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4907: How can donors help build global public goods in health ?

Monica Das Gupta and Lawrence Gostin

4906: Development strategy, viability, and economic distortions in developing countries

Justin Lin and Feiyue Li

4905: Industrial structure, appropriate technology and economic growth in less developed countries

Justin Lin and Pengfei Zhang

4904: Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions

Kathleen Beegle, Kristen Himelein and Martin Ravallion

4903: Services in Doha: what's on the table ?

Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo

4902: Banking on politics

Matias Braun and Claudio Raddatz

4901: Sea-level rise and storm surges: a comparative analysis of impacts in developing countries

Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray and David Wheeler

4900: International migration and gender differentials in the home labor market: evidence from Albania

Mariapia Mendola and Calogero Carletto

4899: The foreign-born population in the European Union and its contribution to national tax and benefit systems: some insights from recent household survey data

Luca Barbone, Misha Bontch-Osmolovsky and Salman Zaidi

4898: Including financial services in preferential trade agreements: lessons of international experience for China

Constantinos Stephanou

4897: Emerging market fluctuations: what makes the difference ?

Constantino Hevia

4896: Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ?

Cesar Calderon and Megumi Kubota

4895: Zooming in: from aggregate volatility to income distribution

Cesar Calderon and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

4894: Does tougher import competition foster product quality upgrading ?

Ana Fernandes and Caroline Paunov

4893: Stockpiles of obsolete pesticides and cleanup priorities: a methodology and application for Tunisia

Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner and David Wheeler

4892: Implications of WTO disciplines for special economic zones in developing countries

Stephen Creskoff and Peter Walkenhorst

4891: Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market: a dynamic approach

Ileana Neagu Constantinescu

4890: Enabling conditions for second pillars of pension systems

Heinz Rudolph and Roberto Rocha

4889: Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in sub-saharan Africa

Kathleen Beegle, Deon Filmer, Andrew Stokes and Lucia Tiererova

4888: Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Norman Loayza, Luis Serven and Naotaka Sugawara

4887: Poverty effects of higher food prices: a global perspective

Rafael De Hoyos and Denis Medvedev

4886: Longer-term economic impacts of self-help groups in india

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

4885: Determinants of repayment performance in Indian micro-credit groups

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

4884: Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in India

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

4883: Fertility response to natural disasters: the case of three high mortality earthquakes

Jocelyn Finlay

4882: Natural resources and reforms

Mohammad Amin and Simeon Djankov

4881: Is low coverage of modern infrastructure services in African cities due to lack of demand or lack of supply ?

Quentin Wodon, Sudeshna Banerjee, Amadou Diallo and Vivien Foster

4880: Trends in household coverage of modern infrastructure services in Africa

Sudeshna Banerjee, Amadou Diallo, Vivien Foster and Quentin Wodon

4879: The performance of decentralized school systems: evidence from Fe y Alegría in Venezuela

Hunt Allcott and Daniel E. Ortega

4878: Local sources of financing for infrastructure in Africa: a cross-country analysis

Jacqueline Irving and Astrid Manroth

4877: Health investments and economic growth: macroeconomic evidence and microeconomic foundations

William Jack and Maureen Lewis

4876: The performance of Bulgarian food markets during reform

Donald Larson and Alexander Sarris

4875: Economic modeling of income, different types of capital and natural disasters

Anil Markandya and Suzette Galinato

4874: Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets

Ramon Lopez

4873: Small businesses in south Africa: who outsources tax compliance work and why ?

Jacqueline Coolidge, Domagoj Ilic and Gregory Kisunko

4872: Multilateral debt relief through the eyes of financial markets

Claudio Raddatz

4871: Wage subsidy and labor market flexibility in south Africa

Delfin Go, Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

4870: Professional services and development: a study of Mozambique

Ana Fernandes and Aaditya Mattoo

4869: Firms'productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies: an application to MENA manufacturing

Tidiane Kinda, Patrick Plane and Marie-Ange Véganzonès

4868: Wind power development: economics and policies

Gerrit van Kooten and Govinda Timilsina

4867: A review of regulatory instruments to control environmental externalities from the transport sector

Govinda Timilsina and Hari Dulal

4866: Energy demand models for policy formulation: a comparative study of energy demand models

Subhes C. Bhattacharyya and Govinda Timilsina

4865: Global distortions to agricultural markets: new indicators of trade and welfare impacts, 1955 to 2007

Peter J. Lloyd, Johanna L. Croser and Kym Anderson

4864: How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ?

Peter J. Lloyd, Johanna L. Croser and Kym Anderson

4863: Fiscal health of selected Indian cities

Simanti Bandyopadhyay and M. Govinda Rao

4862: Natural disasters and human capital accumulation

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

4861: The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem

Tatiana Didier and Alexandre Lowenkron

4860: Long-term financial incentives and investment in daughters: evidence from conditional cash transfers in north India

Nistha Sinha and Joanne Yoong

4859: Welfare impacts of rural electrification: a case study from Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker, Douglas F. Barnes and Hussain A. Samad

4858: Poverty decline, agricultural wages, and non-farm employment in rural India: 1983-2004

Peter Lanjouw and Rinku Murgai

4857: Transactional sex as a response to risk in western Kenya

Jonathan Robinson and Ethan Yeh

4856: Market integration and structural transformation in a poor rural economy

Mans Soderbom and Bob Rijkers

4855: Bidders'entry and auctioneer's rejection: applying a double selection model to road procurement auctions

Antonio Estache and Atsushi Iimi

4854: (UN)Bundling infrastructure procurement: evidence from water supply and sewage projects

Antonio Estache and Atsushi Iimi

4853: Auctions with endogenous participation and quality thresholds: evidence from ODA infrastructure procurement

Antonio Estache and Atsushi Iimi

4852: Transforming natural resource wealth into sustained growth and poverty reduction: a conceptual framework for Sub-Saharan African oil exporting countries

Achille Toto Same

4851: Inclusive growth analytics: framework and application

Elena Ianchovichina and Susanna Lundstrom

4850: The demographic and socio-economic distribution of excess mortality during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda

Damien de Walque and Philip Verwimp

4849: Global income distribution and poverty in the absence of agricultural distortions

Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael De Hoyos and Denis Medvedev

4848: Assessing the impact of political economy factors on rules of origin under NAFTA

Alberto Portugal-Perez

4847: No more cutting class ? reducing teacher absence and providing incentives for performance

Frederic Rogers and Emiliana Vegas

4846: Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's"missing girls"phenomenon ?

Monica Das Gupta, Woojin Chung and Li Shuzhuo

4845: The impact of EU accession on human capital formation: can migration fuel a brain gain ?

Emily Farchy

4844: Weakly relative poverty

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

4843: Connecting lagging and leading regions: the role of labor mobility

Somik Lall, Christopher Timmins and Shouyue Yu

4842: Regulatory reform: integrating paradigms

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

4841: What drives firm productivity growth ?

Paloma Anos-Casero and Charles Udomsaph

4840: The business of product innovation: international empirical evidence

Daniel Lederman

4839: Determinants of international emergency aid - humanitarian need only ?

Günther Fink and Silvia Redaelli

4838: Local financial development and growth

Jake Kendall

4837: Bank activity and funding strategies: the impact on risk and returns

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

4836: The use and misuse of computers in education: evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia

Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Leigh Linden

4835: Democracy and reforms

Mohammad Amin and Simeon Djankov

4834: Foreign informational lobbying can enhance tourism: evidence from the Caribbean

Kishore Gawande, William Maloney and Gabriel V. Montes Rojas

4833: Age at first child: does education delay fertility timing ? the case of Kenya

Céline Ferré

4832: Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks

Maureen Cropper and Sebnem Sahin

4831: Wealth: Crucial but Not Sufficient Evidence from Pakistan on Economic Growth, Child Labor, and Schooling

Xiaohui Hou

4830: Determinants of Economic Growth: A Bayesian Panel Data Approach

Enrique Moral-Benito

4829: Low-Income Countries' Access to Private Debt Markets

Doug Hostland

4828: North-South Trade-related Technology Diffusion, Brain Drain and Productivity Growth: Are Small States Different?

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

4827: Measuring Skilled Migration Rates: The Case of Small States

Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff

4826: The Regional Dimension of North-South Trade-Related R&D Spillovers

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

4825: Cross-border purchases of health services: a case study on Austria and Hungary

Andreas J. Obermaier

4824: Measuring Subjective Expectations in Developing Countries: A Critical Review and New Evidence

Adeline Delavande, Xavier Gine and David McKenzie

4823: Why do people die in earthquakes ? the costs, benefits and institutions of disaster risk reduction in developing countries

Charles Kenny

4822: Leveling the Intra-household Playing Field: Compensation and Specialization in Child Labor Allocation

Ximena Del Carpio and Karen Macours

4821: Social health insurance vs. tax-financed health systems - evidence from the OECD

Adam Wagstaff

4820: A Curse of Comparison? Evidence on Reference Groups for Relative Income Concerns

Alice Kuegler

4819: Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies

Pradeep Mitra, Alexander Muravyev and Mark Schaffer

4818: Political Institutions and Human Development Does Democracy Fulfill its 'Constructive' and 'Instrumental' Role?

Sebastian Vollmer and Maria Ziegler

4817: THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN 16 INDIAN STATES

Giuseppe Iarossi

4816: The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"

Martin Ravallion

4815: Main Drivers of Income Inequality in Central European and Baltic Countries: Some Insights from Recent Household Survey Data

Salman Zaidi

4814: Vocational Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes, and College Entry

Dandan Chen

4813: Month of Birth and Children's Health in India

Michael Lokshin and Sergiy Radyakin

4812: Measuring beginner reading skills: An empirical evaluation of alternative instruments and their potential use for policymaking and accountability in Peru

Ines Kudo and Jorge Bazan

4811: Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies

Saul Estrin, Jan Hanousek, Evžen Kočenda and Jan Svejnar

4810: Unemployment and Worker-Firm Matching Theory and Evidence from East and West Europe

Daniel Münich and Jan Svejnar

4809: Banking in Brazil: Structure, Performance, Drivers, and Policy Implications

Eduardo Urdapilleta and Constantinos Stephanou

4808: Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell