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110: Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microcredit

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

109: Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Report

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

108: Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

107: Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Dean Karlan and Martín Valdivia

106: Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines*

Dean Karlan, Nava Ashraf and Wesley Yin

105: AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya

Harsha Thirumurthy, Joshua Graff Zivin and Markus Goldstein

104: Why Are There So Few Black-Owned Firms in Africa? Preliminary Results from Enterprise Survey Data

Vijaya Ramachandran and Manju Kedia Shah

103: How to Do xtabond2: An Introduction to "Difference" and "System" GMM in Stata

David Roodman

102: Payments for Progress: A Hands-Off Approach to Foreign Aid

Nancy Birdsall and Owen Barder

101: Microfinance as Business

David Roodman and Uzma Qureshi

100: Artificial States

William Easterly, Alberto Alesina and Janina Matuszeski

99: Beyond the IMF

Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb

98: Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Working Paper and Spread Sheet

Ruth Levine, Ernst Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Georg Weizsäcker and Heidi Williams

97: A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education

Deon Filmer, Amer Hasan and Lant Pritchett

96: Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money

Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown

95: A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa

Michael Clemens and Gunilla Pettersson Gelander

94: Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth

William Easterly, Jozef Ritzan and Michael Woolcock

93: Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings

William Easterly

92: A Primer on Foreign Aid

Steve Radelet

91: A Policymakers' Guide to Dutch Disease

Owen Barder

90: Are the planned increases in aid too much of a good thing?

Owen Barder

89: Competitive Proliferation of Aid Projects: A Model

David Roodman

88: Will Debt Relief Make a Difference? Impact and Expectations of the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative

Todd Moss

87: Privatization: A Summary Assessment

John Nellis

86: The U.S. External Deficit and the Developing Countries

William Cline

85: The Economics of Young Democracies: Policies and Performance

Ethan Kapstein and Nathan Converse

84: Back to the Future for African Infrastructure? Why State-Ownership Is No More Promising the Second Time Around

John Nellis

83: The Role of the IMF in Well-Performing Low-Income Countries

Steve Radelet

82: Tax policies to promote private charitable giving in DAC countries

David Roodman and Scott Standley

81: Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy

Nancy Birdsall

80: The Costs and Benefits of Front-loading and Predictability of Immunization

Owen Barder and Ethan Yeh

79: How Multinational Investors Evade Developed Country Laws

Theodore Moran

78: Governance and Corruption in Public Health Care Systems

Maureen Lewis

77: A Stability and Social Investment Facility for High Debt Countries

Nancy Birdsall

76: Does the Private Sector Care About AIDS? Evidence from Investment Climate Surveys in East Africa

Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah and Ginger Turner

75: Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity

David Roodman

74: An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa

Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson Gelander and Nicolas van de Walle

73: Weak States and Global Threats: Assessing Evidence of Spillovers

Stewart Patrick

72: The Day After Comrade Bob: Applying Post-Conflict Reconstruction Lessons to Zimbabwe

Todd Moss and Stewart Patrick

71: After the Big Push? Fiscal and Institutional Implications of Large Aid Increases

Todd Moss and Arvind Subramanian

70: Reforming Development Assistance: Lessons from the UK Experience

Owen Barder

69: Disentangling the Determinants of Successful Demobilization and Reintegration

Jeremy Weinstein and Macartan Humphreys

68: Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target

Michael Clemens and Todd Moss

67: An Index of Donor Performance-Revised August 2005

David Roodman

66: Production-weighted Estimates of Aggregate Protection in Rich Countries toward Developing Countries

David Roodman

65: Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development

William Easterly

64: The Dollar and Development

Dick Sabot

63: Agriculture and Pro-Poor Growth: An Asian Perspective

Charles Timmer

62: The Global War on Terror and U.S. Development Assistance: USAID allocation by country, 1998-2005

Todd Moss, David Roodman and Scott Standley

61: Patents, Price Controls and Access to New Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market Entry

Jean Lanjouw