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- wp-2018-190 What is the state of the manufacturing sector in Mozambique?
by Peter Fisker & Søren Schou
- wp-2018-189 Inequality trends and dynamics in India: The bird's-eye and the granular perspectives
by Hai‐Anh H. Dang & Peter Lanjouw
- wp-2018-188 Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989-2014
by Raymundo M. Campos-Vázquez & Nora Lustig & John Scott
- wp-2018-187 Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India
by Roy van der Weide & Melinda Vigh
- wp-2018-186 What are the main drivers of Brazilian income distribution changes in the new millennium?
by Marcelo Neri
- wp-2018-185 Information, identification, or neither?: Experimental evidence on role models in Vietnam
by Gaia Narciso & Carol Newman & Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-184 Taking stock of South African income inequality
by Murray Leibbrandt & Vimal Ranchhod & Pippa Green
- wp-2018-183 Top incomes in China: Data collection and the impact on income inequality
by Qinghai Li & Shi Li & Haiyuan Wan
- wp-2018-182 The dynamics of spatial and local inequalities in India
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay & David Garcés Urzainqui
- wp-2018-181 A new inequality estimate for urban India?: Using house prices to estimate inequality in Mumbai
by Gerton Rongen
- wp-2018-180 Construction and public procurement in Uganda
by Emanuele Colonnelli & Nicole Ntungire
- wp-2018-179 Uganda's oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed?
by Sebastian Wolf & Vishal Aditya Potluri
- wp-2018-178 Understanding the boom: A framing paper
by Mark Henstridge
- wp-2018-177 Understanding the boom: Country study—Tanzania
by Mark Henstridge
- wp-2018-176 From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy: Explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- wp-2018-175 Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century: Poverty, vulnerability, and mobility, 1987-2012
by Hai‐Anh H. Dang & Peter Lanjouw
- wp-2018-174 Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policy
by Shi Li & Terry Sicular & Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-173 Assessing the quality of the income data used in SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model
by Gemma Wright & Helen Barnes & Michael Noble & David McLennan & Faith Masekesa
- wp-2018-172 The role of the construction sector in influencing natural resource use, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia
by Caesar Cheelo & Robert Liebenthal
- wp-2018-171 Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from an experimental study
by Cuong Viet Nguyen & Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-170 Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world
by Andrew E. Clark & Conchita D'Ambrosio
- wp-2018-169 Welfare dynamics in rural Vietnam: Learning from regular, high-quality panel data
by Andy McKay & Saurabh Singhal & Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-168 Tax-benefit microsimulation model in developing countries: A feasibility study for an extension of SOUTHMOD in Indonesia
by Arip Muttaqien & Denisa Sologon & Cathal O'Donoghue
- wp-2018-167 Social capital and household vulnerability: New evidence from rural Vienam
by Thang T. Vo
- wp-2018-166 Understanding the implications of the boom-bust cycle of global copper prices for natural resources, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia
by Robert Liebenthal & Caesar Cheelo
- wp-2018-165 Top income adjustments and tax reforms in Ecuador
by Xavier Jara & Nicolás Oliva
- wp-2018-164 The welfare impact of Vietnam's national target programme 'building a new countryside': A quasi-experimental evaluation
by Philip Verwimp & Sisi Zhang
- wp-2018-163 Wage growth and inequality in urban China: 1988-2013
by Björn Gustafsson & Haiyuan Wan
- wp-2018-162 Drivers of inequality in South Africa
by Janina Hundenborn & Murray Leibbrandt & Ingrid Woolard
- wp-2018-161 Linked in by foreign direct investment: The role of firm-level relationships in knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia
by Carol Newman & John Page & John Rand & Abebe Shimeles & Måns Söderbom & Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-160 Comparing global inequality of income and wealth
by James B. Davies & Anthony F. Shorrocks
- wp-2018-159 The costs and benefits of formalization for firms: A mixed-methods study on Mozambique
by Hanna Berkel
- wp-2018-158 Land tenure security and internal migration in Tanzania
by Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha & Wilhelm Ngasamiaku & Remidius D. Ruhinduka & Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-157 Earnings inequality in the Brazilian formal sector: The role of firms, education, and top incomes 1994-2015
by Marcelo Neri & Cecilia Machado & Valdemar Pinho Neto
- wp-2018-156 The gender gap, education, and the life cycle profile in the Brazilian formal labour market
by Cecilia Machado & Marcelo Neri & Valdemar Pinho Neto
- wp-2018-155 The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in six African countries
by Katrin Gasior & Chrysa Leventi & Michael Noble & Gemma Wright & Helen Barnes
- wp-2018-154 Individual-level employment transitions in rural Vietnam
by Quang-Thanh Ngo
- wp-2018-153 The long-term evolution of income inequality and poverty in China
by Luo Chuliang & Li Shi & Terry Sicular
- wp-2018-152 Local content law and practice: The case of the oil and gas industry in Ghana
by Charles Godfred Ackah & Asaah S. Mohammed
- wp-2018-151 Unemployment insurance and income protection in Ecuador
by Xavier Jara
- wp-2018-150 Rethinking Asian Drama
by Deepak Nayyar
- wp-2018-149 Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
by Daniele Checchi & Andrej Cupak & Teresa Munzi & Janet Gornick
- wp-2018-148 Income under-reporting and tax evasion: How they impact inequality in Vietnam
by Hai Anh La & Duc Anh Dang
- wp-2018-147 Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality: A microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in Ghana
by Kwabena Adu-Ababio & Robert Darko Osei
- wp-2018-146 The role of the construction sector
by Martina Kirchberger
- wp-2018-145 Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana
by Martin Evans
- wp-2018-144 Fuel subsidies and income redistribution in Ecuador
by Xavier Jara & Po Chun Lee & Lourdes Montesdeoca & Marcelo Varela
- wp-2018-143 The evolution of private returns to education during post-conflict transformation: Evidence from Mozambique
by Sam Jones & Thomas Pave Sohnesen & Neda Trifković
- wp-2018-142 Crop prices and migration in Vietnam
by Gaia Narciso
- wp-2018-141 What might explain today's conflicting narratives on global inequality?
by Martin Ravallion
- wp-2018-140 Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gas
by Alan R. Roe
- wp-2018-139 A 2013 Social Accounting Matrix for Zimbabwe
by Rob Davies & Marko Kwaramba & Dirk van Seventer
- wp-2018-138 My journey through the history of development economics
by Erik Thorbecke
- wp-2018-137 Top incomes' impacts on inequality, growth, and social welfare: Combining surveys and income tax data in Brazil
by Marcelo Neri & Marcos Hecksher
- wp-2018-136 Fiscal redistribution in Brazil: Dynamic microsimulation, 2003-15
by Marcelo Neri & Rozane Siqueira & José Ricardo Nogueira & Manuel Osorio
- wp-2018-135 Asian development after the Asian Drama
by Richard Kozul-Wright & Daniel Poon
- wp-2018-134 Ethnicity and risk sharing network formation: Evidence from rural Vietnam
by Quynh Hoang & Laure Pasquier-Doumer & Camille Saint-Macary
- wp-2018-133 Optimal local content for extractive industries: How can policies best create benefits for Tanzania?
by Mia Ellis & Margaret McMillan
- wp-2018-132 Institutions and Asia's development: The role of norms and organizational power
by Mushtaq H. Khan
- wp-2018-131 Role of the construction sector and key bottlenecks to supply response in Tanzania
by Geraldine J. Kikwasi & Cecilia Escalante
- wp-2018-130 The impact of commercialization of rice on household welfare in rural Vietnam
by Chiara Cazzuffi & Andy McKay & Emilie Perge
- wp-2018-129 Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in Brazil
by Marcelo Neri & Tiago Bonomo
- wp-2018-128 New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in Brazil
by Marcos Hecksher & Marcelo Neri & Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva
- wp-2018-127 Multidimensional poverty in Vietnam: Evidence from a rural household survey
by Hoang Xuan Diem & Tran Van Hoang
- wp-2018-126 Vietnam: The dragon that rose from the ashes
by Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-125 Unexpected effects of land fragmentation
by Trung Xuan Hoang
- wp-2018-124 A short history of India's economy: A chapter in the Asian drama
by Kaushik Basu
- wp-2018-123 Tax-motivated transfer mispricing in South Africa: Direct evidence using transaction data
by Ludvig Wier
- wp-2018-122 Risk and investment: Evidence from rural Vietnam
by Carol Newman & Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-121 Poverty and inequality in Asia: 1965-2014
by Guanghua Wan & Chen Wang
- wp-2018-120 Industrial development in Asia: Trends in industrialization and industrial policy experiences of developing Asia
by Ha-Joon Chang & Kiryl Zach
- wp-2018-119 The role of the construction sector in Ghana
by Nkechi Owoo & Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio
- wp-2018-118 Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development: Local content in Zambia—a faltering experience?
by Wilfred C. Lombe
- wp-2018-117 The construction sector in Mozambique: An overview
by António S. Cruz & Francisco Fernandes & Fausto J. Mafambissa & Francisco Pereira
- wp-2018-116 Puzzle me this?: The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap
by Thanos Mergoupis & Van Phan & John G. Sessions
- wp-2018-115 Causal pluralism and mixed methods in the analysis of poverty dynamics
by Paul Shaffer
- wp-2018-114 Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Vietnam agriculture
by Loren Brandt & Stephen Ayerst & Diego Restuccia
- wp-2018-113 What are the prospects for Mozambique to diversify its economy on the back of 'local content'?
by Evelyn Dietsche & Ana Maria Esteves
- wp-2018-112 The state and development
by Peter Evans & Patrick Heller
- wp-2018-111 Big and 'unprofitable': How 10 per cent of multinational firms do 98 per cent of profit shifting
by Ludvig Wier & Hayley Reynolds
- wp-2018-110 Enhancing local content in Uganda's oil and gas industry
by Ritwika Sen
- wp-2018-109 Revisiting the methodology of Myrdal in Asian Drama 50 years on
by Frances Stewart
- wp-2018-108 Multidimensional poverty of children in Mozambique
by Kristi Mahrt & Andrea Rossi & Vincenzo Salvucci & Finn Tarp
- wp-2018-107 Employment and development in Asia
by Rolph van der Hoeven
- wp-2018-106 Earnings polarization, ethnicity, and regional perspective in Indonesia
by Arip Muttaqien & Denisa Sologon & Cathal O'Donoghue
- wp-2018-105 Socio-economic development in South Asia: The past 50 years
by S. R. Osmani
- wp-2018-104 Impacts of accessing extension on agricultural production profit: Empirical evidence from the Vietnam Access to Rural Households Survey
by Do Huy Thiep & Nguyen Thi Cam Nhung
- wp-2018-103 Pro-poor growth in Indonesia: Challenging the pessimism of Myrdal's Asian Drama
by Peter Timmer
- wp-2018-102 Gunnar Myrdal and Asian Drama in context
by Ravi Kanbur
- wp-2018-101 Escaping the periphery: The East Asian 'mystery' solved
by Robert Wade
- wp-2018-100 The gender gap in firm productivity in Rwanda: Evidence from establishment and household enterprise data
by Ggombe Kasim Munyegera & Akampumuza Precious
- wp-2018-99 Extractives for development: Ten main messages
by Tony Addison & Alan R. Roe
- wp-2018-98 How does joint evolution of social trust and land administration shape economic outcomes?: Evidence from Vietnam
by Duc Anh Dang & Kim Khoi Dang & Thi Lan Vu
- wp-2018-97 Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare
by Sudipto Mundle
- wp-2018-96 Rental markets, gender, and land certificates: Evidence from Vietnam
by Luciano Ayala Cantu & Bruno Morando
- wp-2018-95 Nationalism and development in Asia
by Prasenjit Duara
- wp-2018-94 Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus three
by Manuel F. Montes
- wp-2018-93 Understanding farmers' valuation of agricultural insurance: Evidence from Vietnam
by Michael King & Anuj Pratab Singh
- wp-2018-92 China's growth miracle in the context of Asian transformation
by Justin Yifu Lin
- wp-2018-91 A macroeconomic perspective on Asian development
by Amit Bhaduri
- wp-2018-90 The effect of top incomes on inequality in South Africa
by Janina Hundenborn & Ingrid Woolard & Jon Jellema
- wp-2018-89 The boom, the bust, and the dynamics of oil resource management in Ghana
by Ernest Aryeetey & Ishmael Ackah
- wp-2018-88 Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Vietnam
by Ryan Abman & Conor Carney
- wp-2018-87 Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development
by Rob Vos
- wp-2018-86 Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households
by Adelaide Baronchelli & Roberto Ricciuti
- wp-2018-85 Asia and the world economy in historical perspective
by Ronald Findlay
- wp-2018-84 Climate change and the extractives sector
by Tony Addison
- wp-2018-83 The evolution and determination of earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
by Arden Finn & Murray Leibbrandt
- wp-2018-82 Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa: Assessment using administrative tax data
by Stewart Ngandu & Carolyn Chisadza
- wp-2018-81 Private beats public: A flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers
by Kasper Brandt
- wp-2018-80 Certification and business risk
by Neda Trifković
- wp-2018-79 Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South Africa
by Mashekwa Maboshe & Ingrid Woolard
- wp-2018-78 Slack resources and innovation in Vietnamese SMEs: A behavioural, stewardship, and institutional perspective
by Tam Thanh Nguyen & Trinh Duc Chieu
- wp-2018-77 Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh
by Christophe J. Nordman & Leopold Sarr & Smriti Sharma
- wp-2018-76 Tenurial security and agricultural investment: Evidence from Vietnam
by Marc F. Bellemare & Kenn Chua & Julieth Santamaria & Khoa Vu
- wp-2018-75 What does it mean to be poor?: Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique
by Sam Jones & Inge Tvedten
- wp-2018-74 On the persistence of growth for South African firms
by Mulalo Mamburu
- wp-2018-73 Rural roads and urban agglomeration economies: Benefits for town and country?
by Clive Bell
- wp-2018-72 Pecuniary returns to working conditions in Vietnam
by Christophe J. Nordman & Smriti Sharma
- wp-2018-71 Does union membership pay off?: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs
by Nina Torm
- wp-2018-70 Horizontal inequality as a dependent variable
by Carla Canelas & Rachel M. Gisselquist
- wp-2018-69 How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?
by Axel Demenet & Quynh Hoang
- wp-2018-68 Rowing against the current: Diversification in Africa's resource-rich economies
by John Page
- wp-2018-67 Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growth in Vietnam
by Christina Kinghan & Carol Newman & Conor M. O'Toole
- wp-2018-66 The interaction of institutional quality and human capital in shaping the dynamics of capital structure in Vietnam
by Enrico Santarelli & Hien Thu Tran
- wp-2018-65 Early life shocks and mental health: The long-term effect of war in Vietnam
by Saurabh Singhal
- wp-2018-64 Why do household businesses in Vietnam stay informal?
by Thi Bich Tran & Hai Anh La
- wp-2018-63 The information content of the yield spread about future inflation in South Africa
by Manqoba Ntshakala & Laurence Harris
- wp-2018-62 We need land first: Identifying local needs for sustainable recovery after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal
by Lulu He
- wp-2018-61 Simulating the effect on households' real consumption and poverty of the increase in prices that followed the 2015-16 economic crisis in Mozambique
by Félix Mambo & Yonesse Paris & Vincenzo Salvucci & Ricardo Santos
- wp-2018-60 Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: An application to Mozambique
by Carlos Gradín
- wp-2018-59 NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions
by Faraz Usmani & Marc Jeuland & Subhrendu K. Pattanayak
- wp-2018-58 Maternal mortality and women's political participation
by Sonia Bhalotra & Damian Clarke & Joseph Gomes & Atheendar Venkataramani
- wp-2018-57 The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK
by Catherine Gladwell & Jennie Thomas & Georgina Chetwynd & Saliha Majeed & Carolyn Burke & Victoria Stubbs & Seemin Zahid
- wp-2018-56 Extractive industries and development: Lessons from international experience for Mozambique
by Alan R. Roe
- wp-2018-55 Horizontal inequality and data challenges
by Carla Canelas & Rachel M. Gisselquist
- wp-2018-54 Humanitarian economics
by Gilles Carbonnier
- wp-2018-53 Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa
by Carlos Gradín
- wp-2018-52 Do multinational companies shift profits out of developing countries?: How data availability may hide the evidence
by Caroline Schimanski
- wp-2018-51 Zambia's mining windfall tax
by Olav Lundstøl & Jan Isaksen
- wp-2018-50 Policy transparency in the public sector: The case of social benefits in Tanzania
by Gemma Wright & Vincent Leyaro & Elineema Kisanga & Christine Byaruhanga