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1508: Multilateral Safety Nets for Financial Crises

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

1505: Analysis of Several Productive Development Policies in Uruguay

Juan Barrios, Gustavo Michelin and Nestor Gandelman

1503: Is Latin America on the Right Track?: An Analysis of Medium-Term Frameworks and the Budget Process

Gabriel Filc and Carlos Scartascini

1499: Productive Development Policies in Latin American Countries: The Case of Peru, 1990-2007

Mario D. Tello and Jose Tavara

1495: Productive Development Policies in Jamaica

Monica Panadeiros and Warren Benfield

1492: Productive Development Policies in Trinidad and Tobago: A Critical Review

Ramiro Moya, Anne-Marie Mohammed and Sandra Sookram

1489: Happiness and Beliefs in Criminal Environments

Rafael Di Tella, Robert MacCulloch and Hugo Ñopo

1488: Are Crises Good for Long-Term Growth?: The Role of Political Institutions

Eduardo Cavallo and Alberto Cavallo

1485: On the Empirics of Sudden Stops: The Relevance of Balance-Sheet Effects

Guillermo Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Luis Fernando Mejía

1482: Concentration and Foreign Penetration in Latin American Banking Sectors: Impact on Competition and Risk

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Alejandro Micco

1478: Inflation and Labor Market Flexibility: The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease

Ana María Loboguerrero and Ugo Panizza

1474: The Currency Union Effect on Trade: Early Evidence from EMU

Alejandro Micco, Ernesto Stein and Guillermo Luis Ordoñez

1471: Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru

Jesko Hentschel, Jaime Saavedra and Alberto Chong

1467: Information Diffusion in International Markets

Alejandro Izquierdo, Jacques Morriset and Marcelo Olarreaga

1463: Towards Effective Social Insurance in Latin America: The Importance of Countercyclical Fiscal Policy

Miguel Braun and Luciano Di Gresia

1460: Privatization and Labor Force Restructuring around the World

Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

1458: Do State-Owned Banks Promote Growth?: Cross-Country Evidence for Manufacturing Industries

Arturo Galindo and Alejandro Micco

1457: Corporate Governance and Private Capital Flows to Latin America

Alejandro Izquierdo, Alejandro Micco, Ugo Panizza and Alberto Chong

1453: Should State-Owned Firms Change CEOs before Privatization?: The Case of the Telecommunications Industry

Virgilio Galdo and Alberto Chong

1451: Streamlining and Privatization Prices in the Telecommunications Industry

Virgilio Galdo and Alberto Chong

1449: The Cyclical Nature of North-South FDI Flows

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Ugo Panizza and Ernesto Stein

1446: Trade Intensity and Business Cycle Synchronization: Are Developing Countries any Different?

Cesar Calderon, Alberto Chong and Ernesto Stein

1443: Better the Devil that You Know: Evidence on Entry Costs Faced by Foreign Banks

Arturo Galindo, Alejandro Micco and César Manuel Serra

1440: Credit Frictions and "Sudden Stop" in Small Open Economies: An Equilibrium Business Cycle Framework for Emerging Markets Crises

Cristina Arellano and Enrique Mendoza

1438: Credit Constraints in Latin America: An Overview of the Micro Evidence

Arturo Galindo and Fabio Schiantarelli

1434: Does Financial Liberalization Improve the Allocation of Investment?: Micro Evidence from Developing Countries

Arturo Galindo, Fabio Schiantarelli and Andrew Weiss

1432: The Internet and the Ability to Innovate in Latin America

Alejandro Micco and Alberto Chong

1431: Political Particularism around the World

Jessica Seddon Wallack, Alejandro Gaviria, Ugo Panizza and Ernesto Stein

1429: The Innovation Systems of Latin America and the Caribbean

Alberto Melo

1425: The Growth-Interest Rate Cycle in the United States and its Consequences for Emerging Markets

Guillermo Calvo, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Ernesto Talvi and Carmen Reinhart

1422: Growth and External Financing in Latin America

Guillermo Calvo, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Ernesto Talvi and Carmen Reinhart

1419: Social Sector Reform in Latin America and the Role of Unions

Daniel Maceira and Maria Victoria Murillo

1417: Household Responses to Adverse Income Shocks in Latin America

Alejandro Gaviria

1415: The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality, but with Somewhat Lower Poverty

Miguel Székely

1412: Is Economic Growth Good for the Poor?: Tracking Low Incomes Using General Means

James Foster and Miguel Székely

1351: Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America

Jere Behrman, Alejandro Gaviria and Miguel Székely

1348: Creditor Rights and the Credit Market: Where Do We Stand?

Arturo Galindo

1343: Structure and Development of Financial Institutions and Links with Trust: Cross-Country Evidence

Arturo Galindo, Cesar Calderon and Alberto Chong

1341: Creditor Protection and Financial Cycles

Arturo Galindo and Alejandro Micco

1340: The Redesign of the International Financial Architecture from a Latin American Perspective: Who Pays the Bill?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Ricardo Hausmann

1339: What Drives Differences in Inequality across Countries?

Miguel Székely and Marianne Hilgert

1337: Are You Being Served?: Political Accountability and Quality of Government

J. Mark Payne, Carles Boix and Alicia Adsera

1334: Do We Know How Much Poverty There Is?

Miguel Székely, Nora Lustig, Martin Cumpa and José Antonio Mejía-Guerra

1332: Economics Reform and Wage Differentials in Latin America

Miguel Székely, Nancy Birdsall and Jere Behrman

1331: How Do Social Security and Income Affect the Living Arrangements of the Elderly?: Evidence from Reforms in Mexico and Uruguay

Naoko Shinkai

1329: What's Wrong with International Financial Markets?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Ricardo Hausmann

1328: Labor Markets and Income Support: What Did We Learn from the Crises?

Gustavo Márquez

1324: Structural Volatility in Argentina: A Policy Report

Ricardo Caballero

1323: Structural Volatility in Chile: A Policy Report

Ricardo Caballero

1322: Political Institutions and Growth Collapses

Ugo Panizza, Alejandro Gaviria, Ernesto Stein and Jessica Seddon Wallack

1321: Why Do Countries Float the Way They Float?

Ricardo Hausmann, Ugo Panizza and Ernesto Stein

1319: Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?

Ricardo Hausmann and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

1318: Is FDI a Safer Form of Financing?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Ricardo Hausmann

1317: The New Wave of Capital Inflows: Sea Change or Tide?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

1315: The Evolution of Urban Concentration around the World: A Panel Approach

Alejandro Gaviria and Ernesto Stein

1314: Costa Rica: The Next Stage-Reform without Volatility: A Report

Rodrigo Bolaños Zamora

1313: The Demographic Transition in Closed and Open Economies: A Tale of Two Regions

Giovanni L. Violante and Orazio P. Attanasio

1311: Unemployment Insurance: Case Studies and Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

Jacqueline Mazza

1310: The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality

Miguel Székely and Marianne Hilgert

1309: What's Behind the Inequality We Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data

Miguel Székely and Marianne Hilgert

1307: Schooling Investments and Aggregate Conditions: A Household Survey-Based Approach for Latin America and the Caribbean

Suzanne Duryea, Jere Behrman and Miguel Székely

1306: Aging and Economic Opportunities: Major World Regions around the Turn of the Century

Jere Behrman, Suzanne Duryea and Miguel Székely

1305: Bank Credit to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Role of Creditor Protection

Arturo Galindo and Alejandro Micco

1304: International Initiatives to Bring Stability to Financial Integration

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Ricardo Hausmann

1303: Preventing Crisis and Contagion: Fiscal and Financial Dimensions

Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann

1302: Elections and the Timing of Devaluations

Ernesto Stein and Jorge Streb

1301: Sibling Correlations and Social Mobility in Latin America

Momi Dahan and Alejandro Gaviria

1300: Inequality and the Family in Latin America

Ricardo Hausmann and Miguel Székely

1299: Household Savings and Income Distribution in Mexico

Orazio P. Attanasio and Miguel Székely

1298: Parental Actions and Siblings' Inequality

Momi Dahan and Alejandro Gaviria

1297: Measuring Aid Flows: A New Approach

Charles C. Chang, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Luis Servén

1289: Labor Markets in Latin America: A Supply-Side Story

Suzanne Duryea and Miguel Székely

1286: The Employment Problem in Latin America: Perceptions and Stylized Facts

Eduardo Lora and Gustavo Márquez

1278: Asset Inequality Does Matter: Lessons from Latin America

Nancy Birdsall and Juan Luis Londoño

1277: Policy Options for Poverty Alleviation

Miguel Székely

1275: Participación por contrato: La participación como mecanismo contractual en la políticas sociales

Luis De Sebastián

1274: Una Mirada Estratégica y Gerencial de la Implementación de los Programas Sociales

Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde

1269: The Migrant Workers in Japan from Latin America and Asia: Causes and Consequences

Junichi Goto

1255: Relaciones interorganizacionales y el programa de las comunidades especiales de Puerto Rico: Una experiencia de "gobierno conjunto"

José Sulbrandt

1252: Relaciones intergubernamentales y descentralización en América Latina: Una perspectiva institucional

Jacint Jordana

1248: Relaciones intergubernamentales y descentralización en América Latina: Casos de Argentina y Bolivia

Jacint Jordana

1246: Regulación y políticas sociales: Las políticas de regulación social y la creación de mercados en los sectores sociales en América Latina

Jacint Jordana

1244: Reforming Higher Education in Europe: From State Regulation Towards New Managerialism?

François X. Merrien

1242: Pobreza y distribución del ingreso en Paraguay

Gustavo Indart

1239: Mujeres en el Desarrollo Rural y su Programa para Grupos Organizados en México

Nuria Costa Leonardo

1236: Mercado de crédito informal y microfinanzas en Vietnam

Dao Van Hung

1234: Los retos para medir la mortalidad infantil con registros civiles incompletos

Diana Alarcón González and Marcos Robles

1233: Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) en América Latina: Más Allá de los Promedios

Diana Alarcón González, José Antonio Mejía-Guerra and Eduardo Zepeda

1230: Las reformas educativas en América Latina: ¿Hacia una mayor equidad?

Carlos Gerardo Molina

1228: Las micro-finanzas en Indonesia y el sistema de unidad BRI: Caso del Banco Rakyat

Sumantoro Martowijoyo

1225: Las cajas municipales de ahorro y crédito: Su experiencia en el micro crédito rural en Perú

Felipe Portocarrero Maisch

1223: La Gerencia Social INDES

Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

1221: Programa de desarrollo provincial de Puerto Plata, República Dominicana: La cultura como motor del cambio: Estudio de caso

Guadalupe Valdez

1218: La construcción del Estado por la sociedad civil: La ley de participación popular de Bolivia y el desafío de la democracia local

Philip Oxhorn

1215: La comunicación y la movilización social en la construcción de bienes públicos

José Bernardo Toro A. and Martha Rodríguez

1213: Ingreso no agrícola y empleo rural en Honduras

Alberto Isgut

1211: Inequidad, desarrollo humano y política social: Importancia de las "Condiciones Iniciales"

Nohra Rey de Marulanda and Julio Guzmán

1208: Guía Técnica Premio Nacional INDES - BID a la Calidad e Innovación en la Gerencia Social: República Dominicana 2000-2001

Alejandro Medina Giopp

1205: Government Reform in Italy: The Case of the Italian Government Reform: Models, Approaches, and Human Resources Management Tools

Elisa Pintus

1204: Gasto Social en América Latina

Carlos Gerardo Molina