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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

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