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- 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 Servén
- 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
- 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
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