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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 A. 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

Chris 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

6052: How pro-poor and progressive is social spending in Zambia ?

Jose Cuesta, Pamela Kabaso and Pablo Suarez-Becerra

6051: The contribution of African women to economic growth and development: historical perspectives and policy implications -- Part I: the pre-colonial and colonial periods

Emmanuel Akyeampong and Hippolyte Fofack

6050: External finance and firm survival in the aftermath of the crisis: evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

George Clarke, Robert Cull and Gregory Kisunko

6049: The political economy of the middle class in the Dominican Republic: individualization of public goods, lack of institutional trust and weak collective action

Miguel Eduardo Sanchez and Roby Senderowitsch

6048: Equality of opportunities and fiscal incidence in Cote d'Ivoire

Ana Abras, Jose Cuesta, Alejandro Hoyos and Ambar Narayan

6047: Modeling the roles of heterogeneity, substitution, and inventories in the assessment of natural disaster economic costs

Stephane Hallegatte

6046: How bribery distorts firm growth: differences by firm attributes

Murat Seker and Judy Yang

6045: Correcting real exchange rate misalignment: conceptual and practical issues

Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen

6044: Global fiscal adjustment and trade rebalancing

Warwick McKibbin, Andrew B Stoeckel and Yingying Lu

6043: Performance-related pay in the public sector: a review of theory and evidence

Zahid Hasnain, Nick Manning and Pierskalla Henryk

6042: Impact of social fund on the welfare of rural households: evidence from the Nepal poverty alleviation fund

Dilip Parajuli, Gayatri Acharya, Nazmul Chaudhury and Bishnu Bahadur Thapa

6041: Distortions in the international migrant labor market:evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks

David McKenzie, Caroline Theoharides and Dean Yang

6040: Shifting patterns of economic growth and rethinking development

Justin Lin and David Rosenblatt

6039: Managing state debt and ensuring solvency: the Indian experience

C. Rangarajan and Abha Prasad

6038: Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: evidence from the great recession

Chad Bown and Meredith Crowley

6037: Identifying aid effectiveness challenges in fragile and conflict-affected states

Yoichiro Ishihara

6036: Financing of firms in developing countries: lessons from research

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

6035: Workers'age and the impact of trade shocks

Erhan Artuc

6034: Do migrants really foster trade ? the trade-migration nexus, a panel approach 1960-2000

Christopher Parsons

6033: World food prices and human development: Policy simulations for archetype low-income countries

Hans Lofgren

6032: Land fragmentation, cropland abandonment, and land market operation in Albania

Klaus Deininger, Sara Savastano and Calogero Carletto

6031: Food security and storage in the Middle East and North Africa

Donald Larson, Julian Lampietti, Christophe Gouel, Carlo Cafiero and John Roberts

6030: Funding vs. real economy shock: the impact of the 2007-2009 crisis on small firms'credit availability

Gunhild Berg and Karolin Kirschenmann

6029: Adapting road procurement to climate conditions

Atsushi Iimi and Radia Benamghar

6028: Optimizing the size of public road contracts

Atsushi Iimi and Radia Benamghar

6027: Participatory accountability and collective action: evidence from field experiments in Albanian schools

Abigail Barr, Truman Packard and Danila Serra

6026: Productivity and the welfare of nations

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli and Luis Serven

6025: Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Leora Klapper

6024: Food security and wheat prices in Afghanistan: a distribution-sensitive analysis of household-level impacts

Anna D'Souza, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Anna D'Souza and Dean Mitchell Jolliffe

6023: Impact of services liberalization on industry productivity, exports and development: six empirical studies in the transition countries

David Tarr

6022: Biotechnology innovation for inclusive growth: a study of Indian policies to foster accelerated technology adaptation for affordable development

K. Vijayaraghavan and Mark A. Dutz

6021: Why quality matters: rebuilding trustworthy local government in post-conflict Sierra Leone

Audrey Sacks and Marco Larizza

6020: Does a picture paint a thousand words ? evidence from a microcredit marketing experiment

Xavier Gine, Ghazala Mansuri and Mario Picon

6019: When do donors trust recipient country systems ?

Stephen Knack

6018: How vulnerable are Arab countries to global food price shocks ?

Elena Ianchovichina, Josef Loening and Christina Wood

6017: R&D and aggregate fluctuations

Erhan Artuc and Panayiotis Pourpourides

6016: Household coping and response to government stimulus in an economic crisis: evidence from Thailand

Shahidur Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Haughtonm Jonathan and Somchai Jitsuchon

6015: Do middle classes bring institutional reforms ?

Norman Loayza, Iamele Rigolini and Gonzalo Llorente

6014: The impact of demand on cargo dwell time in ports in SSA

Monica Beuran, Mohamed Hadi Mahihenni, Gaël Raballand and Salim Refas

6013: Achieving the MDGs in Yemen: an assessment

Abdulmajeed Al-Batuly, Mohamed Al-Hawri, Martín Cicowiez, Hans Lofgren and Mohammad Pournik

6012: Putting services and foreign direct investment with endogenous productivity effects in computable general equilibrium models

David Tarr

6011: Channels of transmission of the 2007/09 global crisis to international bank lending in developing countries

Jonathon Adams-Kane, Yueqing Jia and Jamus Lim