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6410: Bank bailouts, competition, and the disparate effects for borrower and depositor welfare

Cesar Calderon and Klaus Schaeck

6409: Subnational fiscal policy in large developing countries: some lessons from the 2008-09 crisis for Brazil, China and India

Shahrokh Fardoust and V.J. Ravishankar

6408: How does competition affect the performance of MFIs ? evidence from Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal and Syed Badruddoza

6407: Harnessing emotional connections to improve financial decisions: evaluating the impact of financial education in mainstream media

Gunhild Berg and Bilal Zia

6406: Joining, upgrading and being competitive in global value chains: a strategic framework

O. Cattaneo, G. Gereffi, Sébastien Miroudot and Daria Taglioni

6405: Public policy and industrial transformation in the process of development

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Hinh Dinh

6404: Are microcredit participants in Bangladesh trapped in poverty and debt ?

Shahidur Khandker and Hussain A. Samad

6403: Diasporas and outsourcing: evidence from oDesk and India

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Christopher Stanton

6402: Entrepreneurship programs in developing countries: a meta regression analysis

Yoonyoung Cho and Maddalena Honorati

6401: The financing and growth of firms in China and India: evidence from capital markets

Tatiana Didier and Sergio Schmukler

6400: Rethinking the state's role in finance

Martin Cihak and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

6399: Measuring the effect of a community-level program on women's empowerment outcomes: evidence from India

Eeshani Kandpal, Kathy Baylis and Mary Arends-Kuenning

6398: Chinese firms'entry to export markets: the role of foreign export spillovers

Florian Mayneris and Sandra Poncet

6397: What is a civil war ? a critical review of its definition and (econometric) consequences

Mark Gersovitz and Norma Kriger

6396: Petroleum product pricing and complementary policies: experience of 65 developing countries since 2009

Masami Kojima

6395: Monsoon babies: rainfall shocks and child nutrition in Nepal

Sailesh Tiwari, Hanan Jacoby and Emmanuel Skoufias

6394: Rain, agriculture, and tariffs

Paulo Bastos, Odd Rune Straume and Jaime A. Urrego

6393: Food price volatility and domestic stabilization policies in developing countries

Christophe Gouel

6392: Political economy aspects of fuel subsidies: a conceptual framework

Jon Strand

6391: Human capital, tangible wealth, and the intangible capital residual

Kirk Hamilton and Gang Liu

6390: Closing rural-urban MDG gaps in low-income countries: a general equilibrium perspective

Hans Lofgren

6389: Demand versus returns ? pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training

Karen Macours, Patrick Premand and Renos Vakis

6388: European bank deleveraging and global credit conditions: implications of a multi-year process on long-term finance and beyond

Erik Feyen and Ines Gonzalez del Mazo

6387: The energy transition of the transition economies: an empirical analysis

Fan Zhang

6386: The effect of capital flows composition on output volatility

Pablo Federico, Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

6385: Setting reasonable performance targets for public service delivery

John Newman and João Pedro Azevedo

6384: Fifteen years of inequality in Latin America: how have labor markets helped ?

João Pedro Azevedo, Maria Eugenia Davalos, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Bernardo Atuesta and R. Castañeda

6383: Impact evaluation of free-of-charge CFL bulb distribution in Ethiopia

Peter Costolanski, Raihan Elahi, Atsushi Iimi and Rahul Kitchlu

6382: SME registration evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh

Giacomo De Giorgi and Aminur Rahman

6381: Caught in a productivity trap: a distributional perspective on gender differences in Malawian agriculture

Markus P. Goldstein, Talip Kilic, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Markus P. Goldstein, Talip Kilic and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

6380: Social spending, taxes and income redistribution in Uruguay

Marisa Bucheli, Nora Lustig, Maximo Rossi and Florencia Amábile

6379: Credit rating agencies in emerging democracies: Guardians of fiscal discipline ?

Marek Hanusch and Paul Vaaler

6378: How different are safeguards from antidumping ? evidence from us trade policies toward steel

Chad Bown

6377: American politics, the presidency of the World Bank, and development policy

Kathryn C. Lavelle

6376: How fit are feed-in tariff policies ? evidence from the European wind market

Fan Zhang

6375: Demand growth versus market share gains: decomposing world manufacturing import growth

M. Ataman Aksoy and Francis Ng

6374: Urbanization and (in)formalization

Ejaz Ghani and Ravi Kanbur

6373: Weight calculations for panel surveys with sub-sampling and split-off tracking

Kristen Himelein Kastelic and Kristen Himelein Kastelic

6372: What does variation in survey design reveal about the nature of measurement errors in household consumption ?

John Gibson, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Jed Friedman

6371: Violent conflict and gender inequality: an overview

Mayra Buvinic, Monica Das Gupta, Ursula Casabonne and Philip Verwimp

6370: Gender and agriculture: inefficiencies, segregation, and low productivity traps

Andre Croppenstedt, Markus Goldstein and Nina Rosas

6369: Does gender inequality hinder development and economic growth ? evidence and policy implications

Oriana Bandiera and Ashwini Natraj

6368: Using administrative data to evaluate municipal reforms: an evaluation of the impact of Minas Facil Expresso

Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie

6367: The income lever and the allocation of aid

Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

6366: Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse

Norman Loayza, Alfredo Mier y Teran and Iamele Rigolini

6365: External shocks, fiscal policy and income distribution: alternative scenarios for Moldova

Jouko Kinnunen, Hans Lofgren, Victor Sulla and Dino Merotto

6364: Using provider performance incentives to increase HIV testing and counseling services in Rwanda

Damien de Walque, Paul Gertler, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Ada Kwan, Christel Vermeersch, Jean de Dieu Bizimana, Agnes Binagwaho and Jeanine Condo

6363: Does a wife's bargaining power provide more micronutrients to females: evidence from rural Bangladesh

Aminur Rahman

6362: Mass media and public policy: global evidence from agricultural policies

Alessandro Olper and Johan Swinnen

6361: The unfairness of (poverty) targets

Melanie Allwine, Iamele Rigolini and Luis Lopez-Calva

6360: Impact evaluation of a large-scale rural sanitation project in Indonesia

Lisa Cameron, Manisha Shah and Susan Olivia

6359: How reliable and consistent are subjective measures of welfare in Europe and Central Asia ? evidence from the second life in transition survey

Alexandru Cojocaru and Mame Fatou Diagne

6358: Equilibrium credit: the reference point for macroprudential supervisors

Daniel Buncic and Martin Melecký

6357: Preferential market access design: evidence and lessons from African apparel exports to the us and the EU

Jaime de Melo and Alberto Portugal-Perez

6356: Small states -- performance in public debt management

Abha Prasad, Malvina Pollock and Ying Li

6355: Vietnam's evolving poverty map: patterns and implications for policy

Peter Lanjouw, Marleen Marra and Cuong Nguyen

6354: Productivity, innovation and growth in Sri Lanka: an empirical investigation

Mark A. Dutz and Stephen D. O'Connell

6353: Making performance budgeting reform work: a case study of Korea

Nowook Park and Jae-Young Choi

6352: Government connections and financial constraints: evidence from a large representative sample of Chinese firms

Robert Cull, Wei Li, Bo Sun and Lixin Xu

6351: How much international variation in child height can sanitation explain ?

Dean Spears

6350: Notes on financial system development and political intervention

Song. Fenghua and Anjan Thakor

6349: Service sector reform and manufacturing productivity: evidence from Indonesia

Victor Duggan, Sjamsu Rahardja and Gonzalo Varela

6348: Gender equality and economic growth in Brazil: a long-run analysis

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Otaviano Canuto

6347: Integrating gravity: the role of scale invariance in gravity models of spatial interactions and trade

Jean-François Arvis

6346: Is foreign aid fungible ? evidence from the education and health sectors

Nicolas Van de Sijpe

6345: Children's health opportunities and project evaluation: Mexico's Oportunidades program

Dirk Van de gaer, Joost Vandenbossche and Jose Luis Figueroa

6344: Decomposing the labor market earnings inequality: the public and private sectors in Vietnam, 1993-2006

Clément Imbert

6343: How subjective beliefs about HIV infection affect life-cycle fertility: evidence from rural Malawi

Gil Shapira

6342: Achieving medium term expenditure framework reform: a case study of Korea

Jae-Young Choi and Nowook Park

6341: Determinants of export growth at the extensive and intensive margins: evidence from product and firm-level data for Pakistan

Jose Guilherme Reis and Daria Taglioni

6340: Cash transfers and child schooling: evidence from a randomized evaluation of the role of conditionality

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

6339: Buying votes vs. supplying public services: political incentives to under-invest in pro-poor policies

Stuti Khemani

6338: Does urbanization affect rural poverty ? evidence from Indian districts

Massimiliano Calì and Carlo Menon

6337: Intrahousehold bargaining and resource allocation in developing countries

Cheryl Doss

6336: Political reforms and public policy: evidence from agricultural and food policies

Alessandro Olper, Jan Fatkowski and Swinnenm Johan

6335: Structural change and cross-country growth empirics

Markus Eberhardt and Francis Teal

6334: Trends in developing country trade 1980-2010

Constantine Michalopoulos and Francis Ng

6333: Does access to finance matter in microenterprise growth ? evidence from Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker, Hussain A. Samad and Rubaba Ali

6332: Trade dimensions of logistics services: a proposal for trade agreements

Charles Kunaka, Monica Alina Mustra and Sebastian Saez

6331: How is the liberalization of food markets progressing ? market integration and transaction costs in subsistence economies

Wouter Zant

6330: Chinese trade reforms, market access and foreign competition: the patterns of French exporters

Maria Bas and Pamela Bombarda

6329: The impact of the global food crisis on self-assessed food security

Derek D. Headey

6328: Feeding five billion Asians: a socioeconomic perspective

Jose Cuesta

6327: Does trade reduce poverty ? a view from Africa

Maëlan Le Goff and Raju Jan Singh

6326: Rural households in a changing climate

Javier Baez, Dorothy Kronick and Andrew D. Mason

6325: How long will it take to lift one billion people out of poverty ?

Martin Ravallion

6324: The impact of health insurance schemes for the informal sector in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Arnab Acharya, Sukumar Vellakkal, Taylor Fiona, Edoardo Masset, Ambika Satija, Margaret Burke and Shah Ebrahim

6323: The role of men in the economic and social development of women: implications for gender equality

Lidia Farre

6322: Trade policy flexibilities and Turkey: tariffs, antidumping, safeguards, and WTO dispute settlement

Chad Bown

6321: Challenges and opportunities of mobile phone-based data collection: evidence from South Sudan

Gabriel Demombynes, Paul Gubbins and Alessandro Romeo

6320: Highway to success in India: the impact of the golden quadrilateral project for the location and performance of manufacturing

Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

6319: Information and participation in social programs

David Coady, Cesar Martinelli and Susan Parker

6318: Water nationalization and service quality

Fernando Borraz, Nicolás González-Pampillón and Marcelo Olarreaga

6317: Wage effects of high-skilled migration: international evidence

Volker Grossmann and David Stadelmann

6316: Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage

Ann E. Harrison, Justin Lin and Lixin Xu

6315: Emerging economies, trade policy, and macroeconomic shocks

Chad Bown and Meredith Crowley

6314: Macroeconomic shocks and banking sector developments in Egypt

Santiago Herrera and Hoda Youssef

6313: Antidumping, retaliation threats, and export prices

Veysel Avsar

6312: Leveraging land to enable urban transformation: lessons from global experience

Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Cheryl Young, Somik Lall and Tara Vishwanath

6311: Private Chinese investment in Africa: myths and realities

Xiaofang Shen