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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, Chris 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

3949: Universities as drivers of the urban economies in Asia: the case of Vietnam

Tran Ngoc Ca

3948: Regional approaches to better standards systems

Enrique Aldaz-Carroll

3947: Subnational fiscal sustainability analysis: what can we learn from Tamil Nadu ?

Elena Ianchovichina, Lili Liu and Mohan Nagarajan

3946: Migration,sex bias, and child growth in rural Pakistan

Ghazala Mansuri

3945: Migration, school attainment, and child labor: evidence from rural Pakistan

Ghazala Mansuri

3944: Linking public investment programs and SPAHD macro models: methodology and application to aid requirements

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Nihal Bayraktar and Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

3943: Is cost recovery a feasible objective for water and electricity ? The Latin American experience

Vivien Foster and Tito Yepes

3942: Market access, supplier access, and Africa's manufactured exports: an analysis of the role of geography and institutions

Ibrahim Elbadawi, Taye Mengistae and Albert Zeufack

3941: Water markets, demand, and cost recovery for piped water supply services: evidence from Southwest Sri Lanka

Celine Nauges and Caroline van den Berg

3940: What determines protection of property rights ? An analysis of direct and indirect effects

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

3939: Earthquake vulnerability reduction program in Colombia: a probabilistic cost-benefit analysis

Francis Ghesquiere, Luis Jamin and Olivier Mahul

3938: Creating a more efficient financial system: challenges for Bangladesh

Thorsten Beck and Md. Habibur Rahman

3937: The handshake: why do governments and firms sign private sector participation deals ? Evidence from the water and sanitation sector in developing countries

Olivia Jensen and Frederic Blanc-Brude

3936: The impact of privatization on the performance of the infrastructure sector: the case of electricity distribution in Latin American countries

Luis Andres, Vivien Foster and Jose Luis Guasch

3935: Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico

Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio-Codina

3934: Governance and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa

Ahmet Aysan, Mustapha Kamel Nabli and Marie-Ange Véganzonès

3933: Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation

Juan Carlos Gozzi, Ross Levine and Sergio Schmukler

3932: Welfare measurement bias in household and on-site surveying of water-based recreation: an application to Lake Sevan, Armenia

Craig Meisner, Hua Wang and Benoit Laplante

3931: Did growth become less pro-poor in the 1990s ?

Humberto Lopez

3930: Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work: evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador

Norbert Schady and M. Caridad Araujo

3929: An empirical analysis of the annuity rate in Chile

Roberto Rocha, Marco Morales and Craig Thorburn

3928: The rise and fall of training and visit extension: an Asian mini-drama with an African epilogue

Jock Anderson, Gershon Feder and Sushma Ganguly

3927: Managing the effects of tax expenditures on the national budget

Zhicheng Li Swift

3926: An analysis of money's worth ratios in Chile

Craig Thorburn, Roberto Rocha and Marco Morales

3925: Productivity matters for trade policy: theory and evidence

Baybars Karacaovali

3924: What are public services worth, and to whom ? Non-parametric estimation of capitalization in Pune

Somik Lall and Mattias Lundberg

3923: Public-private sector wage differentials and returns to education in Djibouti

Paloma Anos Casero and Ganesh Seshan

3922: Early childhood development through an integrated program: evidence from the Philippines

Graeme Armecin, Jere Behrman, Paulita Duazo, Sharon Ghuman, Socorro Gultiano, Elizabeth King and Nannette Lee

3921: Does access to credit improve productivity ? Evidence from Bulgarian firms

Roberta Gatti and Inessa Love

3920: Resolution of failed banks by deposit insurers: cross-country evidence

Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven

3919: Mexico: two decades of the evolution of education and inequality

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

3918: The World Trade Organization's Doha cotton initiative: a tale of two issues

Kym Anderson and Ernesto Valenzuela

3917: Recent and prospective adoption of genetically modified cotton: a global computable general equilibrium analysis of economic impacts

Kym Anderson, Ernesto Valenzuela and Lee Ann Jackson

3916: The role of opinion leaders in the diffusion of new knowledge: the case of integrated pest management

Gershon Feder and Sara Savastano

3915: Rural-urban migration in developing countries: a survey of theoretical predictions and empirical findings

Somik Lall, Harris Selod and Zmarak Shalizi

3914: Sequencing fiscal decentralization

Roy Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

3913: Will consolidation improve sub-national governments ?

William Fox and Tami Gurley

3912: Thailand's growth path: from recovery to prosperity

Kaspar Richter

3911: Evaluating fiscal equalization in Indonesia

Bert Hofman, Kadjatmiko, Kai Kaiser and Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir

3910: Getting girls into school: evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia

Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady

3909: Trading on time

Simeon Djankov, Caroline Freund and Cong Pham

3908: Turkey's evolving trade integration into Pan-European markets

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng