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4549: Managing the radio spectrum: framework for reform in developing countries

Bjorn Wellenius and Isabel Neto

4548: Youth risk-taking behavior in Brazil: drug use and teenage pregnancy

Ana Rute Cardoso and Dorte Verner

4547: Evaluation in the practice of development

Martin Ravallion

4546: Integration of markets vs. integration by agreements

Nathalie Aminian, K.C. Fung and Francis Ng

4545: Responding to Afghanistan's Opium economy challenge: lessons and policy implications from a development perspective

William A. Byrd

4544: Modeling services liberalization: the case of Kenya

Edward Balistreri, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

4543: The development impact of the illegality of drug trade

Philip Keefer, Norman Loayza and Rodrigo Soares

4542: Governance arrangements for state owned enterprises

Maria Vagliasindi

4541: The fiscal impact of foreign aid in Rwanda: a theoretical and empirical analysis

Kene Ezemenari, Ephraim Kebede and Sajal Lahiri

4540: Risk-based supervision of pension institutions in Denmark

Rein van Dam and Erik Brink Andersen

4539: Risk-based supervision of pension funds in Australia

Graeme Thompson

4538: License to sell: the effect of business registration reform on entrepreneurial activity in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn

4537: Preferential liberalization and its economy-wide effects in Honduras

Denis Medvedev

4536: Heterogeneous technology and panel data: the case of the agricultural production function

Yair Mundlak, Rita Butzer and Donald Larson

4535: Isolation and subjective welfare: evidence from South Asia

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

4534: The extent of the market and stages of agricultural specialization

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

4533: Valuing access to water - a spatial hedonic approach applied to Indian cities

Luc Anselin, Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Uwe Deichmann and Somik Lall

4532: Fiscal policy for growth and development in Tajikistan

Martin Brownbridge and R. Sudharshan Canagarajah

4531: Lessons from China for Africa

David Dollar

4530: How to interpret the growing phenomenon of private tutoring: human capital deepening, inequality increasing, or waste of resources ?

Hai-Anh Dang and Frederic Rogers

4529: Attitudes to equality: the"socialist legacy"revisited

Mamta Murthi and Erwin R. Tiongson

4528: Does poverty research in Russia follow the scientific method?

Michael Lokshin

4527: An empirical analysis of Mexican merger policy

Marcos Ávalos Bracho and Rafael De Hoyos

4526: Migrant opportunity and the educational attainment of youth in rural China

John Giles and Alan de Brauw

4525: Credit chains and sectoral comovemen t: does the use of trade credit amplify sectoral shocks ?

Claudio Raddatz

4524: The effectiveness of policies to control a human influenza pandemic: a literature review

Arin Dutta

4523: Achieving accelerated and shared growth in Ghana: a MAMS-based analysis of costs and opportunities

Zeljko Bogetic, Maurizio Bussolo and Denis Medvedev

4522: The effects of local environmental institutions on perceptions of smoke and fire problems in Brazil

Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff and Kenneth M. Chomitz

4521: How does Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization change the spatial incidence of poverty?

Tomoki Fujii and David Roland-Holst

4520: Exiting a lawless state

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

4519: Is Africa's economy at a turning point?

Jorge Arbache, Delfin Go and John Page

4518: Chile: a strategy to promote innovative small and medium enterprises

Mike Goldberg and Eric Palladini

4517: Accessibility and affordability of tertiary education in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru within a global context

Yuki Murakami and Andreas Blom

4516: Determinants of a digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial econometric analysis of cell phone coverage

Piet Buys, Susmita Dasgupta, Tim Thomas and David Wheeler

4515: Remittances, consumption and investment in Ghana

Richard Adams, Alfredo Cuecuecha and John Page

4514: Competition and demographics

Mohammad Amin

4513: Brazil within Brazil: testing the poverty map methodology in Minas Gerais

Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw and Phillippe George Leite

4512: Does participation in productive associations signal trust and creditworthiness ? evidence for Nicaragua

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Ezequiel Molina

4511: Madrasas and NGOs: complements or substitutes ? non-state providers and growth in female education in Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

4510: Poisoning the mind: arsenic contamination and cognitive achievement of children

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

4509: Regulatory agencies: impact on firm performance and social welfare

Antonio Estache and Martín Rossi

4508: Social interactions and student achievement in a developing country: An instrumental variables approach

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

4507: Agency, education and networks: gender and international migration from Albania

Guy Stecklov, Calogero Carletto, Carlo Azzarri and Benjamin Davis

4506: Measuring the performance and achievement of social objectives of development finance institutions

Manuela Francisco, Yira Mascaro, Juan Carlos Mendoza and Jacob Yaron

4505: A short note on the ATP fund of Denmark

Dimitri Vittas

4504: Inequality in Latin America: determinants and consequences

Humberto Lopez and Guillermo Perry

4503: Decentralization and the provision of public services: framework and implementation

Aehyung Kim

4502: Does Hepatitis B infection or son preference explain the bulk of gender imbalance in China ?: a review of the evidence

Monica Das Gupta

4501: The quality of medical advice in low-income countries

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer and Kenneth Leonard

4500: Health and civil war in rural Burundi

Tom Bundervoet, Philip Verwimp and Richard Akresh

4499: Upgrading the investment policy framework of public pension funds

Dimitri Vittas, Gregorio Impavido and Ronan O'Connor

4498: Quantifying institutional impacts and development synergies in water resource programs: a methodology with application to the Kala Oya basin, Sri Lanka

R. Maria Saleth and Ariel Dinar

4497: How sensitive are Latin American exports to Chinese competition in the U.S. market ?

José López-Córdova, Alejandro Micco and Danielken Molina

4496: Subnational insolvency: cross-country experiences and lessons

Lili Liu and Michael Waibel

4495: Mental health patterns and consequences: results from survey data in five developing countries

Jishnu Das, Quy-Toan Do, Jed Friedman and David McKenzie

4494: Regulatory governance and sector performance: methodology and evaluation for Electricity distribution in Latin America

Luis Andres, Jose Luis Guasch and Sebastian Lopez Azumendi

4493: Where in the world are you ? Assessing the importance of circumstance and effort in a world of different mean country incomes and (almost) no migration

Branko Milanovic

4492: How does bribery affect public service delivery ? micro-evidence from service users and public officials in Peru

Daniel Kaufmann, Judit Montoriol-Garriga and Francesca Recanatini

4491: Risk-based supervision of pension funds: a review of international experience and preliminary assessment of the first outcomes

Gregory Brunner, Richard Hinz and Roberto Rocha

4490: Risk sharing opportunities and macroeconomic factors in Latin American and Caribbean countries: A consumption insurance assessment

Luigi Ventura

4489: Agro-manufactured export prices, wages and unemployment

Guido Porto

4488: Realizing the gains from trade: export crops, marketing costs, and poverty

Jorge Balat, Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto

4487: Fiscal redistribution and income inequality in Latin America

Edwin Goni, Humberto Lopez and Luis Servén

4486: On the welfarist rationale for relative poverty lines

Martin Ravallion

4485: Living on the edge -- risk, protection, behavior, and outcomes of Argentine youth

Michael Justesen

4484: On measuring the benefits of lower transport costs

Hanan Jacoby and Bart Minten

4483: Enforceability of labor law: evidence from a labor court in Mexico

David Kaplan and Joyce Sadka

4482: The impact of regional liberalization and harmonization in road transport services: a focus on Zambia and lessons for landlocked countries

Gaël Raballand, Charles Kunaka and Bo Giersing

4481: Bank financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Colombia

Constantinos Stephanou and Camila Rodriguez

4480: Aid, growth, and real exchange rate dynamics

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, John Page, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

4479: Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001-2004: enterprise restructuring, labor market transitions and poverty

Erwin R. Tiongson and Ruslan Yemtsov

4478: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Karla Hoff

4477: Finding missing markets (and a disturbing epilogue): evidence from an export crop adoption and marketing intervention in Kenya

Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

4476: Informality among formal firms: firm-level, cross-country evidence on tax compliance and access to credit

Roberta Gatti and Maddalena Honorati

4475: Managing post-disaster reconstruction finance -- international experience in public financial management

Wolfgang Fengler, Ahya Ihsan and Kai Kaiser

4474: Indigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development: the case of colonial India and Africa

C. A. Bayly

4473: Patterns of export diversification in developing countries: intensive and extensive margins

Alberto Amurgo-Pacheco and Martha Denisse Pierola

4472: Rising growth, declining investment: the puzzle of the Philippines

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi

4471: Distortions to agricultural incentives in Australia since world war II

Kym Anderson, Peter Lloyd and Donald MacLaren

4470: Can China continue feeding itself ? the impact of climate change on agriculture

Jinxia Wang, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and Lijuan Zhang

4469: Finance, financial sector policies, and long-run growth

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

4468: Finance and economic opportunity

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

4467: Foreign bank acquisitions and outreach: evidence from Mexico

Thorsten Beck and Maria Martinez Peria

4466: On SARS type economic effects during infectious disease outbreaks

Milan Brahmbhatt and Arindam Dutta

4465: Formal versus informal finance: evidence from China

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

4464: Regionalism and trade facilitation: a primer

Jean-Christophe Maur

4463: Are there lessons for africa from China's success against poverty ?

Martin Ravallion

4462: Bypassing health providers: the quest for better price and quality of health care in Chad

Bernard Gauthier and Waly Wane

4461: Services trade and growth

Bernard Hoekman and Aaditya Mattoo

4460: Infrastructure and growth in developing countries: recent advances and research challenges

Stephane Straub

4459: (UN)Bundling public-private partnership contracts in the water sector: competition in auctions and economies of scale in operation

Atsushi Iimi

4458: An alternative framework for foreign exchange risk management of sovereign debt

Martin Melecký

4457: Who are the net food importing countries ?

Francis Ng and M. Ataman Aksoy

4456: Aid inflows and the real effective exchange rate in Tanzania

Ying Li and Francis Rowe

4455: Where to sell ? market facilities and agricultural marketing

Forhad Shilpi and Dina Umali-Deininger

4454: Land rental markets in the process of rural structural transformation: productivity and equity impacts in China

Klaus Deininger and Songqing Jin

4453: Is Accra a superstar city ?

Robert Buckley and Ashna Mathema

4452: Fiscal spending and economic performance: some stylized facts

Celine Carrere and Jaime de Melo

4451: Regulatory cooperation, aid for trade and the general agreement on trade in services

Bernard Hoekman and Aaditya Mattoo

4450: Developing countries and enforcement of trade agreements: why dispute settlement is not enough

Chad Bown and Bernard Hoekman