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1. Macro-financial implications of public debt in South Africa: The role of financial regimes

2. Nation building in post-conflict settings: Evidence from South Africa

3. Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey

4. Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco

5. Forced migration, aid effectiveness, and the humanitarian–development nexus: The case of Germany’s P4P programme

6. Structural transformation and international trade: Evidence from the China shock

7. Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation: Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries

8. Gendered implications of the waves of COVID19 and economic upgrading trajectories in digital value chains: Insights from Kenyan agricultural platforms

9. Language and student learning: Evidence from an ethnographic study in Mozambique

10. Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation: Evidence from the United Kingdom’s age of austerity

11. Sanction-busting through tax havens

12. Employment transitions with high unemployment and a small informal sector: Examining worker flows during normal and recessionary periods in South Africa

13. More information, better knowledge? The effects of information campaigns on aid beneficiaries’ knowledge of aid projects

14. Armed group opportunism in the face of recent crises: COVID-19 and climate change

15. European aid to the MENA region after the Arab uprisings: A window of opportunity missed

16. India’s economic development since independence: An interpretative survey

17. India’s development cooperation in Africa: The case of ‘Solar Mamas’ who bring light

18. Fiscal dependence on extractive revenues: Measurement and concepts

19. The violent legacy of fascism: Neofascist political violence in Italy, 1969–88

20. Assessment of institutional set-up of results measurement and reporting systems for non-sovereign operations in development finance institutions

21. Absolute or relative: perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique

22. Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development: Insights from development studies

23. Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in Mozambique

24. Armed groups’ modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability: Insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars

25. ‘Ten pound touts’: post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland

26. Trade sanctions and informal employment

27. Identity and support for policies towards Indigenous people: Evidence from Australia

28. The political economy of women’s empowerment policies in India

29. Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa

30. ‘Delangokubona’ and the distribution of rents and opportunity

31. Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam

32. Management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala through the lens of state capacity and clientelism

33. The social foundations of (in)effective states: Uttar Pradesh’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

34. Does an effective government lower COVID19’s health impact? Evidence from Viet Nam

35. Duterte’s pandemic populism: Strongman leadership, weak state capacity, and the politics of deployment in the Philippines

36. Elementary education in India versus China: Guidelines for NEP implementation

37. On data and trends in horizontal inequality

38. Are the effects of terrorism short-lived?

39. Employment policy in Mainland Tanzania: what’s in it for women?

40. Is economic development affected by the leaders’ education levels?

41. Labour market effects of digital matching platforms: Experimental evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

42. What drove the profitability of colonial firms? Labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920–74)

43. COVID-19 and the state: Nicaragua case study

44. Anticompetitive practices on public procurement: Evidence from Brazilian electronic biddings

45. Poverty, inequality, and growth: trends, policies, and controversies

46. Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in Ghana

47. Pandemic precarity and the complicated case of Maharashtra: Interrogating state capacity and its fault lines

48. Female labour supply and informal employment in Ecuador

49. Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies

50. Health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique with special reference to leprosy

51. Aid’s impact on democracy

52. Global oil theft: impact and policy responses

53. The legacies of armed conflict: insights from stayees and returning forced migrants

54. Does the adoption of peer-to-government mobile payments improve tax revenue mobilization in developing countries?

55. Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilization

56. Women’s inheritance rights and time use: Evidence from the Hindu Succession Act in India

57. Profit-shifting behaviour of emerging multinationals from India

58. Does aid to the productive sectors cause manufacturing sector growth in Africa?

59. Impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in a low-income country

60. Measuring illicit financial flows: A gravity model approach to estimate international trade misinvoicing

61. Ethnic dominance and exclusion: Unpacking cross-national data

62. Taxless fiscal states: Lessons from 19th-century America and 21st-century China

63. The global inequality boomerang

64. Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions and skills formation in secondary school

65. Monetary policy in South Africa, 2007–21

66. Two decades of Tanzanian health policy Examining policy developments and opportunities through a gender lens

67. Affirmative action with no major switching: Evidence from a top university in Brazil

68. Affirmative action: meaning, intentions, and impacts in the big picture

69. The indirect costs of corporate tax avoidance exacerbate cross-country inequality

70. The Tanzanian state response to COVID-19: Why low capacity, discursive legitimacy, and twilight authority matter

71. Countering global oil theft: responses and solutions

72. Profit shifting by multinational corporations: Evidence from transaction-level data in Nigeria

73. Corruption and crisis: do institutions matter?

74. Exploring social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania: Driving for gender-inclusive development?

75. Profit shifting by multinational corporations in Kenya: The role of internal debt

76. Whose intergenerational mobility? A new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation

77. The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis

78. The state and the ‘legalization’ of illicit financial flows: Trading gold in Bolivia

79. Savings transition in Asia: Unity in diversity

80. The impact of COVID-19 on urban informal workers in Maputo

81. Trust as state capacity: The political economy of compliance

82. The determinants of domestic saving in Kenya

83. Tax provisioning by extractive industry multinational subsidiaries

84. Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India

85. Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in Africa

86. The effect of wage subsidies on job retention: Evidence from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

87. Unravelling Africa’s raw material footprints and their drivers

88. So close and yet so far: the ability of mandatory disclosure rules to crack down on offshore tax evasion

89. A model to explain the impact of government revenue on the quality of governance and the SDGs

90. Does aid fragmentation affect tax revenue dynamics in developing countries? Observations with new tax data

91. Employer power and employment in developing countries

92. Fintech in sub-Saharan Africa

93. Gender preference at birth: A new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents’ fertility decisions

94. Determinants of corporate cash holdings in South Africa

95. Standardization and ethnocracy in Sri Lanka

96. Reigniting labour productivity growth in developing countries: Do structural reforms matter?

97. Inclusion amid ethnic inequality: Insights from Brazil’s social protection system

98. The legal basis for affirmative action in India

99. Return migration and entrepreneurship in Cameroon

100. Illicit financial flows and country-by-country reporting in extractive industries