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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

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 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