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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 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

5507: The economics of natural disasters: concepts and methods

Stephane Hallegatte and Valentin Przyluski

5506: Understanding the benefits of regional integration to trade: the application of a gravity model to the case of Central America

Darwin Marcelo, Jordan Z. Schwartz and Aiga Stokenberga

5505: Mortgage lending in Korea: an example of a countercyclical macroprudential approach

Soon-taek Chang

5504: Barriers to household risk management: evidence from India

Shawn Cole, Xavier Gine, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend and James Vickery

5503: Students and the market for schools in Haiti

Gabriel Demombynes, Peter Holland and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta

5502: Corporate vulnerability and bank stability: evidence from Jordan

Inessa Love

5501: Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys: experimental results from Tanzania

Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt, Jed Friedman and John Gibson

5500: How large is the government spending multiplier ? evidence from World Bank lending

Aart Kraay

5499: A framework for analyzing competition in the banking sector: an application to the case of Jordan

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

5498: A flaw in the model... that defines how the world works

Volker Bieta, Hellmuth Milde and Nadine Weber

5497: Firms operating under infrastructure and credit constraints in developing countries: the case of power generators

Philippe Alby, Jean-Jacques Dethier and Stephane Straub

5496: How do women weather economic shocks ? a review of the evidence

Shwetlena Sabarwal, Nistha Sinha and Mayra Buvinic

5495: Why multi-stakeholder groups succeed and fail

Rory Truex and Tina Søreide

5494: The full economic cost of groundwater extraction

Jon Strand

5493: The impact of business environment reforms on new firm registration

Leora Klapper and Inessa Love

5492: On gender and growth: the role of intergenerational health externalities and women's occupational constraints

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Otaviano Canuto and Luiz Pereira da Silva

5491: Natural disasters and household welfare: evidence from Vietnam

Timothy Thomas, Luc Christiaensen, Quy-Toan Do and Le Dang Trung

5490: The role of trade costs in global production networks: evidence from China's processing trade regime

Alyson C. Ma and Ari Van Assche

5489: Public credit registries as a tool for bank regulation and supervision

Matias Gutierrez Girault and Jane Hwang

5488: The development impact of a best practice seasonal worker policy

John Gibson and David McKenzie

5487: Tajikistan: key priorities for climate change adaptation

Luca Barbone, Anna Reva and Salman Zaidi

5486: Antiretroviral therapy awareness and risky sexual behaviors: evidence from Mozambique

Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga and A. Over

5485: The binding constraint on firms'growth in developing countries

Hinh Dinh, Dimitris Mavridis and Hoa B. Nguyen

5484: Troubling tradeoffs in the Human Development Index

Martin Ravallion

5483: Did higher inequality impede growth in rural China ?

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt and John Giles

5482: Timeliness and contract enforceability in intermediate goods trade

Elisa Gamberoni, Rainer Lanz and Roberta Piermartini

5481: Regional trade policy options for Tanzania: the importance of services commitments

Jesper Jensen and David Tarr

5480: Diamonds are not forever: Botswana medium-term fiscal sustainability

Naoko C. Kojo

5479: On the road to prosperity ? The economic geography of China's national expressway network

Mark Roberts, Uwe Deichmann, Bernard Fingleton and Tuo Shi

5478: Can Africa replicate Asia's green revolution in rice ?

Donald Larson, Keijiro Otsuka, Kei Kajisa, Jonna Estudillo and Aliou Diagne

5477: When does rigorous impact evaluation make a difference ? the case of the millennium villages

Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes

5476: An agenda for research on urbanization in developing countries: a summary of findings from a scoping exercise

Patricia Clarke Annez and Johannes F. Linn

5475: Working with the market: a new approach to reducing urban slums in India

Patricia Annez, Alain Bertaud, Bimal Patel and V. K. Phatak

5474: Financing Indian cities: opportunities and constraints in an Nth best world

Patricia Clarke Annez

5473: Bank capital: lessons from the financial crisis

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Enrica Detragiache and Ouarda Merrouche

5472: Measures of fixed capital in agriculture

Rita Butzer, Yair Mundlak and Donald Larson

5471: Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis: evidence from Indonesia

John Giles and Elan Satriawan

5470: Reform and backlash to reform: economic effects of ageing and retirement policy

Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Ole Hagen Jorgensen

5469: Climate proofing infrastructure in Bangladesh: the incremental cost of limiting future inland monsoon flood damage

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huq Khan, Md. Sohel Masud, Manjur Murshed Zahid Ahmed, Nandan Mukherjee and Kiran Pandey

5468: Climate change, agriculture and poverty

Thomas Hertel and Stephanie Rosch

5467: Legislative malapportionment and institutional persistence

Miriam Bruhn, Francisco Gallego and Massimiliano Onorato

5466: Rising food prices and coping strategies: household-level evidence from Afghanistan

Anna D'Souza and Dean Jolliffe

5465: Short-run learning dynamics under a test-based accountability system: evidence from Pakistan

Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Dhushyanth Raju

5464: Accounting for heterogeneity in growth incidence in Cameroon

Leandre Bassol3, B. Essama-Nssah and Saumik Paul

5463: Energy poverty in rural and urban India: are the energy poor also income poor ?

Shahidur Khandker, Douglas F. Barnes and Hussain Samad

5462: The Chrysler effect: the impact of the Chrysler bailout on borrowing costs

Deniz Anginer and A. Joseph Warburton

5461: General equilibrium effects of land market restrictions on labor market: evidence from wages in Sri Lanka

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

5460: Are commodity prices more volatile now ? a long-run perspective

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Rashmi Shankar and Riccardo Trezzi

5459: Microinsurance: a case study of the Indian rainfall index insurance market

Xavier Gine, Lev Menand, Robert Townsend and James Vickery

5458: Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries: how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design ?

Adeline Delavande, Xavier Gine and David McKenzie

5457: Decomposing the effects of CCTs on entrepreneurship

Guilherme Lichand

5456: The co-movement of asset returns and the micro-macro focus of prudential oversight

Giovanni Majnoni

5455: Dealing with politics for money and power in infrastructure

Daniel Benitez, Antonio Estache and Tina Søreide

5454: Beyond market access: the new normal of preferential trade agreements

Jean-Pierre Chauffour and Jean-Christophe Maur

5453: The great crisis and fiscal institutions in eastern and central Europe and central Asia

Luca Barbone, Roumeen Islam and Luis Alvaro Sanchez

5452: Comprehensive wealth, intangible capital, and development

Susana Ferreira and Kirk Hamilton

5451: Egypt beyond the crisis: medium-term challenges for sustained growth

Santiago Herrera, Hoda Youssef, Hoda Youssef and Chahir Zaki

5450: Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature

Richard Bird