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- 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
- 3849: Determinants of deposit-insurance adoption and design

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Edward Kane and Luc Laeven
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