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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
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