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- 7152: Born with a silver spoon: inequality in educational achievement across the world

- Carlos Balcazar, Ambar Narayan and Sailesh Tiwari
- 7151: More than copper: toward the diversification and stabilization of Zambian exports

- Marius Brülhart, Nora Dihel and Madina Kukenova
- 7150: From tragedy to renaissance: improving agricultural data for better policies

- Raka Banerjee, Calogero Carletto, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Raka Banerjee, Calogero Carletto and Dean Mitchell Jolliffe
- 7149: European economic and monetary union sovereign debt markets

- Ahmet Sensoy, Erk Hacihasanoglu and Ahmed Rostom
- 7148: Facing the hungry tide: climate change, livelihood threats, and household responses in coastal Bangladesh

- Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler
- 7147: Climate change, groundwater salinization and road maintenance costs in coastal Bangladesh

- Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler
- 7146: Inequality stagnation in Latin America in the aftermath of the global financial crisis

- Louise Cord, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas, Leonardo Lucchetti, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Liliana Sousa and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez
- 7145: Integrating qualitative methods into investment climate impact evaluations

- Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara and Michael Woolcock
- 7144: Export shocks and the volatility of returns to schooling: evidence from twelve Latin American economies

- Daniel Lederman and Diego Rojas
- 7143: A"Delphi exercise"as a tool in Amazon rainforest valuation

- Jeffrey R. Vincent, Richard T. Carson, Stale Navrud, Ariel Ortiz Bobea, Jon Strand, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Richard T. Carson, Stale Navrud, Ariel Ortiz Bobea and Jon Strand
- 7142: What is the social value of second-generation biofuels ?

- Thomas Hertel, Jevgenijs Steinbuks and Wallace Tyner
- 7141: Who remained in poverty, who moved up, and who fell down ? an investigation of poverty dynamics in Senegal in the late 2000s

- Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw, Robertus A Swinkels, Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw and Robertus A Swinkels
- 7140: Climate change, soil salinity, and the economics of high-yield rice production in coastal Bangladesh

- Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler
- 7139: Roads, labor markets, and human capital: evidence from rural Indonesia

- Futoshi Yamauchi
- 7138: Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in Chinese agriculture

- Xiaobing Wang, Futoshi Yamauchi, Keijiro Otsuka and Jikun Huang
- 7137: Measuring risk preferences in rural Ethiopia: risk tolerance and exogenous income proxies

- Ferdinand Vieider, Abebe Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Peter Martinsson and Alemu Mekonnen
- 7136: Addressing access and behavioral constraints through social intermediation services: a review of Chile Solidario and Red Unidos

- Adriana Camacho, Wendy Cunningham, Iamele Rigolini and Veronica Silva
- 7135: Economic effects of the Syrian war and the spread of the Islamic state on the Levant

- Elena Ianchovichina and Maros Ivanic
- 7134: How significant is Africa's demographic dividend for its future growth and poverty reduction ?

- Syud Ahmed, Marcio Cruz, Delfin Go, Maryla Maliszewska and Israel Osorio-Rodarte
- 7133: Sukuk markets: a proposed approach for development

- Ketut Ariadi Kusuma and Anderson Caputo Silva
- 7132: Transparent government and business regulation:"open for business?"

- Carolin Geginat and Valentina Saltane
- 7131: Local foundations for better governance: A Review of Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao's Localizing Development

- Roger Myerson
- 7130: Incomplete integration and contagion of debt distress in economic unions

- Cem Karayalcin and Harun Onder
- 7129: Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality

- Philip Keefer and Branko Milanovic
- 7128: Motivations, monitoring technologies, and pay for performance

- Antonio Cordella and Tito Cordella
- 7127: Education attainment in the Middle East and North Africa: success at a cost

- Farrukh Iqbal and Youssouf Kiendrebeogo
- 7126: Climate change and poverty -- an analytical framework

- Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Marianne Fay, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg and Adrien Vogt-Schilb
- 7125: Trade and civil conflict: revisiting the cross-country evidence

- Massimiliano Calì and Alen Mulabdic
- 7124: Place and child health: the interaction of population density and sanitation in developing countries

- Payal Hathi, Sabrina Haque, Lovey Pant, Diane Coffey and Dean Spears
- 7123: Developing social-emotional skills for the labor market: the PRACTICE model

- Nancy Guerra, Kathryn Modecki and Wendy Cunningham
- 7122: Structural reforms and labor market outcomes: international panel data evidence

- Claire H. Hollweg, Daniel Lederman and Devashish Mitra
- 7121: What doesn't kill you makes you poorer: adult wages and the early-life disease environment in India

- Nicholas Lawson and Dean Spears
- 7120: Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters

- Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman and Pieter Serneels
- 7119: Importing high food prices by exporting: rice prices in Lao PDR

- Dick Durevall and Roy van der Weide
- 7118: The creative wealth of nations: how the performing arts can advance development and human progress

- Patrick Kabanda
- 7117: Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: an updated view with formal tests for market failure

- Christopher B. Barrett, Brian Dillon, Christopher B. Barrett and Brian Dillon
- 7116: Agricultural intensification: the status in six African countries

- Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Sara Savastano
- 7115: Long-run growth in Ghana: determinants and prospects

- Santiago Herrera and Dilek Aykut
- 7114: Milking the data: measuring income from milk production in extensive livestock systems -- experimental evidence from Niger

- Amadou Adamou Kalilou Boulaga, Giovanni Federighi, Pierre Hiernaux, Alberto Zezza, Amadou Adamou Kalilou Boulaga, Giovanni Federighi, Pierre Hiernaux and Alberto Zezza
- 7113: What makes a currency procyclical ? an empirical investigation

- Tito Cordella and Poonam Gupta
- 7112: Housing consumption and urbanization

- Nancy Lozano-Gracia and Cheryl Young
- 7111: Does livestock ownership affect animal source foods consumption and child nutritional status ? evidence from rural Uganda

- Carlo Azzarri, Elizabeth Cross, Beliyou Haile, Alberto Zezza, Carlo Azzarri, Elizabeth Cross, Beliyou Haile and Alberto Zezza
- 7110: Urbanization and housing investment

- Basab Dasgupta, Somik Lall and Nancy Lozano-Gracia
- 7109: The economic effects of a borrower bailout: evidence from an emerging market

- Xavier Gine and Martin Kanz
- 7108: Income diversification patterns in rural Sub-Saharan Africa: reassessing the evidence

- Benjamin K. Davis, Stefania Di Giuseppe, Alberto Zezza, Benjamin K. Davis, Stefania Di Giuseppe and Alberto Zezza
- 7107: The post-crisis growth slowdown in emerging economies and the role of structural reforms

- Zia Qureshi, Jose Luis Diaz-Sanchez and Aristomene Varoudakis
- 7106: Twinning the goals: how can promoting shared prosperity help to reduce global poverty ?

- Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre Rossignoli, Espen Beer Prydz, Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre Rossignoli and Espen Beer Prydz
- 7105: Durable goods and poverty measurement

- Nicola Amendola and Giovanni Vecchi
- 7104: Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth: is there a middle income trap ?

- David Bulman, Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen
- 7103: Rent imputation for welfare measurement: a review of methodologies and empirical findings

- Carlos Balcazar, Lidia Ceriani, Sergio Olivieri and Marco Ranzani
- 7102: Public sectors in the pacific islands: are they'too big'and do they'crowd out'the private sector ?

- Virginia Horscroft
- 7101: Poverty and the spatial distribution of rural population

- Edward Barbier and Jacob Hochard
- 7100: Oil and civil conflict: can public spending have a mitigation effect ?

- Raju Singh, Cristina Bodea and Masaaki Higashijima
- 7099: Rewarding safer sex: conditional cash transfers for HIV/STI prevention

- Damien de Walque, William Dow and Rose Nathan
- 7098: Success in difficult environments: a portfolio analysis of fragile and conflict-affected states

- Laura Ralston
- 7097: Should income inequality be reduced and who should benefit ? redistributive preferences in Europe and Central Asia

- Alexandru Cojocaru and Mame Fatou Diagne
- 7096: Estimates of ad valorem equivalents of barriers against foreign suppliers of services in eleven services sectors and 103 countries

- Yaghoob Jafari and David Tarr
- 7095: The gendered labor market impacts of trade liberalization: evidence from Brazil

- Isis Gaddis and Janneke Pieters
- 7094: The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment

- Michael Toman
- 7093: Can agricultural households farm their way out of poverty ?

- Andrew L. Dabalen, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu, Andrew L. Dabalen, Kevin Robert Mcgee and Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu
- 7092: Does culture matter for development ?

- Augusto Lopez-Claros and Valeria Perotti
- 7091: Protected areas and deforestation: new results from high resolution panel data

- Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler
- 7090: The impact of household food consumption data collection methods on poverty and inequality measures in Niger

- Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna, Ismael Yacoubou Djima, Diane E. Steele, Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna, Ismael Yacoubou Djima and Diane E. Steele
- 7089: Some simple analytics of trade and labor mobility

- Erhan Artuc, Shubham Chaudhuri, John Edward Mclaren, Erhan Artuc, Shubham Chaudhuri and John Edward Mclaren
- 7088: Assessing public debt sustainability in Mauritania with a stochastic framework

- William Baghdassarian, Gianluca Mele and Juan Pradelli
- 7087: Promoting women's economic empowerment: what works ?

- Mayra Buvinic and Rebecca Furst-Nichols
- 7086: Inheritance law reform, empowerment, and human capital accumulation: second-generation effects from India

- Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia, Songqing Jin and Hari Nagarajan
- 7085: Does land fragmentation increase the cost of cultivation ? evidence from India

- Klaus Deininger, Daniel Monchuk, Hari Nagarajan and Sudhir Singh
- 7084: Strengthening public financial management: exploring drivers and effects

- Verena Fritz, Stephanie Sweet and Marijn Verhoeven
- 7083: Dropout in upper secondary education in Mexico: patterns, consequences and possible causes

- Raja Bentaouet Kattan and Miguel Szekely
- 7082: Informing migration policies: a data primer

- Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison, Caglar Ozden, Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison and Caglar Ozden
- 7081: Weather shocks and health at birth in Colombia

- Mabel Andalón, João Pedro Azevedo, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Viviane Sanfelice and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez
- 7080: Village political economy, land tenure insecurity, and the rural to urban migration decision: evidence from China

- John Giles and Ren Mu
- 7079: Trafficking and fragility in West Africa

- Laura Ralston
- 7078: Job creation in fragile and conflict-affected situations

- Laura Ralston
- 7077: Can conditional cash transfers improve education and nutrition outcomes for poor children in Bangladesh ? evidence from a pilot project

- Celine Ferre and Iffath Sharif
- 7076: Does mandating nondiscrimination in hiring practices influence women's employment ? evidence using firm-level data

- Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam
- 7075: Pathways toward zero-carbon electricity required for climate stabilization

- Richard Audoly, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Céline Guivarch
- 7074: Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance of newborn firms in developing countries

- Francesco Quatraro and Marco Vivarelli
- 7073: CGE analysis of the impact of foreign direct investment and tariff reform on female and male wages

- María Latorre
- 7072: Diet quality, child health, and food policies in developing countries

- Alok Bhargava
- 7071: From tapering to tightening: the impact of the fed's exit on India

- Kaushik Basu, Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta
- 7070: Interest rate caps around the world: still popular, but a blunt instrument

- Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Claudia Henriquez
- 7069: The second wave of independence: shopping for solutions

- Marie M. Gaarder and Ulrich Bartsch
- 7068: Which firms create the most jobs in developing countries ? evidence from Tunisia

- Hassen Arouri, Caroline Freund, Antonio Nucifora, Bob Rijkers, Hassen Arouri, Caroline Freund, Antonio Nucifora and Bob Rijkers
- 7067: Urban infrastructure investment and rent-capture potentials

- Vincent Viguié and Stephane Hallegatte
- 7066: Non-farm enterprises in rural Africa: new empirical evidence

- Paula Nagler, Wim Naude, Paula Nagler and Wim Naude
- 7065: The effects of financial development on foreign direct investment

- Rodolphe Desbordes and Shang-Jin Wei
- 7064: Radio frequency (un)identification: results from a proof-of-concept trial of the use of RFID technology to measure microenterprise turnover in Sri Lanka

- Suresh de Mel, Dammika Herath, David McKenzie and Yuvraj Pathak
- 7063: Credit conditions and foreign direct investment during the global financial crisis

- Rodolphe Desbordes and Shang-Jin Wei
- 7062: Performance of renewable energy auctions: experience in Brazil, China and India

- Gabriela Elizondo Azuela, Luiz Barroso, Ashish Khanna, Xiaodong Wang, Yun Wu and Gabriel Cunha
- 7061: The critical mass approach to achieve a deal on green goods and services: what is on the table? how much to expect ?

- Jaime de Melo and Mariana Vijil
- 7060: Green subsidies and the WTO

- Steve Charnovitz
- 7059: Agricultural policies and trade paths in Turkey

- Donald Larson, Will Martin, Sebnem Sahin and Marino Tsigas
- 7058: Measuring agricultural knowledge and adoption

- Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller and Siyao Jessica Zhu
- 7057: Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration

- David McKenzie and Dean Yang
- 7056: Agricultural productivity, hired labor, wages and poverty: evidence from Bangladesh

- M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
- 7055: Spatial dynamics of electricity usage in India

- Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr
- 7054: Water quality, brawn, and education: the rural drinking water program in China

- Lixin Xu and Jing Zhang
- 7053: Foreign bank subsidiaries'default risk during the global crisis: what factors help insulate affiliates from their parents ?

- Deniz Anginer, Eugenio Cerutti and Maria Martinez Peria
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