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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

4188: Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India

Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, Peri Silva and Gerald Willmann

4187: Post-conflict aid, real exchange rate adjustment, and catch-up growth

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi, Linda Kaltani and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

4186: A kleptocrat's survival guide: autocratic longevity in the face of civil conflict

Gary Milante

4185: Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies

Philip Keefer

4184: Stock market development under globalization: whither the gains from reforms ?

Augusto de la Torre, Juan Carlos Gozzi and Sergio Schmukler

4183: Youth unemployment, labor market transitions, and scarring: evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2001-04

Jean Fares and Erwin R. Tiongson

4182: The welfare effects of a large depreciation: the case of Egypt, 2000-05

Aart Kraay

4181: Financial services and trade agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean: an overview

Marilyne Pereira Goncalves and Constantinos Stephanou

4180: The role of services in rural income: the case of Vietnam

M. Ataman Aksoy and Aylin Isik-Dikmelik

4179: Identifying supply-side constraints to export performance in Ecuador: an exercise with Investment Climate Survey data

Paulo Correa, Mariam Dayoub and Manuela Francisco

4178: School drop-out and push-out factors in Brazil: the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty

Ana Rute Cardoso and Dorte Verner

4177: Enterprises, workers, and skills in Urban Timor-Leste

Maitreyi Das and Philip O'Keefe

4176: Controls on capital inflows and external shocks

Antonio David

4175: Are price-based capital account regulations effective in developing countries ?

Antonio David

4174: Asian century or multi-polar century ?

David Dollar

4173: Pathways out of poverty during an economic crisis: an empirical assessment of rural Indonesia

Neil McCulloch, Julian Weisbrod and Charles Timmer

4172: Dollarization and exchange rate fluctuations

Patrick Honohan

4171: Specification of investment functions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nihal Bayraktar and Hippolyte Fofack

4170: The"how to"of fiscal sustainability: a technical manual for using the fiscal sustainability tool

Luca Bandiera, Nina Budina, Michel Klijn and Sweder van Wijnbergen

4169: Quantitative approaches to fiscal sustainability analysis: a new World Bank tool applied to Turkey

Nina Budina and Sweder van Wijnbergen

4168: Mobility and earnings in Ethiopia's urban labor markets, 1994-2004

Arne Bigsten, Taye Mengistae and Abebe Abebe

4167: More time is better: an evaluation of the fulltime school program in Uruguay

Pedro Cerdan-Infantes and Christel Vermeersch

4166: Estimating real production and expenditures across nations: a proposal for improving the Penn World Tables

Robert Feenstra, Alan Heston, Marcel Timmer and Haiyan Deng

4165: Quantifying international migration: a database of bilateral migrant stocks

Christopher Parsons, Ronald Skeldon, Terrie Walmsley and L. Winters

4164: An analysis of livestock choice: adapting to climate change in Latin American farms

S. Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn

4163: A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on Latin American farms

S. Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn

4162: An analysisof crop choice: adapting to climate change in Latin American farms

S. Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn

4161: Changing farm types and irrigation as an adaptation to climate change in Latin American agriculture

Robert Mendelsohn and S. Niggol Seo

4160: Trade integration in East Asia: the Role of China and production networks

Mona Haddad

4159: The use of derivatives to hedge embedded options: the case of pension institutions in Denmark

Jeppe Ladekarl, Regitze Ladekarl, Erik Brink Andersen and Dimitri Vittas

4158: Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability

William Easterly, Timothy Irwin and Luis Serven

4157: Firm innovation in emerging markets: the roles of governance and finance

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

4156: Capital market development: whither Latin America ?

Augusto de la Torre, Juan Carlos Gozzi and Sergio Schmukler

4155: How good a map ? Putting small area estimation to the test

Gabriel Demombynes, Chris Elbers, Jean Lanjouw and Peter Lanjouw

4154: Beyond legal origin and checks and balances: political credibility, citizen information, and financial sector development

Philip Keefer

4153: The impact of trade with China and India on Argentina's manufacturing employment

Lucio Castro, Marcelo Olarreaga and Daniel Saslavsky

4152: Institutions, infrastructure, and trade

Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin

4151: Market structure and market access

Joseph Francois and Ian Wooton

4150: Extending health insurance to the rural population: an impact evaluation of China's new cooperative medical scheme

Adam Wagstaff, Magnus Lindelow, Gao Jun, Xu Ling and Qian Juncheng

4149: The worldwide governance indicators project: answering the critics

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

4148: Regional disparities in labor market performance in Croatia: the role of individual and regional structural characteristics

Xubei Luo

4147: Trade in health services in the ASEAN region

Jutamas Arunanondchai and Carsten Fink

4146: International financial integration through equity markets: which firms from which countries go global ?

Stijn Claessens and Sergio Schmukler

4145: Migration from Zambia: ensuring temporariness through cooperation

Mohammad Amin and Aaditya Mattoo

4144: Trade and human capital accumulation: evidence from U.S. immigrants

Dorte Domeland

4143: Do remittances have a flip side ? A general equilibrium analysis of remittances, labor supply responses, and policy options for Jamaica

Maurizio Bussolo and Denis Medvedev

4142: The impact of Kazakhstan accession to the World Trade Organization: a quantitative assessment

Jesper Jensen and David Tarr

4141: A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad ?

David McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman

4140: Corporate governance and regulation: can there be too much of a good thing ?

Valentina Bruno and Stijn Claessens

4139: Adult mortality and children's transition into marriage

Kathleen Beegle and Sofya Krutikova

4138: Migration and mental health: evidence from a natural experiment

Steven Stillman, David McKenzie and John Gibson

4137: How"natural"are natural monopolies in the water supply and sewerage sector ? Case studies from developing and transition economies

Celine Nauges and Caroline van den Berg

4136: The impact of sea level rise on developing countries: a comparative analysis

Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler and Jianping Yan

4135: Climate change, irrigation, and Israeli agriculture: will warming be harmful ?

Aliza Fleischer, Ivgenia Lichtman and Robert Mendelsohn

4134: Health insurance for the poor: initial impacts of Vietnam's health care fund for the poor

Adam Wagstaff

4133: Fungibility and the flypaper effect of project aid: micro-evidence for Vietnam

Dominique van de Walle and Ren Mu

4132: The international financial integration of China and India

Philip Lane and Sergio Schmukler

4131: Will markets direct investments under the Kyoto Protocol ?

Donald Larson and Gunnar Breustedt

4130: Rules of origin in services: a case study of five ASEAN countries

Carsten Fink and Deunden Nikomborirak

4129: Enhancing the efficiency of securities markets in East Asia

Swati Ghosh and Ernesto Revilla

4128: Foreign bank participation and crises in developing countries

Robert Cull and Maria Martinez Peria

4127: Poverty and environmental impacts of electricity price reforms in Montenegro

Patricia Silva, Irina Klytchnikova and Dragana Radevic

4126: Watta satta: bride exchange and women's welfare in rural Pakistan

Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri

4125: Incentives, supervision, and sharecropper productivity

Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri

4124: Trade effects of regional standards liberalization: a heterogeneous firms approach

Silja Baller

4123: Differentiated products and evasion of import tariffs

Beata Javorcik and Gaia Narciso

4122: The role of education quality for economic growth

Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4121: The impact of private provision of public education: empirical evidence from Bogota's concession schools

Felipe Barrera-Osorio

4120: The impact of remittances on labor supply: the case of Jamaica

Namsuk Kim

4119: Child labor across the developing world: patterns and correlations

Jean Fares and Dhushyanth Raju

4118: Self-selection patterns in Mexico-U.S. migration: the role of migration networks

David McKenzie and Hillel Rapoport

4117: Forest cover change in space and time: combining the von Thunen and forest transition theories

Arild Angelsen

4116: International remittances and the household: analysis and review of global evidence

Richard Adams

4115: Survey of land and real estate transactions in the Russian Federation: statistical analysis of selected hypotheses

Gregory Kisunko and Jacqueline Coolidge

4114: City indicators: now to Nanjing

Daniel Hoornweg, Fernanda Ruiz Nunez, Mila Freire, Natalie Palugyai, Maria Villaveces and Eduardo Wills Herrera

4113: Location decisions of foreign banks and competitive advantage

Stijn Claessens and Neeltje Van Horen

4112: Can Sub-Saharan Africa leap into global network trade ?

Uma Subramanian and Matthias Matthijs

4111: Social health insurance reexamined

Adam Wagstaff

4110: Factors impacting youth development in Haiti

Michael Justesen and Dorte Verner

4109: Does services liberalization benefit manufacturing firms ? Evidence from the Czech Republic

Jens Arnold, Beata Javorcik and Aaditya Mattoo

4108: Trade liberalization, employment flows, and wage inequality in Brazil

Francisco Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite and Matthew Wai-Poi