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10240: Competition in Health Insurance

Pia Schneider

10239: World Bank Health Sector Assists Crisis-Hit Eastern Europe Countries

Elizabeth Docteur

10238: Innovative Approaches for Tourism's Energy Challenge

Eneida Fernandez and Zayra Romo

10237: How Tourism Can (and Does) Benefit the Poor and the Environment - A Case Study from Panama

Irina I. Klytchnikova and Paul Dorosh

10236: Local Economic Development and Tourism

Tatsuji Hayakawa and Monica Rivero

10235: Tourism and Indigenous Peoples - Lessons from Recent Experiences in Eco and Ethno Tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Dorte Verner

10234: Crime, Violence, At-Risk Youth, and Responsible Tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lorena Cohan

10233: Responsible and Sustainable Tourism - Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

Diana Ortiz and Tova Maria Solo

10232: Mitigating the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Public Sector Health Spending

Pia Schneider

10231: Mitigating the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Household Health Spending

Elizabeth Docteur

10230: The Results of a Pilot Financial Literacy and Business Planning Training Program for Women in Uganda

Michaela Weber and David McKenzie

10229: The Economic Impact of Expanding Access to Finance in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Inessa Love and Miriam Bruhn

10228: Banks in Crisis

David Scott

10227: Credit Rating Agencies

Jonathan Katz, Emanuel Salinas and Constantinos Stephanou

10226: Financial paradigms

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

10225: Effective Partnerships Achieve Results: Client-focused ASAP Program Emphasizes Strategic Planning; Delivers Impressive Results Across the Region

Rosalía Rodriguez-García, Marcelo Bortman, Andrea Boccardi Vidarte and Eric Gaillard

10224: The Leverage Ratio: A New Binding Limit on Banks

Katia D'Hulster

10223: Tajik Child Health: All Hands on Deck

Anne Bakilana and Wezi Msisha

10222: Health Systems Strengthening Lessons from the Turkish Experience

Sarbani Chakraborty

10221: Improving Protection in Financial Services for Russian Consumers

Sue Rutledge

10220: Sex and Drugs: Preventing HIV/AIDS among Truckers and Sailors in Georgia

Anne Bakilana

10219: Reviews of National Policies for Education: Tertiary Education in Chile

Maria Paulina Mogollón and Michael Crawford

10218: Argentina - Provincial Maternal and Child Health Insurance: A Results-Based Financing Project at Work

Rafael Cortez

10217: Extension of Health Services Coverage in El Salvador: The RHESSA Project Experience

Rafael Cortez, Isabella Bablumian and Danilo Fernandez

10216: State Financial Institutions: Can They Be Relied on to Kick-Start Lending?

Heinz P. Rudolph

10215: Combating Ukraine’s Health Crisis: Lessons from Europe

Rekha Menon

10214: Migration and Remittances in CIS Countries during the Global Economic Crisis

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Matin Kholmatov

10213: Confronting ‘Death on Wheels’: Making Roads Safe in ECA

Patricio V. Marquez, George A. Banjo, Elena Y. Chesheva and Stephen Muzira

10212: Natural Resources and Development Strategy after the Crisis

Milan Brahmbhatt and Otaviano Canuto

10211: Action Needed: Spiraling Drug Prices Empty Russian Pockets

Patricio Marquez and Mikhail Bonch-Osmolovskiy

10210: Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Migration and Remittances

Sanket Mohapatra and Dilip Ratha

10209: Employment-Related Mitigation Measures in ECA Countries

Arvo Kuddo

10208: Early Childhood Development Operations in Latin and Caribbean Region (LCR): Jamaica, Mexico, and Brazil in Focus

Peter Holland and David Evans

10207: Bank Governance

Laura Ard and Alexander Berg

10206: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Poverty and Income Distribution: Insights from Simulations in Selected Countries

Bilal Habib, Ambar Narayan, Sergio Olivieri and Carolina Sanchez

10205: Benchmarking: A Tool to improve the Effectiveness of Monitoring and Evaluation in the Policy Cycle

John Newman, João Pedro Azevedo and Juliana Pungiluppi

10204: Learning by Doing: Applying a Country-led PSIA Approach to Improve Policy Making in the Agro Sector in Honduras

Flavia Carbonari, Juan Carlos Parra and William Reuben

10203: Managing Openness and Volatility: The Role of Export Diversification

Mona Haddad, Jamus Lim and Christian Saborowski

10202: China’s Investment in African Special Economic Zones: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities

Deborah Brautigam, Thomas Farole and Tang Xiaoyang

10201: How Much Do Agricultural Policies Restrict Trade? Comparing Trade Restrictiveness Indexes

Johanna Croser and Kym Anderson

10200: Export-led growth v2.0

Mona Haddad, Otaviano Canuto and Gordon Hanson

10199: Innovations in Poverty Measurement: Seven Design Lessons on the Use of Advisory Committees to Improve Official Poverty Estimates in Peru

Matthias Schmidt and Renos Vakis

10198: Improving management in India

Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts

10197: Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Labor Market Impacts of the Recent Crisis in Middle-Income Countries

Gaurav Khanna, David Newhouse and Pierella Paci

10196: A Brave New World for Latin America

Marcelo M. Giugale

10195: Agriculture Public Spending and Growth: The Example of Indonesia

Enrique Blanco Armas, Camilo Gomez Osorio and Blanca Moreno-Dodson

10194: Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Next Decade

Stefano Curto

10193: Public Financial Support for Commercial Innovation in ECA Countries

Manuel Trajtenberg, Itzhak Goldberg, Adam Jaffe, Thomas Muller, Julie Sunderland and Enrique Blanco Armas

10192: Globalization and Technology Absorption: Role of Trade, FDI and Cross-Border Knowledge Flows

Lee Branstetter, Itzhak Goldberg, John Gabriel Goddard and Smita Kuriakose

10191: Skills, Not Just Diplomas: The Path for Education Reforms in ECA

Mamta Murthi and Lars Sondergaard

10190: Lights Out? The Outlook for Energy in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

World Bank

10189: Using Biometric Technology in Rural Credit Markets: The Case of Malawi

Xavier Gine

10188: Development Trajectories: An Evolutionary Approach to Integrating Governance and Growth

Brian Levy

10187: The Service Revolution

Homi Kharas and Ejaz Ghani

10186: Subnational Debt Finance and the Global Financial Crisis

Lili Liu and Otaviano Canuto

10185: The Crisis Hits Home: Stress-Testing Households in Europe and Central Asia

Victor Sulla, Naotaka Sugawara, Ashley Taylor and Erwin R. Tiongson

10184: Tokyo's Emissions Trading System: A Case Study

Marcus Lee and Kimberly Colopinto

10183: Redesigning Health Care in ECA: Some Lessons from the UK

Patricio Marquez, Kalipso Chalkidou, Derek Cutler and Nick Doyle

10182: Croatia’s Science and Technology Project Unleashes Innovation

Paulo Correa, Ljiljana Tarade and Iwona M. Borowik

10181: Boys at Risk: A Gender Issue in the Caribbean Requiring a Multi-Faceted and Cross-Sectoral Approach

María Beatriz Orlando and Jonna Lundwall

10180: Nutrition Security in Haiti: Pre- and Post Earthquake Conditions and the Way Forward

Lucy Bassett

10179: Hospital Performance and Health Quality Improvements in São Paulo (Brazil) and Maryland (USA)

Andre Medici and Robert Murray

10178: Can Real Exchange Rate Undervaluation Boost Exports and Growth in Developing Countries? Yes, But Not for Long

Mona Haddad and Cosimo Pancaro

10177: Dealing with the Challenges of Capital Inflows in the Context of Macrofinancial Links

Swati R Ghosh

10176: Trade and the Competitiveness Agenda

José Guilherme Reis and Thomas Farole

10175: Income and Asset Disclosure Systems: Establishing Good Governance through Accountability

Ruxandra Burdescu, Gary J. Reid, Stephanie E. Trapnell and Daniel W. Barnes

10174: Dealing with Dutch Disease

Milan Brahmbhatt, Otaviano Canuto and Ekaterina Vostroknutova

10173: Setting Incentives for Health Care Providers in Serbia

Cheryl Cashin, Johannes Koettl and Pia Schneider

10172: Dangerous Roads: Russia’s Safety Challenge

Patricio V. Marquez and Anthony G. Bliss

10171: Country Studies Provide Powerful Lessons in Financial Consumer Protection

Sue Rutledge

10170: East Asia and the Pacific Confronts the “New Normal”

Vikram Nehru

10169: Debt Management: Now the Difficult Part

Sudarshan Gooptu and Carlos A. Primo Braga

10168: Investing in Gender Equality: Looking Ahead

Mayra Buvinic, Trine Lunde and Nistha Sinha

10167: Technological Learning and Innovation: Climbing a Tall Ladder

José Guilherme Reis, Otaviano Canuto and Mark A. Dutz

10166: Innovative Results-Based Approach to Tackling Water Scarcity in São Paulo

Carlos E. Velez and Julia Tierney

10165: Measuring National Income and Growth in Resource-Rich, Income-Poor Countries

Kirk Hamilton and Eduardo Ley

10164: Can Carbon Labeling Be Development Friendly? Recommendations on How to Improve Emerging Schemes

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

10163: Facilitating Cross-Border Mobile Banking in Southern Africa

Tania Saranga, Samuel Maimbo and Nicholas Strychacz

10162: Aid for Trade: An Action Agenda Looking Forward

John Wilson and Bernard Hoekman

10161: Albania’s Energy Sector: Vulnerable to Climate Change

Jane Ebinger

10160: Battle Against Tuberculosis: Some Gains in Russia

Patricio V. Marquez, Wieslaw Jakubowiak, Dmitry D. Pashkevich and Vladimir A. Grechukha

10159: Toward a Switchover of Locomotives in the Global Economy

Otaviano Canuto

10158: Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa

Nora Dihel, Ana Fernandes, Aaditya Mattoo and Nicholas Strychacz

10157: Conflict and Development: Lessons from South Asia

Lakshmi Iyer and Ejaz Ghani

10156: Africa: Leveraging the Crisis into a Development Takeoff

Shantayanan Devarajan and Sudhir Shetty

10155: The Roles of Openness and Labor Market Institutions for Employment Dynamics during Economic Crises

Elisa Gamberoni, Erik von Uexkull and Sebastian Weber

10154: Governments that Achieve Results: Introducing Performance Mechanisms and Exploring the Trust Dimension

Daniela Felcman

10153: Russia 1998 Revisited: Lessons for Financial Globalization

Brian Pinto and Sergei Ulatov

10152: Smart Tax Administration

Richard Bird

10151: Developing an African Offshoring Industry—The Case of Nigeria

Nicholas Strychacz and Ismail Radwan

10150: Taxation and Development

Richard Bird

10149: Restructuring Regional Health Systems In Russia

Patricio V. Marquez and Nadezhda Lebedeva

10148: Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A Comparison of Eight Systems

Luc Weber, Sara Bin Mahfooz and Kate Hovde

10147: Successful Education Reform: Lessons from Poland

Sara Bin Mahfooz and Kate Hovde

10146: Supervision of Primary and Secondary Education: A Five-Country Comparison

Sara Bin Mahfooz and Kate Hovde

10145: Expanding Financial Reporting and Auditing Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean: CReCER and the Community of Practice

David Martínez

10144: Supporting Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Successful Examples of Technology Transfer Promotion

Esperanza Lasagabaster and Rekha Reddy

10143: Decomposing the Effects of CCTs on Entrepreneurship

Guilherme Lichand

10142: Avoiding the Eye of the Storm: How to Deal Effectively with Job Crises

Sara Johansson, Ana Revenga, Pierella Paci and Bob Rijkers

10141: Uncovering Developing Countries’ Performance in Trade in Services

Sebastian Saez and Arti Grover