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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

6792: Institutional quality mediates the effect of human capital on economic performance

Jonathon Adams-Kane and Jamus Lim

6791: Impact of intermittent screening and treatment for malaria among school children in Kenya: a cluster randomized trial

Katherine E. Halliday, George Okello, Elizabeth L. Turner, Kiambo Njagi, Carlos Mcharo, Juddy Kengo, Elizabeth Allen, Margaret M. Dubeck, Matthew C.H. Jukes and Simon J. Brooker

6790: Population pressures, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: insights from Indonesia

Yanyan Liu and Futoshi Yamauchi

6789: Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in agriculture: evidence from Indonesia

Futoshi Yamauchi

6788: Customs, brokers, and informal sectors: a Cameroon case study

Thomas Cantens, Jonathan Kaminski, Jonathan Kaminski, Gaël Raballand and Tchouawou Tchapa

6787: Academic peer effects with different group assignment policies: residential tracking versus random assignment

Robert Garlick

6786: Mobile money services development: the cases of the Republic of Korea and Uganda

Eva Gutierrez and Tony Choi

6785: Does energy consumption respond to price shocks ? evidence from a regression-discontinuity design

Paulo Bastos, Lucio Castro, Julian Cristia and Carlos Scartascini

6784: "They Are Not Like Us": Understanding Social Exclusion

Rasmus Heltberg, Sadaf Sayyeda Lakhani and Audrey Sacks

6783: The impact of funding models and foreign bank ownership on bank credit growth: is Central and Eastern Europe different ?

Erik Feyen, Raquel Letelier, Inessa Love, Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Roberto Rocha

6782: Electoral accountability and local government spending in Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Ambar Narayan, Basab Dasgupta and Kai Kaiser

6781: "Crowding in"and the returns to government investment in low-income countries

Maya Eden and Aart Kraay

6780: Institutional investment in infrastructure in developing countries: introduction to potential models

Georg Inderst and Fiona Stewart

6779: Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries

Norbert Schady, Jere Behrman, M. Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, Raquel Bernal, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez-Boo, Karen Macours, Daniela Marshall, Christina Paxson and Renos Vakis

6778: Informal firms and financial inclusion: status and determinants

Subika Farazi

6777: Domestic public debt in low-income countries: trends and structure

Giovanna Bua, Juan Pradelli and Andrea Presbitero

6776: Sovereign wealth funds and long-term development finance: risks and opportunities

Alan Gelb, Silvana Tordo, Havard Halland, Noora Arfaa and Gregory Smith

6775: New firm registration and the business cycle

Leora Klapper, Inessa Love and Douglas Randall

6774: Macroeconomic and fiscal implications of population aging in Bulgaria

Harun Onder, Pierre Pestieau and Eduardo Ley

6773: Firms doing good: how do we know ? measurement of social and environmental results

Michael Klein and Sumeet Kaur

6772: International interventions to build social capital: evidence from a field experiment in Sudan

Alexandra Avdeenko, Michael J. Gilligan, Alexandra Avdeenko and Michael J. Gilligan

6771: Surges and stops in FDI flows to developing countries: does the mode of entry make a difference ?

Martijn Burger and Elena Ianchovichina

6770: Is there a farm-size productivity relationship in African agriculture ? evidence from Rwanda

Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger

6769: Credit constraints, agricultural productivity, and rural nonfarm participation: evidence from Rwanda

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Marguerite Duponchel

6768: Economic growth and crime against small and medium sized enterprises in developing economies

Asif Islam

6767: Access to finance, product innovation and middle-income traps

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Otaviano Canuto

6766: Measuring the impact of debt-financed public investment

Carlos B. Cavalcanti, Gustavo Marrero and Tuan Minh Le

6765: Making informed investment decisions in an uncertain world: a short demonstration

Laura Bonzanigo and Nidhi Kalra

6764: Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia

Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva, Eliana Carranza, Markus P. Goldstein, Talip Kilic, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu, Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva, Eliana Carranza, Markus P. Goldstein, Talip Kilic and Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu

6763: Individual diversity and the Gini decomposition

Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

6762: Development through seasonal worker programs: the case of New Zealand's RSE program

John Gibson and David McKenzie

6761: Financial development in Asia: beyond aggregate indicators

Tatiana Didier and Sergio Schmukler

6760: What goes up must come down -- cyclicality in public wage bill spending

Sebastian Eckardt and Zachary Mills

6759: Does growth generate jobs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia ?

Kaspar Richter and Bartosz Witkowski

6758: Imports of intermediate inputs and country size

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

6757: Trade policy instruments over time

Chad Bown

6756: Housing finance across countries: new data and analysis

Anton Badev, Thorsten Beck, Ligia Vado and Simon Walley

6755: Regulation and noncompliance: magnitudes and patterns for India's factories act

Urmila Chatterjee and Ravi Kanbur

6754: Tapering talk: the impact of expectations of reduced federal reserve security purchases on emerging markets

Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta

6753: Ride the wild surf: an investigation of the drivers of surges in capital inflows

Cesar Calderon and Megumi Kubota

6752: Teacher opinions on performance incentives: evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic

Marlaine Lockheed

6751: Coping with risk: the effects of shocks on reproductive health and transactional sex in rural Tanzania

Damien de Walque, William Dow and Erick Gong

6750: Economic growth in Ghana: determinants and prospect

Anna Raggl

6749: Structural change in Ethiopia: an employment perspective

Pedro Martins

6748: School Resource and Performance Inequality: evidence from the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi and Suhas Parandekar

6747: An alternative estimate of school-based management impacts on students'achievements: evidence from the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi

6746: Financial sector policy in practice: benchmarking financial sector strategies around the world

Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Martin Melecký

6745: Can you help someone become financially capable ? a meta-analysis of the literature

Margaret Miller, Julia Reichelstein, Christian Salas and Bilal Zia

6744: Tailoring civil service pay analysis and advice to context: challenges, approaches, and the case of Lao PDR

Naazneen H. Barma and Jana Orac

6743: Impact of export destinations on firm performance

Tolga Cebeci

6742: Evaluating aid for trade: a survey of recent studies

Olivier Cadot, Ana Fernandes, Julien Gourdon, Aaditya Mattoo and Jaime de Melo

6741: What explains Rwanda's drop in fertility between 2005 and 2010 ?

Tom Bundervoet

6740: Is extreme poverty going to end ? an analytical framework to evaluate progress in ending extreme poverty

Nobuo Yoshida, Hiroki Uematsu and Carlos E. Sobrado

6739: Does migration foster exports ? evidence from Africa

Helene Ehrhart, Maëlan Le Goff, Rocher?, Emmanuel and Raju Jan Singh

6738: Triggers of contract breach: contract design, shocks, or institutions ?

Manabu Nose

6737: Sanitation and externalities: evidence from early childhood health in rural India

Luis Andres, Bertha Briceno, Claire Chase and Juan Echenique

6736: The challenge of measuring hunger

Joachim De Weerdt, Kathleen Beegle, Jed Friedman and John Gibson

6735: Outcomes, opportunity and development: why unequal opportunities and not outcomes hinder economic development

Ezequiel Molina, Ambar Narayan and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi

6734: Gender, ethnicity and cumulative disadvantage in education: evidence from Latin American and African censuses

Emcet Tas, Maira Reimão and Maria Beatriz Orlando

6733: In the wake of the global crisis: evidence from a new quarterly database of export competitiveness

Guillaume Gaulier, Gianluca Santoni, Daria Taglioni and Soledad Zignago

6732: Growth and competitiveness as factors of Eurozone external imbalances: evidence and policy implications

Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez and Aristomene Varoudakis

6731: Estimating informal trade across Tunisia's land borders

Lotfi Ayadi, Nancy Benjamin, Sami Bensassi and Gaël Raballand

6730: Crime and growth convergence: evidence from Mexico

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

6729: Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service

Sheheryar Banuri and Philip Keefer

6728: Opportunity-sensitive poverty measurement

Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo and Vito Peragine

6727: Stunted growth: why don't African firms create more jobs ?

Leonardo Iacovone, Vijaya Ramachandran and Martin Schmidt

6726: Can subjective questions on economic welfare be trusted ? evidence for three developing countries

Martin Ravallion, Kristen Himelein and Kathleen Beegle

6725: Evidence gap maps -- a tool for promoting evidence-informed policy and prioritizing future research

Birte Snilstveit, Martina Vojtkova, Ami Bhavsar and Marie Gaarder

6724: The benefits of solar home systems:an analysis from Bangladesh

Hussain A. Samad, Shahidur R. Khandk, M. Asaduzzaman and Mohammad Yunus

6723: The impact of high school financial education: experimental evidence from Brazil

Miriam Bruhn, Luciana de Souza Leao, Arianna Legovini, Rogelio Marchetti and Bilal Zia

6722: The method of randomization and the role of reasoned intuition

Kaushik Basu

6721: Macro prudential policies from a micro prudential angle

Tito Cordella and Samuel Pienknagura

6720: Clean-development investments: an incentive-compatible CGE modeling framework

Christoph Bohringer, Thomas F. Rutherford and Marco Springmannc

6719: Global income distribution: from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the great recession

Christoph Lakner and Branko Milanovic

6718: Size and age of establishments: evidence from developing countries

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

6717: Escaping the capability trap: turning"small"development into"big"development

J. Edgardo Campos, Benjamina Randrianarivelo and Kay Winning

6716: Risky business: political instability and greenfield foreign direct investment in the Arab world

Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina and Bob Rijkers

6715: Decomposing the recent inequality decline in Latin America

João Pedro Azevedo, Gabriela Inchauste and Viviane Sanfelice

6714: A comprehensive analysis of poverty in India

Arvind Panagariya and Megha Mukim

6713: Decentralized beneficiary targeting in large-scale development programs: insights from the Malawi farm input subsidy program

Talip Kilic, Edward Matthew Whitney, Paul Conal Winters, Talip Kilic, Edward Matthew Whitney and Paul Conal Winters

6712: International tradability indices for services

Erik van der Marel and Ben Shepherd