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- 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
- 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
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