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6491: The projection of development: cinematic representation as an(other) source of authoritative knowledge ? Downloads
David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock
6490: Missing(ness) in action: selectivity bias in GPS-based land area measurements Downloads
Calogero Carletto, Talip Kilic, Sara Savastano, Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto, Talip Kilic, Sara Savastano and Alberto Zezza
6489: Social spending, distribution, and equality of opportunities: opportunity incidence analysis Downloads
Jose Cuesta
6488: Misunderestimating corruption Downloads
Aart Kraay, Aart Kraay and Peter Murrell
6487: The decision to invest in child quality over quantity: household size and household investment in education in Vietnam Downloads
Hai-Anh Dang and Frederic Rogers
6486: China: west or east wind -- getting the incentives right Downloads
Yanqin Song and Noureddine Berrah
6485: Multidimensional auctions for public energy efficiency projects: evidence from the Japanese ESCO market Downloads
Atsushi Iimi
6484: The role of private equity investments in public firms: international evidence Downloads
Sandeep Dahiya, Leora Klapper, Harini Parthasarathy and Dorothe Singer
6483: What does MFN trade mean for India and Pakistan ? can MFN be a Panacea ? Downloads
Prabir De, Selim Raihan and Ejaz Ghani
6482: Inequality in China: an overview Downloads
John Knight
6481: Is urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa different ? Downloads
J. Vernon Henderson, Mark Roberts and Adam Storeygard
6480: PPML estimation of dynamic discrete choice models with aggregate shocks Downloads
Erhan Artuc
6479: Partial consumption insurance and financial openness across the world Downloads
Constantino Hevia and Luis Servén
6478: How many dimensions do we trade in ? product space geometry and latent comparative advantage Downloads
Jean-Francois Arvis
6477: Collateral registries for movable assets: does their introduction spur firms'access to bank finance ? Downloads
Inessa Love, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria and Sandeep Singh
6476: Can conditional cash transfers compensate for a father's absence ? Downloads
Emla Fitzsimons and Alice Mesnard
6475: Duration dependence and change-points in the likelihood of credit booms ending Downloads
Vitor Castroa and Megumi Kubota
6474: Network proximity and business practices in African Manufacturing Downloads
Marcel Fafchamps and Mans Soderbom
6473: Agriculture as a sector of opportunity for young people in Africa Downloads
Karen Brooks, Sergiy Zorya, Amy Gautam and Aparajita Goyal
6472: Export diversification in twelve European and Central Asian countries and the role of the commodity boom Downloads
Gonzalo Varela
6471: Calculating the carbon footprint from different classes of air travel Downloads
Heinrich Bofinger and Jon Strand
6470: Political determinants of fossil fuel pricing Downloads
Cees van Beers and Jon Strand
6469: Social protection, poverty and the post-2015 agenda Downloads
Ariel Fiszbein, Ravi Kanbur and Ruslan Yemtsov
6468: Education and civil conflict in Nepal Downloads
Christine Valente
6467: Greening global value chains: innovation and the international diffusion of technologies and knowledge Downloads
Matthieu Glachant, Damien Dussaux, Yann Ménière and Antoine Dechezleprêtre
6466: Estimating quarterly poverty rates using labor force surveys: a primer Downloads
Mohamed Douidich, Abdeljaouad Ezzrari, Roy van der Weide and Paolo Verme
6465: Ensuring robust flood risk management in Ho Chi Minh city Downloads
Dean A. Cira, Nidhi Rajiv Kalra, Robert J. Lempert, Alexander Lotsch, Zhimin Mao, Suzanne Peyraud and Sinh Tan Bach
6464: Blue water and the consequences of alternative food security policies in the Middle East and North Africa for water security Downloads
Donald Larson
6463: Developing country trade policies and market access issues: 1990-2012 Downloads
Constantine Michalopoulos and Francis Ng
6462: International liquidity rents Downloads
Maya Eden
6461: The poverty impact of climate change in Mexico Downloads
Alejandro de la Fuente and Marcelo Olivera Villarroel
6460: How to move the exchange rate if you must: the diverse practice of foreign exchange intervention by central banks and a proposal for doing it better Downloads
Kaushik Basu and Aristomene Varoudakis
6459: Credit-less recoveries: neither a rare nor an insurmountable challenge Downloads
Naotaka Sugawara and Juan Zalduendo
6458: Engaging for results in civil service reforms: early lessons from a problem-driven engagement in Sierra Leone Downloads
Benjamin Roseth and Vivek Srivastava
6457: The labor market impact of mobility restrictions: evidence from the West Bank Downloads
Massimiliano Calì and Sami Miaari
6456: Structural change, dualism and economic development: the role of the vulnerable poor on marginal lands Downloads
Edward Barbier
6455: Long-term drivers of food prices Downloads
John Baffes and Allen Dennis
6454: The exceptional persistence of India's unorganized sector Downloads
Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell
6453: The effect of biodiesel policies on world oilseed markets and developing countries Downloads
Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik and Govinda Timilsina
6452: Micro dynamics of Turkey's export boom in the 2000s Downloads
Tolga Cebeci and Ana Fernandes
6451: Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality: a case study in village India Downloads
Himanshu Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw, Rinku Murgai and Nicholas Stern
6450: Drawing a roadmap for oil pricing reform Downloads
Masami Kojima
6449: The inequality possibility frontier: extensions and new applications Downloads
Branko Milanovic
6448: Trade insulation as social protection Downloads
Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko and Martin Ravallion
6447: Jobs, wellbeing, and social cohesion: evidence from value and perception surveys Downloads
Catriona Mcleod and Frank-Borge Wietzke
6446: Conducting ethical economic research: complications from the field Downloads
Harold Alderman, Jishnu Das and Vijayendra Rao
6445: Poverty reduction during the rural-urban transformation: the role of the missing middle Downloads
Luc Christiaensen and Yasuyuki Todo
6444: Farther on down the road: transport costs, trade and urban growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Adam Storeygard
6443: Water hauling and girls'school attendance: some new evidence from Ghana Downloads
Celine Nauges and Jon Strand
6442: Bank competition, concentration, and credit reporting Downloads
Miriam Bruhn, Subika Farazi and Martin Kanz
6441: Biodiversity and national accounting Downloads
Kirk E. Hamilton
6440: A"greenprint"for international cooperation on climate change Downloads
Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian
6439: Why is voluntary financial education so unpopular ? Experimental evidence from Mexico Downloads
Miriam Bruhn, Gabriel Lara Ibarra and David McKenzie
6438: A model of gendered production in colonial Africa and implications for development in the post-colonial period Downloads
Hippolyte Fofack
6437: How can safety nets contribute to economic growth ? Downloads
Harold Alderman and Ruslan Yemtsov
6436: Different dreams, same bed: collecting, using, and interpreting employment statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa -- the case of Uganda Downloads
Louise Fox and Obert Pimhidzai
6435: A helping hand or the long arm of the law ? experimental evidence on what governments can do to formalize firms Downloads
Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie
6434: Trade policy barriers: an obstacle to export diversification in Eurasia Downloads
Ana Paula Cusolito and Claire H. Hollweg
6433: Political economy of public policies: insights from distortions to agricultural and food markets Downloads
Kym Anderson, Gordon Rausser and Johan Swinnen
6432: Services linkages and the value added content of trade Downloads
Joseph Francois, Miriam Manchin and Patrick Tomberger
6431: Informality and profitability: evidence from a new firm survey in Ecuador Downloads
Denis Medvedev and Ana Maria Oviedo
6430: Energy intensive infrastructure investments with retrofits in continuous time: effects of uncertainty on energy use and carbon emissions Downloads
Nils Framstad and Jon Strand
6429: Risk sharing and internal migration Downloads
Joachim De Weerdt and Kalle Hirvonen
6428: Models of public service reform: a problem-solving approach Downloads
Willy McCourt
6427: How to avoid middle income traps ? evidence from Malaysia Downloads
Aaron Flaaen, Ejaz Ghani and Saurabh Mishra
6426: Eliciting illegal migration rates through list randomization Downloads
David McKenzie and Melissa Siegel
6425: Productivity growth in Europe Downloads
Andrea Dall'Olio, Mariana Iootty, Naoto Kanehira and Federica Saliola
6424: Potential and actual FDI spillovers in global value chains: the role of foreign investor characteristics, absorptive capacity and transmission channels Downloads
Deborah Winkler
6423: Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? Downloads
Stephen Knack
6422: Urbanization and poverty reduction -- the role of rural diversification and secondary towns Downloads
Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Yasuyuki Todo
6421: Foreign wage premium, gender and education: insights from Vietnam household surveys Downloads
Emiko Fukase
6420: Foreign job opportunities and internal migration in Vietnam Downloads
Emiko Fukase
6419: Export liberalization, job creation and the skill premium: evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam bilateral trade agreement Downloads
Emiko Fukase
6418: Schooling, violent conflict, and gender in Burundi Downloads
Philip Verwimp and Jan Van Bavel
6417: Municipal vulnerability to climate change and climate related events in Mexico Downloads
Christian Borja-Vega and Alejandro de la Fuente
6416: Financial inclusion and legal discrimination against women: evidence from developing countries Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer
6415: Should marginal abatement costs differ across sectors ? the effect of low-carbon capital accumulation Downloads
Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Guy Meunier and Stephane Hallegatte
6414: Is labor income responsible for poverty reduction ? a decomposition approach Downloads
João Pedro Azevedo, Gabriela Inchauste, Sergio Olivieri, Jaime Saavedra and Hernan Winkler
6413: Export entrepreneurship and trade structure in Latin America during good and bad times Downloads
Ana Fernandes, Daniel Lederman and Mario Gutierrez-Rocha
6412: Food prices, wages, and welfare in rural India Downloads
Hanan Jacoby
6411: Estimating the half-life of theoretically founded real exchange rate misalignments Downloads
Megumi Kubota
6410: Bank bailouts, competition, and the disparate effects for borrower and depositor welfare Downloads
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 Downloads
Shahrokh Fardoust and V.J. Ravishankar
6408: How does competition affect the performance of MFIs ? evidence from Bangladesh Downloads
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 Downloads
Gunhild Berg and Bilal Zia
6406: Joining, upgrading and being competitive in global value chains: a strategic framework Downloads
O. Cattaneo, G. Gereffi, Sébastien Miroudot and Daria Taglioni
6405: Public policy and industrial transformation in the process of development Downloads
Pierre-Richard Agénor and Hinh Dinh
6404: Are microcredit participants in Bangladesh trapped in poverty and debt ? Downloads
Shahidur Khandker and Hussain Samad
6403: Diasporas and outsourcing: evidence from oDesk and India Downloads
Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Christopher Stanton
6402: Entrepreneurship programs in developing countries: a meta regression analysis Downloads
Yoonyoung Cho and Maddalena Honorati
6401: The financing and growth of firms in China and India: evidence from capital markets Downloads
Tatiana Didier and Sergio Schmukler
6400: Rethinking the state's role in finance Downloads
Martin Cihak and Asli Demirguc-Kunt
6399: Measuring the effect of a community-level program on women's empowerment outcomes: evidence from India Downloads
Eeshani Kandpal, Kathy Baylis and Mary Arends-Kuenning
6398: Chinese firms'entry to export markets: the role of foreign export spillovers Downloads
Florian Mayneris and Sandra Poncet
6397: What is a civil war ? a critical review of its definition and (econometric) consequences Downloads
Mark Gersovitz and Norma Kriger
6396: Petroleum product pricing and complementary policies: experience of 65 developing countries since 2009 Downloads
Masami Kojima
6395: Monsoon babies: rainfall shocks and child nutrition in Nepal Downloads
Sailesh Tiwari, Hanan Jacoby and Emmanuel Skoufias
6394: Rain, agriculture, and tariffs Downloads
Paulo Bastos, Odd Rune Straume and Jaime A. Urrego
6393: Food price volatility and domestic stabilization policies in developing countries Downloads
Christophe Gouel
6392: Political economy aspects of fuel subsidies: a conceptual framework Downloads
Jon Strand
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