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

- Shahidur Khandker, M. A. Baqui Khalily and Hussain 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 Servén
- 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
- 5307: The impact of water supply variability on treaty cooperation between international bilateral river basin riparian states

- Ariel Dinar, Brian Blankespoor, Shlomi Dinar and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
- 5306: Fiscal adjustment and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: overview and lessons from the current downturn

- Hippolyte Fofack
- 5305: Social protection in Latin America: achievements and limitations

- Francisco Ferreira and David Robalino
- 5304: Health, demographic transition and economic growth

- Ole Hagen Jorgensen
- 5303: Rigidities in employment protection and exporting

- Murat Seker
- 5302: Access to water, women's work and child outcomes

- Gayatri Koolwal and Dominique van de Walle
- 5301: Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis

- Chad Bown
- 5300: North-south trade-related technology diffusion: virtuous growth cycles in Latin America

- Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang
- 5299: Decentralization (localization) and corruption: new cross-country evidence

- Maksym Ivanyna and Anwar Shah
- 5298: Thirty-five years of long-run energy forecasting: lessons for climate change policy

- Jean-Charles Hourcade and Franck Nadaud
- 5297: Small state regional cooperation, south-south and south-north migration, and international trade

- Maurice Schiff
- 5296: Carbon offsets with endogenous environmental policy

- Jon Strand
- 5295: Inertia in infrastructure development: some analytical aspects, and reasons for inefficient infrastructure choices

- Jon Strand
- 5294: Trade crisis and recovery: restructuring of global value chains

- William Milberg and Deborah Winkler
- 5293: Can subjective well-being predict unemployment length ?

- Dimitris Mavridis
- 5292: Universal minimum old age pensions: impact on poverty and fiscal cost in 18 Latin American countries

- Jean-Jacques Dethier, Pierre Pestieau and Rabia Ali
- 5291: China's export growth and the China safeguard: threats to the world trading system ?

- Chad Bown and Meredith Crowley
- 5290: Aid quality and donor rankings

- Stephen Knack, Frederic Rogers and Nicholas Eubank
- 5289: Designing the payout Phase of pension systems: policy issues, constraints and options

- Roberto Rocha and Dimitri Vittas
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