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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, J. C. 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 Chris 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

5360: Are banks too big to fail or too big to save ? International evidence from equity prices and CDS spreads

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

5359: Implementing carbon tariffs: a fool's errand ?

Michael Moore

5358: Investment in job training: why are SMES lagging so much behind ?

Rita Almeida and Reyes Aterido

5357: An empirical analysis of the effects of climate variables on national level economic growth

Casey Brown, Robyn Meeks, Yonas Ghile and Kenneth Hunu

5356: Shadow economies all over the world: new estimates for 162 countries from 1999 to 2007

Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn and Claudio Montenegro

5355: Markets for cotton by-products: global trends and implications for African cotton producers

John Baffes

5354: Global imbalances before and after the global crisis

Luis Serven and Ha Nguyen

5353: The global financial crisis and development thinking

Frederic Rogers

5352: U.S. antidumping: much ado about zeroing

Chad Bown and Thomas Prusa

5351: China's marriage market and upcoming challenges for elderly men

Monica Das Gupta, Avraham Ebenstein and Ethan Jennings Sharygin

5350: Political capture of decentralization: vote-buying through grants-financed local jurisdictions

Stuti Khemani

5349: The publicity"defect"of customary law

Varun Gauri

5348: Corruption and productivity: firm-level evidence from the BEEPS survey

Donato De Rosa, Nishaal Gooroochurn and Holger Gorg

5347: Trade and regional inequality

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

5346: Empirical econometric evaluation of alternative methods of dealing with missing values in investment climate surveys

Alvaro Escribano, Jorge Pena and J. Luis Guasch

5345: Changing contributions of different agricultural policy instruments to global reductions in trade and welfare

Johanna Croser and Kym Anderson

5344: Agricultural distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa: trade and welfare indicators, 1961 to 2004

Johanna Croser and Kym Anderson

5343: Characterizing the business cycles of emerging economies

Cesar Calderon and Rodrigo Fuentes

5342: Adaptation to climate extremes in developing countries: the role of education

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante and David Wheeler

5341: The economy-wide effects of further trade reforms in Tunisia's services sectors

Philippa Dee and Ndiame Diop

5340: The DR-CAFTA and the extensive margin: a firm-level analysis

Ana Cristina Molina, Maurizio Bussolo and Leonardo Iacovone

5339: Measuring the technical efficiency of airports in Latin America

Sergio Perelman and Tomas Serebrisky

5338: Inheritance law reform and women's access to capital: evidence from India's Hindu succession act

Klaus Deininger, Aparajita Goyal and Hari Nagarajan

5337: Revisiting between-group inequality measurement: an application to the dynamics of caste inequality in two Indian villages

Peter Lanjouw and Vijayendra Rao

5336: The growth report and new structural economics

Justin Lin and Celestin Monga

5335: Are health shocks different ? evidence from a multi-shock survey in Laos

Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow

5334: Potential implications of a special safeguard mechanism in the WTO: the case of wheat

Thomas W. Hertel, Will Martin and Amanda M. Leister

5333: Factors that predispose youth to risk in Mexico and Chile

Wendy Cunningham and Emilie Bagby

5332: Energy access, efficiency, and poverty: how many households are energy poor in Bangladesh ?

Douglas F. Barnes, Shahidur Khandker and Hussain A. Samad

5331: Seasonal and extreme poverty in Bangladesh: evaluating an ultra-poor microfinance project

Shahidur Khandker, M. A. Baqui Khalily and Hussain A. Samad

5330: Effects of the crisis on the automotive industry in developing countries: a global value chain perspective

Timothy J. Sturgeon and Johannes Van Biesebroeck

5329: Analyzing trade competitiveness: a diagnostics approach

Thomas Farole, Jose Guilherme Reis and Swarnim Wagle

5328: Trade credit contracts

Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan

5327: Delivering service indicators in education and health in Africa: a proposal

Tessa Bold, Bernard Gauthier, Jakob Svensson and Waly Wane

5326: Consumer protection and financial literacy: lessons from nine country studies

Susan L. Rutledge

5325: A summary and update of developing annuities markets: the experience of Chile

Roberto Rocha and Heinz P. Rudolph

5324: The political, regulatory and market failures that caused the US financial crisis

David Tarr

5323: Obstacles to growth for small and medium enterprises in Turkey

Murat Seker and Paulo Guilherme Correa

5322: The impact of the business environment on young firm financing

Larry W. Chavis, Leora Klapper, Inessa Love, Larry W. Chavis, Leora F. Klapper and Inessa Love

5321: Deals versus rules: policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Gita Khun-Jush and Lant Pritchett

5320: MDG achievements, determinants and resource needs: what has been learnt ?

Jann Lay

5319: Is there a distress risk anomaly ? pricing of systematic default risk in the cross section of equity returns

Deniz Anginer and Celim Yildizhan

5318: Liquidity clienteles: transaction costs and investment decisions of individual investors

Deniz Anginer

5317: Infrastructure in Latin America

Cesar Calderon and Luis Serven

5316: The Washington consensus: assessing a damaged brand

Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre and Felipe Valencia Caicedo

5315: Information, direct access to farmers, andrural market performance in central India

Aparajita Goyal

5314: Regional trade agreements

Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas

5313: Growth identification and facilitation: the role of the state in the dynamics of structural change

Justin Lin and Celestin Monga

5312: Financial globalization and the Russian crisis of 1998

Brian Pinto and Sergei Ulatov

5311: Fiscal competition in developing countries: a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature

Thierry Madiès and Jean-Jacques Dethier

5310: Trade and migration with renewable natural resources: out-of-steady-state dynamics

Ramon Lopeza

5309: The effects of domestic climate change measures on international competitiveness

Hiau Looi Kee, Hong Ma and Muthukumara Mani

5308: The evolution of agricultural trade flows

M. Ataman Aksoy and Francis Ng