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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

3907: Trade and harmonization: if your institutions are good, does it matter if they are different ?

Roumeen Islam and Ariell Reshef

3906: How important is selection ? Experimental versus non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration

David McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman

3905: Trends in tariff reforms and trends in wage inequality

Sebastian Galiano and Guido Porto

3904: Farm productivity and marketstructure: evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia

Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto

3903: Labor supply, school attendance, and remittances from international migration: the case of El Salvador

Pablo Acosta

3902: Political institutions, inequality, and agricultural growth: the public expenditure connection

Hunt Allcott, Daniel Lederman and Ramon Lopez

3901: Do global trade distortions still harm developing country farmers ?

Kym Anderson and Ernesto Valenzuela

3900: The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access

Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Ernesto Valenzuela

3899: The data chase: what's out there on trade costs and nontariff barriers ?

Shweta Bagai and John Wilson

3898: Strengthening governance through engaged societies: lessons from the implementation of poverty reduction strategies

Luca Barbone and Katrina Sharkey

3897: International financial integration through the law of one price

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Sergio Schmukler and Neeltje Van Horen

3896: Regional labor market developments in transition

Peter Huber

3895: Addressing China's growing water shortages and associated social and environmental consequences

Zmarak Shalizi

3894: Labor market developments during economic transition

Jan Rutkowski

3893: Constraints to growth and job creation in low-income Commonwealth of Independent States countries

Paolo Verme

3892: Promoting access to primary equity markets: a legal and regulatory approach

Felice B. Friedman and Claire Grose

3891: Protection, openness, and factor adjustment: evidence from the manufacturing sector in Uruguay

Carlos Casacuberta and Nestor Gandelman

3890: Migration in towns in China, a tale of three provinces: evidence from preliminary tabulations of 2000 census

Anqing Shi

3889: Comparative advantage, demand for external finance, and financial development

Quy-Toan Do and Andrei Levchenko

3888: Firms'environmental performance: does news matter ?

Nlandu Mamingi, Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante and Jong Ho Hong

3887: Exports, university-industry linkages, and innovation challenges in Bangalore, India

Anthony P. D'Costa

3886: The microeconomics of creating productive jobs: a synthesis of firm-level studies in transition economies

J. David Brown and John Earle

3885: Business environment and labor market outcomes in Europe and Central Asia countries

Paloma Lopez-Garcia

3884: Rental choice and housing policy realignment in transition: post-privatization challenges in the Europe and Central Asia region

Hans-Joachim Duebel, W. Jan Brzeski and Ellen Hamilton

3883: Gross worker flows in the presence of informal labor markets: the Mexican experience 1987-2002

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

3882: Foreign direct investment, regulations, and growth

Matthias Busse and José Groizard

3881: How costly is it for poor farmers to lift themselves out of poverty?

Olivier Cadot, Laure Dutoit and Marcelo Olarreaga

3880: Immigration to Switzerland - the case of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia

Dominique Gross

3879: Trade liberalization and the environment in Vietnam

Muthukumara Mani and Shreyasi Jha

3878: The distributional incidence of residential water and electricity subsidies

Kristin Komives, Jonathan Halpern, Vivien Foster, Quentin Wodon and Roohi Abdullah

3877: Propensity score matching and policy impact analysis - a demonstration in EViews

B. Essama-Nssah

3876: Competition and performance in the Hungarian second pillar

Gregorio Impavido and Roberto Rocha

3875: The poverty impact of rural roads: evidencefrom Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker, Zaid Bakht and Gayatri B. Koolwal

3874: Sugar prices, labor income, and poverty in Brazil

Ekaterina Krivonos and Marcelo Olarreaga

3873: Tariff retaliation versus financial compensation in the enforcement of international trade agreements

Nuno Limão and Kamal Saggi

3872: Diversification, innovation, and imitation inside the Global Technological Frontier

Bailey Klinger and Daniel Lederman

3871: Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?

Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

3870: Do minimum wages in Latin America and the Caribbean matter ? Evidence from 19 countries

Nicolai Kristensen and Wendy Cunningham

3869: Early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Norbert Schady

3868: Legal knowledge and economic development: the case of land rights in Uganda

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew and Takashi Yamano

3867: The rise and fall of Brazilian inequality, 1981-2004

Francisco Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite and Julie Litchfield

3866: On defining and measuring the informal sector

Andrew Henley, Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Francisco Carneiro

3865: Global income inequality: what it is and why it matters

Branko Milanovic

3864: Bulgaria's institutions and policies: integrating into Pan-European markets

Bartlomiej Kaminski

3863: Bulgaria's integration into the Pan-European economy and industrial restructuring

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng

3862: Bank ownership type and banking relationships

Allen N. Berger, Leora Klapper, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, Rida Zaidi, Allen N. Berger, Leora F. Klapper, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria and Rida Zaidi

3861: Integrated urban uprading for the poor: the experience of Ribeira Azul, Brazil

Judy L. Baker

3860: Incentives for public investment under fiscal rules

Jack Mintz and Michael Smart

3859: Evaluating recipes for development success

Avinash Dixit

3858: Estimates of government net capital stocks for 26 developing countries, 1970-2002

Florence Arestoff and Christophe Hurlin

3857: Trade liberalization, factor market flexibility, and growth: the case of Morocco and Tunisia

Allen Dennis

3856: Creating an efficient financial system: challenges in a global economy

Thorsten Beck

3855: African small and medium enterprises, networks, and manufacturing performance

Tyler Biggs and Manju Kedia Shah

3854: Competitive implications of cross-border banking

Stijn Claessens

3853: Immigration policy and foreign population in Switzerland

Dominique Gross

3852: The welfare effects of slum improvement programs: the case of Mumbai

Akie Takeuchi, Maureen Cropper and Antonio Bento

3851: The return to firm investment in human capital

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

3850: Do regional trade pacts benefit the poor ? An illustration from the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement in Nicaragua

Maurizio Bussolo and Yoko Niimi