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5236: The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa
Philip Keefer
5235: Incomplete markets and fertilizer use: evidence from Ethiopia
Daniel Zerfu and Donald F. Larson
5234: Benefit incidence analysis: are government health expenditures more pro-rich than we think ?
Adam Wagstaff
5233: Corporate governance and public corruption
Ana Cusolito
5232: Assessing the financial vulnerability to climate-related natural hazards
Reinhard Mechler , Stefan Hochrainer , Georg Pflug , Alexander Lotsch and Keith Williges
5231: A closer look at child mortality among Adivasis in India
Maitreyi Bordia Das , Soumya Kapoor and Denis Nikitin
5230: Financial transactions tax: panacea, threat, or damp squib ?
Patrick Honohan and Sean Yoder
5229: Price levels and economic growth: making sense of the PPP changes between ICP rounds
Martin Ravallion
5228: Intellectual property rights and the TRIPS agreement: an overview of ethical problems and some proposed solutions
Jorn Sonderholm
5227: Rethinking market discipline in banking: lessons from the financial crisis
Constantinos Stephanou
5226: Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence
Susanto Basu , Luigi Pascali , Fabio Schiantarelli and Luis Servén
5225: Estimating the import content of Argentine exports
Paloma Anos-Casero and Bernardo Díaz de Astarloa
5224: What explains stock markets'vulnerability to the 2007-2008 crisis ?
Tatiana Didier , Inessa Love and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
5223: Self-enforcing trade agreements: evidence from time-varying trade policy
Chad P. Bown and Meredith Allison Crowley
5222: Trade openness reduces growth volatility when countries are well diversified
Mona E. Haddad , Jamus Jerome Lim and Christian Saborowski
5221: Argentina: trade patterns and challenges ahead
Paloma Anos-Casero and Valentina Rollo
5220: Estimating the fiscal multiplier in Argentina
Paloma Anos-Casero , Diego Cerdeiro and Riccardo Trezzi
5219: Equilibrium fictions: a cognitive approach to societal rigidity
Karla Hoff and Joseph E. Stiglitz
5218: The impact of the investment climate on employment growth: does Sub-Saharan Africa mirror other low-income regions ?
Reyes Aterido and Mary Hallward-Driemeier
5217: Intellectual property rights, human capital and the incidence of R&D expenditures
Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Daniel Lederman
5216: Learning from the Chinese miracle: development lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa
Ali Zafar
5215: The impact of economic shocks on global undernourishment
Sailesh Tiwari and Hassan Zaman
5214: Distance and regionalization of trade for low-income countries
Celine Carrere , Jaime A.P. de Melo and John Wilson
5213: Finances of Egyptian listed firms and the performance of the Egyptian stock exchange
Erik Feyen
5212: The taxation of motor fuel: international comparison
Eduardo Ley and Jessica Boccardo
5211: Building countercyclical fiscal policies in Latin America: the international experience
Mario A. Gutierrez and Julio E. Revilla
5210: The short-term impact of higher food prices on poverty in Uganda
Kenneth Simler
5209: The impact of roads on poverty reduction: a case study of Cameroon
Marie Gachassin , Boris Najman and Gaël Raballand
5208: Climate cost uncertainty, retrofit cost uncertainty, and infrastructure closedown: a framework for analysis
Jon Strand and Sebastian Miller
5207: A new approach to producing geographic profiles of HIV prevalence: an application to Malawi
Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Peter Frederik Lanjouw
5206: What happens when the market shifts to China ? the Gabon timber and Thai cassava value chains
Raphael Kaplinsky , Anne Terheggen and Julia Tijaja
5205: What are the implications for global value chains when the market shifts from the north to the south ?
Raphael Kaplinsky and Masuma Farooki
5204: Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey
Francisco H. G. Ferreira , Jérémie Gignoux and Meltem A. Aran
5203: When the rivers run dry: liquidity and the use of wholesale funds in the transmission of the U.S. subprime crisis
Claudio E. Raddatz
5202: Mortgage finance in central and eastern Europe -- opportunity or burden ?
Thorsten Beck , Katie Kibuuka and Erwin R. Tiongson
5201: What are the links between aid volatility and growth ?
Anil Markandya , Vladimir P. Ponczek and Soonhwa Yi
5200: Formulas and flexibility in trade negotiations: sensitive agricultural products in the WTO's Doha agenda
Sebastien Jean , David Laborde Debucquet and Will J Martin
5199: To what extent are Bangladesh's recent gains in poverty reduction different from the past?
Aphichoke Kotikula , Ambar Narayan and Hassan Zaman
5198: Safe and sound banking: a role for countercyclical regulatory requirements ?
Gerard Caprio
5197: New structural economics: a framework for rethinking development
Justin Yifu Lin
5196: Development strategies: integrating governance and growth
Brian Levy and Francis Fukuyama
5195: Export restraints on russian natural gas and raw timber: what are the economic impacts ?
David Gerald Tarr
5194: Trade in'virtual carbon': empirical results and implications for policy
Giles Atkinson , Kirk Hamilton , Giovanni Ruta and Dominique Van Der Mensbrugghe
5193: The economics of renewable energy expansion in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Uwe Deichmann , Craig Michael Meisner , Siobhan Murray and David Wheeler
5192: Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked ? results from a survey experiment in Tanzania
Elena Bardasi , Kathleen Beegle , Andrew Dillon and Pieter M. Serneels
5191: Assessing the impact of infrastructure quality on firm productivity in Africa: cross-country comparisons based on investment climate surveys from 1999 to 2005
Alvaro Escribano , J. Luis Guasch and Jorge Pena
5190: Paying primary health care centers for performance in Rwanda
Paulin Basinga , Paul J. Gertler , Agnes Binagwaho , Agnes L.B. Soucat , Jennifer R. Sturdy and Christel M.J. Vermeersch
5189: The determinants of wealth and gender inequity in cognitive skills in Latin America
Kevin Macdonald , Felipe Barrera-Osorio , Juliana Guaqueta , Harry Anthony Patrinos and Emilio Porta
5188: An institutional approach to balancing international monetary relations: the case for a US-China settlement facility
Nadia F. Piffaretti and Sergio Rossi
5187: Bosnia and Herzegovina's surprising export performance: back to the past in a new veil but will It last ?
Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng
5186: Mexico: impact evaluation of sme programs using panel firm data
Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Monica Tinajero
5185: Private education provision and public finance: the Netherlands
Harry Anthony Patrinos
5184: What constrains Africa's exports ?
Caroline Freund and Nadia Rocha
5183: Dysfunctional finance: positive shocks and negative outcomes
Karla Hoff
5182: Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention
Philip Keefer , Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plumper
5181: Citizen-centric governance indicators: measuring and monitoring governance by listening to the people and not the interest groups
Maksym Ivanyna and Anwar Shah
5180: Potential benefits and risks of increased aid flows to Burundi
Hannah Nielsen and Dorsati Madani
5179: A note on the economic cost of climate change and the rationale to limit it below 2°C
Stephane Hallegatte , Patrice Dumas and Jean-Charles Hourcade
5178: The inter-linkages between rapid growth in livestock production, climate change, and the impacts on water resources, land use, and deforestation
Philip K. Thornton and Mario Herrero
5177: Infrastructure and economic growth in Egypt
Norman V. Loayza and Rei Odawara
5176: At the frontier of practical political economy: operationalizing an agent-based stakeholder model in the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific Region
Barbara Nunberg , Naazneen Barma , Mark Abdollahian , Amanda Green and Deborah Perlman
5175: Hegelian macroeconomics -- the dialectics of global imbalances
Celestin Monga
5174: Valuation effects with transitory and trend productivity shocks
Ha Nguyen
5173: Understanding options for public-private partnerships in infrastructure: sorting out the forest from the trees: BOT, DBFO, DCMF, concession, lease
Jeffrey Delmon
5172: Sponsoring a race to the top: the case for results-based intergovernmental finance for merit goods
Anwar Shah
5171: Taxes and caps as climate policy instruments with domestic and imported fuels
Jon Strand
5170: Social impacts of climate change in Chile: a municipal level analysis of the effects of recent and future climate change on human development and inequality
Lykke E. Andersen and Dorte Verner
5169: National drought insurance for Malawi
Joanna Syroka and Antonio Nucifora
5168: Developing countries, dispute settlement, and the advisory centre on WTO law
Chad P. Bown and Rachel McCulloch
5167: Price elasticity of nonresidential demand for energy in south eastern Europe
Atsushi Iimi
5166: Trade finance in crisis: should developing countries establish export credit agencies ?
Jean-Pierre Chauffour , Christian Saborowski and Ahmet . Soylemezoglu
5165: Krueger/Schiff/Valdes revisited: agricultural price and trade policy reform in developing countries since 1960
Kym Anderson
5164: Contrasting future paths for an evolving global climate regime
Scott Barrett and Michael A. Toman
5163: "green stimulus,"economic recovery, and long-term sustainable development
Jon Strand and Michael A. Toman
5162: International aid and financial crises in donor countries
Hai-Anh H. Dang , Stephen Knack and F. Halsey Rogers
5161: Density and disasters: economics of urban hazard risk
Somik V. Lall and Uwe Deichmann
5160: The margins of labor cost adjustment: survey evidence from European firms
Jan Babecký , Philip Du Caju , Theodora Kosma , Martina Lawless , Julian Messina and Tairi Room
5159: Downward nominal and real wage rigidity: survey evidence from European firms
Jan Babecký , Philip Du Caju , Theodora Kosma , Martina Lawless , Julian Messina and Tairi Room
5158: Soil fertility, fertilizer, and the maize green revolution in East Africa
Tomoya Matsumoto and Takashi Yamano
5157: Corruption and confidence in public institutions: evidence from a global survey
Bianca Clausen , Aart Kraay and Zsolt Nyiri
5156: Importing, exporting and innovation in developing countries
Murat Seker
5155: The impact of trade in services on factor incomes: results from a global simulation Model
Syud Amer Ahmed
5154: Are irrigation rehabilitation projects good for poor farmers in Peru ?
Gayatri Datar and Ximena V. Del Carpio
5153: International growth spillovers, geography and infrastructure
Mark Roberts and Uwe Deichmann
5152: U.S. and them: the geography of academic research
Jishnu Das , Quy-Toan Do , Karen Shaines and Sowmya Srinivasan
5151: Capital requirements and business cycles with credit market imperfections
Pierre-Richard Agénor , Koray Alper and L. Pereira da Silva
5150: Estimating the fiscal costs of implementing Ghana's single pay spine reform
Carlos Cavalcanti
5149: Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Ayhan Kose , Eswar Prasad and Ashley D. Taylor
5148: Family systems, political systems, and Asia's'missing girls': the construction of son preference and its unraveling
Monica Das Gupta
5147: The new multi-polar international monetary system
Mansoor Dailami and Paul Robert Masson
5146: Medium-term business cycles in developing countries
Diego Comin , Norman V. Loayza , Farooq Pasha and Luis Servén
5145: Four critiques of the redistribution hypothesis: an assessment
Branko Milanovic
5144: Pro-cyclical fiscal policy in brazil: evidence from the states
Marco Arena and Julio E. Revilla
5143: What did you do all day ? maternal education and child outcomes
Tahir Raza Shah Andrabi , Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja
5142: Non-traditional crops, traditional constraints: long-term welfare impacts of export crop adoption among guatemalan smallholders
Calogero Carletto , Talip Kilic and Angeli Kirk
5141: State financial institutions: mandates, governance, and beyond
Heinz P. Rudolph
5140: How might India's public health systems be strengthened ?
Monica Das Gupta , Rajendra Shukla , T.V. Somanathan and K.K. Datta
5139: The heavenly liquidity twin: the increasing importance of liquidity risk
Fernando Montes-Negret
5138: Trade and trade finance developments in 14 developing countries post September 2008 - a World Bank survey
Mariem Malouche
5137: Changing households'investments and aspirations through social interactions: evidence from a randomized transfer program
Karen Macours and Renos Vakis