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239: Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and Matt Andrews

238: Empirical confirmation of creative destruction from world trade data

Peter Klimek, Ricardo Hausmann and Stefan Thurner

237: A Rational Framework for the Understanding of the Arab Revolutions

Ishac Diwan

236: The Dynamics of Nestedness Predicts the Evolution of Industrial Ecosystems

Sebastian Bustos, Charles Gomez, Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo

235: Neighbors and the Evolution of the Comparative Advantage of Nations: Evidence of International Knowledge Diffusion?

Dany Bahar, Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo

234: Mauritius: African Success Story

Jeffrey Frankel

233: The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions

Jeffrey Frankel

232: What Small Countries Can Teach the World

Jeffrey Frankel

231: Capital and Labor Mobility and the Size of Sub-national Governments: Evidence from a Panel of Mexican States

Rene Cabral

230: Long term impact of a Cash-Transfers Program on Labor Outcomes of the Rural Youth

Eduardo Rodrigues-Oreggia and Samuel Freije-Rodriguez

229: Structural Factors and the “War on Drugs” Effects on the Upsurge in Homicides in Mexico

Eduardo Rodrigues-Oreggia and Miguel Flores

228: Limitations to crop diversification for enhancing the resilience of rain-fed subsistence agriculture to drought

M. E. Gilbert and N. M. Holbrook

227: A Comparison of Product Price Targeting and Other Monetary Anchor Options, for Commodity Exporters in Latin America

Jeffrey Frankel

226: Politically Feasible Emissions Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations

Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey Frankel

225: The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City

Rema Hanna and Paulina Oliva

224: Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna

223: Migration and cross-border equity portfolio flows

Maurice Kugler and Hillel Rapoport

222: Migration, FDI and the Margins of Trade

Maurice Kugler and Hillel Rapoport

221: Tradable Immigration Quotas

Hillel Rapoport

220: Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps?

Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo

219: Globalization, Brain Drain and Development

Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

218: From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice

Robert W. Kates

217: Emigration and Democracy

Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff

216: A Solution to Fiscal Procyclicality: The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile

Jeffrey Frankel

215: Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: A Survey

Jeffrey Frankel

213: Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology

Robert W. Kates

212: Sources of Corporate Profits in India - Business Dynamism or Advantages of Entrenchment?

Ashoka Mody, Anusha Nath and Michael Walton

211: How Business is Done and the 'Doing Business' Indicators: The Investment Climate when Firms have Climate Control

Lant Pritchett and Mary Hallward-Driemeier

210: Deals Versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Gita Khun-Jush and Lant Pritchett

209: Building Social Capital Through Microfinance

Benjamin Feigenberg, Erica M. Field and Rohini Pande

208: How Far Have Public Financial Management Reforms Come in Africa?

Matt Andrews

207: Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example

Matt Andrews, Roger Hay and Jerrett Myers

206: Development as Leadership-led Change

Matt Andrews, Jesse McConnell and Alison Wescott

205: Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability

Merilee S. Grindle

204: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Career Civil Service Systems in Latin America

Merilee S. Grindle

203: Social Policy in Development: Coherence and Cooperation in the Real World

Merilee S. Grindle

202: Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea

Merilee S. Grindle

201: Country Diversification, Product Ubiquity, and Economic Divergence

Cesar Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann

200: How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates

Robert Lawrence

199: Toward a General Theory of Boundary Work: Insights from the CGIAR’s Natural Resource Management Programs

William C. Clark, Thomas P. Tomich, Meine van Noordwijk, Nancy M. Dickson, Delia Catacutan, David Guston and Elizabeth McNie

198: Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition, San Servolo Island, Venice – June 6-9, 2010

William C. Clark, Patti Kristjanson, Bruce Campbell, Calestous Juma, N. M. Holbrook, Gerald Nelson and Nancy M. Dickson

197: “Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America

Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo

196: Toward a Science of Sustainability: Report from Toward a Science of Sustainability Conference; Airlie Center ~ Warrenton, Virginia

Simon A. Levin and William C. Clark

195: The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey

Jeffrey Frankel

194: Redemption or Abstinence? Original Sin, Currency Mismatches and Counter-Cyclical Policies in the New Millenium

Ricardo Hausmann and Ugo Panizza

193: The Global Health System: Institutions in a Time of Transition

William C. Clark, Nicole A. Szlezak, Suerie Moon, Barry R. Bloom, Gerald T. Keusch, Catherine M. Michaud, Dean T. Jamison, Julio Frenk and Wen L. Kilama

192: Certification Strategies, Industrial Development and a Global Market for Biofuels

Ricardo Hausmann and Rodrigo Wagner

191: Are Third World Emigration Forces Abating?

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson

190: Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Albert Bollard, David McKenzie, Melanie Morten and Hillel Rapoport

189: The Dynamics of Economic Complexity and the Product Space over a 42 year period

Cesar Hidalgo