Policy Research Working Paper Series
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- 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 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 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 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 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
- 6310: Monetary policy and macroprudential regulation: whither emerging markets

- Otaviano Canuto and Matheus Cavallari
- 6309: Trade costs in the developing world: 1995 - 2010

- Jean-François Arvis, Yann Duval, Ben Shepherd and Chorthip Utoktham
- 6308: Incentive audits: a new approach to financial regulation

- Martin Cihak, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and R. Barry Johnston
- 6307: Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

- Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O'Connell
- 6306: Reinsurance as capital optimization tool under Solvency II

- Eugene Gurenko and Alexander Itigin
- 6305: Small is beautiful, at least in high-income democracies: the distribution of policy-making responsibility, electoral accountability, and incentives for rent extraction

- Alexander Hamilton
- 6304: Inequality of opportunity, income inequality and economic mobility: some international comparisons

- Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine
- 6303: Real-time macro monitoring and fiscal policy

- Eduardo Ley and Florian Misch
- 6302: Brazilian exports: climbing down a competitiveness cliff

- Otaviano Canuto, Matheus Cavallari and Jose Guilherme Reis
- 6301: Determinants of export survival in the Lao PDR

- Liviu Stirbat, Richard Record and Konesawang Nghardsaysone
- 6300: Saving and growth in Sri Lanka

- Constantino Hevia and Norman Loayza
- 6299: Insurance risk transfer and categorization of reinsurance contracts

- Eugene Gurenko, Alexander Itigin and Renate Wiechert
- 6298: On the fungibility of spending and earnings -- evidence from rural China and Tanzania

- Luc Christiaensen and Lei Pan
- 6297: Capacity constraints and public financial management in small Pacific Island countries

- Tobias A. Haque, David S. Knight and Dinuk S. Jayasuriya
- 6296: Learning from the experiments that never happened: lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa

- Francisco Campos, Aidan Coville, Ana Fernandes, Markus Goldstein and David McKenzie
- 6295: Are the benefits of export support durable ? evidence from Tunisia

- Olivier Cadot, Ana Fernandes, Julien Gourdon and Aaditya Mattoo
- 6294: Climate change policies and employment in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

- Isil Oral, Indhira Santos and Fan Zhang
- 6293: Does sharecropping affect productivity and long-term investment ? evidence from West Bengal's tenancy reforms

- Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Vandana Yadav
- 6292: Rethinking the form and function of cities in post-Soviet countries

- Souleymane Coulibaly
- 6291: Incomplete, slow, and asymmetric price transmission in ten product markets of Bolivia

- Gonzalo Varela
- 6290: The foundations of financial inclusion: understanding ownership and use of formal accounts

- Franklin Allen, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
- 6289: How does deposit insurance affect bank risk ? evidence from the recent crisis

- Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Min Zhu
- 6288: The evolution and impact of bank regulations

- James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine
- 6287: Split decisions: family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work

- Michael Clemens and Erwin R. Tiongson
- 6286: Bank regulation and supervision around the world: a crisis update

- Martin Cihak, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria and Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou
- 6285: Entrepreneurship training and self-employment among university graduates: evidence from a randomized trial in Tunisia

- Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita Almeida, Rebekka Grun and Mahdi Barouni
- 6284: Foreign investment in local currency bonds -- considerations for emerging market public debt managers

- Alex Sienaert
- 6283: Stuck in the middle ? human capital development and economic growth in Malaysia and Thailand

- Emmanuel Jimenez, Vy Nguyen and Harry Patrinos
- 6282: MDGs that nudge: the Millennium Development Goals, popular mobilization, and the post-2015 development framework

- Varun Gauri
- 6281: Emissions trading with offset markets and free quota allocations

- Knut Einar Rosendahl and Jon Strand
- 6280: Productivity growth and job creation in the development process of industrial clusters

- Tetsushi Sonobe, Yuki Higuchi and Keijiro Otsuka
- 6279: Networks, firms, and trade

- Paulo Bastos and Joana Silva
- 6278: Perils of simulation: parallel streams and the case of stata's rnormal command

- Owen Ozier
- 6277: Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands: impacts and costs

- Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Benoit Laplante
- 6276: Labor market institutions: a review of the literature

- Gordon Betcherman
- 6275: The World Bank and governance: the Bank's efforts to help developing countries build state capacity

- Alain de Janvry and Jean-Jacques Dethier
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