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      Journal Article This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
      Problematizing state capacity
      – The Rwandan case
      Leander Heldring, James A. Robinson - Journal of Institutional Economics , 2023
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      Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states
      – The origins and expansion of the income tax
      Per F. Andersson - Journal of Institutional Economics , 2023
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      Conceptualizing the fiscal state
      – Implications for sub-Saharan Africa
      Matilde Jeppesen, Ane Karoline Bak, Anne Mette Kjaer - Journal of Institutional Economics , 2023
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      Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting
      – Rules versus discretionary budgets
      Dilip Mookherjee, Anusha Nath - World Development , 2023
      Part of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
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      The long-term economic legacies of rebel rule in civil war
      – Micro evidence from Colombia
      Ana María Ibáñez, Ana Arjona, Julián Arteaga, Juan Camilo Cárdenas - Journal of Conflict Resolution
      THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | A growing literature has documented widespread variation in the extent to which insurgents provide public goods, collect taxes, and regulate civilian conduct. This paper offers what is, to our knowledge, the first study of the long-term economic legacies of rebel...
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      The gendered crisis
      – Livelihoods and wellbeing in India during COVID-19
      Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy - Feminist Economics
      THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This article studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. First, the study finds that men’s employment declined by 84 percentage points during the pandemic...
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      The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns
      – Evidence from Ghana
      Simone Schotte, Michael Danquah, Robert Darko Osei, Kunal Sen - Journal of African Economies , 2023
      In this study, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially...
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      Evolution of multidimensional poverty in crisis-ridden Mozambique
      Eva-Maria Egger, Vincenzo Salvucci, Finn Tarp - Social Indicators Research , 2023
      Mozambique experienced important reductions in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit, an armed insurgency stroke in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, and the country started suffering from a hidden debt crisis with associated economic slowdown. As the last...
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      Improving parenting practices for early child development
      – Experimental evidence from Rwanda
      Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone, Pierfrancesco Rolla, Monique Abimpaye - Journal of the European Economic Association
      THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This study investigates the short- and medium-term impact of a randomized group-based early child development program targeting parents of children aged 6–24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. This low-intensity, short-duration, and low-cost program engaged...
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      Educational expansion and shifting private returns to education
      – Evidence from Mozambique
      Sam Jones, Thomas Pave Sohnesen, Neda Trifković - Journal of International Development
      THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | We examine how returns to education have evolved in the context of post-conflict reconstruction and economic growth in Mozambique over the period 1996–2015. We show that private rates of return to education have declined at lower levels of schooling, but remained...
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      Aid and social cohesion
      Michael Danquah, Bazoumana Ouattara - , 2023
      A plethora of work has been done on the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, virtually none of the previous cross- country macro studies have investigated the impact of aid on social cohesion. Yet, in order to promote the achievement of the targets in SDG 16, donors and global partners of...
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      Discerning trends in international metal prices in the presence of non-stationary volatility
      Tony Addison, Atanu Ghoshray - Resource and Energy Economics , 2023
      In this study, we develop an empirical framework that allows us to trace out a time path of metal prices. This framework shows that unpredictable shifts in demand, extraction costs and discovery of reserves, make estimation of the slope of this underlying trend an empirical question. Further, the...
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      Africa’s lockdown dilemma
      – High poverty and low trust
      Eva-Maria Egger, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino, Ivan Manhique, Ricardo Santos - Journal of International Development
      THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, sub-Saharan African countries faced the dilemma of how to minimize viral transmission without adversely affecting the poor. This study proposes an index of lockdown readiness, taking into account housing conditions and income...
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      Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban sub-Saharan Africa?
      Eva-Maria Egger, Cecilia Poggi, Héctor Rufrancos - Oxford Economic Papers
      THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | We explore the relationship between household welfare and informality, measuring household informality as the share of members’ activities (hours worked or income) without social insurance. We discretize these measures into four bins or portfolios and assess their...
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      A macro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America
      Diksha Arora, Elissa Braunstein, Stephanie Seguino - World Development
      Part of Journal Special Issue Women’s Work
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      Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labor market outcomes in an emerging economy
      – Evidence from Indonesia
      Niken Kusumawardhani, Rezanti Pramana, Nurmala Selly Saputri, Daniel Suryadarma - World Development
      Part of Journal Special Issue Women’s Work
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