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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 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 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

5910: An attempt to measure the trends in shadow employment in Poland

Mateusz Walewski

5909: Economic integration in the lower Congo region: opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville bottleneck

Marius Brülhart and Mombert Hoppe

5908: Fact or artefact: the impact of measurement errors on the farm size - productivity relationship

Calogero Carletto, Sara Savastano, Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto, Sara Savastano and Alberto Zezza

5907: Migration, remittances and forests: disentangling the impact of population and economic growth on forests

Sailesh Tiwari and Keshav Bhattarai

5906: Stress-testing croatian households with debt -- implications for financial stability

Naotaka Sugawara and Juan Zalduendo

5905: Spending on Public Infrastructure: A Practitioner's Guide

Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Afua Sarkodie

5904: Power tariffs: caught between cost recovery and affordability

Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Maria Shkaratan

5903: The relative volatility of commodity prices: a reappraisal

Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman and Hongyan Zhao

5902: A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class

Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

5901: How important is the efficiency of government investment ? The case of the Republic of Congo

Hannah Nielsen and Hans Lofgren

5900: Cluster-based industrial parks: a practical framework for action

Celestin Monga

5899: ECOWAS's infrastructure: a regional perspective

Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster

5898: The SADC's infrastructure: a regional perspective

Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster

5897: China and the world trading system

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

5896: Cotton, biotechnology, and economic development

John Baffes

5895: Quality of tax administration: how relevant is country size ?

Mohammad Amin

5894: The time cost of documents to trade

Mohammad Amin

5893: Risk absorption by the state: when is it good public policy ?

Deniz Anginer, Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

5892: Knowledgeable bankers ? the demand for research in World Bank operations

Martin Ravallion

5891: Explaining local manufacturing growth in Chile: the advantages of sectoral diversity

Rita Almeida and Ana Fernandes

5890: Assessment testing can be used to inform policy decisions: the case of Jordan

Husein Abdul-Hamid, Khattab M. Abu-Lebdeh and Harry Patrinos

5889: A trio of perspectives on corruption: bias, speed money and"grand theft infrastructure"

Charles Kenny, Michael Klein and Monika Sztajerowska

5888: Explaining the demand for sovereignty

Nicholas Sambanis and Branko Milanovic

5887: Botswana's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Nataliya Pushak

5886: International trade and inclusive growth: a primer for busy policy analysts

Daniel Lederman

5885: Mozambique's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia

5884: Avoiding the fragility trap in Africa

Noro Aina Andrimihaja, Matthias Cinyabuguma and Shantayanan Devarajan

5883: The regressive demands of demand-driven development

Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler

5882: The household enterprise sector in Tanzania: why it matters and who cares

Josaphat Kweka and Louise Fox

5881: The impact of pro-vulnerable income transfers: Leisure, dependency and a distribution hypothesis

Nicola Limodio

5880: Job growth and finance: are some financial institutions better suited to early stages of development than others?

Robert Cull and L. Colin Xu

5879: Is optimization an opportunity ? an assessment of the impact of class size and school size on the performance of Ukrainian secondary schools

Tom Coupé, Anna Olefir and Juan Diego Alonso

5878: Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

Pedro Carneiro, Michael Lokshin, Cristobal Ridao-Cano and Nithin Umapathi

5877: Impact evaluation of trade interventions: paving the way

Olivier Cadot, Ana Fernandes, Julien Gourdon and Aaditya Mattoo

5876: Effects of licensing reform on firm innovation: evidence from India

Murat Seker

5875: Should cash transfers be confined to the poor ? implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America

Pablo Acosta, Phillipe Leite and Iamele Rigolini

5874: Is there such thing as middle class values ? Class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America

Luis Lopez-Calva, Iamele Rigolini and Florencia Torche

5873: The measurement of educational inequality: achievement and opportunity

Francisco Ferreira and Jérémie Gignoux

5872: From growth to green growth -- a framework

Stephane Hallegatte, Geoffrey Heal, Marianne Fay and David Tréguer

5871: Cross border banking supervision: incentive conflicts in supervisory information sharing between home and host supervisors

Katia D'Hulster

5870: Consumption baskets and currency choice in international borrowing

Julien Bengui and Ha Nguyen

5869: Do crises catalyze creative destruction ? firm-level evidence from Indonesia

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Bob Rijkers

5868: Export growth and diversification: the case of Peru

Javier Illescas and C. Felipe Jaramillo

5867: Estimating the long-term impacts of rural roads: a dynamic panel approach

Shahidur Khandker and Gayatri B. Koolwal

5866: Is informality welfare-enhancing structural transformation ? evidence from Uganda

Louise Fox and Obert Pimhidzai

5865: Can social safety nets alleviate seasonal deprivation ? evidence from northwest Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker, M. Abdul Khaleque and Hussain Samad

5864: What drives the global"land rush"?

Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger and Harris Selod

5863: Wage rigidity and disinflation in emerging countries

Julian Messina and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

5862: Determinants of trade policy responses to the 2008 financial crisis

Kishore Gawande, Bernard Hoekman and Yue Cui

5861: The elusive quest for supply response to cash-crop market reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of cotton

Claire Delpeuch and Antoine Leblois

5860: Financial sector ups and downs and the real sector: big hindrance, little help

Joshua Aizenman, Brian Pinto and Vladyslav Sushko

5859: To give or to forgive ? aid versus debt relief

Tito Cordella and Alessandro Missaley

5858: Higher wages, lower pay: public vs. private sector compensation in Peru

Andrea Coppola and Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez

5857: ECCAS's infrastructure: a regional perspective

Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster

5856: Employment growth patterns in South Asia: some evidence from interim enterprise survey data

Klaus Friesenbichler

5855: Enrichment with growth

Michael Klein

5854: Financial development: structure and dynamics

Augusto de la Torre, Erik Feyen and Alain Ize

5853: The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective

John Giles, Dewen Wang and Wei Cai