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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 Pave 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

3788: Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies

B. Essama-Nssah

3787: Public health in India: an overview

Monica Das Gupta

3786: Fiscal decentralization and fiscal performance

Anwar Shah

3785: A framework for evaluating alternate institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization transfers

Anwar Shah

3784: Trade costs, export development, and poverty in Rwanda

Ndiame Diop, Paul Brenton and Yakup Asarkaya

3783: Paper walls are easier to tear down: passport costs and legal barriers to emigration

David McKenzie

3782: Who cares about relative deprivation ?

Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin

3781: Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures

Bent Flyvbjerg

3780: An analysis of the 2002 Uruguayan banking crisis

Luis de la Plaza and Sophie Sirtaine

3779: The creation of the rule of law and the legitimacy of property rights: the political and economic consequences of a corrupt privatization

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

3778: Micro and macro-level approaches for assessing the value of irrigation water

Robert Johansson

3777: Pesticide traders'perception of health risks: evidence from Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner and Nlandu Mamingi

3776: Health effects and pesticide perception as determinants of pesticide use: evidence from Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner and Mainul Huq

3775: Growth trends in the developing world: country forecasts and determinants

Elena Ianchovichina and Pooja Kacker

3774: Innovation and development around the world, 1960-2000

Daniel Lederman and Laura Saenz

3773: Global logistics indicators, supply chain metrics, and bilateral trade patterns

Warren H. Hausman, Hau L. Lee and Uma Subramanian

3772: Sweetening the carrot: motivating public physicians for better performance

Ariadna Garcia-Prado

3771: Labor market distortions in Cote d'Ivoire: analyses of employer-employee data from the manufacturing sector

Nicolai Kristensen and Dorte Verner

3770: Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: a review of cross-country evidence

Fabio Schiantarelli

3769: Nonperforming loans in Sub-Saharan Africa: causal analysis and macroeconomic implications

Hippolyte L. Fofack

3768: Road freight logistics, competition, and innovation: downstream benefits and policy implications

Mark Dutz

3767: China's pattern of growth: moving to sustainability and reducing inequality

Louis Kuijs and Tao Wang

3766: Do workers'remittances reduce the probability of current account reversals ?

Matteo Bugamelli and Francesco Paterno

3765: Privatization: trends and recent developments

Sunita Kikeri and Aishetu Kolo

3764: Poverty traps and nonlinear income dynamics with measurement error and individual heterogeneity

Francisca Antman and David McKenzie

3763: Openness can be good for growth: the role of policy complementarities

Roberto Chang, Linda Kaltani and Norman Loayza

3762: Measuring the initial impacts on deforestation of Mato Grosso's program for environmental control

Kenneth M. Chomitz and Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff

3761: Is skill-biased technological change here yet ? Evidence from Indian manufacturing in the 1990

Eli Berman, Rohini Somanathan and Hong W. Tan

3760: Evaluating training programs for small and medium enterprises: lessons from Mexico

Hong Tan and Gladys Lopez Acevedo

3759: Telecommunications and the World Trade Organization: the case of Mexico

Bjorn Wellenius, Juan Galarza and Boutheina Guermazi

3758: Japan's changing industrial landscape

Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

3757: Poverty impacts of a WTO agreement: synthesis and overview

Thomas W. Hertel and L. Winters

3756: Enforcement of labor regulation, informal labor, and firm performance

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

3755: The mix of international banks'foreign claims: determinants and implications

Alicia Garcia Herrero and Maria Martinez Peria

3754: Reaching out: access to and use of banking services across countries

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Maria Martinez Peria

3753: How banks go abroad: branches or subsidiaries ?

Eugenio Cerutti, Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Maria Martinez Peria

3752: Spatial dynamics of labor markets in Brazil

Kenneth M. Chomitz, Daniel Da Mata, Alexandre Ywata de Carvalho and Joao Carlos Magalhaes

3751: The impact of the strong euro on the real effective exchange rates of the two Francophone African CFA Zones

Ali Zafar

3750: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa: a macroeconomic monitoring framework

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Nihal Bayraktar, Emmanuel Pinto Moreira and Karim El Aynaoui

3749: Infrastructure concessions in Latin America: government-led renegotiations

J. Luis Guasch, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Stephane Straub

3748: The construction and interpretation of combined cross-section and time-series inequality datasets

Joseph Francois and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa

3747: The social impact of a WTO agreement in Indonesia

Anne-Sophie Robilliard and Sherman Robinson

3746: The poverty impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon: the role of tax policy

Christian Emini, John Cockburn and Bernard Decaluwe

3745: Earnings mobility and measurement error: a pseudo-panel approach

Francisca Antman and David McKenzie

3744: Spatial dimensions of trade liberalization and economic convergence: Mexico 1985-2002

Patricio Aroca, Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

3743: Do health sector reforms have their intended impacts ? The World Bank's Health VIII project in Gansu province, China

Adam Wagstaff and Shengchao Yu

3742: The radio spectrum: opportunities and challenges for the developing world

Bjorn Wellenius and Isabel Neto

3741: Can insurance increase financial risk ? The curious case of health insurance in China

Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow

3740: Health shocks in China: are the poor and uninsured less protected ?

Magnus Lindelow and Adam Wagstaff

3739: Patenting and research and development: a global view

Mariano Bosch, Daniel Lederman and William Maloney

3738: Doha scenarios, trade reforms, and poverty in the Philippines: a computable general equilibrium analysis

Caesar B. Cororaton, John Cockburn and Erwin Corong

3737: Global antidumping database version 1.0

Chad Bown

3736: Distortions to world trade: impacts on agricultural markets and farm incomes

Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

3735: Global impacts of Doha trade reform scenarios on poverty

Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

3734: Cultivate or rent out ? Land security in rural Thailand

Xavier Gine

3733: Does openness imply greater exposure ?

Cesar Calderon, Norman Loayza and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

3732: Improving the dynamics of aid: towards more predictable budget support

Benn Eifert and Alan Gelb

3731: Equity, welfare, and the setting of trade policy in general equilibrium

Joseph Francois and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa

3730: Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization

Joseph Francois, Bernard Hoekman and Miriam Manchin

3729: Mobile license renewal: what are the issues? what is at stake ?

Boutheina Guermazi and Isabel Neto

3728: Local economic structure and growth

Rita Almeida

3727: Small-scale private service providers of water supply and electricity: a review of incidence, structure, pricing, and operating characteristics

Mukami Kariuki and Jordan Schwartz

3726: Introduction and summary to the Handbook of Trade Policy and WTO Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS

David Tarr and Giorgio Barba Navaretti

3725: The impact on Russia of WTO accession and the Doha agenda: the importance of liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment in services for growth and poverty reduction

Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr and Oleksandr Shepotylo

3724: Examining the growth patterns of Brazilian cities

Daniel Da Mata, Uwe Deichmann, J. Vernon Henderson, Somik Lall and Hyoung Gun Wang

3723: Determinants of city growth in Brazil

Daniel Da Mata, Uwe Deichmann, J. Vernon Henderson, Somik Lall and Hyoung Gun Wang

3722: The structure of lobbying and protection in U.S. agriculture

Kishore Gawande

3721: Economic policy responses to preference erosion: from trade as aid toaid for trade

Bernard Hoekman and Susan Prowse

3720: International cooperation and the reform of public procurement policies

Simon Evenett and Bernard Hoekman

3719: Cross-country empirical studies of systemic bank distress: a survey

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache

3718: Services in a development round: three goals and three proposals

Aaditya Mattoo

3717: The Doha Trade Round and Mozambique

Channing Arndt

3716: Trade credit and bank credit: evidence from recent financial crises

Inessa Love, Lorenzo A. Preve and Virginia Sarria-Allende

3715: Estimating the returns to education in Argentina: 1992-2002

Paula Ines Giovagnoli, Ariel Fiszbein and Harry Patrinos

3714: Rising returns to schooling in Argentina, 1992-2002: productivity or credentialism?

Maria Paula Savanti and Harry Patrinos

3713: Empowerment and local level conflict mediation in Indonesia: a comparative analysis of concepts, measures, and project efficacy

Christopher Gibson and Michael Woolcock

3712: Governance and the city: an empirical exploration into global determinants of urban performance

Daniel Kaufmann, Frannie Leautier and Massimo Mastruzzi

3711: An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys

Anton Korinek, Johan Mistiaen and Martin Ravallion

3710: What determines the extent of fiscal decentralization ? The Russian paradox

Lev Freinkman and Alexander Plekhanov

3709: How well do institutional theories explain firms'perceptions of property rights?

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

3708: Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated

Maurice Schiff