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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

4949: Social networks among indigenous peoples in Mexico

Emmanuel Skoufias, Trine Lunde and Harry Patrinos

4948: Does regulatory supervision curtail microfinance profitability and outreach ?

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

4947: A structural model of establishment and industry evolution: evidence from Chile

Murat Seker

4946: Mind the gap ? a rural-urban comparison of manufacturing firms

Bob Rijkers, Mans Soderbom and Josef Loening

4945: Modeling migration dynamics in Albania: a hazard function approach

Carlo Azzarri and Calogero Carletto

4944: Impact assessments in finance and private sector development: what have we learned and what should we learn ?

David McKenzie

4943: Financial institutions and markets across countries and over time - data and analysis

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

4942: Uncivil societies - a theory of sociopolitical change

Celestin Monga

4941: Climate change governance

James Meadowcroft

4940: Cognitive and behavioral challenges in responding to climate change

Kari Marie Norgaard

4939: Social and governance dimensions of climate change: implications for policy

Roberto Foa

4938: Beyond mitigation: potential options for counter-balancing the climatic and environmental consequences of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases

Mike MacCracken

4937: The impact of the business environment on the business creation process

Leora Klapper and Juan Manuel Quesada Delgado

4936: Optimal pre-merger notification mechanisms - incentives and efficiency of mandatory and voluntary schemes

Aldo Gonzalez and Daniel Benitez

4935: Entrepreneurship in post-conflict transition: the role of informality and access to finance

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Georgios Panos

4934: Innovative firms or innovative owners ? determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

4933: Tax policy to reduce carbon emissions in south Africa

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

4932: Household welfare and natural resource management around national parks in Zambia

Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and Gelson Tembo

4931: Simple model frameworks for explaining inefficiency of the clean development mechanism

Knut Einar Rosendahl and Jon Strand

4930: The better you are the stronger it makes you: evidence on the asymmetric impact of liberalization

Leonardo Iacovone

4929: When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India

Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani

4928: Is deliberation equitable ? evidence from transcripts of village meetings in south India

Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao

4927: A special safeguard mechanism for agricultural imports and the management of reform

Joseph Finger

4926: Optimal devaluations

Constantino Hevia and Juan Pablo Nicolini

4925: International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff

4924: Dignity through discourse: poverty and the culture of deliberation in Indian village democracies

Vijayendra Rao and Paromita Sanyal

4923: Poverty and income seasonality in Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker

4922: Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ?

Paul Makdissi and Quentin Wodon

4921: May growth lead to higher deprivation despite higher satisfaction ?

Quentin Wodon and Shlomo Yitzhaki

4920: Assessing the economic impacts of an economic partnership agreement on Nigeria

Soamiely Andriamananjara, Paul Brenton, Erik von Uexkull and Peter Walkenhorst

4919: AIDS and dualism: Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations

Clive Bell and Anastasios Koukoumelis

4918: Exit and save: migration and saving under violence

Rebekka E. Grun

4917: The crisis-resilience of services trade

Ingo Borchert and Aaditya Mattoo

4916: Beyond the information technology agreement: harmonization of standards and trade in electronics

Alberto Portugal-Perez, José-Daniel Reyes and John Wilson

4915: Toward defining and measuring the affordability of public utility services

Ioannis Kessides, Raffaele Miniaci, Carlo Scarpa and Paola Valbonesi

4914: Infrastructure and growth in Africa

Cesar Calderon

4913: Paying the price for unreliable power supplies: in-house generation of electricity by firms in Africa

Vivien Foster and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

4912: Making sense of Africa's infrastructure endowment: a benchmarking approach

Tito Yepes, Justin Pierce and Vivien Foster

4911: Weathering the storm: investing in port infrastructure to lower trade costs in East Asia

Kazutomo Abe and John Wilson

4910: Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment: evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi

Futoshi Yamauchi, Yisehac Yohannes and Agnes Quisumbing

4909: Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance: impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi

Futoshi Yamauchi, Yisehac Yohannes and Agnes Quisumbing

4908: Moving up the ladder ? the impact of migration experience on occupational mobility in Albania

Calogero Carletto and Talip Kilic

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