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3480: Capital accumulation and resources depletion - a Hartwick rule counterfactual

Kirk Hamilton, Giovanni Ruta and Liaila Tajibaeva

3479: Why should we care about child labor? The education, labor market, and health consequences of child labor

Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia and Roberta Gatti

3478: Do services and transfers reach Morocco's poor? Evidence from poverty and spending maps

Dominique van de Walle

3477: Agglomeration, transport, and regional development in Indonesia

Uwe Deichmann, Kai Kaiser, Somik Lall and Zmarak Shalizi

3476: Firm financing in India: recent trends and patterns

Inessa Love and Maria Martinez Peria

3475: Using an asset-based approach to identify drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America: a conceptual framework

Paul B. Siegel

3474: Choosing formulas for market access negotiation: efficiency and market access considerations

Vlad Manole, Will Martin and Joseph Francois

3473: Poverty effects of Russia's WTO accession: modeling"real"households and endogenous productivity effects

Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr and Oleksandr Shepotylo

3472: Democracy, credibility and clientelism

Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

3471: Do government policies that promote competition encourage or discourage new product and process development in low and middle-income countries?

George Clarke

3470: PPI partnerships versus PPI divorces in developing countries (or are we switching from PPPI to PPDI?)

Antonio Estache

3469: Regulation and macroeconomic performance

Norman Loayza, Ana Maria Oviedo and Luis Servén

3468: Infrastructure services in developing countries: access, quality, costs and policy reform

Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia, Antonio Estache and Nemat Shafik

3467: Economic growth, income distribution, and poverty in Poland during transition

Pierella Paci, Martin J. Sasin and Jos Verbeek

3466: Building a clean machine: anti-corruption coalitions and sustainable reform

Michael Johnston and Sahr J. Kpundeh

3465: Economic geography: real or hype?

Jun Koo and Somik Lall

3464: Microeconomic evidence of creative destruction in industrial and developing countries

Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta1

3463: Employment regulations through the eyes of employers - do they matter and how do firms respond to them?

Gaelle Pierre and Stefano Scarpetta

3462: The returns to participation in the non-farm sector in rural Rwanda

Andrew Dabalen, Stefano Paternostro and Gaelle Pierre

3461: Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate

Martin Ravallion

3460: Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment

Harry Patrinos and Christos Sakellariou

3459: Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela: 1992-2002

Harry Patrinos and Christos Sakellariou

3458: Regionalism in standards - good or bad for trade?

Maggie Chen and Aaditya Mattoo

3457: Creating a 21st Century national innovation system for a 21st Century Latvian economy

Alfred Watkins and Natalia Agapitova

3456: Macroeconomic stability in developing countries - How much is enough?

Peter Montiel and Luis Servén

3455: Labor market distortions, rural-urban inequality, and the opening of China's economy

Thomas Hertel and Fan Zhai

3454: Will the Kyoto Protocol affect growth in Russia?

Franck Lecocq and Zmarak Shalizi

3453: Education decentralization and accountability relationships in Latin America

Emmanuela Di Gropello

3452: Import demand elasticities and trade distortions

Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga

3451: Romania's integration into European markets: implications for sustainability of the current export boom

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng

3450: Discovery and development: an empricial exploration of"new"products

Bailey Klinger and Daniel Lederman

3449: Does it matter where you come from? vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment and the nationality of investors

Beata Javorcik, Kamal Saggi and Mariana Spatareanu

3448: What are the right institutions in a globalizing world? and... can we keep them if we have found them?

Roumeen Islam

3447: India's public health system - how well does it function at the National level?

Monica Das Gupta and Manju Rani

3446: The long-term legacy of the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia

Damien de Walque

3445: Has private participation in water and sewerage improved coverage? - empirical evidence from Latin America

George Clarke, Katrina Kosec and Scott Wallsten

3444: Predicting the poverty impacts of trade reform

Thomas Hertel and Jeffrey Reimer

3443: Improving credit information, bank regulation, and supervision: on the role and design of public credit registries

Andrew Powell, Nataliya Mylenko, Margaret Miller and Giovanni Majnoni

3442: Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries - a survey of the recent economic literature

Antonio Estache

3441: Policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization

Bernard Hoekman and Beata Javorcik

3440: Market discipline under systemic risk - evidence from bank runs in emerging economies

Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo, Maria Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler

3439: Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis

Philip Keefer

3438: Addressing gender-based violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A critical review of interventions

Andrew Morrison, Mary Ellsberg and Sarah Bott

3437: Bank capital and loan loss reserves under Basel II - implications for emerging countries

Giovanni Majnoni, Margaret Miller and Andrew Powell

3436: Approaches to results-based funding in tertiary education: identifying finance reform options for Chile

Kristian Thorn, Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz and Jette Samuel Jeppesen

3435: Population Age structure and the budget deficit

Derek H. C. Chen

3434: North-South technology diffusion, regional integration, and the dynamics of the natural trading partners hypothesis

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

3433: Measuring the risk on housing investment in the informal sector: theory and evidence from Pune, India

Mudit Kapoor and David Le Blanc

3432: Growth, inequality, and simulated poverty paths for Tanzania, 1992-2002

Gabriel Demombynes and Johannes G. Hoogeveen

3431: Financial development, financial fragility, and growth

Norman Loayza and Romain Ranciere

3430: The forest-hydrology-poverty nexus in Central America: An heuristic analysis

Andrew Nelson and Kenneth M. Chomitz

3429: Creating markets for habitat conservation when habitats are heterogeneous

Kenneth M. Chomitz, Timothy Thomas and Antonio Salazar Brandao

3428: Who suffers from indoor air pollution? evidence from Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupt, Mainul Huq, M. Khaliquzzaman, Kiran Pandey and David Wheeler

3427: Shelter strategies for the urban poor: idiosyncratic and successful, but hardly mysterious

Robert Buckley and Jerry Kalarickal

3426: International economic activities and the demand for skilled labor: evidence from Brazil and China

Pablo Fajnzylber and Ana Fernandes

3425: Can student loans improve accessibility to higher education and student performance? An impact study of the case of SOFES, Mexico

Erik Canton and Andreas Blom

3424: The transactions costs of primary market issuance: the case of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

Sara Zervos

3423: Designing performance: the semi-autonomous revenue authority model in Africa and Latin America

Robert Taliercio

3422: Toward a social policy for Argentina's infrastructure sectors - evaluating the past and exploring the future

Vivien Foster

3421: Universal service obligations in developing countries

Antonio Estache, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Xinzhu Zhang

3420: Have consumers benefited from the reforms in the electricity distribution sector in Latin America?

Antonio Estache and Martín Rossi

3419: Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting: how much does disaggregation help?

Chris Elbers, Tomoki Fujii, Peter Lanjouw, Berk Özler and Wesley Yin

3418: Remittances and poverty in Guatemala

Richard Adams

3417: Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers ? evidence on integrated pest management in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner and David Wheeler

3416: Foreign bank entry, performance of domestic banks, and sequence of financial liberalization

Nihal Bayraktar and Yan Wang

3415: The challenge of reducing subsidies and trade barriers

Kym Anderson

3414: Greco-Roman lessons for public debt management and debt market development

Alessandra Campanaro and Dimitri Vittas

3413: Stamp duties in Indian states - a case for reform

James Alm, Patricia Annez and Arbind Modi

3412: Export variety and country productivity

Robert Feenstra and Hiau Looi Kee

3411: Implications of genetically modified food technology policies for Sub-Saharan Africa

Kym Anderson and Lee Ann Jackson

3410: Pension funds and national saving

Pablo Lopez Murphy and Alberto R. Musalem

3409: Enforcement and Corporate Governance

Erik Berglof and Stijn Claessens

3408: China's (uneven) progress against poverty

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

3407: State ownership - a residual role?

Enrico Perotti

3406: Special issues relating to corporate governance and family control

Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

3405: A survey of securities laws and enforcement

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

3404: The Corporate Governance of Banks - a concise discussion of concepts and evidence

Ross Levine

3403: What happens when a country does not adjust to terms of trade shocks? the case of oil-rich Gabon

Ali Zafar

3402: Phasing out polluting motorcycles in Bangkok: policy design by using contingent valuation surveys

Jian Xie, Jitendra J. Shah, Elisabetta Capannelli and Hua Wang

3401: Trends in infrastructure in Latin America, 1980-2001

Cesar Calderon and Luis Servén

3400: The effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution

Cesar Calderon and Luis Servén

3399: Analyzing urban poverty: a summary of methods and approached

Judy Baker and Nina Schuler

3398: The scaling-up of microfinance in Bangladesh: determinants, impact, and lessons

Hassan Zaman

3397: A unified framework for pro-poor growth analysis

Essama-Nssah, B.

3396: Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries

Kym Anderson

3395: Trade, standards, and the political economy of genetically modified food

Kym Anderson, Richard Damania and Lee Ann Jackson

3394: Teachers'salaries and professional profile in Mexico

Lopez-Acevedo and Gladys

3393: Indoor air quality for poor families: new evidence from Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, M. Khaliquzzaman, Kiran Pandey and David Wheeler

3392: Risk modeling concepts relating to the design and rating of agricultural insurance contracts

Barry Goodwin and Olivier Mahul

3391: The impact of liberalizing barriers to foreign direct investment in services - the case of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization

Jesper Jensen, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

3390: Investment climate reform - going the last mile: the bulldozer initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Benjamin Herzberg

3389: Why do emerging economies borrow short term?

Fernando Broner, Guido Lorenzoni and Sergio Schmukler

3388: Tools for legislative oversight: an empirical investigation

Riccardo Pelizzo and Rick Stapenhurst

3387: Basel II and developing countries: Sailing through the sea of standards

Andrew Powell

3386: An evaluation of the performance of regression discontinuity design on PROGRESA

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Emmanuel Skoufias

3385: Loss aversion and trade policy

Caroline Freund and Caglar Ozden

3384: Local conflict in Indonesia: Measuring incidence and identifying patterns

Patrick Barron, Kai Kaiser and Menno Pradhan

3383: Air pollution during growth: accounting for governance and vulnerability

Kirk Hamilton, Susmita Dasgupta, Kiran Pandey and David R. Wheeler

3382: Skilled migration: the perspective of developing countries

Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

3381: Measuring the international mobility of skilled workers (1990-2000): release 1.0

Frédéric Docquier and Abdeslam Marfouk