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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