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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

4249: What is the impact of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Latin America ?

Pablo Acosta, Cesar Calderon, Pablo Fajnzylber and Humberto Lopez

4248: Monetary policy, structural break, and the monetary transmission mechanism in Thailand

Heiko Hesse

4247: The impact of remittances on poverty and human capital: evidence from Latin American household surveys

Pablo Acosta, Pablo Fajnzylber and J. Humberto Lopez

4246: Choosing the currency structure for sovereign debt: a review of current approaches

Martin Melecký

4245: A poverty-focused evaluation of commodity tax options

B. Essama-Nssah

4244: The size and effectiveness of automatic fiscal stabilizers in Latin America

Rodrigo Suescun

4243: Population size, concentration, and civil war: a geographically disaggregated analysis

Havard Hegre and Clionadh Raleigh

4242: Democratic Jihad ? Military intervention and democracy

Nils Petter Gleditsch, Lene Siljeholm Christiansen and Havard Hegre

4241: India rising - faster growth, lower indebtedness

Gaobo Pang, Brian Pinto and Marina Wes

4240: Giving children a better start: preschool attendance and school-age profiles

Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Marco Manacorda

4239: Credit information quality and corporate debt maturity: theory and evidence

Marco Sorge and Chendi Zhang

4238: On the effect of prior assumptions in Bayesian model averaging with applications to growth regression

Eduardo Ley and Mark Steel

4237: Export structure and growth: a detailed analysis for Argentina

Alejandro Guerson, James Parks and Monica Parra Torrado

4236: The Mexican pension annuity market

Gregorio Impavido

4235: A framework for thinking about enterprise formalization policies in developing countries

Thomas Kenyon

4234: Immigrant overeducation: evidence from Denmark

Chantal Pohl Nielsen

4233: Indian manufacturing: a slow sector in a rapidly growing economy

Devashish Mitra and Beyza Ural Marchand

4232: Do workers in Chile choose informal employment? A dynamic analysis of sector choice

Truman G. Packard

4231: Work-related migration and poverty reduction in Nepal

Michael Lokshin, Mikhail Bontch-Osmolovski and Elena Glinskaya

4230: Returns to capital in microenterprises: evidence from a field experiment

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

4229: Measuring microenterprise profits: don't ask how the sausage is made

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

4228: Poverty, social divisions, and conflict in Nepal

Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer

4227: Indigenous peoples in Latin America: economic opportunities and social networks

Harry Patrinos, Emmanuel Skoufias and Trine Lunde

4226: Does money matter ? The effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador

Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady

4225: Returns to education in the economic transition: a systematic assessment using comparable data

Luca Flabbi, Stefano Paternostro and Erwin R. Tiongson

4224: Accounting for Mexican income inequality during the 1990s

Rafael De Hoyos

4223: China and the knowledge economy: challenges and opportunities

Douglas Zhihua Zeng and Shuilin Wang

4222: Skills shortages and training in Russian enterprises

Hong Tan, Yevgeniya Savchenko, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapelyushnikov and Anna Lukyanova

4221: Disarming fears of diversity: ethnic heterogeneity and state militarization, 1988-2002

Indra de Soysa and Eric Neumayer

4220: Evaluating the trade effect of developing regional trade agreements: a semi-parametric approach

Souleymane Coulibaly

4219: Government expenditures on education, health, and infrastructure: a naive look at levels, outcomes, and efficiency

Antonio Estache, Marianela Gonzalez and Lourdes Trujillo

4218: Rural land certification in Ethiopia: process, initial impact, and implications for other African countries

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Stein Holden and Jaap Zevenbergen

4217: Measuring welfare gains from better quality infrastructure

Irina Klytchnikova and Michael Lokshin

4216: Underlying dimensions of knowledge assessment: factor analysis of the knowledge assessment methodology data

Derek H. C. Chen and Kishore Gawande

4215: Does uncertainty matter ? A stochastic dynamic analysis of bankable emission permit trading for global climate change policy

Fan Zhang

4214: Housing, health, and happiness

Matias Cattaneo, Sebastian Galiano, Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez and Rocio Titiunik

4213: Remittances and the real exchange rate

Humberto Lopez, Luis Molina Sánchez and Maurizio Bussolo

4212: Local conflict and development projects in Indonesia: part of the problem or part of a solution ?

Patrick Barron, Rachael Diprose and Michael Woolcock

4211: Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

4210: Capital flight and war

Victor Davies

4209: Energy and emissions: local and global effects of the rise of China and India

Zmarak Shalizi

4208: Civil war, crop failure, and child stunting in Rwanda

Richard Akresh, Philip Verwimp and Tom Bundervoet

4207: Short-term and long-term effects of United Nations peace operations

Nicholas Sambanis

4206: Does"good government"draw foreign capital ? Explaining China's exceptional foreign direct investment inflow

Joseph P. H. Fan, Randall Morck, Lixin Xu and Bernard Yeung

4205: Local elections and consumption insurance: evidence from Chinese villages

Li Gan, Lixin Xu and Yang Yao

4204: Formal finance and trade credit during China's transition

Robert Cull, Lixin Xu and Tian Zhu

4203: Latin Americans of Japanese origin (Nikkeijin) working in Japan: a survey

Junichi Goto

4202: Weaponomics: the global market for assault rifles

Phillip Killicoat

4201: Infrastructure and trade preferences for the livestock sector: empirical evidence from the beef industry in Africa

Atsushi Iimi

4200: Price structure and network externalities in the telecommunications industry: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Atsushi Iimi

4199: New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty

Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen and Prem Sangraula

4198: The pricing dynamics of utilities with underdeveloped networks

Omar Chisari and Ioannis Kessides

4197: Current and forthcoming issues in the South African electricity sector

Ioannis Kessides, Zeljko Bogetic and Luiz Maurer

4196: Political leadership, conflict, and the prospects for constitutional peace

Colin Jennings

4195: Using the global positioning system in household surveys for better economics and better policy

John Gibson and David McKenzie

4194: Oil and the propensity to armed struggle in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria

Aderoju Oyefusi

4193: Horizontal inequalities, political environment, and civil conflict: evidence from 55 developing countries, 1986-2003

Gudrun Ostby

4192: Ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars

Jose G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol

4191: Post-conflict justice and sustainable peace

Scott Gates, Helga Malmin Binningsbo and Tove Grete Lie

4190: The aftermath of civil war

Siyan Chen, Norman Loayza and Marta Reynal-Querol

4189: Youth well-being in Brazil: an index for cross-regional comparisons

Debora Dell'Aglio, Wendy Cunningham, Silvia Koller, Vicente Cassepp Borges and Joana Severo Leon