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- 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 Servén
- 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 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
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