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- 4049: Trade reforms and welfare: an ex-post decomposition of income in Vietnam

- Aylin Isik-Dikmelik
- 4048: Services inputs and firm productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from firm-level data

- Jens Arnold, Aaditya Mattoo and Gaia Narciso
- 4047: Unraveling the worldwide pollution haven effect

- Jean-Marie Grether, Nicole Mathys and Jaime de Melo
- 4046: Migrant networks and foreign direct investment

- Beata Javorcik, Caglar Ozden, Mariana Spatareanu and Ileana Neagu Constantinescu
- 4045: Urban infrastructure finance from private operators: what have we learned from recent experience ?

- Patricia Clarke Annez
- 4044: Export promotion agencies: what works and what doesn't

- Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga and Lucy Payton
- 4043: Land leasing and land sale as an infrastructure-financing option

- George E. Peterson
- 4042: Mobilizing urban infrastructure finance within a responsible fiscal framework: South African case

- Philip van Ryneveld
- 4041: Crime and violence in development: a literature review of Latin America and the Caribbean

- Alessandra Heinemann and Dorte Verner
- 4040: Estimating the returns to education: accounting for heterogeneity in ability

- Harry Patrinos, Cris Ridao-Cano and Christos Sakellariou
- 4039: A practitioner's guide to intergovernmental fiscal transfers

- Anwar Shah
- 4038: Preferential trade agreements and their role in world trade

- Denis Medvedev
- 4037: Conscription and Crime

- Sebastian Galiani, Martín Rossi and Ernesto Schargrodsky
- 4036: Evaluating the impact of Mexico's quality schools program: the pitfalls of using nonexperimental data

- Emmanuel Skoufias and Joseph Shapiro
- 4035: Measuring the pro-poorness of income growth within an elasticity framework

- Essama-Nssah B. and Peter J. Lambert
- 4034: When instability increases the effectiveness of aid projects

- Patrick Guillaumont and Rachid Laajaj
- 4033: Do intensity targets control uncertainty better than quotas ? Conditions, calibrations, and caveats

- Robert Marschinski and Franck Lecocq
- 4032: Do institutions matter more for services ?

- Mohammad Amin and Aaditya Mattoo
- 4031: Duration of unemployment benefits and quality of post-unemployment jobs: evidence from a natural experiment

- Jan C. van Ours and Milan Vodopivec
- 4030: Liberalizing trade in services: a survey

- Bernard Hoekman
- 4029: Takeover laws and financial development

- Tatiana Nenova
- 4028: Fiscal and social impact of a nominal exchange rate devaluation in Djibouti

- Paloma Anos Casero and Ganesh Seshan
- 4027: Bank efficiency, ownership, and market structure: why are interest spreads so high in Uganda ?

- Thorsten Beck and Heiko Hesse
- 4026: The basic analytics of access to financial services

- Thorsten Beck and Augusto de la Torre
- 4025: Economic growth, education, and AIDS in Kenya: a long-run analysis

- Clive Bell, Ramona Bruhns and Hans Gersbach
- 4024: Education and HIV/AIDS prevention: evidence from a randomized evaluation in Western Kenya

- Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer and Samuel Sinei
- 4023: What is the real impact of schooling on age of first union and age of first parenting ? New evidence from Guatemala

- Jere Behrman, Alexis Murphy, Agnes Quisumbing, Usha Ramakrishnan and Kathyrn Yount
- 4022: The demography of youth in developing countries and its economic implications

- David Lam
- 4021: A profile of the world's young developing country migrants

- David McKenzie
- 4020: Restructuring Uganda's coffee industry: why going back to the basics matters

- John Baffes
- 4019: Banking sector openness and economic growth

- Nihal Bayraktar and Yan Wang
- 4018: Forgone earnings from smoking: evidence for a developing country

- Michael Lokshin and Kathleen Beegle
- 4017: Do subsidized health programs in Armenia increase utilization among the poor?

- Diego Angel-Urdinola and Shweta Jain
- 4016: Rules of origin for preferential trading arrangements: implications for the ASEAN Free Trade Area of EU and U.S. experience

- Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo and Alberto Portugal-Perez
- 4015: Regional impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization

- Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr
- 4014: The World Trade Organization and antidumping in developing countries

- Chad Bown
- 4013: The role of agriculture in poverty reduction an empirical perspective

- Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery and Jesper Kühl
- 4012: Governance matters V: aggregate and individual governance indicators for 1996 - 2005

- Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi
- 4011: Fairtrade and market failures in agricultural commodity markets

- Loraine Ronchi
- 4010: Rural vulnerability in Serbia

- Lire Ersado
- 4009: Azerbaijan's household survey data: explaining why inequality is so low

- Lire Ersado
- 4008: Group versus individual liability: a field experiment in the Philippines

- Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
- 4007: Increasing inequality in transition economies: is there more to come?

- Pradeep Mitra and Ruslan Yemtsov
- 4006: Financial system structure in Colombia: a proposal for a reform agenda

- Javier De la Cruz and Constantinos Stephanou
- 4005: What is effective aid? How would donors allocate It?

- Charles Kenny
- 4004: The quality of fiscal adjustment and the long-run growth impact of fiscal policy in Brazil

- Fernando Blanco and Santiago Herrera
- 4003: Access and risk - friends or foes? Lessons from Chile

- Osvaldo Adasme, Giovanni Majnoni and Myriam Uribe
- 4002: Latin American universities and the third mission: trends, challenges, and policy options

- Kristian Thorn and Maarja Soo
- 4001: Superstition, family planning, and human development

- Quy-Toan Do and Tung Phung
- 4000: Who gets debt relief ?

- Nicolas Depetris Chauvin and Aart Kraay
- 3999: Openness and industrial response in a Wal-Mart world: a case study of Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactant producers

- Beata Javorcik, Wolfgang Keller and James Tybout
- 3998: Dimensions of urban poverty in the Europe and Central Asia region

- Infrastructure Department, Europe and Central Asia Region
- 3997: Local inequality and project choice: theory and evidence from Ecuador

- M. Caridad Araujo, Francisco Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw and Berk Özler
- 3996: The African Growth and Opportunity Act, exports, and development in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Paul Brenton and Mombert Hoppe
- 3995: The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi, India

- Soma Bhattacharya, Anna Alberini and Maureen Cropper
- 3994: Investing cash transfers to raise long term living standards

- Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez and Marta Rubio-Codina
- 3993: Assessing benefits of slum upgrading programs in second-best settings

- Basab Dasgupta and Somik Lall
- 3992: Measuring financial performance in infrastructure: an application to Europe and Central Asia

- Jane O. Ebinger
- 3991: University-local industry linkages: the case of Tohoku University in the Sendai area of Japan

- Juan Jiang, Yuko Harayama and Shiro Abe
- 3990: Does aid help improve economic institutions ?

- Decio Coviello and Roumeen Islam
- 3989: Infrastructure and growth in South Africa: direct and indirect productivity impacts of 19 infrastructure measures

- Johannes Fedderke, Zeljko Bogetic and Zeljko
- 3988: Firm Productivity in Bangladesh Manufacturing Industries

- Ana Fernandes
- 3987: International benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union Countries

- Zeljko Bogetic and Johannes Fedderke
- 3986: Reforming the investment climate: lessons for practitioners

- Sunita Kikeri, Thomas Kenyon and Vincent Palmade
- 3985: Openness and technological innovations in developing countries: evidence from firm-level surveys

- Rita Almeida and Ana Fernandes
- 3984: A firm-level analysis of small and medium size enterprise financing in Poland

- Leora Klapper, Virginia Sarria-Allende and Rida Zaidi
- 3983: Innovation and export portfolios

- Bailey Klinger and Daniel Lederman
- 3982: Quality of schooling and quality of schools for indigenous students in Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru

- Martha Hernandez-Zavala, Harry Patrinos, Christos Sakellariou and Joseph Shapiro
- 3981: Openness, inequality, and poverty: endowments matter

- Julien Gourdon, Nicolas Maystre and Jaime de Melo
- 3980: Trade reforms, farm productivity, and poverty in Bangladesh

- Irina Klytchnikova and Ndiame Diop
- 3979: The elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, ten years on

- Olivier Cadot, Laure Dutoit and Jaime de Melo
- 3978: Health Service Delivery in China: A Literature Review

- Karen Eggleston, Li Ling, Meng Qingyue, Magnus Lindelow and Adam Wagstaff
- 3977: Quantifying the value of U.S. tariff preferences for developing countries

- Judith Dean and John Wainio
- 3976: Implications of WTO agreements and unilateral trade policy reforms for poverty in Bangladesh: short versus long-run impacts

- Nabil Annabi, Bazlul Khondker, Selim Raihan, John Cockburn and Bernard Decaluwe
- 3975: Financing firms in India

- Franklin Allen, Rajesh Chakrabarti, Sankar De, Jun Qian and Meijun Qian
- 3974: Substitution in Markusen's classic trade and factor movement complementarity models

- Maurice Schiff
- 3973: Conditional cash transfers, adult work incentives, and poverty

- Emmanuel Skoufias and Vincenzo Di Maro
- 3972: Annuity markets in Chile: competition, regulation - and myopia ?

- Eduardo Walker
- 3971: Implementing a WTO agreement on trade facilitation: what makes sense ?

- Joseph Finger and John Wilson
- 3970: Do reorganization costs matter for efficiency ? Evidence from a bankruptcy reform in Colombia

- Xavier Gine and Inessa Love
- 3969: Deposit insurance design and implementation: policy lessons from research and practice

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Edward Kane and Luc Laeven
- 3968: Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a critique of the cross-country indicators

- Stephen Knack
- 3967: Can information campaigns spark local participation and improve outcomes ? A study of primary education in Uttar Pradesh, India

- Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Stuti Khemani
- 3966: On the financial sustainability of earnings-related pension schemes with"pay-as-you-go"financing and the role of government indexed bonds

- David Robalino and Andras Bodor
- 3965: Household financial assets in the process of development

- Patrick Honohan
- 3964: Income diversification in Zimbabwe: welfare implications from urban and rural areas

- Lire Ersado
- 3963: Financial development in Latin America: big emerging issues, limited policy answers

- Augusto de la Torre, Juan Carlos Gozzi and Sergio Schmukler
- 3962: Untangling the maze of European Union funds to Bulgaria

- Gallina Andronova Vincelette and Iglika Vassileva
- 3961: Global redistribution of income

- François Bourguignon, Victoria Levin and David Rosenblatt
- 3960: The impact of energy price changes in Moldova

- Iaroslav Baclajanschi, Lawrence Bouton, Hideki Mori, Dejan Ostojic, Taras Pushak and Erwin R. Tiongson
- 3959: Microfinance games

- Xavier Gine, Pamela Jakiela, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch
- 3958: How will China's saving-investment balance evolve ?

- Louis Kuijs
- 3957: Do workers'remittances promote financial development ?

- Reena Aggarwal, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Maria Martinez Peria
- 3956: Discordant couples: HIV infection among couples in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

- Damien de Walque
- 3955: Finance and economic development: policy choices for developing countries

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt
- 3954: Banking on the principles: compliance with Basel Core Principles and bank soundness

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Enrica Detragiache and Thierry Tressel
- 3953: Moving forward faster: trade facilitation reform and Mexican competitiveness

- Isidro Soloaga, John Wilson and Alejandro Mejia
- 3952: Can migration reduce educational attainment ? Evidence from Mexico

- David McKenzie and Hillel Rapoport
- 3951: Services policies in transition economies: on the European Union and the World Trade Organization as commitment mechanisms

- Felix Eschenbach and Bernard Hoekman
- 3950: Infrastructure and public utilities privatization in developing countries

- Emmanuelle Auriol and Pierre Picard
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