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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
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