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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

5951: Human rights as demands for communicative action

Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks

5950: Market-based instruments for international aviation and shipping as a source of climate finance

Michael Keen, Ian Parry and Jon Strand

5949: Moving off the farm: Land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Fang Xia

5948: Services reform and manufacturing performance: evidence from India

Jens Arnold, Beata Javorcik, Molly Lipscomb and Aaditya Mattoo

5947: Is the financial safety net a barrier to cross-border banking ?

Ata Bertay, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

5946: Surviving the global financial crisis: foreign ownership and establishment performance

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

5945: Life satisfaction, social capital and the bonding-bridging nexus

Maurizio Pugno and Paolo Verme

5944: Services liberalization and productivity of manufacturing firms: evidence from Ukraine

Oleksandr Shepotylo and Volodymyr Vakhitov

5943: Optimal food price stabilization in a small open developing country

Christophe Gouel and Sebastien Jean

5942: Landlocked or policy locked ? how services trade protection deepens economic isolation

Ingo Borchert, Batshur Gootiiz, Arti Grover and Aaditya Mattoo

5941: Systemic oversight frameworks in LAC: current practices and reform agenda

Eva Gutierrez and Patricia Caraballo

5940: Beyond Keynesianism: global infrastructure investments in times of crisis

Justin Lin and Doerte Doemeland

5939: Mozambique Cashew reforms revisited

M. Ataman Aksoy and Fahrettin Yagci

5938: Human rights based approaches to developmen t: concepts, evidence, and policy

Varun Gauri and Siri Gloppen

5937: The unexpected global financial crisis: researching its root cause

Justin Lin and Volker Treichel

5936: Macroprudential stress testing of credit risk: a practical approach for policy makers

Daniel Buncic and Martin Melecký

5935: Reputation matters: spillover effects in the enforcement of US SPS measures

Marie-Agnès Jouanjean and Jean-Christophe Maur

5934: Aid tying and donor fragmentation

Stephen Knack and Lodewijk Smets

5933: Severance pay compliance in Indonesia

Vera Brusentsev, David Newhouse and Wayne Vroman

5932: Green growth, technology and innovation

Mark A. Dutz and Siddharth Sharma

5931: Innovative and absorptive capacity of international knowledge: an empirical analysis of productivity sources in Latin American countries

Leopoldo Laborda Castillo, Daniel Sotelsek Salem and Jose Luis Guasch

5930: Relative deprivation, reference groups and the assessment of standard of living

Jacques Silber and Paolo Verme

5929: Financial distortions and the distribution of global volatility

Maya Eden

5928: Reducing distortions in international commodity markets: an agenda for multilateral cooperation

Bernard Hoekman and Will Martin

5927: The challenges to long run fiscal sustainability in Romania

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah, Martin Brownbridge, Anca Paliu and Ionut Dumitru

5926: Income shocks reduce human capital investments: evidence from five east European countries

Basab Dasgupta and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad

5925: Assessing real exchange rate misalignments

Megumi Kubota

5924: Post-HIPC growth dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nihal Bayraktar and Hippolyte Fofack

5923: Undeclared economic activity in central and eastern Europe -- how taxes contribute and how countries respond to the problem

Willi Leibfritz

5922: Tax morale and compliance: review of evidence and case studies for Europe

Benno Torgler

5921: Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010

Leonardo Gasparini, Sebastian Galiani, Guillermo Cruces and Pablo Acosta

5920: The role of Islamic finance in enhancing financial inclusion in organization of Islamic cooperation (OIC) countries

Mahmoud Mohieldin, Zamir Iqbal, Ahmed Rostom and Xiaochen Fu

5919: Coordinating tax reforms in the poorest countries: can lost tariffs be recouped ?

Swarnim Wagle

5918: Identifying and evaluating large scale policy interventions: what questions can we answer ?

Sandesh Dhungana

5917: What explains prevalence of informal employment in European countries: the role of labor institutions, governance, immigrants, and growth

Mihails Hazans

5916: Intra-generational mobility and repeated cross-sections: a three-country validation exercise

Guillermo Cruces, Peter Lanjouw, Leonardo Lucchetti, Elizaveta Perova, Renos Vakis and Mariana Viollaz

5915: Does financial structure matter for poverty ? evidence from developing countries

Kangni Kpodar and Raju Jan Singh

5914: Investing across borders with heterogeneous firms: do FDI-specific regulations matter?

Swarnim Wagle

5913: Labor institutions and their impact on shadow economies in Europe

Kamila Fialova and Ondrej Schneider

5912: Informal workers across Europe: evidence from 30 European countries

Mihails Hazans

5911: Tax morale, eastern Europe and European enlargement

Benno Torgler