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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 Servén

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

5007: Measures of investor and consumer confidence and policy actions in the current crisis

Mansoor Dailami and Paul Masson

5006: Implications for climate-change policy of research on cooperation in social dilemmas

Timothy Irwin

5005: Aid and trust in country systems

Stephen Knack and Nicholas Eubank

5004: Forecasting local climate for policy analysis: a pilot application for Ethiopia

Brian Blankespoor, Kiran Dev Pandey and David Wheeler

5003: Trade finance in crisis: market adjustment or market failure ?

Jean-Pierre Chauffour and Thomas Farole

5002: The growth aftermath of natural disasters

Thomas Fomby, Yuki Ikeda and Norman Loayza

5001: Own and sibling effects of conditional cash transfer programs: theory and evidence from Cambodia

Francisco Ferreira, Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady

5000: World Bank policy research: a historical overview

Jean-Jacques Dethier

4999: Are there diminishing returns to transfer size in conditional cash transfers ?

Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady

4998: School enrollment, selection and test scores

Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady

4997: Competition, imitation, and technical change: quality vs. variety

Ana Cusolito

4996: The power of information: the impact of mobile phones on farmers'welfare in the Philippines

Julien Labonne and Robert S. Chase

4995: The uncertainty channel of contagion

Prakash Kannan and Fritzi Kohler-Geib

4994: Procurement in infrastructure: what does theory tell us ?

Antonio Estache, Atsushi Iimi and Christian Ruzzier

4993: Evaluating the impact of Egyptian social fund for development programs

Hala Abou-Ali, Hesham El-Azony, Heba El-Laithy, Jonathan Haughton and Shahidur Khandker

4992: Tax compliance perceptions and formalization of small businesses in south Africa

Jacqueline Coolidge and Domagoj Ilic

4991: Aid for trade: matching potential demand and supply

Elisa Gamberoni and Richard Newfarmer

4990: Adjusting to trade-policy changes in export markets: evidence from U.S. antidumping duties on Vietnamese catfish

Irene Brambilla, Guido Porto and Alessandro Tarozzi

4989: Managing East Asia's macroeconomic volatility

Eduardo Olaberria and Iamele Rigolini

4988: Disasters and economic welfare: can national savings help explain post-disaster changes in consumption ?

Reinhard Mechler

4987: System-wide impacts of hospital payment reforms: evidence from central and eastern Europe and central Asia

Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Adam Wagstaff

4986: Post-macroeconomics -- reflections on the crisis and strategic directions ahead

Celestin Monga

4985: Put your money where your butt is: a commitment contract for smoking cessation

Xavier Gine, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

4984: Diasporas

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Caglar Ozden

4983: Remittances and banking sector breadth and depth: evidence from Mexico

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Ernesto Lopez Cordova, Maria Martinez Peria and Christopher Woodruff

4982: More on the energy / non-energy commodity price link

John Baffes

4981: The economic impact of banking the unbanked: evidence from Mexico

Miriam Bruhn and Inessa Love

4980: Natural disasters and growth - going beyond the averages

Norman Loayza, Eduardo Olaberria, Iamele Rigolini and Luc Christiaensen

4979: The health impact of extreme weather events in Sub-Saharan Africa

Limin Wang, Shireen Kanji and Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay

4978: Governance matters VIII: aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996-2008

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

4977: Lessons from European Union policies for regional development

Raja Shankar and Anwar Shah

4976: Educational and health impacts of two school feeding schemes: evidence from a randomized trial in rural Burkina Faso

Harounan Kazianga, Damien de Walque and Harold Alderman

4975: The economics of teacher supply in Indonesia

Dandan Chen

4974: Why don't we see poverty convergence ?

Martin Ravallion

4973: Does financial openness lead to deeper domestic financial markets ?

Cesar Calderon and Megumi Kubota

4972: Remittances and natural disasters: ex-post response and contribution to ex-ante preparedness

Sanket Mohapatra, George Joseph and Dilip Ratha

4971: Can Malaysia escape the middle-income Trap ? a strategy for Penang

Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

4970: How should fiscal policy respond to the economic crisis in the low income commonwealth of independent states ? some pointers from Tajikistan

Martin Brownbridge and R. Sudharshan Canagarajah

4969: Inflation dynamics and food prices in an agricultural economy: the case of Ethiopia

Josef Loening, Dick Durevall and Yohannes A. Birru

4968: Assessing the macroeconomic impacts of natural disasters: are there any ?

Stefan Hochrainer

4967: Finance and inequality: theory and evidence

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

4966: Identifying spatial efficiency-equity tradeoffs in territorial development policies: evidence from Uganda

Somik Lall, Elizabeth Schroeder and Emily Schmidt

4965: The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest: evidence from the Pacific

John Gibson and David McKenzie

4964: Do international treaties promote development ? the convention on the rights of the child and basic immunization

Varun Gauri

4963: Impact estimation of disasters: a global aggregate for 1960 to 2007

Yasuhide Okuyama and Sebnem Sahin

4962: Stigma and the take-up of social programs

Jacques Ewoudou, Clarence Tsimpo and Quentin Wodon

4961: Working long hours and having no choice: time poverty in Guinea

Elena Bardasi and Quentin Wodon

4960: The ASEAN free trade agreement: impact on trade flows and external trade barriers

Hector Calvo-Pardo, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas

4959: The impact of climate change on catastrophe risk models: implications for catastrophe risk markets in developing countries

John Seo and Olivier Mahul

4958: Scaling up aid or scaling down: the global economic crisis and Rwanda's MDGs

Hans Lofgren, Hannah Nielsen and Kene Ezemenari

4957: Substitution and technological change under carbon cap and trade: lessons from Europe

Timothy J. Considine and Donald Larson

4956: The impacts of international migration on remaining household members: omnibus results from a migration lottery program

John Gibson, David McKenzie and Steven Stillman

4955: Addressing educational disparity: using district level education development indices for equitable resource allocations in India

Dhir Jhingran and Deepa Sankar

4954: The Mauritanian labor market through the lens of the 2004 national household survey

Tania Rajadel , Nicola Pontara and Maria Sanchez Puerta

4953: On the channel and type of international disaster aid

Paul Raschky and Manijeh Schwindt

4952: Aid, natural disasters and the samaritan's dilemma

Paul Raschky and Manijeh Schwindt

4951: What explains the low survival rate of developing country export flows ?

Paul Brenton, Christian Saborowski and Erik von Uexkull

4950: Labor skills and foreign investment in a dynamic economy: estimating the knowledge-capital model for Singapore

Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Keith Maskus and Aaditya Mattoo