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4962: Stigma and the take-up of social programs Downloads
Jacques Ewoudou, Clarence Tsimpo and Quentin Wodon
4961: Working long hours and having no choice: time poverty in Guinea Downloads
Elena Bardasi and Quentin Wodon
4960: The ASEAN free trade agreement: impact on trade flows and external trade barriers Downloads
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 Downloads
John Seo and Olivier Mahul
4958: Scaling up aid or scaling down: the global economic crisis and Rwanda's MDGs Downloads
Hans Lofgren, Hannah Nielsen and Kene Ezemenari
4957: Substitution and technological change under carbon cap and trade: lessons from Europe Downloads
Timothy J. Considine and Donald Larson
4956: The impacts of international migration on remaining household members: omnibus results from a migration lottery program Downloads
John Gibson, David McKenzie and Steven Stillman
4955: Addressing educational disparity: using district level education development indices for equitable resource allocations in India Downloads
Dhir Jhingran and Deepa Sankar
4954: The Mauritanian labor market through the lens of the 2004 national household survey Downloads
Tania Rajadel , Nicola Pontara and Maria Sanchez Puerta
4953: On the channel and type of international disaster aid Downloads
Paul Raschky and Manijeh Schwindt
4952: Aid, natural disasters and the samaritan's dilemma Downloads
Paul Raschky and Manijeh Schwindt
4951: What explains the low survival rate of developing country export flows ? Downloads
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 Downloads
Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Keith Maskus and Aaditya Mattoo
4949: Social networks among indigenous peoples in Mexico Downloads
Emmanuel Skoufias, Trine Lunde and Harry Patrinos
4948: Does regulatory supervision curtail microfinance profitability and outreach ? Downloads
Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch
4947: A structural model of establishment and industry evolution: evidence from Chile Downloads
Murat Seker
4946: Mind the gap ? a rural-urban comparison of manufacturing firms Downloads
Bob Rijkers, Mans Soderbom and Josef Loening
4945: Modeling migration dynamics in Albania: a hazard function approach Downloads
Carlo Azzarri and Calogero Carletto
4944: Impact assessments in finance and private sector development: what have we learned and what should we learn ? Downloads
David McKenzie
4943: Financial institutions and markets across countries and over time - data and analysis Downloads
Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
4942: Uncivil societies - a theory of sociopolitical change Downloads
Celestin Monga
4941: Climate change governance Downloads
James Meadowcroft
4940: Cognitive and behavioral challenges in responding to climate change Downloads
Kari Marie Norgaard
4939: Social and governance dimensions of climate change: implications for policy Downloads
Roberto Foa
4938: Beyond mitigation: potential options for counter-balancing the climatic and environmental consequences of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases Downloads
Mike MacCracken
4937: The impact of the business environment on the business creation process Downloads
Leora Klapper and Juan Manuel Quesada Delgado
4936: Optimal pre-merger notification mechanisms - incentives and efficiency of mandatory and voluntary schemes Downloads
Aldo Gonzalez and Daniel Benitez
4935: Entrepreneurship in post-conflict transition: the role of informality and access to finance Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Georgios Panos
4934: Innovative firms or innovative owners ? determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises Downloads
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff
4933: Tax policy to reduce carbon emissions in south Africa Downloads
Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder
4932: Household welfare and natural resource management around national parks in Zambia Downloads
Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and Gelson Tembo
4931: Simple model frameworks for explaining inefficiency of the clean development mechanism Downloads
Knut Einar Rosendahl and Jon Strand
4930: The better you are the stronger it makes you: evidence on the asymmetric impact of liberalization Downloads
Leonardo Iacovone
4929: When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India Downloads
Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani
4928: Is deliberation equitable ? evidence from transcripts of village meetings in south India Downloads
Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao
4927: A special safeguard mechanism for agricultural imports and the management of reform Downloads
Joseph Finger
4926: Optimal devaluations Downloads
Constantino Hevia and Juan Pablo Nicolini
4925: International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility Downloads
Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff
4924: Dignity through discourse: poverty and the culture of deliberation in Indian village democracies Downloads
Vijayendra Rao and Paromita Sanyal
4923: Poverty and income seasonality in Bangladesh Downloads
Shahidur Khandker
4922: Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ? Downloads
Paul Makdissi and Quentin Wodon
4921: May growth lead to higher deprivation despite higher satisfaction ? Downloads
Quentin Wodon and Shlomo Yitzhaki
4920: Assessing the economic impacts of an economic partnership agreement on Nigeria Downloads
Soamiely Andriamananjara, Paul Brenton, Erik von Uexkull and Peter Walkenhorst
4919: AIDS and dualism: Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations Downloads
Clive Bell and Anastasios Koukoumelis
4918: Exit and save: migration and saving under violence Downloads
Rebekka E. Grun
4917: The crisis-resilience of services trade Downloads
Ingo Borchert and Aaditya Mattoo
4916: Beyond the information technology agreement: harmonization of standards and trade in electronics Downloads
Alberto Portugal-Perez, José-Daniel Reyes and John Wilson
4915: Toward defining and measuring the affordability of public utility services Downloads
Ioannis Kessides, Raffaele Miniaci, Carlo Scarpa and Paola Valbonesi
4914: Infrastructure and growth in Africa Downloads
Cesar Calderon
4913: Paying the price for unreliable power supplies: in-house generation of electricity by firms in Africa Downloads
Vivien Foster and Jevgenijs Steinbuks
4912: Making sense of Africa's infrastructure endowment: a benchmarking approach Downloads
Tito Yepes, Justin Pierce and Vivien Foster
4911: Weathering the storm: investing in port infrastructure to lower trade costs in East Asia Downloads
Kazutomo Abe and John Wilson
4910: Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment: evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi Downloads
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 Downloads
Futoshi Yamauchi, Yisehac Yohannes and Agnes Quisumbing
4908: Moving up the ladder ? the impact of migration experience on occupational mobility in Albania Downloads
Calogero Carletto and Talip Kilic
4907: How can donors help build global public goods in health ? Downloads
Monica Das Gupta and Lawrence Gostin
4906: Development strategy, viability, and economic distortions in developing countries Downloads
Justin Lin and Feiyue Li
4905: Industrial structure, appropriate technology and economic growth in less developed countries Downloads
Justin Lin and Pengfei Zhang
4904: Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions Downloads
Kathleen Beegle, Kristen Himelein and Martin Ravallion
4903: Services in Doha: what's on the table ? Downloads
Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo
4902: Banking on politics Downloads
Matias Braun and Claudio Raddatz
4901: Sea-level rise and storm surges: a comparative analysis of impacts in developing countries Downloads
Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray and David Wheeler
4900: International migration and gender differentials in the home labor market: evidence from Albania Downloads
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 Downloads
Luca Barbone, Misha Bontch-Osmolovsky and Salman Zaidi
4898: Including financial services in preferential trade agreements: lessons of international experience for China Downloads
Constantinos Stephanou
4897: Emerging market fluctuations: what makes the difference ? Downloads
Constantino Hevia
4896: Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ? Downloads
Cesar Calderon and Megumi Kubota
4895: Zooming in: from aggregate volatility to income distribution Downloads
Cesar Calderon and Eduardo Levy Yeyati
4894: Does tougher import competition foster product quality upgrading ? Downloads
Ana Fernandes and Caroline Paunov
4893: Stockpiles of obsolete pesticides and cleanup priorities: a methodology and application for Tunisia Downloads
Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner and David Wheeler
4892: Implications of WTO disciplines for special economic zones in developing countries Downloads
Stephen Creskoff and Peter Walkenhorst
4891: Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market: a dynamic approach Downloads
Ileana Neagu Constantinescu
4890: Enabling conditions for second pillars of pension systems Downloads
Heinz Rudolph and Roberto Rocha
4889: Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in sub-saharan Africa Downloads
Kathleen Beegle, Deon Filmer, Andrew Stokes and Lucia Tiererova
4888: Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean Downloads
Norman Loayza, Luis Servén and Naotaka Sugawara
4887: Poverty effects of higher food prices: a global perspective Downloads
Rafael De Hoyos and Denis Medvedev
4886: Longer-term economic impacts of self-help groups in india Downloads
Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu
4885: Determinants of repayment performance in Indian micro-credit groups Downloads
Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu
4884: Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in India Downloads
Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu
4883: Fertility response to natural disasters: the case of three high mortality earthquakes Downloads
Jocelyn Finlay
4882: Natural resources and reforms Downloads
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 ? Downloads
Quentin Wodon, Sudeshna Banerjee, Amadou Diallo and Vivien Foster
4880: Trends in household coverage of modern infrastructure services in Africa Downloads
Sudeshna Banerjee, Amadou Diallo, Vivien Foster and Quentin Wodon
4879: The performance of decentralized school systems: evidence from Fe y Alegría in Venezuela Downloads
Hunt Allcott and Daniel E. Ortega
4878: Local sources of financing for infrastructure in Africa: a cross-country analysis Downloads
Jacqueline Irving and Astrid Manroth
4877: Health investments and economic growth: macroeconomic evidence and microeconomic foundations Downloads
William Jack and Maureen Lewis
4876: The performance of Bulgarian food markets during reform Downloads
Donald Larson and Alexander Sarris
4875: Economic modeling of income, different types of capital and natural disasters Downloads
Anil Markandya and Suzette Galinato
4874: Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets Downloads
Ramon Lopez
4873: Small businesses in south Africa: who outsources tax compliance work and why ? Downloads
Jacqueline Coolidge, Domagoj Ilic and Gregory Kisunko
4872: Multilateral debt relief through the eyes of financial markets Downloads
Claudio Raddatz
4871: Wage subsidy and labor market flexibility in south Africa Downloads
Delfin Go, Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder
4870: Professional services and development: a study of Mozambique Downloads
Ana Fernandes and Aaditya Mattoo
4869: Firms'productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies: an application to MENA manufacturing Downloads
Tidiane Kinda, Patrick Plane and Marie-Ange Véganzonès
4868: Wind power development: economics and policies Downloads
Gerrit van Kooten and Govinda Timilsina
4867: A review of regulatory instruments to control environmental externalities from the transport sector Downloads
Govinda Timilsina and Hari Dulal
4866: Energy demand models for policy formulation: a comparative study of energy demand models Downloads
Subhes C. Bhattacharyya and Govinda Timilsina
4865: Global distortions to agricultural markets: new indicators of trade and welfare impacts, 1955 to 2007 Downloads
Peter Lloyd, Johanna L. Croser and Kym Anderson
4864: How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ? Downloads
Peter Lloyd, Johanna L. Croser and Kym Anderson
4863: Fiscal health of selected Indian cities Downloads
Simanti Bandyopadhyay and M. Govinda Rao
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