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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 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

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 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 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

6811: Why don't poor countries do R&D ?

Edwin Goni and William Maloney

6810: All in the family: state capture in Tunisia

Caroline Freund, Antonio Nucifora and Bob Rijkers

6809: Explaining gender differentials in agricultural production in Nigeria

Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Markus P. Goldstein, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu, Paul Conal Winters, Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Markus P. Goldstein, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu and Paul Conal Winters

6808: Long-term mitigation strategies and marginal abatement cost curves: a case study on Brazil

Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Stephane Hallegatte and Christophe de Gouvello

6807: The impact of vocational training for the unemployed: experimental evidence from Turkey

Sarojini Hirshleifer, David McKenzie, Rita Almeida and Cristobal Ridao-Cano

6806: The nexus between gender, collective action for public goods, and agriculture: evidence from Malawi

Talip Kilic, Nancy Mccarthy, Talip Kilic and Nancy Mccarthy

6805: Fiscal challenges after the global financial crisis: a survey of key issues

Augusto Lopez-Claros

6804: Pathways from jobs to social cohesion

Frank-Borge Wietzke

6803: The effects of the intensity, timing, and persistence of personal history of mobility on support for redistribution

Andrew Dabalen, Rasyad Parinduri and Saumik Paul

6802: Why are adult women missing ? son preference and maternal survival in India

Annamaria Milazzo

6801: Re-re-reply to"the impact of microcredit on the poor in Bangladesh: revisiting the evidence"

Mark Pitt

6800: Governance of securities regulators: a framework

Richard Pratt and Alexander Berg

6799: The implementation of industrial parks: some lessons learned in India

Yannick Saleman and Luke Jordan

6798: What factors predict how public sector projects perform ? a review of the World Bank's public sector management portfolio

Jurgen Rene Blum

6797: Financial constraints, working capital and the dynamic behavior of the firm

Rosanna Chan

6796: Import dynamics and demands for protection

Russell Hillberry and Phillip McCalman

6795: Labor mobility, economic shocks, and jobless growth: evidence from panel data in Morocco

Paolo Verme, Abdoul Gadiry Barry, Jamal Guennouni and Mohamed Taamouti

6794: The impact of early childhood education on early achievement gaps: evidence from the Indonesia early childhood education and development (ECED) project

Haeil Jung and Amer Hasan

6793: Reserve requirements in the brave new macroprudential world

Tito Cordella, Pablo Federico, Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin