Policy Research Working Paper Series
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- 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
- 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
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