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3960: When Should Developing Countries Announce Their Climate Policy?

Jorge Fernández and Sebastian Miller

3959: The Presidency and the Executive Branch in Latin America: What We Know and What We Need to Know

Alejandro Bonvecchi and Carlos Scartascini

3958: Prudent Banks and Creative Mimics: Can We Tell the Difference?

Andrew Powell, Marcus Miller and Antonia Maier

3957: Health Perceptions in Latin America

Eduardo Lora

3956: Reducing Reliance on Natural Resource Revenue and Increasing Subnational Tax Autonomy in Bolivia

Giorgio Brosio

3955: Productivity and Resource Misallocation in Latin America

Matias Busso, Lucia Madrigal and Carmen Pages

3954: Industrial Policy in Chile

Manuel Agosin, Christian Larraín and Nicolas Grau

3953: La competitividad de Perú después de la década de reforma: Diagnóstico y propuestas

Alberto Melo

3952: Getting it Right: What to Reform in International Financial Markets

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Ricardo Hausmann

3951: Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Peru

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepulveda

3950: Policy-Induced Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Matteo Bobba and Jérémie Gignoux

3949: Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Argentina

Martín González Rozada, Lucas Ronconi and Hernán Ruffo

3947: Unemployment in Bolivia: Risks and Labor Market Policies

Werner Hernani-Limarino, María Villegas and Ernesto Yáñez

3946: Esfuerzo fiscal en los estados mexicanos

Jaime Bonet and Fabio Rueda

3943: Second-tier Government Banks and Access to Credit: Micro-Evidence from Colombia

Marcela Eslava, Alessandro Maffioli and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

3922: Travelling the Distance: A GPS-Based Study of the Access to Birth Registration Services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ana Corbacho and Rene Osorio Rivas

3919: Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program

Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarraran, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severin

3887: Sub-National Revenue Mobilization in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The Case of Argentina

Daniel Artana, Sebastián Auguste, Marcela Cristini, Cynthia Moskovits and Ivana Templado

3884: ¿Es sostenible el Régimen Impositivo Simplificado Ecuatoriano?

María L. Granda and Carla Zambrano

3834: Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Karen Macours, Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis

3831: The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality

Valentina Calderón and Ioana Marinescu

3829: Labor Informality and the Incentive Effects of Social Security: Evidence from a Health Reform in Uruguay

Marcelo Bérgolo and Guillermo Cruces

3827: Simplification of Labor Registration in Argentina: Achievements and Pending Issues

Lucas Ronconi and Jorge Colina

3826: The Impact of Public Credit Programs on Brazilian Firms

JoaÞo Alberto De Negri, Alessandro Maffioli, Cesar Rodriguez and Gonzalo Vázquez

3825: Second-tier Government Banks and Firm Performance: Micro-Evidence from Colombia

Marcela Eslava, Alessandro Maffioli and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

3824: The Impact of the Seed Capital Program of SERCOTEC in Chile

Claudio Bonilla and Christian Cancino

3823: Competition Law and Policy in El Salvador: A Peer Review

John Clark

3821: Why Don't We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World

Martin Ardanaz and Carlos Scartascini

3819: Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Eduardo Lora and Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez

3817: Housing Policy Matters for the Poor: Housing Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1995-2006

Eduardo Rojas and Nadin Medellín

3814: Breaking from Isolation: Suriname's Participation in Regional Integration Initiatives

Anneke Jessen and Andrew Katona

3813: Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Uruguay

Veronica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim and Andrés Dean

3811: Housing Markets in Uruguay: Determinants of Housing Demand and Its Interaction with Public Policies

Natalia Garabato and Magdalena Ramada

3809: Housing Tenure and Housing Demand in Colombia

Maria Arbelaez, Roberto Steiner, Alejandro Becerra and Daniel Wills

3806: A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life

Eduardo Lora and Andrew Powell

3804: On Endogenous Risk, the Amplification Effects of Financial Systems and Macro Prudential Policies

Giovanni Majnoni and Andrew Powell

3803: Does Contracting-Out Primary Care Services Work?: The Case of Rural Guatemala

Julian Cristia, William Evans and Kim Beomsoo

3801: El impacto del Programa de Capital Semilla del Sercotec en Chile

Claudio Bonilla and Christian Cancino

3799: Simplificación del registro laboral en Argentina: Logros obtenidos y problemas pendientes

Lucas Ronconi and Jorge Colina

3798: Effect of the Structure of Rural Public Expenditures on Agricultural Growth and Rural Poverty in Latin America

Ramon Lopez

3795: Dealing with Coordination Issues in Rural Development Projects: Game Theory Insights

Mark D. Wenner

3794: Rural Development from a Territorial Perspective: Case Studies in Asia and Latin America

Octavio Damiani

3793: Returns to Education, Sector Premiums, and Male Wage Inequality in Mexico

Cesar Patricio Bouillon

3790: El largo camino hacia la reforma del sector vivienda: Lecciones de la experiencia chilena

Eduardo Rojas

3789: Development under Conditions of Inequality and Distrust: An Exploration of the Role of Social Capital and Social Cohesion in Latin America

Marco Ferroni, Maria Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Diaz and J. Mark Payne

3787: Estudios de gobernabilidad del BID: Comparación con otras iniciativas de organizaciones multilaterales y no gubernamentales

Fernando Straface and Ana Inés Basco

3783: La reforma del Estado en Perú

Fernando Straface and Ana Inés Basco

3782: Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform

Cesar Patricio Bouillon

3778: Las mujeres en el mercado laboral de América Latina y el Caribe en los años 90: Una década extraordinaria

Suzanne Duryea, Alejandra Cox Edwards and Manuelita Ureta

3777: Los jóvenes latinoamericanos en transición: Un análisis sobre el desempleo juvenil en América Latina y el Caribe

Caroline S. Fawcett

3773: Servicios de intermediación laboral: Un análisis para los países de América Latina y el Caribe

Jacqueline Mazza

3772: El empleo informal en América Latina y el Caribe: Causas, consecuencias y recomendaciones de política

Samuel Freije

3747: Reducción de la pobreza y fortalecimiento del capital social y la participación: La acción reciente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Gustavo Yamada

3746: Women in the Latin American Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990's

Suzanne Duryea, Alejandra Cox Edwards and Manuelita Ureta

3745: What Makes Inter-Agency Coordination Work?: Insights from the Literature and Two Case Studies

Rodrigo Serrano

3744: La economía política de las reformas para la promoción de la equidad social

Ernesto Castagnino

3742: Housing Finance in Brazil: Institutional Improvements and Recent Developments

Bruno Martins, Eduardo Lundberg and Tony Takeda

3739: China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Mohammad Pesaran, Alessandro Rebucci and TengTeng Xu

3723: Are Uruguayan Housing Policies Reaching the Poor?: An Assessment of Housing Deficit, Housing Informality and Usage of Housing Programs in Uruguay

Natalia Garabato and Magdalena Ramada

3721: Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile

Roberto Alvarez, Claudio Bravo Ortega and Lucas Navarro

3718: The Role of Flagship Firms, External Actors and Support Institutions in the Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Brazil: Two Industrial Cluster Studies

Angela Da Rocha, Beatriz Kury and Joana Monteiro

3716: The Emergence of New Successful Export Activities in Latin America: The Case of Chile

Manuel Agosin and Claudio Bravo Ortega

3714: The Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Uruguay: Four Case Studies

Carlos Casacuberta, Rosario Domingo, Lucía Pittaluga and Héctor Pastori

3711: The Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Mexico: Three Case Studies

Edgar Aragón, Anne Fouquet and Marcia Campos

3707: Titling, Credit Constraints and Rental Markets in Rural Peru: Exploring Channels and Conditioned Impacts

Eduardo Zegarra, Javier Escobal and Ursula Aldana

3706: Revisiting Economic Growth in Colombia: A Microeconomic Perspective

Marcela Meléndez Arjona and Arturo Harker Roa

3702: Growth Diagnostic: Peru

Ricardo Hausmann and Bailey Klinger

3700: Determinants of Maritime Transport Costs

Alejandro Micco and Natalia Pérez

3698: Does the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages?: The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries

Naoko Shinkai

3696: Cleaning Up the Kitchen Sink: On the Consequences of the Linearity Assumption for Cross-Country Growth Empirics

Francisco Rodríguez

3693: People's Republic of China's Competitive Threat to Latin America: An Analysis for 1990-2002

Sanjaya Lall and John Weiss

3691: Trade, Direct Investment and Production Policies

José Luis Machinea and Cecilia Vera

3688: Competition Regimes and Air Transport Costs: The Effects of Open Skies Agreement

Alejandro Micco and Tomas Serebrisky

3683: Innovation Policy for Development: an Overview

Manuel Trajtenberg

3681: Regional Integration and Trade Cost in South Asia

Nilanjan Banik and John Gilbert

3434: Fear of China: Is There a Future for Manufacturing in Latin America?

Mauricio Moreira

3433: ASEAN Open Skies and Its Implications on Airport Development Strategy in Malaysia

Siew Yean Tham

3432: Transportation Costs of Fresh Flowers: A Comparison across Major Exporting Countries

Henry Vega

3430: Early Nutrition and Cognition in Peru: A Within-Sibling Investigation

Ingo Outes-Leon, Catherine Porter and Alan Sanchez

3427: Low-Income Housing Finance in Colombia

Maria Arbelaez, Carolina Camacho and Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez

3424: Developing Economies as Toyota Production Systems: Why the Analogy Makes Sense, How It Can Inform Industrial Policy

Charles Sabel

3421: Argentina's Housing Market in the 2000s

Marcela Cristini, Ramiro Moya and Guillermo Bermúdez

3415: Export Growth and Industrial Policy: Lessons from the East Asian Miracle Experience

John Weiss

3412: Financial Liberalization, Crisis, and Rescue: Lessons for China from Latin America and East Asia?

Barbara Stallings

3407: Technology and Indonesia's Industrial Competitiveness

Kian Thee

3404: People's Republic of China's Technological Capability

Jon Sigurdson

3402: The Internationalisation of SMEs in Regional and Global Value Chains

Hank Lim and Fukunari Kimura

3396: Tacit Collusion in the Santiago Housing Market

Fernando Lefort and Miguel Vargas

3392: Programa de desarrollo de nuevas oportunidades de mercado en la base económica de la pirámide

Leticia González Vallejo

3387: Comercio, inversión directa y políticas productivas

José Luis Machinea and Cecilia Vera

3384: Supply Chain Dynamics in Asia

Ruth Banomyong

3381: Regional Integration behind the Border: Applying a Value Chain Approach

Grant Aldonas

3379: Macroeconomic Effects of Infrastructure Financing: A Tale of Two Countries

Douglas H. Brooks and Fan Zhai

3377: Empirical Estimated of Trade Costs for Asia

Prabir De

3374: The Impact of Internet Banking on the Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Costa Rica: A Randomized Controlled Experiment

Comisión Asesora en Alta Tecnología

3371: Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Chile

Cristobal Aninat, John Londregan, Patricio Navia and Joaquín Vial

3369: The Pitfalls of Policymaking in Peru: Actors, Institutions and Rules of the Game

Eduardo Moron and Cynthia Sanborn

3368: Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes: The Case of Uruguay

Andres Pereyra, Ruben Tansini, Adolfo Garcé, Daniel Chasquetti, Daniel Buquet and Juan Andrés Moraes

3365: Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil

Lee Alston, Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller and Carlos Pereira

3362: Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes in Venezuela

Francisco Monaldi, Rosa Amelia González de Pacheco, Richard Obuchi and Michael Penfold