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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 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

4107: What makes cities healthy ?

Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima and Wei Ha

4106: Industrial competitiveness of the auto parts industries in four large Asian countries: the role of government policy in a challenging international environment

Richard F. Doner, Gregory W. Noble and John Ravenhill

4105: Detecting collusion in timber auctions: an application to Romania

Jean-Daniel Saphores, Jeffrey Vincent, Valy Marochko, Ioan Abrudan, Laura Bouriaud and Clifford Zinnes

4104: Road infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia: does network quality affect trade ?

Ben Shepherd and John Wilson

4103: Current challenges in financial regulation

Stijn Claessens

4102: Conditional cash transfers and female schooling: the impact of the female school stipend program on public school enrollments in Punjab, Pakistan

Nazmul Chaudhury and Dilip Parajuli

4101: Political accountability and regulatory performance in infrastructure industries: an empirical analysis

Farid Gasmi, Paul Noumba Um and Laura Recuero Virto

4100: Reform of the intergovernmental transfer system in China

Anwar Shah and Ashley Chunli Shen

4099: Measuring and reducing the impact of corruption in infrastructure

Charles Kenny

4098: Does insurance market activity promote economic growth ? Country study for industrial and developing countries

Marco Arena

4097: Road network upgrading and overland trade expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Piet Buys, Uwe Deichmann and David Wheeler

4096: Rural poor in rich rural areas: poverty in rural Argentina

Dorte Verner

4095: Labor markets and income generation in rural Argentina

Dorte Verner

4094: Are lives a substitute for livelihoods ? Terrorism, security, and U.S. bilateral imports

Daniel Mirza and Thierry Verdier

4093: International trade, security, and transnational terrorism: theory and empirics

Daniel Mirza and Thierry Verdier

4092: Reducing distortions to agricultural incentives: progress, pitfalls, and prospects

Kym Anderson

4091: An assessment of reform options for the public service pension fund in Uganda

Tatiana Bogomolova, Gregorio Impavido and Montserrat Pallares-Miralles

4090: Development and the interaction of enforcement institutions

Amrita Dhillon and Iamele Rigolini

4089: The structural determinants of external vulnerability

Norman Loayza and Claudio Raddatz

4088: The impact of commodity price changes on rural households: the case of coffee in Uganda

Maurizio Bussolo, Olivier Godart, Jann Lay and Rainer Thiele

4087: Migration and remittances: causes and linkages

Yoko Niimi and Caglar Ozden

4086: Patient satisfaction, doctor effort, and interview location: evidence from Paraguay

Jishnu Das and Thomas Sohnesen

4085: The economics of consanguineous marriages

Quy-Toan Do, Sriya Iyer and Shareen Joshi

4084: Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas ? Evidence from rural China

Shaohua Chen, Ren Mu and Martin Ravallion

4083: Water allocation strategies for the Kat Basin in South Africa: comparing negotiation tools and game theory models

Ariel Dinar, Stefano Farolfi, Fioravante Patrone and Kate Rowntree

4082: Adult mortality and consumption growth in the age of HIV/AIDS

Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon

4081: Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries

Antonio Estache, Ana Goicoechea and Lourdes Trujillo

4080: Finance and hunger: empirical evidence of the agricultural productivity channel

Stijn Claessens and Erik Feijen

4079: Banking services for everyone ? Barriers to bank access and use around the world

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Maria Martinez Peria

4078: Informality trends and cycles

Norman Loayza and Iamele Rigolini

4077: The composition of growth matters for poverty alleviation

Norman Loayza and Claudio Raddatz

4076: Contagion and firms'internationalization in Latin America: evidence from Mexico, Brazil, and Chile

Yaye Seynabou Sakho

4075: The macro financing of natural hazards in developing countries

Olivier Mahul and Eugene Gurenko

4074: Cooperative game theory and its application to natural, environmental, and water resource issues: 3. application to water resources

Irene Parrachino, Ariel Dinar and Fioravante Patrone

4073: Cooperative game theory and its application to natural, environmental, and water resource issues: 2. application to natural and environmental resources

Stefano Zara, Ariel Dinar and Fioravante Patrone

4072: Cooperative game theory and its application to natural, environmental, and water resource issues: 1. basic theory

Irene Parrachino, Stefano Zara and Fioravante Patrone

4071: How are youth faring in the labor market ? Evidence from around the world

Jean Fares, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem

4070: Assessing job flows across countries: the role of industry, firm size, and regulations

John Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta and Helena Schweiger

4069: Partially awakened giants: uneven growth in China and India

Shubham Chaudhuri and Martin Ravallion

4068: Forests, biomass use, and poverty in Malawi

Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, Priya Shyamsundar and Alessandro Baccini

4067: Learning levels and gaps in Pakistan

Jishnu Das, Priyanka Pandey and Tristan Zajonc

4066: A dime a day: the possibilities and limits of private schooling in Pakistan

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Khwaja

4065: Beyond trade: the impact of preferential trade agreements on foreign direct investment inflows

Denis Medvedev

4064: Public infrastructure and growth: new channels and policy implications

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Blanca Moreno-Dodson

4063: Jointness in Bayesian variable selection with applications to growth regression

Eduardo Ley and Mark Steel

4062: Growth before and after trade liberalization

Gonzalo Salinas and Ataman Aksoy

4061: Access to financial services in Zambia

Jose de Luna Martinez

4060: Distributional effects of WTO agricultural reforms in rich and poor countries

Thomas Hertel, Roman Keeney, Maros Ivanic and L. Winters

4059: The impact of policies to control motor vehicle emissions in Mumbai, India

Akie Takeuchi, Maureen Cropper and Antonio Bento

4058: Learning through monitoring: lessons from a large-scale nutrition program in Madagascar

Emanuela Galasso and Jeffrey Yau

4057: An essay on economic reforms and social change in China

Assar Lindbeck

4056: Deposit insurance and banking reform in Russia

Modibo K. Camara and Fernando Montes-Negret

4055: The investment climate in post-conflict situations

Rob Mills and Qimiao Fan

4054: Corporate governance and Shariah compliance in institutions offering Islamic financial services

Wafik Grais and Matteo Pellegrini

4053: Corporate governance and stakeholders'financial interests in institutions offering Islamic financial services

Wafik Grais and Matteo Pellegrini

4052: Corporate governance in institutions offering Islamic financial services: issues and options

Wafik Grais and Matteo Pellegrini

4051: The fiscal framework and urban infrastructure finance in China

Ming Su and Quanhou Zhao

4050: The demographic benefit of international migration: hypothesis and application to the Middle Eastern and North African contexts

Philippe Fargues