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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

4687: Patterns of international capital raisings

Juan Carlos Gozzi, Ross Levine and Sergio Schmukler

4686: Timing and duration of exposure in evaluations of social programs

Elizabeth King and Jere Behrman

4685: Kenya's quest for growth stabilization and reforms - but political stability ?

Luca Bandiera, Praveen Kumar and Brian Pinto

4684: Referendum, response, and consequences for Sudan: the game between juba and khartoum

Ibrahim Elbadawi, Gary Milante and Costantino Pischedda

4683: Aid, service delivery, and the millennium development goals in an economy-wide framework

François Bourguignon, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla and Hans Lofgren

4682: A note on rising food prices

Donald Mitchell

4681: Assessing interactions among education, social insurance, and labor market policies in a general equilibrium framework: an application to Morocco

Mohamed Marouani and David Robalino

4680: Safeguards and antidumping in Latin American trade liberalization

Joseph Finger and Julio Nogues

4679: Exploring the links between HIV/AIDS, social capital, and development

Antonio David and Carmen Li

4678: Do community-driven development projects enhance social capital ? evidence from the Philippines

Julien Labonne and Robert S. Chase

4677: The consequences of child labor: evidence from longitudinal data in rural Tanzania

Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia, Roberta Gatti and Sofya Krutikova

4676: The concept of odious debt: some considerations

Vikram Nehru and Mark Thomas

4675: Small enterprise growth and the rural investment climate: evidence from Tanzania

Tidiane Kinda and Josef Loening

4674: Reaching the millennium development goals: Mauritania should care

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi, Nicola Pontara, Khayar Fall, Catalina M. Tejada and Pablo Gallego Cuervo

4673: Potential applications of conditional cash transfers for prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

Carol Medlin and Damien de Walque

4672: The Doha development agenda: what's on the table?

Will Martin and Aaditya Mattoo

4671: The place premium: wage differences for identical workers across the US border

Michael Clemens, Claudio Montenegro and Lant Pritchett

4670: The World Bank's early reflections on development: a development institution or a bank?

Michele Alacevich

4669: The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ?

Laura Langbein and Stephen Knack

4668: Currency undervaluation and sovereign wealth funds: a new role for the World Trade Organization

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

4667: What does"entrepreneurship"data really show ? a comparison of the global entrepreneurship monitor and World Bank group datasets

Zoltan J. Acs, Sameeksha Vishvanath Desai, Leora Klapper, Zoltan J. Acs, Sameeksha Vishvanath Desai and Leora F Klapper

4666: The impact of food inflation on urban poverty and its monetary cost: some back-of-the-envelope calculations

Sebastien Dessus, Santiago Herrera and Rafael De Hoyos

4665: Multidimensionality and renegotiation: evidence from transport-sector public-private-partnership transactions in Latin America

Antonio Estache, Jose-Luis Guasch, Atsushi Iimi and Lourdes Trujillo

4664: Joint bidding in infrastructure procurement

Antonio Estache and Atsushi Iimi

4663: Assessing the impact of public spending on growth - an empirical analysis for seven fast growing countries

Blanca Moreno-Dodson

4662: Procurement efficiency for infrastructure development and financial needs reassessed

Antonio Estache and Atsushi Iimi

4661: Who gets the credit ? and does it matter ? household vs. firm lending across countries

Thorsten Beck, Berrak Buyukkarabacak, Felix Rioja and Neven Valev

4660: Bidder asymmetry in infrastructure procurement: are there any fringe bidders ?

Antonio Estache and Atsushi Iimi

4659: The measurement of inequality of opportunity: theory and an application to Latin America

Francisco Ferreira and Jérémie Gignoux

4658: Social assistance and poverty reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 an impact evaluation

Paolo Verme

4657: So you want to quit smoking: have you tried a mobile phone ?

Julien Labonne and Robert S. Chase

4656: Bank competition and financial stability: friends or foes ?

Thorsten Beck

4655: Broadening the offering choice of corporate bonds in emerging markets: cost-effective access to debt capital

Tadashi Endo

4654: Governance matters VII: aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996-2007

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

4653: Minority status and labor market outcomes: does india have minority enclaves ?

Maitreyi Das

4652: Fiscal policy instruments for reducing congestion and atmospheric emissions in the transport sector: a review

Govinda Timilsina and Hari Dulal

4651: Integrating seasonal forecasts and insurance for adaptation among subsistence farmers: the case of Malawi

Daniel E. Osgood, Pablo Suarez, James Hansen, Miguel Carriquiry and Ashok Mishra

4650: Do the biggest aisles serve a brighter future ? global retail chains and their implications for Romania

Beata Javorcik and Yue Li

4649: Bank involvement with SMEs: beyond relationship lending

Augusto de la Torre, Maria Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler