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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

182: Climate Change and the Future Impacts of Storm-Surge Disasters in Developing Countries

Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray and David Wheeler

181: Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions under Which States Delegate Governance

Aila Matanock

180: Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development

Michael Clemens

179: Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Antiretrovirals

Ethan Kapstein and Josh Busby

178: The Illusion of Equality: The Educational Consequences of Blinding Weak States, For Example

Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

177: High Stakes in a Complex Game: A Snapshot of the Climate Change Negotiating Positions of Major Developing Country Emitters

Jan von der Goltz

176: Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

175: To Formalize or Not to Formalize? Comparisons of Microenterprise Data from Southern and East Africa

Alan Gelb, Taye Mengistae, Vijaya Ramachandran and Manju Kedia Shah

174: The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence

David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch

173: The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific

John Gibson and David McKenzie

172: Rice Price Formation in the Short Run and the Long Run: The Role of Market Structure in Explaining Volatility

Charles Timmer

171: Blunt Instruments: On Establishing the Causes of Economic Growth

Michael Clemens and Samuel Bazzi

170: What is Poverty Reduction?

Owen Barder

169: Heckle and Chide: Results of a Randomized Road Safety Intervention in Kenya

James Habyarimana and William Jack

168: Estimating Fully Observed Recursive Mixed-Process Models with cmp

David Roodman

167: Death and Rebirth of a Global Public Policy

Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray

166: Civil War: A Review of 50 Years of Research

Christopher Blattman and Edward Miguel

165: Schooling Inequality, Crises, and Financial Liberalization in Latin America

Jere Behrman, Nancy Birdsall and Gunilla Pettersson Gelander

164: Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World

Nora Lustig

163: Rice Crisis Forensics: How Asian Governments Carelessly Set the World Rice Market on Fire

Tom Slayton

162: Supermarkets, Modern Supply Chains, and the Changing Food Policy Agenda

Charles Timmer

161: AIDS Treatment in South Asia: Equity and Efficiency Arguments for Shouldering the Fiscal Burden When Prevalence Rates are Low

A. Over