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- 5188: An institutional approach to balancing international monetary relations: the case for a US-China settlement facility

- Nadia Piffaretti and Sergio Rossi
- 5187: Bosnia and Herzegovina's surprising export performance: back to the past in a new veil but will It last ?

- Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng
- 5186: Mexico: impact evaluation of sme programs using panel firm data

- Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Monica Tinajero
- 5185: Private education provision and public finance: the Netherlands

- Harry Patrinos
- 5184: What constrains Africa's exports ?

- Caroline Freund and Nadia Rocha
- 5183: Dysfunctional finance: positive shocks and negative outcomes

- Karla Hoff
- 5182: Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention

- Philip Keefer, Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plumper
- 5181: Citizen-centric governance indicators: measuring and monitoring governance by listening to the people and not the interest groups

- Maksym Ivanyna and Anwar Shah
- 5180: Potential benefits and risks of increased aid flows to Burundi

- Hannah Nielsen and Dorsati Madani
- 5179: A note on the economic cost of climate change and the rationale to limit it below 2°C

- Stephane Hallegatte, Patrice Dumas and Jean-Charles Hourcade
- 5178: The inter-linkages between rapid growth in livestock production, climate change, and the impacts on water resources, land use, and deforestation

- Philip K. Thornton and Mario Herrero
- 5177: Infrastructure and economic growth in Egypt

- Norman Loayza and Rei Odawara
- 5176: At the frontier of practical political economy: operationalizing an agent-based stakeholder model in the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific Region

- Barbara Nunberg, Naazneen Barma, Mark Abdollahian, Amanda Green and Deborah Perlman
- 5175: Hegelian macroeconomics -- the dialectics of global imbalances

- Celestin Monga
- 5174: Valuation effects with transitory and trend productivity shocks

- Ha Nguyen
- 5173: Understanding options for public-private partnerships in infrastructure: sorting out the forest from the trees: BOT, DBFO, DCMF, concession, lease

- Jeffrey John Delmon
- 5172: Sponsoring a race to the top: the case for results-based intergovernmental finance for merit goods

- Anwar Shah
- 5171: Taxes and caps as climate policy instruments with domestic and imported fuels

- Jon Strand
- 5170: Social impacts of climate change in Chile: a municipal level analysis of the effects of recent and future climate change on human development and inequality

- Lykke Andersen and Dorte Verner
- 5169: National drought insurance for Malawi

- Joanna Syroka and Antonio Nucifora
- 5168: Developing countries, dispute settlement, and the advisory centre on WTO law

- Chad Bown and Rachel McCulloch
- 5167: Price elasticity of nonresidential demand for energy in south eastern Europe

- Atsushi Iimi
- 5166: Trade finance in crisis: should developing countries establish export credit agencies ?

- Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Christian Saborowski and Ahmet I. Soylemezoglu
- 5165: Krueger/Schiff/Valdes revisited: agricultural price and trade policy reform in developing countries since 1960

- Kym Anderson
- 5164: Contrasting future paths for an evolving global climate regime

- Scott Barrett and Michael Toman
- 5163: "green stimulus,"economic recovery, and long-term sustainable development

- Jon Strand and Michael Toman
- 5162: International aid and financial crises in donor countries

- Hai-Anh Dang, Stephen Knack and Frederic Rogers
- 5161: Density and disasters: economics of urban hazard risk

- Somik Lall and Uwe Deichmann
- 5160: The margins of labor cost adjustment: survey evidence from European firms

- Jan Babecký, Philip Du Caju, Theodora Kosma, Martina Lawless, Julian Messina and Tairi Rõõm
- 5159: Downward nominal and real wage rigidity: survey evidence from European firms

- Jan Babecký, Philip Du Caju, Theodora Kosma, Martina Lawless, Julian Messina and Tairi Rõõm
- 5158: Soil fertility, fertilizer, and the maize green revolution in East Africa

- Tomoya Matsumoto and Takashi Yamano
- 5157: Corruption and confidence in public institutions: evidence from a global survey

- Bianca Clausen, Aart Kraay and Zsolt Nyiri
- 5156: Importing, exporting and innovation in developing countries

- Murat Seker
- 5155: The impact of trade in services on factor incomes: results from a global simulation Model

- Syud Ahmed
- 5154: Are irrigation rehabilitation projects good for poor farmers in Peru ?

- Gayatri Datar and Ximena V. Del Carpio
- 5153: International growth spillovers, geography and infrastructure

- Mark Roberts and Uwe Deichmann
- 5152: U.S. and them: the geography of academic research

- Jishnu Das, Quy-Toan Do, Karen Shaines and Sowmya Srinivasan
- 5151: Capital requirements and business cycles with credit market imperfections

- Pierre-Richard Agénor, Koray Alper and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva
- 5150: Estimating the fiscal costs of implementing Ghana's single pay spine reform

- Carlos Cavalcanti
- 5149: Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

- Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Ashley Taylor
- 5148: Family systems, political systems, and Asia's'missing girls': the construction of son preference and its unraveling

- Monica Das Gupta
- 5147: The new multi-polar international monetary system

- Mansoor Dailami and Paul Masson
- 5146: Medium-term business cycles in developing countries

- Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha and Luis Servén
- 5145: Four critiques of the redistribution hypothesis: an assessment

- Branko Milanovic
- 5144: Pro-cyclical fiscal policy in brazil: evidence from the states

- Marco Arena and Julio E. Revilla
- 5143: What did you do all day ? maternal education and child outcomes

- Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Khwaja
- 5142: Non-traditional crops, traditional constraints: long-term welfare impacts of export crop adoption among guatemalan smallholders

- Calogero Carletto, Talip Kilic and Angeli Kirk
- 5141: State financial institutions: mandates, governance, and beyond

- Heinz P. Rudolph
- 5140: How might India's public health systems be strengthened ?

- Monica Das Gupta, Rajendra Shukla, T.V. Somanathan and K.K. Datta
- 5139: The heavenly liquidity twin: the increasing importance of liquidity risk

- Fernando Montes-Negret
- 5138: Trade and trade finance developments in 14 developing countries post September 2008 - a World Bank survey

- Mariem Malouche
- 5137: Changing households'investments and aspirations through social interactions: evidence from a randomized transfer program

- Karen Macours and Renos Vakis
- 5136: Trade finance in a liquidity crisis

- Tore Ellingsen and Jonas Vlachos
- 5135: Conclude Doha: it matters !

- Bernard Hoekman, Will Martin and Aaditya Mattoo
- 5134: The potential impact of the global financial crisis on world trade

- Warwick McKibbin and Andrew Stoeckel
- 5133: Explaining high transport costs within Malawi - bad roads or lack of trucking competition ?

- Somik Lall, Hyoung Wang and Thomas Munthali
- 5132: Mental health in the aftermath of conflict

- Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
- 5131: Privatization in development: some lessons from experience

- François Bourguignon and Claudia Sepulveda
- 5130: Comparing condom use with different types of partners: evidence from national HIV surveys in Africa

- Damien de Walque and Rachel Kline
- 5129: Basel core principles and bank soundness: does compliance matter ?

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache
- 5128: Time as a determinant of comparative advantage

- Yue Li and John Wilson
- 5127: Responding to threats of climate change mega-catastrophes

- Carolyn Kousky, Olga Rostapshova, Michael Toman and Richard Zeckhauser
- 5126: Regionalizing telecommunications reform in West Africa

- Ioannis Kessides, Roger Noll and Nancy C. Benjamin
- 5125: Export promotion agencies revisited

- Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga and Lucy Payton
- 5124: Disparities in labor market performance in the Philippines

- Xubei Luo
- 5123: Reconciling climate change and trade policy

- Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Jianwu He
- 5122: Female-owned firms in Latin America: characteristics, performance, and obstacles to growth

- Miriam Bruhn
- 5121: Can global de-carbonization inhibit developing country industrialization ?

- Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Jianwu He
- 5120: Education and wage differentials in the Philippines

- Xubei Luo and Takanobu Terada
- 5119: Mandated benefits, employment, and inequality in a dual economy

- Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro
- 5118: The association between remarriage and HIV infection: evidence from national HIV surveys in Africa

- Damien de Walque and Rachel Kline
- 5117: Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania

- Syud Ahmed, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Thomas Hertel, David B. Lobell, Navin Ramankutty, Ana R. Rios and Pedram Rowhani
- 5116: Everything you always wanted to know about wto accession (but were afraid to ask)

- Olivier Cattaneo and Carlos A. Primo Braga
- 5115: Trade in health services: what's in it for developing countries ?

- Olivier Cattaneo
- 5114: Breaking the waves ? does education mediate the relationship between youth bulges and political violence ?

- Bilal Barakat and Henrik Urdal
- 5113: Remittances and the brain drain revisited: the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

- Albert Bollard, David McKenzie, Melanie Morten and Hillel Rapoport
- 5112: Inter-firm trade finance in times of crisis

- Anna Maria Menichini
- 5111: Innovating development finance - from financing sources to financial solutions

- Navin Girishankar
- 5110: Urban youth bulges and social disorder: an empirical study of Asian and Sub-Saharan African cities

- Henrik Urdal and Kristian Hoelscher
- 5109: Public interest litigation in India: overreaching or underachieving ?

- Varun Gauri
- 5108: How do local-level legal institutions promote development ?

- Varun Gauri
- 5107: Left behind to farm ? women's labor re-allocation in rural China

- Ren Mu and Dominique van de Walle
- 5106: Mind the neighbors: the impact of productivity and location on firm turnover

- Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Fraser Thompson
- 5105: Infrastructure and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa

- Paul Noumba Um, Stephane Straub and Charles Vellutini
- 5104: Poverty in Latin America: sources of welfare disparities in ecuador

- Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Monica Tinajero
- 5103: Has India's economic growth become more pro-poor in the wake of economic reforms ?

- Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion
- 5102: U.S.-Japan and U.S.-China trade conflict: export growth, reciprocity, and the international trading system

- Chad Bown and Rachel McCulloch
- 5101: Korea and the BICs (Brazil, India and China): catching up experiences

- V. Chandra, I. Osorio-Rodarte and C. A. Primo Braga
- 5100: Barriers to competition in Croatia: the role of government regulation

- Donato De Rosa, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster, Ana-Maria Boromisa and Velimir Sonje
- 5099: Impacts of policy instruments to reduce congestion and emissions from urban transportation: the case of Sao Paulo, Brazil

- Alex Anas and Govinda Timilsina
- 5098: Why have CO2 emissions increased in the transport sector in Asia ? underlying factors and policy options

- Govinda Timilsina and Ashish Shrestha
- 5097: Constraints to growth in Malawi

- Nicholas Lea and Lucia Hanmer
- 5096: Missing women and India's religious demography

- Vani Borooah, Quy-Toan Do, Sriya Iyer and Shareen Joshi
- 5095: A polycentric approach for coping with climate change

- Elinor Ostrom
- 5094: Coping with crises: why and how to protect employment and earnings

- Pierella Paci, Ana Revenga and Bob Rijkers
- 5093: Can a market-assisted land redistribution program improve the lives of the poor ? evidence from Malawi

- Gayatri Datar, Ximena Del Carpio and Vivian Hoffman
- 5092: Social impacts of climate change in Bolivia: a municipal level analysis of the effects of recent climate change on life expectancy, consumption, poverty and inequality

- Lykke Andersen and Dorte Verner
- 5091: Social impacts of climate change in Peru: a district level analysis of the effects of recent and future climate change on human development and inequality

- Lykke Andersen, Addy Suxo and Dorte Verner
- 5090: Designing cost-effective cash transfer programs to boost schooling among young women in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler
- 5089: The short-term impacts of a schooling conditional cash transfer program on the sexual behavior of young women

- Sarah Baird, Ephraim Chirwa, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler
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