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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 Chris Sakellariou

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

David Gould, Congyan Tan and Amir S. 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 Ibrahim 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

6675: Can political empowerment help economic empowerment ? women leaders and female labor force participation in India

Ejaz Ghani, Anandi Mani and Stephen D. O'Connell

6674: Dissecting foreign bank lending behavior during the 2008-2009 crisis

Moon Jung Choi, Eva Gutierrez and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

6673: Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy?

Rinku Murgai, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

6672: Subjective wellbeing in Colombia: some insights on vulnerability, job security, and relative incomes

Alexander Krauss and Carol Graham

6671: Admission is free only if your dad is rich! distributional effects of corruption in schools in developing countries

M. Shahe Emran, Asad Islam and Forhad Shilpi

6670: What have we learned from the enterprise surveys regarding access to credit by SMEs ?

Veselin Kuntchev, Rita Ramalho, Jorge Rodriguez-Meza and Judy Yang

6669: Travel channel meets discovery channel or how tourism can encourage better export performance and diversification in Nepal

Jose Guilherme Reis and Gonzalo Varela

6668: How much is the Amazon worth ? the state of knowledge concerning the value of preserving amazon rainforests

Peter H. May, Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho and Jon Strand

6667: The connection between Wall Street and Main Street: measurement and implications for monetary policy

Alessandro Barattieri, Maya Eden and Dalibor Stevanovi

6666: Excluding the rural population: the impact of public expenditure on child malnutrition in Peru

Gissele Gajate-Garrido

6665: Capturing the value of public land for urban infrastructure: centrally controlled landholdings

George E. Peterson and Vasudha Thawakar

6664: Inventory of public land in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Shirley Ballaney, Marie-Agnes Bertaud, Patricia Clarke Annez, C.K. Koshy, Bindu Nair, Bimal Patel, Vidyadhar Phatak and Vasudha Thawakar

6663: Perverse supply response in the Liberian mining sector

Grahamm Errol G.

6662: Firm competitiveness and the European union emissions trading scheme

Hei Sing Chan, Shanjun Li and Fan Zhang

6661: The mechanics of job creation: seizing the new dividends of globalization

Celestin Monga

6660: Simulating poverty in Europe: the potential contributions of employment and education to reducing poverty and social exclusion by 2020

Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Kenneth Simler, Mehtabul Azam, Basab Dasgupta, Misha Bonch-Osmolovskiy and Irena Topinska

6659: Effects of early-life exposure to sanitation on childhood cognitive skills: evidence from India's total sanitation campaign

Dean Spears and Sneha Lamba

6658: Estimating the effects of credit constraints on productivity of Peruvian agriculture

Tiemen Woutersen and Shahidur Khandker

6657: The quality of budget execution and its correlates

Douglas Addison

6656: Input usage and productivity in Indian manufacturing plants

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell

6655: Where is the cheese ? synthesizing a giant literature on causes and consequences of financial sector development

Selahattin Selsah Pasali

6654: Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties

Marek Hanusch and Philip Keefer

6653: Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians

Marek Hanusch and Philip Keefer

6652: What regulatory frameworks are more conducive to mobile banking ? empirical evidence from findex data

Eva Gutierrez and Sandeep Singh

6651: Demand collapse or credit crunch to firms ? evidence from the world bank's financial crisis survey in Eastern Europe

Ha Nguyen and Rong Qian

6650: Up in smoke ? agricultural commercialization, rising food prices and stunting in Malawi

Talip Kilic, Siobhan Murray, Carl Nelson, Benjamin D.K. Wood, Talip Kilic, Siobhan Murray, Carl Nelson and Benjamin D.K. Wood

6649: Shared prosperity: links to growth, inequality and inequality of opportunity

Ambar Narayan, Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi and Sailesh Tiwari

6648: Specialization, diversity, and Indian manufacturing growth

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Ishani Tewari

6647: Can e-filing reduce tax compliance costs in developing countries ?

Fatih Yilmaz and Jacqueline Coolidge

6646: Regulation, renegotiation and capital structure: theory and evidence from Latin American transport concessions

Alexander Moore, Stephane Straub and Jean-Jacques Dethier

6645: A note on the simple algebra of the shared prosperity indicator

David Rosenblatt and Tamara McGavock

6644: Telecommunications externality on migration: evidence from Chinese Villages

Yi Lu, Huihua Xie and Lixin Xu

6643: Labor migration and economic growth in east and southeast Asia

Terrie Walmsley, Angel Aguiar Román and Syud Ahmed

6642: Islamic finance and financial inclusion: measuring use of and demand for formal financial services among Muslim adults

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Douglas Randall

6641: Sovereign ratings in the post-crisis world: an analysis of actual, shadow and relative risk ratings

Kaushik Basu, Supriyo De, Dilip Ratha and Hans Timmer

6640: Civil conflict and firm performance: evidence from Cote d'Ivoire

Leora Klapper, Christine Richmond and Trang Tran

6639: Poland's new golden age: shifting from Europe's periphery to its center

Marcin Piątkowski

6638: Exchange rate volatility, financial constraints, and trade: empirical evidence from Chinese firms

Jerome Heericourt and Sandra Poncet

6637: Valuing global public goods: a European Delphi stated preference survey of population willingness to pay for Amazon rainforest preservation

Stale Navrud, Jon Strand, Stale Navrud and Jon Strand

6636: How does corporate governance affect bank capitalization strategies ?

Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Harry Huizinga and Kebin Ma

6635: Africa's macroeconomic story

Douglas Hostland and Marcelo M. Giugale

6634: From pawn shops to banks: the impact of formal credit on informal households

Claudia Ruiz Ortega

6633: Industrial policy in the African context

Joseph Stiglitz, Justin Lin, Celestin Monga and Ebrahim Patel

6632: Arbitrating and mediating disputes: benchmarking arbitration and mediation regimes for commercial disputes related to foreign direct investment

Sophie Pouget

6631: Population, poverty, and climate change

Monica Das Gupta

6630: Financial inclusion and the role of the post office

Jose Anson, Alexandre Berthaud, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer

6629: The real exchange rate and export growth: are services different ?

Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta

6628: The rejuvenation of industrial policy

Joseph Stiglitz, Justin Yifu and Celestin Monga

6627: Addressing household air pollution: a case study in rural Madagascar

Susmita Dasgupta, Paul Martin and Hussain A. Samad

6626: Development at the border: policies and national integration in Cote d'Ivoire and its neighbors

Denis Cogneau, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps and Gilles Spielvogel

6625: A new index of the business environment for microfinance

Robert Cull, Sergio Navajas, Ippei Nishida and Renate Zeiler

6624: Assessing firms'financing constraints in Brazil

Stijn Claessens and Yaye Seynabou Sakho

6623: Toward a conceptual framework for the knowledge bank

Laura Chioda, Augusto de la Torre and William Maloney

6622: Coagglomeration of formal and informal industry: evidence from India

Megha Mukim

6621: Macroeconomic context and fiscal policy: Europe and Central Asia during 2000-2012

Roumeen Islam

6620: The golden quadrilateral highway project and urban/rural manufacturing in India

Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

6619: Microfinance and moneylenders: long-run effects of MFIs on informal credit market in Bangladesh

Claudia Berg, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

6618: Private tutoring in Vietnam: a review of current issues and its major correlates

Hai-Anh Dang

6617: Women's legal rights over 50 years: what is the impact of reform ?

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Tazeen Hasan and Anca Bogdana Rusu

6616: Women's legal rights over 50 years: progress, stagnation or regression ?

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Tazeen Hasan and Anca Bogdana Rusu

6615: Benchmarking financial systems: introducing the financial possibility frontier

Thorsten Beck and Erik Feyen

6614: Trade, informal employment and labor adjustment costs

Javier Arias, Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman and Diego Rojas

6613: Greening global value chains: some implementation challenges

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne

6612: Female business ownership and informal sector persistence

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell