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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

3848: Doha merchandise trade reform: what's at stake for developing countries ?

Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

3847: Environmental federalism: a panacea or Pandora's box for developing countries?

Per Fredriksson, Muthukumara Mani and Jim Wollscheid

3846: New product technology, accumulation, and growth

Faruk A. Khan

3845: Access to finance by Chilean corporations

Sophie Sirtaine

3844: Who gets AIDS and how ? The determinants of HIV infection and sexual behaviors in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

Damien de Walque

3843: Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions

Alexandre Ywata de Carvalho, Somik Lall and Christopher Timmins

3842: Does migration reshape expenditures in rural households? Evidence from Mexico

J. Edward Taylor and Jorge Mora

3841: Export led growth, pro-poor or not? Evidence from Madagascar's textile and apparel industry

Alessandro Nicita

3840: Estimating trade restrictiveness indices

Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga

3839: The case for industrial policy: a critical survey

Howard Pack and Kamal Saggi

3838: Remittances and poverty in Ghana

Richard Adams

3837: The impact of regional trade agreements and trade facilitation in the Middle East and North Africa region

Allen Dennis

3836: Trade, inequality, and the political economy of institutions

Quy-Toan Do and Andrei Levchenko

3835: The urban unbanked in Mexico and the United States

John Caskey, John P., Clemente Ruiz Duran and Tova Maria Solo

3834: Access to financial services in Colombia: the"unbanked"in Bogota

Tova Maria Solo and Astrid Manroth

3833: Structural change and poverty reduction in Brazil: the impact of the Doha Round

Maurizio Bussolo, Jann Lay and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

3832: Entering the Union: European accession and capacity-building priorities

John Wilson, Xubei Luo and Harry G. Broadman

3831: Exploring the linkages between poverty, marine protected area management, and the use of destructive fishing gear in Tanzania

Patricia Silva

3830: International benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance

Zeljko Bogetic and Johannes Fedderke

3829: Forecasting investment needs in South Africa's electricity and telecommunications sectors

Zeljko Bogetic and Johannes Fedderke

3828: Can guest worker schemes reduce illegal migration ?

Mohammad Amin and Aaditya Mattoo

3827: Financial performance and outreach: a global analysis of leading microbanks

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

3826: Incomplete contracts and investment: a study of land tenancy in Pakistan

Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri

3825: International benchmarking of Lesotho's infrastructure performance

Zeljko Bogetic

3824: Corruption and decentralized public governance

Anwar Shah

3823: Nonlinear effects of altitude on child growth in Peru: a multilevel analysis

Alessandra Marini and Michele Gragnolati

3822: Telecommunications performance, reforms, and governance

Antonio Estache, Ana Goicoechea and Marco Manacorda

3821: Assessing debt sustainability in emerging market economies using stochastic simulation methods

Doug Hostland and Philippe Karam

3820: How important are financing constraints ? The role of finance in the business environment

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

3819: Lobbying and agricultural trade policy in the United States

Kishore Gawande and Bernard Hoekman

3818: The use of willingness to pay experiments: estimating demand for piped water connections in Sri Lanka

Subhrendu Pattanayak, Caroline van den Berg, Jui-Chen Yang and George Van Houtven

3817: Unpackaging demand for water service quality: evidence from conjoint surveys in Sri Lanka

Jui-Chen Yang, Subhrendu Pattanayak, F. Reed Jonson, Carol Mansfield, Caroline van den Berg and Kelly Jones

3816: Inequality of opportunity and economic development

Francisco Ferreira and Michael Walton

3815: Getting realabout inequality: evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru

Edwin Goni, Humberto Lopez and Luis Servén

3814: A normal relationship ? Poverty, growth, and inequality

Humberto Lopez and Luis Servén

3813: Preferential trading in South Asia

Tercan Baysan, Arvind Panagariya and Nihal Pitigala

3812: Fiscal responsibility legislation and fiscal adjustment: the case of Brazilian local governments

Luiz de Mello

3811: Nonfarm activity and rural income inequality: a case study of two provinces in China

Nong Zhu and Xubei Luo

3810: Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data

David Stifel and Luc Christiaensen

3809: Do standards matter for export success ?

Maggie Chen, Tsunehiro Otsuki and John Wilson

3808: Network effects of the productivity of infrastructure in developing countries

Christophe Hurlin

3807: Releasing constraints to growth or pushing on a string ? the impact of credit, training, business associations, and taxes on the performance of Mexican micro-firms

Pablo Fajnzylber, William Maloney and Gabriel Montes-Rojas

3806: Two decades of reform: the changing organization dynamics of Chinese industrial firms

Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

3805: Di Bao: a guaranteed minimum income in urban China?

Shaohua Chen, Martin Ravallion and Youjuan Wang

3804: Disinflation, fiscal sustainability, and labor market adjustment in Turkey

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Henning Jensen, Mathew Verghis and Erinc Yeldan

3803: How substitutable is natural capital ?

Anil Markandya and Suzette Galinato

3802: Sugar in the Caribbean: adjusting to eroding preferences

Donald Mitchell

3801: Neither a borrower nor a lender: does China's zero net foreign asset position make economic sense?

David Dollar and Aart Kraay

3800: Is formal lifelong learning a profitable investment for all of life ? How age, education level, and flexibility of provision affect rates of return to adult education in Colombia

Thomas Sohnesen and Andreas Blom

3799: Pending issues in protection, productivity growth, and poverty reduction

Omar Arias, Andreas Blom, Mariano Bosch, Wendy Cunningham, Ariel Fiszbein, Gladys Lopez Acevedo, William Maloney, Jaime Saavedra, Carolina Sanchez-Paramo, Mauricio Santamaria and Lucas Siga

3798: What have we learned from a decade of manufacturing enterprise surveys in Africa ?

Arne Bigsten and Mans Soderbom

3797: Taking the bad with the good: volatility of foreign portfolio investment and financial constraints of small firms

April Knill

3796: Does foreign portfolio investment reach small listed firms ?

April Knill

3795: A more complete conceptual framework for financing of small and medium enterprises

Allen Berger and Gregory Udell

3794: Disability, poverty, and schooling in developing countries: results from 11 household surveys

Deon Filmer

3793: Creating a Poverty Map for Azerbaijan

Angela Baschieri, Jane Falkingham, Duncan Hornby and Craig Hutton

3792: Measuring the impact of the investment climate on total factor productivity: the cases of China and Brazil

Uma Subramanian, William P. Anderson and Kihoon Lee

3791: Mexico: human capital effects on wages and productivity

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Monica Tinajero and Marcela Rubio

3790: Health systems in East Asia: what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers ?

Adam Wagstaff

3789: Sri Lanka's migrant labor remittances: enhancing the quality and outreach of the rural remittance infrastructure

Esperanza Lasagabaster, Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Sriyani Hulugalle