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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 A. 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 Pave 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

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

6552: Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

6551: Factors influencing energy intensity in four Chinese industries

Karen Fisher-Vanden, Yong Hu, Gary Jefferson, Michael Rock and Michael Toman

6550: From guesstimates to GPStimates: land area measurement and implications for agricultural analysis

Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Paul Conal Winters, Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay and Paul Conal Winters

6549: A retrospective analysis of the house prices macro-relationship in the United States

Ibrahim Ahamada and Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez

6548: (Ineffective) messages to encourage recycling: evidence from a randomized evaluation in Peru

Alberto Chong, Dean Karlan, Jeremy Shapiro and Jonathan Zinman

6547: Collective action and community development: evidence from self-help groups in rural India

Raj Desai and Shareen Joshi

6546: How does risk management influence production decisions? evidence from a field experiment

Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Gine and James Vickery

6545: Gender differences in the effects of vocational training: constraints on women and drop-out behavior

Yoonyoung Cho, Davie Kalomba, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera, Yoonyoung Cho, Davie Kalomba, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak and Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera

6544: Are mega-farms the future of global agriculture ? exploring the farm size-productivity relationship

Klaus Deininger, Denys Nizalov and Sudhir K Singh

6543: Welfare and poverty impacts of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme: evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

6542: China's 2008 labor contract law: implementation and implications for China's workers

Mary Gallagher, John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang

6541: Incentivizing schooling for learning: evidence on the impact of alternative targeting approaches

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Deon P. Filmer, Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Deon P. Filmer

6540: Impact evaluation of three types of early childhood development interventions in Cambodia

Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer, Karen Macours and Sophie Naudeau

6539: Criss-crossing migration

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

6538: Do economic crises lead to health and nutrition behavior responses ? analysis using longitudinal data from Russia

Zlatko Nikoloski and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad

6537: The contribution of African women to economic growth and development in post-colonial Africa: historical perspectives and policy implications

Emmanuel Akyeampong and Hippolyte Fofack

6536: An expansion of a global data set on educational quality: a focus on achievement in developing countries

Noam Angrist, Harry Patrinos and Martin Schlotter

6535: Food price spikes, price insulation, and poverty

Kym Anderson, Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

6534: Resource reallocation and innovation: converting enterprise risks into opportunities

Mark A. Dutz

6533: Determinants of job creation in eleven new EU member states: evidence from firm level data

Harald Oberhofer and Gallina A Vincelette

6532: The impact of government support on firm R&D investments: a meta-analysis

Paulo Correa, Luis Andres and Christian Borja-Vega

6531: Solow in transition: macro and micro determinants of savings in Armenia

Souleymane Coulibaly and Mohamed Diaby

6530: Economic development as opportunity equalization

John Roemer

6529: Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation: a 20-year followup to an experimental intervention in Jamaica

Susan Chang-Lopez, Paul Gertler, Sally Grantham-Mcgregor, James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Christel M. J. Vermeersch, Susan Walker and Arianna Zanolini

6528: The transmission of banking crises to households: lessons from the 2008-2011 crises in the ECA region

Martin Brown

6527: Long-term impacts of household electrification in rural India

Dominique van de Walle, Martin Ravallion, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Gayatri Koolwal

6526: It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments

Stephen Knack

6525: Explaining the last consumption boom-bust cyclein Ireland: the role of news and noise shocks

Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez

6524: An economic model of Brazil's ethanol-sugar markets and impacts of fuel policies

Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik, Erika M. Kliauga and Govinda Timilsina

6523: A public strategy for compliance monitoring

Varun Gauri, Jeffrey K. Staton and Jorge Vargas Cullell

6522: Gender inequality in multidimensional welfare deprivation in west Africa: the case of Burkina Faso and Togo

Akoete Ega Agbodji, Yele Batana and Denis Ouedraogo

6521: Cooperation and reciprocity in carbon sequestration contracts

Paula Cordero Salas

6520: Trade and innovation in services: evidence from a developing economy

Leonardo Iacovone, Aaditya Mattoo and Andres Zahler

6519: Understanding the sources of spatial disparity and convergence: evidence from Bangladesh

Forhad Shilpi

6518: The effect of product standards on agricultural exports from developing countries

Esteban Ferro, John Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki

6517: Stress-testing Africa's recent growth and poverty performance

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Maryla Maliszewska, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Hans Timmer

6516: Climate change in the Himalayas: current state of knowledge

Mahesh R. Gautam, Govinda Timilsina and Kumud Acharya

6515: How much does an increase in oil prices affect the global economy ? some insights from a general equilibrium analysis

Govinda Timilsina

6514: Enduring impacts of aid quality on job choices: the case of the 2004 tsunami in Aceh

Manabu Nose

6513: Understanding child labor beyond poverty: the structure of the economy, social norms, and no returns to rural basic education

Alexander Krauss

6512: Increase in protectionism and its impact on Sri Lanka's performance in global markets

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng

6511: Connection charges and electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa

Raluca Golumbeanu and Douglas Barnes