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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 Servén

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 Servén

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

7011: Short- and long-run impacts of food price changes on poverty

Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

7010: Small business tax policy, informality, and tax evasion -- evidence from Georgia

Miriam Bruhn and Jan Loeprick

7009: The effect of climate and technological uncertainty in crop yields on the optimal path of global land use

Yongyang Cai, Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Joshua Elliott and Thomas Hertel

7008: Does local financial development matter for firm lifecycle in India ?

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

7007: Grain price spikes and beggar-thy-neighbor policy responses: a global economywide analysis

Hans Jensen and Kym Anderson

7006: Poverty impacts of the volume-based special safeguard mechanism

Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

7005: Use of imported inputs and the cost of importing: evidence from developing countries

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

7004: Do export promotion agencies promote new exporters ?

Marcio Cruz

7003: Food prices, road infrastructure, and market integration in Central and Eastern Africa

Paul Brenton, Alberto Portugal-Perez and Julie Regolo

7002: Eradicating poverty in fragile states: prospects of reaching the"high-hanging"fruit by 2030

Alison Burt, Barry Hughes and Gary Milante

7001: Predicting World Bank project outcome ratings

Patricia Geli, Aart Kraay and Hoveida Nobakht

7000: Seeing is believing ? evidence from an extension network experiment

Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller and Siyao Jessica Zhu

6999: Export performance and geography in Croatia

Erhan Artuc, Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias, Ana Florina Pirlea, Erhan Artuc, Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias and Ana Florina Pirlea

6998: Aid is good for the poor

Yumeka Hirano and Shigeru Otsubo

6997: The drivers of non-revenue water: how effective are non-revenue water reduction programs ?

Caroline van den Berg

6996: Egypt: inequality of opportunity in education

Lire Ersado and Jérémie Gignoux

6995: Strategic information revelation and capital allocation

Alvaro Pedraza

6994: Strategic interactions and portfolio choice in money management: evidence from Colombian pension funds

Alvaro Pedraza

6993: Fiscal multipliers in recessions and expansions: does it matter whether government spending is increasing or decreasing ?

Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

6992: Damming the commons: an empirical analysis of international cooperation and conflict in dam location

Sheila M. Olmstead and Hilary Sigman

6991: International remittances and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gemechu Aga and Maria Martinez Peria

6990: Stylized facts on productivity growth: evidence from firm-level data in Croatia

Mariana Iootty, Paulo Correa, Sonja Radas and Bruno Škrinjarić

6989: Capital will not become more expensive as the world ages

Maurizio Bussolo, Jamus Lim, Maryla Maliszewska and Hans Timmer

6988: Can tax simplification help lower tax corruption ?

Rajul Awasthi and Nihal Bayraktar

6987: Integrating border regions: connectivity and competitiveness in South Asia

Massimiliano Calì, Thomas Farole, Charles Kunaka and Swarnim Wagle

6986: Mobile phone coverage and producer markets: evidence from West Africa

Jenny C. Aker and Marcel Fafchamps

6985: Optimal transition from coal to gas and renewable power under capacity constraints and adjustment costs

Oskar Lecuyer and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

6984: Budget rules and resource booms: a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium analysis

Shantayanan Devarajan, Yazid Dissou, Delfin Go and Sherman Robinson

6983: Public and private investments in innovation capabilities: structural transformation in the Chilean wine industry

Mark A. Dutz, Stephen D. O'Connell and Javier L. Troncoso

6982: How to assess agricultural water productivity ? looking for water in the agricultural productivity and efficiency literature

Susanne M. Scheierling, David Tréguer, James F. Booker and Elisabeth Decker

6981: Demystifying Dutch disease

Naoko C. Kojo

6980: How useful is inequality of opportunity as a policy construct ?

Ravi Kanbur and Adam Wagstaff

6979: Trade flows and trade disputes

Chad Bown and Kara Reynolds

6978: Evolving wage cyclicality in Latin America

Julian Messina and Luca Gambetti

6977: The dynamics of centralized procurement reform in a decentralized state: evidence and lessons from Indonesia

Audrey Sacks, Erman Rahman, Joel Turkewitz, Michael Buehler and Imad Saleh

6976: Why firms avoid cutting wages: survey evidence from European firms

Philip Du Caju, Theodora Kosma, Martina Lawless, Julian Messina and Tairi Rõõm

6975: Managing quantity, quality, and timing in Indian cane sugar production: ex post marketing permits or ex ante production contracts ?

Sandhyarani Patlolla, Rachael Goodhue and Richard J. Sexton

6974: The return of"patrimonial capitalism": review of Thomas Piketty's capital in the 21st century

Branko Milanovic

6973: Learning dynamics and support for economic reforms: why good news can be bad

Sweder van Wijnbergen and Tim Willems

6972: Inflation and indivisible investment in developing economies

Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen

6971: Can service be a growth escalator in low-income countries ?

Ejaz Ghani and Stephen D. O'Connell

6970: How regional integration and transnational energy networks have boosted FDI in Turkey (and may cease to do so): a case study: how geo-political alliances and regional networks matter

Miguel Eduardo Sanchez Martin, Gonzalo Escribano Frances and Rafael de Arce

6969: Predicting bank insolvency in the Middle East and North Africa

Pietro Calice

6968: Evidence of development impact from institutional change: a review of the evidence on open budgeting

Cristina Ling and Dawn Roberts

6967: Ponzis: the science and mystique of a class of financial frauds

Kaushik Basu

6966: Services, inequality, and the dutch disease

Bill Battaile, Richard Chisik and Harun Onder

6965: Measuring the effect of internet adoption on paper consumption

Luis Andres, Alejandro Zentner and Joaquin Zentner

6964: The Brasilia experiment: road access and the spatial pattern of long-term local development in Brazil

Julia Bird and Stephane Straub

6963: Inequality is bad for growth of the poor (but not for that of the rich)

Branko L. Milanovic, Roy Van Der Weide, Branko L. Milanovic and Roy Van Der Weide

6962: Estimation of normal mixtures in a nested error model with an application to small area estimation of poverty and inequality

Chris Elbers and Roy van der Weide

6961: How survey-to-survey imputation can fail

David Newhouse, S. Shivakumaran, Shinya Takamatsu and N. Yoshida

6960: The domestic segment of global supply chains in China under state capitalism

Heiwai Tang, Fei Wang and Zhi Wang

6959: Money or ideas ? a field experiment on constraints to entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan

Xavier Gine and Ghazala Mansuri

6958: The anatomy of failure: an ethnography of a randomized trial to deepen democracy in rural India

Kripa Ananthpur, Kabir Malik and Vijayendra Rao

6957: The environmental implications of Russia's accession to the world trade organization

Christoph Bohringer, Thomas F. Rutherford, David Tarr and Natalia Turdyeva

6956: Containing volatility: windfall revenues for resource-rich low-income countries

Anton Dobronogov and Octave Keutiben

6955: Contracting for the second best in dysfunctional electricity markets

Arina Nikandrova and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

6954: How business community institutions can help fight corruption

Avinash Dixit