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17099: Nutrition at a Glance: The Democratic Republic of Congo

World Bank

17098: Kazakhstan: Note on Senior Civil Service Pay

World Bank

17097: World Bank Country Offices and Parliamentarians: A Survey

World Bank

17096: South-South Cooperation: How Mongolia Learned from Chile on Managing a Mineral-Rich Economy

Rogier van den Brink, Arshad Sayed, Steve Barnett, Eduardo Aninat, Eric Parrado, Zahid Hasnain and Tehmina Khan

17095: Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project: Results, Impacts, and Learning from Vietnam

Nga Kim Nguyen and Jacqueline Devine

17094: Guanxi, Mianzi, and Business: The Impact of Culture on Corporate Governance in China

David Smith

17093: Quality of Government and Living Standards

Francesco Grigoli and Eduardo Ley

17092: Corporate Governance and Social Media: A Brave New World for Board Directors

Santiago Chaher and James David Spellman

17091: 'We Want What the Ok Tedi Women Have!' Guidance from Papua New Guinea on Women's Engagement in Mining Deals

Nicholas Menzies and Georgia Harley

17090: The New Financial Landscape: What It Means for Emerging Market Economies

Catiana García-Kilroy, Otaviano Canuto and Anderson Caputo Silva

17089: Before Crisis Hits: Can Public Works Programs Increase Food Security?

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17088: Chasing the Shadows: How Significant is Shadow Banking in Emerging Markets?

Swati Ghosh, Ines Gonzalez del Mazo and ?nci Ötker-Robe

17087: Private Investment in Transport Increases in 2011, Focusing on the Road and Rail Sectors

Andreea Militaru

17086: Private Investment in Water and Sewerage Recovers in 2011, Mostly Due to Activity in China

Andreea Militaru

17085: Government Support to Public Private Partnerships: 2011 Highlights

Alexander Nicholas Jett, Militaru Andreea and Robbert van Eerd

17084: Establishing a National M&E System in South Africa

Ian Goldman, Ronette Engela, Ismail Akhalwaya, Nolwazi Gasa, Bernadette Leon, Hassen Mohamed and Sean Phillips

17083: Performance, Monitoring, and Evaluation in China

Christine Wong

17082: Spatial Data Infrastructure and INSPIRE

Rumyana Tonchovska, Victoria Stanley and Samantha De Martino

17081: Accountability in State Noncommercial Organizations in Armenia: An Approach

Arman Vatyan

17080: Competitiveness and Connectivity: Integrating Lagging Regions in Global Markets

Thomas Farole

17079: What Does the Future Hold for the International Banking System?

Mansoor Dailami and Jonathon Adams-Kane

17078: Integrating Gender-Sensitive Disaster Risk Management into Community-Driven Development Programs

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17077: The Euro Experience and Lessons for Latin America

Carlos Hurtado

17076: Fiscal Policy for Growth and Development

Milan Brahmbhatt and Otaviano Canuto

17075: Gender-Sensitive Post-Disaster Assessments

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17074: The Jipange KuSave Experiment in Kenya

Sarah Rotman, David Ferrand and Stephen Rasmussen

17073: Pakistan: Can Low-Cost Private Schools Improve Learning?

World Bank

17072: Making Livelihoods and Social Protection Gender-Sensitive

World Bank

17070: A New Jobs Data Tool: Introducing BuDDy--A Business Diagnostics and Dynamics Tool

Dino Merotto and Jessica Boccardo

17069: Business Training for New and Existing Female-Owned Firms in Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

17068: Service with a Smile

Homi Kharas, Ejaz Ghani and Arti Grover

17067: When Job Earnings Are Behind Poverty Reduction

Gabriela Inchauste, João Pedro Azevedo, Sergio Olivieri, Jaime Saavedra and Hernan Winkler

17066: The Rio de Janeiro Low Carbon City Development Program: A Business Model for Green and Climate-Friendly Growth in Cities

World Bank

17065: Using M&E to Support Performance Based Planning and Budgeting in Indonesia

Mark Ahern, Victoria A. Beard, Anna I. Gueorguieva and Retno Sri Handini

17064: How to Revamp a Business Edge Program: The Case of Ghana

Mario Gomes

17063: Current Trends in Cross-Border Funding for Microfinance

Estelle Lahaye, Ralitsa Rizvanolli and Edlira Dashi

17062: Remittances to Developing Countries Will Surpass $400 Billion in 2012

Gemechu Aga, Dilip Ratha and Ani Silwal

17061: Public Spending for Long-Run Growth: A Practitioners' View

Norman Gemmell, Florian Misch and Blanca Moreno-Dodson

17060: Improving Governance and Management of Health Systems: Partnerships and Observatories in Latin America and the Caribbean

Rafael Cortez and Katharina Ferl

17059: Do Wage Subsidies Help Young Women Get Jobs?

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17058: The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020: Lessons from Argentina

Veronica Raffo and Tony Bliss

17057: Public Sector Management Reform: Toward a Problem-Solving Approach

Jurgen Blum, Nick Manning and Vivek Srivastava

17056: Grandparents as Child Care Providers: Factors to Consider When Designing Child Care Policies

Josefina Posadas

17055: IFC at an Inflection Point: Time for a New Business Delivery Model?

Fares T. Zaki

17054: It Started in Ghana: Implementing Africa's First Collateral Registry

Alice Ouedraogo, Isabel Caruana, Elsa Rodriguez and Susann Tischendorf

17053: Active Labor Market Programs: How, Why, When, and To What Extent are they Effective?

Alessio Brown and Johannes Koettl

17052: Reforming Corporate Financial Reporting: Lessons from REPARIS for Other Technical Assistance Programs

James Owen and Juri Sekiguchi

17051: Trade Costs and Development: A New Data Set

Ben Shepherd, Jean-François Arvis, Yann Duval and Chorthip Utoktham

17050: Can Public Works Programs Help the Poor During Crises?

World Bank

17047: South East Europe Six: From Double-Dip Recession to Accelerated Reforms

World Bank

17046: Collecting High-Frequency Data Using Mobile Phones: Do Timely Data Lead to Accountability?

Kevin Croke, Andrew Dabalen, Gabriel Demombynes, Marcelo Giugale and Johannes Hoogeveen

17045: Governance of Multi-sectoral Interventions to Promote Healthy Living in Latin America and the Caribbean

María E. Bonilla-Chacín

17044: FYR Macedonia Policy-Based Guarantee: Supporting the Development Agenda and Strengthening Access to Capital Markets

Evgenij Najdov

17043: Cities as Drivers of Growth along the Silk Road

Souleymane Coulibaly

17042: Measureable Results! Doing Business Project Encourages Economies to Reform Insolvency Frameworks

Valentina Saltane, Rong Chen and Nuria Moya Guzman

17041: Lessons for Matching Grant Programs from Failed Attempts to Evaluate Them

Francisco Campos, Aidan Coville, Ana Fernandes, Markus Goldstein and David McKenzie

17040: Redefining Value: The Future of Corporate Sustainability Ratings

Allen L White

17039: Integrity, Culture, and Other Intangibles for Building Long-Term Value--The Board's Critical Responsibility

John H. Stout

17038: The Brazilian Competitiveness Cliff

Jose Guilherme Reis, Otaviano Canuto and Matheus Cavallari

17037: Croatia: A Strategy for Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster

17036: Do Grants to Communities Lead to Better Health and Education?

World Bank

17035: Can Scholarships Help Keep Kids in School?

World Bank

17034: What Promises Does the Eurasian Customs Union Hold for the Future?

Francisco Carneiro

17033: Land Reform in Mozambique

Rogier J. E. Van den Brink

17032: Capacity Building under Reimbursable Technical Assistance Programs: The Case of Oman's Education Sector

Lianqin Wang

17031: The Impact of Expanding Simplified Start-up Procedures to More Remote Areas: The Minas Facil Expresso Program

Miriam Bruhn, David McKenzie and Miriam Bruhn

17030: The Agricultural Insurance Market in the Caribbean

Diego Arias Carballo and Laura dos Reis

17029: Agricultural Supply Chain Risk Assessment in the Caribbean

Diego Arias Carballo and dos Reis Laura

17028: Promoting Shared Prosperity in South Asia

Lakshmi Iyer, Ejaz Ghani and Saurabh Mishra

17027: Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Otaviano Canuto

17026: Global Connectivity and Export Performance

Ben Shepherd and Jean-François Arvis

17025: Building Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity in the Republic of Yemen

Ingrid Ivins and Helena Hwang

17024: From Imitation to Innovation: Public Policy for Industrial Transformation

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Hinh Dinh

17023: Subnational Debt, Insolvency, and Market Development

Lili Liu and Otaviano Canuto

17022: Can Entrepreneurship Training Improve Work Opportunities for College Graduates?

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17021: The Challenge of Ensuring Adequate Stocks of Essential Drugs in Rural Health Clinics

World Bank

17020: Migration and Development Brief, No. 20

Gemechu Aga, Christian Eigen-Zucchi, Sonia Plaza and Ani Silwal

17019: What's the Long-Term Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Education?

World Bank

17018: When Do Companies Need a Board-Level Risk Management Committee?

Ivan Choi

17017: When Grandpa is Also the CEO--Resolving Differences in Family-Owned Businesses

Barney Jordaan

17016: Russian - Strengthening Access to Justice: A JSDF Grant to Empower Vulnerable Groups

Amit Mukherjee, Ljudmilla Poznanskaya, Anjum Rosha and Olga Schwartz

17015: Serbia Country Economic Memorandum: Productivity and Exports

Lazar Sestovic and Peter Miovic

17014: Can Open Service Sector FDI Policy Enhance Manufacturing Productivity? Evidence from Indonesia

Victor Duggan, Sjamsu Rahardja and Gonzalo Varela

17013: Promoting Women's Economic Participation in India

William Kerr, Ejaz Ghani and Stephen O'Connell

17012: Republic of Madagascar: Mitigating the Impact of the Crisis on Education

World Bank

17010: Republic of Turkey Reform for Competitiveness Technical Assistance: Fostering Open and Efficient Markets through Effective Competition Policies

World Bank

17009: Tajikistan: Financial Assessment of Barki Tojik

Artur Kochnakyan, Ani Balabanyan, Zhengjia Meng and Bastiaan Verink

17007: The Double Burden of Malnutrition in Indonesia

World Bank

17006: Eligibility Thresholds for Minimum Living Guarantee Programs: International Practices and Implications for China

Dewen Wang, Nithin Umapathi and Philip O'Keefe

17005: Toolkit for the Analysis of Current Account Imbalances

Milan Nedeljkovic and Ana Paula Cusolito

17004: China Early Child Development: Early Childhood Education in Yunnan

World Bank

17003: Lessons from 11 Country Case Studies: A Global Synthesis Report for the Global Conference on Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

World Bank

17002: Kenya Economic Update, December 2013, No. 9: Reinvigorating Growth with a Dynamic Banking Sector

World Bank

17001: Republic of Madagascar: Primary Education in Time of Crisis

World Bank

17000: South East Europe Regular Economic Report, No. 5: Slow Road to Recovery

World Bank

16993: Manufacturing Export Competitiveness in Kenya: A Policy Note on Revitalizing and Diversifying Kenya's Manufacturing Sector

Thomas Farole and Megha Mukim

16991: Social Accountability Review: Forestry Sector in Moldova

World Bank

16990: Rwanda Economic Update, December 2013: Seizing Opportunities for Growth

World Bank

16989: Tanzania Economic Update, December 2013: Raising the Game--Can Tanzania Eradicate Extreme Poverty?

World Bank

16988: EU11 Regular Economic Report, Issue #28, December 2013: Promoting Shared Prosperity during a Weak Recovery in Central and Eastern Europe

World Bank