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3607: Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda

Kym Anderson and Will Martin

3606: Measuring microfinance access: building on existing cross-country data

Patrick Honohan

3605: Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador: the roles of wealth, health and parenting

Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady

3604: The effect of school type on academic achievement: evidence from Indonesia

David Newhouse and Kathleen Beegle

3603: Decentralization and service delivery

Junaid Ahmad, Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Shekhar Shah

3602: Teacher shocks and student learning: evidence from Zambia

Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana and Pramila Krishnan

3601: Migration, trade, and foreign investment in Mexico

Patricio Aroca and William Maloney

3600: What drives corporate governance? Firm-level evidence from Eastern Europe

Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Inessa Love

3599: Core indicators for determinants and performance of the electricity sector in developing countries

Tooraj Jamasb, David M Newbery and Michael Pollitt

3598: Quantitative analysis of crisis: crisis identification and causality

Yoichiro Ishihara

3597: Gifted kids or pushy parents? Foreign acquisitions and plant performance in Indonesia

Jens Arnold and Beata Javorcik

3596: Household savings and residential mobility in informal settlements

Somik Lall, Ajay Suri and Uwe Deichmann

3595: How widespread were private investment and regulatory reform in infrastructure utilities during the 1990s?

Antonio Estache and Ana Goicoechea

3594: Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed?

Philip Keefer

3593: The role of factoring for financing small and medium enterprises

Leora Klapper

3592: Which inequality matters? Growth evidence based on small area welfare estimates in Uganda

Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Youdi Schipper

3591: Anti-dumping policies and safeguard measures in the context of Costa Rica's economic liberalization

Ricardo Monge-Gonzalez and Francisco Monge-Arino

3590: The cost of compliance with product standards for firms in developing countries: an econometric study

Keith Maskus, Tsunehiro Otsuki and John Wilson

3589: Access to financial services: a review of the issues and public policy objectives

Stijn Claessens

3588: The contribution of skilled immigration and international graduate students to U.S. innovation

Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Keith Maskus and Aaditya Mattoo

3587: Political economy of antidumping and safeguards in Argentina

Julio Nogues and Elias Baracat

3586: Capital markets and e-fraud: policy note and concept paper for future study

Tom Kellermann and Valerie McNevin

3585: Comparative review of microfinance regulatory framework issues in Benin, Ghana, and Tanzania

Joselito Gallardo, Korotoumou Ouattara, Bikki Randhawa and William F. Steel

3584: Business cycle synchronization and regional integration: a case study for Central America

Norbert Fiess

3583: Labor market dynamics in developing countries: comparative analysis using continuous time Markov processes

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

3582: Does temporary migration have to be permanent?

Mohammad Amin and Aaditya Mattoo

3581: Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the U.S. labor market

Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Neagu Constantinescu and Caglar Ozden

3580: On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world

Martin Ravallion

3579: A poverty-inequality trade-off?

Martin Ravallion

3578: International migration, human capital, and entrepreneurship: evidence from Philippine migrants'exchange rate shocks

Dean Yang

3577: Testing genuine saving

Kirk Hamilton

3576: Poverty in rural and semi-urban Mexico during 1992-2002

Dorte Verner

3575: The kin system as a poverty trap?

Karla Hoff and Arijit Sen

3574: Wage differentials between the public and private sector in India

Elena Glinskaya and Michael Lokshin

3573: The effects of migration on child health in Mexico

Nicole Hildebrandt and David McKenzie

3572: Evaluation of National School for Professional Technology Education in Mexico

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

3571: Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality ? - Some empirical evidence

Branko Milanovic and Lyn Squire

3570: Taking stock of risk management techniques for sovereigns

Stijn Claessens

3569: From efficiency-driven to innovation-driven economic growth: perspectives from Singapore

Kim-Song Tan and Sock-Yong Phang

3568: Singapore as an innovative city in East Asia: an explorative study of the perspectives of innovative industries

Poh Wong, Yuen Ping Ho and Annette Singh

3567: Reducing child malnutrition in Tanzania - combined effects of income growth and program interventions

Harold Alderman, Hans Hoogeveen and Mariacristina Rossi

3566: Trade preferences and differential treatment of developing countries: a selective survey

Bernard Hoekman and Caglar Ozden

3565: Trade preferences to small developing countries and the welfare costs of lost multilateral liberalization

Nuno Limão and Marcelo Olarreaga

3564: Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China

Mary Amiti and Beata Javorcik

3563: Health insurance impacts on health and nonmedical consumption in a developing country

Adam Wagstaff and Menno Pradhan

3562: Antidumping and safeguard mechanisms: the Brazilian experience, 1988-2003

Honorio Kume and Guida Piani

3561: Activities, employment, and wages in rural and semi-urban Mexico

Dorte Verner

3560: Setting the trade policy agenda: What roles for Economists?

Kym Anderson

3559: Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, withapplications to China and Vietnam

Adam Wagstaff

3558: The performance of health workers in Ethiopia - results from qualitative research

Magnus Lindelow, Pieter Serneels and Teigist Lemma

3557: Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform

Jac Heckelman and Stephen Knack

3556: Credit risk measurement under Basel II: an overview and implementation issues for developing countries

Constantinos Stephanou and Juan Carlos Mendoza

3555: How does the composition of public spending matter?

Stefano Paternostro, Anand Rajaram and Erwin R. Tiongson

3554: Promoting innovation in developing countries: a conceptual framework

Jean-Eric Aubert

3553: Supervision of financial conglomerates: the case of Chile

Constantinos Stephanou

3552: Trade protection and industry wage structure in Poland

Chor-Ching Goh and Beata Javorcik

3551: Industry level analysis: the way to identify the binding constraints to economic growth

Vincent Palmade

3550: Feedback links between economy-wide and farm-level policies: application to irrigation water management in Morocco

Terry Roe, Ariel Dinar, Yacov Tsur and Xinshen Diao

3549: Electricity sector reform in developing countries: a survey of empirical evidence on determinants and performance

Tooraj Jamasb, Raffaella Mota, David M Newbery and Michael Pollitt

3548: Wage determination in Northeast Brazil

Dorte Verner

3547: Who bears the cost of Russia's military draft?

Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov

3546: Incentives to learn

Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Rebecca Thornton and Owen Ozier

3545: Sustaining urban growth through innovative capacity: Beijing and Shanghai in comparison

Wang Jici and Tong Xin

3544: Learning-by-doing, learning-by-exporting, and productivity: evidence from Colombia

Ana Fernandes and Alberto Isgut

3543: Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income

Anton Korinek, Johan Mistiaen and Martin Ravallion

3542: Do donors get what they paid for? micro evidence on the fungibility of development project aid

Dominique van de Walle and Dorothyjean Cratty

3541: The impact of trade liberalization on household welfare in vietnam

Ganesh Seshan

3540: Trade remedies and World Trade Organization dispute settlement: Why are so few challenged?

Chad Bown

3539: A model on knowledge and endogenous growth

Hiau Looi Kee and Derek H. C. Chen

3538: American Depositary Receipts (ADR) holdings of U.S. based emerging market funds

Reena Aggarwal, Sandeep Dahiya and Leora Klapper

3537: Families, schools, and primary-school learning: evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective

Ludger Woessmann and Thomas Fuchs

3536: Regulatory effectiveness: the impact of regulation and regulatory governance arrangements on electricity industry outcomes

Jon Stern and John Cubbin

3535: Regulatory effectiveness and the empirical impact of variations in regulatory governance - electricity industry capacity and efficiency in developing countries

John Cubbin and John Stern

3534: The co-movement between cotton and polyester prices

John Baffes and Gaston Gohou

3533: Disciplining agricultural support through decoupling

John Baffes and Harry de Gorter

3532: Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala

Richard Adams

3531: Geopolitical interests and preferential access to U.S. markets

Daniel Lederman and Caglar Ozden

3530: Legal effectiveness and external capital: the role of foreign debt

George Allayannis, Gregory W. Brown, Leora Klapper, George Allayannis, Gregory W. Brown and Leora F. Klapper

3529: Economic evaluation of housing subsidy systems: a methodology with application to Morocco

David Le Blanc

3528: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Warta River Basin, Poland

William Blomquist, Andrzej Tonderski and Ariel Dinar

3527: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Murray Darling River Basin, Austrialia

William Blomquist, Brian Haisman, Ariel Dinar and Anjali Bhat

3526: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Gudalquivir River Basin, Spain

William Blomquist, Consuelo Giansante, Anjali Bhat and Karin Kemper

3525: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Fraser River Basin, Canada

William Blomquist, Ken S. Calbick and Ariel Dinar

3524: Sowing and reaping: institutional quality and project outcomes in developing countries

David Dollar and Victoria Levin

3523: Schools meals, educational achievement and school competition: evidence from a randomized evaluation

Christel Vermeersch and Michael Kremer

3522: China's employment challenges and strategies after the WTO accession

Douglas Zhihua Zeng

3521: Religious school enrollment in Pakistan: a look at the data

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Khwaja and Tristan Zajonc

3520: Environment as cultural heritage: the Armenian diaspora's willingness-to-pay to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan

Benoit Laplante, Craig Meisner and Hua Wang

3519: How do differing standards increase trade costs? The case of pallets

Enrique Aldaz-Carroll and Gaël Raballand

3518: The role of importers and exporters in the determination of the U.S. tariff preferenes granted to Latin America

Peri Silva

3517: Trade liberalization and the politics of financial development

Matias Braun and Claudio Raddatz

3516: Sustainability of microfinance self help groups in India: would federating help?

Ajai Nair

3515: Reforms and infrastructure efficiency in Spain's container ports

Maria Manuela Gonzalez and Lourdes Trujillo

3514: Infrastructure performance and reform in developing and transition economies: evidence from a survey of productivity measures

Antonio Estache, Sergio Perelman and Lourdes Trujillo

3513: How concentrated are global infrastructure markets?

Daniel Benitez and Antonio Estache

3512: Policy mix, public debt management, and fiscal rules - lessons from the 2002 Brazilian crisis

Santiago Herrera

3511: Bank privatization and performance - emprical evidence from Nigeria

Thorsten Beck, Robert Cull and Afeikhena Jerome

3510: Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

Ruth Alsop and Nina Heinsohn

3509: Dynamic cities and creative clusters

Weiping Wu

3508: The political economy of health services provision and access in Brazil

Ahmed Mobarak, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Maureen Cropper