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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