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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 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

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 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

6711: Exporter dynamics, firm size and growth, and partial year effects

Andrew Bernard, Renzo Massari, José-Daniel Reyes and Daria Taglioni

6710: North-South standards harmonization and international trade

Anne-Célia Disdier, Lionel Fontagné and Olivier Cadot

6709: Getting incentives right: an impact evaluation of district hospital capitation payment in Vietnam

Ha Thi Hong Nguyen, Sarah Bales, Adam Wagstaff and Huyen Dao

6708: Employing skilled expatriates: benchmarking skilled immigration regimes across economies

Dieter J De Smet

6707: Starting a foreign investment across sectors

Christian De La Medina Soto and Tania Ghossein

6706: Business environment, economic agglomeration and job creation around the world

George Clarke, Yue Li and Lixin Xu

6705: Some thoughts on making long-term forecasts for the world economy

Shahrokh Fardoust and Ashok Dhareshwar

6704: Removing impediments to sustainable economic development: the case of corruption

Augusto Lopez Claros

6703: The social impact of financial crises: evidence from the global financial crisis

Inci Ötker-Robe and Anca Maria Podpiera

6702: A randomized, controlled study of a rural sanitation behavior change program in Madhya Pradesh, India

Benjamin Ford Arnold, Bertha Briceno, John M. Colford , Paul Gertler, Sumeet R. Patil and Alicia Link Salvatore

6701: Framework for the reform of education systems and planning for quality

Harry Patrinos, Eduardo Velez and Catherine Yan Wang

6700: Shared prosperity and the mitigation of poverty: in practice and in precept

Kaushik Basu

6699: Why resilience matters - the poverty impacts of disasters

Jun Rentschler

6698: Product market policies in Romania: a comparison with EU partners

Donato De Rosa, Mariana Iootty, Florina Pirlea, Arabela Aprahamian and Alexandru Stanescu

6697: Functional literacy, heterogeneity and the returns to schooling: multi-country evidence

Tazeen Fasih, Harry Patrinos and Christos Sakellariou

6696: Attracting foreign direct investment: what can South Asia's lack of success teach other developing countries ?

David Gould, Congyan Tan and Amir Sadeghi Emamgholi

6695: Strengthening economic rights and women's occupational choice: the impact of reforming Ethiopia's family law

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Ousman Gajigo

6694: Incentives and teacher effort: further evidence from a developing country

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Elizabeth M. King, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Elizabeth M. King

6693: Coping with urban fiscal stress around the world

Jean-Jacques Dethier

6692: Trade facilitation and country size

Mohammad Amin and Jamal Haidar

6691: Dutch disease and spending strategies in a resource-rich low-income country -- the case of Niger

Delfin Go, Sherman Robinson, Karen Thierfelder and Robert Utz

6690: Women's movements, plural legal systems and the Botswana constitution: how reform happens

Tazeen Hasan and Ziona Tanzer

6689: Unilateral facilitation does not raise international labor migration from the Philippines

Emily Beam, David McKenzie and Dean Yang

6688: Market facilitation by local government and firm efficiency: evidence from China

Robert Cull, Lixin Xu, Xi Yang, Li-An Zhou and Tian Zhu

6687: A systemic analysis of land markets and land institutions in West African cities: rules and practices - the case of Bamako, Mali

Alain Durand-Lasserve, Maylis Durand-Lasserve and Harris Selod

6686: The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform

Cesi Cruz and Philip Keefer

6685: Can free provision reduce demand for public services ? evidence from Kenyan education

Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu and Justin Sandefur

6684: Banking in Africa

Thorsten Beck and Robert Cull

6683: Unlocking land values for urban infrastructure finance: international experience -- considerations for Indian policy

George E. Peterson

6682: SME contributions to employment, job creation, and growth in the Arab world

Sahar Nasr and Ahmed Rostom

6681: A conceptual model of incomplete markets and the consequences for technology adoption policies in Ethiopia

Donald Larson and Daniel Zerfu Gurara

6680: Benchmarking container port technical efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: a stochastic frontier analysis

Javier Morales Sarriera, Gonzalo Araya, Tomas Serebrisky, Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Jordan Schwartz

6679: Dynamic climate policy with both strategic and non-strategic agents: taxes versus quantities

Larry Karp, Sauleh Siddiqui and Jon Strand

6678: Creating and using fiscal space for accelerated development in Liberia

Hans Lofgren

6677: Green industrial policies: when and how

Stephane Hallegatte, Marianne Fay and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

6676: Product relatedness and firm exports in China

Sandra Poncet and Felipe Starosta de Waldemar