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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 P. Hochard

7100: Oil and civil conflict: can public spending have a mitigation effect ?

Raju Jan 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 K 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 Alejandra Henriquez Gallegos

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

7052: Exploiting externalities to estimate the long-term effects of early childhood deworming

Owen Ozier

7051: A dynamic spatial model of rural-urban transformation with public goods

Dan Biller, Luis Andres and David Cuberes

7050: Local intermediate inputs and the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment

Hiau Looi Kee and Hiau Looi Kee

7049: Reducing trade costs in east Africa: deep regional integration and multilateral action

Edward Balistreri, David Tarr and Hidemichi Yonezawa

7048: Macroinsurance for microenterprises: a randomized experiment in post-revolution Egypt

Matthew Groh and David McKenzie

7047: Voting with their feet ? access to infrastructure and migration in Nepal

Forhad Shilpi, Prem Sangraula and Yue Li

7046: The impact of exogenous shocks on households in the Pacific: a micro-simulation analysis

Caesar B. Cororaton and David S. Knight

7045: Testing weak exogeneity in cointegrated panels

Enrique Moral-Benito and Luis Serven

7044: Who benefits from government health spending and why? a global assessment

Adam Wagstaff, Marcel Bilger, Leander R. Buisman and Caryn Bredenkamp

7043: Updating poverty estimates at frequent intervals in the absence of consumption data: methods and illustration with reference to a middle-income country

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw, Umar Serajuddin, Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw and Umar Serajuddin

7042: A comprehensive review of empirical and modeled HIV incidence trends (1990-2012)

Jessica Taaffe, Nicole Fraser-Hurt, Marelize Gorgens and Pandu Harimurti

7041: How do countries measure, manage, and monitor fiscal risks generated by public-private partnerships? Chile, Peru, South Africa, Turkey

Cigdem Aslan and David Duarte

7040: Estimating the long-run impact of microcredit programs on household income and net worth

Tiemen Woutersen and Shahidur Khandker

7039: Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold

Stephen Knack, Lixin Xu and Ben Zou

7038: Governors and governing institutions: a comparative study of state-business relations in Russia's regions

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Gregory Kisunko

7037: Nash equilibria of games when players'preferences are quasi-transitive

Kaushik Basu and Prasanta K. Pattanaik

7036: Measuring the impact of a change in the price of Cashew received by exporters on farmgate prices and poverty in Guinea-Bissau

Walter Cont and Guido Porto

7035: Dynamics of demand for rainfall index insurance: evidence from a commercial product in India

Daniel Stein

7034: Infrastructure, growth, and inequality: an overview

Cesar Calderon and Luis Serven

7033: Infrastructure gap in South Asia: inequality of access to infrastructure services

Luis Andres, S. A. Dan Biller and Matias Herrera Dappe

7032: Infrastructure gap in South Asia: infrastructure needs, prioritization, and financing

Luis Andres, S. A. Dan Biller and Matias Herrera Dappe

7031: Female labor participation in the Arab world: some evidence from panel data in Morocco

Paolo Verme, Abdoul Gadiry Barry and Jamal Guennouni

7030: Testing the importance of search frictions, matching, and reservation prestige through randomized experiments in Jordan

Matthew Groh, David McKenzie, Nour Shammout and Tara Vishwanath

7029: Benchmarking the financial performance, growth, and outreach of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Robert Cull, Sven Harten, Ippei Nishida and Greta Bull

7028: GLS estimation and empirical bayes prediction for linear mixed models with Heteroskedasticity and sampling weights: a background study for the POVMAP project

Roy van der Weide

7027: Cost-effectiveness measurement in development: accounting for local costs and noisy impacts

David Evans and Anna Popova

7026: Inequality of opportunity among Egyptian children

Lire Ersado and Meltem Aran

7025: Investment climate reforms and job creation in developing countries: what do we know and what should we do ?

Aminur Rahman

7024: Estimating poverty in the absence of consumption data: the case of Liberia

Andrew Dabalen, Errol Graham, Kristen Himelein and Rose Mungai

7023: The reduction of child mortality in the Middle East and North Africa: a success story

Farrukh Iqbal and Youssouf Kiendrebeogo

7022: Agricultural production, dietary diversity, and climate variability

Andrew S. Dillon, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu, Andrew S. Dillon, Kevin Robert Mcgee and Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu

7021: The permanent input hypothesis: the case of textbooks and (no) student learning in Sierra Leone

Shwetlena Sabarwal, David Evans and Anastasia Marshak

7020: Comparable estimates of returns to schooling around the world

Claudio Montenegro and Harry Patrinos

7019: The African financial development and financial inclusion gaps

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

7018: SME finance in Africa

Thorsten Beck and Robert Cull

7017: Corporate governance and bank insolvency risk: international evidence

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

7016: Barriers to the implementation of environmental policies at the local level in China

Genia Kostka

7015: Information is power: experimental evidence on the long-run impact of community based monitoring

Martina Bjorkman Nyqvist, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

7014: Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa: recent plot, household, and community-level evidence

Christopher B. Barrett, Megan Britney Sheahan, Christopher B. Barrett and Megan Britney Sheahan

7013: The impact of credit information sharing reforms on firm financing?

Maria Martinez Peria and Sandeep Singh

7012: School autonomy and accountability in Thailand: a systems approach for assessing policy intent and implementation

Gustavo Arcia, Kevin Macdonald and Harry Patrinos