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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 J. 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

3649: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Jaguaribe river basin, Ceara, Brazil

Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson and Karin Kemper

3648: Insurance and liquidity: panel evidence

Rashmi Shankar

3647: Improving child nutrition outcomes in India: can the integrated child development services be more effective?

Monica Das Gupta, Michael Lokshin, Michele Gragnolati and Oleksiy Ivaschenko

3646: Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor

Priya Basu and Pradeep Srivastava

3645: Efficiency of public spending in developing countries: an efficiency frontier approach

Santiago Herrera and Gaobo Pang

3644: The economic consequences of health shocks

Adam Wagstaff

3643: A"research"database on infrastructure economic performance

Antonio Estache and Ana Goicoechea

3642: Advances in negotiation theory: bargaining, coalitions, and fairness

Carlo Carraro, Carmen Marchiori and Alessandra Sgobbi

3641: Applications of negotiation theory to water issues

Carlo Carraro, Carmen Marchiori and Alessandra Sgobbi

3640: Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?

Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion

3639: Finances of Egyptian listed firms

Inessa Love

3638: Workers'remittances to developing countries: a survey with central banks on selected public policy issues

Jose de Luna Martinez

3637: Decentralization of river basin management: a global analysis

Ariel Dinar, Karin Kemper, William Blomquist, Michele Diez, Gisele Sine and William Fru

3636: Comparison of institutional arrangements for river basin management in eight basins

William Blomquist, Ariel Dinar and Karin Kemper

3635: The role of tropical forests in supporting biodiversity and hydrological integrity: a synoptic overview

Ellen M. Douglas, Kate Sebastian, Charles J. Vorosmarty, Stanley Wood and Kenneth M. Chomitz

3634: Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean

Kenneth M. Chomitz, Piet Buys and Timothy Thomas

3633: Investment and saving in China

Louis Kuijs

3632: Corporate governance and bank performance: a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership

Allen Berger, George Clarke, Robert Cull, Leora Klapper and Gregory Udell

3631: Poverty traps, aid, and growth

Aart Kraay and Claudio Raddatz

3630: Governance matters IV: governance indicators for 1996-2004

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

3629: Fiscal space for investment in infrastructure in Colombia

Rodrigo Suescun

3628: Deposit insurance around the world: a comprehensive database

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Baybars Karacaovali and Luc Laeven

3627: Reforming the posts: abandoning the monopoly-supported postal universal service obligation in developing countries

Charles Kenny

3626: Global monetary conditions versus country-specific factors in the determination of emerging market debt spreads

Mansoor Dailami, Paul Masson and Jean Jose Padou

3625: Evaluating anti-poverty programs

Martin Ravallion

3624: Pesticide poisoning of farm workers: implications of blood test results from Vietnam

Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler, Nhan Thi Lam and Khuc Xuyen

3623: The impact of regulation on growth and informality - cross-country evidence

Norman Loayza, Ana Maria Oviedo and Luis Serven

3622: Trade policy, income risk, and welfare

Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

3621: Assessing the impact of the investment climate on productivity using firm-level data: methodology and the cases of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua

Alvaro Escribano and J. Luis Guasch

3620: Leadership and the independent regulator

Mark Jamison

3619: State bank transformation in Brazil - choices and consequences

Thorsten Beck, Juan Miguel Crivelli and William Summerhill

3618: Preventing and responding to gender-based violence in middle and low-income countries: a global review and analysis

Sarah Bott, Andrew Morrison and Mary Ellsberg

3617: Beyond tariffs and quotas: why don't African manufacturers export more?

George Clarke

3616: Would multilateral trade reform benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

3615: Keeping animal spirits asleep: the case of Chile

Sebastian Saez

3614: WTO safeguards and trade liberalization: lessons from the Argentine footwear case

Elias Baracat and Julio Nogues

3613: Scrutinizing public expenditures: assessing the performance of public accounts committees

Rick Stapenhurst, Vinod Sahgal, William Woodley and Riccardo Pelizzo

3612: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the tarcoles river basin, Costa Rica

William Blomquist, Maureen Ballestero, Anjali Bhat and Karin Kemper

3611: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Brantas river basin, East Java, Indonesia

Anjali Bhat, Kikkeri Ramu and Karin Kemper

3610: Effects of primary, secondary, and tertiary education on economic growth: evidence from Guatemala

Josef Loening

3609: Why governments should stopnon-social subsidies: measuring their consequences for rural Latin America

Ramon Lopez

3608: Application of safeguards and anti-dumping duties in Colombia

Mauricio Reina and Sandra Zuluaga