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
by Vidhya Unnikrishnan & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-89 Healthcare equity and COVID-19: Assessing the relative effectiveness of egalitarian governance and healthcare system capacity on the COVID-19 pandemic
by Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati & Arusha Cooray & Indra de Soysa
- wp-2020-88 Competition and inclusive regional economic growth in food production: Barriers to entry and the role of African multinational corporations
by Teboho Bosiu & Thando Vilakazi
- wp-2020-87 The potential of extractive industries as anchor investments for broader regional development
by Olle Östensson
- wp-2020-86 Wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa
by Serena Merrino
- wp-2020-85 Investigating the fiscal resource curse: What's China got to do with it?
by Daniel Chachu & Edward Nketiah-Amponsah
- wp-2020-84 Comparative approaches to key issues in the economic regulation of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
by Anthea Paelo & Genna Robb
- wp-2020-83 Competitive dynamics of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
by Genna Robb & Anthea Paelo
- wp-2020-82 Trust in the time of corona
by Tilman Brück & Neil T. N. Ferguson & Patricia Justino & Wolfgang Stojetz
- wp-2020-81 Exploring options for a universal old age pension in Tanzania Mainland
by Twahir Khalfan & Elineema Kisanga & Vincent Leyaro & Faith Masekesa & Michael Noble & Gemma Wright
- wp-2020-80 The energy transition in Asia: The role of liquefied natural gas and implications for East African producers
by Etienne Romsom & Kathryn McPhail
- wp-2020-79 The impact of employment protection on the temporary employment services sector: Evidence from South Africa using data from tax records
by Aalia Cassim
- wp-2020-78 Unequal expectations: Gender inequality in salary expectations of university students
by Carlos Gradín & Félix Mambo & Yonesse Paris & Ricardo Santos
- wp-2020-77 Precarity and the pandemic: COVID-19 and poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries
by Andy Sumner & Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez & Christopher Hoy
- wp-2020-76 Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust
by Eva-Maria Egger & Sam Jones & Patricia Justino & Ivan Manhique & Ricardo Santos
- wp-2020-75 The global distribution of routine and non-routine work
by Piotr Lewandowski & Albert Park & Simone Schotte
- wp-2020-74 COVID-19: macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world
by Tony Addison & Kunal Sen & Finn Tarp
- wp-2020-73 COVID-19 and global poverty: Are LDCs being left behind?
by Giovanni Valensisi
- wp-2020-72 Improving parenting practices for early child development: Experimental evidence from Rwanda
by Patricia Justino & Marinella Leone & Pierfrancesco Rolla & Monique Abimpaye & Caroline Dusabe & Diane Uwamahoro & Richard Germond
- wp-2020-71 Structural features of the Myanmar economy through the lens of a 2017 Social Accounting Matrix
by Dirk van Seventer & Finn Tarp & Khin Ohnmar Myint Thein & Soe Thie Nu Htwe & Nyaung Tai
- wp-2020-70 An analysis of the distributional impact of excise duty in Uganda using a tax-benefit microsimulation model
by Susan Namirembe Kavuma & Christine Byaruhanga & Nicholas Musoke & Patrick Loke & Michael Noble & Gemma Wright
- wp-2020-69 Evolution of multidimensional poverty in crisis-ridden Mozambique
by Eva-Maria Egger & Vincenzo Salvucci & Finn Tarp
- wp-2020-68 Taxpayer responsiveness to taxation: Evidence from bunching at kink points of the South African income tax schedule
by Neryvia Pillay Bell
- wp-2020-67 South African population projection and household survey sample weight recalibration
by Takwanisa Machemedze & Andrew Kerr & Rob Dorrington
- wp-2020-66 A 2017 Social Accounting Matrix for Myanmar
by Dirk van Seventer & Finn Tarp & Nyo Nyo San & Soe Thie Nu Htwe & Thandar
- wp-2020-65 Explaining income inequality trends: An integrated approach
by Petra Sauer & Narasimha D. Rao & Shonali Pachauri
- wp-2020-64 A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals: The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe
by Richard Adu-Gyamfi & Simplice A. Asongu & Tinaye Sonto Mmusi & Herbert Wamalwa & Madei Mangori
- wp-2020-63 Resource sector concessions and spatial development in Southern Africa
by Joan Halstein
- wp-2020-62 Earnings in the South African Revenue Service IRP5 data
by Andrew Kerr
- wp-2020-61 Special economic zones in Southern Africa: Is success influenced by design attributes?
by Cornelius Dube & Wellington Matsika & Gamuchirai Chiwunze
- wp-2020-60 COVID-19: mortality, future years lost, and demographic structure: Italy and Kenya compared
by Clive Bell
- wp-2020-59 The effect of policy uncertainty on South Africa, SADC, and beyond
by Mustapha Douch
- wp-2020-58 Inclusive growth without structural transformation?: The case of Brazil
by Sergio Firpo & Renan Pieri & Rafaela Nogueira
- wp-2020-57 Weather shocks and child nutrition: Evidence from Tanzania
by Aimable Nsabimana & Justice Tei Mensah
- wp-2020-56 The relationship between transport accessibility and employment duration
by Jacomien van der Merwe & Stephan Krygsman
- wp-2020-55 Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy: The case of South Africa
by Haroon Bhorat & Kezia Lilenstein & Morné Oosthuizen & Amy Thornton
- wp-2020-54 Informal institutions, transaction risk, and firm productivity in Myanmar
by Michael Danquah & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-53 Exclusive growth?: Rapidly increasing top incomes amidst low national growth in South Africa
by Ihsaan Bassier & Ingrid Woolard
- wp-2020-52 The impact of the Employment Equity Act on female inter-industry labour mobility and the gender wage gap in South Africa
by Mattie Susan Landman & Neave O'Clery
- wp-2020-51 Separating employment effects into job destruction and job creation: Evidence from a large minimum wage increase in the agricultural sector using administrative tax data
by Marlies Piek & Dieter von Fintel & Johann F. Kirsten
- wp-2020-50 Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South Africa
by Haroon Bhorat & Kezia Lilenstein & Morné Oosthuizen & Amy Thornton
- wp-2020-49 Depreciation allowances in South Africa
by Estian Calitz & Eva Muwanga-Zake & Alexius Sithole & Wynnona Steyn
- wp-2020-48 The energy transition in Asia: Country priorities, fuel types, and energy decisions
by Etienne Romsom & Kathryn McPhail
- wp-2020-47 Misinformed, mismatched, or misled?: Explaining the gap between expected and realized graduate earnings in Mozambique
by Sam Jones & Ricardo Santos & Gimelgo Xirinda
- wp-2020-46 Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand
by Peter Warr & Waleerat Suphannachart
- wp-2020-45 Estimating the distribution of household wealth in South Africa
by Aroop Chatterjee & Léo Czajka & Amory Gethin
- wp-2020-44 Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in Bangladesh
by Selim Raihan & Sunera Saba Khan
- wp-2020-43 Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty
by Andy Sumner & Christopher Hoy & Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
- wp-2020-42 Riots and social capital in urban India
by Alia Aghajanian & Patricia Justino & Jean-Pierre Tranchant
- wp-2020-41 Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare: An investigation of India's employment guarantee programme
by Parantap Basu & Rajesh Raj Natarajan & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-40 The corporate income tax gap in South Africa: A top-down approach
by Ada Jansen & Winile Ngobeni & Alexius Sithole & Wynnona Steyn
- wp-2020-39 Product market competition and the labour market: Evidence from South Africa
by Francesco Amodio & Michele Di Maio & Yifan Li & Patrizio Piraino
- wp-2020-38 Making agricultural value chains more inclusive through technology and innovation
by Reena das Nair & Namhla Landani
- wp-2020-37 Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Ghana
by Robert Darko Osei & Richmond Atta-Ankomah & Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio
- wp-2020-36 Agro-processing, value chains, and regional integration in Southern Africa
by Anthony Black & Lawrence Edwards & Ruth Gorven & Willard Mapulanga
- wp-2020-35 The developer's dilemma: A survey of structural transformation and inequality dynamics
by Armida Alisjahbana & Kyunghoon Kim & Kunal Sen & Andy Sumner & Arief Anshory Yusuf
- wp-2020-34 Hidden from the data: Landholding patterns and women's low work participation rates in West Bengal, India
by Deepita Chakravarty
- wp-2020-33 Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China
by Yanan Li & Chunbing Xing
- wp-2020-32 Measuring labour earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
by Serena Merrino
- wp-2020-31 Structural transformation and inclusive growth: Kuznets' 'developer's dilemma' in Indonesia
by Kyunghoon Kim & Arriya Mungsunti & Andy Sumner & Arief Anshory Yusuf
- wp-2020-30 Shifting from deductions to credits: Unpacking the distributional effects of medical expenditure considerations in South Africa
by Senia Nhamo & Edinah Mudimu
- wp-2020-29 The elasticity of taxable income: New data and estimates for South Africa
by Johannes Hermanus Kemp
- wp-2020-28 Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies
by Gregory Clark
- wp-2020-27 Job spells in an emerging market: Evidence from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa
by Robert Hill & Kezia Lilenstein & Amy Thornton
- wp-2020-26 Moral reputation and political selection in a decentralized democracy: Theory and evidence from India
by Prasenjit Banerjee & Vegard Iversen & Sandip Mitra & Antonio Nicolò & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-25 Leapfrogging into the unknown: The future of structural change in the developing world
by Lukas Schlogl
- wp-2020-24 Kuznets' tension in India: Two episodes
by Saon Ray & Sabyasachi Kar
- wp-2020-23 Initial considerations for the creation of an inter-regional industrial hemp value chain between Malawi and South Africa
by Sandy Lowitt
- wp-2020-22 Revenue forecasting in the mining industries: A data-driven approach
by Benjamin Jones
- wp-2020-21 Winners and losers in industrial policy 2.0
by Mohamed Ali Marouani & Michelle Marshalian
- wp-2020-20 The impact of impact evaluation: Are impact evaluation and impact evaluation synthesis contributing to evidence generation and use in low- and middle-income countries?
by Richard Manning & Ian Goldman & Gonzalo Hernández Licona
- wp-2020-19 Measuring multidimensional inequality of opportunity
by Martyna Kobus & Marek Kapera & Vitorocco Peragine
- wp-2020-18 Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half-century analysis
by Gunes Asik & Ulas Karakoc & Mohamed Ali Marouani & Michelle Marshalian
- wp-2020-17 Labour market polarization in South Africa: A decomposition analysis
by Rob Davies & Dirk van Seventer
- wp-2020-16 What's behind pro-poor growth?: The role of shocks and measurement error
by Stephan Klasen & Maria C. Lo Bue & Vincenzo Prete
- wp-2020-15 Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Zanzibar: A feasibility study
by Vincent Leyaro & Faith Masekesa & Ramadhan Ramadhan & Elineema Kisanga & Michael Noble & Gemma Wright
- wp-2020-14 The ethnographic approach to social mobility
by Divya Vaid
- wp-2020-13 Can 'good' social mobility news be 'bad' and vice versa?: Measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls
by Vegard Iversen
- wp-2020-12 Social mobility and inequality between groups
by Patricia Funjika & Rachel M. Gisselquist
- wp-2020-11 Are routine jobs moving south?: Evidence from changes in the occupational structure of employment in the USA and Mexico
by Guido Matias Cortes & Diego M. Morris
- wp-2020-10 Is there a fiscal resource curse?: Resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies
by Tania Masi & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen
- wp-2020-9 Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling: New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
by Abdul Malik Iddrisu & Michael Danquah & Alfred Barimah & Williams Ohemeng
- wp-2020-8 The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market: Evidence from a public federal university in Brazil
by Henrique Z. Motte & Rodrigo Oliveira
- wp-2020-7 Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidence
by Himanshu & Peter Lanjouw
- wp-2020-6 Drivers of mobility
by Patrizio Piraino
- wp-2020-5 Returns to education in self-employment in India: A comparison across different selection models
by Indrajit Bairagya
- wp-2020-4 Social mobility in China: A case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South
by Yaojun Li
- wp-2020-3 Turnin' it up a notch: how spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa's exports
by Bjørn Bo Sørensen
- wp-2020-2 Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysis
by Michael Danquah & Abdul Malik Iddrisu & Williams Ohemeng & Alfred Barimah
- wp-2020-1 Exchange rates and firm export performance in South Africa
by Lawrence Edwards & Ayanda Hlatshwayo
2019
- wp-2019-121 China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
by Roy van der Weide & Ambar Narayan
- wp-2019-120 Social networks, role models, peer effects, and aspirations
by Anandi Mani & Emma Riley
- wp-2019-119 A proposal for a new universal development commitment
by Jonathan Glennie & Nilima Gulrajani & Andy Sumner & Myles Wickstead
- wp-2019-118 Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth: The case of Chile
by Andrés Solimano & Gabriela Zapata-Román
- wp-2019-117 Are you what you consume?: Impact of food, soft drinks, and coffee on cognitive and non-cognitive test scores
by Thomas Pave Sohnesen
- wp-2019-116 Roads and jobs in Ethiopia
by Matteo Fiorini & Marco Sanfilippo
- wp-2019-115 Is export-led growth a mirage?: The case of Kenya
by Peter Wamalwa & Maureen Were
- wp-2019-114 Worker mobility and productivity spillovers: An emerging market perspective
by Ayanda Hlatshwayo & Friedrich Kreuser & Carol Newman & John Rand
- wp-2019-113 Migrants leaving mega-cities: Where they move and why prices matter
by Eva-Maria Egger
- wp-2019-112 Internal migration and crime in Brazil
by Eva-Maria Egger
- wp-2019-111 The effects of the Maputo ring road on the quantity and quality of nearby housing
by Peter Fisker & David Malmgren-Hansen & Thomas Pave Sohnesen
- wp-2019-110 Does sorting matter for learning inequality?: Evidence from East Africa
by Paul Anand & Jere R. Behrman & Hai‐Anh H. Dang & Sam Jones
- wp-2019-109 Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa
by Suale Karimu
- wp-2019-108 Gender and social mobility: Exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation
by Nancy Luke
- wp-2019-107 Informal work in sub-Saharan Africa: Dead end or steppingstone?
by Michael Danquah & Simone Schotte & Kunal Sen
- wp-2019-106 Concepts of social mobility
by Gary S. Fields
- wp-2019-105 Revisiting the returns to education during rapid structural and rural transformation in Thailand: A regression discontinuity approach
by Upalat Korwatanasakul
- wp-2019-104 Civic legacies of wartime governance
by Patricia Justino & Wolfgang Stojetz
- wp-2019-103 Evaluating foreign direct investment in Mozambique's natural gas industry: An economy-wide perspective
by Silvana Mondlane & Dirk van Seventer
- wp-2019-102 Will urbanization raise social mobility in the South, replicating the economic history of the West?
by Emily Rains & Anirudh Krishna
- wp-2019-101 Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector: Evidence from Sierra Leone
by Jamelia Harris
- wp-2019-100 Structural poverty dynamics in urban South Africa: A mixed-methods investigation
by Simone Schotte
- wp-2019-99 Was Kuznets right?: New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality
by Çinar Baymul & Kunal Sen
- wp-2019-98 Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries
by Shahe Emran & Forhad Shilpi
- wp-2019-97 Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua
by Enrique Alaniz & Alma Espino & T.H. Gindling
- wp-2019-96 Occupational mobility in developing countries: Conceptual issues and empirical findings
by Anthony Heath & Yizhang Zhao
- wp-2019-95 Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration: National and subnational influences
by Rachel M. Gisselquist
- wp-2019-94 Globotics and development: When manufacturing is jobless and services are tradable
by Richard Baldwin & Rikard Forslid
- wp-2019-93 Agglomeration and productivity in South Africa: Evidence from firm-level data
by Hammed Amusa & Njeri Wabiri & David Fadiran
- wp-2019-92 Marriage, work, and migration: The role of infrastructure development and gender norms
by Amrit Amirapu & Niaz Asadullah & Zaki Wahhaj
- wp-2019-91 Winning or buying hearts and minds?: Cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan
by Yashodhan Ghorpade & Patricia Justino
- wp-2019-90 Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world?: Insider-outsider theory revisited
by Lucas Ronconi & Ravi Kanbur & Santiago López-Cariboni
- wp-2019-89 Competitiveness and diversification of service exports in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of the East African Community
by Maureen Were & Maureen Odongo
- wp-2019-88 Educational mobility in developing countries
by Florencia Torche