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- 7596: Mangroves as protection from storm surges in a changing climate

- Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Glenn-Marie-000351319 Lange
- 7595: Welfare dynamics with synthetic panels: the case of the Arab world in transition

- Hai-Anh H. Dang, Elena Ianchovichina, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Elena Ianchovichina
- 7594: Assessment of net mitigation in the context of international greenhouse gas emissions control mechanisms

- Jon Strand
- 7593: Impact of climate change and aquatic salinization on fish habitats and poor communities in southwest coastal Bangladesh and Bangladesh Sundarbans

- Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Md. Golam Mustafa, Md Istiak Sobhan and David R. Wheeler
- 7592: Can electronic tax invoicing improve tax compliance ? a case study of the Republic of Korea's electronic tax invoicing for value-added tax

- Hyung Chul Lee
- 7591: Learning or leaning: persistent and transitory growth spillovers from FDI

- Ronald Davies, Michael Lamla and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer
- 7590: Globalization of labor markets and the growth prospects of nations

- Kaushik Basu
- 7589: What explains agricultural price movements ?

- John Baffes and Tassos Haniotis
- 7588: Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies ? evidence from firm data

- Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam and Alena Sakhonchik
- 7587: Vietnam's labor market institutions, regulations, and interventions: helping people grasp work opportunities in a risky world

- Achim Schmillen and Truman G. Packard
- 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 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 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 Frederic Rogers
- 7547: A detailed anatomy of factor misallocation in India

- Gilles Duranton, Syed Ejaz Ghani, Arti Goswami Grover, William Robert Kerr, Gilles Duranton, Syed Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William Robert 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, Jonathan Kaminski, 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

- Thomas (Tim) 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, Christopher L. Gilbert, 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
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