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11878: Using Public Food Grain Stocks to Enhance Food Security

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11875: Cameroon - The Path to Fiscal Decentralization: Opportunities and Challenges

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11873: Hidden Harvest: The Global Contribution of Capture Fisheries

World Bank

11871: Togo: Towards a National Social Protection Policy and Strategy

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11870: The Republic of Ghana: Selected Policy Issues

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11869: Reshaping Egypt's Economic Geography: Domestic Integration as a Development Platform

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11868: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils

World Bank

11867: Latin America and Caribbean Poverty and Labor Brief, August 2012: The Effect of Women's Economic Power in Latin America and the Caribbean

World Bank

11860: Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must Be Avoided (Bajemos la temperatura: por qué se debe evitar un planeta 4º C más cálido)

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11835: The Promise of Index Insurance

Xavier Gine

11834: Bulgaria Regional Initiatives Fund (RIF): Innovative Approaches to Income Generation

Peter Pojarski

11833: The Role of Information, Education and Communication in the Malawi Social Action Fund

Bridget Chibwana and Prasad Mohan

11832: The Moldovan Social Investment Fund: Building Local Capacity and Improving Services

Anush Bezhanyan and Alexei Ionascu

11831: Nicaragua Social Investment Fund: Conditional Cash Transfer, a New Avenue for Social Funds?

Andrea Vermehren

11830: Holding the Door Open: Facilitating Access to Microcredit in the Benin Social Fund

John Elder and Maurizia Tovo

11829: Impact Evaluation: Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs

Amit Dar

11828: Employment Regulation: Rules for Hiring and Termination

Gordon Betcherman

11827: Impact Evaluation of Social Programs: A Policy Perspective

John Blomquist

11826: Public Attitudes Matter: Political Economy in the Design of Safety Nets Policies

John Blomquist

11825: Strengthening Public Safety Nets from the Bottom Up

Christine Weigand

11824: Food-Based Safety Nets and Related Programs

Christine Weigand

11823: Assisting the Poor with Cash: Design and Implementation of Social Transfer Programs

John Blomquist and Fiona Mackintosh

11822: Price and Tax Subsidies: Effectiveness and Challenges

Fiona Mackintosh and Carlo del Ninno

11821: Demand-Side Subsidies for Housing

Carlo del Ninno

11820: Safety Nets in Transition Economies

Carlo del Ninno

11819: Systemic Shocks and Social Protection: The Role and Effectiveness of Public Works Programs

Fiona Mackintosh and John Blomquist

11818: Incentives and the Role of Institutions in the Provision of Social Safety Nets

Christine Weigand

11817: Targeting Methods for Transfers

David Coady, Margaret Grosh and John Hoddinott

11816: What Role for Safety Net Transfers in Very Low Income Countries?

Christine Weigand

11815: Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries: Revisiting Trade-Offs and Policy Options

Tim Whitehead

11814: Public Employment Services: Functions and Innovations

Amit Dar

11813: A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

Laura B. Rawlings

11812: Costs of Projects for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children: Case Studies in Eritrea and Benin

Menahem Prywes

11811: Comparing Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Assistance

Milan Vodopevic

11810: Training Levies: Evidence from Evalualtions

Amit Dar

11809: Unemployment Insurance: Efficiency Effects and Lessons for Developing Countries

Milan Vodopivec

11808: Economically Justified Levels of Road Works Expenditures on Unpaved Roads

Rodrigo Archondo-Callao

11807: Distribution of Benefits and Impacts on Poor People

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11806: Economic Appraisal of Regulatory Reform - Checklist of Issues

Peter Mackie, Peter Nellthorp and James Laird

11805: Low Volume Rural Roads

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11804: Projects with Significant Expected Restructuring Effects

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11803: Projects with a Very Long Life

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11802: Treatment of Maintenance

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11801: Sources of Operating Costs

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11800: Valuation of Time Savings

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11799: Valuation of Accident Reduction

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11798: Relationship Between Financial and Economic Evaluations for Different Types of Project

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11797: Demand Forecasting Errors

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11796: Treatment of Induced Traffic

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11795: Where to Use Cost Effectiveness Techniques Rather Than Cost Benefit Analysis

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11794: Notes on the Economic Evaluation of Transport Projects: Fiscal Impacts

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11793: Risk and Uncertainty Analysis

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11792: When and How to Use NPV, IRR, and Modified IRR

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11791: Notes on the Economic Evaluation of Transport Projects

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11790: Evaluation of Public Sector Contributions to Public-Private Partnership Projects

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11789: Treatment of Pedestrian and Non-Motorised Traffic

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11788: Evaluation Implications of Sub-Optimum Pricing

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11787: Notes on the Economic Evaluation of Transport Projects

Peter Mackie, John Nellthorp and James Laird

11786: Reaching out to Africa’s Orphans A Framework for Public Action

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11785: Aging and Poverty in Africa and the Role of Social Pensions

Kalanidhi Subbarao

11784: The Political Economy of Targeted Safety Nets

Azedine Ouerghi

11783: Disability and Social Safety Nets in Developing Countries

Sophie Mitra

11782: Toolkit for Programming Assistance to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Sub-Saharan Africa

Maurizia Tovo, Menahem Prywes, Anne Kielland, Catherine Gibbons and Junko Saito

11781: Rural Access and Mobility in Pakistan: A Policy Note

Mohammed Dalil Essakali

11780: Regulation of Taxi Markets in Developing Countries: Issues and Options

Kenneth M. Gwilliam

11779: Why Road Maintenance is Important and How to Get it Done

Sally Burningham and Natalya Stankevich

11778: Social Safety Nets in OECD Countries

Emil Tesliuc

11777: Success Factors for Road Management Systems

Kevin McPherson and Christopher R. Bennett

11776: Data Collection Technologies for Road Management

Christopher R. Bennett, Hernán De Solminihac and Alondra Chamorro

11775: Surfacing Alternatives for Unsealed Rural Roads

Theuns Henning, Peter Kadar and Christopher R. Bennett

11774: Highway and Railway Development in India and China, 1992-2002

Clel Harral, Jit Sondhi and Guang Zhe Chen

11773: How a Road Agency Can Transform Force Account Road Maintenance to Contracting

Adam Andreski, Subhash Seth and Wendy Walker

11772: Transport as a Factor in the Investment Climate

Naomi Aoki and Peter Roberts

11771: Success Factors for Improving Logistics in a Middle-Income Country

Michel Bellier, Gaël Raballand and Jean-François Arvis

11770: Reducing Error, Fraud and Corruption (EFC) in Social Protection Programs

Emil Daniel Tesliuc and Annamaria Milazzo

11769: Railways in Development: Global Round-Up 1996-2005

Paul Amos and Lou Thompson

11768: Railways in Development: Global Round-Up 1996-2005

Paul Amos and Lou Thompson

11767: If on-the-Job Trraining is So Important to Competitiveness, Why isn't There a Better Market for It

Reyes Aterido

11766: Management Information Systems in Social Safety Net Programs: A Look at Accountability and Control Mechanisms

Colin Andrews

11765: The Effects of Globalization on Working Conditions in Developing Countries: An Analysis Framework and Country Study Results

Ruwan Jayasuriya

11764: India's Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future

Fernando Ruiz-Mier and Meike van Ginneken

11763: Consumers Count: How Water and Sanitation Utilities Can Become More Accountable to Their Users

Mike Muller, Robin Simpson and Meike van Ginnekan

11762: Public Private Partnerships in Irrigation Development and Management

Salah Darghouth

11761: Town Water Supply and Sanitation: Challenges, Solutions, and Guidelines

Nick Pilgrim, Bob Roche, John Kalbermatteni, Cathy Revels and Mukami Kariuki

11760: Improving the Performance of China’s Urban Water Utilities

Greg J. Browder, Shiqing Xie, Yoonhee Kim, Lixin Gu, Mingyuan Fan and David Ehrhardt

11759: Sink or Swim—Toward Water Security for All

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11758: Managing Water Resources to Maximize Sustainable Growth: A World Bank Water Resources Assistance Strategy for Ethiopia

Claudia Sadoff

11757: Regulatory Frameworks for Water Resources Management: A Comparative Study

Salman M.A. Salman and Daniel D. Bradlow

11756: Republic of Yemen Country Water Resources Assistance Strategy

World Bank

11755: Economic Regulation of Urban Water and Sanitation Services

David Ehrhardt, Eric Groom, Jonathan Halpern and Seini O'Connor

11754: Understanding Demand When Reforming Water Supply and Sanitation: A Case Study from Sri Lanka

Subhrendu Pattanayak, Caroline van den Berg, Jui-Chen Yang and Herath Gunatilake

11753: Reducing Water Loss in Developing Countries Using Performance-Based Service Contracting

William D. Kingdom, Roland Liemberger and Philippe Marin

11752: Engaging Local Private Operators in Water Supply and Sanitation Services

Thelma Triche, Sixto Requeno and Mukami Kariuki

11751: Consumer Cooperatives for Delivery of Urban Water and Sanitation Services

Fernando Ruiz-Mier and Meike van Ginneken

11750: Aggregation of Water and Sanitation Provision: Finding the Optimal Scale for Operations

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11749: Groundwater in Rural Development: Facing the Challenges of Supply and Resource Sustainability

Stephen Foster, John Chilton, Marcus Moench, Franklin Cardy and Manuel Schiffler

11748: Groundwater in Urban Development: Assessing Management Needs & Formulating Policy Strategies

Stephen Foster, Adrian Lawrence and Brian Morris

11747: The Niger River Basin: A Vision for Sustainable Management

Inger Andersen, Ousmane Dione, Martha Jarosewich-Holder, Jean-Claude Olivry and Katherin George Golitzen

11746: Pakistan’s Water Economy: Running Dry

John Briscoe and Usman Qamar

11745: Water, Electricity, and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies?

Kristin Komives, Vivien Foster, Jonathan Halpern, Quentin Wodon and Roohi Abdullah