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- 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 Bejarano
- 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
- 4307: Crop selection: adapting to climage change in Africa

- Pradeep Kurukulasuriya and Robert Mendelsohn
- 4306: The impact of climate change on African agriculture: a ricardian approach

- David Maddison, Marita Manley and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
- 4305: A ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on African cropland

- Pradeep Kurukulasuriya and Robert Mendelsohn
- 4304: China, India, and the future of the world economy: fierce competition or shared growth?

- Betina Dimaranan, Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin
- 4303: Geographic inequity in a decentralized anti-poverty program: a case study of China

- Martin Ravallion
- 4302: Watching more than the Discovery channel: export cycles and diversification in development

- Paul Brenton and Richard Newfarmer
- 4301: India's journey toward an effective patent

- Bruce Abramson
- 4300: Country stakes in climate change negotiations: two dimensions of vulnerability

- Piet Buys, Uwe Deichmann, Craig Meisner, Thao Ton-That and David Wheeler
- 4299: Balancing expenditures on mitigation of and adaptation to climate change: an exploration of Issues relevant to developing countries

- Franck Lecocq and Zmarak Shalizi
- 4298: Yield impact of irrigation management transfer: story from the Philippines

- Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, Priya Shyamsundar and Mei Xei
- 4297: Big dragon, little dragons: China's challenge to the machinery exports of southeast Asia

- Sjamsu Rahardja
- 4296: When do creditor rights work?

- Mehnaz Safavian and Siddharth Sharma
- 4295: Economic benefit of tuberculosis control

- Ramanan Laxminarayan, Eili Klein, Christopher Dye, Katherine Floyd, Sarah Darley and Olusoji Adeyi
- 4294: Scarperation: an empirical inquiry into the role of scarcity in fostering cooperation between international river riparians

- Shlomi Dinar, Ariel Dinar and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
- 4293: Assessing the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Egypt: a ricardian approach

- Helmy M. Eid, Samia M. El-Marsafawy and Samiha A. Ouda
- 4292: Assessment of the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zimbabwe: a ricardian approach

- Reneth Mano and Charles Nhemachena
- 4291: An empirical economic assessment of impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia

- Suman Jain
- 4290: The impacts of climate change on regional water resources and agriculture in Africa

- Kenneth Strzepek and Alyssa McCluskey
- 4289: Sensitivity of cropping patterns in Africa to transient climate change

- Alexander Lotsch
- 4288: Actual crop water use in project countries: a synthesis at the regional level

- Robina Wahaj, Florent Maraux and Giovanni Munoz
- 4287: A cross-country analysis of public debt management strategies

- Martin Melecký
- 4286: Institutional effects as determinants of learning outcomes: exploring state variations in Mexico

- Jesus Alvarez, Vicente Garcia Moreno and Harry Patrinos
- 4285: Poverty analysis using an international cross-country demand system

- John Cranfield, Paul Preckel and Thomas Hertel
- 4284: Customer market power and the provision of trade credit: evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

- Neeltje Van Horen
- 4283: Innovation shortfalls

- William Maloney and Andres Rodriguez-Clare
- 4282: Are cash transfers made to women spent like other sources of income?

- Norbert Schady and Jose Rosero
- 4281: Credit growth in emerging Europe: a cause for stability concerns?

- Sophie Sirtaine and Ilias Skamnelos
- 4280: Governance Matters VI: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2006

- Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi
- 4279: The impact of climate change on livestock management in Africa: a structural Ricardian analysis

- S. Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn
- 4278: Endogenous irrigation: the impact of climate change on farmers in Africa

- Pradeep Kurukulasuriya and Robert Mendelsohn
- 4277: Climate change adaptation in Africa: a microeconomic analysis of livestock choice

- S. Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn
- 4276: Human capital, trade liberalization, and income risk

- Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney
- 4275: Can foreign lobbying enhance development ? The case of tourism in the Caribbean

- Kishore Gawande, William Maloney and Gabriel Montes-Rojas
- 4274: Are labor regulations driving computer usage in India's retail stores ?

- Mohammad Amin
- 4273: Rules of origin and the web of East Asian free trade agreements

- Miriam Manchin and Annette O. Pelkmans-Balaoing
- 4272: Migration, remittances, poverty, and human capital: conceptual and empirical challenges

- David McKenzie and Marcin J. Sasin
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