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- 5673: World oil price and biofuels: a general equilibrium analysis

- Govinda Timilsina, Simon Mevel and Ashish Shrestha
- 5672: Biofuels and climate change mitigation: a CGE analysis incorporating land-use change

- Govinda Timilsina and Simon Mevel
- 5671: Reliability of recall in agricultural data

- Kathleen G. Beegle, Calogero Carletto, Kristen Himelein Kastelic, Kathleen G. Beegle, Calogero Carletto and Kristen Himelein Kastelic
- 5670: Financial liberalization and allocative dfficiency of capital

- Madina Kukenova
- 5669: Does cash for school influence young women's behavior in the longer term ? evidence from Pakistan

- Andaleeb Alam, Javier Baez and Ximena V. Del Carpio
- 5668: Eight questions about brain drain

- John Gibson and David McKenzie
- 5667: Incentive compatible reforms: the political economy of public investments in Mongolia

- Zahid Hasnain
- 5666: Fiscal policy and debt dynamics in developing countries

- Ethan Ilzetzki
- 5665: Measuring the impacts of global trade reform with optimal aggregators of distortions

- David Laborde Debucquet, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
- 5664: Mobile banking and financial inclusion: the regulatory lessons

- Michael Klein and Colin Mayer
- 5663: Cotton subsidies, the WTO, and the'cotton problem'

- John Baffes
- 5662: Deep trade policy options for Armenia: the importance of services, trade facilitation and standards liberalization

- Jesper Jensen and David Tarr
- 5661: Economic performance under NAFTA: a firm-level analysis of the trade-productivity linkages

- Rafael De Hoyos and Leonardo Iacovone
- 5660: On the relevance of freedom and entitlement in development: new empirical evidence (1975-2007)

- Jean-Pierre Chauffour
- 5659: Maize revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Melinda Smale, Derek Byerlee and Thomas Jayne
- 5658: Is it what you inherited or what you learnt ? Intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal

- Sylvie Lambert, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle
- 5657: Success and failure of African exporters

- Olivier Cadot, Leonardo Iacovone, Martha Denisse Pierola and Ferdinand Rauch
- 5656: Political economy studies: are they actionable ? some lessons from Zambia

- Monica Beuran, Gaël Raballand and Kapil Kapoor
- 5655: Governance in the health sector: a strategy for measuring determinants and performance

- William D. Savedoff
- 5654: Trade policies, investment climate, and exports across countries

- Murat Seker
- 5653: Methodology for the assessment of data quality: application to HIV and AIDS programs in Latin America

- Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia, Michel Eric Gaillard, Alejandra Suarez Lissi and Pedro Magne Condarco
- 5652: Rising food prices and household welfare: evidence from Brazil in 2008

- Francisco Ferreira, Anna Fruttero, Phillippe Leite and Leonardo Lucchetti
- 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
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