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- 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
- 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 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
- 6911: Economic inequality in the Arab region

- Nadia Belhaj Hassine
- 6910: Encouraging health insurance for the informal sector: a cluster randomized trial

- Adam Wagstaff, Ha Thi Hong Nguyen, Huyen Dao and Sarah Balesd
- 6909: Hybrid survey to improve the reliability of poverty statistics in a cost-effective manner

- Faizuddin Ahmed, Cheku Dorji, Shinya Takamatsu and Nobuo Yoshida
- 6908: The price of empowerment: experimental evidence on land titling in Tanzania

- Daniel Ayalew Ali, Matthew Collin, Klaus Deininger, Stefan Dercon, Justin Sandefur and Andrew Zeitlin
- 6907: The end of seasonality ? new insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

- Luc Christiaensen, Christopher L. Gilbert, Jonathan Kaminski, Luc Christiaensen, Christopher L. Gilbert and Jonathan Kaminski
- 6906: Agreeing on robust decisions: new processes for decision making under deep uncertainty

- Nidhi Kalra, Stephane Hallegatte, Robert Lempert, Casey Brown, Adrian Fozzard, Stuart Gill and Ankur Shah
- 6905: Cross-border mergers and acquisitions in services: the role of policy and industrial structure

- Alessandro Barattieri, Ingo Borchert and Aaditya Mattoo
- 6904: Child labor and learning

- Patrick M. Emerson, Vladimir Ponczek and André Souza
- 6903: Household cooking fuel choice and adoption of improved cookstoves in developing countries: a review

- Sunil Malla and Govinda Timilsina
- 6902: Financial (dis-)information: evidence from an audit study in Mexico

- Xavier Gine, Cristina Martinez Cuellar and Rafael Keenan Mazer
- 6901: Strengthening Malaria service delivery through supportive supervision and community mobilization in an endemic Indian setting: an evaluation of nested delivery models

- Ashis Das, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal, Gnv Ramana, R K Das Gupta, Madan M Pradhan and Ramesh Govindaraj
- 6900: Immigrant versus natives ? displacement and job creation

- Caglar Ozden, Mathis Christoph Wagner, Caglar Ozden and Mathis Christoph Wagner
- 6899: Private non-state sector engagement in the provision of educational services at the primary and secondary levels in South Asia: an analytical review of its role in school enrollment and student achievement

- Mahesh Dahal and Quynh T. Nguyen
- 6898: What do we know about preferential trade agreements and temporary trade barriers ?

- Chad Bown, Baybars Karacaovali and Patricia Tovar
- 6897: Private school participation in Pakistan

- Dhushyanth Raju and Quynh T. Nguyen
- 6896: Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome

- Giuseppe De Arcangelis, Majlinda Joxhe, David McKenzie, Erwin Tiongson and Dean Yang
- 6895: Does access to information empower the poor ? evidence from the Dominican Republic

- Emmanuel Skoufias, Renata Narita and Ambar Narayan
- 6894: Progress toward the health MDGs: are the poor being left behind ?

- Adam Wagstaff, Caryn Bredenkamp and Leander R. Buisman
- 6893: Effects of interventions to raise voluntary enrollment in a social health insurance scheme: a cluster randomized trial

- Joseph Capuno, Aleli D. Kraft, Stella Luz Quimbo, Carlos R. Tan and Adam Wagstaff
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