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3948: Regional approaches to better standards systems Downloads
Enrique Aldaz-Carroll
3947: Subnational fiscal sustainability analysis: what can we learn from Tamil Nadu ? Downloads
Elena Ianchovichina, Lili Liu and Mohan Nagarajan
3946: Migration,sex bias, and child growth in rural Pakistan Downloads
Ghazala Mansuri
3945: Migration, school attainment, and child labor: evidence from rural Pakistan Downloads
Ghazala Mansuri
3944: Linking public investment programs and SPAHD macro models: methodology and application to aid requirements Downloads
Pierre-Richard Agénor, Nihal Bayraktar and Emmanuel Pinto Moreira
3943: Is cost recovery a feasible objective for water and electricity ? The Latin American experience Downloads
Vivien Foster and Tito Yepes
3942: Market access, supplier access, and Africa's manufactured exports: an analysis of the role of geography and institutions Downloads
Ibrahim Elbadawi, Taye Mengistae and Albert Zeufack
3941: Water markets, demand, and cost recovery for piped water supply services: evidence from Southwest Sri Lanka Downloads
Celine Nauges and Caroline van den Berg
3940: What determines protection of property rights ? An analysis of direct and indirect effects Downloads
Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic
3939: Earthquake vulnerability reduction program in Colombia: a probabilistic cost-benefit analysis Downloads
Francis Ghesquiere, Luis Jamin and Olivier Mahul
3938: Creating a more efficient financial system: challenges for Bangladesh Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Luis Andres, Vivien Foster and Jose Luis Guasch
3935: Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico Downloads
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio-Codina
3934: Governance and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa Downloads
Ahmet Aysan, Mustapha Kamel Nabli and Marie-Ange Véganzonès
3933: Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation Downloads
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 Downloads
Craig Meisner, Hua Wang and Benoit Laplante
3931: Did growth become less pro-poor in the 1990s ? Downloads
Humberto Lopez
3930: Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work: evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador Downloads
Norbert Schady and M. Caridad Araujo
3929: An empirical analysis of the annuity rate in Chile Downloads
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 Downloads
Jock Anderson, Gershon Feder and Sushma Ganguly
3927: Managing the effects of tax expenditures on the national budget Downloads
Zhicheng Li Swift
3926: An analysis of money's worth ratios in Chile Downloads
Craig Thorburn, Roberto Rocha and Marco Morales
3925: Productivity matters for trade policy: theory and evidence Downloads
Baybars Karacaovali
3924: What are public services worth, and to whom ? Non-parametric estimation of capitalization in Pune Downloads
Somik Lall and Mattias Lundberg
3923: Public-private sector wage differentials and returns to education in Djibouti Downloads
Paloma Anos Casero and Ganesh Seshan
3922: Early childhood development through an integrated program: evidence from the Philippines Downloads
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 Downloads
Roberta Gatti and Inessa Love
3920: Resolution of failed banks by deposit insurers: cross-country evidence Downloads
Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven
3919: Mexico: two decades of the evolution of education and inequality Downloads
Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
3918: The World Trade Organization's Doha cotton initiative: a tale of two issues Downloads
Kym Anderson and Ernesto Valenzuela
3917: Recent and prospective adoption of genetically modified cotton: a global computable general equilibrium analysis of economic impacts Downloads
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 Downloads
Gershon Feder and Sara Savastano
3915: Rural-urban migration in developing countries: a survey of theoretical predictions and empirical findings Downloads
Somik Lall, Harris Selod and Zmarak Shalizi
3914: Sequencing fiscal decentralization Downloads
Roy Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
3913: Will consolidation improve sub-national governments ? Downloads
William Fox and Tami Gurley
3912: Thailand's growth path: from recovery to prosperity Downloads
Kaspar Richter
3911: Evaluating fiscal equalization in Indonesia Downloads
Bert Hofman, Kadjatmiko, Kai Kaiser and Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir
3910: Getting girls into school: evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia Downloads
Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady
3909: Trading on time Downloads
Simeon Djankov, Caroline Freund and Cong Pham
3908: Turkey's evolving trade integration into Pan-European markets Downloads
Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng
3907: Trade and harmonization: if your institutions are good, does it matter if they are different ? Downloads
Roumeen Islam and Ariell Reshef
3906: How important is selection ? Experimental versus non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration Downloads
David McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman
3905: Trends in tariff reforms and trends in wage inequality Downloads
Sebastian Galiano and Guido Porto
3904: Farm productivity and marketstructure: evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia Downloads
Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto
3903: Labor supply, school attendance, and remittances from international migration: the case of El Salvador Downloads
Pablo Acosta
3902: Political institutions, inequality, and agricultural growth: the public expenditure connection Downloads
Hunt Allcott, Daniel Lederman and Ramon Lopez
3901: Do global trade distortions still harm developing country farmers ? Downloads
Kym Anderson and Ernesto Valenzuela
3900: The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access Downloads
Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Ernesto Valenzuela
3899: The data chase: what's out there on trade costs and nontariff barriers ? Downloads
Shweta Bagai and John Wilson
3898: Strengthening governance through engaged societies: lessons from the implementation of poverty reduction strategies Downloads
Luca Barbone and Katrina Sharkey
3897: International financial integration through the law of one price Downloads
Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Sergio Schmukler and Neeltje Van Horen
3896: Regional labor market developments in transition Downloads
Peter Huber
3895: Addressing China's growing water shortages and associated social and environmental consequences Downloads
Zmarak Shalizi
3894: Labor market developments during economic transition Downloads
Jan Rutkowski
3893: Constraints to growth and job creation in low-income Commonwealth of Independent States countries Downloads
Paolo Verme
3892: Promoting access to primary equity markets: a legal and regulatory approach Downloads
Felice B. Friedman and Claire Grose
3891: Protection, openness, and factor adjustment: evidence from the manufacturing sector in Uruguay Downloads
Carlos Casacuberta and Nestor Gandelman
3890: Migration in towns in China, a tale of three provinces: evidence from preliminary tabulations of 2000 census Downloads
Anqing Shi
3889: Comparative advantage, demand for external finance, and financial development Downloads
Quy-Toan Do and Andrei Levchenko
3888: Firms'environmental performance: does news matter ? Downloads
Nlandu Mamingi, Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante and Jong Ho Hong
3887: Exports, university-industry linkages, and innovation challenges in Bangalore, India Downloads
Anthony P. D'Costa
3886: The microeconomics of creating productive jobs: a synthesis of firm-level studies in transition economies Downloads
J. David Brown and John Earle
3885: Business environment and labor market outcomes in Europe and Central Asia countries Downloads
Paloma Lopez-Garcia
3884: Rental choice and housing policy realignment in transition: post-privatization challenges in the Europe and Central Asia region Downloads
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 Downloads
Mariano Bosch and William Maloney
3882: Foreign direct investment, regulations, and growth Downloads
Matthias Busse and José Groizard
3881: How costly is it for poor farmers to lift themselves out of poverty? Downloads
Olivier Cadot, Laure Dutoit and Marcelo Olarreaga
3880: Immigration to Switzerland - the case of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia Downloads
Dominique Gross
3879: Trade liberalization and the environment in Vietnam Downloads
Muthukumara Mani and Shreyasi Jha
3878: The distributional incidence of residential water and electricity subsidies Downloads
Kristin Komives, Jonathan Halpern, Vivien Foster, Quentin Wodon and Roohi Abdullah
3877: Propensity score matching and policy impact analysis - a demonstration in EViews Downloads
B. Essama-Nssah
3876: Competition and performance in the Hungarian second pillar Downloads
Gregorio Impavido and Roberto Rocha
3875: The poverty impact of rural roads: evidencefrom Bangladesh Downloads
Shahidur Khandker, Zaid Bakht and Gayatri B. Koolwal
3874: Sugar prices, labor income, and poverty in Brazil Downloads
Ekaterina Krivonos and Marcelo Olarreaga
3873: Tariff retaliation versus financial compensation in the enforcement of international trade agreements Downloads
Nuno Limão and Kamal Saggi
3872: Diversification, innovation, and imitation inside the Global Technological Frontier Downloads
Bailey Klinger and Daniel Lederman
3871: Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition? Downloads
Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle
3870: Do minimum wages in Latin America and the Caribbean matter ? Evidence from 19 countries Downloads
Nicolai Kristensen and Wendy Cunningham
3869: Early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean Downloads
Norbert Schady
3868: Legal knowledge and economic development: the case of land rights in Uganda Downloads
Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew and Takashi Yamano
3867: The rise and fall of Brazilian inequality, 1981-2004 Downloads
Francisco Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite and Julie Litchfield
3866: On defining and measuring the informal sector Downloads
Andrew Henley, Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Francisco Carneiro
3865: Global income inequality: what it is and why it matters Downloads
Branko Milanovic
3864: Bulgaria's institutions and policies: integrating into Pan-European markets Downloads
Bartlomiej Kaminski
3863: Bulgaria's integration into the Pan-European economy and industrial restructuring Downloads
Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng
3862: Bank ownership type and banking relationships Downloads
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 Downloads
Judy L. Baker
3860: Incentives for public investment under fiscal rules Downloads
Jack Mintz and Michael Smart
3859: Evaluating recipes for development success Downloads
Avinash Dixit
3858: Estimates of government net capital stocks for 26 developing countries, 1970-2002 Downloads
Florence Arestoff and Christophe Hurlin
3857: Trade liberalization, factor market flexibility, and growth: the case of Morocco and Tunisia Downloads
Allen Dennis
3856: Creating an efficient financial system: challenges in a global economy Downloads
Thorsten Beck
3855: African small and medium enterprises, networks, and manufacturing performance Downloads
Tyler Biggs and Manju Kedia Shah
3854: Competitive implications of cross-border banking Downloads
Stijn Claessens
3853: Immigration policy and foreign population in Switzerland Downloads
Dominique Gross
3852: The welfare effects of slum improvement programs: the case of Mumbai Downloads
Akie Takeuchi, Maureen Cropper and Antonio Bento
3851: The return to firm investment in human capital Downloads
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 Downloads
Maurizio Bussolo and Yoko Niimi
3849: Determinants of deposit-insurance adoption and design Downloads
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Edward Kane and Luc Laeven
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