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6682: SME contributions to employment, job creation, and growth in the Arab world

Sahar Nasr and Ahmed Rostom

6681: A conceptual model of incomplete markets and the consequences for technology adoption policies in Ethiopia

Donald Larson and Daniel Zerfu Gurara

6680: Benchmarking container port technical efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: a stochastic frontier analysis

Javier Morales Sarriera, Gonzalo Araya, Tomas Serebrisky, Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia and Jordan Schwartz

6679: Dynamic climate policy with both strategic and non-strategic agents: taxes versus quantities

Larry Karp, Sauleh Siddiqui and Jon Strand

6678: Creating and using fiscal space for accelerated development in Liberia

Hans Lofgren

6677: Green industrial policies: when and how

Stephane Hallegatte, Marianne Fay and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

6676: Product relatedness and firm exports in China

Sandra Poncet and Felipe Starosta de Waldemar

6675: Can political empowerment help economic empowerment ? women leaders and female labor force participation in India

Ejaz Ghani, Anandi Mani and Stephen D. O'Connell

6674: Dissecting foreign bank lending behavior during the 2008-2009 crisis

Moon Jung Choi, Eva Gutierrez and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

6673: Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy?

Rinku Murgai, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

6672: Subjective wellbeing in Colombia: some insights on vulnerability, job security, and relative incomes

Alexander Krauss and Carol Graham

6671: Admission is free only if your dad is rich! distributional effects of corruption in schools in developing countries

M. Shahe Emran, Asadul Islam and Forhad Shilpi

6670: What have we learned from the enterprise surveys regarding access to credit by SMEs ?

Veselin Kuntchev, Rita Ramalho, Rodriguez-Meza, Jorge and Judy Yang

6669: Travel channel meets discovery channel or how tourism can encourage better export performance and diversification in Nepal

Jose Guilherme Reis and Gonzalo Varela

6668: How much is the Amazon worth ? the state of knowledge concerning the value of preserving amazon rainforests

Peter H. May, Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira and Jon Strand

6667: The connection between Wall Street and Main Street: measurement and implications for monetary policy

Alessandro Barattieri, Maya Eden and Dalibor Stevanovi

6666: Excluding the rural population: the impact of public expenditure on child malnutrition in Peru

Gissele Gajate-Garrido

6665: Capturing the value of public land for urban infrastructure: centrally controlled landholdings

George E. Peterson and Vasudha Thawakar

6664: Inventory of public land in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Shirley Ballaney, Marie-Agnes Bertaud, Patricia Clarke Annez, C.K. Koshy, Bindu Nair, Bimal Patel, Vidyadhar Phatak and Vasudha Thawakar

6663: Perverse supply response in the Liberian mining sector

Grahamm Errol G.

6662: Firm competitiveness and the European union emissions trading scheme

Hei Sing Chan, Shanjun Li and Fan Zhang

6661: The mechanics of job creation: seizing the new dividends of globalization

Celestin Monga

6660: Simulating poverty in Europe: the potential contributions of employment and education to reducing poverty and social exclusion by 2020

Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Kenneth Simler, Mehtabul Azam, Basab Dasgupta, Bonch-Osmolovskiy, Misha and Irena Topinska

6659: Effects of early-life exposure to sanitation on childhood cognitive skills: evidence from India's total sanitation campaign

Dean Spears and Sneha Lamba

6658: Estimating the effects of credit constraints on productivity of Peruvian agriculture

Tiemen Woutersen and Shahidur Khandker

6657: The quality of budget execution and its correlates

Douglas Addison

6656: Input usage and productivity in Indian manufacturing plants

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell

6655: Where is the cheese ? synthesizing a giant literature on causes and consequences of financial sector development

Selahattin Selsah Pasali

6654: Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties

Marek Hanusch and Philip Keefer

6653: Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians

Marek Hanusch and Philip Keefer

6652: What regulatory frameworks are more conducive to mobile banking ? empirical evidence from findex data

Eva Gutierrez and Sandeep Singh

6651: Demand collapse or credit crunch to firms ? evidence from the world bank's financial crisis survey in Eastern Europe

Ha Nguyen and Rong Qian

6650: Up in smoke ? agricultural commercialization, rising food prices and stunting in Malawi

Benjamin Wood, Carl Nelson, Talip Kilic and Siobhan Murray

6649: Shared prosperity: links to growth, inequality and inequality of opportunity

Ambar Narayan, Jaime Saavedra and Sailesh Tiwari

6648: Specialization, diversity, and Indian manufacturing growth

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Ishani Tewari

6647: Can e-filing reduce tax compliance costs in developing countries ?

Fatih Yilmaz and Jacqueline Coolidge

6646: Regulation, renegotiation and capital structure: theory and evidence from Latin American transport concessions

Alexander Moore, Stephane Straub and Jean-Jacques Dethier

6645: A note on the simple algebra of the shared prosperity indicator

David Rosenblatt and Tamara J. McGavock

6644: Telecommunications externality on migration: evidence from Chinese Villages

Yi Lu, Huihua Xie and Lixin Xu

6643: Labor migration and economic growth in east and southeast Asia

Terrie Walmsley, Angel Aguiar Román and Syud Ahmed

6642: Islamic finance and financial inclusion: measuring use of and demand for formal financial services among Muslim adults

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Douglas Randall

6641: Sovereign ratings in the post-crisis world: an analysis of actual, shadow and relative risk ratings

Kaushik Basu, Supriyo De, Dilip Ratha and Hans Timmer

6640: Civil conflict and firm performance: evidence from Cote d'Ivoire

Leora Klapper, Christine Richmond and Trang Tran

6639: Poland's new golden age: shifting from Europe's periphery to its center

Marcin Piątkowski

6638: Exchange rate volatility, financial constraints, and trade: empirical evidence from Chinese firms

Jerome Heericourt and Sandra Poncet

6637: Valuing global public goods: a European Delphi stated preference survey of population willingness to pay for Amazon rainforest preservation

Stale Navrud and Jon Strand

6636: How does corporate governance affect bank capitalization strategies ?

Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Harry Huizinga and Kebin Ma

6635: Africa's macroeconomic story

Doug Hostland and Marcelo M. Giugale

6634: From pawn shops to banks: the impact of formal credit on informal households

Claudia Ruiz Ortega

6633: Industrial policy in the African context

Joseph Stiglitz, Justin Lin, Celestin Monga and Ebrahim Patel

6632: Arbitrating and mediating disputes: benchmarking arbitration and mediation regimes for commercial disputes related to foreign direct investment

Sophie Pouget

6631: Population, poverty, and climate change

Monica Das Gupta

6630: Financial inclusion and the role of the post office

Jose Anson, Alexandre Berthaud, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer

6629: The real exchange rate and export growth: are services different ?

Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta

6628: The rejuvenation of industrial policy

Joseph Stiglitz, Justin Yifu and Celestin Monga

6627: Addressing household air pollution: a case study in rural Madagascar

Susmita Dasgupta, Paul Martin and Hussain Samad

6626: Development at the border: policies and national integration in Cote d'Ivoire and its neighbors

Denis Cogneau, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps and Gilles Spielvogel

6625: A new index of the business environment for microfinance

Robert Cull, Sergio Navajas, Ippei Nishida and Renate Zeiler

6624: Assessing firms'financing constraints in Brazil

Stijn Claessens and Yaye Seynabou Sakho

6623: Toward a conceptual framework for the knowledge bank

Laura Chioda, Augusto de la Torre and William Maloney

6622: Coagglomeration of formal and informal industry: evidence from India

Megha Mukim

6621: Macroeconomic context and fiscal policy: Europe and Central Asia during 2000-2012

Roumeen Islam

6620: The golden quadrilateral highway project and urban/rural manufacturing in India

Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

6619: Microfinance and moneylenders: long-run effects of MFIs on informal credit market in Bangladesh

Claudia Berg, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

6618: Private tutoring in Vietnam: a review of current issues and its major correlates

Hai-Anh Dang

6617: Women's legal rights over 50 years: what is the impact of reform ?

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Tazeen Hasan and Anca Bogdana Rusu

6616: Women's legal rights over 50 years: progress, stagnation or regression ?

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Tazeen Hasan and Anca Bogdana Rusu

6615: Benchmarking financial systems: introducing the financial possibility frontier

Thorsten Beck and Erik Feyen

6614: Trade, informal employment and labor adjustment costs

Javier Arias, Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman and Diego Rojas

6613: Greening global value chains: some implementation challenges

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné

6612: Female business ownership and informal sector persistence

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell

6611: Brazil's bank spread in international context: from macro to micro drivers

Ole Hagen Jorgensen and Apostolos Apostolou

6610: Sustaining trade reform: institutional lessons from Peru and Argentina

Elias A. Baracat, Joseph Finger, Raul Leon Thorne and Julio Nogues

6609: How capital-based instruments facilitate the transition toward a low-carbon economy: a tradeoff between optimality and acceptability

Julie Rozenberg, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Stephane Hallegatte

6608: The art of currency manipulation: how to profiteer by deliberately distorting exchange rates

Kaushik Basu

6607: Social capital, product imitation and growth with learning externalities

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Hinh T. Dinh

6606: The relative income and relative deprivation hypotheses: a review of the empirical literature

Paolo Verme

6605: Russian volatility: obstacle to firm survival and diversification

Alvaro Gonzalez, Leonardo Iacovone and Hari Subhash

6604: Lending concentration, bank performance and systemic risk: exploring cross-country variation

Thorsten Beck and Olivier De Jonghe

6603: Oil price volatility, economic growth and the hedging role of renewable energy

Jun Rentschler

6602: Sunshine works -- comment on"the adverse effects of sunshine: a field experiment on legislative transparency in an authoritarian assembly"

James Anderson

6601: Converting and transferring currency: benchmarking foreign exchange restrictions to foreign direct investment across economies

John Anderson

6600: The effect of weather-induced internal migration on local labor markets: evidence from Uganda

Eric Strobl and Marie-Anne Valfort

6599: Economic Growth and equality of opportunity

Vito Peragine, Flaviana Palmisano and Paolo Brunori

6598: Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program

Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle, Puja Dutta and Rinku Murgai

6597: Efficiency and equity implications of oil windfalls in Brazil

Ole Hagen Jorgensen

6596: When competition corrupts: a theoretical analysis of market structure and the incidence of corruption

Kaushik Basu, Tamara McGavock and Boyang Zhang

6595: Behavioral economics and public sector reform: an accidental experiment and lessons from Cameroon

Gaël Raballand and Anand Rajaram

6594: Middle-income traps: a conceptual and empirical survey

Fernando Gabriel Im and David Rosenblatt

6593: Improving access to banking: evidence from Kenya

Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Robert Cull, Jun Qian, Lemma Senbet and Patricio Valenzuela

6592: Resolving the African financial development gap: cross-country comparisons and a within-country study of Kenya

Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Robert Cull, Jun Qian, Lemma Senbet and Patricio Valenzuela

6591: Institutional and structural determinants of investment worldwide

Jamus Lim

6590: Foreign bank behavior during financial crises

Jonathon Adams-Kane, Julian A. Caballero and Jamus Lim

6589: The use of random geographic cluster sampling to survey pastoralists

Kristen Himelein, Stephanie Eckman and Siobhan Murray

6588: Friend or foe or family ? a tale of formal and informal plants in India

Ejaz Ghani, Stephen D. O'Connell and Gunjan Sharma

6587: Evaluation of development programs: randomized controlled trials or regressions ?

Chris Elbers and Jan Willem Gunning

6586: Natural resources, physical capital and institutions: evidence from Eurasia

Nancy Vandycke

6585: Does the semi-autonomous agency model function in a low-governance environment ? the case of the road development agency in Zambia

Gaël Raballand, Kate Bridges, Monica Beuran and Audrey Sacks

6584: Shorter, cheaper, quicker, better: linking measures of household food security to nutritional outcomes in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Uganda, and Tanzania

Sailesh Tiwari, Emmanuel Skoufias and Maya Sherpa

6583: Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development

Philip Keefer