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  • Crops, Conflict and Climate Change (English)

    This paper studies the welfare impacts of agricultural shocks on households with detailed heterogeneity, by taking consumption, land, and labor allocation choices into account. The underlying model is...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS11018 Document Date: January 7, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Erhan Artuc,Porto,Guido,Bob Rijkers

  • Crisis Credit, Employment Protection, Indebtedness, and Risk (English)

    This paper studies how credit guarantee and employment protection programs interact in assisting firms during crises times. The paper analyzes how these government programs influence credit allocation...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10958 Document Date: October 24, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Huneeus,Federico,Kaboski,Joseph P.,Larrain,Mauricio,Sergio Schmukler,Vera,Mario

  • It Takes a Village Election : Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies (English)

    In many countries, local governments struggle with inefficiency and corruption, often perpetuated by entrenched elites. This paper explores how leadership changes affect local bureaucratic performance...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10920 Document Date: September 19, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bazzi,Samuel,Hilmy,Masyhur,Marx,Benjamin,Mahvish Ifrah Shaukat,Stegmann,Andreas

  • Small Area Estimation of Poverty in Four West African Countries by Integrating Survey and Geospatial Data (English)

    The paper presents a methodology to generate experimental small area estimates of poverty in four West African countries: Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Niger. Due to the absence of recent census data in these...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10892 Document Date: September 4, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie,David Newhouse,Tzavidis,Nikos,Schmid,Timo,Elizabeth Mary Foster,Hernandez,Angela Luna,Aissatou Ouedraogo,Aly Sanoh,Aboudrahyme Savadogo

  • Thriving beyond Borders ? Understanding Refugee Children’s Life Outcomes (English)

    By 2023, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, with children under 18 constituting 45 percent. This study examines the human development gaps between forcibly displaced migrant...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10765 Document Date: May 6, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hiller,Tatiana,Moya,Andrés,Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana

  • Reviewing Assessment Tools for Measuring Country Statistical Capacity (English)

    Country statistical capacity is increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no academic study exists that reviews the available assessment tools. This paper offers the first review study that...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10717 Document Date: March 6, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Pullinger,John James,Serajuddin,Umar,Stacy,Brian William

  • Recording the Time Divide : A Comparative Study of Smartphone- and Recall-Based Approaches to Time Use Measurement (English)

    Based on a randomized survey experiment in Malawi, this study examines how innovative techniques in time use data collection could sidestep measurement concerns with traditional recall-based time use measurement...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10695 Document Date: February 7, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kilic,Talip,Koolwal,Gayatri B.,Vundru,Wilbert Drazi,Daum,Thomas Lothar Georg,Buchwald,Hannes,Seymour,Greg,Mvula,Peter Mathias,Munthali,Alister Chaundumuka,Kachinjika,Monice

  • Containing Tariff Evasion (English)

    To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10606 Document Date: November 14, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anne,Clement Xavier Frederik,Chalendard,Cyril Romain,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Rijkers,Bob,Vicard,Vincent

  • Using Large Language Models for Qualitative Analysis can Introduce Serious Bias (English)

    Large Language Models (LLMs) are quickly becoming ubiquitous, but the implications for social science research are not yet well understood. This paper asks whether LLMs can help us analyse large-N qualitative...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10597 Document Date: November 7, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ashwin,Julian,Chhabra,Aditya,Rao,Vijayendra

  • The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises : Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (English)

    How do proven strategies to improve the economic conditions of ultra-poor households hold up against the increasing severity and co-incidence of economic, security, and climate shocks? Five years after...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10596 Document Date: November 6, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Belyakova,Yulia,Coville,Aidan,Escande,Thomas,Isaqzadeh,Mohammad,Ndiaye,Aminata

  • Influence of COVID-19 on Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : A Mixed-Methods Analysis (English)

    This study investigates how the landscape of sex work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, evolved in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic. Using a mixed-methods approach, the analysis triangulates data from quantitative...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10572 Document Date: September 26, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Balampama,Marianna,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Dow,William H.,Hémono,Rebecca

  • The Internationalization of China’s Equity Markets (English)

    The internationalization of China’s equity markets started in the early 2000s but accelerated after 2012, when Chinese firms’ shares listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen gradually became available to international...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10513 Document Date: June 28, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cortina Lorente,Juan Jose,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad,Schmukler,Sergio L.,Xiao,Jasmine