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- 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
- 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 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

- Doug 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 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-Desgagné
- 6612: Female business ownership and informal sector persistence

- Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell
- 6611: Brazil's bank spread in international context: from macro to micro drivers

- Ole Hagen Jorgensen and Apostolos Apostolou
- 6610: Sustaining trade reform: institutional lessons from Peru and Argentina

- Elias A. Baracat, Joseph Finger, Raul Leon Thorne and Julio Nogues
- 6609: How capital-based instruments facilitate the transition toward a low-carbon economy: a tradeoff between optimality and acceptability

- Julie Rozenberg, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Stephane Hallegatte
- 6608: The art of currency manipulation: how to profiteer by deliberately distorting exchange rates

- Kaushik Basu
- 6607: Social capital, product imitation and growth with learning externalities

- Pierre-Richard Agénor and Hinh Dinh
- 6606: The relative income and relative deprivation hypotheses: a review of the empirical literature

- Paolo Verme
- 6605: Russian volatility: obstacle to firm survival and diversification

- Alvaro Gonzalez, Leonardo Iacovone and Hari Subhash
- 6604: Lending concentration, bank performance and systemic risk: exploring cross-country variation

- Thorsten Beck and Olivier De Jonghe
- 6603: Oil price volatility, economic growth and the hedging role of renewable energy

- Jun Rentschler
- 6602: Sunshine works -- comment on"the adverse effects of sunshine: a field experiment on legislative transparency in an authoritarian assembly"

- James Anderson
- 6601: Converting and transferring currency: benchmarking foreign exchange restrictions to foreign direct investment across economies

- John Anderson
- 6600: The effect of weather-induced internal migration on local labor markets: evidence from Uganda

- Eric Strobl and Marie-Anne Valfort
- 6599: Economic Growth and equality of opportunity

- Vito Peragine, Flaviana Palmisano and Paolo Brunori
- 6598: Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program

- Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle, Puja Dutta and Rinku Murgai
- 6597: Efficiency and equity implications of oil windfalls in Brazil

- Ole Hagen Jorgensen
- 6596: When competition corrupts: a theoretical analysis of market structure and the incidence of corruption

- Kaushik Basu, Tamara McGavock and Boyang Zhang
- 6595: Behavioral economics and public sector reform: an accidental experiment and lessons from Cameroon

- Gaël Raballand and Anand Rajaram
- 6594: Middle-income traps: a conceptual and empirical survey

- Fernando Gabriel Im and David Rosenblatt
- 6593: Improving access to banking: evidence from Kenya

- Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Robert Cull, Jun Qian, Lemma Senbet and Patricio Valenzuela
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