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- 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
- 6274: Infrastructure policy: basic design options

- Michael Klein
- 6273: Replicating replication: due diligence in Roodman and Morduch's replication of Pitt and Khandker (1998)

- Mark Pitt and Shahidur Khandker
- 6272: Evaluating workfare when the work is unpleasant: evidence for India's national rural employment guarantee scheme

- Arthur Alik-Lagrange and Martin Ravallion
- 6271: Is India's manufacturing sector moving away from cities ?

- Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr
- 6270: Gross inflows gone wild: gross capital inflows, credit booms and crises

- Cesar Calderon and Megumi Kubota
- 6269: Empowering women: evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan

- Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov
- 6268: What drives short-run labor market volatility in offshoring industries ? evidence from northern Mexico during 2007-2009

- David Kaplan, Daniel Lederman and Raymond Robertson
- 6267: Ahmedabad: more but different government for"slum free"and livable cities

- Patricia Clarke Annez, Alain Bertaud, Marie-Agnes Bertaud, Bijal Bhatt, Chirayu Bhatt, Bimal Patel and Vidyadhar Phatak
- 6266: Monitoring export vulnerability to changes in growth rates of major global markets

- Claire H. Hollweg, Daniel Lederman and José-Daniel Reyes
- 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
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