1.
Growth Without Governance
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2928
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 20 Jul 2002
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Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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4,607
2.
Measuring Education Inequality: Gini Coefficients of Education
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2525
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 29 Jan 2001
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Brazil, Peking University and The World Bank
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2,531
3.
Trade, Growth, and Poverty
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2615
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Economic Journal, Vol. 114, pp. F22-F49, February 2004
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 06 Oct 2004
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4.
The Effects of Infrastructure Development on Growth and Income Distribution
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3400
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Central Bank of Chile and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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2,311
5.
Measuring Empowerment in Practice: Structuring Analysis and Framing Indicators
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3510
Number of pages: 123
Posted: 10 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
World Bank and World Bank
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2,077
6.
Social Capital, Household Welfare, and Poverty in Indonesia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2148
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Social Development
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1,919
7.
Micro-Finance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2945
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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1,823
8.
Does Micro-Credit Empower Women? Evidence from Bangladesh
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2998
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Brown University, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank
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1,804
9.
Scaling-Up Microfinance for India's Rural Poor
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3646
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 25 Jul 2005
Working Paper Series
World Bank Group - Finance and Private Sector Division (WBIFP) and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)
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1,774
10.
Sustainability of Microfinance Self Help Groups in India: Would Federating Help?
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3516
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 09 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
World Bank
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1,735
11.
Pro-Poor Growth: A Primer
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3242
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University
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1,686
12.
Growth is Good for the Poor
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2587
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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1,568
13.
Poverty, Education, and Health in Indonesia: Who Benefits from Public Spending?
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2739
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), VU University Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, World Bank - East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1,476
14.
Small and Medium Enterprises, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3178
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Development Research Group, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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1,467
15.
Decentralization: The Way Forward for Rural Development?
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1475
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank
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1,464
16.
Promoting Innovation in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3554
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 12 May 2005
Working Paper Series
World Bank
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1,398
17.
The Mystery of the Vanishing Benefits: Ms. Speedy Analyst's Introduction to Evaluation
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2153
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University
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1,354
18.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3163
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank, World Bank, World Bank and World Bank
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1,341
19.
China's (Uneven) Progress Against Poverty
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3408
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Georgetown University and World Bank
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1,287
20.
Rural Finance for Growth and Poverty Alleviation
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1593
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - South Asia Region, World Bank and World Bank
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1,284
21.
Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition Economies: Progress, Problems, and the Promise
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3282
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank
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1,199
22.
Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Lessons from Latin America
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3119
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Latin America & the Caribbean Region and University of the Americas, Puebla
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1,177
23.
Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Guatemala
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3532
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 01 Apr 2005
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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1,169
24.
Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Budget Surveys
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2876
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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1,071
25.
Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty Reduction
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2613
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, East West Management Institute, Washington DC and World Bank
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1,041
26.
China's Growth and Poverty Reduction: Recent Trends between 1990 and 1999
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2651
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 26 Sep 2001
Working Paper Series
World Bank and Peking University
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1,017
27.
Asset Distribution, Inequality, and Growth
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2375
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and World Bank
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1,004
28.
Pricing Irrigation Water: A Literature Survey
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2449
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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984
29.
Issues in Measuring and Modeling Poverty
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1615
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Georgetown University
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967
30.
The Scaling-Up of Microfinance in Bangladesh: Determinants, Impact, and Lessons
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3398
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank
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950
31.
Malnutrition and Poverty in Guatemala
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2967
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank and World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region
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929
32.
Is a Guaranteed Living Wage a Good Anti-Poverty Policy?
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3640
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 23 Jul 2005
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World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Georgetown University
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33.
Toward Better Regulation of Private Pension Funds
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1791
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 31 Jul 1997
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International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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927
34.
The Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment in a Low Income Country: An Evaluation Using the Difference-in-Differences Approach
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2985
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Jakarta and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
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923
35.
The Long-Run Economic Costs of Aids: Theory and an Application to South Africa
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3152
Number of pages: 116
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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University of Heidelberg - South Asia Institute (SAI), World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region and ETH Zurich - CER-ETH -Center of Economic Reseaarch
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921
36.
When is Growth Pro-Poor? Evidence from the Diverse Experiences of India's States
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2263
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Georgetown University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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897
37.
Remittances and Poverty in Guatemala
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3418
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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876
38.
Reform, Growth, and Poverty in Vietnam
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2837
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC)
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836
39.
Land Rights and Economic Development: Evidence from Vietnam
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3120
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 30 Dec 2004
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World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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814
40.
Ex-Ante Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Case of Bolsa Escola
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2916; William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 516
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 16 Feb 2003
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Paris School of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank - Research Department
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803
41.
Ethnic Minority Development in Vietnam: A Socioeconomic Perspective
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2836
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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University of Sussex - Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Bentley University - Department of Mathematical Sciences and Global Studies, Suffolk University - Department of Economics and Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City - Department of Geography
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774
42.
Health and Poverty in Guatemala
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2966
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region and World Bank
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773
43.
What Determines the Quality of Institutions?
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2764
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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World Bank and World Bank Group
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773
44.
Energy Price Increases in Developing Countries: Case Studies of Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, and Zimbabwe
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1442
Number of pages: 98
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics
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749
45.
Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data
KSG Working Paper No. RWP05-024; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3521
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 16 Feb 2005
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Pomona College - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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749
46.
Inequality is Bad for the Poor
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3677
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 19 Aug 2005
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University
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725
47.
Belief Systems and Durable Inequalities: An Experimental Investigation of Indian Caste
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3351
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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710
48.
Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in Transition Economies
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1530
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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701
49.
Growth and Poverty in Rural India
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1405
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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690
50.
Poverty and Economic Growth in Egypt, 1995-2000
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3068
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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The American University in Cairo - School of Business and Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank
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