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8324: Why are more sovereigns issuing in Euros? Choosing between USD and EUR-denominated bonds

Antonio Velandia-Rubiano and Rodrigo Silveira Veiga Cabral

8323: The impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on firm entry and performance in Turkey

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Marcel van den Berg and Wolter Hassink

8322: Relationship between energy intensity and economic growth: new evidence from a multi-country multi-sector data set

Uwe Deichmann, Anna Reuter, Sebastian Vollmer and Fan Zhang

8321: Using satellite imagery to assess impacts of soil and water conservation measures: evidence from Ethiopia's Tana-Beles Watershed

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Daniel C. Monchuk

8320: Optimizing finance for development

Tito Cordella

8319: Regional carbon pricing for international maritime transport: challenges and opportunities for global geographical coverage

Goran Dominioni, Dirk Heine and Beatriz Martinez Romera

8318: Broadband internet, labor demand, and total factor productivity in Colombia

Carlos Ospino

8317: The making of behavioral development economics

Allison Davis Demeritt and Karla Hoff

8316: Cyclonic storm landfalls in Bangladesh, west Bengal and Odisha, 1877-2016: a spatiotemporal analysis

Sunando Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Dasgupta, Zahirul Huque Khan and David J. Wheeler

8315: Financial sector strategies and financial sector outcomes: do the strategies perform?

Martin Melecký and Anca Maria Podpiera

8314: Global data set on education quality (1965-2015)

Nadir Altinok, Noam Angrist and Harry Patrinos

8313: The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes: evidence from rural Pakistan

Xavier Gine, Salma Khalid and Ghazala Mansuri

8312: Lessons from reforming financial management information systems: a review of the evidence

Ali Hashim and Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen

8311: The changing way governments talk about poverty and inequality: evidence from two centuries of Latin American presidential speeches

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Axel Eizmendi and German Jeremias Reyes

8310: Winners never quit, quitters never grow: using text mining to measure policy volatility and its link with long-term growth in Latin America

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez and Axel Eizmendi

8309: A primer on human capital

Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti

8308: Structural reforms and firms'productivity: evidence from developing countries

Sampawende Tapsoba and Wilfried Kouamé

8307: Female migration in Lesotho: determinants and opportunities

Ioana Alexandra Botea, Nell Compernolle and Shubha Chakravarty

8306: Marital shocks and women's welfare in Africa

Dominique van de Walle and Marie Albertine Djuikom

8305: Impact of phone reminders on survey response rates: evidence from a web-based survey in an international organization

Lode Smets

8304: Simulating pension income scenarios with penCalc: an illustration for India's national pension system

William Joseph Price and Renuka Sane

8303: What Explains the Gender Gap Reversal in Educational Attainment ?

Laurent Bossavie and Ohto Kanninen

8302: Transport corridors and their wider economic benefits: a critical review of the literature

Mark Roberts, Martin Melecký, Theophile Bougna and Yan-000462055 Xu

8301: Insecurity and industrial organization: evidence from Afghanistan

Ott Toomet, Joshua Blumenstock, Thomas Scherer, Sylvan Rene Herskowitz, Tarek F. Ghani and Ethan B. Kapstein

8300: Cross-border spillover effects of the g20 financial regulatory reforms: results from a pilot survey

Clive Briault, Erik H.B. Feyen, Ines Gonzalez Del Mazo, Jan Rademacher, Brian Kwok Chung Yee and Ilias Skamnelos

8299: Can we measure the power of the grabbing hand?: a comparative analysis of different indicators of corruption

Alexander James Hamilton and Craig Hammer

8296: Using gross trade data to map archetypal GVCs

Michael Joseph Ferrantino and Gabriela Schmidt

8295: Can mothers afford to work in Poland: labor supply incentives of social benefits and childcare costs

Matteo Morgandi and Ali Bargu

8290: Preschool and child development under extreme poverty: evidence from a randomized experiment in rural Mozambique

Sebastian Martinez, Sophie Naudeau and Vitor Azevedo Pereira

8289: How (not) to fix problems that matter: assessing and responding to Malawi's history of institutional reform

Katherine Bridges and Michael Woolcock

8288: State ownership of financial institutions in Europe and Central Asia

Aurora Ferrari, Davide Salvatore Mare and Ilias Skamnelos

8287: Cost recovery and financial viability of the power sector in developing countries: a literature review

Joern Torsten Huenteler, Istvan Dobozi, Ani Balabanyan, Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Joern Torsten Huenteler, Istvan Dobozi, Ani Balabanyan and Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee

8286: Are international banks different? evidence on bank performance and strategy

Ata Bertay, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

8285: Public infrastructure and structural transformation

Fidel Perez Sebastian and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

8284: Poverty from space: using high-resolution satellite imagery for estimating economic well-being

Ryan Engstrom, Jonathan Samuel Hersh, David Locke Newhouse, Ryan Engstrom, Jonathan Samuel Hersh and David Locke Newhouse

8283: Increasing the sustainability of rural water service: findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in Nicaragua

Christian Borja-Vega, Joshua Sean Gruber and Alexander Matthew Spevack

8282: Data gaps, data incomparability, and data imputation: a review of poverty measurement methods for data-scarce environments

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Calogero Carletto, Hai-Anh H. Dang, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe and Calogero Carletto

8281: Business environment and firm performance in European lagging regions

Thomas Farole, Issam Hallak, Peter Harasztosi, Shawn Weiming Tan, Thomas Farole, Issam Hallak, Peter Harasztosi and Shawn Weiming Tan

8280: Quasi-fiscal deficits in the electricity sector of the Middle East and North Africa: sources and size

Daniel Camos, Antonio Estache and Mohamad M. Hamid

8279: The profits of wisdom: the impacts of a business support program in Tanzania

Elena Bardasi, Marine Gassier, Markus Goldstein and Alaka Holla

8278: Mobile infrastructure and rural business enterprises: evidence from sim registration mandate in Niger

Francis Annan and Aly Sanoh

8277: The global costs of protectionism

Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova and Csilla Lakatos

8276: Are psychometric tools a viable screening method for small and medium-size enterprise lending ? evidence from Peru

Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn, Claudia Ruiz Ortega, Rodolfo Mario Stucchi, Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn, Claudia Ruiz Ortega and Rodolfo Mario Stucchi

8275: The impact of hurricane strikes on short-term local economic activity: evidence from nightlight images in the Dominican Republic

Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Eric Strobl

8274: How do multinationals report their economic, social, and environmental impacts? evidence from global reporting initiative data

Deborah Winkler

8273: Building macro SAMs from cross-country databases: method and matrices for 133 countries

Martin Cicowiez, Hans Lofgren, Martin Cicowiez and Hans Lofgren

8272: A GEM for streamlined dynamic CGE analysis: structure, interface, data, and macro application

Martin Cicowiez, Hans Lofgren, Martin Cicowiez and Hans Lofgren

8271: Man vs. machine in predicting successful entrepreneurs: evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria

David J. Mckenzie, Dario Sansone, David J. Mckenzie and Dario Sansone

8270: Mission and the bottom line: performance incentives in a multi-goal organization

Xavier Gine, Ghazala Mansuri and Slesh Anand Shrestha

8269: Appraisal econometrics for proposed transport corridors: optimal placement, intervention design, and wider economic benefits

Martin Melecký

8268: Capital and labor: the factor income composition of top incomes in the United States, 1962-2006

Anthony B. Atkinson, Christoph Lakner, Anthony B. Atkinson and Christoph Lakner

8267: The whys of social exclusion: insights from behavioral economics

Karla Hoff and James Sonam Walsh

8266: The value of reference letters

Simon Martin Abel, Rulof Burger and Patrizio Piraino

8265: Change management that works: making impacts in challenging environments

Caroline Sian Hughes, Sokbunthoeun So, Erwin Ariadharma and Leah April

8264: Double for nothing ? experimental evidence on an unconditional teacher salary increase in Indonesia

Joppe de Ree, Karthik Muralidharan, Menno Prasad Pradhan and Frederic Rogers

8263: Association of World Bank policy lending with social development policies and institutions

Zeljko Bogetic and Lodewijk Smets

8262: The internet and Chinese exports in the pre-Alibaba era

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Aaditya Mattoo, Huy Quang-000532070 Nguyen, Marc Tobias Schiffbauer, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Aaditya Mattoo, Huy Quang-000532070 Nguyen and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer

8261: Teaching with the test: experimental evidence on diagnostic feedback and capacity building for public schools in Argentina

Rafael De Hoyos, Alejandro Ganimian and Peter Anthony Holland

8260: Macroeconomic implications of financial imperfections: a survey

Stijn Claessens and Ayhan Kose

8259: Asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes: a survey

Stijn Claessens and Ayhan Kose

8258: A regime-based effect of fiscal policy: evidence from an emerging economy

Bechir Naier Bouzid

8257: Economic growth, convergence, and world food demand and supply

Emiko Fukase and Will Martin

8256: Insuring well-being ? buyer's remorse and peace of mind effects from insurance

Kibrom Tafere, Christopher Barrett, Erin Lentz and Birhanu T. Ayana

8255: The impacts of safety nets in Africa: what are we learning ?

Laura R. Ralston, Colin Andrews, Allan Jer-Yu Hsiao, Laura R. Ralston, Colin Andrews and Allan Jer-Yu Hsiao

8254: The effect of height on earnings: is stature just a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ?

Laurent Bossavie, Harold Alderman, John Giles and Cem Mete

8253: Moving teachers to Malawi's remote communities: a data-driven approach to teacher deployment

Salman Asim, Joseph P. G. Chimombo, Dmitry Chugunov and Ravinder Casley Gera

8252: Microfinance and economic development

Robert Cull and Jonathan Morduch

8251: Mangroves as protection from storm surges in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Saiful Islam, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huque Khan and Md. Raqubul Hasib

8250: Gender and property rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of constraints and effective interventions

Michael O'Sullivan

8249: Glass barriers: constraints to women's small-scale cross-border trade in Cambodia and Lao PDR

Marlon Armand Remy Seror, Richard Record and Julian Latimer Clarke

8248: Polarization, foreign military intervention, and civil conflict

Suleiman Abu Bader and Elena Ianchovichina

8247: Putting your money where your mouth is: geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent

Hannes Ohler, Mario Negre, Lodewijk Smets, Renzo Massari and Zeljko Bogetic

8246: The impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Zambia

Alejandro De La Fuente, Manuel Rosales and Jon Robbert Jellema

8245: Gender and youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of constraints and effective interventions

Shubha Chakravarty, Smita Das and Julia Vaillant

8244: Internal borders and migration in India

Zovanga Louis Kone, Maggie Y. Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Caglar Ozden, Siddharth Sharma, Zovanga Louis Kone, Maggie Y. Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Caglar Ozden and Siddharth Sharma

8243: FDI spillovers and high-growth firms in developing countries

José-Daniel Reyes

8242: Women's entrepreneurship: how to measure the gap between new female and male entrepreneurs?

Frederic Meunier, Yulia Krylova and Rita Ramalho

8241: SME finance

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

8240: Korea's growth experience and long-term growth model

Hyeok Jeong

8239: Gender and enterprise development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of constraints and effective interventions

Francisco Campos and Marine Gassier

8238: Learning the impact of financial education when take-up is low

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, David McKenzie and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

8237: Financial development, growth, and crisis: is there a trade-off ?

Norman Loayza, Amine Ouazad and Romain Ranciere

8236: Small firm death in developing countries

David J. Mckenzie, Anna Luisa Paffhausen, David J. Mckenzie and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

8235: Charting the diffusion of power sector reforms across the developing world

Vivien Foster, Samantha Helen Witte, Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Alejandro Vega Moreno, Vivien Foster, Samantha Helen Witte, Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee and Alejandro Vega Moreno

8234: Public procurement regulation and road quality

Simeon Djankov, Tania Ghossein, Asif Islam and Federica Saliola

8233: Labor adjustment costs across sectors and regions

Marcio Cruz, Emmanuel Milet and Marcelo Olarreaga

8232: The impact of large-scale migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal

Maheshwor Shrestha

8231: How much oil is the Islamic state group producing ? evidence from remote sensing

Quy-Toan Do, Jacob N. Shapiro, Christopher D. Elvidge, Mohamed Abdel Jelil, Daniel P. Ahn, Kimberly Baugh, Jamie Nicole Hansen-Lewis and Mikhail Zhizhin

8230: Marital trajectories and women's well-being in Senegal

Sylvie Lambert, Dominique van de Walle and Paola Villar

8229: What are the effects of expanding a social pension program on extreme poverty and labor supply ? evidence from Mexico's pension program for the elderly

Clemente Avila Parra and David Ricardo Escamilla Guerrero

8228: Productivity and health: alternative productivity estimates using physical activity

Oladele B Akogun, Andrew S. Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann, Pieter Maria Serneels, Oladele B Akogun, Andrew S. Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann and Pieter Maria Serneels

8227: Regressive or progressive ? the effect of tobacco taxes in Ukraine

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Francisco Jalles Meneses

8226: Roads and the geography of economic activities in Mexico

Brian Blankespoor, Theophile Bougna, Rafael Garduño Rivera and Harris Selod

8225: Prospects of estimating poverty with phone surveys: experimental results from Serbia

Vladan Boznic, Roy Shuji Katayama, Rodrigo Munoz, Shinya Takamatsu and Nobuo Yoshida

8224: Political economy of reform

Stuti Khemani

8223: Introducing a performance-based school grant in Jakarta: what do we know about its impact after two years ?

Samer Al-Samarrai, Unika Shrestha, Amer Hasan, Nozomi Nakajima, Santoso Santoso and Wisnu Harto Adi Wijoyo

8222: Corporate debt maturity in developing countries: sources of long- and short-termism

Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Tatiana Didier Brandao, Sergio L. Schmukler, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Tatiana Didier Brandao and Sergio L. Schmukler

8221: Labor policy and digital technology use: indicative evidence from cross-country correlations

Truman G. Packard and Claudio Montenegro

8220: Who escaped poverty and who was left behind ? a non-parametric approach to explore welfare dynamics using cross-sections

Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti and Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti

8219: Revisiting the national innovation system in developing countries

William Maloney