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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

5549: The two poverty enlightenments: historical insights from digitized books spanning three centuries

Martin Ravallion

5548: Can we rely on cash transfers to protect dietary diversity during food crises ? estimates from Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Sailesh Tiwari and Hassan Zaman

5547: Signaling and technological marketing tools for exporters

Esteban Ferro

5546: Foreign aid and business bottlenecks: a study of aid effectiveness

Esteban Ferro and John Wilson

5545: Quantifying Carbon and distributional benefits of solar home system programs in Bangladesh

Limin Wang, Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, Mac Cosgrove-Davies and Hussain Samad

5544: Challenges for youth employment in Pakistan: are they youth-specific ?

Xiaohui Hou

5543: Empowering women: the effect of women's decision-making power on reproductive health services uptake -- evidence from Pakistan

Xiaohui Hou and Ning Ma

5542: Self-regulation in securities markets

John Carson

5541: Development Economics and the International Development Association

Cevdet Denizer, Jean-Jacques Dethier and Alan Gelb

5540: Sunk costs, market contestability, and the size distribution of firms

Ioannis Kessides and Li Tang

5539: Toward a sustainable global energy supply infrastructure: net energy balance and density considerations

Ioannis Kessides and David C. Wade

5538: Small and medium enterprises: a cross-country analysis with a new data set

Oya Ardic, Nataliya Mylenko and Valentina Saltane

5537: Access to financial services and the financial inclusion agenda around the world: a cross-country analysis with a new data set

Oya Ardic, Maximilien Heimann and Nataliya Mylenko

5536: Consumer protection laws and regulations in deposit and loan services: a cross-country analysis with a new data set

Oya Ardic, Joyce A. Ibrahim and Nataliya Mylenko

5535: Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows ? lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi and policy implications

Gaël Raballand, Rebecca Thornton, Dean Yang, Jessica Goldberg, Niall Keleher and Annika Muller

5534: Determinants and dynamics of schooling and child labor in Bolivia

Francesco Grigoli and Giacomo Sbrana

5533: An empirical investigation of the nexus among money balances, commodity prices and consumer goods'prices

Francesco Grigoli

5532: Analyzing community responses to HIV and AIDS: operational framework and typology

Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia, Rene Bonnel, N'Della N'Jie, Jill Olivier, F. Brian Pascual and Quentin Wodon

5531: Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy

Jac C. Heckelman, Stephen Knack and Frederic Rogers

5530: Equity and public governance in health system reform: challenges and opportunities for China

Hana Brixi, Yan Mu, Beatrice Targa and David Hipgrave

5529: Saving and growth in Egypt

Constantino Hevia and Norman Loayza

5528: Do procurement rules impact infrastructure investment efficiency ? an empirical analysis of inversao das fases in Sao Paulo state

Luis Blancas, Laura Chioda, Tito Cordella, Alexandre Oliveira and Felix Vardy

5527: Shrinking classroom age variance raises student achievement: evidence from developing countries

Liang Wang

5526: History of events and life-satisfaction in transition countries

Andrew Dabalen and Saumik Paul

5525: Proposals for WTO reform: a synthesis and assessment

Bernard Hoekman

5524: Unexploited gains from international diversification: patterns of portfolio holdings around the world

Tatiana Didier, Roberto Rigobon and Sergio Schmukler

5523: Containing systemic risk: paradigm-based perspectives on regulatory reform

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

5522: Food crisis, household welfare and HIV/AIDS treatment: evidence from Mozambique

Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga, A. Over and Julia Vaillant

5521: Youth employment transitions in Latin America

Wendy Cunningham and Javier Bustos Salvagno

5520: The impacts of metering and climate conditions on residential electricity demand: the case of Albania

Atsushi Iimi

5519: Macroeconomic and policy implications of population aging in Brazil

Ole Hagen Jorgensen

5518: Impact evaluation of school feeding programs in Lao PDR

Alison Buttenheim, Harold Alderman and Jed Friedman

5517: Services trade liberalization and regulatory reform: re-invigorating international cooperation

Bernard Hoekman and Aaditya Mattoo

5516: Infrastructure investments under uncertainty with the possibility of retrofit: theory and simulations

Jon Strand, Sebastian Miller and Sauleh Siddiqui

5515: Do private inspection programs affect trade facilitation ?

Irina Velea, Olivier Cadot and John Wilson

5514: Challenges of the mandatory funded pension system in the Russian Federation

Heinz P. Rudolph and Peter Holtzer

5513: The impacts of biofuel targets on land-use change and food supply: a global CGE assessment

Govinda Timilsina, John Beghin, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Simon Mevel

5512: Forecasting migrant remittances during the global financial crisis

Sanket Mohapatra and Dilip Ratha

5511: Trade barrier volatility and domestic price stabilization: evidence from agriculture

Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen

5510: Can China's rural elderly count on support from adult children ? implications of rural-to-urban migration

John Giles, Dewen Wang and Changbao Zhao

5509: Togo growth diagnostics

Susanna Lundstrom and Leonardo Garrido

5508: Is there a metropolitan bias ? the inverse relationship between poverty and city size in selected developing countries

Céline Ferré, Francisco Ferreira and Peter Lanjouw