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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

3707: Multilateral trade liberalization and Mexican households: the effect of the Doha development agenda

Alessandro Nicita

3706: Openness, industrialization, and geographic concentration of activities in China

Maurice Catin, Xubei Luo and Christophe van Huffel

3705: Fiscal determinants of empowerment

Uri Raich

3704: Remittances: transaction costs, determinants, and informal flows

Caroline Freund and Nikola Spatafora

3703: Key issues in trade facilitation: summary of World Bank/European Union workshops in Dhaka and Shanghai in 2004

Jayanta Roy and Shweta Bagai

3702: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda on China: the role of labor markets and complementary education reforms

Fan Zhai and Thomas Hertel

3701: The Doha Round, poverty, and regional inequality in Brazil

Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho and Mark Horridge

3700: Costs of taxation and the benefits of public goods: the role of income effects

Will Martin and James Anderson

3699: Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

Branko Milanovic

3698: Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health

Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion

3697: The WTO Doha Round, cotton sector dynamics, and poverty trends in Zambia

Jorge Balat and Guido Porto

3696: Growing together or growing apart ? a village level study of the impact of the Doha Round on rural China

Marijke Kuiper and Frank van Tongeren

3695: Estimating household responses to trade reforms: net consumers and net producers in rural Mexico

Guido Porto

3694: Governance in the gullies: democratic responsiveness and leadership in Delhi's slums

Saumitra Jha, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock

3693: Urban poverty and transport: the case of Mumbai

Judy Baker, Rakhi Basu, Maureen Cropper, Somik Lall and Akie Takeuchi

3692: Lessons from international experience with electricity market monitoring

Frank A. Wolak

3691: Managing unilateral market power in electricity

Frank A. Wolak

3690: Resistance to multilateral influence on reform: the political backlash against private infrastructure investments

Witold Henisz and Bennet A. Zelner

3689: Private participation in infrastructure projects in the Republic of Korea

Paul Noumba Um and Severine Dinghem

3688: Preference utilization and tariff reduction in European Union imports from African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries

Miriam Manchin

3687: Re-interpreting sub-group inequality decompositions

Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen and Berk Özler

3686: For public service or money: understanding geographical imbalances in the health workforce

Pieter Serneels, Magnus Lindelow, Jose Garcia-Montalvo and Abigail Barr

3685: Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action: a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia

Vijayendra Rao

3684: Antidumping and safeguard measures in the political economy of liberalization: the Mexican case

Luz Elena Reyes de la Torre and Jorge G. Gonzalez

3683: Competitiveness partnerships: building and maintaining public-private dialogue to improve the investment climate - a resource drawn from the review of 40 countries'experiences

Herzberg, Benjamin and Andrew Wright

3682: The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies: a review of modeling approaches

B. Essama-Nssah

3681: Productivity, ownership, and the investment climate: international lessons for priorities in Serbia

Itzhak Goldberg, Branko Radulovic and Mark Schaffer

3680: Are external shocks responsible for the instability of output in low income countries?

Claudio Raddatz

3679: The marginal cost of public funds in Africa

Michael Warlters and Emmanuelle Auriol

3678: Why have traffic fatalities declined in industrialized countries ? Implications for pedestrians and vehicle occupants

Elizabeth Kopits and Maureen Cropper

3677: Inequality is bad for the poor

Martin Ravallion

3676: Trade and employment: stylized facts and research findings

Bernard Hoekman, Bernard and L. Winters

3675: Business environment, clustering, and industry location: evidence from Indian cities

Somik Lall and Taye Mengistae

3674: Public debt in developing countries: has the market-based model worked?

Indermit Gill and Brian Pinto

3673: The overhang hangover

Jean Imbs and Romain Ranciere

3672: The dot-com bubble, the Bush deficits, and the U.S. current account

Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura

3671: An Analysis of South Africa's Value Added Tax

Delfin Go, Marna Kearney, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

3670: Will a global subsidy of artemisinin-based combination treatment (ACT) for malaria delay the emergence of resistance and save lives?

Ramanan Laxminarayan, A. Over and David L. Smith

3669: Money for nothing: the dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India

Jishnu Das and Jeffrey Hammer

3668: Economic impacts of professional training in the informal sector: the case of the labor force training program in Cote d'Ivoire

Dorte Verner and Mette Verner

3667: Does health insurance impede trade inhealth care services?

Aaditya Mattoo and Randeep Rathindran

3666: Bank privatization and productivity: evidence for Brazil

Marcio Nakane and Daniela B. Weintraub

3665: Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor: lessons from South Indian small-scale fishery

Xavier Gine and Stefan Klonner

3664: The impact of business environment and economic geography on plant-level productivity: an analysis of Indian industry

Somik Lall and Taye Mengistae

3663: Services policy reform and economic growth in transition economies, 1990-2004

Felix Eschenbach and Bernard Hoekman

3662: Micro-level estimation of child malnutrition indicators and its application in Cambodia

Tomoki Fujii

3661: Public infrastructure and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Mustapha K. Nabli and Tarik M. Yousef

3660: Do incumbents manipulate access to finance during banking crises?

Erik Feijen

3659: Banking sector crises and inequality

Patrick Honohan

3658: Antidumping mechanisms and safeguards in Peru

Richard Webb, Josefina Camminati and Raul Leon Thorne

3657: Institution building and growth in transition economies

Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven

3656: World Bank lending and financial sector development

Robert Cull and Laurie Effron

3655: Fiscal federalism in Switzerland: relevant issues for transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe

Bernard Dafflon and Krisztina Toth

3654: Crop insurance in Karnataka

Vijay Kalavakonda and Olivier Mahul

3653: Regime-switching in exchange rate policy and balance sheet effects

Norbert Fiess and Rashmi Shankar

3652: Growth spillover effects and regional development patterns: the case of Chinese provinces

Xubei Luo

3651: Visible success and invisible failure in post-crisis reform in the Republic of Korea: interplay of the global standards, agents, and local specificity

Keun Lee, Byung-Kook Kim, Chung H. Lee and Jaeyeol Yee

3650: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Alto-Tiete river basin, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson and Karin Kemper