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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

Arthur Over

160: A Fresh Look at Global Governance: Exploring Objective Criteria for Representation

Enrique Rueda-Sabater, Vijaya Ramachandran and Robin Kraft

159: Do Regulatory Reforms Stimulate Investment and Growth? Evidence from the Doing Business Data, 2003-07

Benjamin Eifert

158: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations in Education and Health

Alaka Holla and Michael Kremer

157: Rainfall Shocks, Markets, and Food Crises: Evidence from the Sahel

Jenny Aker

156: Desert Power: The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East

Kevin Ummel and David Wheeler

155: Thought for Food: The Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices

Nora Lustig

154: Does Digital Divide or Provide? The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Niger

Jenny Aker

153: Multilateralism Beyond Doha

Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo

152: Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Michael Clemens and Satish Chand

151: Biofuels and the Food Price Crisis: A Survey of the Issues

Kimberly Elliott

150: The Structural Transformation as a Pathway out of Poverty: Analytics, Empirics and Politics

Charles Timmer and Selvin Akkus

149: Why Warner-Lieberman Failed and How to Get America’s Working Families behind the Next Cap-and-Trade Bill

David Wheeler

148: The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border

Michael Clemens, Claudio Montenegro and Lant Pritchett

147: Measuring Progress with Tests of Learning: Pros and Cons for "Cash on Delivery Aid" in Education

Marlaine Lockheed

146: Intellectual Property and Public Health: An Overview of the Debate with a Focus on U.S. Policy

Carsten Fink

145: Calculating CARMA: Global Estimation of CO2 Emissions from the Power Sector

David Wheeler and Kevin Ummel

144: Prevention Failure: The Ballooning Entitlement Burden of U.S. Global AIDS Treatment Spending and What to Do About It

Arthur Over

143: Income per natural: Measuring development as if people mattered more than places

Michael Clemens and Lant Pritchett

142: Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New Role for the World Trade Organization

Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo

141: How Soon Can Donors Exit From Post-Conflict States?

Satish Chand and Ruth Coffman

140: Crossroads at Mmamabula: Will the World Bank Choose the Clean Energy Path?

David Wheeler

139: Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries

Devesh Kapur and Megan Crowley

138: From Violence to Voting: War and political participation in Uganda

Christopher Blattman

137: Through the Looking-Glass, and What OLS Found There: On Growth, Foreign Aid, and Reverse Causality

David Roodman

136: Putting the Power of Transparency in Context: Information’s Role in Reducing Corruption in Uganda’s Education Sector

Paul Hubbard

135: Macro Aid Effectiveness Research: A Guide for the Perplexed

David Roodman

134: Macro Aid Effectiveness Research: A Guide for the Perplexed

David Roodman

133: Reviving Economic Growth in Liberia

Steve Radelet