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5288: The payout phase of pension systems: a comparison of five countries

Roberto Rocha, Dimitri Vittas and Heinz P. Rudolph

5287: Increasing public expenditure efficiency in oil-rich economies: a proposal

Shantayanan Devarajan, Tuan Minh Le and Gaël Raballand

5286: Assessing poverty and distributional impacts of the global crisis in the Philippines: a microsimulation approach

Bilal Habib, Ambar Narayan, Sergio Olivieri and Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

5285: OECD imports: diversification and quality search

Olivier Cadot, Madina Kukenova and Vanessa Strauss-Kahn

5284: Poverty lines across the world

Martin Ravallion

5283: Understanding the impact of economic shocks on labor market outcomes in developing countries: an application to Indonesia and Mexico

Catalina Gutierrez, Pierella Paci and Beom S. Park

5282: A framework for assessing systemic risk

Miquel Dijkman

5281: The global apparel value chain, trade and the crisis: challenges and opportunities for developing countries

Gary Gereffi and Stacey Frederick

5280: Vulnerability of bangladesh to cyclones in a changing climate: potential damages and adaptation cost

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huq Khan, Manjur Murshed Zahid Ahmed, Nandan Mukherjee, Malik Fida Khan and Kiran Pandey

5279: Trade and financial sector reforms: interactions and spillovers

Ashley Taylor

5278: Will the crisis affect the economic recovery in eastern European countries ? evidence from firm level data

Paulo Correa and Mariana Iootty

5277: Rethinking multipliers in a globalized world

Raj Nallari and Leopold Engozogo Mba

5276: Designing the payout phase of funded pension pillars in central and eastern European countries

Dimitri Vittas, Heinz Rudolph and John Pollner

5275: Water, sanitation and children's health: evidence from 172 DHS surveys

Isabel Günther and Günther Fink

5274: Is protectionism on the rise ? assessing national trade policies during the crisis of 2008

Hiau Looi Kee, Ileana Neagu Constantinescu and Alessandro Nicita

5273: Internal migration in Ghana: determinants and welfare impacts

Charles Ackah and Denis Medvedev

5272: Openness and technological innovation in East Asia: have they increased the demand for skills ?

Rita Almeida

5271: Cambodia 1998-2008: an episode of rapid growth

Stephane Guimbert

5270: Accommodating migration to promote adaptation to climate change

Jon Barnett and Michael Webber

5269: Enterprise recovery following natural disasters

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

5268: Accounting for selectivity and duration-dependent heterogeneity when estimating the impact of emigration on incomes and poverty in sending areas

John Gibson, David McKenzie and Steven Stillman

5267: Micro efficiency and macro growth

Raj Nallari and Nihal Bayraktar

5266: Within-school tracking in south Korea: an analysis using Pisa 2003

Kevin Macdonald and Harry Patrinos

5265: Aid for trade, infrastructure, and the growth effects of trade reform: issues and implications for Caribbean countries

Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

5264: A preliminary analysis of the impact of a Ukraine-EU free trade agreement on agriculture

Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, Sebastian Hess and Bernhard Brummer

5263: The impact of the 1999 education reform in Poland

Maciej Jakubowski, Harry Patrinos, Emilio Ernesto Porta and Jerzy Wisniewski

5262: The offshore services value chain: developing countries and the crisis

Gary Gereffi and Karina Fernandez-Stark

5261: Export performance and trade facilitation reform: hard and soft infrastructure

Alberto Portugal-Perez and John Wilson

5260: The remitting patterns of African migrants in the OECD

Albert Bollard, David McKenzie and Melanie Morten

5259: Cash or condition ? evidence from a cash transfer experiment

Sarah Baird, Craig Mcintosh and Berk Özler

5258: Resource management and the effects of trade on vulnerable places and people: lessons from six case studies

Donald Larson and John Nash

5257: Gender-targeted conditional cash transfers: enrollment, spillover effects and instructional quality

Amer Hasan

5256: Time allocation in rural households: the indirect effects of conditional cash transfer programs

Amer Hasan

5255: Russian trade and foreign direct investment policy at the crossroads

David Tarr and Natalya Volchkova

5254: Can disaggregated indicators identify governance reform priorities ?

Aart Kraay and Norikazu Tawara

5253: Measuring financial access around the world

Jake Kendall, Nataliya Mylenko and Alejandro Ponce

5252: Measuring monetary policy in open economies

Diego Cerdeiro

5251: Can donor coordination solve the aid proliferation problem ?

Aminur Rahman and Yasuyuki Sawada

5250: Undervaluation through foreign reserve accumulation: static losses, dynamic gains

Anton Korinek and Luis Servén

5249: A counterfactual analysis of the poverty impact of economic growth in Cameroon

B. Essama-Nssah and Léandre Bassole

5248: The effects of school-based management in the Philippines: an initial assessment using administrative data

Nidhi Khattri, Cristina Ling and Shreyasi Jha

5247: Publishing construction contracts and outcome details

Charles Kenny

5246: Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers

Irene Brambilla, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

5245: Using mixed methods in monitoring and evaluation: experiences from international development

Michael Bamberger, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock

5244: Going digital: credit effects of land registry computerization in India

Klaus Deininger and Aparajita Goyal

5243: 'Red flags of corruption'in world bank projects: an analysis of infrastructure contracts

Charles Kenny and Maria Musatova

5242: Quantitative value chain analysis: an application to Malawi

Hardwick Tchale and John Keyser

5241: Till geography do us part ? prolegomena to an economic and monetary union between the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

5240: Long-term fiscal risks and sustainability in an oil-rich country: the case of Russia

Zeljko Bogetic, Karlis Smits, Nina Budina and Sweder van Wijnbergen

5239: Will the clean development mechanism mobilize anticipated levels of mitigation ?

Shaikh M. Rahman, Ariel Dinar and Donald Larson

5238: Assessing ex ante the poverty and distributional impact of the global crisis in a developing country: a micro-simulation approach with application to Bangladesh

Bilal Habib, Ambar Narayan, Sergio Olivieri and Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

5237: Of floods and droughts: the economic and financial crisis of 2008

Roumeen Islam and Raj Nallari

5236: The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa

Philip Keefer

5235: Incomplete markets and fertilizer use: evidence from Ethiopia

Daniel Zerfu and Donald Larson

5234: Benefit incidence analysis: are government health expenditures more pro-rich than we think ?

Adam Wagstaff

5233: Corporate governance and public corruption

Ana Cusolito

5232: Assessing the financial vulnerability to climate-related natural hazards

Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Hochrainer, Georg Pflug, Alexander Lotsch and Keith Williges

5231: A closer look at child mortality among Adivasis in India

Maitreyi Das, Soumya Kapoor and Denis Nikitin

5230: Financial transactions tax: panacea, threat, or damp squib ?

Patrick Honohan and Sean Yoder

5229: Price levels and economic growth: making sense of the PPP changes between ICP rounds

Martin Ravallion

5228: Intellectual property rights and the TRIPS agreement: an overview of ethical problems and some proposed solutions

Jorn Sonderholm

5227: Rethinking market discipline in banking: lessons from the financial crisis

Constantinos Stephanou

5226: Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli and Luis Servén

5225: Estimating the import content of Argentine exports

Paloma Anos-Casero and Bernardo Díaz de Astarloa

5224: What explains stock markets'vulnerability to the 2007-2008 crisis ?

Tatiana Didier, Inessa Love and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

5223: Self-enforcing trade agreements: evidence from time-varying trade policy

Chad Bown and Meredith Crowley

5222: Trade openness reduces growth volatility when countries are well diversified

Mona E. Haddad, Jamus Lim and Christian Saborowski

5221: Argentina: trade patterns and challenges ahead

Paloma Anos-Casero and Valentina Rollo

5220: Estimating the fiscal multiplier in Argentina

Paloma Anos-Casero, Diego Cerdeiro and Riccardo Trezzi

5219: Equilibrium fictions: a cognitive approach to societal rigidity

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

5218: The impact of the investment climate on employment growth: does Sub-Saharan Africa mirror other low-income regions ?

Reyes Aterido and Mary Hallward-Driemeier

5217: Intellectual property rights, human capital and the incidence of R&D expenditures

Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Daniel Lederman

5216: Learning from the Chinese miracle: development lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa

Ali Zafar

5215: The impact of economic shocks on global undernourishment

Sailesh Tiwari and Hassan Zaman

5214: Distance and regionalization of trade for low-income countries

Celine Carrere, Jaime de Melo and John Wilson

5213: Finances of Egyptian listed firms and the performance of the Egyptian stock exchange

Erik Feyen

5212: The taxation of motor fuel: international comparison

Eduardo Ley and Jessica Boccardo

5211: Building countercyclical fiscal policies in Latin America: the international experience

Mario A. Gutierrez and Julio E. Revilla

5210: The short-term impact of higher food prices on poverty in Uganda

Kenneth Simler

5209: The impact of roads on poverty reduction: a case study of Cameroon

Marie Gachassin, Boris Najman and Gaël Raballand

5208: Climate cost uncertainty, retrofit cost uncertainty, and infrastructure closedown: a framework for analysis

Jon Strand and Sebastian Miller

5207: A new approach to producing geographic profiles of HIV prevalence: an application to Malawi

Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Peter Lanjouw

5206: What happens when the market shifts to China ? the Gabon timber and Thai cassava value chains

Raphael Kaplinsky, Anne Terheggen and Julia Tijaja

5205: What are the implications for global value chains when the market shifts from the north to the south ?

Raphael Kaplinsky and Masuma Farooki

5204: Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey

Francisco Ferreira, Jérémie Gignoux and Meltem Aran

5203: When the rivers run dry: liquidity and the use of wholesale funds in the transmission of the U.S. subprime crisis

Claudio Raddatz

5202: Mortgage finance in central and eastern Europe -- opportunity or burden ?

Thorsten Beck, Katie Kibuuka and Erwin Tiongson

5201: What are the links between aid volatility and growth ?

Anil Markandya, Vladimir Ponczek and Soonhwa Yi

5200: Formulas and flexibility in trade negotiations: sensitive agricultural products in the WTO's Doha agenda

Sebastien Jean, David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

5199: To what extent are Bangladesh's recent gains in poverty reduction different from the past?

Aphichoke Kotikula, Ambar Narayan and Hassan Zaman

5198: Safe and sound banking: a role for countercyclical regulatory requirements ?

Gerard Caprio

5197: New structural economics: a framework for rethinking development

Justin Lin

5196: Development strategies: integrating governance and growth

Brian Levy and Francis Fukuyama

5195: Export restraints on russian natural gas and raw timber: what are the economic impacts ?

David Tarr

5194: Trade in'virtual carbon': empirical results and implications for policy

Giles Atkinson, Kirk Hamilton, Giovanni Ruta and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

5193: The economics of renewable energy expansion in rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Uwe Deichmann, Craig Meisner, Siobhan Murray and David Wheeler

5192: Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked ? results from a survey experiment in Tanzania

Elena Bardasi, Kathleen Beegle, Andrew Dillon and Pieter Serneels

5191: Assessing the impact of infrastructure quality on firm productivity in Africa: cross-country comparisons based on investment climate surveys from 1999 to 2005

Alvaro Escribano, J. Luis Guasch and Jorge Pena

5190: Paying primary health care centers for performance in Rwanda

Paulin Basinga, Paul J. Gertler, Agnes Binagwaho, Agnes L.B. Soucat, Jennifer R. Sturdy and Christel M.J. Vermeersch

5189: The determinants of wealth and gender inequity in cognitive skills in Latin America

Kevin Macdonald, Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Juliana Guaqueta, Harry Patrinos and Emilio Porta