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- 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
- 4749: The market for retirement products in Australia

- Gregory Gordon Brunner and Craig Thorburn
- 4748: The market for retirement products in Sweden

- Edward Palmer
- 4747: Political alternation as a restraint on investing in influence: evidence from the post-communist transition

- Branko Milanovic, Karla Hoff and Shale Horowitz
- 4746: Are women more credit constrained ? experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns

- Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff
- 4745: Potential impact of higher food prices on poverty: summary estimates for a dozen west and central African countries

- Quentin Wodon, Clarence Tsimpo, Prospere Backiny-Yetna, George Joseph, Franck Adoho and Harold Coulombe
- 4744: Assessing the potential impact on poverty of rising cereals prices: the case of Mali

- George Joseph and Quentin Wodon
- 4743: Assessing the geographic impact of higher food prices in Guinea

- Harold Coulombe and Quentin Wodon
- 4742: Rice prices and poverty in Liberia

- Clarence Tsimpo and Quentin Wodon
- 4741: Comparing the impact of food and energy price shocks on consumers: a social accounting matrix analysis for Ghana

- Juan Carlos Parra and Quentin Wodon
- 4740: Assessing the potential impact on poverty of rising cereals prices: the case of Ghana

- Quentin Wodon, Clarence Tsimpo and Harold Coulombe
- 4739: Impact of rising rice prices and policy responses in Mali: simulations with a dynamic CGE model

- Kofi Nouve and Quentin Wodon
- 4738: Rising food prices in Sub-Saharan Africa: poverty impact and policy responses

- Quentin Wodon and Hassan Zaman
- 4737: Race, immigration, and the U.S. labor marke t: contrasting the outcomes of foreign born and native blacks

- Damien de Walque
- 4736: Making regional cooperation work for South Asia's poor

- Sadiq Ahmed and Ejaz Ghani
- 4735: Multilateralism beyond Doha

- Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian
- 4734: The growth of transport cector CO2 emissions and underlying factors in Latin America and the Caribbean

- Govinda Timilsina and Ashish Shrestha
- 4733: Is the developing world catching up ? global convergence and national rising dispersion

- Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael De Hoyos and Denis Medvedev
- 4732: The impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Ghana

- Richard Adams, Alfredo Cuecuecha and John Page
- 4731: Governance, corruption, and trade in the Asia Pacific region

- Kazutomo Abe and John Wilson
- 4730: Foreign direct investment in services and manufacturing productivity growth: evidence for Chile

- Ana Fernandes and Caroline Paunov
- 4729: The great proletarian cultural revolution, disruptions to education, and returns to schooling in urban China

- John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang
- 4728: Determinants of choice of migration destination

- Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi
- 4727: The relevance of a rules-based maize marketing policy: an experimental case study of Zambia

- Klaus Abbink, Thomas Jayne and Lars Moller
- 4726: The sub prime crisis: implications for emerging markets

- William B. Gwinner and Anthony Sanders
- 4725: Decentralization, economic development, and growth in Turkish provinces

- Mehmet Tosun and Serdar Yilmaz
- 4724: Simulating the impact of geographic targeting on poverty alleviation in Morocco: what are the gains from disaggregation ?

- Mohammed Douidich, Abdeljouad Ezzrari and Peter Lanjouw
- 4723: Multi-product exporters: diversification and micro-level dynamics

- Leonardo Iacovone and Beata Javorcik
- 4722: Promotion with and without learning: effects on student enrollment and dropout behavior

- Elizabeth King, Peter Orazem and Elizabeth M. Paterno
- 4721: Institutions and labor market outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Louise Fox and Ana Maria Oviedo
- 4720: General trends in competition policy and investment regulation in mandatory defined contribution markets in Latin America

- Mariam Dayoub and Esperanza Lasagabaster
- 4719: Why trade facilitation matters to Africa ?

- Alberto Portugal-Perez and John Wilson
- 4718: Black hole or black gold ? the impact of oil and gas prices on Indonesia's public finances

- Cut Dian R.D. Agustina, Francisco Arze del Granado, Tim Bulman, Wolfgang Fengler and Mohamad Ikhsan
- 4717: How will climate change shift agro-ecological zones and impact African agriculture ?

- Pradeep Kurukulasuriya and Robert Mendelsohn
- 4716: Development, modernization, and son preference in fertility decisions

- Deon Filmer, Jed Friedman and Norbert Schady
- 4715: Hunting for Leopards: long run country income dynamics in Africa

- Jorge Arbache and John Page
- 4714: Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid

- Pamela Paxton and Stephen Knack
- 4713: Household investment under violence - the Colombian case

- Rebekka E. Grun
- 4712: Infrastructure and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Cesar Calderon and Luis Servén
- 4711: Mainstreaming climate adaptation into development assistance in Mozambique: Institutional barriers and opportunities

- Diana Sietz, Maria Boschutz, Richard JT Klein and Alexander Lotsch
- 4710: Trade diversion under selective preferential market access

- Ingo Borchert
- 4709: Refinements to the probabilistic approach to fiscal sustainability analysis

- Nathaniel Frank and Eduardo Ley
- 4708: Job creation and labor reform in Latin America

- David Kaplan
- 4707: Technology adoption and the investment climate: firm-level evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

- Paulo G. Correa, Ana Fernandes and Chris J. Uregian
- 4706: A road to trust

- Julien Labonne and Robert S. Chase
- 4705: Does gender matter for firm performance ? evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

- Shwetlena Sabarwal and Katherine Terrell
- 4704: Gender and asset ownership: a guide to collecting individual-level data

- Cheryl Doss, Caren Grown and Carmen Diana Deere
- 4703: The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

- Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion
- 4702: Poverty alleviation and child labor

- Eric Edmonds and Norbert Schady
- 4701: Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health

- Francisco Ferreira and Norbert Schady
- 4700: Rising income inequality in China: a race to the top

- Xubei Luo and Nong Zhu
- 4699: Who is coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand under the new recognized Seasonal employer program ?

- David McKenzie, Pilar Garcia Martinez and L. Winters
- 4698: How pro-poor is the selection of seasonal migrant workers from Tonga under New Zealand's recognized seasonal employer program ?

- John Gibson, David McKenzie and Halahingano Rohorua
- 4697: A positive stigma for child labor ?

- Harry Patrinos and M. Najeeb Shafiq
- 4696: Bank competition and financial stability

- Allen N. Berger, Leora Klapper, Rima Turk-Ariss, Allen N. Berger, Leora F. Klapper and Rima Turk-Ariss
- 4695: Transportation fuel use, technology and standards: The role of credibility and expectations

- Gunnar Eskeland and Torben Mideksa
- 4694: Does child labor always decrease with income ? an evaluation in the context of a development program in Nicaragua

- Ximena V. Del Carpio
- 4693: Financing rural development for a harmonious society in China: recent reforms in public finance and their prospects

- Achim Fock and Christine Wong
- 4692: Political violence and economic growth

- Cristina Bodea and Ibrahim A. Elbadawi
- 4691: Comparing constraints to economic stabilization in Macedonia and Slovakia: macro estimates with micro narratives

- Martin Melecký and Evgenij Najdov
- 4690: Domestic water pricing with household surveys: a study of acceptability and willingness to pay in Chongqing, China

- Hua Wang, Jian Xie and Honglin Li
- 4689: China and central and eastern European countries: regional networks, global supply chain, or international competitors?

- K.C. Fung, Iikka Korhonen, Ke Li and Francis Ng
- 4688: Are skills rewarded in Sub-Saharan Africa ? determinants of wages and productivity in the manufacturing sector

- Louise Fox and Ana Maria Oviedo
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