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7586: The economic effects of counterfeiting and piracy: a review and implications for developing countries

Carsten Fink, Keith Maskus and Yi Qian

7585: Measuring violent conflict in micro-level surveys: current practices and methodological challenges

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp and Andrew Anthony Tedesco

7584: The revival of the"cash versus food"debate: new evidence for an old quandary ?

Ugo Gentilini

7583: The price is not always right: on the impacts of commodity prices on households (and countries)

Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

7582: Employer voices, employer demands, and implications for public skills development policy connecting the labor and education sectors

Wendy Cunningham and Paula Villasenor

7581: Small area estimation of child malnutrition in Ethiopian woredas

Thomas Sohnesen, Alemayehu Ambel, Peter Fisker, Colin Andrews and Qaiser M. Khan

7580: Can you work it ? evidence on the productive potential of public works from a youth employment program in Sierra Leone

Nina Rosas Raffo and Shwetlena Sabarwal

7579: The fiscal cost of weak governance: evidence from teacher absence in India

Karthik Muralidharan, Jishnu Das, Alaka Holla and Aakash Mohpal

7578: Illicit activity and money laundering from an economic growth perspective: a model and an application to Colombia

Edgar Villa, Martha Misas and Norman Loayza

7577: The political economy of bank lending: evidence from an emerging market

Sumit Agarwal, Bernardo Morais, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Jian Zhang

7576: Large farm establishment, smallholder productivity, labor market participation, and resilience: evidence from Ethiopia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus W. Deininger, Charles Anthony Philip Harris, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus W. Deininger and Charles Anthony Philip Harris

7575: The political economy of direct dividend transfers in resource-rich countries: a theoretical consideration

Eoin McGuirk, Anand Rajaram and Marcelo Giugale

7574: Access to pre-primary education and progression in primary School: evidence from rural Guatemala

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Nicolas Luis Bottan, Julian Cristia, Paulo S. R. Bastos, Nicolas Luis Bottan and Julian Cristia

7573: Preschool education in Brazil: does public supply crowd out private enrollment ?

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Odd Rune Straume, Paulo S. R. Bastos and Odd Rune Straume

7572: Resource rents, coercion, and local development: evidence from post-apartheid South Africa

Paulo S. R. Bastos, Nicolas Luis Bottan, Paulo S. R. Bastos and Nicolas Luis Bottan

7571: Egypt: guiding reform of energy subsidies long-term

Peter Griffin, Thomas Blatt Laursen and James W. Robertson

7570: Building a competitive city through innovation and global knowledge: the case of Sino-Singapore Suzhou industrial park

Zhihua Zeng

7569: Capital flows and central banking: the Indian experience

Poonam Gupta

7568: Growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction in India

Gaurav Datt, Martin Ravallion and Rinku Murgai

7567: Losing the gains of the past: the welfare and distributional impacts of the twin crises in Iraq 2014

Nandini Krishnan and Sergio Daniel Olivieri

7566: Prices and welfare

Abdelkrim Araar and Paolo Verme

7565: Drought and retribution: evidence from a large-scale rainfall-indexed insurance program in Mexico

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Hendrik Wolff

7564: Market integration and poverty: evidence from South Sudan

Gonzalo Varela, Massimiliano Calì, Utz Pape and Esteban Rojas

7563: Does child sponsorship pay off in adulthood ? an international study of impacts on income and wealth

Bruce Wydick, Paul Glewwe and Laine Rutledge

7562: Sifting through the Data: labor markets in Haiti through a turbulent decade (2001-2012)

Thiago Scot and Aude-Sophie Rodella

7561: School dropout in Central America: an overview of trends, causes, consequences, and promising interventions

Melissa Adelman and Miguel Szekely

7560: An exploration of the relationship between police presence, crime, and business in developing countries

Asif Islam

7559: Financial channels, property rights, and poverty: a Sub-Saharan African perspective

Raju Singh and Yifei Huang

7558: Idle youth in Mexico: trapped between the war on drugs and economic crisis

Rafael De Hoyos, Carlos Gutierrez Fierros and J. Vicente Vargas M.

7557: The distribution of consumption expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa: the inequality among all Africans

La-Bhus Jirasavetakul and Christoph Lakner

7556: How much teachers know and how much it matters in class: analyzing three rounds of subject-specific test score data of Indonesian students and teachers

Joppe de Ree

7555: Greying the budget: ageing and preferences over public policies

Luiz de Mello, Simone Raphaela Schotte, Erwin H. R. Tiongson and Hernan Winkler

7554: Why are the elderly more averse to immigration when they are more likely to benefit ? evidence across countries

Simone Raphaela Schotte and Hernan Winkler

7553: The welfare cost of inflation and the regulations of money substitutes

Benjamin Eden and Maya Eden

7552: Do resource-rich countries suffer from a lack of fiscal discipline ?

Michael Francis Bleaney and Havard Halland

7551: Managing food price volatility in a large open country: the case of wheat in India

Christophe Gouel, Madhur Gautam and Will Martin

7550: Cognitive and non-cognitive skills for the Peruvian labor market: addressing measurement error through latent skills estimations

Wendy Cunningham, Mónica Parra Torrado and Miguel Sarzosa

7549: Lifting economic sanctions on Iran: global effects and strategic responses

Elena Ianchovichina, Shantayanan Devarajan and Csilla Lakatos

7548: Out of school and out of work: a diagnostic of ninis in Latin America

Rafael De Hoyos, Anna Popova and F. Rogers

7547: A detailed anatomy of factor misallocation in India

Gilles Duranton, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

7546: Declining wages for college-educated workers in Mexico: are younger or older cohorts hurt the most ?

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Luis Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig

7545: Business cycles in the eastern Caribbean economies: the role of fiscal policy and interest rates

Francisco Carneiro and Viktoria Hnatkovska

7544: Before and after the global financial crisis: evaluating the Caribbean's synchronization with global engines of growth

Auguste Tano Kouame and M. Ivanova Reyes

7543: The great recession and job loss spillovers: impact of tradable employment shocks on supporting services

Ha Nguyen and Shawheen Rezaei

7542: What are the impacts of Syrian refugees on host community welfare in Turkey ? a subnational poverty analysis

João Pedro Azevedo, Judy Yang and Osman Inan

7541: How equitable is access to finance in turkey ? evidence from the latest global FINDEX

João Pedro Azevedo, Osman Inan and Judy Yang

7540: When and where do we see regional poverty reduction and convergence ? lessons from the roof of Turkey

João Pedro Azevedo, Judy Yang, Osman Inan, Minh Nguyen and Jose Montes

7539: Price seasonality in Africa: measurement and extent

Christopher L. Gilbert, Luc Christiaensen and Jonathan Kaminski

7538: Contingent liabilities risk management: a credit risk analysis framework for sovereign guarantees and on-lending?country experiences from Colombia, Indonesia, Sweden, and Turkey

Fritz Florian Bachmair

7537: Striving for balance in economics: towards a theory of the social determination of behavior

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

7536: Global supply chains and trade policy

Emily J. Blanchard, Chad P. Bown, Robert Christopher Johnson, Emily J. Blanchard, Chad P. Bown and Robert Christopher Johnson

7535: How does long-term finance affect economic volatility ?

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga

7534: Following Mexican youth: a short-run study of time use decisions

Juan Barón, Anna Popova and Angelica Maria Sanchez Diaz

7533: Financial access and household welfare: evidence from Mauritania

Alessandra Amendola, Marinella Boccia, Gianluca Mele and Luca Sensini

7532: Supporting export competitiveness through port and rail network reforms: a case study of South Africa

Duncan Pieterse, Thomas Farole, Martin Odendaal and Andre Steenkamp

7531: Fossil fuel subsidy and pricing policies: recent developing country experience

Masami Kojima

7530: Earnings premiums and penalties for self-employment and informal employees around the world

T. H. Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad and David Newhouse

7529: The role of preschool quality in promoting child development: evidence from rural Indonesia

Sally Anne Brinkman, Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Nozomi Nakajima and Menno Prasad Pradhan

7528: The World Bank's classification of countries by income

Neil James Fantom and Umar Serajuddin

7527: Rwanda's new companies: an overview of registrations, taxes, employment, and exports

Michele Savini Zangrandi and Maria Paulina Mogollon

7526: Tenure security premium in informal housing markets: a spatial hedonic analysis

Shohei Nakamura

7525: Do land market restrictions hinder structural change in a rural economy ? evidence from Sri Lanka

M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

7524: Land market restrictions, women's labor force participation, and wages in a rural economy

M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

7523: Debt sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa: unraveling country-specific risks

William G. Battaile, Fernando Leonardo Hernandez and Vivian Norambuena

7522: The impact of the global financial crisis on firms'capital structure

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Maria Martinez Peria and Thierry Tressel

7521: Development economics as taught in developing countries

David McKenzie and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

7520: Seasonality in local food markets and consumption: evidence from Tanzania

Jonathan Kaminski, Luc Christiaensen and Christopher L. Gilbert

7519: Why so gloomy ? perceptions of economic mobility in Europe and Central Asia

Cesar A. Cancho, Maria Eugenia Davalos and Carolina Sanchez

7518: Understanding the trends in learning outcomes in Argentina, 2000 to 2012

Rafael De Hoyos, Peter Anthony Holland and Sara Troiano

7517: Forced displacement and refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa: an economic inquiry

Philip Verwimp and Jean-François Maystadt

7516: Can a small social pension promote labor force participation ? evidence from the Colombia Mayor program

Tobias Pfutze and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7515: The poverty effects of market concentration

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7514: Unpacking the MPI: a decomposition approach of changes in multidimensional poverty headcounts

Jorge Pérez Pérez, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Jose Daniel Trujillo and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez

7513: Toward a more business friendly tax regime: key challenges in South Asia

Anna Reva

7512: The strength of American federal democracy: lessons for global development

Roger Myerson

7511: Blending top-down federalism with bottom-up engagement to reduce inequality in Ethiopia

Qaiser M. Khan, Jean-Paul Faguet and Alemayehu Ambel

7510: Finding a path to formalization in Benin: early results after the introduction of the entreprenant legal status

Najy Benhassine, David McKenzie, Victor Pouliquen and Massimiliano Santini

7509: Hub-periphery development pattern and inclusive growth: case study of Guangdong province

Xubei Luo and Nong Zhu

7508: Maternal and child health inequalities in Ethiopia

Alemayehu Ambel, Colin Andrews, Anne Margreth Bakilana, Elizabeth Foster, Qaiser M. Khan and Huihui Wang

7507: The effects of volatility, fiscal policy cyclicality and financial development on growth: evidence for the Eastern Caribbean

Markus Brüeckner and Francisco Carneiro

7506: Psychometrics as a tool to improve screening and access to credit

Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn and Rodolfo Stucchi

7505: Direct and indirect effects of Malawi?s public works program on food security

Kathleen G. Beegle, Emanuela Galasso and Jessica Goldberg

7504: Structural transformation and productivity growth in Africa: Uganda in the 2000s

Sabin Ahmed, Taye Mengistae, Yutaka Yoshino and Albert Zeufack

7503: Breaking the metal ceiling: female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Francisco Campos, Markus Goldstein, Laura Mcgorman, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Obert Pimhidzai

7502: What?s left for the WTO ?

Chad P. Bown and Chad P. Bown

7501: From demographic dividend to demographic burden ? regional trends of population aging in Russia

Mikhail Matytsin, Lalita M. Moorty and Kaspar Richter

7500: Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ?

Richard Bird

7499: Regional productivity convergence in Peru

Leonardo Iacovone, Luis Fernando Sanchez Bayardo and Siddharth Sharma

7498: Regionalism in services: a study of ASEAN

Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo

7497: Women?s police stations and domestic violence: evidence from Brazil

Elizaveta Perova and Sarah Reynolds

7496: Nighttime lights revisited: the use of nighttime lights data as a proxy for economic variables

Douglas M. Addison and Benjamin P. Stewart

7495: The long-term impacts of international migration: evidence from a lottery

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman

7494: Weak instruments in growth regressions: implications for recent cross-country evidence on inequality and growth

Aart Kraay

7493: SMEs, age, and jobs: a review of the literature, metrics, and evidence

Gemechu Aga, David C. Francis and Jorge Rodriguez Meza

7492: The role of imports for exporter performance in Peru

Martha D. Pierola Castro, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Thomas Farolec, Martha D. Pierola Castro, Ana Margarida Fernandes and Thomas Farolec

7491: Domestic value added in exports: theory and firm evidence from China

Hiau Looi Kee, Heiwai Tang, Hiau Looi Kee and Heiwai Tang

7490: Discrimination as a coordination device: markets and the emergence of identity

Kaushik Basu

7489: Appraising cross-national income inequality databases: an introduction

Francisco Ferreira, Nora Lustig and Daniel Teles

7488: Unhappy development: dissatisfaction with life on the eve of the Arab spring

Efstratia Arampatzi, Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina, Tina Röhricht, Ruut Veenhoven, Efstratia Arampatzi, Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina, Tina Röhricht and Ruut Veenhoven

7487: On the welfare implications of automation

Maya Eden and Paul Gaggl