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39690: Health sector decentralization and Indonesia ' s nutrition programs: opportunities and challenges Downloads
Yoonjoung Choi, Fadia Saadah, Geoff Marks, Peter F. Heywood and Jed Friedman
23971: Microfinance for infrastructure: recent experiences Downloads
Sinha, Shalini [editor], Renana Jhabvala, Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Ela Bhatt, Jayashree Vyas, K. Rajeswara Rao, James P. Lynch, Meera Mehta and Smita Ghatate
13310: Policy, Research working paper series: numbers 1281-1302 Downloads
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13009: Policy, Research working paper series: numbers 1248-1280 Downloads
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4569: Financing lifelong learning Downloads
Hessel Oosterbeek and Harry Patrinos
4568: Can cost-benefit analysis guide education policy in developing countries ? Downloads
Emmanuel Jimenez and Harry Patrinos
4567: The dynamics of ownership of durable goods in Bulgaria: from economic crisis to EU membership Downloads
Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Lire Ersado
4566: Reading tealeaves on the potential impact of the privatization of tea estates in Rwanda Downloads
Essama-Nssah, B., Kene Ezemenari and Vijdan Korman
4565: Evo, Pablo, Tony, Diego, and Sonny - general equilibrium analysis of the illegal drugs market Downloads
Romulo Chumacero
4564: Can production and trafficking of illicit drugs be reduced or merely shifted ? Downloads
Peter Reuter
4563: A general equilibrium analysis of demand side management programs under the clean development mechanism of the kyoto protocol Downloads
Govinda R. Timilsina
4562: Social exclusion and the gender gap in education Downloads
Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed
4561: Burley tobacco clubs in Malawi: nonmarket institutions for exports Downloads
Mariano Negri and Guido Gustavo Porto
4560: Trade remedies and non-market economies: economic implications of the first US countervailing duty case on China Downloads
Longyue Zhao and Yan Wang
4559: Expanding taxable capacity and reaching revenue potential: cross-country analysis Downloads
Tuan Minh Le, Moreno-Dodson, Blanca and Jeep Rojchaichaninthorn
4558: Improving logistics costs for transportation and trade facilitation Downloads
Julio A. Gonzalez, Jose Luis Guasch and Tomas Serebrisky
4557: Helpful Governments Downloads
Mohammad Amin
4556: Economics of irrigation water management: a literature survey with focus on partial and general equilibrium models Downloads
Hasan Dudu and Sinqobile Chumi
4555: Informal payments and moonlighting in Tajikistan ' s health sector Downloads
Waly Wane and Andrew Dabalen
4554: Measuring financial protection in health Downloads
Adam Wagstaff
4553: The historical foundations of the narcotic drug control regime Downloads
Julia Buxton
4552: Productivity growth and economic reform: evidence from Rwanda Downloads
Neal Duffy, Kene Ezemenari and Kalamogo Coulibaly
4550: Heterogeneous quality firms and trade costs Downloads
Toshihiro Okubo and Matthias Helble
4549: Managing the radio spectrum: framework for reform in developing countries Downloads
Isabel Neto and Bjorn Wellenius
4548: Youth risk-taking behavior in Brazil: drug use and teenage pregnancy Downloads
Dorte Verner and Ana Rute Cardoso
4547: Evaluation in the practice of development Downloads
Martin Ravallion
4546: Integration of markets vs. integration by agreements Downloads
Francis Ng, K.C. Fung and Nathalie Aminian
4545: Responding to Afghanistan ' s Opium economy challenge: lessons and policy implications from a development perspective Downloads
William A. Byrd
4544: Modeling services liberalization: the case of Kenya Downloads
Edward J. Balistreri, Thomas F. Rutherford and David Gerald Tarr
4543: The development impact of the illegality of drug trade Downloads
Rodrigo R. Soares, Norman V. Loayza and Philip Keefer
4542: Governance arrangements for state owned enterprises Downloads
Maria Vagliasindi
4541: The fiscal impact of foreign aid in Rwanda: a theoretical and empirical analysis Downloads
Sajal Lahiri, Ephraim Kebede and Kene Ezemenari
4540: Risk-based supervision of pension institutions in Denmark Downloads
Erik Brink Andersen and Rein van Dam
4539: Risk-based supervision of pension funds in Australia Downloads
Graeme Thompson
4538: License to sell: the effect of business registration reform on entrepreneurial activity in Mexico Downloads
Miriam Bruhn
4537: Preferential liberalization and its economy-wide effects in Honduras Downloads
Denis Medvedev
4536: Heterogeneous technology and panel data: the case of the agricultural production function Downloads
Donald F. Larson, Rita Butzer and Yair Mundlak יאיר מונדלק
4535: Isolation and subjective welfare: evidence from South Asia Downloads
Forhad Shilpi and Marcel Fafchamps
4534: The extent of the market and stages of agricultural specialization Downloads
Forhad Shilpi and M. Shahe Emran
4533: Valuing access to water - a spatial hedonic approach applied to Indian cities Downloads
Somik Lall, Uwe Deichmann, Lozano-Gracia, Nancy and Luc Anselin
4532: Fiscal policy for growth and development in Tajikistan Downloads
Sudharshan Canagarajah and Martin Brownbridge
4531: Lessons from China for Africa Downloads
David Dollar
4530: How to interpret the growing phenomenon of private tutoring: human capital deepening, inequality increasing, or waste of resources ? Downloads
F. Halsey Rogers and Hai-Anh H. Dang
4529: Attitudes to equality: the " socialist legacy " revisited Downloads
Erwin R. Tiongson and Mamta Murthi
4528: Does poverty research in Russia follow the scientific method? Downloads
Michael Lokshin
4527: An empirical analysis of Mexican merger policy Downloads
Rafael E. De Hoyos and Marcos Avalos
4526: Migrant opportunity and the educational attainment of youth in rural China Downloads
John Giles and Alan de Brauw
4525: Credit chains and sectoral comovemen t: does the use of trade credit amplify sectoral shocks ? Downloads
Claudio E. Raddatz
4524: The effectiveness of policies to control a human influenza pandemic: a literature review Downloads
Arin Dutta
4523: Achieving accelerated and shared growth in Ghana: a MAMS-based analysis of costs and opportunities Downloads
Denis Medvedev, Maurizio Bussolo and Zeljko Bogetic
4522: The effects of local environmental institutions on perceptions of smoke and fire problems in Brazil Downloads
Kenneth M. Chomitz and Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
4521: How does Vietnam ' s accession to the World Trade Organization change the spatial incidence of poverty? Downloads
David Roland-Holst and Tomoki Fujii
4520: Exiting a lawless state Downloads
Joseph Stiglitz and Karla Hoff
4519: Is Africa ' s economy at a turning point? Downloads
John Page, Delfin S. Go and Jorge Saba Arbache
4518: Chile: a strategy to promote innovative small and medium enterprises Downloads
Eric Palladini and Mike Goldberg
4517: Accessibility and affordability of tertiary education in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru within a global context Downloads
Andreas Blom and Yuki Murakami
4516: Determinants of a digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial econometric analysis of cell phone coverage Downloads
David Wheeler, Tim Thomas, Susmita Dasgupta and Piet Buys
4515: Remittances, consumption and investment in Ghana Downloads
John Page, Alfredo Cuecuecha and Adams, Jr., Richard H.
4514: Competition and demographics Downloads
Mohammad Amin
4513: Brazil within Brazil: testing the poverty map methodology in Minas Gerais Downloads
Phillippe George Leite, Peter Frederik Lanjouw and Chris Elbers
4512: Does participation in productive associations signal trust and creditworthiness ? evidence for Nicaragua Downloads
Ezequiel Molina and Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.
4511: Madrasas and NGOs: complements or substitutes ? non-state providers and growth in female education in Bangladesh Downloads
Nazmul Chaudhury and Mohammad Niaz Asadullah
4510: Poisoning the mind: arsenic contamination and cognitive achievement of children Downloads
Nazmul Chaudhury and Mohammad Niaz Asadullah
4509: Regulatory agencies: impact on firm performance and social welfare Downloads
Martin A. Rossi and Antonio Estache
4508: Social interactions and student achievement in a developing country: An instrumental variables approach Downloads
Nazmul Chaudhury and Mohammad Niaz Asadullah
4507: Agency, education and networks: gender and international migration from Albania Downloads
Benjamin Davis, Carlo Azzarri, Calogero Carletto and Guy Stecklov
4506: Measuring the performance and achievement of social objectives of development finance institutions Downloads
Jacob Yaron, Juan Carlos Mendoza, Yira Mascaro and Manuela Francisco
4505: A short note on the ATP fund of Denmark Downloads
Dimitri Vittas
4504: Inequality in Latin America: determinants and consequences Downloads
Guillermo Perry and J. Humberto Lopez
4503: Decentralization and the provision of public services: framework and implementation Downloads
Aehyung Kim
4502: Does Hepatitis B infection or son preference explain the bulk of gender imbalance in China ?: a review of the evidence Downloads
Monica Das Gupta
4501: The quality of medical advice in low-income countries Downloads
Kenneth Leonard, Jeffrey Hammer and Jishnu Das
4500: Health and civil war in rural Burundi Downloads
Richard Akresh, Philip Verwimp and Tom Bundervoet
4499: Upgrading the investment policy framework of public pension funds Downloads
O ' Connor, Ronan, Gregorio Impavido and Dimitri Vittas
4498: Quantifying institutional impacts and development synergies in water resource programs: a methodology with applicatio n to the Kala Oya basin, Sri Lanka Downloads
Ariel Dinar and R. Maria Saleth
4497: How sensitive are Latin American exports to Chinese competition in the U.S. market ? Downloads
Danielken Molina, Alejandro Micco and José Ernesto López-Córdova
4496: Subnational insolvency: cross-country experiences and lessons Downloads
Michael Waibel and Lili Liu
4495: Mental hea lth patterns and consequences: results from survey data in five developing countries Downloads
David Mckenzie, Jed Friedman, Quy-Toan Do and Jishnu Das
4494: Regulatory governance and sector performance: methodology and evaluation for Electricity distribution in Latin America Downloads
Sebastian Lopez Azumendi, Jose Luis Guasch and Luis Andres
4493: Where in the world are you ? Assessing the importance of circumstance and effort in a world of different mean country incomes and (almost) no migration Downloads
Branko Milanovic
4492: How does bribery affect public service delivery ? micro-evidence from service users and public officials in Peru Downloads
Francesca Recanatini, Montoriol-Garriga, Judit and Daniel Kaufmann
4491: Risk-based supervision of pension funds: a review of international experience and preliminary assessment of the first outcomes Downloads
Roberto Rocha, Richard Hinz and Gregory Brunner
4490: Risk sharing opportunities and macroeconomic factors in Latin American and Caribbean countries: A consumption insurance assessment Downloads
Luigi Ventura
4489: Agro-manufactured export prices, wages and unemployment Downloads
Guido Gustavo Porto
4488: Realizing the gains from trade: export crops, marketing costs, and poverty Downloads
Guido Gustavo Porto, Irene Brambilla and Jorge Balat
4487: Fiscal redistribution and income inequality in Latin America Downloads
Luis Servén, J. Humberto Lopez and Edwin Goni
4486: On the welfarist rationale for relative poverty lines Downloads
Martin Ravallion
4485: Living on the edge -- risk, protection, behavior, and outcomes of Argentine youth Downloads
Michael Justesen
4484: On measuring the benefits of lower transport costs Downloads
Bart Minten and Hanan Jacoby
4483: Enforceability of labor law: evidence from a labor court in Mexico Downloads
Joyce Sadka and David Scott Kaplan
4482: The impact of regional liberalization and harmonization in road transport services: a focus on Zambia and lessons for landlocked countries Downloads
Bo Giersing, Charles Kunaka and Gaël Raballand
4481: Bank financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Colombia Downloads
Camila Rodriguez and Constantinos Stephanou
4480: Aid, growth, and real exchange rate dynamics Downloads
Karen Thierfelder, Sherman Robinson, John Page, Delfin S. Go and Shantayanan Devarajan
4479: Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001-2004: enterprise restructuring, labor market transitions and poverty Downloads
Ruslan G. Yemtsov and Erwin R. Tiongson
4478: Joseph E. Stiglitz Downloads
Karla Hoff
4477: Finding missing markets (and a disturbing epilogue): evidence from an export crop adoption and marketing intervention in Kenya Downloads
Dean Karlan, Xavier Gine and Nava Ashraf
4476: Informality among formal firms: firm-level, cross-country evidence on tax compliance and access to credit Downloads
Maddalena Honorati and Roberta Gatti
4475: Managing post-disaster reconstruction finance -- international experience in public financial management Downloads
Kai Kaiser, Ahya Ihsan and Wolfgang Fengler
4474: Indigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development: the case of colonial India and Africa Downloads
C. A. Bayly
4473: Patterns of export diversification in developing countries: intensive and extensive margins Downloads
Martha Denisse Pierola and Amurgo-Pacheco, Alberto (Alberto AMURGO PACHECO)
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