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4407: Bank privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Uganda commercial bank

George Clarke, Robert Cull and Michael Fuchs

4406: Gauging the welfare effects of shocks in rural Tanzania

Luc Christiaensen, Vivian Hoffmann and Alexander Sarris

4405: Fiscal policy, public expenditure composition, and growth theory and empirics

Willi Semmler, Alfred Greiner, Bobo Diallo, Armon Rezai and Anand Rajaram

4404: Changing norms about gender inequality in education: evidence from Bangladesh

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Maitreyi Das

4403: Ideas and innovation in East Asia

Milan Brahmbhatt and Albert Hu

4402: Product market regulation in Romania: a comparison with OECD countries

Marianne Fay, Donato De Rosa and Catalin Pauna

4401: Transparency, trade costs, and regional integration in the Asia Pacific

Matthias Helble, Ben Shepherd and John Wilson

4400: Help or hindrance ? the impact of harmonized standards on african exports

Witold Czubala, Ben Shepherd and John Wilson

4399: Analyzing the impact of legislation on child labor in Pakistan

Tazeen Fasih

4398: Patterns of long term growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jorge Arbache and John Page

4397: Riots, coups and civil war: revisiting the greed and grievance debate

Cristina Bodea and Ibrahim A. Elbadawi

4396: Growth diagnostics for a resource-rich transition economy: the case of Mongolia

Elena Ianchovichina and Sudarshan Gooptu

4395: Public transport subsidies and affordability in Mumbai, India

Maureen Cropper and Soma Bhattacharya

4394: The incidence of graft on developing-country firms

Alvaro Gonzalez, José López-Córdova and Elio E. Valladares

4393: Product market regulation in Bulgaria: a comparison with OECD Countries

Marianne Fay, Donato De Rosa and Stella Ilieva

4392: Global growth and distribution: are China and India reshaping the world?

Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael De Hoyos, Denis Medvedev and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

4391: Alternatives to infrastructure privatization revisited: public enterprise reform from the1960s to the 1980s

Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez

4390: Product standards, harmonization, and trade: evidence from the extensive margin

Ben Shepherd

4389: Practical guidelines for effective bank resolution

Javier Bolzico, Yira Mascaro and Paola Granata

4388: The role of revenue recycling schemes in environmental tax selection: a general equilibrium analysis

Govinda Timilsina

4387: Fear of appreciation

Eduardo Levy-Yeyati and Federico Sturzenegger

4386: Psychological health before, during, and after an economic crisis: results from Indonesia, 1993 - 2000

Jed Friedman and Duncan Thomas

4385: How relevant is targeting to the success of an antipoverty program ?

Martin Ravallion

4384: More growth or fewer collapses ? a new look at long run growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jorge Arbache and John Page

4383: Challenges to MDG achievement in low income countries: lessons from Ghana and Honduras

Maurizio Bussolo and Denis Medvedev

4382: Fiscal rules, public investment, and growth

Luis Serven

4381: The growing role of the euro in emerging market finance

Paul Masson

4380: Assessing the governance of electricity regulatory agencies in the Latin American and the Caribbean region: a benchmarking analysis

Luis Andres, Jose Luis Guasch, Makhtar Diop and Sebastian Lopez Azumendi

4379: Designing economic instruments for the environment in a decentralized fiscal system

James Alm and Spencer Banzhaf

4378: Do regulation and institutional design matter for infrastructure sector performance ?

Luis Andres, Jose Luis Guasch and Stephane Straub

4377: Early identification of at-risk youth in Latin America: an application of cluster analysis

Emilie Bagby and Wendy Cunningham

4376: Absenteeism and beyond: instructional time loss and consequences

Helen Abadzi

4375: The determinants of rising informality in Brazil: Evidence from gross worker flows

Mariano Bosch, Edwin Goni and William Maloney

4374: Sustainability of healthcare financing in the Western Balkans: an overview of progress and challenges

Caryn Bredenkamp and Michele Gragnolati

4373: Why is son preference declining in South Korea ? the role of development and public policy, and the implications for China and India

Woojin Chung and Monica Das Gupta

4372: Public expenditure and growth

Santiago Herrera

4371: Europe and Central Asia's great post-communist social health insurance experiment: impacts on health sector and labor market outcomes

Adam Wagstaff and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

4370: Governance indicators: where are we, where should we be going ?

Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

4369: Coordinating public debt management with fiscal and monetary policies: an analytical framework

Eriko Togo

4368: Trade costs, barriers to entry, and export diversification in developing countries

Allen Dennis and Ben Shepherd

4367: The vanishing farms ? the impact of international migration on Albanian family farming

Juna Miluka, Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis and Alberto Zezza

4366: Investing back home: return migration and business ownership in Albania

Talip Kilic, Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis and Alberto Zezza

4365: Fiscal policy in developing countries: a framework and some questions

Roberto Perotti

4364: The economic impact of climate change on agriculture in Cameroon

Ernest Molua and Cornelius M. Lambi

4363: Property rights in a very poor country: tenure insecurity and investment in Ethiopia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Stefan Dercon and Madhur Gautam

4362: Labor market policy in developing countries: a selective review of the literature and needs for the future

Gary Fields

4361: Substitution between foreign capital in China, India, the Rest of the world, and Latin America: much ado about nothing ?

Javier Cravino, Daniel Lederman and Marcelo Olarreaga

4360: Foreign direct investment in Latin America during the emergence of China and India: stylized facts

Javier Cravino, Daniel Lederman and Marcelo Olarreaga

4359: Limited access orders in the developing world:a new approach to the problems of development

Douglass North, John Joseph Wallis, Steven B. Webb and Barry Weingast

4358: A micro-decomposition analysis of the macroeconomic determinants of human development

Sylvie Lambert, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

4357: Structure and performance of the services sector in transition economies

Ana Fernandes

4356: Corruption, business environment, and small business fixed investment in India

Maddalena Honorati and Taye Mengistae

4355: Assessing the distortions of mandatory pensions on labor supply decisions and human capital accumulation: how to bridge the gap between economic theory and policy analysis

Andras Bodor, David Robalino and Michal Rutkowski

4354: Economy-wide and distributional impacts of an oil price shock on the south African economy

B. Essama-Nssah, Delfin Go, Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

4353: The long-run impact of orphanhood

Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon

4352: Atmospheric stabilization of CO2 emissions: near-term reductions and intensity-based targets

Govinda Timilsina

4351: Leakage of public resources in the health sector: an empirical investigation of Chad

Bernard Gauthier and Waly Wane

4350: Financial development and innovation in small firms

Siddharth Sharma

4349: Gender equality, poverty and economic growth

Andrew Morrison, Dhushyanth Raju and Nistha Sinha

4348: The growth in government domestic debt: changing burdens and risks

James A. Hanson

4347: Non-traditional crops, traditional constraints: the adoption and diffusion of export crops among guatemalan smallholders

Calogero Carletto, Angeli Kirk, Paul Winters and Benjamin Davis

4346: Infant mortality over the business cycle in the developing world

Sarah Baird, Jed Friedman and Norbert Schady

4345: Sovereign natural disaster insurance for developing countries: a paradigm shift in catastrophe risk financing

Francis Ghesquiere and Olivier Mahul

4344: Estimating global climate change impacts on hydropower projects: applications in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam

Atsushi Iimi

4343: Clothing and export diversification: still a route to growth for low-income countries ?

Paul Brenton and Mombert Hoppe

4342: Measuring the economic impact of climate change on Ethiopian agriculture: Ricardian approach

Temesgen Deressa

4341: Review of environmental, economic and policy aspects of biofuels

Deepak Rajagopal and David Zilberman

4340: Rural roads and poor area development in Vietnam

Ren Mu and Dominique van de Walle

4339: Developing economies and international investors: do investment promotion agencies bring them together ?

Torfinn Harding and Beata Javorcik

4338: Corruption, the business environment, and small business growth in India

Maddalena Honorati and Taye Mengistae

4337: Canada-Wheat: discrimination, non-commercial considerations, and state trading enterprises

Bernard Hoekman and Joel Trachtman

4336: European Community--Sugar: cross-subsidization and the World Trade Organization

Bernard Hoekman and Robert Howse

4335: Landlockedness, infrastructure and trade: new estimates for central Asian countries

Christopher Grigoriou

4334: The economic impact of climate change on Kenyan crop agriculture: a ricardian approach

Jane Kabubo-Mariara and Fredrick K Karanja

4333: Oil spills on other commodities

John Baffes

4332: Exploring Lebanon's growth prospects

Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Sebastien Dessus and Charbel Nahas

4331: Infrastructure governance and corruption: where next ?

Charles Kenny

4330: Big bad banks ? the impact of U.S. branch deregulation on income distribution

Thorsten Beck, Ross Levine and Alexey Levkov

4329: Investing in Indonesia's education: allocation, equity, and efficiency of public expenditures

Francisco Arze del Granado, Wolfgang Fengler, Andy Ragatz and Elif Yavuz

4328: Does IDA engage in defensive lending ?

Carolin Geginat and Aart Kraay

4327: Urbanization and productivity: evidence from Turkish provinces over the period 1980-2000

Souleymane Coulibaly, Uwe Deichmann and Somik Lall

4326: Innovative experiences in access to finance: market friendly roles for the visible hand ?

Augusto de la Torre, Juan Carlos Gozzi and Sergio Schmukler

4325: Managing agricultural risk at the country level: the case of index-based livestock insurance in Mongolia

Olivier Mahul and Jerry Skees

4324: Efficiency and equity impacts of rural land rental restrictions: evidence from India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Hari Nagarajan

4323: Determinants and consequences of land sales market participation: panel evidence from India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Hari Nagarajan

4322: Entry regulation and business start-ups: evidence from Mexico

David Kaplan, Eduardo Piedra and Enrique Seira

4321: Strengthening the governance and performance of state-owned financial institutions

David H. Scott

4320: The growth of China and India in world trade: opportunity or threat for Latin America and the Caribbean?

Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga and Isidro Soloaga

4319: Product innovation by incumbent firms in developing economies: the roles of research and development expenditures, trade policy, and the investment climate

Daniel Lederman

4318: Specialization and adjustment during the growth of China and India: the Latin American experience

Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga and Eliana Rubiano

4317: Managing the coordination of service delivery in metropolitan cities: the role of metropolitan governance

Enid Slack

4316: Who fears competition from informal firms ? evidence from Latin America

Alvaro Gonzalez and Francesca Lamanna

4315: How might climate change affect economic growth in developing countries ? a review of the growth literature with a climate lens

Franck Lecocq and Zmarak Shalizi

4314: Labor regulation and employment in India's retail stores

Mohammad Amin

4313: Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries

Leora Klapper, Raphael Amit, Mauro F. Guillen and Juan Manuel Quesada

4312: An emerging agricultural problem in high-performing Asian economies

Yujiro Hayami

4311: Development finance via diaspora bonds track record and potential

Suhas L. Ketkar and Dilip Ratha

4310: Do overlapping property rights reduce agricultural investment ? evidence from Uganda

Klaus Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

4309: Strengthening China's technological capability

Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

4308: The perception of and adaptation to climate change in Africa

David Maddison