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11169: Estimating Economic Benefits for Revenue Administration Reform Projects

Duc Minh Pham, Tuan Minh Le and Luc De Wulf

11168: Financing Innovation

JaeHoon Yoo

11167: Community Foundations: A Tool for Preservation of Cultural Heritage

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11166: Access to Preshipment Export Finance: Do Guarantees Help?

Hamid Alavi

11165: Sierra Leone - The Road to Recovery: Results from a Beneficiary Impact Assessment

Julie Hackett and June-Wei Sum

11164: Economic Results of CDD Programs: Evidence from Burkina Faso, Indonesia and the Philippines

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11163: Entrepreneurship: New Data on Business Creation and How to Promote It

Juan Manuel Quesada Delgado and Leora Klapper

11162: Tracking Financial Flows after Disasters: Reconstruction Expenditure Tracking Analysis Methodology (RETAM)

Wolfgang Fengler

11161: Community Foundations: A Tool for Engaging Youth in Community Driven Development

Juraj Mesik and Vernon Ringland

11160: News and Corporate Governance: What Dow Jones and Reuters Teach Us About Stewardship

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11159: Board Performance Evaluation

Simon Osborne

11158: Privatization Trends

Sunita Kikeri and Verena Phipps

11157: Building Roads to Democracy? The Contribution of the Peru Rural Roads Program to Participation and Civic Engagement in Rural Peru

Catherine McSweeney and Marisa Remy

11156: Community Foundations How To Series: Getting Started with a Community Foundation

Juraj Mesik and Daniel Owen

11155: Reform Teams

Alberto Criscuolo and Vincent Palmade

11154: Community Foundations - The Relevance for Social Funds in Urban Areas: The Tanzania Social Action Fund Experience

Ida Manjolo, Servacius B Likwelile, Amadeus M Kamagenge, Juraj Mesik and Daniel Owen

11153: Doing Privatization Right

Leroy Jones, Yahya Jammal, Nilgün Gökgür and Sunita Kikeri

11152: Governance Scorecards as Tools for Breakthrough Results

Jesus P Estanislao

11151: Oil Price Risks

Robert Bacon and Masami Kojima

11150: Climate Change, Growth, and Poverty

Katy Hull

11149: Carbon Labeling and Poor Country Exports

Gareth Edwards-Jones, Paul Brenton and Michael Jensen Friis

11148: Climate Change and Poverty: An Integrated Strategy for Adaptation

Catherine Hull, Louise Cord, Christel Hennet and Gregory Van der Vink

11147: What is the Role of Carbon Taxes in Climate Change Mitigation?

Joseph Aldy, Eduardo Ley and Ian Parry

11146: Who Bears the Burden of Environmental Policies within Countries?

Antonio Estache and Luc Savard

11145: Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation

Arun Agrawal, Catherine McSweeney and Nicolas Perrin

11144: The Security Sector and Poverty Reduction Strategies

Tim Carrington and David Post

11143: Assessing Our Work on Impact Evaluation

Markus Goldstein, Emmanuel Skoufias and Ariel Fiszbein

11142: The Global Macroeconomic Situation and Policy Implications

Milan Brahmbhatt

11141: Thinking about Aid Predictability

Matthew Andrews and Vera Wilhelm

11140: “Brain Drain” and the Global Mobility of High-Skilled Talent

Danny Leipziger

11139: The World Bank Pension Conceptual Framework

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11138: Nigeria’s Experience Publishing Budget Allocations: A Practical Tool to Promote Demand for Better Governance

Vera Songwe, Paul Francis, Paula Rossiasco, Fionnuala O'Neill and Rob Chase

11137: Breaking Out of Inequality Traps: Political Economy Considerations

Verena Fritz, Roy Katayama and Kenneth Simler

11136: Microinsurance: Extending Pro-Poor Risk Management through the Social Fund Platform

Marc Maleika and Anne Kuriakose

11135: A Stocktaking of PRSPs in Fragile States

Nora Dudwick and Adam Nelsson

11134: Methods for Studying Rural Institutions, Networks, and Capacity in the Developing World: Mobilizing Rural Institutions

Arun Agrawal, Catherine McSweeney and Nicolas Perrin

11133: Mobilizing Rural Institutions for Improving Governance and Development

Arun Agrawal, Catherine McSweeney and Nicolas Perrin

11132: Developing and Implementing Corporate Governance Codes

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11131: The Economic Participation of Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Why Does It Matter?

Andrew Morrison and Shwetlena Sabarwal

11130: The Financial Crisis and Mandatory Pension Systems in Developing Countries: Short-and Medium-Term Responses for Retirement Income Systems

Mark Dorfman, Richard Hinz and David Robalino

11129: Towards an Accountable Capitalism

Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson

11128: Political Analysis of Decentralization: Capturing the Stakeholder Perspective Lessons from the Bangladesh Study

Nita Rudra and Shonali Sardesai

11127: Where Were the Directors?

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11126: On the Marriage Between Public Spending and Growth: What Else Do We Know?

Blanca Moreno-Dodson

11125: Linking Fiscal Policy and Growth in PER Reports: An Operational Framework for Low-Income Countries

Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

11124: Crashes, Bailouts, Regulations

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11123: The Crisis Resilience of Services Trade

Ingo Borchert, Aaditya Mattoo and Aaditya Mattoo

11122: Achieving WTO Compliance for Special Economic Zones in Developing Countries

Stephen Creskoff and Peter Walkenhorst

11121: Global Economic Crisis and Vertical Specialization in Developing Countries

Nihal Pitigala

11120: Fiscal Policy for Growth

Eduardo Ley

11119: A Note on Vulnerability: Findings from Moving Out of Poverty

Nora Dudwick, Katy Hull and Emcet Tas

11118: Uses and Limits of Conventional Corporate Governance Instruments: Analysis and Guidance for Reform - Part Two

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11117: Taxing Business

Richard Bird

11116: The Personal Income Tax

Richard Bird

11115: Taxing Consumption

Richard Bird

11114: Uses and Limits of Conventional Corporate Governance Instruments: Analysis and Guidance for Reform - Part One

Simon C.Y. Wong

11113: Managing Trade Policy During the Economic Crisis

Sebastian Saez

11112: Trade-Related Policy Responses to the Crisis: A Stock Taking

Simon Evenett, Bernard Hoekman and Olivier Cattaneo

11111: Climate Policy Processes, Local Institutions, and Adaptation Actions: Mechanisms of Translation and Influence

Arun Agrawal, Nicolas Perrin, Ashwini Chhatre, Catherine Benson and Minna Kononen

11110: The Global Financial Crisis: Comparisons with the Great Depression and Scenarios for Recovery

Milan Brahmbhatt and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva

11109: Breaking into New Markets, Raising Quality, and Improving Services: Neglected Avenues for Export Diversification

Peter Walkenhorst and Paul Brenton

11108: Gender, Entry Regulations, and Small Firm Informality: What Do the Micro Data Tell Us?

David McKenzie

11107: Assessment of the Impact of the Crisis on New PPI Projects - Update 4: New Private Infrastructure Activity in Developing Countries Recovered in the First Half of 2009 Thanks to the Electricity Sector, But the Crisis Continues to Impact Projects

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11106: The Pattern of Antidumping and Other Types of Contingent Protection

Chad Bown

11105: Forced Displacement: Overview of the World Bank Portfolio

Margarita Puerto Gomez, Asger Christensen and Niels Harild

11104: Implementing Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys for Results: Lessons from a Decade of Global Experience

Asli Gurkan, Kai Kaiser and Doris Voorbraak

11103: Human Trafficking: A Brief Overview

Megumi Makisaka

11102: Sharing Benefits from Carbon Finance: Lessons from the Guangxi CDM Project

Gernot Brodnig

11101: Leveling or Mining the Playing Field? Implementation Problems of Carbon-Motivated Border Adjustment Taxes

Michael Friis Jensen

11100: Diversity at the Head Table: Bringing Complementary Skills and Experiences to the Board

Y?lmaz Argüden

11099: How Can Financial Supervisors Improve the Effectiveness of Corporate Governance?

John Palmer and Chang Su Hoong

11098: A Corporate Governance Model: Building Responsible Boards and Sustainable Businesses

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11097: Natural Resources and Development Strategy after the Crisis

Milan Brahmbhatt and Otaviano Canuto

11096: New Corporate Governance in the Post-Crisis World

Martin Hilb

11095: How to Note: A Framework for the Assessment of Fiscal Decentralization System

Asli Gurkan, Serdar Yilmaz and Ghazia Aslam

11094: How-to Note: A Framework for the Assessment of Political Decentralization

Asli Gurkan, Serdar Yilmaz and Ghazia Aslam

11093: Social and Institutional Barriers to Climate Change Mitigation in Agriculture

Gernot Brodnig and Hari Dulal

11092: Innovations for Sustainable Infrastructure – Experience from Azerbaijan Rural Investment Project (AZRIP)

David Post and Satoshi Ishihara

11091: Gender Needs Assessment in Conflict-Affected Areas in Thailand's Southernmost Provinces

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11090: Good-Practice Note: Governance and Anti-Corruption Innovations in the Da Nang Priority Infrastructure Investment Project, Vietnam

Amnon Golan

11089: Pro-Poor Urban Adaptation to Climate Change: Based on Case Studies in Kenya and Nicaragua

Caroline Moser, Andrew Norton, Alfredo Stein and Sophia Georgieva

11088: Good-Practice Note: Governance and Anti-Corruption Innovations in the Malawi Social Action Fund Project

Petros Aklilu and Sanjay Agarwal

11087: How-to Note: A Framework to Assess Administrative Decentralization

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11086: An Open Door for Firms

Marialisa Motta, Ana Maria Oviedo and Massimiliano Santini

11085: A View from the Top: Vulnerability in Mountain Systems

Gernot Brodnig and Vivek Prasad

11084: The Increasing Importance of Developing Countries in Trade in Services

Sebastián Sáez

11083: Salient Issues in Income and Asset Disclosure Systems: Lessons Learned from the Field in Preventing Conflict of Interest and Combating Illicit Enrichment

Ruxandra Burdescu, Gary Reid, Stephanie Trapnell, Dan Barnes, Modest Kwapinski and Tammar Berger

11082: Can Carbon Labeling Be Development Friendly?

Gareth Edwards-Jones, Paul Brenton and Michael F. Jensen

11081: Measuring National Income and Growth in Resource-Rich, Income-Poor Countries

Kirk Hamilton and Eduardo Ley

11080: Conceptual Framework for Monitoring and Evaluation

Keith Mackay

11079: Defining the Type of M&E System: Clients, Intended Uses, and Actual Utilization

Bertha Briceño

11078: New Firm Creation

Inessa Love and Leora Klapper

11077: M&E Systems and the Budget

Philipp Krause

11076: Jobs and the Crisis

David McKenzie and David Robalino

11075: Reconstructing Baseline Data for Impact Evaluation and Results Measurement

Michael Bamberger

11074: Modeling Pension Reform: The World Bank's Pension Reform Options Simulation Toolkit

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11073: Key Steps in Designing and Implementing a Monitoring and Evaluation Process: For Individual Country Service Agencies

Harry Hatry

11072: Corporate Social Responsibility: Private Self-Regulation is Not Enough

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11071: Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets: Why It Matters to Investors—and What They Can Do About It

Melsa Ararat and George Dallas

11070: Culture and Corporate Governance Principles in India: Reconcilable Clashes?

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