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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

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 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