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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

6892: The impact of a pay-for-performance scheme on prescription quality in rural China: an impact evaluation

Xiaojie Sun, Xiaoyun Liu, Qiang Sun, Winnie Yip, Adam Wagstaff and Qingyue Meng

6891: Episodes of unemployment reduction in rich, middle-income, and transition economies

Caroline Freund and Bob Rijkers

6890: Ecosystems -- burden or bounty ?

Richard Damania, Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo and A.j Glauber

6889: Updating the poverty estimates in Serbia in the absence of micro data: a microsimulation approach

Alexandru Cojocaru and Sergio Olivieri

6888: Informal economy and the World Bank

Kathleen Beegle, Nancy Claire Benjamin, Francesca Recanatini and Massimiliano Santini

6887: Mauritania: counting on natural wealth for a sustainable future

Gianluca Mele

6886: Cash transfers and temptation goods: a review of global evidence

David Evans and Anna Popova

6885: Proving incentives for long-term investment by pension funds -- the use of outcome-based benchmarks

Fiona Stewart

6884: Rewarding provider performance to enable a healthy start to life: evidence from Argentina's Plan Nacer

Paul Gertler, Paula Giovagnoli and Sebastian Martinez

6883: What a difference a state makes: health reform in Andhra Pradesh

Sofi Bergkvist, Adam Wagstaff, Anuradha Katyal, Prabal V. Singh, Amit Samarth and Mala Rao

6882: Infrastructure: doing more with less

Jonathan Woetzel and Herbert Pohl

6881: Are cities the new growth escalator ?

Enrico Moretti

6880: Entrepreneurship, public policy, and cities

Josh Lerner

6879: The great migration: urban aspirations

Michael Keith

6878: Sustainable and smart cities

Matthew Kahn

6877: Urbanization and the geography of development

J. Vernon Henderson

6876: Housing matters

Sonia Hammam

6875: Overview -- the urban imperative: toward shared prosperity

Edward Glaeser and Abha Joshi-Ghani

6874: Urbanization as opportunity

Brandon Fuller and Paul Romer

6873: Urban transport: can public-private partnerships work ?

Eduardo Engel and Alexander Galetovic Potsch

6872: Analyzing urban systems: have megacities become too large ?

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

6871: Housing and urbanization in Africa: unleashing a formal market process

Paul Collier and Anthony Venables

6870: Converting land into affordable housing floor space

Alain Bertaud

6869: Son preference, fertility and family structure: evidence from reproductive behavior among Nigerian women

Annamaria Milazzo

6868: Revenue potential, tax space, and tax gap: a comparative analysis

Munawer Sultan Khwaja and Indira Iyer

6867: Beyond the income effect: impacts of conditional cash transfer programs on private investments in human capital

Marcio Cruz and Zacharias Ziegelhöfer

6866: International asset allocations and capital flows: the benchmark effect

Claudio Raddatz, Sergio Schmukler and Tomas Williams

6865: The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment

Sebastian Galiani, Stephen Knack, Lixin Xu and Ben Zou

6864: Income and energy consumption in Mexican households

Eduardo Rodriguez-Oreggia and Rigoberto Ariel Yepez-Garcia

6863: A global assessment of human capital mobility: the role of non-OECD destinations

Artucm Erhan, Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden and Christopher Parsons

6862: Sub-Saharan Africa's recent growth spurt: an analysis of the sources of growth

Yoonyoung Cho and Bienvenue N. Tien

6861: CATA meets IMPOV: a unified approach to measuring financial protection in health

Adam Wagstaff and Patrick Eozenou

6860: Too small to regulate

Kaushik Basu and Avinash Dixit

6859: Transition to clean capital, irreversible investment and stranded assets

Julie Rozenberg, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Stephane Hallegatte

6858: The price is not always right: on the impacts of (commodity) prices on households (and countries)

Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

6857: Technical measures to trade in Central America: incidence, price effects, and consumer welfare

Sinead Patricia Kelleher and José-Daniel Reyes

6856: Why don't remittances appear to affect growth ?

Michael Clemens and David McKenzie

6855: Accelerating poverty reduction in a less poor world: the roles of growth and inequality

Pedro Olinto, Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi

6854: Gender and public goods provision in Tamil Nadu's village governments

Kiran Gajwani and Xiaobo Zhang

6853: Employer voices, employer demands, and implications for public skills development policy

Wendy Cunningham and Paula Villasenor

6852: Economic resilience: definition and measurement

Stephane Hallegatte

6851: Which World Bank reports are widely read ?

Doerte Doemeland and James Trevino

6850: Fiscal policy as an instrument of investment and growth

Kaushik Basu

6849: Is Uruguay more resilient this time? distributional impacts of a crisis similar to the 2001/02 Argentine crisis

Oscar Barriga Cabanillas, Maria Ana Lugo, Hannah Nielsen, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán and Maria Pia Zanetti

6848: Cohort size and youth employment outcomes

David Newhouse and Claudia Wolff

6847: Risks and opportunities of participation in global value chains

Gary Gereffi and Xubei Luo

6846: What drives the volatility of firm level productivity in China ?

Xubei Luo and Nong Zhu

6845: Co-movement of major commodity price returns: time-series assessment

Francesca de Nicola, Pierangelo De Pace and Manuel Hernandez

6844: What drives the high price of road freight transport in Central America ?

Theresa Osborne, Maria Claudia Pachon and Gonzalo Enrique Araya

6843: Are there more female managers in the retail sector ? evidence from survey data in developing countries

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

6842: Growth, inequality, and social welfare: cross-country evidence

David Dollar, Tatjana Kleineberg and Aart Kraay

6841: Women's empowerment and socio-economic outcomes: impacts of the Andhra Pradesh rural poverty reduction program

G. Prennushi and A. Gupta

6840: Toward economic diversification in Trinidad and Tobago

Rohan Longmore, Pascal Jaupart and Marta Riveira Cazorla

6839: Why liquidity matters to the export decision of the firm

Rosanna Chan

6838: Learning from financial crises

Jamus Lim and Geoffrey Minne

6837: Can Latin America tap the globalization upside ?

Augusto de la Torre, Tatiana Didier and Magali Pinat

6836: Voter response to natural disaster aid: quasi-experimental evidence from drought relief payments in Mexico

Alan Fuchs and Lourdes Rodriguez-Chamussy

6835: Do poverty traps exist ?

Aart Kraay and David McKenzie

6834: Pathways to the middle class in Turkey: how have reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity helped?

João Pedro Azevedo and Aziz Atamanov

6833: Fragmentation, incomes, and jobs: an analysis of European competitiveness

Marcel Timmer, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer and Gaaitzen de Vries

6832: The impact of an adolescent girls employment program: the EPAG project in Liberia

Franck M. Adoho, Shubha Chakravarty, Dala Korkoyah , Mattias K. A. Lundberg and Afia Tasneem

6831: Post-harvest loss in Sub-Saharan Africa -- what do farmers say ?

Luc Christiaensen, Jonathan Kaminski, Luc Christiaensen and Jonathan Kaminski

6830: Unconventional monetary policy normalization in high-income countries: implications for emerging market capital flows and crisis risks

Andrew Burns, Mizuho Kida, Jamus Lim, Sanket Mohapatra and Marc Stocker

6829: Incentive contracts for environmental services and their potential in REDD

Fortmannm Lea, Paula Cordero Salas, Brent Sohngen and Brian Roe

6828: Trust and identity in a small, post-socialist, post-crisis society

Christian Bjørnskov, Zeljko Bogetic, Arye L. Hillman and Milenko Popovic

6827: Private equity and venture capital in smes in developing countries: the role for technical assistance

Shanthi Divakaran, Patrick J. McGinnis and Masood Shariff

6826: Cash transfers and child labor

Jacobus de Hoop and Furio Rosati

6825: HIV testing, behavior change, and the transition to adulthood in Malawi

Kathleen Beegle, Michelle Poulin and Gil Shapira

6824: Designing experiments to measure spillover effects

Sarah Baird, Aislinn Bohren, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler

6823: The heterogeneous effects of HIV testing

Sarah Baird, Erick Gong, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler

6822: Convergence to the managerial frontier

William Maloney and Mauricio Sarrias

6821: Dynamic effects of microcredit in Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker and Hussain A. Samad

6820: Tinker, taper, QE, bye ? the effect of quantitative easing on financial flows to developing countries

Jamus Lim, Sanket Mohapatra and Marc Stocker

6819: Labor market regulations: what do we know about their impacts in developing countries ?

Gordon Betcherman

6818: Growing through cities in developing countries

Gilles Duranton

6817: River salinity and climate change: evidence from coastal Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Farhana Akhter Kamal, Zahirul Huque Khan, Sharifuzzaman Choudhury and Ainun Nishat

6816: Estimating the economic opportunity cost of capital for public investment projects: an empirical analysis of the Mexican case

Andrea Coppola, Fernando Fernholz and Graham Glenday

6815: Implementation of REDD+ mechanisms in Tanzania

Paula Cordero Salas

6814: Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Felipe Valencia Caicedo and William Maloney

6813: Pension risk and risk-based supervision in defined contribution pension funds

Tony Randle and Heinz P. Rudolph

6812: Remittances and vulnerability in developing countries

Giulia Bettin, Andrea Presbitero and Nikola Spatafora