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7286: Policies, prices, and poverty: the sugar, vegetable oil, and flour industries in Senegal

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Stephen Golub and E. Philip English

7285: Smallholders? land ownership and access in Sub-Saharan Africa: a new landscape ?

Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia and Sara Savastano

7284: Business cycles accounting for Paraguay

Koehler-Geib,Fritzi and Viktoria Hnatkovska

7283: A behavioral approach to water conservation: evidence from Costa Rica

Saugato Datta, Juan Jose Miranda Montero, Laura De Castro Zoratto, Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar, Matthew Darlingm and Karina Josephine Orduna Lorenzana

7282: How much of the labor in African agriculture is provided by women ?

Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Luc Christiaensen and Talip Kilic

7281: Agriculture production and transport infrastructure in east Africa: an application of spatial autoregression

Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You, Wood-Sichra,Ulrike and Richard Martin Humphrey

7280: Firm inventory behavior in east Africa

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphrey and Sevara Melibaeva

7279: Firms? locational choice and infrastructure development in Rwanda

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphrey and Sevara Melibaeva

7278: Firm productivity and infrastructure costs in east Africa

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphrey and Sevara Melibaeva

7277: Delivering education: a pragmatic framework for improving education in low-income countries

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja

7276: Doing the survey two-step: the effects of reticence on estimates of corruption in two-stage survey questions

Nona Karalashvili, Aart Kraay and Peter Murrell

7275: Transforming electricity governance in India: has India?s power sector regulation enabled consumers? power ?

Ashish Khanna, Daljit Singh, Ashwini Swain and Mudit Narain

7274: Road improvement and deforestation in the Congo Basin countries

Richard Damania and David J. Wheeler

7273: Infrastructure in conflict-prone and fragile environments: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Rubaba Ali, Alvaro Federico Barra, Claudia N. Berg, Richard Damania, John D. Nash and Jason Daniel Russ

7272: Agricultural technology choice and transport

Rubaba Ali, Alvaro Federico Barra, Claudia N. Berg, Richard Damania, John D. Nash and Jason Daniel Russ

7271: Transport infrastructure and welfare: an application to Nigeria

Rubaba Ali, Alvaro Federico Barra, Claudia N. Berg, Richard Damania, John D. Nash and Jason Daniel Russ

7270: Poverty dynamics in India between 2004 and 2012: insights from longitudinal analysis using synthetic panel data

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Peter F. Lanjouw

7269: Women managers and the gender-based gap in access to education: evidence from firm-level data in developing countries

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

7268: Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments ? Malaria control policies in Eritrea

Pedro Carneiro, Alex Armand, Andrea Locatelli, Selam Mihreteab and Joseph Aaron Keating

7267: World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance

Lodewijk Smets and Stephen Knack

7266: On the sustainable development goals and the role of Islamic finance

Habib Ahmed, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Jos Verbeek and Farida Wael Aboulmagd

7265: When winners feel like losers: evidence from an energy subsidy reform

Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar, Barbara Cunha and Riccardo Trezzi

7262: Investigating the gender gap in agricultural productivity: evidence from Uganda

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Derick Bowen, Klaus Deininger and Marguerite Duponchel

7259: The republic of beliefs: a new approach to ?law and economics?

Kaushik Basu

7258: Universal health coverage in the Philippines: progress on financial protection goals

Caryn Bredenkamp and Leander Robert Buisman

7257: You are what (and where) you eat: capturing food away from home in welfare measures

Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Renos Vakis, Gabriela Farfan, Maria Eugenia Genoni and Renos Vakis

7256: Global poverty goals and prices: how purchasing power parity matters

Dean Jolliffe and Espen Prydz

7255: The Global Findex Database 2014: measuring financial inclusion around the world

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer and Peter van Oudheusden

7254: The dark side of disclosure: evidence of government expropriation from worldwide firms

Tingting Liu, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei and Lixin Xu

7253: Socioeconomic impact of the crisis in north Mali on displaced people

Alvin Etang Ndip, Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Julia Lendorfer

7252: Data deprivation: another deprivation to end

Umar Serajuddin, Hiroki Uematsu, Christina Wieser, Nobuo Yoshida and Andrew L. Dabalen

7251: African mining, gender, and local employment

Andreas Kotsadam and Anja Tolonen

7250: The local socioeconomic effects of gold mining: evidence from Ghana

Chuhan-Pole,Punam, Andrew L. Dabalen, Andreas Kotsadam, Aly Sanoh and Anja Karolina Tolonen

7249: Social and economic impacts of rural road improvements in the state of Tocantins, Brazil

Atsushi Iimi, Eric R. Lancelot, Isabela Manelici and Satoshi Ogita

7248: Monitoring financial stability in developing and emerging economies: practical guidance for conducting macroprudential analysis

Miquel Dijkman

7247: Are we confusing poverty with preferences ?

Bart van den Boom, Alex Halsema and Vasco Molini

7246: Investing in technical&vocational education and training: does it yield large economic returns in Brazil ?

Rita Almeida, Leandro Anazawa, Naercio Menezes Filho and Ligia Maria De Vasconcellos

7245: Good countries or good projects ? comparing macro and micro correlates of World Bank and Asian Development Bank project performance

David Janoff Bulman, Walter Kolkma and Aart Kraay

7244: Household responses to shocks in rural Ethiopia: livestock as a buffer stock

Daniel Ayalew Ali

7243: Program evaluation and spillover effects

Manuela Angelucci and Vincenzo Di Maro

7242: Trade agreements and enforcement: evidence from WTO dispute settlement

Chad P. Bown, Kara Marie Reynolds, Chad P. Bown and Kara Marie Reynolds

7241: Are women less productive farmers ? how markets and risk affect fertilizer use, productivity, and measured gender effects in Uganda

Donald Larson, Sara Savastano, Siobhan Murray and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

7240: Global experiences with special economic zones: focus on China and Africa

Zhihua Zeng

7239: Asset price effects of peer benchmarking: evidence from a natural experiment

Sushant Acharya and Alvaro Pedraza

7238: Parental human capital and effective school management: evidence from The Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, David Evans and Nathalie Lahire

7237: Measuring inequality from top to bottom

Tania Valeria Diaz Bazan

7236: ?Missing girls? in the south Caucasus countries: trends, possible causes, and policy options

Monica Das Gupta

7235: Weather insurance savings accounts

Daniel Kevin Stein and Jeremy Tobacman

7234: Labor productivity and employment gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ellen McCullough

7233: Information, knowledge and behavior: evaluating alternative methods of delivering school information to parents

Cerdan-Infantes,Pedro and Deon Filmer

7232: Tax evasion through trade intermediation: evidence from Chinese exporters

Xuepeng Liu, Huimin Shi and Michael Joseph Ferrantino

7231: Does input tariff reduction impact firms'exports in the presence of import tariff exemption regimes ?

Maurizio Bussolo and Marcio Cruz

7230: The (non-) effect of violence on education: evidence from the"war on drugs"in Mexico

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Pérez-Arce,Francisco and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7229: Labor market regulations and outcomes in Sweden: a comparative analysis of recent trends

Hulya Ulku and Silvia Muzi

7228: The curious case of Brazil's closedness to trade

Otaviano Canuto, Cornelius Fleischhaker and Philip Schellekens

7227: Estimating the size of external effects of energy subsidies in transport and agriculture

Simon John Commander, Zlatko Slobodan Nikoloski and Maria Vagliasindi

7226: Report cards: the impact of providing school and child test scores on educational markets

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja

7225: The quest for subsidy reforms in Libya

Abdelkrim Araar, Nada Choueiri and Paolo Verme

7224: An evaluation of the 2014 subsidy reforms in Morocco and a simulation of further reforms

Paolo Verme and Khalid El Massnaoui

7223: Analyzing the dynamics of school dropout in upper secondary education in Latin America: a cohort approach

Raja Bentaouet Kattan and Miguel Székely

7222: What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India ?

Stephan Klasen and Janneke Pieters

7221: The misallocation of land and other factors of production in India

Gilles Duranton, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

7220: Fossil fuel subsidies: approaches and valuation

Masami Kojima and Doug Koplow

7219: Advanced-country policies and emerging-market currencies: the impact of U.S. tapering on India's Rupee

Yuki Ikeda, Denis Medvedev and Martin Rama

7218: As the market churns: estimates of firm exit and job loss using the World Bank's enterprise surveys

Gemechu Aga and David C. Francis

7217: Equality of opportunity: theory and evidence

Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine

7216: The international bank lending channel of monetary policy rates and quantitative easing: credit supply, reach-for-yield, and real effects

Bernardo Morais, Jose-Luis Peydro and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

7215: Using lotteries to incentivize safer sexual behavior: evidence from a randomized controlled trial on HIV prevention

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

7214: No condition is permanent: middle class in Nigeria in the last decade

Paul Corral Rodas, Vasco Molini and Gbemisola Oseni

7213: Income shocks and conflict: evidence from Nigeria

Babatunde Oluwakayode Abidoye and Massimiliano Calì

7212: Economic implications of a potential free trade agreement between India and the United States

Emiko Fukase, William J. Martin, Emiko Fukase and William J. Martin

7211: Policy and performance in customs: evaluating the trade facilitation agreement

Russell Henry Hillberry, Xiaohui Zhang, Russell Henry Hillberry and Xiaohui Zhang

7210: Trade effects of customs reform: evidence from Albania

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Russell Henry Hillberry, Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Russell Henry Hillberry and Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara

7209: Economic shocks and subjective well-being: evidence from a quasi-experiment

Jacob Gerner Hariri, Christian Bjørnskov and Mogens K. Justesen

7208: Interviewer effects in subjective survey questions: evidence from Timor-Leste

Kristen Himelein

7207: What determines entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging markets ? the role of initial conditions

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

7206: Informal tradables and the employment growth of Indian manufacturing

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Alex Segura

7205: Trade reform and regional dynamics: evidence from 25 years of Brazilian matched employer-employee data

Rafael Dix Carneiro and Brian K. Kovak

7204: Effects of the internet on participation: study of a public policy referendum in Brazil

Paolo Spada, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Carneiro Peixoto and Fredrik Matias Sjoberg

7203: What really works to improve learning in developing countries ? an analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews

David Evans and Anna Popova

7202: Maize price volatility: does market remoteness matter ?

Ndiaye Moctar, Maitre d?Hôtel Elodie and Le Cotty Tristan

7201: Is increasing inorganic fertilizer use in Sub-Saharan Africa a profitable proposition ? evidence from Nigeria

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie, Bolarin T. Omonona, Awa Sanou and Wale Ogunleye

7200: Drinking water salinity and infant mortality in coastal Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler

7199: Gender differentials and agricultural productivity in Niger

Backiny-Yetna, Prospere and Kevin McGee

7198: Behavioral economics and social exclusion: can interventions overcome prejudice ?

Karla Hoff

7197: "Small miracles"-- behavioral insights to improve development policy: World Development Report 2015

Allison Demeritt and Karla Hoff

7196: Orphans and Ebola: estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis

David Evans and Anna Popova

7195: Debiasing on a roll: changing gambling behavior through experiential learning

Martin Abel , Shawn Cole and Bilal Zia

7194: The distributional impact of fiscal policy in South Africa

Gabriela Inchauste, Nora Lustig, Mashekwa Maboshe, Catriona Purfield and Ingrid Woolard

7193: Empowering cities: good for growth ? evidence from China

Megha Mukim and Tingting Juni Zhu

7192: The internet as a general-purpose technology: firm-level evidence from around the world

George Clarke, Christine Zhenwei Qiang and Lixin Xu

7191: R&D returns, spillovers, and firm incentives: evidence from China

Chorching Goh, Wei Li and Lixin Xu

7190: The changing patterns of financial integration in Latin America

Tatiana Didier, Matias Moretti and Sergio Schmukler

7189: Sex-selective abortions, fertility, and birth spacing

Claus C Portner

7188: Love, money, and old age support: does parental matchmaking matter ?

Fali Huang, Ginger Zhe Jin and Lixin Xu

7187: Handling the weather: insurance, savings, and credit in West Africa

Francesca de Nicola

7186: Can the knowledge capital model explain foreign investment in services ? the case of Singapore

Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Aaditya Mattoo, Gnanaraj Chellaraj and Aaditya Mattoo

7185: Measuring the determinants of backward linkages from FDI in developing economies: is it a matter of size ?

Miguel Eduardo Sánchez-Martín, Jaime de Pinies and Kassia Antoine

7184: Wage dynamics, turnover, and human capital: evidence from adolescent transition from school to work in the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi

7183: Short-term impacts of formalization assistance and a bank information session on business registration and access to finance in Malawi

Francisco Moraes Leitao Campos, Markus P. Goldstein, David J. Mckenzie, Francisco Moraes Leitao Campos, Markus P. Goldstein and David J. Mckenzie