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Volume 27, issue 3, 2013

Water Nationalization and Service Quality pp. 389-412

Fernando Borraz, Nicolás González-Pampillón and Marcelo Olarreaga

Mass Media and Public Policy: Global Evidence from Agricultural Policies pp. 413-436

Alessandro Olper and Johan Swinnen

Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment pp. 437-469

Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia

Financial Structure and Economic Development: A Reassessment-super-♣ pp. 470-475

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Justin Lin

The Evolving Importance of Banks and Securities Markets pp. 476-490

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Erik Feyen and Ross Levine

Notes on Financial System Development and Political Intervention-super-* pp. 491-513

Fenghua Song and Anjan Thakor

Financial Development: Structure and Dynamics pp. 514-541

Augusto de la Torre, Erik Feyen and Alain Ize

Job Growth and Finance: Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to the Early Stages of Development than Others?-super-1 pp. 542-572

Robert Cull and Lixin Xu

Volume 27, issue 2, 2013

Does Urbanization Affect Rural Poverty? Evidence from Indian Districts pp. 171-201

Massimiliano Calì and Carlo Menon

Learning versus Stealing: How Important Are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth? pp. 202-228

Ann Harrison, Leslie Martin and Shanthi Nataraj

Structural Change and Cross-Country Growth Empirics pp. 229-271

Markus Eberhardt and Francis Teal

Evaluating Program Impacts on Mature Self-help Groups in India pp. 272-296

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence pp. 297-319

Volker Grossmann and David Stadelmann

Is Foreign Aid Fungible? Evidence from the Education and Health Sectors pp. 320-356

Nicolas Van de Sijpe

Industry Switching in Developing Countries pp. 357-388

Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp

Volume 27, issue 1, 2013

The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security pp. 1-27

Derek Headey

How Is the Liberalization of Food Markets Progressing? Market Integration and Transaction Costs in Subsistence Economies pp. 28-54

Wouter Zant

Decomposing the Labor Market Earnings Inequality: The Public and Private Sectors in Vietnam, 1993–2006 pp. 55-79

Clément Imbert

Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition: The Patterns of French Exporters pp. 80-108

Maria Bas and Pamela Bombarda

Firms Operating under Electricity Constraints in Developing Countries pp. 109-132

Philippe Alby, Jean-Jacques Dethier and Stephane Straub

Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices pp. 133-148

Veysel Avsar

Information and Participation in Social Programs pp. 149-170

David Coady, Cesar Martinelli and Susan Parker

Volume 26, issue 3, 2012

Is There a Metropolitan Bias? The relationship between poverty and city size in a selection of developing countries pp. 351-382

Céline Ferré, Francisco Ferreira and Peter Lanjouw

Impact of SMS-Based Agricultural Information on Indian Farmers pp. 383-414

Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten

Crises, Food Prices, and the Income Elasticity of Micronutrients: Estimates from Indonesia pp. 415-442

Emmanuel Skoufias, Sailesh Tiwari and Hassan Zaman

Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 443-485

Maarten Bosker and Harry Garretsen

The Decision to Import Capital Goods in India: Firms' Financial Factors Matter pp. 486-513

Maria Bas and Antoine Berthou

Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India* pp. 514-538

Bill Russell, Sushil Mohan and Anindya Banerjee

Implications of COMTRADE Compilation Practices for Trade Barrier Analyses and Negotiations pp. 539-555

Alexander J. Yeats

Volume 26, issue 2, 2012

Conditional Cash Transfers and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Unconditionally Promising? pp. 165-190

Hans-Peter Kohler and Rebecca Thornton

Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India pp. 191-216

Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao

An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Corruption: Theory and Applications pp. 217-235

James Foster, Andrew W. Horowitz and Fabio Mendez

How Much of Observed Economic Mobility is Measurement Error? IV Methods to Reduce Measurement Error Bias, with an Application to Vietnam pp. 236-264

Paul Glewwe

Inequality of Opportunity in Egypt pp. 265-295

Nadia Belhaj Hassine

Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing Country Industrialization? pp. 296-319

Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Jianwu He

Trade Liberalization and Investment: Firm-level Evidence from Mexico pp. 320-349

Ivan Kandilov and Asli Leblebicioglu

Volume 26, issue 1, 2012

Empirical Evidence on Satisfaction with Privatization in Latin America pp. 1-33

Céline Bonnet, Pierre Dubois, David Martimort and Stephane Straub

Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers pp. 34-60

Irene Brambilla, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

How to Deal with Covert Child Labor and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country pp. 61-77

Alessandro Cigno

Resource Windfalls and Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads: The Role of Political Institutions pp. 78-99

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brückner

When Should We Worry about Inflation? pp. 100-127

Raphael Espinoza, Hyginus Leon and Ananthakrishnan Prasad

Is Economic Volatility Detrimental to Global Sustainability? pp. 128-146

Yongfu Huang

The Discriminatory Nature of Specific Tariffs pp. 147-163

Sohini Chowdhury

Volume 25, issue 2, 2011

Has India's Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms? pp. 157-189

Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion

Are The Poverty Effects of Trade Policies Invisible? pp. 190-211

Monika Verma, Thomas Hertel and Ernesto Valenzuela

Corruption and Confidence in Public Institutions: Evidence from a Global Survey pp. 212-249

Bianca Clausen, Aart Kraay and Zsolt Nyiri

Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004 pp. 250-277

Johanna L. Croser and Kym Anderson

Thresholds in the Finance-Growth Nexus: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 278-295

Hakan Yilmazkuday

The Value of Vocational Education: High School Type and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia pp. 296-322

David Newhouse and Daniel Suryadarma

Disability and Poverty in Vietnam pp. 323-359

Daniel Mont and Cuong Nguyen

Volume 25, issue 1, 2011

Five Questions on International Migration and Development pp. 1-11

Caglar Ozden, Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff

Where on Earth is Everybody? The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration 1960-2000 pp. 12-56

Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons, Maurice Schiff and Terrie Walmsley

Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus pp. 57-76

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Francesc Ortega

Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment pp. 77-104

Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente

What Explains the Price of Remittances? An Examination Across 119 Country Corridors pp. 105-131

Thorsten Beck and Maria Martinez Peria

Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More pp. 132-156

Albert Bollard, David McKenzie, Melanie Morten and Hillel Rapoport