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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

4807: Are all the sacred cows dead ? implications of the financial crisis for macro and financial policies

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Luis Servén

4806: Public Finance, Security, and Development: A Framework and an Application to Afghanistan

William Byrd and Stephane Guimbert

4805: Grand Corruption in Utilities

Charles Kenny and Tina Søreide

4804: PURSUING EFFICIENCY WHILE MAINTAINING OUTREACH: BANK PRIVATIZATION IN TANZANIA

Robert Cull and Connor P. Spreng

4803: Sources of Welfare Disparities across and within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the 2002-03 Household Budget Survey

Emmanuel Skoufias and Roy Katayama

4802: The Political Economy of Village Sanitation in South India: Capture or Poor Information?

Radu Ban, Monica Das Gupta and Vijayendra Rao

4801: Modeling Services Liberalization: The Case of Tanzania

Jesper Jensen, Thomas F. Rutherford and David Tarr

4800: Fungibility and the impact of development assistance: evidence from Vietnam's health sector

Adam Wagstaff

4799: China's Integration with the World: Development as a Process of Learning and Industrial Upgrading

Justin Yifu and Yan Wang

4798: Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey

Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon

4797: Trade Policy, Trade Costs, and Developing Country Trade

Bernard Hoekman and Alessandro Nicita

4796: Global Food Price Inflation: Implications for South Asia, Policy Reactions, and Future Challenges

Sadiq Ahmed

4795: Can the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in FYR Macedonia Decrease the Gender Wage Gap?

Diego F. Angel-Urdinola

4794: Endogenous Institution Formation under a Catching-up Strategy in Developing Countries1

Justin Lin and Zhiyun Li

4793: Progress in Participation in Tertiary Education in India from 1983 to 2004

Mehtabul Azam and Andreas Blom

4792: Explaining Enterprise Performance in Developing Countries with Business Climate Survey Data

Jean-Jacques Dethier, Maximilian Hirn and Stephane Straub

4791: Does Inflation Targeting Matter for Output Growth? Evidence from Industrial and Emerging Economies

Andre Varella Mollick, Rene Cabral Torres and Francisco Carneiro

4790: Expanding Trade within Africa: The Impact of Trade Facilitation

Dominique Njinkeu, John S. Wilson and Bruno Powo Fosso

4789: Can Maquila Booms Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Honduras

Rafael De Hoyos, Maurizio Bussolo and Oscar Nunez

4788: Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs: the role of competition and the institutional framework

Augusto de la Torre, Maria Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler

4787: PENSION FUNDS AND CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT:HOW MUCH BANG FOR THE BUCK?

Claudio Raddatz and Sergio Schmukler

4786: FACTORS AFFECTING LEVELS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN CARBON ABATEMENT PROJECTS

Ariel Dinar, Shaikh Mahfuzur Rahman, Donald Larson and Philippe Ambrosi

4785: Bank Financing for SMEs around the World: Drivers, Obstacles, Business Models, and Lending Practices

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

4784: Almost Random: Evaluating a Large-Scale Randomized Nutrition Program in the Presence of Crossover

Sebastian Linnemayr and Harold Alderman

4783: Social transfers, labor supply and poverty reduction: the case of Albania

Andrew L. Dabalen, Talip Kilic, Waly Wane, Andrew L. Dabalen, Talip Kilic and Waly Wane

4782: FOREIGN PROFESSIONALS AND DOMESTIC REGULATION

Aaditya Mattoo and Deepak Mishra

4781: MACRO-MICRO FEEDBACK LINKS OF IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT IN TURKEY

Erol H. Cakmak, Hasan Dudu, Sirin Saracoglu, Xinshen Diao, Terry Roe and Yacov Tsur

4780: Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Household Survey Data, 1990-2005

Branko Milanovic and Lire Ersado

4779: Lessons from World Bank Research on Financial Crises

Development Research Group

4778: The Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers on Consumption and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico

Emmanuel Skoufias and Teresa Gonzalez-Cossio

4777: Public Participation, Teacher Accountability, and School Outcomes:Findings from Baseline Surveys in Three Indian States

Priyanka Pandey, Sangeeta Goya and Venkatesh Sundararaman

4776: Community Participation in Public Schools: The Impact of Information Campaigns in Three Indian States

Priyanka Pandey, Sangeeta Goya and Venkatesh Sundararaman

4775: Migration and Education Decisions in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework

Sebastien Dessus and Charbel Nahas

4774: Centralization, Decentralization, and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

Mehmet Tosun and Serdar Yilmaz

4773: Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration

Stephen Knack

4772: How does geographic distance affect credit market access in Niger ?

Jose Antonio Pedrosa Garcia and Quy-Toan Do

4771: The typology of partial credit guarantee funds around the world

Thorsten Beck, Leora Klapper, Juan Carlos Mendoza, Thorsten Beck, Leora F. Klapper and Juan Carlos Mendoza

4770: Crises, capital controls, and financial integration

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Sergio Schmukler and Neeltje Van Horen

4769: Endowments, location or luck ? evaluating the determinants of sub-national growth in decentralized Indonesia

Neil McCulloch and Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir

4768: Macro-micro feedback links of water management in South Africa: CGE analyses of selected policy regimes

R. Hassan, James Thurlow, Terry Roe, Xinshen Diao, S. Chumi. and Yacov Tsur

4767: Strengthening local government budgeting and accountability

Michael Schaeffer and Serdar Yilmaz

4766: In search of the missing resource curse

Daniel Lederman and William Maloney

4765: Catastrophe risk pricing: an empirical analysis

Morton Lane and Olivier Mahul

4764: Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land markets: evidence from Ethiopia

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Tekie Alemu

4763: Bailing out the world's poorest

Martin Ravallion

4762: Populist fiscal policy

Stuti Khemani and Waly Wane

4761: Carbon markets, institutions, policies, and research

Donald Larson, Philippe Ambrosi, Ariel Dinar, Shaikh Mahfuzur Rahman and Rebecca Entler

4760: The short and longer term potential welfare impact of global commodity inflation in Tanzania

Sebastien Dessus

4759: Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood: evidence from a randomized experiment

Karen Macours, Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis

4758: How China's farmers adapt to climate change

Jinxia Wang, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar and Jikun Huang

4757: The effect of male migration for work on employment patterns of females in nepal

Michael Lokshin and Elena Glinskaya

4756: The 2007 meltdown in structured securitization: searching for lessons, not scapegoats

Gerard Caprio, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Edward Kane

4755: Intrahousehold inequality and child gender bias in Ethiopia

Feridoon Koohi-Kamali

4754: Market power and the matching of trade credit terms

Daniela Fabbri and Leora Klapper

4753: Taxation and capital structure: evidence from a transition economy

Leora Klapper and Konstantinos Tzioumis

4752: In pursuit of balance: randomization in practice in development field experiments

Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie

4751: Does regionalism affect trade liberalization toward non-members ?

Antoni Estevadeordal, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas

4750: Export surges: the oower of a competitive currency

Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola