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Volume 21, issue 3, 2007

Macroeconomic Volatility and Welfare in Developing Countries: An Introduction pp. 343-357

Norman Loayza, Romain Ranciere, Luis Servén and Jaume Ventura

The Structural Determinants of External Vulnerability pp. 359-387

Norman Loayza and Claudio Raddatz

Do Some Forms of Financial Flows Help Protect Against "Sudden Stops"? pp. 389-411

Paolo Mauro

Creditor Protection and Credit Response to Shocks pp. 413-438

Arturo Galindo and Alejandro Micco

Crises, Volatility, and Growth pp. 439-460

Enisse Kharroubi

Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from Madagascar pp. 461-485

Hanan Jacoby and Bart Minten

Land Tenure, Investment Incentives, and the Choice of Techniques: Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 487-508

Oriana Bandiera

Earnings, Schooling, and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence From Hungary (1986--2004) pp. 509-526

Dean Jolliffe

Volume 21, issue 2, 2007

Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain: a Symposium in Memory of Riccardo Faini--an Introduction pp. 173-176

Jaime de Melo

Remittances and the Brain Drain: Do More Skilled Migrants Remit More? pp. 177-191

Riccardo Faini

Brain Drain in Developing Countries pp. 193-218

Abdeslam Marfouk

Are Remittances Insurance? Evidence from Rainfall Shocks in the Philippines pp. 219-248

HwaJung Choi

Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of Entry pp. 249-254

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-Country Empirics pp. 255-277

David Roodman

Incremental Reform and Distortions in China's Product and Factor Markets pp. 279-299

Kong-Yam Tan

Child Labor, School Attendance, and Intrahousehold Gender Bias in Brazil pp. 301-316

André Souza

Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data pp. 317-341

David Stifel and Luc Christiaensen

Volume 21, issue 1, 2007

Growth and Risk: Methodology and Micro Evidence pp. 1-20

Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning and Bill Kinsey

Dollars, Debt, and International Financial Institutions: Dedollarizing Multilateral Lending pp. 21-47

Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Business Cycle Synchronization and Regional Integration: A Case Study for Central America pp. 49-72

Norbert Fiess

Protecting the Vulnerable: the Tradeoff between Risk Reduction and Public Insurance pp. 73-91

Shantayanan Devarajan and William Jack

The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare: Comparative Evidence from Asia pp. 93-123

Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Deni Harbianto, Charu C. Garg, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Mohammed N. Huq, Anup Karan, Gabriel M. Leung, Chiu Wan Ng, Badri Raj Pande, Keith Tin, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Laksono Trisnantoro, Yuhui Zhang and Yuxin Zhao

Did the Health Card Program Ensure Access to Medical Care for the Poor during Indonesia's Economic Crisis? pp. 125-150

Menno Pradhan, Fadia Saadah and Robert Sparrow

A Short Note on Updating the Grilli and Yang Commodity Price Index pp. 151-163

Stephan Pfaffenzeller, Paul Newbold and Anthony Rayner

Trade, Production, and Protection Database, 1976--2004 pp. 165-171

Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga

Volume 20, issue 3, 2006

The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: Direct Income Effects of Malaria Prevalence pp. 309-339

Kai Carstensen and Erich Gundlach

When Is External Debt Sustainable? pp. 341-365

Aart Kraay and Vikram Nehru

Will African Agriculture Survive Climate Change? pp. 367-388

Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Robert Mendelsohn, Rashid Hassan, James Benhin, Temesgen Deressa, Mbaye Diop, Helmy Mohamed Eid, K. Yerfi Fosu, Glwadys Gbetibouo, Suman Jain, Ali Mahamadou, Renneth Mano, Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Samia El-Marsafawy, Ernest Molua, Samiha Ouda, Mathieu Ouedraogo, Isidor Séne, David Maddison, S. Niggol Seo and Ariel Dinar

Microenterprise Dynamics in Developing Countries: How Similar are They to Those in the Industrialized World? Evidence from Mexico pp. 389-419

Pablo Fajnzylber, William Maloney and Gabriel Montes-Rojas

The "Glass of Milk" Subsidy Program and Malnutrition in Peru pp. 421-448

David Stifel and Harold Alderman

How Endowments, Accumulations, and Choice Determine the Geography of Agricultural Productivity in Ecuador pp. 449-471

Donald Larson and Mauricio León

Volume 20, issue 2, 2006

The Doha Round and Preference Erosion: A Symposium pp. 165-168

Bernard Hoekman

Doha Merchandise Trade Reform: What Is at Stake for Developing Countries? pp. 169-195

Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization pp. 197-216

Joseph Francois, Bernard Hoekman and Miriam Manchin

Trade Preferences to Small Developing Countries and the Welfare Costs of Lost Multilateral Liberalization pp. 217-240

Nuno Limão and Marcelo Olarreaga

Price Effects of Preferential Market Access: Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Apparel Sector pp. 241-259

Çaglar Özden and Gunjan Sharma

Aid and the Supply Side: Public Investment, Export Performance, and Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries pp. 261-290

Christopher S. Adam and David Bevan

Infrastructure, Externalities, and Economic Development: A Study of the Indian Manufacturing Industry pp. 291-308

Charles R. Hulten, Esra Bennathan and Sylaja Srinivasan

Volume 20, issue 1, 2006

Making Conditional Cash Transfer Programs More Efficient: Designing for Maximum Effect of the Conditionality pp. 1-29

Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Child Labor and School Achievement in Latin America pp. 31-54

Victoria Gunnarsson, Peter Orazem and Mario A. Sánchez

The Long-Run Economic Costs of aids: A Model with an Application to South Africa pp. 55-89

Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan and Hans Gersbach

Robust Multidimensional Spatial Poverty Comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda pp. 91-113

Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn and Stephen Younger

The Impact of Regulatory Governance and Privatization on Electricity Industry Generation Capacity in Developing Economies pp. 115-141

John Cubbin and Jon Stern

An Empirical Analysis of State and Private-Sector Provision of Water Services in Africa pp. 143-163

Colin Kirkpatrick, David Parker and Yin-Fang Zhang

Volume 19, issue 3, 2005

Tracking pp. 335-344

Daniel Lederman and Luis Servén

Spatial Dimensions of Trade Liberalization and Economic Convergence: Mexico 1985--2002 pp. 345-378

Patricio Aroca, Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

Market Access and Welfare under Free Trade Agreements: Textiles under pp. 379-405

Olivier Cadot, Celine Carrere, Jaime de Melo and Alberto Portugal-Perez

The Effects of pp. 407-424

Bruce Blonigen

Has pp. 425-448

Raymond Robertson

Migration, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico pp. 449-472

Patricio Aroca and William Maloney

Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico since the Approval of pp. 473-488

Alfredo Cuevas, Miguel Messmacher and Alejandro Werner

Volume 19, issue 2, 2005

The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth pp. 141-174

Jonathan Isham, Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett and Gwen Busby

Attaching Workers through In-Kind Payments: Theory and Evidence from Russia pp. 175-202

Guido Friebel and Sergei Guriev

Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru pp. 203-223

Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady

Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance: A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Education in Developing Economies pp. 225-261

Justin van der Sluis, Mirjam Praag and Wim Vijverberg

Microfinance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh pp. 263-286

Shahidur Khandker

Participation in pp. 287-310

Chad Bown

Has Rural Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Georgia Helped the Poor? pp. 311-333

Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov

Volume 19, issue 1, 2005

Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000 pp. 1-20

Abhijit Banerjee and Thomas Piketty

Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Surveys pp. 21-44

Branko Milanovic

Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: How Much Should Poor Countries Contribute? pp. 45-67

William Jack and Jean Lanjouw

Prices and Unit Values in Poverty Measurement and Tax Reform Analysis pp. 69-97

John Gibson and Scott Rozelle

Has Distance Died? Evidence from a Panel Gravity Model pp. 99-120

Jean Brun, Celine Carrere, Patrick Guillaumont and Jaime de Melo

Measuring and Explaining the Impact of Productive Efficiency on Economic Development pp. 121-140

Ruwan Jayasuriya and Quentin Wodon