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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

4648: Cyclical movements in unemployment and informality in developing countries

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

4647: Who are the unbanked ?

Simeon Djankov, Pedro Miranda, Enrique Seira and Siddharth Sharma

4646: Bank regulations are changing: for better or worse ?

James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine

4645: The impact of cash transfers on school enrollment: evidence from Ecuador

Hessel Oosterbeek, Juan Ponce and Norbert Schady

4644: India shining and Bharat drowning: comparing two Indian states to the worldwide distribution in mathematics achievement

Jishnu Das and Tristan Zajonc

4643: Demanding to be served: holding governments to account for improved access

Anwar Shah

4642: Are low food prices pro-poor ? net food buyers and sellers in low-income countries

M. Ataman Aksoy and Aylin Isik-Dikmelik

4641: Good, bad, and ugly colonial activities: studying development across the Americas

Miriam Bruhn and Francisco Gallego

4640: Oil intensities and oil prices: evidence for Latin America

Veronica Alaimo and Humberto Lopez

4639: The social discount rate: estimates for nine Latin American countries

Humberto Lopez

4638: Benchmarking financial development

Thorsten Beck, Erik Feyen, Alain Ize and Florencia Moizeszowicz

4637: The impact of remittances on rural poverty and inequality in China

Nong Zhu and Xubei Luo

4636: Real exchange rates, saving and growth: is there a link ?

Peter Montiel and Luis Serven

4635: Who are the microenterprise owners ? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

4634: HIV/AIDS, climate change and disaster management: challenges for institutions in Malawi

Pablo Suarez, Precious Givah, Kelvin Storey and Alexander Lotsch

4633: Public expenditure and consumption volatility

Santiago Herrera and Bruno Vincent

4632: Instrumental variables regressions with honestly uncertain exclusion restrictions

Aart Kraay

4631: Investigating the Impact of climate change on the robustness of index-based microinsurance in Malawi

S. Hochrainer, R. Mechler, G. Pflug and A. Lotsch

4630: Microfinance meets the market

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

4629: Who benefits from promoting small and medium scale enterprises ? some empirical evidence from Ethiopia

Bob Rijkers, Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi and Francis Teal

4628: The anatomy of China's export growth

Mary Amiti and Caroline Freund

4627: Economic partnership agreements and the export competitiveness of Africa

Paul Brenton, Mombert Hoppe and Richard Newfarmer

4626: The process of financial development: a statistical view from the FSAP program

Alain Ize, Rafael Pardo and Sarah Zekri

4625: Use of modern medical care for pregnancy and childbirth care: does female schooling matter ?

Aparnaa Somanathan

4624: Connecting the unobserved dots: a decomposition analysis of changes in earnings inequality in urban Argentina, 1980-2002

Gabriel Demombynes and Johannes Metzler

4623: Global poverty and inequality: a review of the evidence

Francisco Ferreira and Martin Ravallion

4622: The impact of price subsidies on child health care use: evaluation of the Indonesian healthcard

Aparnaa Somanathan

4621: China is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

4620: Dollar a day revisited

Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen and Prem Sangraula

4619: Spite and development

Ernst Fehr, Karla Hoff and Mayuresh Kshetramade

4618: Cocaine production and trafficking: what do we know ?

Daniel Mejia and Carlos Posada

4617: Quality of schooling, returns to schooling and the 1981 vouchers reform in Chile

Harry Patrinos

4616: Migration, sorting and regional inequality: evidence from Bangladesh

Forhad Shilpi

4615: Trade facilitation in ASEAN member countries: measuring progress and assessing priorities

Ben Shepherd and John Wilson

4614: Is migration a good substitute for education subsidies ?

Frédéric Docquier, Ousmane Faye and Pierre Pestieau

4613: A gendered assessment of the brain drain

Frédéric Docquier, B. Lindsay Lowell and Abdeslam Marfouk

4612: Measuring distortions to agricultural incentives, revisited

Kym Anderson, Marianne Kurzweil, Will Martin, Damiano Sandri and Ernesto Valenzuela

4611: Spatial specialization and farm-nonfarm linkages

Uwe Deichmann, Forhad Shilpi and Renos Vakis

4610: Devolution, accountability, and service delivery: some insights from Pakistan

Zahid Hasnain

4609: Beyond aid: new sources and innovative mechanisms for financing development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dilip Ratha, Sanket Mohapatra and Sonia Plaza

4608: The econometrics of finance and growth

Thorsten Beck