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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 Sánchez-Martín and Roby Senderowitsch

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

Ana Abras, Jose Cuesta, Alejandro Hoyos Suarez 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 Servén

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

6010: Structural challenges for SOEs in Belarus: a case study of the machine building sector

Edgardo Favaro, Karlis Smits and Marina Bakanova

6009: How accurate are recall data ? evidence from coastal India

Francesca de Nicola and Xavier Gine

6008: Gender inequality in the labor market in Serbia

Anna Reva

6007: Trade causes growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Markus Brückner and Daniel Lederman

6006: Public services and expenditure need equalization: reflections on principles and worldwide comparative practices

Anwar Shah

6005: Firm growth and productivity in Belarus: new empirical evidence from the machine building industry

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Harald Oberhofer and Gallina A. Vincelette

6004: Autonomy with equity and accountability: toward a more transparent, objective, predictable and simpler (TOPS) system of central financing of provincial-local expenditures in Indonesia

Anwar Shah

6003: Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment ?

Puja Dutta, Rinku Murgai, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

6002: Grant financing of metropolitan areas: a review of principles and worldwide practices

Anwar Shah

6001: Collateralized Borrowing: Insights from The World Bank Enterprise Surveys

Yuting Fan, Ha Minh Nguyen, Rong Qian, Ha Minh Nguyen and Rong Qian

6000: Leading Dragons phenomenon: new opportunities for catch-up in low-income countries

Vandana Chandra, Justin Lin and Yan Wang

5999: The law's majestic equality ? the distributive impact of litigating social and economic rights

Daniel M. Brinks and Varun Gauri

5998: Appraising the Thailand village fund

Jirawan Boonperm, Jonathan Haughton, Shahidur Khandker and Pungpond Rukumnuaykit

5997: Sexual behavior change intentions and actions in the context of a randomized trial of a conditional cash transfer for HIV prevention in Tanzania

Laura Packel, William Dow, Damien de Walque, Zachary Isdahl and Albert Majura

5996: Assessing economic and political impacts of Hydrological variability on treaties: case studies on the Zambezi and Mekong basins

Brian Blankespoor, Alan Basist, Ariel Dinar and Shlomi Dinar

5995: Subjective perceptions of the impact of the global economic crisis in Europe and Central Asia: the household perspective

Benu Bidani, Mame Fatou Diagne and Salman Zaidi

5994: Governance and public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia: unofficial payments, utilization and satisfaction

Mame Fatou Diagne, Dena Ringold and Salman Zaidi

5993: Why do some countries default more often than others ? the role of institutions

Rong Qian

5992: Impact of hospital provider payment reforms in Croatia

Martina Bogut, Luka Voncina and Ethan Yeh

5991: The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

5990: 'Green'growth,'green'jobs and labor markets

Alex Bowen

5989: Spillover effects of exchange rates: a study of the Renminbi

Aaditya Mattoo, Prachi Mishra and Arvind Subramanian

5988: Kenya's mobile revolution and the promise of mobile savings

Gabriel Demombynes and Aaron Thegeya

5987: Improving farmers'access to agricultural insurance in India

Daniel Clarke, Olivier Mahul and Niraj Verma

5986: Index based crop insurance product design and ratemaking: the case of modified NAIS in India

Daniel Clarke, Olivier Mahul and Niraj Verma

5985: Weather based crop insurance in India

Daniel Clarke, Olivier Mahul, Kolli Nageswara Rao and Niraj Verma

5984: Weathering a storm: survey-based perspectives on employment in China in the aftermath of the global financial crisis

John Giles, Albert Park, Fang Cai and Yang Du

5983: Can we trust shoestring evaluations ?

Martin Ravallion

5982: Fiscal multipliers over the growth cycle: evidence from Malaysia

Sohrab Rafiq and Albert Zeufack

5981: How does bank competition affect systemic stability ?

Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Min Zhu

5980: Financial literacy and the financial crisis

Leora Klapper, Annamaria Lusardi and Georgios Panos

5979: Geography and exporting behavior: evidence from India

Megha Mukim

5978: Using pooled information and bootstrap methods to assess debt sustainability in low income countries

Constantino Hevia

5977: Agriculture public spending and growth in Indonesia

Enrique Blanco Armas, Camilo Gomez Osorio, Blanca Moreno-Dodson and Dwi Endah Abriningrum

5976: Food standards and exports: evidence from China

Axel Mangelsdorf, Alberto Portugal-Perez and John Wilson

5975: Financing businesses in Africa: the role of microfinance

Shilpa Aggarwal, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer

5974: Soil endowments, female labor force participation and the demographic deficit of women in India

Eliana Carranza

5973: Stimulating demand for AIDS prevention: lessons from the RESPECT trial

Damien de Walque, William Dow, Carol Medlin and Rose Nathan

5972: Islamic inheritance law, son preference and fertility behavior of Muslim couples in Indonesia

Eliana Carranza

5971: A tale of two species: revisiting the effect of registration reform on informal business owners in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn

5970: Regional integration and natural resources: who benefits ? evidence from MENA

Celine Carrere, Julien Gourdon and Marcelo Olarreaga

5969: Global survey of development banks

Jose de Luna-Martinez and Carlos Leonardo Vicente

5968: Poor, or just feeling poor ? on using subjective data in measuring poverty

Martin Ravallion

5967: An economic integration zone for the East African Community: exploiting regional potential and addressing commitment challenges

Anton Dobronogov and Thomas Farole

5966: Mines, migration and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa

Lucia Corno and Damien de Walque

5965: Child labor, schooling, and child ability

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

5964: Multidimensional poverty analysis: Looking for a middle ground

Francisco Ferreira and Maria Ana Lugo

5963: Uganda's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster

5962: Tanzania's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Maria Shkaratan

5961: Emerging economies in the 2000s: real decoupling and financial recoupling

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Tomas Williams

5960: Simulating the impact of the 2009 financial crisis on welfare in Latvia

Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Francisco Haimovich and Mehtabul Azam

5959: The impact of wealth on the amount and quality of child labor

Ximena Del Carpio and Norman Loayza

5958: Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms: impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

5957: Anatomy of coping: evidence from people living through the crises of 2008-11

Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain, Anna Reva and Carolyn Turk

5956: Fiscal implications of climate change

Benjamin Jones, Michael Keen and Jon Strand

5955: Allocative inefficiencies resulting from subsidies to agricultural electricity use: an illustrative model

Jon Strand

5954: Identification of sources of variation in poverty outcomes

B. Essama-Nssah

5953: Bilateral M&A activity from the global south

Mansoor Dailami, Sergio Kurlat and Jamus Lim

5952: Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits

Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani