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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

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

4271: Construction, corruption, and developing countries

Charles Kenny

4270: Jump-starting self-employment ? Evidence among welfare participants in Argentina

Rita Almeida and Emanuela Galasso

4269: Shadow sovereign ratings for unrated developing countries

Dilip Ratha, Prabal De and Sanket Mohapatra

4268: Power to the people: evidence from a randomized field experiment of a community-based monitoring project in Uganda

Martina Bjorkman and Jakob Svensson

4267: Financial intermediation in the pre-consolidated banking sector in Nigeria

Heiko Hesse

4266: The Economic Community of West African States: fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement with the European Union

Simplice G. Zouhon-Bi and Lynge Nielsen

4265: The structure of import tariffs in the Russian Federation: 2001-05

Oleksandr Shepotylo and David Tarr

4264: Financing of the private sector in Mexico, 2000-05: evolution, composition, and determinants

Constantinos Stephanou and Emanuel Salinas Munoz

4263: HIV/AIDS and social capital in a cross-section of countries

Antonio David

4262: From creativity to innovation

Shahid Yusuf

4261: Climate change impacts on animal husbandry in Africa: a Ricardian analysis

Robert Mendelsohn and S. Niggol Seo

4260: Civil war risk in democratic and non-democratic neighborhoods

Clionadh Raleigh

4259: Are all labor regulations equal ? Assessing the effects of job security, labor dispute, and contract labor laws in India

Ahmad Ahsan and Carmen Pages

4258: The cost of being landlocked: logistics costs and supply chain reliability

Jean-Francois Arvis, Gaël Raballand and Jean-Francois Marteau

4257: Consumption risk, technology adoption, and poverty traps: evidence from Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon and Luc Christiaensen

4256: Nigeria's growth record: Dutch disease or debt overhang ?

Nina Budina, Gaobo Pang and Sweder van Wijnbergen

4255: Public finance, governance, and growth in transition economies: empirical evidence from 1992-2004

Taras Pushak, Erwin R. Tiongson and Aristomene Varoudakis

4254: The causes of civil war

Simeon Djankov and Marta Reynal-Querol

4253: Poverty, inequality, and social disparities during China's economic reform

David Dollar

4252: About urban mega regions: knowns and unknowns

Shahid Yusuf

4251: The living conditions of children

Harry Patrinos

4250: Economic information and finance: more information means more credit, fewer bad loans, and less corruption

Roumeen Islam