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6265: Foreign firm characteristics, absorptive capacity and the institutional framework: the role of mediating factors for FDI spillovers in low- and middle-income countries

Thomas Farole and Deborah Winkler

6264: United we stand divided we fall: maternal social participation and children's nutritional status in Peru

Marta Favara

6263: Commercialization of publicly funded research and development (R&D) in Russia: scaling up the emergence of spinoff companies

Juan Julio Gutierrez and Paulo Correa

6262: The cost structure of the clean development mechanism

Shaikh M. Rahman, Donald Larson and Ariel Dinar

6261: Agricultural trade: what matters in the Doha round ?

David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

6260: Visualizing Uncertainties, or how Albert Hirschman and the World Bank disagreed on project appraisal and development approaches

Michele Alacevich

6259: Global income inequality by the numbers: in history and now --an overview--

Branko Milanovic

6258: What does debt relief do for development ? evidence from India's bailout program for highly-indebted rural households

Martin Kanz

6257: Promoting handwashing behavior in Peru: the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions

Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Alexandra Orsola-Vidal

6256: The great recession and the future of cities

Jean-Jacques Dethier and Curtis Morrill

6255: The surprising effects of the great recession: losers and winners in Thailand in 2008-2009

Jonathan Haughton and Shahidur Khandker

6254: Income risk, income mobility and welfare

Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

6253: There goes gravity: how eBay reduces trade costs

Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarreaga, Simon Schropp and Pierre-Louis Vézina

6252: Tax capacity and tax effort: extended cross-country analysis from 1994 to 2009

Tuan Minh Le, Blanca Moreno-Dodson and Nihal Bayraktar

6251: Is better information always good news ? international corporate strategy and regulation

Markus Kitzmuller

6250: The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development

Francisco Javier Arias-Vazquez , Jean Lee and David Newhouse

6249: The patterns and determinants of household welfare growth in Jordan: 2002-2010

Wael Mansour

6248: Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

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

6247: School quality, labor markets and human capital investments: long-term impacts of an early stage education intervention in the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi and Yanyan Liu

6246: Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students'learning achievement: evidence from the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi and Yanyan Liu

6245: Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance: microeconomic evidence from advanced and developing countries

Marco Vivarelli

6244: Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: an application to occupational allocation in Africa

Paolo Falco, William Maloney, Bob Rijkers and Mauricio Sarrias

6243: Development of biofuels in China: technologies, economics and policies

Shiyan Chang, Govinda Timilsina, Zhang Xiliang and Lili Zhao

6242: Tools for assessing the costs and benefits of green growth: the U.S. and Mexico

Winston Harrington, Richard Morgenstern and Velez-Lopez. Daniel

6241: Impact of behavioral issues on green growth policies and weather-related disaster reduction in developing countries

Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

6240: Psychology and behavioral economics lessons for the design of a green growth strategy

Elke U. Weber and Eric J. Johnson

6239: The role of technological change in green growth

David Popp

6238: Green industrial policy: trade and theory

Larry Karp and Megan Stevenson

6237: The cost of adjustment to green growth policies: lessons from trade adjustment costs

Guido Porto

6236: Trade in a'green growth'development strategy: global scale issues and challenges

Jaime de Melo

6235: International trade and green growth

Brian Copeland

6234: Introducing behavioral change in transportation into energy/economy/environment models

Andreas Schafer

6233: Ecosystem services and green growth

Jeffrey Vincent

6232: Natural capital, ecological scarcity and rural poverty

Edward Barbier

6231: Is green growth good for the poor ?

Stefan Dercon

6230: Green growth -- lessons from growth theory

Sjak Smulders and Cees Withagen

6229: Exporter dynamics database

Tolga Cebeci, Ana Fernandes, Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

6228: What explains big gender disparities in India ? local industrial structures and female entrepreneurship

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O'Connell

6227: Oil price risks and pump price adjustments

Masami Kojima

6226: Innocent bystanders: how foreign uncertainty shocks harm exporters

Daria Taglioni and Veronika Zavacka

6225: Determinants of Tanzanian export prices

Valentina Rollo

6224: Facilitating international production networks: the role of trade logistics

Daniel Saslavsky and Ben Shepherd

6223: Making up people -- the effect of identity on preferences and performance in a modernizing society

Karla Hoff and Priyanka Pandey

6222: Export superstars

Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

6221: Demystifying China's fiscal stimulus

Shahrokh Fardoust, Justin Lin and Xubei Luo

6220: Weathering the storm: responses by Cambodian firms to the global financial crisis

Stephane Guimbert and Remco Oostendorp

6219: An analysis of physical and monetary losses of environmental health and natural resources in India

Muthukumara Mani, Anil Markandya, Aarsi Sagar and Elena Strukova

6218: Sovereign defaults and expropriations: empirical regularities

Maya Eden, Aart Kraay and Rong Qian

6217: Poverty in Mozambique: new evidence from recent household surveys

Federica Alfani, Carlo Azzarri, Marco d'Errico and Vasco Molini

6216: An exploration of the link between development, economic growth, and natural risk

Stephane Hallegatte

6215: Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior

Javier Baez, Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover and Roman Zarate

6214: Weather and child health in rural Nigeria

Mariano Rabassa, Emmanuel Skoufias and Hanan Jacoby

6213: Demand-side financing for sexual and reproductive health services in low and middle-income countries: a review of the evidence

Sophie Witter and Aparnaa Somanathan

6212: Vyaghranomics in space and time: estimating habitat threats for Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan and Sumatran tigers

Susmita Dasgupta, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft and David Wheeler

6211: Assessing the investment climate for climate investments: a comparative framework for clean energy investments in South Asia in a global context

Muthukumara S. Mani

6210: Middle-income growth traps

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Otaviano Canuto

6209: How firms use domestic and international corporate bond markets

Juan Carlos Gozzi, Ross Levine, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler

6208: India’s economic growth and environmental sustainability: what are the tradeoffs ?

Muthukumara Mani, Anil Markandya, Aarsi Sagar and Sebnem Sahin

6207: Handwashing behavior change at scale: evidence from a randomized evaluation in Vietnam

Claire Chase and Quy-Toan Do

6206: Distortions to agriculture and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kym Anderson and Markus Brückner

6205: Benchmarking global poverty reduction

Martin Ravallion

6204: Grameen bank lending: does group liability matter ?

Shahidur Khandker

6203: Health costs and benefits of ddt use in malaria control and prevention

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta, Abdelaziz Lagnaoui and Subhendu Roy

6202: What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world ?

David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

6201: Self-employment in the developing world

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and David Newhouse

6200: Migration and the transition to adulthood in contemporary Malawi

Kathleen Beegle and Michelle Poulin

6199: What is behind the decline in poverty since 2000 ? evidence from Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand

Gabriela Inchauste, Sergio Olivieri, Jaime Saavedra and Hernan Winkler

6198: What makes cities more competitive ? spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O'Connell

6197: Antidumping and market competition: implications for emerging economies

Chad Bown and Rachel McCulloch

6196: Bancassurance -- a valuable tool for developing insurance in emerging markets

Serap O. Gonulal, Nick Goulder and Rodney Lester

6195: Bank ownership and lending patterns during the 2008-2009 financial crisis: evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe

Robert Cull and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

6194: Trade policy and wage inequality: a structural analysis with occupational and sectoral mobility

Erhan Artuc and John McLaren

6193: Investment decision making under deep uncertainty -- application to climate change

Stephane Hallegatte, Ankur Shah, Robert Lempert, Casey Brown and Stuart Gill

6192: Sri Lanka: from peace dividend to sustained growth acceleration

Daminda Fonseka, Brian Pinto, Mona Prasad and Francis Rowe

6191: What's new in the new industrial policy in Latin America ?

Robert Devlin and Graciela Moguillansky

6190: Should African rural development strategies depend on smallholder farms ? an exploration of the inverse productivity hypothesis

Talip Kilic, Donald F. Larson, Tomoya Matsumoto, Keijiro Otsuka, Talip Kilic, Donald F. Larson, Tomoya Matsumoto and Keijiro Otsuka

6189: Effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving women's employability and quality of work: a critical review

Petra Todd

6188: Climate change, agriculture and food security in Tanzania

Channing Arndt, William Farmer, Kenneth Strzepek and James Thurlow

6187: The persistence of (subnational) fortune: geography, agglomeration, and institutions in the new world

William Maloney and Felipe Valencia Caicedo

6186: MTEFs and fiscal performance: panel data evidence

Francesco Grigoli, Zachary Mills, Marijn Verhoeven and Razvan Vlaicu

6185: Drivers of convergence in eleven eastern European countries

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Harald Oberhofer, Karlis Smits and Gallina A Vincelette

6184: Household enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa: why they matter for growth, jobs, and livelihoods

Louise Fox and Thomas Sohnesen

6183: Tourism sector in Panama: regional economic impacts and the potential to benefit the poor

Irina Klytchnikova and Paul Dorosh

6182: Evidence-based implementation efficiency analysis of the HIV/AIDS national response in Colombia

Antonio Moreno, Alvarez-Rosete. Arturo, Ricardo Luque Nunez, Teresa del Carmen Moreno Chavez, Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia, Fernando Montenegro, Luis Angel Moreno, Alejandra Suarez Lissi, Pedro Magne Concardo and Michel Eric Gaillard

6181: Sovereign bailouts and senior loans

Christophe Chamley and Brian Pinto

6180: Equity in tertiary education in Central America: an overview

Sajitha Bashir and Javier Luque

6179: Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict

Philip Keefer

6178: Protection in good and bad times ? the Turkish green card health program

Meltem Aran and Jesko S. Hentschel

6177: Are international food price spikes the source of Egypt's high inflation ?

Sherine Al-Shawarby and Hoda Selim

6176: The doing business indicators, economic growth and regulatory reform

Marek Hanusch

6175: Benchmarking financial systems around the world

Martin Cihak, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Erik Feyen and Ross Levine

6174: Making public sector reforms work: political and economic contexts, incentives, and strategies

Simone Bunse and Verena Fritz

6173: Shelter from the storm -- but disconnected from jobs: lessons from urban South Africa on the importance of coordinating housing and transport policies

Somik Lall, Rogier van den Brink, Basab Dasgupta and Kay Muir Leresche

6172: Distance to market and search costs in an African maize market

Shireen Mahdi

6171: Quality contingent contracts: evidence from Tanzania's coffee market

Shireen Mahdi

6170: Heterogeneous returns to education in the labor market

Tazeen Fasih, Geeta Kingdon, Harry Patrinos, Christos Sakellariou and Mans Soderbom

6169: The benefits of India's rural roads program in the spheres of goods, education and health: joint estimation and decomposition

Clive Bell

6168: Estimating the social profitability of India's rural roads program: a bumpy ride

Clive Bell

6167: How does India's rural roads program affect the grassroots ? findings from a survey in Orissa

Clive Bell and Susanne van Dillen

6166: Internal migration in Egypt: levels, determinants, wages, and likelihood of employment

Santiago Herrera and Karim Badr