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5651: Who is vouching for the input voucher ? decentralized targeting and elite capture in Tanzania

Lei Pan and Luc Christiaensen

5650: Labor market transitions and social security in Colombia

Jose Cuesta and Camilo Bohórquez-Peñuela

5649: Financial development and survival of African agri-food exports

Melise Jaud and Madina Kukenova

5648: Five feet high and rising: cities and flooding in the 21st century

Abhas Jha, Jessica Lamond, Robin Bloch, Namrata Bhattacharya, Ana Lopez, Nikolaos Papachristodoulou, Alan Bird, David Proverbs, John Davies and Robert Barker

5647: Politics and preschool: the political economy of investment in pre-primary education

Katrina Kosec

5646: Good countries or good projects ? macro and micro correlates of World Bank project performance

Cevdet Denizer, Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

5645: Export restrictions and price insulation during commodity price booms

Will Martin and Kym Anderson

5644: Income shocks and adolescent mental health

Sarah Baird, Jacobus de Hoop and Berk Özler

5643: Education outcomes, school governance and parents'demand for accountability: evidence from Albania

Danila Serra, Abigail Barr and Truman Packard

5642: Stimulating managerial capital in emerging markets: the impact of business and financial literacy for young entrepreneurs

Miriam Bruhn and Bilal Zia

5641: Diagnosing development bottlenecks: China and India

Wei Li, Taye Mengistae and Lixin Xu

5640: Employability and skill set of newly graduated engineers in India

Andreas Blom and Hiroshi Saeki

5639: Beyond baseline and follow-up: the case for more t in experiments

David McKenzie

5638: Evaluating public per-student subsidies to low-cost private schools: regression-discontinuity evidence from Pakistan

Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Dhushyanth Raju

5637: How resilient and countercyclical were emerging economies to the global financial crisis ?

Tatiana Didier, Constantino Hevia and Sergio Schmukler

5636: How did the great recession affect different types of workers ? evidence from 17 middle-income countries

Yoonyoung Cho and David Newhouse

5635: A second look at the pesticides initiative program: evidence from Senegal

Melise Jaud and Olivier Cadot

5634: Empirical analysis of corporate savings in Egypt

Inessa Love

5633: Estimating the short-run poverty impacts of the 2010-11 surge in food prices

Maros Ivanic, Will Martin and Hassan Zaman

5632: How can we learn whether firm policies are working in africa ? challenges (and solutions?) for experiments and structural models

David McKenzie

5630: Market integration in China

Qingqing Chen, Chor-Ching Goh, Bo Sun and Lixin Xu

5629: School inputs, household substitution, and test scores

Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana, Pramila Krishnan, Karthik Muralidharan and Venkatesh Sundararaman

5628: Measuring true sales and underreporting with matched firm-level survey and tax-office data

Fujin Zhou and Remco Oostendorp

5627: OECD imports: diversification of suppliers and quality search

Olivier Cadot, Celine Carrere and Vanessa Strauss-Kahn

5626: Does it matter who you sign with ? comparing the impacts of north-south and south-south trade agreements on bilateral trade

Alberto Behar and Laia Cirera i Criville

5625: How integrated is SADC ? trends in intra-regional and extra-regional trade flows and policy

Alberto Behar and Lawrence Edwards

5624: Financial globalization in emerging economies: much ado about nothing ?

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Tomas Williams

5623: Distributional implications of climate change in India

Hanan Jacoby, Mariano Rabassa and Emmanuel Skoufias

5622: The poverty impacts of climate change: a review of the evidence

Emmanuel Skoufias, Mariano Rabassa and Sergio Olivieri

5621: Agriculture and the clean development mechanism

Donald Larson, Ariel Dinar and J. Aapris Frisbie

5620: Bank ownership and performance in the Middle East and North Africa region

Subika Farazi, Erik Feyen and Roberto Rocha

5619: Large devaluations, foreign direct investment and exports: a speculative note

Daniel Lederman

5618: Water and sanitation to reduce child mortality: the impact and cost of water and sanitation infrastructure

Isabel Günther and Günther Fink

5617: How economic growth and rational decisions can make disaster losses grow faster than wealth

Stephane Hallegatte

5616: Education: past, present and future global challenges

Harry Patrinos and George Psacharopoulos

5615: Too little too late: welfare impacts of rainfall shocks in rural Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, B. Essama-Nssah and Roy S. Katayama

5614: Electoral accountability, fiscal decentralization and service delivery in Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Ambar Narayan, Basab Dasgupta and Kai Kaiser

5613: Increasing access to credit through reforming secured transactions in the MENA Region

Alejandro Alvarez de la Campa

5612: A review of credit guarantee schemes in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Youssef Saadani, Zsofia Arvai and Roberto Rocha

5611: Reforming government debt markets in MENA

Catiana Garcia-Kilroy and Anderson Caputo Silva

5610: Financial inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa: analysis and roadmap recommendations

Douglas Pearce

5609: "No way out": the lack of efficient insolvency regimes in the MENA region

Mahesh Uttamchandani

5608: The insurance sector in the Middle East and North Africa: challenges and development agenda

Rodney Lester

5607: The status of bank lending to SMES in the Middle East and North Africa region: the results of a joint survey of the Union of Arab Bank and the World Bank

Roberto Rocha, Subika Farazi, Rania Khouri and Douglas Pearce

5606: Service export sophistication and economic growth

Saurabh Mishra, Susanna Lundstrom and Rahul Anand

5605: Sudden stops and financial frictions: evidence from industry level data

Kevin Cowan and Claudio Raddatz

5604: Food insecurity and public agricultural spending in Bolivia: putting money where your mouth is ?

Jose Cuesta, Svetlana Edmeades and Lucia Madrigal

5603: Would freeing up world trade reduce poverty and inequality ? the vexed role of agricultural distortions

Kym Anderson, John Cockburn and Will Martin

5602: Congo, Democratic Republic of - The Democratic Republic of Congo's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Vivien Foster and Daniel Alberto Benitez

5601: A practical comparison of the bivariate probit and linear IV estimators

Richard C. Chiburis, Jishnu Das and Michael Lokshin

5600: Ghana's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Vivien Foster and Nataliya Pushak

5599: Zambia's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Vivien Foster and Carolina Dominguez

5598: Malawi's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Vivien Foster and Maria Shkaratan

5597: Liberia's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Vivien Foster and Nataliya Pushak

5596: Kenya's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia and Maria Shkaratan

5595: Ethiopia's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Vivien Foster and Elvira Morella

5594: Cote d'Ivoire's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Vivien Foster and Nataliya Pushak

5593: Exchange rate uncertainty and optimal participation in international trade

Gabriela Mundaca

5592: Finding a balance between growth and vulnerability trade-offs: lessons from emerging Europe and the CIS

Swati Ghosh, Naotaka Sugawara and Juan Zalduendo

5591: Impacts of international migration and remittances on child outcomes and labor supply in Indonesia: how does gender matter ?

Trang Nguyen and Ririn Purnamasari

5590: Over the hedge: exchange rate volatility, commodity price correlations, and the structure of trade

Claudio Raddatz

5589: Was growth in Egypt between 2005 and 2008 pro-poor ? from static to dynamic poverty profile

Daniela Marotta, Ruslan Yemtsov, Heba El-Laithy, Hala Abou-Ali and Sherine Al-Shawarby

5588: The rise of large farms in land abundant countries: do they have a future ?

Klaus Deininger and Derek Byerlee

5587: Laws for fiscal responsibility for subnational discipline: international experience

Lili Liu and Steven B. Webb

5586: Information asymmetries and institutional investor mandates

Tatiana Didier

5585: The impact of export tax incentives on export performance: evidence from the automotive sector in South Africa

Dorsati H. Madani and Natalia Mas-Guix

5584: Using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique to analyze learning outcomes changes over time: an application to Indonesia's results in PISA mathematics

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Vicente Garcia-Moreno, Harry Patrinos and Emilio Porta

5583: How do special economic zones and industrial clusters drive China's rapid development ?

Douglas Zhihua Zeng

5582: Risk-coping through sexual networks: evidence from client transfers in Kenya

Jonathan Robinson and Ethan Yeh

5581: Trade integration as a way forward for the Arab world: a regional agenda

Jean-Pierre Chauffour

5580: On multidimensional indices of poverty

Martin Ravallion

5579: How does public information on central bank intervention strategies affect exchange rate volatility ? the case of Peru

Gabriela Mundaca

5578: Primary commodity prices: co-movements, common factors and fundamentals

Joseph Byrne, Giorgio Fazio and Norbert Fiess

5577: Petroleum subsidies in Yemen: leveraging reform for development

Clemens Breisinger, Wilfried Engelke and Olivier Ecker

5576: Do we need big banks ? evidence on performance, strategy and market discipline

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

5575: Chronic diseases and labor market outcomes in Egypt

Lorenzo Rocco, Kimie Tanabe, Marc Suhrcke and Elena Fumagalli

5574: Life satisfaction and income inequality

Paolo Verme

5573: Does management matter ? evidence from India

Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts

5572: What drives the development of the insurance sector ? an empirical analysis based on a panel of developed and developing countries

Erik Feyen, Rodney Lester and Roberto Rocha

5571: Gender and finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: are women disadvantaged ?

Reyes Aterido, Thorsten Beck and Leonardo Iacovone

5570: Related lending and banking development

Robert Cull, Stephen Haber and Masami Imai

5569: Sudden stops: are global and local investors alike ?

Cesar Calderon and Megumi Kubota

5568: Designing climate change adaptation policies: an economic framework

Stephane Hallegatte, Franck Lecocq and Christian De Perthuis

5567: The highway concession system in Italy: history, regulation and politics

Nicola Limodio

5565: Why Does cargo spend weeks in African ports ? the case of Douala, Cameroon

Salim Refas and Thomas Cantens

5564: How do governments respond after catastrophes ? natural-disaster shocks and the fiscal stance

Martin Melecký and Claudio Raddatz

5563: How business is done and the'doing business'indicators: the investment climate when firms have climate control

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Lant Pritchett

5562: The impact of climate change on global tropical storm damages

Robert Mendelsohn, Kerry Emanuel and Shun Chonabayashi

5561: The impact of climate change on hurricane damages in the United States

Robert Mendelsohn, Kerry Emanuel and Shun Chonabayashi

5560: The possibility of a rice green revolution in large-scale irrigation schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Yuko Nakano, Ibrahim Bamba, Aliou Diagne, Keijiro Otsuka and Kei Kajisa

5559: Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin

Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani

5558: Impact of migration on economic and social development: a review of evidence and emerging issues

Dilip Ratha, Sanket Mohapatra and Elina Scheja

5557: Emigration and democracy

Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff

5556: The wage effects of immigration and emigration

Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden and Giovanni Peri

5555: The impacts of climate variability on welfare in rural Mexico

Emmanuel Skoufias, Katja Vinha and Hector V. Conroy

5554: Mapping vulnerability to climate change

Rasmus Heltberg and Misha Bonch-Osmolovskiy

5553: Agriculture and development: a brief review of the literature

Jean-Jacques Dethier and Alexandra Effenberger

5552: Services liberalization in preferential trade arrangements: the case of Kenya

Edward Balistreri and David Tarr

5551: Design and implementation of environmental performance rating and public disclosure programs: a summary of issues and recommendations based on experiences in East Asian countries

Elisea G. Gozun, Benoit Laplante and Hua Wang

5550: Using repeated cross-sections to explore movements in and out of poverty

Hai-Anh Dang, Peter Lanjouw, Jill Luoto and David McKenzie