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3080: Can fiscal rules help reduce macroeconomic volatility in the Latin America and Caribbean Region?

Guillermo Perry

3079: Regional integration in East Asia:challenges and opportunities - Part II: Trade, finance and integration

Eisuke Sakakibara and Sharon Yamakawa

3078: Regional integration in East Asia: challenges and opportunities - Part 1: history and institutions

Eisuke Sakakibara and Sharon Yamakawa

3077: do more transparent government govern better?

Roumeen Islam

3076: Trade reform in Vietnam: opportunities with emerging challenges

Phillipe Auffret

3075: Child labor, income shocks, and access to credit

Rajeev Dehejia, Kathleen Beegle and Roberta Gatti

3074: The gender impact of pension reform: a cross-country analysis

Estelle James, Alejandra Cox Edwards and Rebecca Wong

3073: Metropolitan industrial clusters; patterns and processes

Sanjoy Chakravorty, Jun Koo and Somik Lall

3072: Diversity matters - the economic geography of industry location in India

Somik Lall

3071: Survey techniques to measure and explain corruption

Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson

3070: Are you satisfied? citizen feedback and delivery of urban services

Uwe Deichmann and Somik Lall

3069: International migration, remittances, and the brain drain; a study of 24 labor exporting countries

Richard Adams

3068: Poverty and economic growth in Egypt, 1995-2000

El-Laithy, Heba, Michael Lokshin and Arup Banerji

3067: The mini-integrated macroeconomic model for poverty analysis: a framework for analyzing the unemployment and poverty effects of fiscal and labor market reforms

Pierre-Richard Agénor

3066: The potential demand for and strategic use of an HIV-1 vaccine in Southern India

Shreelata Rao Seshadri, P. Subramaniyam and Prabhat Jha

3065: Ghost doctors - absenteeism in Bangladeshi health facilities

Nazmul Chaudhury and Jeffrey Hammer

3064: Trade policy, trade volumes, and plant-level productivity in Colombian manufacturing industries

Ana Fernandes

3063: Trade liberalization, firm performance, and labor market outcomes in the developing world: what can we learn from micro-level data?

Paolo Epifani

3062: Labor effects of adult mortality in Tanzanian households

Kathleen Beegle

3061: Reciprocity in free trade agreements

Caroline Freund

3060: World market integration through the lens of foreign direct investors

Rui Albuquerque, Norman Loayza and Luis Servén

3059: Do capital flows respond to risk and return?

Cesar Calderon, Norman Loayza and Luis Servén

3058: Working for God? evualuating service delivery of religious not-for-profit health care providers in Uganda

Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson

3057: Teaching adults to read better and faster: results from an experiment in Burkina Faso

Helen Abadzi

3056: Avoiding the pitfalls in taxing financial intermediation

Patrick Honohan

3055: The global growth of mutual funds

Deepthi Fernando, Leora Klapper, Victor Sulla and Dimitri Vittas

3054: The new comparative economics

Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

3053: Economic impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin

3052: Long-run impacts of China's WTO accession on farm-nonfarm income inequality and rural poverty

Kym Anderson, Jikun Huang and Elena Ianchovichina

3051: Regional, multilateral, and unilateral trade policies on MERCOSUR for growth and poverty reduction in Brazil

Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr and Angelo Gurgel

3050: The changing financial landscape: opportunities and challenges for the Middle East and North Africa

Wafik Grais and Zeynep Kantur

3049: Hidden impact ? Ex-post evaluation of an anti-poverty program

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

3048: Targeted transfers in poor countries: revisiting the tradeoffs and policy options

Martin Ravallion

3047: Comparing mortgage credit risk policies: an options-based approach

Robert Buckley, Gulmira Karaguishiyeva, Robert Van Order and Laura Vecvagare

3046: Migration, spillovers, and trade diversion: the impact of internationalization on stock market liquidity

Ross Levine and Sergio Schmukler

3045: Causes and consequences of civil strife - micro-level evidence from Uganda

Klaus Deininger

3044: Impregnated nets cannot fully substitute for DDT: field effectiveness of Malaria prevention in Solomon Islands

Raman Velayudhan, Peter Wilikai, Patricia M. Graves, A. Over and Bernard Bakote'e

3043: The incentive-compatible design of deposit insurance and bank failure resolution: concepts and country studies

Thorsten Beck

3042: Bank supervision and corporate finance

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

3041: Bank concentration and crises

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

3040: Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

3039: Scaling up community-driven development: theoretical underpinnings and program design implications

Binswanger, Hans P.*Aiyar, Swaminathan

3038: The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality: why measurement matters

Martin Ravallion

3037: Regulation and private sector investment in infrastructure - evidence from Latin America

Sheoli Pargal

3036: Telecommunications reform in Malawi

George Clarke

3035: Traffic fatalities and economic growth

Elizabeth Kopits and Maureen Cropper

3034: The insurance industry in Mauritius

Dimitri Vittas

3033: The role of occupational pension funds in Mauritius

Dimitri Vittas

3032: Information diffusion in international markets

Alejandro Izquierdo, Jacques Morisset and Marcelo Olarreaga

3031: Imports, entry, and competition law as market disciplines

Hiau Looi Kee and Bernard Hoekman

3030: The impact of bank regulations, concentration, and institutions on bank margins

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine

3029: Who benefits and how much?: how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry

Alessandro Nicita and Susan Razzaz

3028: Does a country need a promotion agency to attract foreign direct investment: a small analytical model applied to 58 countries

Jacques Morisset

3027: Financial intermediation and growth - Chinese style

Boyreau-Debray, Genevieve

3026: Strategic approaches to science and technology in development

Robert Watson, Michael Crawford and Sara Farley

3025: Trade structure and growth

Daniel Lederman and William Maloney

3024: Research and development (R&D) and development

Daniel Lederman and William Maloney

3023: Productivity growth and product variety: gains from imitation and education

Douglas M. Addison

3022: Sending farmers back to school - the impact of farmer field schools in Indonesia

Gershon Feder, Rinku Murgai and Jaime B. Quizon

3021: Institutional arrangements for public debt management

Elizabeth Currie, Jean-Jacques Dethier and Eriko Togo

3020: Consumption, health, gender, and poverty

Anne Case and Angus Deaton

3019: Foreign aid, conditionality, and ghost of the financing gap - a forgotten aspect of the aid debate

Thilak Ranaweera

3018: Integrating the least developed countries into the world trading system: the current impact of EU preferences under everything but arms

Paul Brenton

3017: Why is unemployment so high in Bulgaria?

Jan Rutkowski

3016: Partisan politics and intergovernmental transfers in India

Stuti Khemani

3015: Off and running? Technology, trade and the rising demand for skilled workers in Latin America

Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina and Norbert Schady

3014: Evaluation of financial liberalization: a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice

Xavier Gine and Robert Townsend

3013: Land sales and rental markets in transition - evidence from rural Viet Nam

Klaus Deininger and Songqing Jin

3012: Just-in-case inventories - a cross-country analysis

J. Luis Guasch and Joseph Kogan

3011: Renegotiation of concession contracts in Latin America

J. Luis Guasch, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Stephane Straub

3010: Vulnerability in consumption, education, and health - evidence from Moldova during the Russian crisis

Edmundo Murrugarra and Jose Signoret

3009: Agriculture in the Doha Agenda

Patrick Messerlin

3008: Technology, computers, and wages: evidence from a developing economy

Christos Sakellariou and Harry Patrinos

3007: The impact of urban spatial structure on travel demand in the United States

Antonio Bento, Maureen Cropper, Ahmed Mobarak and Katja Vinha

3006: Social rights and economics: claims to health care and education in developing countries

Varun Gauri

3005: Vouchers for basic education in developing countries: a principal-agent perspective

Varun Gauri and Ayesha Vawda

3004: Institutions, trade, and growth: revisiting the evidence

David Dollar and Aart Kraay

3003: The investment climate and the firm: firm-level evidence from China

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Scott Wallsten and Lixin Xu

3002: Information-based instruments for improved urban management

Uwe Deichman, Somik Lall, Ajay Suri and Pragya Rajoria

3001: An introduction to financial and economic modeling for utility regulators

Antonio Estache, Martin Rodriguez Pardina, Jose Rodriguez and German Sember

3000: International climate regime beyond 2012 - are quota allocation rules robust to uncertainty?

Franck Lecocq and Renaud Crassous

2999: Explaining liberalization commitments in financial services trade

Harms, Philipp*Mattoo, Aaditya*Schuknecht, Ludge

2998: Does micro-credit empower women: evidence from Bangladesh

Mark Pitt, Shahidur Khandker and Jennifer Cartwright

2997: Financial and legal institutions and firm size

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

2996: Bank competition, financing obstacles, and access to credit

Thorsten Beck, Demirguc-Kant, Asl' and Vojislav Maksimovic

2995: Commodity market reform in Africa: some recent experience

Takamasa Akiyama, John Baffes, Donald Larson and Panos Varangis

2994: Options for financing lifelong learning

Miguel Palacios

2993: Dealing with the coffee crisis in Central America - impacts and strategies

Panos Varangis, Paul Siegel, Daniele Giovannucci and Bryan Lewin

2992: Market and non-market transfers of land in Ethiopia - implications for efficiency, equity, and non-farm development

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Berhanu Adenew, Gebre-Selassie, Samuel and Mulat Demeke

2991: Tenure security and land-related investment - evidence from Ethiopia

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Berhanu Adenew, Gebre-Selassie, Samuel and Berhanu Nega

2990: Ways out of poverty: diffusing best practices and creating capabilities - perspectives on policies for poverty reduction

Michael Klein

2989: Decentralization and public services: the case of immunization

Peyvand Khaleghian

2988: Trade facilitation and economic development: measuring the impact

John Wilson, Catherine Mann and Tsunehiro Otsuki

2987: East Asia's dynamic development model and the Republic of Korea's experiences

Ho-Chul Lee and Mary P. McNulty

2986: Government bonds in domestic and foreign currency: the role of macroeconomic and institutional factors

Stijn Claessens, Daniela M. H. Klingebiel and Sergio Schmukler

2985: The impact of minimum wages on employment in a low income country: an evaluation using the difference-differences approach

Vivi Alatas and Lisa Cameron

2984: Finance and income inequality: test of alternative theories

George Clarke, Lixin Xu and Heng-Fu Zou

2983: Telecommunication reform in Ghana

Luke Haggarty, Mary M. Shirley and Scott Wallsten

2982: Trade liberalization and labor market adjustment in Brazil

Nina Pavcnik, Andreas Blom, Pinelopi Goldberg and Norbert Schady

2981: Voice lessons: local government organizations, social organizations, and the quality of local governance

Vivi Alatas, Lant Pritchett and Anna Wetterberg