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- 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
- 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 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
- 6110: Bank ownership and credit over the business cycle: is lending by state banks less procyclical?

- Ata Bertay, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga
- 6109: Policy barriers to international trade in services: evidence from a new database

- Ingo Borchert, Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo
- 6108: Guide to the services trade restrictions database

- Ingo Borchert, Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo
- 6107: Financial literacy around the world: an overview of the evidence with practical suggestions for the way forward

- Lisa Xu and Bilal Zia
- 6106: CGE modeling of market access in services

- Elisabeth Christen, Joseph Francois and Bernard Hoekman
- 6105: Financial globalization in emerging countries: diversification vs. offshoring

- Francisco Ceballos, Tatiana Didier and Sergio Schmukler
- 6104: Creating jobs in South Asia's conflict zones

- Lakshmi Iyer and Indhira Santos
- 6103: The risks of innovation: are innovating firms less likely to die ?

- Ana Fernandes and Caroline Paunov
- 6102: Greening China's rural energy: new insights on the potential of smallholder biogas

- Luc Christiaensen and Rasmus Heltberg
- 6101: Overdraft facility policy and firm performance: an empirical analysis in eastern European Union industrial firms

- Leopoldo Laborda Castillo and Jose Luis Guasch
- 6100: Using performance incentives to improve health outcomes

- Paul Gertler and Christel Vermeersch
- 6099: Government spending multipliers in developing countries: evidence from lending by official creditors

- Aart Kraay
- 6098: Determinants of market integration and price transmission in Indonesia

- Gonzalo Varela, Enrique Aldaz-Carroll and Leonardo Iacovone
- 6097: Collecting high frequency panel data in Africa using mobile phone interviews

- Kevin Croke, Andrew Dabalen, Gabriel Demombynes, Marcelo Giugale and Johannes Hoogeveen
- 6096: Causes and implications of credit rationing in rural Ethiopia: the importance of spatial variation

- Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger
- 6095: Who benefits most from rural electrification ? evidence in India

- Shahidur Khandker, Hussain Samad, Rubaba Ali and Douglas F. Barnes
- 6094: Why don't banks lend to Egypt's private sector ?

- Santiago Herrera, Christophe Hurlin and Chahir Zaki
- 6093: Revising commitments: field evidence on the adjustment of prior choices

- Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg, Dan Silverman and Dean Yang
- 6092: Fiscal policy in Colombia: tapping its potential for a more equitable society

- Lars Moller
- 6091: Turkish treasury simulation model for debt strategy analysis

- Emre Balibek and Hamdi Alper Memis
- 6090: Who is deprived ? who feels deprived ? labor deprivation, youth and gender in Morocco

- Umar Serajuddin and Paolo Verme
- 6089: Investing mineral wealth in development assets: Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone

- Daniel Boakye, Sebastien Dessus, Yusuf Foday and Felix Oppong
- 6088: Financial inclusion in Africa: an overview

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Leora Klapper
- 6087: A multiple correspondence analysis approach to the measurement of multidimensional poverty in Morocco, 2001-2007

- Abdeljaouad Ezzrar and Paolo Verme
- 6086: Bank deleveraging: causes, channels, and consequences for emerging market and developing countries

- Erik Feyen, Katie Kibuuka and Inci Ötker-Robe
- 6085: Does Africa need a rotten Kin Theorem ? experimental evidence from village economies

- Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier
- 6084: Decomposing the increase in TIMSS Scores in Ghana: 2003-2007

- Christos Sakellariou
- 6083: Demand side instruments to reduce road transportation externalities in the greater Cairo metropolitan area

- Ian Parry and Govinda Timilsina
- 6082: Does it pay to be a Cadre ? estimating the returns to being a local official in rural China

- Jian Zhang, John Giles and Scott Rozelle
- 6081: Liberia: strategic policy options for medium term growth and development

- Sebastien Dessus, Jariya Hoffman and Hans Lofgren
- 6080: Aligning climate change mitigation and agricultural policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

- Donald Larson, Ariel Dinar and Brian Blankespoor
- 6079: The Jordan education initiative: a multi-stakeholder partnership model to support education reform

- Haif Bannayan, Juliana Guaqueta, Osama Obeidat, Harry Patrinos and Emilio Porta
- 6078: Impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on global poverty and income distribution

- Caesar B. Cororaton and Govinda Timilsina
- 6077: Estimating the causal effects of conflict on education in Côte d'Ivoire

- Andrew L. Dabalen and Saumik Paul
- 6076: Patterns and correlates of intergenerational non-time transfers: evidence from CHARLS

- Xiaoyan Lei, John Giles, Yuqing Hu, Albert Park, John Strauss and Yaohui Zhao
- 6075: General purpose central-provincial-local transfers (DAU) in Indonesia: from gap filling to ensuring fair access to essential public services for all

- Anwar Shah, Riatu Qibthiyyah and Astrid Dita
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