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- 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
- 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
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