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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

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