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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 W. 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 Room

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

6953: Parallel systems and human resource management in India's public health services: a view from the front lines

Gerard La Forgia, Shomikho Raha, Shabbeer Shaik, Sunil Kumar Maheshwari and Rabia Ali

6952: How should donors respond to resource windfalls in poor countries ? from aid to insurance

Anton Dobronogov, Alan Gelb and Fernando Brant Saldanha

6951: Climate change, industrial transformation, and"development traps"

Alexander Golub and Michael Toman

6950: New coincident and leading indicators for the Lebanese economy

Samer Matta

6949: Deals and delays: firm-level evidence on corruption and policy implementation times

Caroline Freund, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Bob Rijkers

6948: Bank capital and systemic stability

Deniz Anginer and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

6947: Institutional arrangements for the promotion of regional integration of electricity markets: international experience

Musiliu Oseni and Michael Pollitt

6946: Bridging the gap: identifying what is holding self-employed women back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Republic of Congo, and Uganda

Emily Nix, Elisa Gamberoni and Rachel Heath

6945: Fiscal adjustment and income inequality: sub-national evidence from Brazil

João Pedro Azevedo, Antonio David, Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos and Emilio Pineda

6944: Welfare dynamics measurement: two definitions of a vulnerability line and their empirical application

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

6943: Insurance and inclusive growth

Rodney Lester

6942: Does institutional finance matter for agriculture ? evidence using panel data from Uganda

Shahidur Khandker and Gayatri B. Koolwal

6941: Carbon price efficiency: lock-in and path dependence in urban forms and transport infrastructure

Paolo Avner, Jun Rentschler and Stephane Hallegatte

6940: Economics of transiting to renewable energy in Morocco: a general equilibrium analysis

Govinda Timilsina and Florian Landis

6939: Culture, politics, and development

Michael Woolcock

6938: Benchmarking public policy: methodological insights from measurement of school based management

Suhas D. Parandekar

6937: Open skies over the Middle East

Anca Cristea, Russell Hillberry and Aaditya Mattoo

6936: Does FDI bring good jobs to host countries ?

Beata Javorcik

6935: Income inequality and violent crime: evidence from Mexico's drug war

Ted Enamorado, Luis Lopez-Calva, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán and Hernan Winkler

6934: Deposit insurance database

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Edward Kane and Luc Laeven

6933: Asymmetric punishment as an instrument of corruption control

Karna Basu, Kaushik Basu and Tito Cordella

6932: Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits

Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani

6931: Does involvement of local NGOs enhance public service delivery ? cautionary evidence from a Malaria-prevention evaluation in India

Ashis Das, Jed Friedman and Eeshani Kandpal

6930: Comparative advantage, international trade, and fertility

Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko and Claudio Raddatz

6929: Assessing energy price induced improvements in efficiency of capital in OECD manufacturing industries

Jevgenijs Steinbuks and Karsten Neuhoff

6928: Confronting the food-energy-environment trilemma: global land use in the long run

Jevgenijs Steinbuks and Thomas W. Hertel

6927: Economic development and female labor participation in the Middle East and North Africa: a test of the u-shape hypothesis

Paolo Verme

6926: Who will feed China in the 21st century ? income growth and food demand and supply in China

Emiko Fukase and Will Martin

6925: 50 years of urbanization in Africa: examining the role of climate change

J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard and Uwe Deichmann

6924: World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy

Lodewijk Smets and Stephen Knack

6923: Poverty reduction and shared prosperity in Tajikistan: a diagnostic

João Pedro Azevedo, Aziz Atamanov and Alisher Rajabov

6922: Institutional investors and long-term investment: evidence from Chile

Luis Opazo, Claudio Raddatz and Sergio Schmukler

6921: The trade-reducing effects of restrictions on liner shipping

Fabien Bertho, Ingo Borchert and Aaditya Mattoo

6920: Why has energy efficiency not scaled-up in the industrial and commercial sectors in Ukraine ? an empirical analysis

Gal Hochman and Govinda Timilsina

6919: Regional diversity and inclusive growth in Indian cities

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Ishani Tewari

6918: Institutions and firms'return to innovation: evidence from the world bank enterprise survey

Ha Nguyen and Patricio A. Jaramillo

6917: Do government private subsidies crowd out entrepreneurship ?

Asif Islam

6916: Climate change, conflict, and cooperation: global analysis of the resilience of international river treaties to increased water variability

Shlomi Dinar, David Katz, Lucia De Stefano and Brian Blankespoor

6915: Inequality of opportunity and economic growth: a cross-country analysis

Francisco Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo and Berk Özler

6914: Export destinations and input prices

Paulo Bastos, Joana Silva and Eric Verhoogen

6913: Trade and cities

Cem Karayalcin and Hakan Yilmazkuday

6912: The long-awaited rise of the middle class in Latin America is finally happening

Maurizio Bussolo, Maryla Maliszewska and Elie Murard