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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

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