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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

6074: Is the baby to blame ? an inquiry into the consequences of early childbearing

João Pedro Azevedo, Luis Lopez-Calva and Elizaveta Perova

6073: The impact of financial literacy training for migrants

John Gibson, David McKenzie and Bilal Zia

6072: On the international transmission of shocks: micro-evidence from mutual fund portfolios

Claudio Raddatz and Sergio Schmukler

6071: Natural resources, weak states and civil war: can rents stabilize coup prone regimes ?

Cristina Bodea

6070: Reform of the international monetary system: a jagged history and uncertain prospects

Justin Lin, Shahrokh Fardoust and David Rosenblatt

6069: Financing infrastructure and monitoring fiscal risks at the subnational level

Lili Liu and Juan Pradelli

6068: Economy-wide implications of direct and indirect policy interventions in the water sector: lessons from recent work and future research needs

Ariel Dinar

6067: Green Growth: an exploratory review

Michael Toman

6066: Gender and rural non-farm entrepreneurship

Bob Rijkers and Rita Costa

6065: Long-term impacts of global food crisis on production decisions: evidence from farm investments in Indonesia

Manabu Nose and Futoshi Yamauchi

6064: Experiments in culture and corruption: a review

Sheheryar Banuri and Catherine Eckel

6063: Pharmaceutical patents and prices: a preliminary empirical assessment using data from India

Mark Duggan and Aparajita Goyal

6062: Together we stand ? agglomeration in Indian manufacturing

Ana Fernandes and Gunjan Sharma

6061: Female wages in the apparel industry post-MFA: the cases of Cambodia and Sri Lanka

Yevgeniya Savchenko and Gladys Lopez Acevedo

6060: The spatial development of India

Klaus Desmet, Ejaz Ghani, Stephen O'Connell and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

6059: Should Wall-Street be occupied ? an overlooked price externality of financial intermediation

Maya Eden

6058: A cost effective solution to reduce disaster losses in developing countries: hydro-meteorological services, early warning, and evacuation

Stephane Hallegatte

6057: What has driven the decline of infant mortality in Kenya ?

Gabriel Demombynes and Sofia Trommlerová

6056: Recent labor market performance in Vietnam through a gender lens

Gaelle Pierre

6055: Gender, geography and generations: intergenerational educational mobility in post-reform India

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

6054: Orderly sovereign debt restructuring: missing in action !

Otaviano Canuto, Brian Pinto and Mona Prasad

6053: Transfers, diversification and household risk strategies: experimental evidence with lessons for climate change adaptation

Karen Macours, Patrick Premand and Renos Vakis