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The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2)
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The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal that disseminates development economics research to an international audience of economists, social scientists, and policy makers. It aims to provide the most current, policy‑relevant research in quantitative development policy analysis, emphasizing operational aspects over theoretical issues. This issue includes studies on property rights, energy subsidies, trade liberalization, electrification, African economies, child sponsorship, tariff evasion, pension coverage, poverty and inequality, and market enforcement across diverse developing settings.
The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing its development mandate. It is directed to an international readership among economists and social scientists in government, business, international agencies, universities, and development research institutions. The Review seeks to provide the most current and best research in the field of quantitative development policy analysis, emphasizing policy relevance and operational aspects of economics, rather than primarily theoretical and methodological issues. This issue has the following headings: (i)Property Rights for Fishing Cooperatives : How (and How Well) Do They Work? ; (ii) When Winners Feel Like Losers : Evidence from an Energy Subsidy Reform; (iii) Does Input-Trade Liberalization Affect Firms' Foreign Technology Choice? ; (iv) Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India; (v) The Changing Structure of Africa’s Economies; (vi) Does Child Sponsorship Pay Off in Adulthood? An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth; (vii) Political Connections and Tariff Evasion Evidence from Tunisia; (viii) Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children : Evidence from Urban China; (iv) Prices, Engel Curves, and Time-Space Deflation : Impacts on Poverty and Inequality in Vietnam; (v) Willing but Unable? Short-Term Experimental Evidence on Parent Empowerment and School Quality; (vi) Providing Policy Makers with Timely Advice : The Timeliness-Rigor Trade-Off; and (vii) On the Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Colombia.