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4596: Windfall management for poverty reduction: improving public finance Management-the case of Chad

Achille Toto Same

4595: Mineral-rich countries and dutch disease: understanding the macroeconomic implications of windfalls and the development prospects-the case of Equatorial Guinea

Achille Toto Same

4594: Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries

Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

4593: Medical migration: what can we learn from the UK's perspective ?

Martine Rutten

4592: Assessing the redistributive effect of fiscal policy

B. Essama-Nssah

4591: Earnings inequality within and across gender, racial, and ethnic groups in four Latin American Countries

Wendy Cunningham and Joyce Jacobsen

4590: Infrastructure and development: a critical appraisal of the macro level literature

Stephane Straub

4589: Infrastructure and economic growth in East Asia

Stephane Straub, Charles Vellutini and Michael Warlters

4588: An evaluation of the initial impact of the medical assistance program for the poor in Georgia

Xiaohui Hou and Shiyan Chao

4587: Health reform, population policy and child nutritional status in China

Caryn Bredenkamp

4586: Determinants of remittances: recent evidence using data on internal migrants in Vietnam

Yoko Niimi, Hung Pham and Barry Reilly

4585: Migrant labor markets and the welfare of rural households in the developing world: evidence from China

Alan de Brauw and John Giles

4584: Pitfalls of participatory programs: evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Stuti Khemani

4583: The demographic, economic and financial determinants of international remittances in developing countries

Richard Adams

4582: Technology trap and poverty trap in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hippolyte Fofack

4581: Effects of improving infrastructure quality on business costs: evidence from firm-level data

Atsushi Iimi

4580: Conditional cash transfers in education: design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Marianne Bertrand, Leigh Linden and Francisco Perez-Calle

4579: The effectiveness of boards of directors of state owned enterprises in developing countries

Maria Vagliasindi

4578: Insurers: too many, too few, or"just right"? initial observations on a cross-country dataset of concentration and competition measures

Craig Thorburn

4577: Nonfarm microenterprise performance and the investment climate: evidence from rural Ethiopia

Josef Loening, Bob Rijkers and Mans Soderbom

4576: Human capital and the changing structure of the Indian economy

Mohammad Amin and Aaditya Mattoo

4575: Domestic constraints, firm characteristics, and geographical diversification of firm-level manufacturing exports in Africa

Yutaka Yoshino

4574: Labor markets in rural and urban Haiti--based on the first household survey for Haiti

Dorte Verner

4573: Linking African smallholders to high-value markets: practitioner perspectives on benefits, constraints, and interventions

Spencer Henson, Steven Jaffee, John Cranfield, Jose Blandon and Paul Siegel

4572: Partial peace rebel groups inside and outside civil war settlements

Desiree Nilsson

4571: Making poor Haitians count--poverty in rural and urban Haiti based on the first household survey for Haiti

Dorte Verner

4570: Regional household and poverty effects of Russia's accession to the world trade organization

Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

4569: Financing lifelong learning

Hessel Oosterbeek and Harry Patrinos

4568: Can cost-benefit analysis guide education policy in developing countries ?

Emmanuel Jimenez and Harry Patrinos

4567: The dynamics of ownership of durable goods in Bulgaria: from economic crisis to EU membership

Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Lire Ersado

4566: Reading tealeaves on the potential impact of the privatization of tea estates in Rwanda

B. Essama-Nssah, Kene Ezemenari and Vijdan Korman

4565: Evo, Pablo, Tony, Diego, and Sonny - general equilibrium analysis of the illegal drugs market

Romulo Chumacero

4564: Can production and trafficking of illicit drugs be reduced or merely shifted ?

Peter Reuter

4563: A general equilibrium analysis of demand side management programs under the clean development mechanism of the kyoto protocol

Govinda Timilsina

4562: Social exclusion and the gender gap in education

Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed

4561: Burley tobacco clubs in Malawi: nonmarket institutions for exports

Mariano Negri and Guido Porto

4560: Trade remedies and non-market economies: economic implications of the first US countervailing duty case on China

Longyue Zhao and Yan Wang

4559: Expanding taxable capacity and reaching revenue potential: cross-country analysis

Tuan Minh Le, Blanca Moreno-Dodson and Jeep Rojchaichaninthorn

4558: Improving logistics costs for transportation and trade facilitation

Julio A. Gonzalez, Jose Luis Guasch and Tomas Serebrisky

4557: Helpful Governments

Mohammad Amin

4556: Economics of irrigation water management: a literature survey with focus on partial and general equilibrium models

Hasan Dudu and Sinqobile Chumi

4555: Informal payments and moonlighting in Tajikistan's health sector

Andrew Dabalen and Waly Wane

4554: Measuring financial protection in health

Adam Wagstaff

4553: The historical foundations of the narcotic drug control regime

Julia Buxton

4552: Productivity growth and economic reform: evidence from Rwanda

Kalamogo Coulibaly, Kene Ezemenari and Neal Duffy

4551: Avian influenza and the poultry trade

Alessandro Nicita

4550: Heterogeneous quality firms and trade costs

Matthias Helble and Toshihiro Okubo

4549: Managing the radio spectrum: framework for reform in developing countries

Bjorn Wellenius and Isabel Neto

4548: Youth risk-taking behavior in Brazil: drug use and teenage pregnancy

Ana Rute Cardoso and Dorte Verner

4547: Evaluation in the practice of development

Martin Ravallion

4546: Integration of markets vs. integration by agreements

Nathalie Aminian, K.C. Fung and Francis Ng

4545: Responding to Afghanistan's Opium economy challenge: lessons and policy implications from a development perspective

William A. Byrd

4544: Modeling services liberalization: the case of Kenya

Edward Balistreri, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

4543: The development impact of the illegality of drug trade

Philip Keefer, Norman Loayza and Rodrigo Soares

4542: Governance arrangements for state owned enterprises

Maria Vagliasindi

4541: The fiscal impact of foreign aid in Rwanda: a theoretical and empirical analysis

Kene Ezemenari, Ephraim Kebede and Sajal Lahiri

4540: Risk-based supervision of pension institutions in Denmark

Rein van Dam and Erik Brink Andersen

4539: Risk-based supervision of pension funds in Australia

Graeme Thompson

4538: License to sell: the effect of business registration reform on entrepreneurial activity in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn

4537: Preferential liberalization and its economy-wide effects in Honduras

Denis Medvedev

4536: Heterogeneous technology and panel data: the case of the agricultural production function

Yair Mundlak, Rita Butzer and Donald Larson

4535: Isolation and subjective welfare: evidence from South Asia

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

4534: The extent of the market and stages of agricultural specialization

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

4533: Valuing access to water - a spatial hedonic approach applied to Indian cities

Luc Anselin, Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Uwe Deichmann and Somik Lall

4532: Fiscal policy for growth and development in Tajikistan

Martin Brownbridge and R. Sudharshan Canagarajah

4531: Lessons from China for Africa

David Dollar

4530: How to interpret the growing phenomenon of private tutoring: human capital deepening, inequality increasing, or waste of resources ?

Hai-Anh Dang and F. Rogers

4529: Attitudes to equality: the"socialist legacy"revisited

Mamta Murthi and Erwin R. Tiongson

4528: Does poverty research in Russia follow the scientific method?

Michael Lokshin

4527: An empirical analysis of Mexican merger policy

Marcos Ávalos Bracho and Rafael De Hoyos

4526: Migrant opportunity and the educational attainment of youth in rural China

John Giles and Alan de Brauw

4525: Credit chains and sectoral comovemen t: does the use of trade credit amplify sectoral shocks ?

Claudio Raddatz

4524: The effectiveness of policies to control a human influenza pandemic: a literature review

Arin Dutta

4523: Achieving accelerated and shared growth in Ghana: a MAMS-based analysis of costs and opportunities

Zeljko Bogetic, Maurizio Bussolo and Denis Medvedev

4522: The effects of local environmental institutions on perceptions of smoke and fire problems in Brazil

Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff and Kenneth M. Chomitz

4521: How does Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization change the spatial incidence of poverty?

Tomoki Fujii and David Roland-Holst

4520: Exiting a lawless state

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

4519: Is Africa's economy at a turning point?

Jorge Arbache, Delfin Go and John Page

4518: Chile: a strategy to promote innovative small and medium enterprises

Mike Goldberg and Eric Palladini

4517: Accessibility and affordability of tertiary education in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru within a global context

Yuki Murakami and Andreas Blom

4516: Determinants of a digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial econometric analysis of cell phone coverage

Piet Buys, Susmita Dasgupta, Tim Thomas and David Wheeler

4515: Remittances, consumption and investment in Ghana

Richard Adams, Alfredo Cuecuecha and John Page

4514: Competition and demographics

Mohammad Amin

4513: Brazil within Brazil: testing the poverty map methodology in Minas Gerais

Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw and Phillippe George Leite

4512: Does participation in productive associations signal trust and creditworthiness ? evidence for Nicaragua

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Ezequiel Molina

4511: Madrasas and NGOs: complements or substitutes ? non-state providers and growth in female education in Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

4510: Poisoning the mind: arsenic contamination and cognitive achievement of children

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

4509: Regulatory agencies: impact on firm performance and social welfare

Antonio Estache and Martín Rossi

4508: Social interactions and student achievement in a developing country: An instrumental variables approach

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

4507: Agency, education and networks: gender and international migration from Albania

Guy Stecklov, Calogero Carletto, Carlo Azzarri and Benjamin Davis

4506: Measuring the performance and achievement of social objectives of development finance institutions

Manuela Francisco, Yira Mascaro, Juan Carlos Mendoza and Jacob Yaron

4505: A short note on the ATP fund of Denmark

Dimitri Vittas

4504: Inequality in Latin America: determinants and consequences

Humberto Lopez and Guillermo Perry

4503: Decentralization and the provision of public services: framework and implementation

Aehyung Kim

4502: Does Hepatitis B infection or son preference explain the bulk of gender imbalance in China ?: a review of the evidence

Monica Das Gupta

4501: The quality of medical advice in low-income countries

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer and Kenneth Leonard

4500: Health and civil war in rural Burundi

Tom Bundervoet, Philip Verwimp and Richard Akresh

4499: Upgrading the investment policy framework of public pension funds

Dimitri Vittas, Gregorio Impavido and O'Connor, Ronan

4498: Quantifying institutional impacts and development synergies in water resource programs: a methodology with application to the Kala Oya basin, Sri Lanka

R. Maria Saleth and Ariel Dinar

4497: How sensitive are Latin American exports to Chinese competition in the U.S. market ?

José López-Córdova, Alejandro Micco and Danielken Molina