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7152: Born with a silver spoon: inequality in educational achievement across the world Downloads
Carlos Balcazar, Ambar Narayan and Sailesh Tiwari
7151: More than copper: toward the diversification and stabilization of Zambian exports Downloads
Marius Brülhart, Nora Dihel and Madina Kukenova
7150: From tragedy to renaissance: improving agricultural data for better policies Downloads
Raka Banerjee, Calogero Carletto, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Raka Banerjee, Calogero Carletto and Dean Mitchell Jolliffe
7149: European economic and monetary union sovereign debt markets Downloads
Ahmet Sensoy, Erk Hacihasanoglu and Ahmed Rostom
7148: Facing the hungry tide: climate change, livelihood threats, and household responses in coastal Bangladesh Downloads
Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler
7147: Climate change, groundwater salinization and road maintenance costs in coastal Bangladesh Downloads
Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler
7146: Inequality stagnation in Latin America in the aftermath of the global financial crisis Downloads
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 Downloads
Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara and Michael Woolcock
7144: Export shocks and the volatility of returns to schooling: evidence from twelve Latin American economies Downloads
Daniel Lederman and Diego Rojas
7143: A"Delphi exercise"as a tool in Amazon rainforest valuation Downloads
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 ? Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler
7139: Roads, labor markets, and human capital: evidence from rural Indonesia Downloads
Futoshi Yamauchi
7138: Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in Chinese agriculture Downloads
Xiaobing Wang, Futoshi Yamauchi, Keijiro Otsuka and Jikun Huang
7137: Measuring risk preferences in rural Ethiopia: risk tolerance and exogenous income proxies Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Elena Ianchovichina and Maros Ivanic
7134: How significant is Africa's demographic dividend for its future growth and poverty reduction ? Downloads
Syud Ahmed, Marcio Cruz, Delfin Go, Maryla Maliszewska and Israel Osorio-Rodarte
7133: Sukuk markets: a proposed approach for development Downloads
Ketut Ariadi Kusuma and Anderson Caputo Silva
7132: Transparent government and business regulation:"open for business?" Downloads
Carolin Geginat and Valentina Saltane
7131: Local foundations for better governance: A Review of Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao's Localizing Development Downloads
Roger Myerson
7130: Incomplete integration and contagion of debt distress in economic unions Downloads
Cem Karayalcin and Harun Onder
7129: Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality Downloads
Philip Keefer and Branko Milanovic
7128: Motivations, monitoring technologies, and pay for performance Downloads
Antonio Cordella and Tito Cordella
7127: Education attainment in the Middle East and North Africa: success at a cost Downloads
Farrukh Iqbal and Youssouf Kiendrebeogo
7126: Climate change and poverty -- an analytical framework Downloads
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 Downloads
Massimiliano Calì and Alen Mulabdic
7124: Place and child health: the interaction of population density and sanitation in developing countries Downloads
Payal Hathi, Sabrina Haque, Lovey Pant, Diane Coffey and Dean Spears
7123: Developing social-emotional skills for the labor market: the PRACTICE model Downloads
Nancy Guerra, Kathryn Modecki and Wendy Cunningham
7122: Structural reforms and labor market outcomes: international panel data evidence Downloads
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 Downloads
Nicholas Lawson and Dean Spears
7120: Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters Downloads
Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman and Pieter Serneels
7119: Importing high food prices by exporting: rice prices in Lao PDR Downloads
Dick Durevall and Roy van der Weide
7118: The creative wealth of nations: how the performing arts can advance development and human progress Downloads
Patrick Kabanda
7117: Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: an updated view with formal tests for market failure Downloads
Christopher B. Barrett, Brian Dillon, Christopher B. Barrett and Brian Dillon
7116: Agricultural intensification: the status in six African countries Downloads
Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Sara Savastano
7115: Long-run growth in Ghana: determinants and prospects Downloads
Santiago Herrera and Dilek Aykut
7114: Milking the data: measuring income from milk production in extensive livestock systems -- experimental evidence from Niger Downloads
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 Downloads
Tito Cordella and Poonam Gupta
7112: Housing consumption and urbanization Downloads
Nancy Lozano-Gracia and Cheryl Young
7111: Does livestock ownership affect animal source foods consumption and child nutritional status ? evidence from rural Uganda Downloads
Carlo Azzarri, Elizabeth Cross, Beliyou Haile, Alberto Zezza, Carlo Azzarri, Elizabeth Cross, Beliyou Haile and Alberto Zezza
7110: Urbanization and housing investment Downloads
Basab Dasgupta, Somik Lall and Nancy Lozano-Gracia
7109: The economic effects of a borrower bailout: evidence from an emerging market Downloads
Xavier Gine and Martin Kanz
7108: Income diversification patterns in rural Sub-Saharan Africa: reassessing the evidence Downloads
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 Downloads
Zia Qureshi, Jose Luis Diaz-Sanchez and Aristomene Varoudakis
7106: Twinning the goals: how can promoting shared prosperity help to reduce global poverty ? Downloads
Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre Rossignoli, Espen Beer Prydz, Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre Rossignoli and Espen Beer Prydz
7105: Durable goods and poverty measurement Downloads
Nicola Amendola and Giovanni Vecchi
7104: Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth: is there a middle income trap ? Downloads
David Bulman, Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen
7103: Rent imputation for welfare measurement: a review of methodologies and empirical findings Downloads
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 ? Downloads
Virginia Horscroft
7101: Poverty and the spatial distribution of rural population Downloads
Edward Barbier and Jacob Hochard
7100: Oil and civil conflict: can public spending have a mitigation effect ? Downloads
Raju Singh, Cristina Bodea and Masaaki Higashijima
7099: Rewarding safer sex: conditional cash transfers for HIV/STI prevention Downloads
Damien de Walque, William Dow and Rose Nathan
7098: Success in difficult environments: a portfolio analysis of fragile and conflict-affected states Downloads
Laura Ralston
7097: Should income inequality be reduced and who should benefit ? redistributive preferences in Europe and Central Asia Downloads
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 Downloads
Yaghoob Jafari and David Tarr
7095: The gendered labor market impacts of trade liberalization: evidence from Brazil Downloads
Isis Gaddis and Janneke Pieters
7094: The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment Downloads
Michael Toman
7093: Can agricultural households farm their way out of poverty ? Downloads
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 ? Downloads
Augusto Lopez-Claros and Valeria Perotti
7091: Protected areas and deforestation: new results from high resolution panel data Downloads
Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler
7090: The impact of household food consumption data collection methods on poverty and inequality measures in Niger Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
William Baghdassarian, Gianluca Mele and Juan Pradelli
7087: Promoting women's economic empowerment: what works ? Downloads
Mayra Buvinic and Rebecca Furst-Nichols
7086: Inheritance law reform, empowerment, and human capital accumulation: second-generation effects from India Downloads
Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia, Songqing Jin and Hari Nagarajan
7085: Does land fragmentation increase the cost of cultivation ? evidence from India Downloads
Klaus Deininger, Daniel Monchuk, Hari Nagarajan and Sudhir Singh
7084: Strengthening public financial management: exploring drivers and effects Downloads
Verena Fritz, Stephanie Sweet and Marijn Verhoeven
7083: Dropout in upper secondary education in Mexico: patterns, consequences and possible causes Downloads
Raja Bentaouet Kattan and Miguel Szekely
7082: Informing migration policies: a data primer Downloads
Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison, Caglar Ozden, Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison and Caglar Ozden
7081: Weather shocks and health at birth in Colombia Downloads
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 Downloads
John Giles and Ren Mu
7079: Trafficking and fragility in West Africa Downloads
Laura Ralston
7078: Job creation in fragile and conflict-affected situations Downloads
Laura Ralston
7077: Can conditional cash transfers improve education and nutrition outcomes for poor children in Bangladesh ? evidence from a pilot project Downloads
Celine Ferre and Iffath Sharif
7076: Does mandating nondiscrimination in hiring practices influence women's employment ? evidence using firm-level data Downloads
Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam
7075: Pathways toward zero-carbon electricity required for climate stabilization Downloads
Richard Audoly, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Céline Guivarch
7074: Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance of newborn firms in developing countries Downloads
Francesco Quatraro and Marco Vivarelli
7073: CGE analysis of the impact of foreign direct investment and tariff reform on female and male wages Downloads
María Latorre
7072: Diet quality, child health, and food policies in developing countries Downloads
Alok Bhargava
7071: From tapering to tightening: the impact of the fed's exit on India Downloads
Kaushik Basu, Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta
7070: Interest rate caps around the world: still popular, but a blunt instrument Downloads
Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Claudia Henriquez
7069: The second wave of independence: shopping for solutions Downloads
Marie M. Gaarder and Ulrich Bartsch
7068: Which firms create the most jobs in developing countries ? evidence from Tunisia Downloads
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 Downloads
Vincent Viguié and Stephane Hallegatte
7066: Non-farm enterprises in rural Africa: new empirical evidence Downloads
Paula Nagler, Wim Naude, Paula Nagler and Wim Naude
7065: The effects of financial development on foreign direct investment Downloads
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 Downloads
Suresh de Mel, Dammika Herath, David McKenzie and Yuvraj Pathak
7063: Credit conditions and foreign direct investment during the global financial crisis Downloads
Rodolphe Desbordes and Shang-Jin Wei
7062: Performance of renewable energy auctions: experience in Brazil, China and India Downloads
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 ? Downloads
Jaime de Melo and Mariana Vijil
7060: Green subsidies and the WTO Downloads
Steve Charnovitz
7059: Agricultural policies and trade paths in Turkey Downloads
Donald Larson, Will Martin, Sebnem Sahin and Marino Tsigas
7058: Measuring agricultural knowledge and adoption Downloads
Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller and Siyao Jessica Zhu
7057: Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration Downloads
David McKenzie and Dean Yang
7056: Agricultural productivity, hired labor, wages and poverty: evidence from Bangladesh Downloads
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
7055: Spatial dynamics of electricity usage in India Downloads
Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr
7054: Water quality, brawn, and education: the rural drinking water program in China Downloads
Lixin Xu and Jing Zhang
7053: Foreign bank subsidiaries'default risk during the global crisis: what factors help insulate affiliates from their parents ? Downloads
Deniz Anginer, Eugenio Cerutti and Maria Martinez Peria
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