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- wp-2023-150 The dynamics of formal employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda
by Kyle McNabb & Tina Kaidu Barugahara & Susan Kavuma
- wp-2023-149 How should an optimal tax system react to a crisis?: Simulation results for Zambia
by Dingquan Miao & Ravi Kanbur & Jukka Pirttilä
- wp-2023-148 Job accessibility and spatial equity: A City of Cape Town case study
by Jacomien van der Merwe & Tom de Jong
- wp-2023-147 Exploring options to deepen and broaden the personal income tax base in South Africa
by Gemma Wright & Katrin Gasior & Joonas Ollonqvist & Wynnona Steyn & Winile Ngobeni & Helen Barnes & Michael Noble & David McLennan & Jukka Pirttilä & Ada Jansen
- wp-2023-146 Global income polarization: Relative and absolute perspectives
by Vanesa Jorda & Miguel Niño-Zarazúa & Laurence Roope & Finn Tarp
- wp-2023-145 Mobile Internet and income improvement: Evidence from Viet Nam
by Trang Thi Pham
- wp-2023-144 Polling during war: Challenges and lessons from Ukraine
by Kit Rickard & Gerard Toal & Kristin M. Bakke & John O'Loughlin
- wp-2023-143 Trust a few: natural disasters and the formation of trust in Africa
by Robert Mackay & Astghik Mavisakalyan & Yashar Tarverdi
- wp-2023-142 Differential bunching impacts across the income distribution: Evidence from Zambian tax administrative data
by Samuel Bryson & Kwabena Adu-Ababio & Evaristo Mwale & John Rand
- wp-2023-141 Financial inclusion and nutrition among rural households in Rwanda
by Ranjula Bali Swain & Aimable Nsabimana
- wp-2023-140 Degrees of disadvantage
by Chinmayi Srikanth
- wp-2023-139 A reform option for pension fund contribution as tax expenditure in South Africa: A microsimulation model approach using tax administrative data
by Ada Jansen & Winile Ngobeni & Wynnona Steyn
- wp-2023-138 Sectoral shifts and labour market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa
by Amie M. Jobe & Roberto Ricciuti
- wp-2023-137 Global minimum corporate income tax: Challenges and prospects for Uganda
by Corti Paul Lakuma & Rehema Kahunde
- wp-2023-136 The political economy of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador: Temporary bandages to permanent wounds?
by Tobias Boos & Juan Grigera
- wp-2023-135 Construction productivity and global inequality
by Saumik Paul & Kunal Sen
- wp-2023-134 Compliance rates with local and national business taxes: Evidence from Kampala, Uganda
by Rose Camille Vincent & Stephan Dietrich & Kyle McNabb
- wp-2023-133 Did Uganda's corporate tax incentives benefit the Ugandan economy or only the firms?
by Nicholas Musoke & Tereza Palanská & Caroline Schimanski
- wp-2023-132 Rent sharing, wage floors, and development
by Joshua Budlender & Ihsaan Bassier
- wp-2023-131 Wage inequality, firm characteristics, and firm wage premia in South Africa
by Shakeba Foster
- wp-2023-130 Performance of tax-benefit systems amid COVID-19 crises in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative perspective
by Jesse Lastunen & Adnan Abdulaziz Shahir & Pia Rattenhuber & Kwabena Adu-Ababio & Rodrigo Oliveira
- wp-2023-129 The economic context of realizing socioeconomic rights in South Africa
by Philippe Burger
- wp-2023-128 Frontier rule and conflict
by Adeel Malik & Rinchan Ali Mirza & Faiz Ur Rehman
- wp-2023-127 Double-edged sword: understanding the localized effect of foreign direct investment inflow in conflict settings
by Lorenzo Crippa & Laura Saavedra-Lux
- wp-2023-126 Using remote tracking technologies to audit and understand medicine theft
by Ryan Jablonski & Brigitte Seim & Mariana Carvalho Barbosa & Clark Gibson
- wp-2023-125 Double taxation treaties and resource revenue mobilization in developing countries: A neural network approach
by Harouna Kinda & Abrams M.E. Tagem
- wp-2023-124 Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India
by Vegard Iversen & Anustup Kundu & Rahul Lahoti & Kunal Sen
- wp-2023-123 Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty?: New projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
by Arief Anshory Yusuf & Zuzy Anna & Ahmad Komarulzaman & Andy Sumner
- wp-2023-122 Rationality, emotions, and ethnicity: Explaining elite political alignments in a deeply divided society
by Omar Shahabudin McDoom
- wp-2023-121 An open database on inequality and polarization in length of life (1950-2021)
by Vanesa Jorda & Miguel Niño-Zarazúa & Mercedes Tejería
- wp-2023-120 Addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam during the COVID-19 pandemic: An examination of the alleviating impact of tax and benefit measures
by Antoine de Mahieu & Jesse Lastunen
- wp-2023-119 Ethnic diversity and financial inclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
by Isaac Koomson & Michael Danquah & Edward Martey
- wp-2023-118 Aid and violence reduction
by Anke Hoeffler
- wp-2023-117 A (time) series of unfortunate events: structural change, globalization, and the rise of occupational injuries
by A.V. Chari
- wp-2023-116 Exploring the network of individuals that influence the media's inflation message in South Africa
by Katrien Smuts
- wp-2023-115 Taxation and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa
by Roel Dom & Oliver Morrissey & Abrams M.E. Tagem
- wp-2023-114 The effect of wage subsidies on job retention in a developing country: Evidence from South Africa
by Timothy Köhler & Haroon Bhorat & Robert Hill
- wp-2023-113 Structural change in the Mozambique economy between 2007 and 2019: A social accounting matrix approach
by Dirk van Seventer & Finn Tarp
- wp-2023-112 Returns to education and wage inequality in Namibia: A gendered analysis
by Obrein Muine Samahiya & Ebenezer Lemven Wirba
- wp-2023-111 Ask not what your country can do for you': Legacies of the Great Recession and the consequences of the 'trust crisis
by Alia Aghajanian & Rute Martins Caeiro & Eva-Maria Egger & Patricia Justino & Maria C. Lo Bue
- wp-2023-110 Aid's impact on social protection in low- and middle-income countries
by Miguel Niño-Zarazúa & Alma Santillán Hernández
- wp-2023-109 Understanding inequality and its evolution in Kenya: The contribution of the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database initiative
by Damiano Kulundu Manda & Germano Mwabu & Martine Oleche & Moses Kinyanjui Muriithi
- wp-2023-108 Framing the change: analysing employment change, (in)adequacy, and (de)feminization in Cameroon's tertiary firms
by Yselle Malah Kuete
- wp-2023-107 Empowering youth: the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador
by Kamila Aguirre & Vanessa D. Carrión-Yaguana
- wp-2023-106 Time-varying fiscal multipliers for South Africa: A large time-varying parameter vector autoregression approach
by Gideon du Rand & Hylton Hollander & Dawie van Lill
- wp-2023-105 Unravelling aid funding: Linking funding allocation patterns and localization in Sierra Leone
by Swetha Ramachandran
- wp-2023-104 Impact of trade and structural change on the sub-Saharan African economies
by Paul I. Ko & Ryo Makioka & Karim Nchare
- wp-2023-103 Aiding education? The effect of international aid on local educational enrolment in Nigeria
by Roos Haer & Gudrun Østby
- wp-2023-102 Investigating inequality trends in Africa: ACEIR research and the WIID
by Martin Wittenberg & Murray Leibbrandt
- wp-2023-101 Youth, violence, and sustaining peace
by Patricia Justino
- wp-2023-100 Comparing the poverty-reduction efficiency of targeted versus universal benefits amid crises
by Adnan Abdulaziz Shahir & Ravi Kanbur & Jukka Pirttilä & Pia Rattenhuber
- wp-2023-99 Mobile technologies and firm formalization: Evidence from Uganda
by Marina Dodlova & Krisztina Kis-Katos & Anna Kochanova & Olivia Wirth
- wp-2023-98 Fiscal anchors and sustainable fiscal policy
by Krige Siebrits & Estian Calitz
- wp-2023-97 IMF conditionality and structural reforms: Evidence from developing countries
by Ablam Estel Apeti & Kwamivi Gomado
- wp-2023-96 The legacy of Mexico's Drug War on youth political attitudes
by Omar García-Ponce & Isabel Laterzo
- wp-2023-95 Temperature, climate change, and household financial behaviour: Evidence from Viet Nam
by Sefa Awaworyi Churchill & Trong-Anh Trinh & Michael Danquah
- wp-2023-94 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment: Findings from national labour surveys in five Latin American countries
by Martha Alter Chen & Joann Vanek
- wp-2023-93 Social protection, the COVID-19 crisis, and the informal economy: Lessons from relief for comprehensive social protection
by Laura Alfers & Florian Juergens-Grant
- wp-2023-92 Informal employment: what is missing from national economic recovery plans?
by Siviwe Mhlana & Rachel Moussié & Sally Roever & Michael Rogan
- wp-2023-91 Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study
by Richmond Atta-Ankomah & Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio & Robert Darko Osei
- wp-2023-90 An assessment of inequality estimates for the case of South Africa
by Muna Shifa & Rejoice Mabhena & Vimal Ranchhod & Murray Leibbrandt
- wp-2023-89 Transforming rural economies through tertiary education: Evidence from India
by Amparo Castelló-Climent & Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay & Ravinder
- wp-2023-88 Financial reforms and income inequality: evidence from developing countries
by Kwamivi Gomado
- wp-2023-87 Drivers of services sector growth acceleration in developing countries
by Gideon Ndubuisi & Solomon Owusu & Rex Asiama & Elvis Korku Avenyo
- wp-2023-86 Communication matters: sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels
by Annalena Oppel
- wp-2023-85 Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus: The role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy
by Andrea Vaccaro
- wp-2023-84 Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation
by Sonia Bhalotra & Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
- wp-2023-83 Aid and fragile states
by Anke Hoeffler & Patricia Justino
- wp-2023-82 Making sense of multi-level and multi-actor governance of recovery in Ukraine
by Oksana Udovyk & Ievgen Kylymnyk & Daniel Cuesta-Delgado & Guillermo Palau Salvador
- wp-2023-81 Identity and multigenerational persistence
by Chinmayi Srikanth & Shubhasis Dey
- wp-2023-80 The uneven path to recovery: The sub-Saharan experience
by Michael Danquah & Amina Ebrahim & Maureen Were
- wp-2023-79 A deep learning approach to estimation of the Phillips curve in South Africa
by Gideon du Rand & Hylton Hollander & Dawie van Lill
- wp-2023-78 Conspicuous consumption for social parity
by Chinmayi Srikanth & Shubhasis Dey
- wp-2023-77 Implementation of local content regulation: The case study of a foreign-owned mining operation in Tanzania
by Jambo Ramadhani & Emmanuel Maliti
- wp-2023-76 Macro-financial implications of public debt in South Africa: The role of financial regimes
by Theshne Kisten
- wp-2023-75 What drives parental investments in early childhood?: Experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda
by Patricia Justino & Marinella Leone & Pierfrancesco Rolla & Monique Abimpaye
- wp-2023-74 Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco: Subnational insights
by Al-mouksit Akim & Wissal Sahel
- wp-2023-73 Evaluating the impact of the 2023-2024 personal income tax reform in Rwanda: An analysis using tax-benefit microsimulation modelling
by Antoine de Mahieu & Jesse Lastunen & Jeannette Mukangango & Theogene Harerimana
- wp-2023-72 Democracy clusters and patterns of inequality: A k-means approach
by Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon
- wp-2023-71 Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey
by Ahmet Ihsan Kaya & Cumhur Çiçekçi
- wp-2023-70 Nation building in post-conflict settings: Evidence from South Africa
by Thomas Gautier & Daniela Horta-Saenz & Gianluca Russo
- wp-2023-69 Forced migration, aid effectiveness, and the humanitarian-development nexus: The case of Germany's P4P programme
by Stefan Leiderer & Helge Roxin
- wp-2023-68 Indicators of illicit activities in gold supply chains: Insights from Peru and Kenya
by Nicole M. Smith & Kady Seguin & U. Mete Saka & Sebnem Duzgun & David Soud & Jenna White
- wp-2023-67 Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India
by Saloni Khurana & Kanika Mahajan & Kunal Sen
- wp-2023-66 Taxpayer response to greater progressivity: Evidence from personal income tax reform in Uganda
by Maria Jouste & Tina Kaidu Barugahara & Joseph Okello Ayo & Jukka Pirttilä & Pia Rattenhuber
- wp-2023-65 Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation: Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries
by Karishma Banga & Pankhury Harbansh & Surendar Singh
- wp-2023-64 Structural transformation and international trade: Evidence from the China shock
by Clément Nedoncelle & Julien Wolfersberger
- wp-2023-63 Gendered implications of the waves of COVID-19 and economic upgrading trajectories in digital value chains: Insights from Kenyan agricultural platforms
by Aarti Krishnan & Monica Nganga & Tim Foster
- wp-2023-62 Language and student learning: Evidence from an ethnographic study in Mozambique
by Feliciano Chimbutane & Ritva Reinikka
- wp-2023-61 Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation: Evidence from the United Kingdom's age of austerity
by Patricia Justino & Bruno Martorano & Laura Metzger
- wp-2023-60 Do the effectiveness principles matter for development?: Evidence from aid effectiveness data
by Rachel M. Gisselquist & Patricia Justino & Andrea Vaccaro
- wp-2023-59 Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset
by Rachel M. Gisselquist & Simone Schotte & Min Jung Kim
- wp-2023-58 Armed group opportunism in the face of recent crises: COVID-19 and climate change
by Siobhan O'Neil
- wp-2023-57 More information, better knowledge? The effects of information campaigns on aid beneficiaries' knowledge of aid projects
by Alexander De Juan & Paul Hofman & Carlo Koos
- wp-2023-56 Employment transitions with high unemployment and a small informal sector: Examining worker flows during normal and recessionary periods in South Africa
by Shakeba Foster
- wp-2023-55 Sanction-busting through tax havens
by Kerim Can Kavakli & Giovanna Marcolongo & Diego Zambiasi
- wp-2023-54 Tax and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa: Beyond accountability and responsiveness
by Alex Adegboye & Abrams M.E. Tagem
- wp-2023-53 International development assistance and the inclusivity paradox in fragile and conflict-affected states
by Timothy Donais & Alistair Edgar
- wp-2023-52 Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states
by Matthew Kofi Ocran
- wp-2023-51 Theorizing revolution in democracies: Evidence from the 2019 uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq
by Chantal Berman & Killian Clarke & Rima Majed
- wp-2023-50 The education backlash: How assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict
by Tugba Bozcaga & Asli Cansunar
- wp-2023-49 The impacts of studying abroad: Evidence from a government-sponsored scholarship program in Brazil
by Otavio Conceiçaõ & Rodrigo Oliveira & André Portela Souza
- wp-2023-48 European aid to the MENA region after the Arab uprisings: A window of opportunity missed
by Thilo Bodenstein & Mark Furness
- wp-2023-47 India's economic development since independence: An interpretative survey
by Kunal Sen
- wp-2023-46 Fiscal dependence on extractive revenues: Measurement and concepts
by Kyle McNabb
- wp-2023-45 India's development cooperation in Africa: The case of 'Solar Mamas' who bring light
by Veda Vaidyanathan
- wp-2023-44 The political legacies of wartime resistance: How local communities in Italy keep anti-fascist sentiments alive
by Simone Cremaschi & Juan Masullo J.
- wp-2023-43 The South African personal income tax base, 2011-2018: Income and taxable income, adjusted for retirement fund and medical expense reporting changes
by Andrew R. Donaldson
- wp-2023-42 Frontier governmentality
by Adeel Malik & Rinchan Ali Mirza & Faiz Ur Rehman
- wp-2023-41 International migration and income inequality
by Nicola Daniele Coniglio & Vitorocco Peragine & Davide Vurchio
- wp-2023-40 The institutions and policies of aid-recipient countries and aid effectiveness: The case of Afghanistan
by Nematullah Bizhan
- wp-2023-39 Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America
by Paolo Brunori & Francisco H.G. Ferreira & Guido Neidhöfer
- wp-2023-38 Domestic savings in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana
by Charles Godfred Ackah & Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio
- wp-2023-37 Income inequality and household debt: Examining the impact of relative income on formal and informal debt in South Africa
by Shakeba Foster
- wp-2023-36 Aid reimagined: results from an elite survey on perceptions of progress, capacity, and development cooperation
by Ana Horigoshi & Samantha Custer
- wp-2023-35 Windows of peace: the effect of ceasefires on economic recovery
by Alex Armand & Myriam Marending & Galina Vysotskaya
- wp-2023-34 The violent legacy of fascism: Neofascist political violence in Italy, 1969-88
by Stefano Costalli & Daniele Guariso & Patricia Justino & Andrea Ruggeri
- wp-2023-33 Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development: Insights from development studies
by Albert Sanghoon Park
- wp-2023-32 Absolute or relative: perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique
by Giulia Barletta & Ines A. Ferreira & Vincenzo Salvucci
- wp-2023-31 Assessment of institutional set-up of results measurement and reporting systems for non-sovereign operations in development finance institutions
by Patrick Mabuza & Francis H. Kemeze & Oluwatoba J. Omotilewa & Mamadou Bah & Btissam Benkerroum
- wp-2023-30 Development aid in fragile states: Investigating the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
by Hany Besada & Lukmon Akintola
- wp-2023-29 Power, institutions, and state-building after war: A controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi
by Omar Shahabudin McDoom
- wp-2023-28 Unpacking 'ownership' in development co-operation effectiveness: Perspectives of Southern recipients
by Debapriya Bhattacharya & Towfiqul Islam Khan & Najeeba Mohammed Altaf
- wp-2023-27 Differential health reporting error among older adults in India
by Anna Choi & Arnab K. Basu & Nancy H. Chau & T.V. Sekher
- wp-2023-26 Revisiting community-driven reconstruction in fragile states
by Cyrus Samii
- wp-2023-25 Estimating tax gaps in Zambia: A bottom-up approach based on audit assessments
by Kwabena Adu-Ababio & Aliisa Koivisto & Eliya Lungu & Evaristo Mwale & Jonathan Msoni & Kangwa Musole
- wp-2023-24 Natural disasters and economic inequality: Insights from wildfires across the globe
by Jayash Paudel
- wp-2023-23 The family as a cultural nexus
by Raquel Fernández
- wp-2023-22 War violence, nationalism, and party support: Evidence from Italy
by Giacomo Lemoli & Gloria Gennaro
- wp-2023-21 Assessing the impact of an intervention to withhold value-added tax in Zambia
by Kwabena Adu-Ababio & Aliisa Koivisto & Andreya Kumwenda & Gregory Chileshe & John Mulenga & Mutemwa Mebelo & Ian Mufana & Yenda Shamabobo
- wp-2023-20 'It's our turn (not) to learn': the pitfalls of education reform during post-war institutional transformation
by Emily Dunlop & Yasmine Bekkouche & Philip Verwimp
- wp-2023-19 Trade sanctions and informal employment
by Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi & Roberto Nisticò
- wp-2023-18 'Ten pound touts': post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland
by Kristin M. Bakke & Kit Rickard
- wp-2023-17 Armed groups' modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability: Insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars
by Marine Gassier
- wp-2023-16 Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in Mozambique
by Maimuna Ibraimo & Eva-Maria Egger
- wp-2023-15 The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States: A systematic literature review
by Simone Schotte & Tharcisio Leone & Rachel M. Gisselquist
- wp-2023-14 Does affirmative action address ethnic inequality?: A systematic review of the literature
by Simone Schotte & Rachel M. Gisselquist & Tharcisio Leone
- wp-2023-13 Legacies of victimization: Evidence from forced resettlement in Zimbabwe
by Shelley Liu
- wp-2023-12 Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality: A worldwide perspective
by Domenico Moramarco & Flaviana Palmisano
- wp-2023-11 The end of Londongrad? The impact of beneficial ownership transparency on offshore investment in UK property
by Matthew Collin & Florian M. Hollenbach & David Szakonyi
- wp-2023-10 Connecting national ownership and local participation in aid recipient countries: The cases of Rwanda and Cambodia
by Malin Hasselskog & Vedaste Ndizera & Joakim Öjendal
- wp-2023-9 Inequality and productive structure: New evidence at the world level
by Verónica Amarante & Bibiana Lanzilotta & Joaquín Torres
- wp-2023-8 Aid effectiveness in fragile and conflict-affected contexts: Lessons from more than two decades of research
by David Carment & Yiagadeesen Samy
- wp-2023-7 Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated?: The role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crime
by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero & Nayely Iturbe
- wp-2023-6 The role of social protection and tax policies in cushioning crisis impacts on income and poverty in low- and middle-income countries: A rapid scoping review
by Rodrigo Oliveira & Jesse Lastunen & Pia Rattenhuber & Melissa Samarin & Adnan Abdulaziz Shahir
- wp-2023-5 Evaluating rural roads programmes: A general equilibrium analysis
by Clive Bell
- wp-2023-4 Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data
by Olivier Bargain & Paul Carrillo-Maldonado & Xavier Jara
- wp-2023-3 Enhancing the livelihoods of marginalized indigenous women through customary forests in Bali, Indonesia
by Lukas R. Wibowo & Maharani Hapsari & Rini Astuti & Eusebius Pantja Pramudya & Digby Race & Dewi Ratna Kurniasari & Ismatul Hakim
- wp-2023-2 Climate justice for persons with disability: Few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much
by Gindo Tampubolon
- wp-2023-1 The legacies of authoritarian repression on civil society
by Laia Balcells & Francisco Villamil
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