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5852: Competition and innovation-driven inclusive growth

Mark A. Dutz, Ioannis Kessides, Stephen O'Connell and Robert Willig

5851: Livelihoods and the allocation of emergency assistance after the Haiti earthquake

Damien Échevin

5850: Vulnerability and livelihoods before and after the Haiti earthquake

Damien Échevin

5849: Has the global banking system become more fragile over time ?

Deniz Anginer and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

5848: Distributional effects of the Panama Canal expansion

Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael De Hoyos and Denis Medvedev

5847: African cotton markets at crossroads: will the price spike turn into a new kick-start ?

Claire Delpeuch

5846: Tall claims: mortality selection and the height of children

Harold Alderman, Michael Lokshin and Sergiy Radyakin

5845: A review of solar energy: markets, economics and policies

Govinda Timilsina, Lado Kurdgelashvili and Patrick A. Narbel

5844: East Africa's infrastructure: a regional perspective

Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster

5843: Income distribution, product quality, and international trade

Pablo Fajgelbaum, Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

5842: Can islands of effectiveness thrive in difficult governance settings ? the political economy of local-level collaborative governance

Brian Levy

5841: Innovations in globalized regulation: opportunities and challenges

Brian Levy

5840: Effects of the 2008-09 economic crisis on labor markets in Mexico

Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Eduardo Rodriguez-Oreggia

5839: Remittances and financial inclusion: evidence from El Salvador

Diego Anzoategui, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

5838: The republic of Congo's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Nataliya Pushak and Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia

5837: Europe as a convergence engine -- heterogeneity and investment opportunities in emerging Europe

Aleksandar Stojkov and Juan Zalduendo

5836: Home high above and home deep down below -- lending in Hungary

Adam Banai, Julia Király and Marton Nagy

5835: The role of macro-prudential policies in the boom and adjustment phase of the credit cycle in Estonia

Andres Sutt, Helen Korju and Kadri Siibak

5834: The experience with macro-prudential policies of the central bank of the republic of Turkey in response to the global financial crisis

Turalay Kenc, Ibrahim Turhan and Onur Yildirim

5833: Relationship-based and arms-length financial systems -- a European perspective

Holger Wolf

5832: Macro-prudential regulation of credit booms and busts -- the case of Poland

Michal Kruszka and Michal Kowalczyk

5831: Distributional impact analysis of the energy price reform in Turkey

Fan Zhang

5830: Women's decision making power and human development: evidence from Pakistan

Xiaohui Hou

5829: Four decades of health economics through a bibliometric lens

Adam Wagstaff and Anthony Culyer

5828: Patterns of business creation, survival and growth: evidence from Africa

Leora Klapper and Christine Richmond

5827: Financial literacy and retirement planning: the Russian case

Leora Klapper and Georgios Panos

5826: DR-CAFTA and the environment

Barbara Cunha and Muthukumara Mani

5825: Assessing the odds of achieving the MDGs

Delfin Go and Jose Alejandro Quijada

5824: Cash transfers in an epidemic context: the interaction of formal and informal support in rural Malawi

Francesco Strobbe and Candace Miller

5823: Countercyclical financial regulation

Haocong Ren

5822: Cameroon's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Vivien Foster

5821: The political economy of healthcare litigation: model and empirical application to Uruguay

Cristina Corduneanu-Huci, Alexander Hamilton and Issel Masses-Ferrer

5820: Global inequality: from class to location, from proletarians to migrants

Branko Milanovic

5819: Task trade between similar countries

Gene Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

5818: Burkina Faso's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Carolina Dominguez-Torres

5817: Senegal's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Clemencia Torres, Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia and Carolina Dominguez

5816: Zimbabwe's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Nataliya Pushak and Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia

5815: Sudan's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Rupa Ranganathan and Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia

5814: South Sudan's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Rupa Ranganathan and Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia

5813: Angola's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Nataliya Pushak and Vivien Foster

5812: Family planning and fertility: estimating program effects using cross-sectional data

Claus C Portner, Kathleen Beegle and Luc Christiaensen

5811: Export diversification in a transitioning economy: the case of Syria

Jamus Lim and Christian Saborowski

5810: How do the poor cope with shocks in Bangladesh ? evidence from survey data

Indhira Santos, Iffath Sharif, Hossain Zillur Rahman and Hassan Zaman

5809: School-based management, school decision-making and education outcomes in Indonesian primary schools

Dandan Chen

5808: After the microfinance crisis: assessing the role of government-led microcredit alternatives

Jordi de la Torre, Xavier Gine and Tara Vishwanath

5807: A dynamic model of extreme risk coverage: resilience and efficiency in the global reinsurance market

Sabine Lemoyne de Forges, Ruben Bibas and Stephane Hallegatte

5806: Is small beautiful ? financial structure, size and access to finance

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Dorothe Singer

5805: The evolving importance of banks and securities markets

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Erik Feyen and Ross Levine

5804: On the implications of essential heterogeneity for estimating causal impacts using social experiments

Martin Ravallion

5803: When starting with the most expensive option makes sense: use and misuse of marginal abatement cost curves

Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Stephane Hallegatte

5802: Equilibrium parallel import policies and international market structure

Santanu Roy and Kamal Saggi

5801: Equality of opportunities, redistribution and fiscal policies: the case of Liberia

Ana Abras and Jose Cuesta

5800: Energy, gender and development: what are the linkages ? where is the evidence ?

Gunnar Köhlin, Erin O. Sills, Subhrendu Pattanayak and Christopher Wilfong

5799: Do Phoenix miracles exist ? firm-level evidence from financial crises

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

5798: Unpacking the causal chain of financial literacy

Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia

5797: Assessing the direct economic effects of reallocating irrigation water to alternative uses: concepts and an application

Susanne M. Scheierling

5796: Marshallian externality, industrial upgrading, and industrial policies

Jiandong Ju, Justin Lin and Yong Wang

5795: Improving educational quality through enhancing community participation: results from a randomized field experiment in Indonesia

Menno Pradhan, Daniel Suryadarma, Amanda Beatty, Maisy Wong, Armida Alishjabana, Arya Gaduh and Rima Artha

5794: Cargo dwell time in Durban: lessons for Sub-Saharan African ports

Tshepo Kgare, Gaël Raballand and Hans W. Ittmann

5793: Service Export sophistication and Europe's new growth model

Susanna Lundstrom Gable and Saurabh Mishra

5792: Ripe for a big bang ? assessing the political feasibility of legislative reforms in the Philippines'local government code

Yasuhiko Matsuda

5791: Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks ? aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries

Gaurav Khanna, David Newhouse and Pierella Paci

5790: Foreign direct investment under weak rule of law: theory and evidence from China

Xiaozu Wang, Lixin Xu and Tian Zhu

5789: Ladies first ? firm-level evidence on the labor impacts of the East Asian crisis

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Bob Rijkers and Andrew Waxman

5788: The value-added tax reform puzzle

Jing Cai and Ann Harrison

5787: Improvements in the World Bank's ease of doing business rankings: do they translate into greater foreign direct investment inflows ?

Dinuk Jayasuriya

5786: Managing financial integration and capital mobility -- policy lessons from the past two decades

Joshua Aizenman and Brian Pinto

5785: Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality ? measuring the impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Carmen Pages

5784: Debt overhang in emerging Europe ?

Martin Brown and Philip Lane

5783: The impact of economics blogs

David McKenzie and Berk Özler

5782: Consensus, institutions, and supply response: the political economy of agricultural reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ataman Aksoy and Anil Onal

5781: Framing local conflict and justice in Bangladesh

Maitreyi Das and Vivek Maru

5780: Firm location and the determinants of exporting in developing countries

Thomas Farole and Deborah Winkler

5779: Political economy of the petroleum sector in Nigeria

Alex Gboyega, Tina Søreide, Tuan Minh Le and G. P. Shukla

5778: The impact of recall periods on reported morbidity and health seeking behavior

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer and Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

5777: Engendering trade

Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko and Claudio Raddatz

5776: Applying the growth identification and facilitation framework: the case of Nigeria

Justin Lin and Volker Treichel

5775: Upgrading investment regulations in second pillar pension systems: a proposal for Colombia

Pablo Castaneda and Heinz P. Rudolph

5774: Education and conflict recovery: the case of Timor Leste

Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone and Paola Salardi

5773: Financial-stability challenges in European emerging-market countries

Garry Schinasi

5772: Macroprudential regulation of credit booms and busts -- the case of Croatia

Evan Kraft and Tomislav Galac

5771: Credit growth and financial stability in the Czech Republic

Jan Frait, Adam Gersl and Jakub Seidler

5770: Macroprudential regulation of credit booms and busts: the experience of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia

Frosina Celeska, Viktorija Gligorova and Aneta Krstevska

5769: Banking flows and financial crisis -- financial interconnectedness and basel III effects

Swati R. Ghosh, Naotaka Sugawara and Juan F. Zalduendo

5768: Gross capital flows: dynamics and crises

Fernando Broner, Tatiana Didier, Aitor Erce and Sergio Schmukler

5767: Municipal solid waste management in small towns: an economic analysis conducted in Yunnan, China

Hua Wang , Jie He, Yoonhee Kim and Takuya Kamata

5766: Valuing water quality improvement in China: a case study of lake Puzhehei in Yunnan province

Hua Wang, Yuyan Shi, Yoonhee Kim and Takuya Kamata

5765: Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa: pilot evidence from Rwanda

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger and Markus Goldstein

5764: The impact of emigration on source country wages: evidence from the Republic of Moldova

Lawrence Bouton, Saumik Paul and Erwin R. Tiongson

5763: More than you can handle: decentralization and spending ability of Peruvian municipalities

Norman Loayza, Iamele Rigolini and Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez

5762: The mechanics and regulation of variable payout annuities

Dimitri Vittas

5761: Learning versus stealing: how Important are market-share -- reallocations to India's productivity growth?

Ann Harrison, Leslie Martin and Shanthi Nataraj

5760: Tastes, castes, and culture: the influence of society on preferences

Ernst Fehr and Karla Hoff

5759: Stakeholder dialogue as an institutional strategy for sustainable development in China: the case of community environmental roundtables

Hua Wang

5758: Who is benefiting from fertilizer subsidies in Indonesia ?

Camilo Gomez Osorio, Dwi Endah Abriningrum, Enrique Blanco Armas and Muhammad Firdaus

5757: Do institutions matter for FDI spillovers ? the implications of China's"special characteristics"

Luosha Du, Ann Harrison and Gary Jefferson

5756: Economic structure, development policy and environmental quality: an empirical analysis of environmental Kuznets curves with Chinese municipal data

Jie He and Hua Wang

5754: Recent perspectives on trade and inequality

Ann Harrison, John McLaren and Margaret McMillan

5753: Measuring the economic gain of investing in girls: the girl effect dividend

Jad Chaaban and Wendy Cunningham

5752: Learning from developing country experience: growth and economic thought before and after the 2008-09 crisis

Ann Harrison and Claudia Sepulveda