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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

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