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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 Pave 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, Chris 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

6165: Learning from China's rise to escape the middle-income trap: a new structural economics approach to Latin America

Justin Lin and Volker Treichel

6164: Job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa

Elena Ianchovichina, Antonio Estache, Renaud Foucart, Grégoire Garsous and Tito Yepes

6163: How bank competition affects firms'access to finance

Inessa Love and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

6162: Emerging economies and the emergence of south-south protectionism

Chad Bown

6161: Impact of WTO accession and the customs union on the bound and applied tariff rates of the Russian federation

Oleksandr Shepotylo and David Tarr

6160: Understanding the business environment in South Asia: evidence from firm-level surveys

Wendy Carlin and Mark Schaffer

6159: Equality of opportunity for children in Egypt, 2000-2009: achievements and challenges

Carlos Velez, Sherine Al-Shawarby and Heba El-Laithy

6158: Can donors and non-state actors undermine citizens'legitimating beliefs ?

Audrey Sacks

6157: Who you train matters: identifying complementary effects of financial education on migrant households

Yoko Doi, David McKenzie and Bilal Zia

6156: Jobless growth ? Okun's law in East Asia

Marek Hanusch

6155: Unlocking Bangladesh-India trade: emerging potential and the way forward

Prabir De, Selim Raihan and Sanjay Kathuria

6154: How inertia and limited potentials affect the timing of sectoral abatements in optimal climate policy

Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Guy Meunier and Stephane Hallegatte

6153: Accounting for gender production from a growth accounting framework in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hippolyte Fofack

6152: Working with the grain for reforming the public service: a live example from Sierra Leone

Vivek Srivastava and Marco Larizza

6151: Are natural resources cursed ? an investigation of the dynamic effects of resource dependence on institutional quality

Donato De Rosa and Mariana Iootty

6150: Poverty and distributional impact of gas price hike in Armenia

Lire Ersado

6149: Women's access to labor market opportunities, control of household resources, and domestic violence

Rachel Heath

6148: Reforming subsidies: a tool-kit for policy simulations

Abdelkrim Araar and Paolo Verme

6147: Does the minimum wage affect employment ? evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia

Ximena Del Carpio, Ha Nguyen and Liang Wang

6146: Incentivizing calculated risk-taking:evidence from an experiment with commercial bank loan officers

Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper

6145: Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

6144: Did Latvia's public works program mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 crisis ?

Mehtabul Azam, Celine Ferre and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad

6143: Promoting intellectual property monetization in developing countries: a review of issues and strategies to support knowledge-driven growth

Roya Ghafele and Benjamin Gibert

6142: Measuring intangible assets in an emerging market economy: an application to Brazil

Mark A. Dutz, Sergio Kannebley, Maira Scarpelli and Siddharth Sharma

6141: Soft skills or hard cash ? the impact of training and wage subsidy programs on female youth employment in Jordan

Matthew Groh, Nandini Krishnan, David McKenzie and Tara Vishwanath

6140: Performance of skilled migrants in the U.S.: a dynamic approach

Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Neagu Constantinescu and Caglar Ozden

6139: Can participation be induced ? some evidence from developing countries

Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao

6138: How close is your government to its people ? worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization

Maksym Ivanyna and Anwar Shah

6137: The impacts of public hospital autonomization: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Adam Wagstaff and Sarah Bales

6136: Matching reforms to institutional realities: a framework for assessing social service delivery reform strategies in developing countries

Ariel Fiszbein and Yasuhiko Matsuda

6135: Economic implications of reducing carbon emissions from energy use and industrial processes in Brazil

Y.-H. Henry Chen and Govinda Timilsina

6134: Rainfall variability, occupational choice, and welfare in rural Bangladesh

Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and Emmanuel Skoufias

6133: Direct democracy and resource allocation: experimental evidence from Afghanistan

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov

6132: Agriculture and trade opportunities for Tanzania: past volatility and future climate change

Syud Ahmed, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Thomas W. Hertel and Will Martin

6131: Green prices

Ngoc Bich Tran and Eduardo Ley

6130: Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs

Lodewijk Smets, Stephen Knack and Nadia Molenaers

6129: Winning hearts and minds through development ? evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia, Ruben Enikolopov, Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov

6128: Promoting the rural farm and nonfarm businesses: evidence from the Yemen rural investment climate

Naotaka Sawada and Jian Zhang

6127: The crisis in the Euro zone: did the euro contribute to the evolution of the crisis ?

Justin Lin and Volker Treichel

6126: A global perspective on effectiveness of aid for trade

Maria Berrittella and Jian Zhang

6125: Shifting comparative advantages in Tajikistan: implications for growth strategy

Souleymane Coulibaly

6124: Potential gains and losses of Biofuel production in Argentina: a computable general equilibrium analysis

Omar Chisari, Carlos Romero and Govinda Timilsina

6123: Power market structure and performance

Maria Vagliasindi

6122: Implementing energy subsidy reforms: an overview of the key issues

Maria Vagliasindi

6121: The role of regulatory governance in driving PPPs in electricity transmission and distribution in developing countries: a cross-country analysis

Maria Vagliasindi

6120: The role of policy driven incentives to attract PPPs in renewable-based energy in developing countries: a cross-country analysis

Maria Vagliasindi

6119: The health effects of universal health care: evidence from Thailand

Adam Wagstaff and Wanwiphang Manachotphong

6118: Key drivers of PPPs in electricity generation in developing countries: cross-country evidence of switching between PPP investment in fossil fuel and renewable-based generation

Maria Vagliasindi

6117: Economic analysis of projects in a greenhouse world

Kirk Hamilton and Jana Stover

6116: Universal health care and informal labor markets: the case of Thailand

Adam Wagstaff and Wanwiphang Manachotphong

6115: Economic implications of moving toward global convergence on emission intensities

Govinda Timilsina

6114: More relatively-poor people in a less absolutely-poor world

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

6113: Regionalizing infrastructure for deepening market integration: the case of East Africa

Ioannis Kessides and Nancy C. Benjamin

6112: The future of the Nuclear industry reconsidered: risks, uncertainties, and continued potential

Ioannis Kessides

6111: Finance, comparative advantage, and resource allocation

Melise Jaud, Madina Kukenova and Martin Strieborny