Policy Research Working Paper Series
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- 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
- 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
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