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11244: Notional Accounts: Notional Defined Contribution Plans as a Pension Reform Strategy

World Bank

11243: Veterans: Pensions and Other Compensation in Post-Conflict Countries

World Bank

11242: Transition: Paying for a Shift from Pay-as-You-Go Financing to Funded Pensions

World Bank

11241: Pension Reform Primer: Issues, Challenges, Options and Arguments in Pension Reform

World Bank

11240: Supervision: Building Public Confidence in Mandatory Funded Pensions

Edward Whitehouse

11239: Guarantees - Counting the Cost of Guaranteeing Defined Contribution Pensions

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11238: Annuities: Regulating Withdrawals from Individual Pension Accounts

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11237: Administrative Charges: Options and Arguments for Controlling Fees for Funded Pensions

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11236: Second Pillars: Provider and Product Selection for Funded Individual Accounts

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11235: Optimal Size for Utilities? Returns to Scale in Water: Evidence from Benchmarking

Nicola Tynan and Bill Kingdom

11234: Regulatory Reform: Institution Building - Lessons from Mexico

Fernando Salas and Sunita Kikeri

11233: Guatemala - The Role of Judicial Modernization in Post Conflict Reconstruction and Social Reconciliation

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11232: Fostering Trust and Transparency Through Information Systems

Anne Thurston

11231: Trends in Recent World Bank Support for Severance Pay

Ranjana Mukherjee

11230: Grants or Loans? Development Finance and Incentive Effects

Tim Harford and Michael Klein

11229: Regulating Water Services: Sending the Right Signals to Utilities in Chile

Gabriel Bitrán and Pamela Arellano

11228: The Future of Aid 2: The Big Push

Tim Harford and Michael Klien

11227: The Future of Aid 1: The Rise of the Undergrowth

Tim Harford, Michael Klien and Klaus Tilmes

11226: Private Telecom Projects: Private Activity Down 15 Percent in 2003

Ada Karina Izaguirre

11225: The Demand for Loans: Governments Restructure Their Debt

Tim Harford, Michael Klein and Facundo Martin

11224: Private Finance: Are Private Loans and Charitable Giving Replacing Aid?

Tim Harford, Bita Hadjimichael and Michael Klein

11223: Aid and the Resource Curse: How Can Aid Be Designed to Preserve Institutions?

Tim Harford and Michael Klein

11222: Engendering Justice: A Gender Assessment's Impact on Project Design

Lisa L. Bhansali

11221: Examining Inclusion: Disability and Community Driven Development

Vandana Chaudhry and Daniel Owen

11220: Conflict and recovery in Aceh: an assessment of conflict dynamics and options for supporting the peace process

Patrick Barron, Samuel Clark and Muslahuddin Daud

11219: Regulation and Competition: How Antitrust and Sector Regulation Affect Telecom Competition

Michel Kerf, Isabel Neto and Damien Geradin

11218: Aid Effectiveness: Can Aid Agencies Be Smarter Than the Invisible Hand?

Michael Klein and Tim Harford

11217: Interconnection Disputes: Antitrust or Sector Regulation and the Case of New Zealand

Michel Kerf, Isabel Neto and Damien Geradin

11216: Controlling Market Power: Balancing Antitrust and Sector Regulation in Telecoms

Michel Kerf, Isabel Neto and Damien Geradim

11215: The Market for Aid: Understanding Aid by Looking Forward and Looking Back

Tim Harford and Michael Klein

11214: Coverage: The Scope of Protection in Retirement Income Systems

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11213: Private Water Projects

Ada Karina Izaguirre and Catherine Hunt

11212: Switching: The Role of choice in the Transition to a Funded Pension System

World Bank

11211: Taxation: The Tax Treatment of Funded Pensions

Edward Whitehouse

11210: Gender Issues in Child Labor

World Bank

11209: Rising Informality

Andrea Anayiotos and Vincent Palmade

11208: Institutionalizing M&E systems in Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Ruxandra Burdescu, Azul del Villar, Keith Mackay, Fernando Rojas and Jaime Saavedra

11207: Integrating Social Funds into Local Development Strategies: Five Stories from Latin America

Rodrigo Serrano

11206: Alternative Dispute Resolution - When It Works, When It Doesn't

Richard E. Messick

11205: Gender and the Impact of Credit and Transfers

M. Estela Rivero-Fuentes and Signe-Mary McKernan

11204: Technology and Growth Series: Chilean Salmon Exports

Vandana Chandra and Shashi Kolavalli

11203: Land Markets: Promoting the Private Sector by Improving Access to Land

Russell Muir and Xiaofang Shen

11202: Staff Incentives and Project Implementation: Lessons from e-Government

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11201: The Informality Trap: Tax Evasion, Finance, and Productivity in Brazil

Emerson Kapaz and Thomas Kenyon

11200: Auditors and Independence

World Bank

11199: Corruption, Economic Development, and Governance: Private Sector Perspectives from Developing Countries

John D. Sullivan

11198: Dealing with Non-Controlling Shareholders: Issues and Best Practice

World Bank

11197: Managing Resource Rents: The Special Challenges in Postconflict Countries

Robert Bacon and Silvana Tordo

11196: Contracting for Delivering Health

Benjamin Loevinsohn and April Harding

11195: Modeling Pay and Employment

Barbara Nunberg, Amanda Green and Gary Reid

11194: The Dynamics of Conflict, Development Assistance and Peace-Building: Sri Lanka 2000-05

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11193: State Enterprises: What Remains?

Sunita Kikeri and Aishetu Kolo

11192: Pro-Poor Public Spending Reform: Uganda's Virtual Poverty Fund

Tim Williamson and R. Sudharshan Canagarajah

11191: Report Cards as a Tool for Empowering Communities in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Cameroon: A Work in Progress

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11190: Unlocking Dead Capital

Mehnaz Safavian, Heywood Fleisig and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

11189: PREM Anchor Support to the Africa Region

Danny Leipziger

11188: Rebuilding Infrastructure

Jordan Schwartz and Pablo Halkyard

11187: Post-Conflict Infrastructure: Trends in Aid and Investment Flows

Jordan Schwartz and Pablo Halkyard

11186: Corporate Governance: A North American Perspective

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11185: Managing National Parks: How Public-Private Partnerships Can Aid Conservation

Nico Saporiti

11184: Reforming Inspections

Jacqueline Coolidge

11183: Decentralizing Infrastructure Services: Lessons from the East Asia Experience

Elisa Muzzini

11182: Post-Conflict Security Sector and Public Finance Management: Lessons from Afghanistan

Peter Middlebrook, Rima Simpson and Karene Melloul

11181: What Role for Diaspora Expertise in Post-Conflict Reconstruction? Lessons from Afghanistan, and West Bank and Gaza

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11180: Post-Conflict Security Sector and Public Finance Management: Lessons from Afghanistan

World Bank

11179: Reducing Poverty on a Global Scale

Blanca Moreno-Dodson

11178: Phasing Out Subsidies: Recent Experiences with Fuel in Developing Countries

Robert Bacon and Masami Kojima

11177: A Story of Social and Economic Empowerment: The Evolution of “Community Professionals” in Sri Lanka

Meena Munshi, Natasha Hayward and Barbara Verardo

11176: Self-Dealing: Sneaking Corporate Value through the Back Door

Catherine Hickey and Tatiana Nenova

11175: Public-Private Partnership Units: What Are They, and What Do They Do?

Clive Harris, Mark Dutz, Inderbir Dhingra and Chris Shugart

11174: Entrepreneurship

Leora Klapper

11173: Reform Realism and the Boardroom

World Bank

11172: Whistleblowing: Recent Developments and Implementation Issues

World Bank

11171: Privatization Trends

Sunita Kikeri and Amit Burman

11170: Liberia Rapid Social Assessment

World Bank

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

World Bank

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

World Bank

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

World Bank

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