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232: Confronting the American Divide on Carbon Emissions Regulation - Working Paper 232

David Wheeler

231: Giving Money Away? The Politics of Direct Distribution in Resource Rich States - Working Paper 231

Alexandra Gillies

230: China in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective - Working Paper 230

Benedicte Vibe Christensen

229: The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries - Working Paper 229

David Wheeler

228: Where Have All the Donors Gone? Scarce Donor Funding for Non-Communicable Diseases - Working Paper 228

Rachel Nugent

227: How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States? A Proposal for IDA - Working Paper 227

Alan Gelb

226: Can Donors Be Flexible within Restrictive Budget Systems? Options for Innovative Financing Mechanisms - Working Paper 226

Benjamin Leo

225: When is the Rigorous Impact Evaluation of Development Projects a Luxury, and When Is It a Necessity?

Michael Clemens

224: Aid for Trade: Supporting Trade Preference Reform - Working Paper 224

Susan Prowse

223: ABC, 123: The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes

Jenny Aker

222: Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index - Working Paper 222

Ben Leo

221: How Should Oil Exporters Spend Their Rents?

Alan Gelb and Sina Grasmann

220: Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development

Joel Cohen

219: Concentrating Solar Power in China and India: A Spatial Analysis of Technical Potential and the Cost of Deployment

Kevin Ummel

218: The End of ODA (II): The Birth of Hypercollective Action

Jean-Michel Severino

217: Bridging the Gap: Improving Clinical Development and the Regulatory Pathways for Health Products for Neglected Diseases

Thomas Bollyky

216: Inside the World Bank’s Black Box Allocation System: How Well Does IDA Allocate Resources to the Neediest and Most Vulnerable Countries?

Benjamin Leo

215: Pulling Agricultural Innovation and the Market Together

Kimberly Elliott

214: Leveraging World Bank Resources for the Poorest: IDA Blended Financing Facility Proposal - Working Paper 214

Benjamin Leo

213: The Washington Consensus: Assessing a Damaged Brand - Working Paper 213

Nancy Birdsall

212: The Roots of Global Wage Gaps: Evidence from Randomized Processing of U.S. Visas

Michael Clemens

211: Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa

Jenny Aker

210: How to Pay “Cash-on-Delivery” for HIV Infections Averted: Two Measurement Approaches and Ten Payout Functions

Mead Over

209: Financing Food Assistance: Options for the World Food Programme to Save Lives and Dollars

Vijaya Ramachandran

208: Are Borders Barriers? The Impact of International and Internal Ethnic Borders on Agricultural Markets in West Africa

Jenny AKer

207: The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest

Nancy Birdsall

206: The Costs and Benefits of Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Poor Countries: Who and What Matters

Kimberly Elliott

205: The U.S. Aid “Surge” to Pakistan: Repeating a Failed Experiment?

Nancy Birdsall

204: Less Smoke, More Mirrors: Where India Really Stands on Solar Power and Other Renewables

David Wheeler

203: Financial Integration and Foreign Banks in Latin America: Do They Amplify External Financial Shocks?

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

202: The International Financial Crisis: Eight Lessons for and from Latin America

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

201: A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

Michael Clemens

200: From Predation to Production Post-conflict

Satish Chand

199: The Economics of Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events in Developing Countries

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante and David Wheeler

198: Peace-Building without External Assistance: Lessons from Somaliland

Nicholas Eubank

197: Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia

Oeindrila Dube and Suresh Naidu

196: Aid, Dutch Disease, and Manufacturing Growth

Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian

195: It’s One Climate Policy World Out There—Almost

Nancy Birdsall and Jan von der Goltz

194: Development Assistance, Institution Building, and Social Cohesion after Civil War: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Liberia

James Fearon, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein

193: Will World Bank and IMF Lending Lead to HIPC IV? Debt Déjà-Vu All Over Again

Benjamin Leo

192: FORMA: Forest Monitoring for Action— Rapid Identification of Pan-tropical Deforestation Using Moderate-Resolution Remotely Sensed Data

Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft and David Wheeler

191: Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates

Simon Johnson, William Larson, Chris Papageorgiou and Arvind Subramanian

190: Moving Mugabe's Mountain: Zimbabwe's Path to Arrears Clearance and Debt Relief

Benjamin Leo and Todd Moss

189: Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy

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

188: Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing-Country Industrialization?

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

187: Energy Needs and Efficiency, Not Emissions: Re-framing the Climate Change Narrative

Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian

186: Saving Ghana from Its Oil: The Case for Direct Cash Distribution

Todd Moss and Lauren Young

185: Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid

Owen Barder

184: Opening Markets for Poor Countries: Are We There Yet?

Kimberly Elliott

183: Countering Drug Resistance in the Developing World: An Assessment of Incentives across the Value Chain and Recommendations for Policy Interventions

Prashant Yadav