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Gender equality

How mobile money can empower women: Evidence from Africa

Mphatso Kumwenda
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Data and research journey of a ‘smart city’: the City of Cape Town’s practical approach towards evidence-based decision-making

Kezia Fortuin, Victoria Delbridge
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Climate change action could set off a copper mining boom: how Zambia can make the most of it

Twivwe Siwale, Eric Werker
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Africa

Can the world afford an increase in Africa’s share of global emissions?

James Dzansi
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Integrating forcibly displaced populations into urban labour markets: Lessons from Mozambique

Egas Daniel, Felix Mambo, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha
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How exchange rate fluctuations impact imports and domestic prices: Evidence from Rwanda

Jie Bai, Yuhei Miyauchi
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Firms and environment: Exposure to pollution, search for lenient certification, and credit defaults in developing countries

Nikita Sharma

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Energy and environment: Theft, benefits, misallocation, and collusion challenges in developing countries

Nikita Sharma

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Line, tanker, tube well: Water and the politics of hybrid service delivery in Karachi

Erum Haider, Niloufer Siddiqui

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Escaping the fragility trap
How DFIs can better invest in low growth countries

Colin Buckley

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How Pakistan can finance its greenhouse gas emissions reduction

Ijaz Nabi, William P. Mako, Amna Mahmood

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Front-lining green jobs in the sustainable urbanisation agenda

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha

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COVID-19
Which jobs were ‘lost’ during India’s COVID-19 lockdowns? Evidence from online vacancy postings

Gaurav Chiplunkar, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane

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Good governance through spatial evidence-based planning

Nasir Javed

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Remote sensing for property valuation and taxation in Pakistan

Muhammad Fareed Zaffar, Murtaza Taj

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Do Rwanda’s cities increase worker productivity and welfare?

Jonathan Bower, Sakshi Gupta, Carlo Menon

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Ideas for India

Research-based analysis and commentary on Indian growth and development to promote more evidence-based policy.

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