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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

5449: Banking sector competition in Russia

Diego Anzoategui, Maria Martinez Peria and Martin Melecký

5448: The challenges of bankruptcy reform

Elena Cirmizi, Leora Klapper and Mahesh Uttamchandani

5447: Second best ? investment climate and performance in Africa's special economic zones

Thomas Farole

5446: Islamic vs. conventional banking: business model, efficiency and stability

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ouarda Merrouche

5445: Payment systems, inside money and financial intermediation

Ouarda Merrouche and Erlend Nier

5444: The impact of the financial crisis on new firm registration

Leora Klapper and Inessa Love

5443: Poverty and inequality maps for rural Vietnam: an application of small area estimation

Cuong Nguyen, Tran Ngoc Truong and Roy van der Weide

5442: Banking sector stability, efficiency, and outreach in Kenya

Thorsten Beck, Robert Cull, Michael Fuchs, Jared Getenga, Peter Gatere, John Randa and Mircea Trandafir

5441: Macroeconomic volatility after trade and capital account liberalization

Cosimo Pancaro

5440: In aid we trust: hearts and minds and the Pakistan earthquake of 2005

Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das

5439: The impact of the global financial crisis on off-farm employment and earnings in rural China

Jikun Huang, Huayong Zhi, Zhurong Huang, Scott Rozelle and John Giles

5438: Identification strategy: a field experiment on dynamic incentives in rural credit markets

Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

5437: Research for development: a World Bank perspective on future directions for research

Development Economics Senior Vice Presidency

5436: Taking stock of antidumping, safeguards, and countervailingduties, 1990-2009

Chad Bown

5435: China: global crisis avoided, robust economic growth sustained

Gallina Andronova Vincelette, Alvaro Manoel, Ardo Hansson and Louis Kuijs

5434: Macroprudential stress-testing practices of central banks in central and south eastern Europe: an overview and challenges ahead

Martin Melecký and Anca Pruteanu-Podpiera

5433: The economic impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment in Indonesia

Richard Adams and Alfredo Cuecuecha

5432: Mashup indices of development

Martin Ravallion

5431: The financial crisis and its impacts on global agriculture

Justin Lin and Will Martin

5430: The worldwide governance indicators: methodology and analytical issues

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

5429: Financial protection of the state against natural disasters: a primer

Francis Ghesquiere and Olivier Mahul

5428: Conflicts and returns to stability in developing countries: a comparative analysis

Hippolyte Fofack

5427: Liability structure in small-scale finance: evidence from a natural experimen

Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia

5426: Trade and economic growth: evidence on the role of complementarities for CAFTA-DR countries

Cesar Calderon and Virginia Poggioa

5425: How and why does history matter for development policy ?

Michael Woolcock, Simon Szreter and Vijayendra Rao

5424: Distributions in motion: economic growth, inequality, and poverty dynamics

Francisco Ferreira

5423: Political economy of infrastructure spending in India

Stuti Khemani

5422: Economic valuation of development projects: a case study of a non-motorized transport project in India

Hua Wang, Ke Fang and Yuyan Shi

5421: The value of statistical life: a contingent investigation in China

Hua Wang and Jie He

5420: Environmental performance rating and disclosure: an empirical investigation of China's green watch program

Yanhong Jin, Hua Wang and David Wheeler

5419: The impact of environmental performance rating and disclosure: an empirical analysis of perceptions by polluting firms'managers in China

Yanhong Jin, Hua Wang and David Wheeler

5418: What explains aid project success in post-conflict situations ?

Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier and Marguerite Duponchel

5417: Global value chains in the electronics industry: was the crisis a window of opportunity for developing countries ?

Timothy J. Sturgeon and Momoko Kawakami

5416: Microeconomic consequences and macroeconomic causes of foreign direct investment in southern African economies

Daniel Lederman, Taye Mengistae and Lixin Xu

5415: Does respondent reticence affect the results of corruption surveys ? evidence from the world bank enterprise survey for Nigeria

Bianca Clausen, Aart Kraay and Peter Murrell

5414: Explaining variation in child labor statistics

Andrew Dillon, Elena Bardasi, Kathleen Beegle and Pieter Serneels

5413: Performance of Fe y Alegria high school students in Colombia: is it a matter of Fe (faith) or Alegria (joy) ?

Juan Carlos Parra and Quentin Wodon

5412: Improving wastewater use in agriculture: an emerging priority

Susanne M. Scheierling, Carl Bartone, Duncan D. Mara and Pay Drechsel

5411: Advanced biofuel technologies: status and barriers

Jay J. Cheng and Govinda Timilsina

5410: Costs of taxation and benefits of public goods with multiple taxes and goods

James Anderson and Will Martin

5409: Integrating land financing into subnational fiscal management

George E. Peterson and Olga Kaganova

5408: Credit constraints and the north-south transmission of crises

Ha Nguyen

5407: Export entrepreneurs: evidence from Peru

Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

5406: Second-generation biofuels: economics and policies

Miguel Carriquiry, Xiaodong Du and Govinda Timilsina

5405: Economic freedom, human rights, and the returns to human capital: an evaluation of the Schultz hypothesis

Elizabeth King, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem

5404: Novel indicators of the trade and welfare effects of agricultural distortions in OECD countries

Kym Anderson and Johanna Croser

5403: How do governments respond to food price spikes ? lessons from the past

Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen

5402: The effects of business environments on development: surveying new firm-level evidence

Lixin Xu

5401: Unpleasant surprises: sovereign default determinants and prospects

Luca Bandiera, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Gallina A. Vincelette

5400: A control function approach to estimating dynamic probit models with endogenous regressors, with an application to the study of poverty persistence in China

John Giles and Irina Murtazashvili

5399: Public debt management in emerging market economies: has this time been different ?

Phillip R. D. Anderson, Anderson Caputo Silva and Antonio Velandia-Rubiano

5398: Foreign bank participation in developing countries: what do we know about the drivers and consequences of this phenomenon?

Robert Cull and Maria Martinez Peria

5397: A diagnostic framework for assessing public investment management

Anand Rajaram, Tuan Minh Le, Nataliya Biletska and Jim Brumby

5396: The role of standards in global value chains

Raphael Kaplinsky

5395: Experimental approaches in migration studies

David McKenzie and Dean Yang

5394: The economic consequences of"brain drain"of the best and brightest: microeconomic evidence from five countries

John Gibson and David McKenzie

5393: Why aredeveloping countries so slow in adopting new technologies ? the aggregate and complementary impact of micro distortions

Raphael Bergoeing, Norman Loayza and Facundo Piguillem

5392: Do we need a zero pure time preference or the risk of climate catastrophes to justify a 2C global warming target ?

P. Dumas, Jean-Charles Hourcade and B. Perrissin Fabert

5391: Finding the tipping point -- when sovereign debt turns bad

Mehmet Caner, Thomas Grennes and Fritzi Koehler-Geib

5390: Social security distortions onto the labor market: estimates for Colombia

Jose Cuesta and Mauricio Olivera

5389: Are innovating firms victims or perpetrators ? tax evasion, bribe payments, and the role of external finance in developing countries

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

5388: Poverty, living conditions, and infrastructure access: a comparison of slums in Dakar, Johannesburg, and Nairobi

Sumila Gulyani, Debabrata Talukdar and Darby Jack

5387: Provision of water to the poor in Africa: experience with water standposts and the informal water sector

Sarah Keener, Manuel Luengo and Sudeshna Banerjee

5386: The impact of infrastructure spending in Sub-Saharan Africa: a CGE modeling approach

Jean-Francois Perrault, Luc Savard and Antonio Estache

5385: Crop production and road connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial analysis

Paul Dorosh, Hyoung-Gun Wang, Liangzhi You and Emily Schmidt

5384: Cost recovery, equity, and efficiency in water tariffs: evidence from African utilities

Sudeshna Banerjee, Vivien Foster, Yvonne Ying, Heather Skilling and Quentin Wodon

5383: Equity in climate change: an analytical review

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

5382: Labor supply and retirement policy in an overlapping generations model with stochastic fertility

Ole Hagen Jorgensen and Svend E. Hougaard Jensen

5381: Do middle-income countries continue to have the ability to deal with the global financial crisis ?

Ralph van Doorn, Vivek Suri and Sudarshan Gooptu

5380: Sovereign debt distress and corporate spillover impacts

Mansoor Dailami

5379: Industry and skill wage premiums in east Asia

Emanuela di Gropello and Christos Sakellariou

5378: Climate change and trade policy: from mutual destruction to mutual support

Patrick Messerlin

5377: CATalytic insurance: the case of natural disasters

Tito Cordella and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

5376: Entrepreneurship and the extensive margin in export growth: a microeconomic accounting of Costa Rica's export growth during 1997-2007

Daniel Lederman, Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Yi Xu

5375: On measuring scientific influence

Martin Ravallion and Adam Wagstaff

5374: The World Bank's publication record

Martin Ravallion and Adam Wagstaff

5373: Is the level of financial sector development a key determinant of private investment in the power sector ?

Lika Ba, Farid Gasmi and Paul Noumba Um

5372: Crisis preparedness and debt management in low income countries: strengthening institutions and policy frameworks

Dana Weist, Eriko Togo and Abha Prasad

5371: Placing the 2006/08 commodity price boom into perspective

John Baffes and Tassos Haniotis

5370: Child ability and household human capital investment decisions in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

5369: Regional economic growth in Mexico: recent evolution and the role of governance

Eli Weiss and David Rosenblatt

5368: Estimates of trade-related adjustment costs in Syria

Jamus Lim and Christian Saborowski

5367: How can public spending help you grow? an empirical analysis for developing countries

Nihal Bayraktar and Blanca Moreno-Dodson

5366: Export discoveries, diversification and barriers to entry

Bailey Klinger and Daniel Lederman

5365: Education, labor rights, and incentives: contract teacher cases in the indian courts

Nick Robinson and Varun Gauri

5364: Biofuels: markets, targets and impacts

Govinda Timilsina and Ashish Shrestha

5363: Bank competition in the Middle East and northern Africa region

Diego Anzoategui, Maria Martinez Peria and Roberto Rocha

5362: Managing subnational credit and default risks

Lili Liu and Michael Waibel

5361: Aid for trade: building on progress today for tomorrow's future

Bernard Hoekman and John Wilson