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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

6592: Resolving the African financial development gap: cross-country comparisons and a within-country study of Kenya

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

6591: Institutional and structural determinants of investment worldwide

Jamus Lim

6590: Foreign bank behavior during financial crises

Jonathon Adams-Kane, Julian A. Caballero and Jamus Lim

6589: The use of random geographic cluster sampling to survey pastoralists

Kristen Himelein, Stephanie Eckman and Siobhan Murray

6588: Friend or foe or family ? a tale of formal and informal plants in India

Ejaz Ghani, Stephen D. O'Connell and Gunjan Sharma

6587: Evaluation of development programs: randomized controlled trials or regressions ?

Chris Elbers and Jan Willem Gunning

6586: Natural resources, physical capital and institutions: evidence from Eurasia

Nancy Vandycke

6585: Does the semi-autonomous agency model function in a low-governance environment ? the case of the road development agency in Zambia

Gaël Raballand, Kate Bridges, Monica Beuran and Audrey Sacks

6584: Shorter, cheaper, quicker, better: linking measures of household food security to nutritional outcomes in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Uganda, and Tanzania

Sailesh Tiwari, Emmanuel Skoufias and Maya Sherpa

6583: Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development

Philip Keefer

6582: Financial development in Latin America and the Caribbean: stylized facts and the road ahead

Tatiana Didier and Sergio Schmukler

6581: Fiscal sustainability in Burundi: baseline projections, stochastic simulations, and policy scenarios

Mizuho Kida

6580: Village sanitation and children's human capital: evidence from a randomized experiment by the Maharashtra government

Jeffrey Hammer and Dean Spears

6579: Disquiet on the weather front: the welfare impacts of climatic variability in the rural Philippines

Abla Safir, Sharon Faye Piza and Emmanuel Skoufias

6578: Growth and volatility analysis using wavelets

Inga Maslova, Harun Onder and Apurva Sanghi

6577: Financial inclusion for financial stability: access to bank deposits and the growth of deposits in the Global Financial Crisis

Rui Han and Martin Melecký

6576: The conceptual foundations of macroprudential policy: a roadmap

Alain Ize and Augusto de la Torre

6575: The foundations of macroprudential regulation: a conceptual roadmap

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

6574: Are microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh over-indebted ?

Shahidur Khandker, Rashid Faruqee and Hussain Samad

6573: Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

6572: Drivers of firm-level productivity in Russia's manufacturing sector

Zeljko Bogetic and Olasupo Olusi

6571: What are the causes of the growing trend of excess savings of the corporate sector in developed countries ? an empirical analysis of three hypotheses

Leandro Brufman, Lisana Martinez and Rodrigo Perez Artica

6570: Household enterprises in Mozambique: key to poverty reduction but not on the development agenda ?

Louise Fox and Thomas Sohnesen

6569: The effects of country risk and conflict on infrastructure PPPs

Gonzalo Araya, Jordan Schwartz and Luis Andres

6568: Growth still is good for the poor

David Dollar, Tatjana Kleineberg and Aart Kraay

6567: Is small better ? a comparison of the effect of large and small dams on cropland productivity in South Africa

Elodie Blanc and Eric Strobl

6566: The heterogeneous effects of a food price crisis on child school enrollment and labor: evidence from Pakistan

Xiaohui Hou and Seo Yeon Hong

6565: Transaction costs of low-carbon technologies and policies: the diverging literature

Luis Mundaca, Mathilde Mansoz, Lena Neij and Govinda Timilsina

6564: Effects of Colombia's social protection system on workers'choice between formal and informal employment

Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover and Alejandro Hoyos Suarez

6563: Bank financing of SMEs in five Sub-Saharan African countries: the role of competition, innovation, and the government

Gunhild Berg and Michael Fuchs

6562: Fiscal rules and the pro-cyclicality of public investment in the West African economic and monetary union

Sebastien Dessus, Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez and Aristomene Varoudakis

6561: Poverty, malnutrition and vulnerability in Mali

Patrick Eozenou, Dorsati Madani and Rob Swinkels

6560: From occupations to embedded skills: a cross-country comparison

Cristian Aedo, Jesko Hentschel, Javier Luque and Martin Moreno

6559: Do infrastructure reforms reduce the effect of corruption ? theory and evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Liam Wren-Lewis

6558: Multisectoral preventive health services in Sri Lanka: lessons for developing countries in providing public goods in health

Monica Das Gupta, K. C. S. Dalpatadu, C. K. Shanmugarajah and H. M. S. S. D. Herath

6557: Top incomes and the measurement of inequality in Egypt

Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme

6556: A mapping of labor mobility costs in developing countries

Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

6555: International lending, sovereign debt and joint liability: an economic theory model for amending the treaty of Lisbon

Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz

6553: Urbanization and agglomeration benefits: gender differentiated impacts on enterprise creation in India's informal sector

Ejaz Ghani, Ravi Kanbur and Stephen D. O'Connell