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355: From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector

Oeindrila Dube, Omar Garcia-Ponce and Kevin Thom

354: Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development

Michael Clemens and Timothy Ogden

353: Stunted Growth: Why Don't African Firms Create More Jobs?

Leonardo Iacovone, Vijaya Ramachandran and Martin Schmidt

352: Rethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank

Devesh Kapur and Arjun Raychaudhuri

351: The Median Is the Message: A Good-Enough Measure of Material Well-Being and Shared Development Progress

Nancy Birdsall and Christian Meyer

350: Estimating Illicit Flows of Capital via Trade Mispricing: A Forensic Analysis of Data on Switzerland

Alex Cobham, Petr Janský and Alex Prats

349: Primary Schooling, Student Learning, and School Quality in Rural Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

348: Is Anyone Listening? Does US Foreign Assistance Target People's Top Priorities?

Ben Leo

347: Supplementing REDD+ with Biodiversity Payments: The Paradox of Paying for Multiple Ecosystem Services

Jonah Busch

346: Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda

Dean Karlan, Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan and Jonathan Zinman

345: Can Results-Based Payments Reduce Corruption?

Charles Kenny and William Savedoff

344: Social Capital and Disaster Recovery: Evidence from Sichuan Earthquake in 2008

Chung Wing Tse, Jianwen Wei and Yihan Wang

343: Is It All About the Tails? The Palma Measure of Income Inequality

Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner

342: The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy

Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes

341: The Geography of Inequality: Where and by How Much Has Income Distribution Changed since 1990?

Peter Edward and Andy Sumner

340: Planning for Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power in South Africa: Identifying Cost-Effective Deployment Strategies Using Spatiotemporal Modeling

Kevin Ummel

339: Estimating Income/Expenditure Differences across Populations: New Fun with Old Engel's Law

Lant Pritchett and Marla Spivack

338: Promoting Millennium Development Ideals: The Risks of Defining Development Down

Lant Pritchett and Charles Kenny

337: The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America?

Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig and Christian Meyer

336: Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix

Lant Pritchett and Justin Sandefur

335: First Steps toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (QUODA-CF)

Katherine Sierra, Timmons Roberts, Michele de Nevers, Claire Langley and Cory Smith

334: When Is Prevention More Profitable than Cure? The Impact of Time-Varying Consumer Heterogeneity

Michael Kremer and Christopher Snyder

333: The Case for Direct Transfers of Resource Revenues in Africa

Shantayanan Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale

332: Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive Health Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda

Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan and Pia Raffler

331: Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

330: Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

329: Global Markets, Global Citizens, and Global Governance in the 21st Century

Nancy Birdsall, Christian Meyer and Alexis Sowa

328: Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique

Jenny Aker, Paul Collier and Pedro Vicente

327: The Future of Global Poverty in a Multi-Speed World: New Estimates of Scale and Location, 2010–2030

Peter Edward and Andy Sumner

326: The Effect of Foreign Labor on Native Employment: A Job-Specific Approach and Application to North Carolina Farms

Michael Clemens

325: Does Poor Mean Cheap? A Comparative Look at Africa's Industrial Labor Costs

Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer and Vijaya Ramachandran

324: Split Decisions: Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work

Michael Clemens and Erwin Tiongson

323: China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection

Austin Strange, Bradley Parks, Michael Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher and Vijaya Ramachandran

322: It‘s All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning (“e”) to Crawl the Design Space

Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer

321: Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education

Jenny Aker

320: Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jenny Aker

319: Macroprudential Regulations in Andean Countries

Arturo Galindo, Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Marielle del Valle

318: Macroprudential Regulations in Central America

Alejandro Izquierdo, Rudy Loo-Kung and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

317: Forest Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) Report 2: Bad News for the Pan-Tropics and Everybody Else

David Wheeler, Dan Hammer and Robin Kraft

316: Nowhere Left to Hide? Stock Market Correlation, Regional Diversification, and the Case for Investing in Africa

Todd Moss and Ross Thuotte

315: Identification for Development:The Biometrics Revolution

Alan Gelb and Julia Clark

314: What Is Governance?

Francis Fukuyama

313: Europe Beyond Aid: Assessing Europe’s Commitment to Development

Owen Barder, Julia Clark, Alice Lépissier, Liza Reynolds and David Roodman

312: Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development

Dean Karlan, Ryan Knight and Christopher Udry

311: The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru: A Synthesis of Results

Nora Lustig, George Gray-Molina, Sean Higgins, Miguel Jaramillo, Wilson Jiménez, Veronica Paz, Claudiney Pereira, Carola Pessino, John Scott and Ernesto Yañez

310: Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto and Christopher Udry

309: The Buoyant Billions: How “Middle Class” Are the New Middle Classes in Developing Countries? (And Why Does It Matter?)

Andy Sumner

308: Migration and Disaster-Induced Displacement: European Policy, Practice, and Perspective

Michael Cooper

307: Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

306: Direct Distribution of Oil Revenues in Venezuela: A Viable Alternative?

Pedro Rodríguez, José Morales and Fancisco Monaldi