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- 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 Bejarano 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 Servén
- 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
- 4607: Intertemporal adjustment and fiscal policy under a fixed exchange rate regime

- Marcel Aloy, Blanca Moreno-Dodson and Gilles Nancy
- 4606: Armed conflict and schooling: evidence from the 1994 Rwandan genocide

- Richard Akresh and Damien de Walque
- 4605: Assessing asset indices

- Deon Filmer and Kinnon Scott
- 4604: Latin America and the social contract: patterns of social spending and taxation

- Karla Breceda, Iamele Rigolini and Jaime Saavedra
- 4603: A structural ricardian analysis of climate change impacts and adaptations in African agriculture

- S. Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn
- 4602: Long-term adaptation: selecting farm types across agro-ecological zones in Africa

- S. Niggol Seo, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya and Rashid Hassan
- 4601: Differential adaptation strategies by agro-ecological zones in African livestock management

- S. Niggol Seo, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
- 4600: Differential adaptation strategies to climate change in African cropland by agro-ecological zones

- S. Niggol Seo, Robert Mendelsohn, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Ariel Dinar and Rashid Hassan
- 4599: A ricardian analysis of the distribution of climate change impacts on agriculture across agro-ecological zones in Africa

- S. Niggol Seo, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar, Rashid Hassan and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
- 4598: The challenge of reducing international trade and migration barriers

- Kym Anderson and L. Winters
- 4597: How relevant is infrastructure to growth in East Asia ?

- Kalpana Seethepalli, Maria Caterina Bramati and David Veredas
- 4596: Windfall management for poverty reduction: improving public finance Management-the case of Chad

- Achille Toto Same
- 4595: Mineral-rich countries and dutch disease: understanding the macroeconomic implications of windfalls and the development prospects-the case of Equatorial Guinea

- Achille Toto Same
- 4594: Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries

- Maros Ivanic and Will Martin
- 4593: Medical migration: what can we learn from the UK's perspective ?

- Martine Rutten
- 4592: Assessing the redistributive effect of fiscal policy

- B. Essama-Nssah
- 4591: Earnings inequality within and across gender, racial, and ethnic groups in four Latin American Countries

- Wendy Cunningham and Joyce Jacobsen
- 4590: Infrastructure and development: a critical appraisal of the macro level literature

- Stephane Straub
- 4589: Infrastructure and economic growth in East Asia

- Stephane Straub, Charles Vellutini and Michael Warlters
- 4588: An evaluation of the initial impact of the medical assistance program for the poor in Georgia

- Xiaohui Hou and Shiyan Chao
- 4587: Health reform, population policy and child nutritional status in China

- Caryn Bredenkamp
- 4586: Determinants of remittances: recent evidence using data on internal migrants in Vietnam

- Yoko Niimi, Hung Pham and Barry Reilly
- 4585: Migrant labor markets and the welfare of rural households in the developing world: evidence from China

- Alan de Brauw and John Giles
- 4584: Pitfalls of participatory programs: evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India

- Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Stuti Khemani
- 4583: The demographic, economic and financial determinants of international remittances in developing countries

- Richard Adams
- 4582: Technology trap and poverty trap in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Hippolyte Fofack
- 4581: Effects of improving infrastructure quality on business costs: evidence from firm-level data

- Atsushi Iimi
- 4580: Conditional cash transfers in education: design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia

- Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Marianne Bertrand, Leigh Linden and Francisco Perez-Calle
- 4579: The effectiveness of boards of directors of state owned enterprises in developing countries

- Maria Vagliasindi
- 4578: Insurers: too many, too few, or"just right"? initial observations on a cross-country dataset of concentration and competition measures

- Craig Thorburn
- 4577: Nonfarm microenterprise performance and the investment climate: evidence from rural Ethiopia

- Josef Loening, Bob Rijkers and Mans Soderbom
- 4576: Human capital and the changing structure of the Indian economy

- Mohammad Amin and Aaditya Mattoo
- 4575: Domestic constraints, firm characteristics, and geographical diversification of firm-level manufacturing exports in Africa

- Yutaka Yoshino
- 4574: Labor markets in rural and urban Haiti--based on the first household survey for Haiti

- Dorte Verner
- 4573: Linking African smallholders to high-value markets: practitioner perspectives on benefits, constraints, and interventions

- Spencer Henson, Steven Jaffee, John Cranfield, Jose Blandon and Paul Siegel
- 4572: Partial peace rebel groups inside and outside civil war settlements

- Desiree Nilsson
- 4571: Making poor Haitians count--poverty in rural and urban Haiti based on the first household survey for Haiti

- Dorte Verner
- 4570: Regional household and poverty effects of Russia's accession to the world trade organization

- Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr
- 4569: Financing lifelong learning

- Hessel Oosterbeek and Harry Patrinos
- 4568: Can cost-benefit analysis guide education policy in developing countries ?

- Emmanuel Jimenez and Harry Patrinos
- 4567: The dynamics of ownership of durable goods in Bulgaria: from economic crisis to EU membership

- Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Lire Ersado
- 4566: Reading tealeaves on the potential impact of the privatization of tea estates in Rwanda

- B. Essama-Nssah, Kene Ezemenari and Vijdan Korman
- 4565: Evo, Pablo, Tony, Diego, and Sonny - general equilibrium analysis of the illegal drugs market

- Romulo Chumacero
- 4564: Can production and trafficking of illicit drugs be reduced or merely shifted ?

- Peter Reuter
- 4563: A general equilibrium analysis of demand side management programs under the clean development mechanism of the kyoto protocol

- Govinda Timilsina
- 4562: Social exclusion and the gender gap in education

- Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed
- 4561: Burley tobacco clubs in Malawi: nonmarket institutions for exports

- Mariano Negri and Guido Porto
- 4560: Trade remedies and non-market economies: economic implications of the first US countervailing duty case on China

- Longyue Zhao and Yan Wang
- 4559: Expanding taxable capacity and reaching revenue potential: cross-country analysis

- Tuan Minh Le, Blanca Moreno-Dodson and Jeep Rojchaichaninthorn
- 4558: Improving logistics costs for transportation and trade facilitation

- Julio A. Gonzalez, Jose Luis Guasch and Tomas Serebrisky
- 4557: Helpful Governments

- Mohammad Amin
- 4556: Economics of irrigation water management: a literature survey with focus on partial and general equilibrium models

- Hasan Dudu and Sinqobile Chumi
- 4555: Informal payments and moonlighting in Tajikistan's health sector

- Andrew Dabalen and Waly Wane
- 4554: Measuring financial protection in health

- Adam Wagstaff
- 4553: The historical foundations of the narcotic drug control regime

- Julia Buxton
- 4552: Productivity growth and economic reform: evidence from Rwanda

- Kalamogo Coulibaly, Kene Ezemenari and Neal Duffy
- 4551: Avian influenza and the poultry trade

- Alessandro Nicita
- 4550: Heterogeneous quality firms and trade costs

- Matthias Helble and Toshihiro Okubo
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