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6582: Financial development in Latin America and the Caribbean: stylized facts and the road ahead

Tatiana Didier and Sergio Schmukler

6581: Fiscal sustainability in Burundi: baseline projections, stochastic simulations, and policy scenarios

Mizuho Kida

6580: Village sanitation and children's human capital: evidence from a randomized experiment by the Maharashtra government

Jeffrey Hammer and Dean Spears

6579: Disquiet on the weather front: the welfare impacts of climatic variability in the rural Philippines

Abla Safir, Sharon Faye Piza and Emmanuel Skoufias

6578: Growth and volatility analysis using wavelets

Inga Maslova, Harun Onder and Apurva Sanghi

6577: Financial inclusion for financial stability: access to bank deposits and the growth of deposits in the Global Financial Crisis

Rui Han and Martin Melecký

6576: The conceptual foundations of macroprudential policy: a roadmap

Alain Ize and Augusto de la Torre

6575: The foundations of macroprudential regulation: a conceptual roadmap

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

6574: Are microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh over-indebted ?

Shahidur Khandker, Rashid Faruqee and Hussain Samad

6573: Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

6572: Drivers of firm-level productivity in Russia's manufacturing sector

Zeljko Bogetic and Olasupo Olusi

6571: What are the causes of the growing trend of excess savings of the corporate sector in developed countries ? an empirical analysis of three hypotheses

Leandro Brufman, Lisana Martinez and Rodrigo Perez Artica

6570: Household enterprises in Mozambique: key to poverty reduction but not on the development agenda ?

Louise Fox and Thomas Sohnesen

6569: The effects of country risk and conflict on infrastructure PPPs

Gonzalo Araya, Jordan Schwartz and Luis Andres

6568: Growth still is good for the poor

David Dollar, Tatjana Kleineberg and Aart Kraay

6567: Is small better ? a comparison of the effect of large and small dams on cropland productivity in South Africa

Elodie Blanc and Eric Strobl

6566: The heterogeneous effects of a food price crisis on child school enrollment and labor: evidence from Pakistan

Xiaohui Hou and Seo Yeon Hong

6565: Transaction costs of low-carbon technologies and policies: the diverging literature

Luis Mundaca, Mathilde Mansoz, Lena Neij and Govinda Timilsina

6564: Effects of Colombia's social protection system on workers'choice between formal and informal employment

Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover and Alejandro Hoyos Suarez

6563: Bank financing of SMEs in five Sub-Saharan African countries: the role of competition, innovation, and the government

Gunhild Berg and Michael Fuchs

6562: Fiscal rules and the pro-cyclicality of public investment in the West African economic and monetary union

Sebastien Dessus, Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez and Aristomene Varoudakis

6561: Poverty, malnutrition and vulnerability in Mali

Patrick Eozenou, Dorsati Madani and Rob Swinkels

6560: From occupations to embedded skills: a cross-country comparison

Cristian Aedo, Jesko Hentschel, Javier Luque and Martin Moreno

6559: Do infrastructure reforms reduce the effect of corruption ? theory and evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Liam Wren-Lewis

6558: Multisectoral preventive health services in Sri Lanka: lessons for developing countries in providing public goods in health

Monica Das Gupta, K. C. S. Dalpatadu, C. K. Shanmugarajah and H. M. S. S. D. Herath

6557: Top incomes and the measurement of inequality in Egypt

Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme

6556: A mapping of labor mobility costs in developing countries

Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

6555: International lending, sovereign debt and joint liability: an economic theory model for amending the treaty of Lisbon

Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz

6553: Urbanization and agglomeration benefits: gender differentiated impacts on enterprise creation in India's informal sector

Ejaz Ghani, Ravi Kanbur and Stephen D. O'Connell

6552: Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

6551: Factors influencing energy intensity in four Chinese industries

Karen Fisher-Vanden, Yong Hu, Gary Jefferson, Michael Rock and Michael Toman

6550: From guesstimates to GPStimates: land area measurement and implications for agricultural analysis

Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay and Paul Winters

6549: A retrospective analysis of the house prices macro-relationship in the United States

Ibrahim Ahamada and Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez

6548: (Ineffective) messages to encourage recycling: evidence from a randomized evaluation in Peru

Alberto Chong, Dean Karlan, Jeremy Shapiro and Jonathan Zinman

6547: Collective action and community development: evidence from self-help groups in rural India

Raj Desai and Shareen Joshi

6546: How does risk management influence production decisions? evidence from a field experiment

Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Gine and James Vickery

6545: Gender differences in the effects of vocational training: constraints on women and drop-out behavior

Yoonyoung Cho, Davie Kalomba, Ahmed Mobarak and Victor Orozco

6544: Are mega-farms the future of global agriculture ? exploring the farm size-productivity relationship

Klaus Deininger, Denys Nizalov and Sudhir Singh

6543: Welfare and poverty impacts of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme: evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

6542: China's 2008 labor contract law: implementation and implications for China's workers

Mary Gallagher, John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang

6541: Incentivizing schooling for learning: evidence on the impact of alternative targeting approaches

Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Deon Filmer

6540: Impact evaluation of three types of early childhood development interventions in Cambodia

Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer, Karen Macours and Sophie Naudeau

6539: Criss-crossing migration

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

6538: Do economic crises lead to health and nutrition behavior responses ? analysis using longitudinal data from Russia

Zlatko Nikoloski and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad

6537: The contribution of African women to economic growth and development in post-colonial Africa: historical perspectives and policy implications

Emmanuel Akyeampong and Hippolyte Fofack

6536: An expansion of a global data set on educational quality: a focus on achievement in developing countries

Noam Angrist, Harry Patrinos and Martin Schlotter

6535: Food price spikes, price insulation, and poverty

Kym Anderson, Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

6534: Resource reallocation and innovation: converting enterprise risks into opportunities

Mark A. Dutz

6533: Determinants of job creation in eleven new EU member states: evidence from firm level data

Harald Oberhofer and Gallina A Vincelette

6532: The impact of government support on firm R&D investments: a meta-analysis

Paulo Correa, Luis Andres and Borja-Vega, Christian

6531: Solow in transition: macro and micro determinants of savings in Armenia

Souleymane Coulibaly and Mohamed Diaby

6530: Economic development as opportunity equalization

John Roemer

6529: Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation: a 20-year followup to an experimental intervention in Jamaica

Chang-Lopez, Susan, Paul Gertler, Grantham-Mcgregor,Sally, James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Christel M. J. Vermeersch, Susan Walker and Arianna Zanolini

6528: The transmission of banking crises to households: lessons from the 2008-2011 crises in the ECA region

Martin Brown

6527: Long-term impacts of household electrification in rural India

Dominique van de Walle, Martin Ravallion, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Gayatri Koolwal

6526: It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments

Stephen Knack

6525: Explaining the last consumption boom-bust cyclein Ireland: the role of news and noise shocks

Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez

6524: An economic model of Brazil's ethanol-sugar markets and impacts of fuel policies

Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik, Erika M. Kliauga and Govinda Timilsina

6523: A public strategy for compliance monitoring

Varun Gauri, Jeffrey K. Staton and Jorge Vargas Cullell

6522: Gender inequality in multidimensional welfare deprivation in west Africa: the case of Burkina Faso and Togo

Akoete Ega Agbodji, Yele Batana and Denis Ouedraogo

6521: Cooperation and reciprocity in carbon sequestration contracts

Paula Cordero Salas

6520: Trade and innovation in services: evidence from a developing economy

Leonardo Iacovone, Aaditya Mattoo and Andres Zahler

6519: Understanding the sources of spatial disparity and convergence: evidence from Bangladesh

Forhad Shilpi

6518: The effect of product standards on agricultural exports from developing countries

Esteban Ferro, John S. Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki

6517: Stress-testing Africa's recent growth and poverty performance

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Maryla Maliszewska, Osorio-Rodarte, Israel and Hans Timmer

6516: Climate change in the Himalayas: current state of knowledge

Mahesh R. Gautam, Govinda Timilsina and Kumud Acharya

6515: How much does an increase in oil prices affect the global economy ? some insights from a general equilibrium analysis

Govinda Timilsina

6514: Enduring impacts of aid quality on job choices: the case of the 2004 tsunami in Aceh

Manabu Nose

6513: Understanding child labor beyond poverty: the structure of the economy, social norms, and no returns to rural basic education

Alexander Krauss

6512: Increase in protectionism and its impact on Sri Lanka's performance in global markets

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng

6511: Connection charges and electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa

Raluca Golumbeanu and Douglas Barnes

6510: Do elected councils improve governance ? experimental evidence on local institutions in Afghanistan

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov

6509: Cost-effective estimation of the population mean using prediction estimators

Tomoki Fujii and Roy van der Weide

6508: The impact of consulting services on small and medium enterprises: evidence from a randomized trial in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Dean Karlan and Antoinette Schoar

6507: Entry regulation and formalization of microenterprises in developing countries

Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie

6506: A global urban risk index

Henrike Brecht, Uwe Deichmann and Hyoung Gun Wang

6505: Resource discoveries, learning, and national income accounting

Kirk Hamilton and Giles Atkinson

6504: Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on cross-sections

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

6503: Designing contracts for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

Paula Cordero Salas

6502: Addressing additionality in REDD contracts when formal enforcement is absent

Paula Cordero Salas, Brian Roe and Brent Sohngen

6501: Aid, disbursement delays, and the real exchange rate

Alexandra Jarotschkin and Aart Kraay

6500: Macroeconomic and distributional impacts of jatropha-based biodiesel in Mali

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Massa Coulibaly, Govinda Timilsina and Luc Savard

6499: Are biofuels economically competitive with their petroleum counterparts ?production cost analysis for Zambia

Thomson Sinkala, Govinda Timilsina and Indira J. Ekanayake

6498: Should Zambia produce biodiesel from soybeans ? some insights from an empirical analysis

Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik and Govinda Timilsina

6497: Expanding social insurance coverage in urban China

John Giles, Dewen Wang and Albert Park

6496: Impact evaluation of conflict prevention and peacebuilding interventions

Marie Gaarder and Jeannie Annan

6495: A resource allocation model for tiger habitat protection

Susmita Dasgupta, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft and David Wheeler

6494: Powering up developing countries through integration ?

Emmanuelle Auriol and Sara Biancini

6493: Regulation, trade and productivity in Romania: an empirical assessment

Donato De Rosa, Mariana Iootty and Ana Florina Pirlea

6492: Technological learning, energy efficiency, and CO2 emissions in China's energy intensive industries

Michael T. Rock, Michael Toman, Yuanshang Cui, Kejun Jiang, Yun Song and Yanjia Wang

6491: The projection of development: cinematic representation as an(other) source of authoritative knowledge ?

David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock

6490: Missing(ness) in action: selectivity bias in GPS-based land area measurements

Talip Kilic, Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto and Sara Savastano

6489: Social spending, distribution, and equality of opportunities: opportunity incidence analysis

Jose Cuesta

6488: Misunderestimating corruption

Aart Kraay, Aart Kraay and Peter Murrell

6487: The decision to invest in child quality over quantity: household size and household investment in education in Vietnam

Hai-Anh Dang and F. Rogers

6486: China: west or east wind -- getting the incentives right

Yanqin Song and Noureddine Berrah

6485: Multidimensional auctions for public energy efficiency projects: evidence from the Japanese ESCO market

Atsushi Iimi

6484: The role of private equity investments in public firms: international evidence

Sandeep Dahiya, Leora Klapper, Harini Parthasarathy and Dorothe Singer

6483: What does MFN trade mean for India and Pakistan ? can MFN be a Panacea ?

Prabir De, Selim Raihan and Ejaz Ghani

6482: Inequality in China: an overview

John Knight