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- 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
- 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
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