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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

5088: Achieving urban climate adaptation in Europe and Central Asia

JoAnn Carmin and Yan Zhang

5087: The dynamic effects of countercyclical fiscal stimulus on output in Tunisia

Ndiame Diop and Nizar Ben Abdallah

5086: Microfinance tradeoffs: regulation, competition, and financing

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

5085: Creative destruction and policy reforms: changing productivity effects of firm turnover in Moroccan manufacturing

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Fraser Thompson

5084: Who survives ? the impact of corruption, competition and property rights across firms

Mary Hallward-Driemeier

5083: Competitiveness assessment of tourism in Sierra Leone: a cluster-based approach

Mallika Shakya

5082: Evaluating SME support Programs in Chile using panel firm data

Hong Tan

5081: The power of exports

William Easterly, Ariell Reshef and Julia Schwenkenberg

5080: A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India

Martin Ravallion

5079: How will changes in globalization impact growth in south Asia ?

Ejaz Ghani and Rahul Anand

5078: Banks and microbanks

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

5077: Remittance stability, cyclicality and stabilizing impact in developing countries

Ileana C. Neagu and Maurice Schiff

5076: Demographic and socioeconomic patterns of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Africa

Kathleen Beegle and Damien de Walque

5075: Implications of the growth of China and India for the other Asian giant: Russia

Elena Ianchovichina, Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

5074: Governance in health care delivery: raising performance

Maureen Lewis and Gunilla Pettersson Gelander

5073: How to improve public health systems: lessons from Tamil Nadu

Monica Das Gupta, B.R. Desikachari, T.V. Somanathan and P. Padmanaban

5072: What explains the cost of remittances ? an examination across 119 country corridors

Thorsten Beck and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

5071: Pricing externalities from passenger transportation in Mexico city

Ian Parry and Govinda Timilsina

5070: Distributional impact analysis of past climate variability in rural Indonesia

Outi Korkeala, David Newhouse and Mafalda Duarte

5069: The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China

Jose G. Montalvo and Martin Ravallion

5068: An analysis of various policy instruments to reduce congestion, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions in Beijing

Alex Anas, Govinda Timilsina and Siqi Zheng

5067: Cyclical effects of bank capital requirements with imperfect credit markets

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva

5066: Do value-added estimates add value ? accounting for learning dynamics

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Khwaja and Tristan Zajonc

5065: Exchange rate and output fluctuations in the small open economy of Mauritius

Fabiano Bastos and Jose Angelo Divino

5064: Aid for trade facilitation

Matthias Helble, Catherine Mann and John Wilson

5063: Climate change and the economics of targeted mitigation in sectors with long-lived capital stock

Zmarak Shalizi and Franck Lecocq

5062: The complementarity of MDG achievements: the case of child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jann Lay and Anne-Sophie Robilliard

5061: Global inequality recalculated: the effect of new 2005 PPP estimates on global inequality

Branko Milanovic

5060: Crisis and protection in the automotive industry: a global value chain perspective

Timothy J. Sturgeon and Johannes Van Biesebroeck

5059: Exchange rates during the crisis

Sebastian Weber and Charles Wyplosz

5058: Climate change and individual behavior: considerations for policy

Andrea Liverani

5057: Welfare impacts of rural electrification: evidence from Vietnam

Douglas French Barnes, Shahidur Khandker, Minh Huu Nguyen and Hussain A. Samad

5056: The long and the short of emerging market debt

Luis Opazo, Claudio Raddatz and Sergio Schmukler

5055: Endowment structures, industrial dynamics, and economic growth

Jiandong Ju, Justin Lin and Yong Wang

5054: Comparing Apples with....Apples: how to make (more) sense of subjective rankings of constraints to business

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Reyes Aterido

5053: "Revenue management"effects related to financial flows generated by climate policy

Jon Strand

5052: FDI protectionism is on the rise

Karl P. Sauvant

5051: The global resort to antidumping, safeguards, and other trade remedies amidst the economic crisis

Chad Bown

5050: Smoke in the water: the use of tariff policy flexibility in crises

Liliana Foletti, Marco Fugazza, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga

5049: The Euro-mediterranean partnership: trade in services as an alternative to migration ?

Bernard Hoekman and Caglar Ozden

5048: Measuring household usage of financial services: does it matter how or whom You Ask ?

Robert Cull and Kinnon Scott

5047: Criss-crossing globalization: uphill flows of skill-intensive goods and foreign direct investment

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

5046: Do poorer countries have less capacity for redistribution ?

Martin Ravallion

5045: Assessing the adjustment implications of trade policy changes using TRIST (tariff reform impact simulation tool)

Paul Brenton, Christian Saborowski, Cornelia Staritz and Erik von Uexkull

5044: Global inequality and the global inequality extraction ratio: the story of the past two centuries

Branko Milanovic

5043: Technology adoption and factor proportions in open economies: theory and evidence from the global computer industry

Ana P. Cusolito and Daniel Lederman

5042: Causality between external debt and capital flight in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hippolyte Fofack

5041: Agent orange and the prevalence of cancer among the Vietnamese population 30 years after the end of the Vietnam war

Quy-Toan Do

5040: Caste and punishment: the legacy of caste culture in norm enforcement

Karla Hoff, Mayuresh Kshetramade and Ernst Fehr

5039: The wrath of God: macroeconomic costs of natural disasters

Claudio Raddatz

5038: Toward a theory of optimal financial structure

Justin Lin, Xifang Sun and Ye Jiang

5037: The long-run impacts of adult deaths on older household members in Tanzania

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Kathleen Beegle

5036: Revising the roads investment strategy in rural areas: an application for Uganda

Gaël Raballand, Patricia Macchi, Dino Merotto and Carly Petracco

5035: The value of vocational education: high school type and labor market outcomes in Indonesia

David Newhouse and Daniel Suryadarma

5034: Reshaping the international monetary architecture: lessons from Keynes'plan

Nadia Piffaretti

5033: Measuring the quality of education and health services: the use of perception data from Indonesia

Basab Dasgupta, Ambar Narayan and Emmanuel Skoufias

5032: Big constraints to small firms'growth ? business environment and employment growth across firms

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Carmen Pages

5031: Changes in cross-border trade costs in the Pan-Arab free trade area, 2001-2008

Bernard Hoekman and Jamel Zarrouk

5030: China: urban services and governance

Hana Brixi

5029: Privatization and nationalization cycles

Roberto Chang, Constantino Hevia and Norman Loayza

5028: International grain reserves and other instruments to address volatility in grain markets

Brian Wright

5027: Ex-ante methods to assess the impact of social insurance policies on labor supply with an application to Brazil

David Robalino and Eduardo Zylberstajn

5026: On interfuel substitution: some international evidence

Apostolos Serletis, Govinda Timilsina and Olexandr Vasetsky

5025: Africa and Arab Gulf states: divergent development paths and prospects for convergence

Hippolyte Fofack

5024: Potential gains from capital flight repatriation for Sub-Saharan African countries

Hippolyte Fofack and Leonce Ndikumana

5023: How many more infants are likely to die in Africa as a result of the global financial crisis ?

Jed Friedman and Norbert Schady

5022: Unpacking youth unemployment in Latin America

Wendy Cunningham

5021: When do sudden stops really hurt?

Mehmet Caner, Fritzi Koehler-Geib and Gallina Andronova Vincelette

5020: Finance in Africa - Achievements and Challenges

Thorsten Beck, Michael Fuchs and Marilou Uy

5019: Determinants of globalization and growth prospects for Sub-Saharan African countries

Hippolyte Fofack

5018: Who migrates overseas and is it worth their while ? an assessment of household survey data from Bangladesh

Manohar Sharma and Hassan Zaman

5017: Lock-in effects of road expansion on CO2 emissions: results from a core-periphery model of Beijing

Alex Anas and Govinda Timilsina

5016: Banking crises and exports: lessons from the past

Leonardo Iacovone and Veronika Zavacka

5015: The trade response to global downturns: historical evidence

Caroline Freund

5014: Credit constraints and investment behavior in Mexico's rural economy

Inessa Love and Susana M. Sanchez

5013: Subnational credit ratings: a comparative review

Lili Liu and Kim Song Tan

5012: Too poor to grow

Humberto Lopez and Luis Serven

5011: Does the village fund matter in Thailand ?

Jirawan Boonperm, Jonathan Haughton and Shahidur Khandker

5010: How land title affects child labor ?

Mauricio Moura, Rodrigo De Losso da Silveira Bueno and Larissa Leony

5009: Crisis in Latin America: infrastructure investment, employment and the expectations of stimulus

Jordan Z. Schwartz, Luis Andres and Georgeta Dragoiu

5008: Enhanced financial mechanisms for post 2012 mitigation

Christiana Figueres and Charlotte Streck