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5891: Explaining local manufacturing growth in Chile: the advantages of sectoral diversity Downloads
Rita Almeida and Ana Fernandes
5890: Assessment testing can be used to inform policy decisions: the case of Jordan Downloads
Husein Abdul-Hamid, Khattab M. Abu-Lebdeh and Harry Patrinos
5889: A trio of perspectives on corruption: bias, speed money and"grand theft infrastructure" Downloads
Charles Kenny, Michael Klein and Monika Sztajerowska
5888: Explaining the demand for sovereignty Downloads
Nicholas Sambanis and Branko Milanovic
5887: Botswana's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Nataliya Pushak
5886: International trade and inclusive growth: a primer for busy policy analysts Downloads
Daniel Lederman
5885: Mozambique's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia
5884: Avoiding the fragility trap in Africa Downloads
Noro Aina Andrimihaja, Matthias Cinyabuguma and Shantayanan Devarajan
5883: The regressive demands of demand-driven development Downloads
Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler
5882: The household enterprise sector in Tanzania: why it matters and who cares Downloads
Josaphat Kweka and Louise Fox
5881: The impact of pro-vulnerable income transfers: Leisure, dependency and a distribution hypothesis Downloads
Nicola Limodio
5880: Job growth and finance: are some financial institutions better suited to early stages of development than others? Downloads
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 Downloads
Tom Coupé, Anna Olefir and Juan Diego Alonso
5878: Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia Downloads
Pedro Carneiro, Michael Lokshin, Cristobal Ridao-Cano and Nithin Umapathi
5877: Impact evaluation of trade interventions: paving the way Downloads
Olivier Cadot, Ana Fernandes, Julien Gourdon and Aaditya Mattoo
5876: Effects of licensing reform on firm innovation: evidence from India Downloads
Murat Seker
5875: Should cash transfers be confined to the poor ? implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America Downloads
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 Downloads
Luis Lopez-Calva, Iamele Rigolini and Florencia Torche
5873: The measurement of educational inequality: achievement and opportunity Downloads
Francisco Ferreira and Jérémie Gignoux
5872: From growth to green growth -- a framework Downloads
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 Downloads
Katia D'Hulster
5870: Consumption baskets and currency choice in international borrowing Downloads
Julien Bengui and Ha Nguyen
5869: Do crises catalyze creative destruction ? firm-level evidence from Indonesia Downloads
Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Bob Rijkers
5868: Export growth and diversification: the case of Peru Downloads
Javier Illescas and C. Felipe Jaramillo
5867: Estimating the long-term impacts of rural roads: a dynamic panel approach Downloads
Shahidur Khandker and Gayatri B. Koolwal
5866: Is informality welfare-enhancing structural transformation ? evidence from Uganda Downloads
Louise Fox and Obert Pimhidzai
5865: Can social safety nets alleviate seasonal deprivation ? evidence from northwest Bangladesh Downloads
Shahidur Khandker, M. Abdul Khaleque and Hussain Samad
5864: What drives the global"land rush"? Downloads
Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger and Harris Selod
5863: Wage rigidity and disinflation in emerging countries Downloads
Julian Messina and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
5862: Determinants of trade policy responses to the 2008 financial crisis Downloads
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 Downloads
Claire Delpeuch and Antoine Leblois
5860: Financial sector ups and downs and the real sector: big hindrance, little help Downloads
Joshua Aizenman, Brian Pinto and Vladyslav Sushko
5859: To give or to forgive ? aid versus debt relief Downloads
Tito Cordella and Alessandro Missaley
5858: Higher wages, lower pay: public vs. private sector compensation in Peru Downloads
Andrea Coppola and Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez
5857: ECCAS's infrastructure: a regional perspective Downloads
Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster
5856: Employment growth patterns in South Asia: some evidence from interim enterprise survey data Downloads
Klaus Friesenbichler
5855: Enrichment with growth Downloads
Michael Klein
5854: Financial development: structure and dynamics Downloads
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 Downloads
John Giles, Dewen Wang and Wei Cai
5852: Competition and innovation-driven inclusive growth Downloads
Mark A. Dutz, Ioannis Kessides, Stephen O'Connell and Robert Willig
5851: Livelihoods and the allocation of emergency assistance after the Haiti earthquake Downloads
Damien Échevin
5850: Vulnerability and livelihoods before and after the Haiti earthquake Downloads
Damien Échevin
5849: Has the global banking system become more fragile over time ? Downloads
Deniz Anginer and Asli Demirguc-Kunt
5848: Distributional effects of the Panama Canal expansion Downloads
Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael De Hoyos and Denis Medvedev
5847: African cotton markets at crossroads: will the price spike turn into a new kick-start ? Downloads
Claire Delpeuch
5846: Tall claims: mortality selection and the height of children Downloads
Harold Alderman, Michael Lokshin and Sergiy Radyakin
5845: A review of solar energy: markets, economics and policies Downloads
Govinda Timilsina, Lado Kurdgelashvili and Patrick A. Narbel
5844: East Africa's infrastructure: a regional perspective Downloads
Rupa Ranganathan and Vivien Foster
5843: Income distribution, product quality, and international trade Downloads
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 Downloads
Brian Levy
5841: Innovations in globalized regulation: opportunities and challenges Downloads
Brian Levy
5840: Effects of the 2008-09 economic crisis on labor markets in Mexico Downloads
Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Eduardo Rodriguez-Oreggia
5839: Remittances and financial inclusion: evidence from El Salvador Downloads
Diego Anzoategui, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
5838: The republic of Congo's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Nataliya Pushak and Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia
5837: Europe as a convergence engine -- heterogeneity and investment opportunities in emerging Europe Downloads
Aleksandar Stojkov and Juan Zalduendo
5836: Home high above and home deep down below -- lending in Hungary Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Turalay Kenc, Ibrahim Turhan and Onur Yildirim
5833: Relationship-based and arms-length financial systems -- a European perspective Downloads
Holger Wolf
5832: Macro-prudential regulation of credit booms and busts -- the case of Poland Downloads
Michal Kruszka and Michal Kowalczyk
5831: Distributional impact analysis of the energy price reform in Turkey Downloads
Fan Zhang
5830: Women's decision making power and human development: evidence from Pakistan Downloads
Xiaohui Hou
5829: Four decades of health economics through a bibliometric lens Downloads
Adam Wagstaff and Anthony Culyer
5828: Patterns of business creation, survival and growth: evidence from Africa Downloads
Leora Klapper and Christine Richmond
5827: Financial literacy and retirement planning: the Russian case Downloads
Leora Klapper and Georgios Panos
5826: DR-CAFTA and the environment Downloads
Barbara Cunha and Muthukumara Mani
5825: Assessing the odds of achieving the MDGs Downloads
Delfin Go and Jose Alejandro Quijada
5824: Cash transfers in an epidemic context: the interaction of formal and informal support in rural Malawi Downloads
Francesco Strobbe and Candace Miller
5823: Countercyclical financial regulation Downloads
Haocong Ren
5822: Cameroon's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Vivien Foster
5821: The political economy of healthcare litigation: model and empirical application to Uruguay Downloads
Cristina Corduneanu-Huci, Alexander Hamilton and Issel Masses-Ferrer
5820: Global inequality: from class to location, from proletarians to migrants Downloads
Branko Milanovic
5819: Task trade between similar countries Downloads
Gene Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
5818: Burkina Faso's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Carolina Dominguez-Torres
5817: Senegal's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Clemencia Torres, Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia and Carolina Dominguez
5816: Zimbabwe's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Nataliya Pushak and Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia
5815: Sudan's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Rupa Ranganathan and Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia
5814: South Sudan's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Rupa Ranganathan and Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia
5813: Angola's infrastructure: a continental perspective Downloads
Nataliya Pushak and Vivien Foster
5812: Family planning and fertility: estimating program effects using cross-sectional data Downloads
Claus C Portner, Kathleen Beegle and Luc Christiaensen
5811: Export diversification in a transitioning economy: the case of Syria Downloads
Jamus Lim and Christian Saborowski
5810: How do the poor cope with shocks in Bangladesh ? evidence from survey data Downloads
Indhira Santos, Iffath Sharif, Hossain Zillur Rahman and Hassan Zaman
5809: School-based management, school decision-making and education outcomes in Indonesian primary schools Downloads
Dandan Chen
5808: After the microfinance crisis: assessing the role of government-led microcredit alternatives Downloads
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 Downloads
Sabine Lemoyne de Forges, Ruben Bibas and Stephane Hallegatte
5806: Is small beautiful ? financial structure, size and access to finance Downloads
Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Dorothe Singer
5805: The evolving importance of banks and securities markets Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Erik Feyen and Ross Levine
5804: On the implications of essential heterogeneity for estimating causal impacts using social experiments Downloads
Martin Ravallion
5803: When starting with the most expensive option makes sense: use and misuse of marginal abatement cost curves Downloads
Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Stephane Hallegatte
5802: Equilibrium parallel import policies and international market structure Downloads
Santanu Roy and Kamal Saggi
5801: Equality of opportunities, redistribution and fiscal policies: the case of Liberia Downloads
Ana Abras and Jose Cuesta
5800: Energy, gender and development: what are the linkages ? where is the evidence ? Downloads
Gunnar Köhlin, Erin O. Sills, Subhrendu Pattanayak and Christopher Wilfong
5799: Do Phoenix miracles exist ? firm-level evidence from financial crises Downloads
Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic
5798: Unpacking the causal chain of financial literacy Downloads
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 Downloads
Susanne M. Scheierling
5796: Marshallian externality, industrial upgrading, and industrial policies Downloads
Jiandong Ju, Justin Lin and Yong Wang
5795: Improving educational quality through enhancing community participation: results from a randomized field experiment in Indonesia Downloads
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 Downloads
Tshepo Kgare, Gaël Raballand and Hans W. Ittmann
5793: Service Export sophistication and Europe's new growth model Downloads
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 Downloads
Yasuhiko Matsuda
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