Policy Research Working Paper Series

From The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Roula I. Yazigi ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

4449: Does it pay firms to register for taxes ? the impact of formality on firm profitability

David McKenzie and Yaye Seynabou Sakho

4448: Land reforms, poverty reduction, and economic growth: evidence from India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Hari Nagarajan

4447: Securing property rights in transition: lessons from implementation of China's rural land contracting law

Klaus Deininger and Songqing Jin

4446: What matters to African firms ? the relevance of perceptions data

Alan Gelb, Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah and Ginger Turner

4445: Emerging market liquidity and crises

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Sergio Schmukler and Neeltje Van Horen

4444: The impoverishing effect of adverse health events: evidence from the western Balkans

Mariapia Mendola, Caryn Bredenkamp and Michele Gragnolati

4443: Human capital and university-industry linkages'role in fostering firm innovation: an empirical study of Chile and Colombia

Daniela Marotta, Michael Mark, Andreas Blom and Kristian Thorn

4442: Assessing the functioning of land rental markets in Ethiopia

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Tekie Alemu

4441: Early development economics debates revisited

Michele Alacevich

4440: Affordability and subsidies in public urban transport: what do we mean, what can be done?

Nicolas Estupinan, Andres Gomez-Lobo, Ramon Munoz-Raskin and Tomas Serebrisky

4439: Does corruption impact on firms'ability to conduct business in Mauritania ? evidence from investment climate survey data

Manuela Francisco and Nicola Pontara

4438: Annuities in Switzerland

Monika Bütler and Martin Ruesch

4437: Pension institutions and annuities in Denmark

Carsten Andersen and Peter Skjodt

4436: Public-private partnerships in transport

Antonio Estache, Ellis J. Juan and Lourdes Trujillo

4435: When do enterprises prefer informal credit ?

Mehnaz Safavian and Joshua Wimpey

4434: Litigation and settlement: new evidence from labor courts in Mexico

David Kaplan, Joyce Sadka and Jorge Luis Silva-Mendez

4433: Mexican employment dynamics: evidence from matched firm-worker data

David Kaplan, Gabriel Martinez and Raymond Robertson

4432: Does employment generation really matter for poverty reduction ?

Catalina Gutierrez, Carlo Orecchia, Pierella Paci and Pieter Serneels

4431: Poverty reduction without economic growth ? explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004

Francisco Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite and Martin Ravallion

4430: The composition of public expenditure and growth: a small-scale intertemporal model for low-income countries

Nihal Bayraktar and Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

4429: Comparative analysis of labor market dynamics using markov processes: an application to informality

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

4428: Russian WTO accession: what has been accomplished, what can be expected

David Tarr

4427: Distributional effects of educational improvements:are we using the wrong model ?

François Bourguignon and Frederic Rogers

4426: Statistical analysis of rainfall insurance payouts in southern India

Xavier Gine, Robert Townsend and James Vickery

4425: Insurance, credit, and technology adoption: field experimental evidence from Malawi

Xavier Gine and Dean Yang

4424: Improving nutritional status through behavioral change: lessons from Madagascar

Emanuela Galasso and Nithin Umapathi

4423: Regional integration in South Asia: what role for trade facilitation ?

John Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki

4422: Improving indoor air quality for poor families: a controlled experiment in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, M. Khaliquzzaman and David Wheeler

4421: The determinants of HIV infection and related sexual behaviors: evidence from Lesotho

Lucia Corno and Damien de Walque

4420: Diffusion of the internet: a cross-country analysis

Luis Andres, David Cuberes, Mame Astou Diouf and Tomas Serebrisky

4419: Surveying migrant households: a comparison of census-based, snowball, and intercept point surveys

David McKenzie and Johan Mistiaen

4418: Exports and productivity - comparable evidence for 14 countries

The International Study Group on Exports and Productivity

4417: Perceptions of environmental risks in Mozambique: implications for the success of adaptation and coping strategies

Anthony G. Patt and Dagmar Schroter

4416: Cote d'Ivoire: competitiveness, Cocoa, and the real exchange rate

Zeljko Bogetic, Carlos Espina and John Noer

4415: Cote d'ivoire volatility, shocks and growth

Zeljko Bogetic, Carlos Espina and John Noer

4414: Cote d'Ivoire: from success to failure a story of growth, specialization, and the terms of trade

Zeljko Bogetic, John Noer and Carlos Espina

4413: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: understanding corruption using cross-national firm-level surveys

Nathan Jensen, Quan Li and Aminur Rahman

4412: Measuring ancient inequality

Branko Milanovic, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson

4411: what is missing between agricultural growth and infrastructure development ? cases of coffee and dairy in Africa

Atsushi Iimi and James Wilson Smith

4410: Current debates on infrastructure policy

Antonio Estache and Marianne Fay

4409: Reducing the transaction costs of development assistance Ghana's multi-donor budget support (MDBS) experience from 2003 to 2007

Carlos Cavalcanti

4408: Patternsof rainfall insurance participation in rural India

Xavier Gine, Robert Townsend and James Vickery

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 Guangzhou 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 Servén

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