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2020
- 556 The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns and Expanded Social Assistance on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico
by Nora Lustig & Valentina Martinez Pabon & Federico Sanz & Stephen Younger
- 555 The Macroeconomics of Pandemics around the World: Lives versus Livelihoods Revisited
by Ingvild Almås & Tessa Bold & Tillmann von Carnap & Selene Ghisolfi & Justin Sandefur
- 554 Is the World Bank’s COVID Crisis Lending Big Enough, Fast Enough? New Evidence on Loan Disbursements
by Julian Duggan & Scott Morris & Justin Sandefur & George Yang
- 553 New DAC Rules on Debt Relief – A Poor Measure of Donor Effort
by Euan Ritchie
- 552 An Analysis of Clinical Knowledge, Absenteeism, and Availability of Resources for Maternal and Child Health: A Cross-Sectional Quality of Care Study in 10 African Countries
by Laura Di Giorgio & David K. Evans & Magnus Lindelow & Son Nam Nguyen & Jakob Svensson & Waly Wane & Anna Welander Tärneberg
- 551 Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception
by Grant Miller & Áureo de Paula & Christine Valente
- 550 A Rosetta Stone for Human Capital
by Dev Patel & Justin Sandefur
- 549 The Impact of COVID-19 on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Evidence from Two-wave Phone Surveys in China
by Ruochen Dai & Hao Feng & Junpeng Hu & Quan Jin & Huiwen Li & Ranran Wang & Ruixin Wang & Lihe Xu & Xiaobo Zhang
- 548 Deliberative Democracy and the Resource Curse: A Nationwide Experiment in Tanzania
by Justin Sandefur & Nancy Birdsall & James Fishkin & Mujobu Moyo
- 547 The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Income Inequality, Poverty, and the Urban-Rural and Regional Income Gaps in China
by Nora Lustig & Yang Wang
- 546 Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries
by Lee Crawfurd & Todd Pugatch
- 545 How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?
by David K. Evans & Fei Yuan
- 544 Contact and Commitment to Development: Evidence from Quasi-random Missionary Assignments
by Lee Crawfurd
- 543 Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen
by Lasse Brune & Dean Karlan & Sikandra Kurdi & Christopher Udry
- 542 Education in Africa: What Are We Learning?
by David K. Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta
- 541 Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?
by Paasha Mahdavi & Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez & Michael L. Ross
- 540 The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries
by Michael A. Clemens
- 539 Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson’s Paradox
by Michael A. Clemens & Mariapia Mendola
- 538 Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid? Evidence from 15 Countries
by David K. Evans & Fei Yuan & Deon Filmer
- 537 Growth with Adjectives: Global Poverty and Inequality after the Pandemic
by Christopher Hoy & Andy Sumner
- 536 Trade Liberalization and Chinese Students in US Higher Education
by Gaurav Khanna & Kevin Shih & Ariel Weinberger & Mingzhi Xu & Miaojie Yu
- 535 Predicted COVID-19 Fatality Rates Based on Age, Sex, Comorbidities, and Health System Capacity
by Selene Ghisolfi & Ingvild Almås & Justin Sandefur & Tillmann von Carnap & Jesse Heitner & Tessa Bold
- 534 Practical Lessons for Phone-Based Assessments of Learning
by Noam Angrist & Peter Bergman & David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Matthew C. H. Jukes & Thato Letsomo
- 533 The IMF’s Growth Forecasts for Poor Countries Don’t Match Its COVID Narrative
by Justin Sandefur & Arvind Subramanian
- 532 Can Tax Buoyancy in Sub-Saharan Africa Help Finance the Sustainable Development Goals?
by Sanjeev Gupta & Jianhong Liu
- 531 Headship and Poverty in Africa
by Caitlin Brown & Dominique van de Walle
- 530 Can Boosting Savings and Skills Support Female Business Owners in Indonesia? Evidence from A Randomized Controlled Trial
by Mayra Buvinic & Hillary C. Johnson & Elizaveta Perova & Firman Witoelar
- 529 Finance for International Development (FID): A New Measure to Compare Traditional and Emerging Provider Countries’ Official Development Finance Efforts, and Some Provisional Results
by Ian Mitchell & Euan Ritchie & Andrew Rogerson
- 528 Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children
by Amber Peterman & Alina Potts & Megan O'Donnell & Kelly Thompson & Niyati Shah & Sabine Oertelt-Prigione & Nicole van Gelder
- 527 SDG1: The Last Three Percent
by Martin Ravallion
- 526 Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
by Darin Christensen & Oeindrila Dube & Johannes Haushofer & Bilal Siddiqi & Maarten Voors
- 525 A Decision Tree for Digital Financial Inclusion Policymaking
by Stijn Claessens & Liliana Rojas-Suarez
- 524 Revisiting Aid Effectiveness: A New Framework and Set of Measures for Assessing Aid "Quality"
by Caitlin McKee & Catherine Blampied & Ian Mitchell & Andrew Rogerson
- 523 Gender Gaps in Education: The Long View
by David K. Evans & Maryam Akmal & Pamela Jakiela
2019
2018
- 498 The Dilemma of the African Development Bank: Does Governance Matter for the Long-Run Financing of the MDBs?
by Nancy Birdsall
- 497 The Medium-Run and Scale-Up Effects of Performance-Based Financing: An Extension of Rwanda’s 2006 Trial Using Secondary Data
by Diana Ngo & Sebastian Bauhoff
- 496 The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Granting Refugees Formal Labor Market Access
by Michael Clemens & Cindy Huang & Jimmy Graham
- 495 The Elusive Quest for Additionality
by Patrick Carter & Nicolas Van de Sijpe & Raphael Calel
- 494 The Impact of Civil Conflict on Child Malnutrition and Mortality, Nigeria, 2002-2013
by Embry Howell & Timothy Waidmann & Nikhil Holla & Nancy Birdsall & Kevin Jiang
- 493 How Do African Firms Respond to Unreliable Power? Exploring Firm Heterogeneity Using K-Means Clustering
by Vijaya Ramachandran & Manju Kedia Shah & Todd Moss
- 492 Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule?
by Martin Ravallion
- 491 If You Build It, Will They Consume? Key Challenges for Universal, Reliable, and Low-Cost Electricity Delivery in Kenya
by Jay Taneja
- 490 Competing or Complementary Strategies? Protecting Indigenous Rights and Paying to Conserve Forests
by William Savedoff
- 489 Digital Governance in Developing Countries: Beneficiary Experience and Perceptions of System Reform in Rajasthan, India
by Alan Gelb & Anit Mukherjee & Kyle Navis
- 488 Projected Health Financing Transitions: Timeline and Magnitude
by Rachel Silverman
- 487 The Rise of the Robot Reserve Army: Automation and the Future of Economic Development, Work, and Wages in Developing Countries
by Lukas Schlogl & Andy Sumner
- 486 Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: Proposed Approach to Assessing Performance and Awarding Returns for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility
by Michael Wolosin & Michele de Nevers & Kenneth Lay & Patricia Bliss-Guest
- 485 Three Decades of Poverty Mobility in Nigeria: The Trapped, the Freed, and the Never Trapped
by Zuhumnan Dapel
- 484 Speeding Sustainable Development: Integrating Economic, Social, and Environmental Development
by Charles Kenny
- 483 Will the Poor in Nigeria Escape Poverty in Their Lifetime?
by Zuhumnan Dapel
- 482 Guaranteed Employment or Guaranteed Income?
by Martin Ravallion
- 481 Using Supervised Learning to Select Audit Targets in Performance-Based Financing in Health: An Example from Zambia
by Dhruv Grover & Sebastian Bauhoff & Jed Friedman
- 480 Does Deforestation Increase Malaria Prevalence? Evidence from Satellite Data and Health Surveys
by Sebastian Bauhoff & Jonah Busch
- 479 Alleviating Global Poverty: Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth
by Lant Pritchett
- 478 hort-Term Impacts of Improved Access to Mobile Savings, with and without Business Training: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
by Gautam Bastian & Iacopo Bianchi & Markus Goldstein & Joao Montalvao
- 477 Paraguay: Is Good Macro Policy Enough to Ensure Adequate Resilience to Adverse External Shocks? How Does It Compare to Other Emerging Markets?
by Liliana Rojas-Suarez
- 476 Guyana’s REDD+ Agreement with Norway: Perceptions of and Impacts on Indigenous Communities
by Tim Laing
- 475 FDI and Supply Chains in Horticulture (Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers, Raw, Packaged, Cut, and Processed): Diversifying Exports and Reducing Poverty in Africa, Latin America, and Other Developing Economies
by Theodore H. Moran
- 474 Measures of Global Public Goods and International Spillovers
by Charles Kenny & Mallika Snyder & Dev Patel
2017
2016
- 445 The Impact of Anti-Money Laundering Regulation on Payment Flows: Evidence from SWIFT Data
by Matt Collin & Samantha Cook & Kimmo Soramäki
- 444 Internationally Comparable Mathematics Scores for Fourteen African Countries
by Justin Sandefur
- 443 The Impact of Taxes, Transfers, and Subsidies on Inequality and Poverty in Uganda
by Jon Jellema & Nora Lustig & Astrid Haas & Sebastian Wolf
- 442 Fiscal Policy, Inequality and Poverty in Iran: Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of Taxes and Transfers the Poor in the Developing World
by Ali Enami & Nora Lustig & Alireza Taqdiri
- 441 Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Poor in the Developing World
by Nora Lustig
- 440 Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Three Countries
by Pascaline Dupas & Dean Karlan & Jonathan Robinson & Diego Ubfal
- 439 Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Facts and Obstacles
by Liliana Rojas-Suarez
- 438 Glimpsing the End of Economic History? Unconditional Convergence and the Missing Middle Income Trap
by Sutirtha Roy & Martin Kessler & Arvind Subramanian
- 437 Results Through Transparency: Does Publicity Lead to Better Procurement?
by Charles Kenny & Ben Crisman
- 436 Unauthorized Mexican Workers in the United States: Recent Inflows and Possible Future Scenarios
by Pia Orrenius & Madeline Zavodny
- 435 Biometric Elections in Poor Countries: Wasteful or a Worthwhile Investment?
by Alan Gelb & Anna Diofasi
- 434 Searching for the Devil in the Details: Learning about Development Program Design
by Sara Nadel & Lant Pritchett
- 432 The Impact of Legislation on the Hazard of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Burkina Faso
by Ben Crisman & Sarah Dykstra & Charles Kenny & Megan O'Donnell
- 431 Practical Considerations with Using Mobile Phone Survey Incentives: Experiences in Ghana and Tanzania
by Robert Morello & Benjamin Leo
- 430 Program for Results: The First 35 Operations
by Alan Gelb & Anna Diofasi & Hannah Postel
- 429 Estimating the Avertable Disease Burden and Cost-Effectiveness in Millions Saved Third Edition
by Andrew Mirelman & Amanda Glassman & Miriam Temin
- 428 Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers
by Michael Clemens & Claudio E. Montenegro & Lant Pritchett
- 427 The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay (Spanish)
by Nora Lustig
- 426 Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes
by Grant Miller & Christine Valente
- 425 Designing Contracts for the Global Fund: Lessons from the Theory of Incentives
by Liam Wren-Lewis
- 424 Global Health Donors Viewed as Regulators of Monopolistic Service Providers: Lessons from Regulatory Literature
by Han Ye
- 423 The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment
by Michael Clemens & Lant Pritchett
- 422 Family Planning Program Effects: A Review of Evidence from Microdata
by Grant Miller & Kimberly Singer Babiarz
- 421 The New Role of the World Bank
by Michael Clemens & Michael Kremer
2015
- 420 Changes in Funding Patterns by Latin American Banking Systems: How Large? How Risky?
by Liliana Rojas-Suarez & José María Serena
- 419 Comparing Emissions Mitigation Efforts across Countries
by William Pizer & Joseph Aldy & Keigo Akimoto
- 418 Asking What the People Want: Using Mobile Phone Surveys to Identify Citizen Priorities
by Benjamin Leo & Robert Morello
- 417 Toward Better Global Poverty Measures
by Martin Ravallion
- 416 What Determines Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates?
by Alan Gelb & Anna Diofasi
- 415 Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
by Michael Clemens
- 414 The Politics of Priority Setting in Health: A Political Economy Perspective
by Katharina Hauck & Peter C. Smith
- 413 Philanthropy, Welfare Capitalism or Radically Different Global Economic Model: What Would It Take to End Global Poverty within a Generation Based on Historical Growth Patterns?
by Peter Edward & Andy Sumner
- 412 Taxes: Price of Civilization or Tribute to Leviathan?
by Lant Pritchett & Yamini Aiyar
- 411 The Future of Forests: Emissions from Tropical Deforestation with and without a Carbon Price, 2016–2050
by Jonah Busch & Jens Engelmann
- 410 Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa
by Nora Lustig
- 409 Manufacturing or Services? An Indian Illustration of a Development Dilemma
by Amrit Amirapu & Arvind Subramanian
- 408 The Health Consequences of Aerial Spraying of Illicit Crops: The Case of Colombia
by Adriana Camacho & Daniel Mejia
- 407 How the New International Goal for Child Mortality Is Unfair to Africa (Again)
by Simon Lange & Stephan Klasen
- 406 Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger
by Jenny C. Aker & Christopher Ksoll
- 405 Can a Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor?
by Sean Higgins & Nora Lustig
- 404 The Financial Secrecy Index: Shedding New Light on the Geography of Secrecy
by Alex Cobham & Petr Janský & Markus Meinzer
- 403 New Estimates of Global Poverty and Inequality: How Much Difference Do Price Data Really Make?
by Peter Edward & Andy Sumner
- 402 Guarantees, Subsidies, or Paying for Success? Choosing the Right Instrument to Catalyze Private Investment in Developing Countries
by Owen Barder & Theodore Talbot
- 401 The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies to Expand Treatment to HIV-Positive South Africans: Scale Economies and Outreach Costs
by Gesine Meyer-Rath & Mead Over & Daniel J. Klein & Anna Bershteyn
- 400 The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints
by Martin Ravallion
- 399 The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
by Michael Clemens
- 398 Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?
by Ben Leo & Robert Morello & Jonathan Mellon & Tiago Peixoto & Stephen Davenport
- 397 Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala
by Maynor Cabrera & Nora Lustig & Hilcías E. Morán
- 396 Trade, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States
by Davide Gandolfi & Timothy Halliday & Raymond Robertson
- 395 Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths
by Willa Friedman
- 394 The Impact of Gavi on Vaccination Rates: Regression Discontinuity Evidence
by Sarah Dykstra & Amanda Glassman & Charles Kenny & Justin Sandefur
- 393 The Face of African Infrastructure: Service Availability and Citizens' Demands
by Benjamin Leo & Robert Morello & Vijaya Ramachandran
2014